My Animation- Car Crash In Cartoonsville

Here is my animation that I finished today.
I really enjoyed coming up with the idea for the animation and creating it,
although it took quite a bit of patience with all the slides.

Skipping

As a focus for this term for P.E  with Mrs Allan, we are doing skipping. We are all at completely different levels, with some just learning how to skip, and others trying to attempt double dutch (and failing dismally so far). I feel I'm doing ok with it, and today have learnt how to time it so I can jump in and out while the rope is going instead of having to stop the rope. This also ties into our decade study, as when quite a few of our parents were young, they would spend their lunch times skipping. Where as these days we do a variety of things during our lunchtimes, I for example play sport. Do you ever skip? I look forwards to progressing this term and by the end will hopefully be starting to double dutch and if not will be a confident skipper.

My Animation: The Crash Of Cartoonsville

Today with Mrs Torrie we made animations. We had free rein to make it about whatever we wanted. I made mine about a car crash, bombing aeroplane and a crazy alligator. Right now it is a work in progress and I will be updating it to include my animation soon.
Have a great day,
...
-Liana

My Favourite Bubble Moments

Today to reflect on our recent lockdown, we did a quick activity on google drawings for 'Our Favourite Bubble Moments'. We all tried to make them effective, using boarders, nice fonts, backgrounds etc.  I enjoyed remembering all the way back to the start of lockdown and to some of my favourite moments.
Here is my work...

 

Usain Bolt

Today for writing Mrs Allan we were focusing on Usain Bolt or Yohan Blake. We could write either an interview, commentate over a video of them running in the Olympics, a newspaper article about them, or a creative writing piece. I chose to write a creative writing piece because obviously I'm boring. Here is my writing...

I take a deep breath. The crowd is a blur. A deafening roar erupts around me. Cameras blink in bright flashes. A shake out my arms and legs. All my training leading to this one race, which will last for less than 20 seconds. I picture my family and friends at home. This is for them. The night air is still warm and humid. The camera man comes over and takes a close up of my face. Everyone shouts unheard encouragement. I wave a couple of times to thank the people. My head is in the game.

Crouching I position my hands behind the line and await the start. “Set” the voice echoes around the stadium. Instant silence.  I concentrate on my arching back. “CRACK” the starting blocks smack together. Quick as a strike of lightning I launch myself forwards. Legs like a windmill. I breath in rattling breaths as I bolt along the track. I extend my legs and raise my head. Arms pumping madly. Blake stretches ahead of me and I grit my teeth as I push myself. I no longer feel my legs, I only see the line. I gain on Blake and am just in front of him. The line nears and I struggle to maintain my pace. But I do. I pass the line and sprint a couple more metres before slowing. I had won. I become aware of the racket of the crowd. A smile stretches across my face as I sit, breathing hard. “Gold Medal To Usain Bolt!!”

-Liana

What Is In My Room-Writing Poem

Today Mrs Bennett gave us some ideas for what to write about. I chose the 'What's In My Room' idea, and because I seem to be addicted to writing in poems these days, I of course wrote in a poem. And because poems sound much better when rhyming in my opinion, I chose to make the challenge harder for myself (because it's me and why not) and rhyme.
So here is my poem...

What Is In My Room

If you were to go into my room for a peek,

Past the door with a very loud ‘CREAK’,

Perhaps half the things you would not understand,

But to me, all the items are very grand.

Step in, and you would see,

Many books that cause me glee,

To pore over with much of my time,

Because in my mind, not reading is a crime.

Go in further and more books than you guessed!

Because over books, I am obsessed,

Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and Divergent,

Those are some in many to give you a hint.

Pictures of animals, pets and friends,

A desk littered with pencils and pens,

Drawings and sketches from some of the stories,

Of different genres and odd categories.

A comfy bed, to give a good sleep,

And a big window to watch my beautiful sheep, 

A drawer crowded with arts and crafts,

And birthday cards filled with many laughs.

A nice, white, functional ceiling,

Because having rain on your head isn’t appealing,

Although in winter there are sometimes rats,

Who wont stop scratching, the little brats.

There is not need to critique,

My obsession with the ancient Greek,

As shown all around my room,

Because that information I happily consume.

Oh and remember to never overlook,

My piles and piles of beautiful books,

I know I’ve already touched on this subject,

But books in my eyes are the definition of perfect.

You see this is what makes us all unique,

Maybe you wouldn’t like my door that creaks,

Or in winter, the ceiling rats that squeak.

Perhaps you’d even think me a freak,

My books a bit weird, so to speak,

Or find my belongings mild and bleak,

But this is what you’d find wrapped in all it’s mystique,

This is what you’d find if you gave my room a peek.

Pet Photos

For about the last month my mum gave a challenge to keep me busy. This was to photograph my pets and attempt to capture their personality in these photos.
Here are my photos...

These are the ones I got of Gus, he was quite hard to photograph because he just wouldn't stay still and was too busy barking at possum in a tree. So these are just passing photos, I was mainly focusing on photographing my sheep.

This is my lamb Addison (but usually just Addie), I think she is just the chillest lamb I have ever had. She never runs when Gus tries to chase her unlike my other sheep and I think the first photo captures just how she was relaxing quite well. She loves big bear hugs and has a particular spot on her back that she loves being scratched on.

This is my lamb Teddy. He is my cheeky little chap and is ALWAYS hungry. He still nibbles on my fingers even though he's about 7-8 months old. He's also the only lamb that can scare Gus because he sometimes starts chasing him, trying to nibble on his tail and ears, which concerns Gus quite a bit. Teddy is also the son of my sheep Dave who I call my 'model lamb' because as a lamb you just couldn't do any wrong when photographing him. I will put a photo of him below Teddy's as a comparison.

This is my sheep Lulu, she won champion lamb in 2017, and is still the biggest sweetheart. It's quite funny because she acts as the mother figure to all my little orphan lambs, and they follow her everywhere. Unfortunately in the first 2 photos one of her eyes are squinting because she had some problems with one eye, so I came back to take photos a bit later once it had healed up. But even with a healed eye she is a bit camera shy I have found.

This is one of Lulu's daughters Amelia, whose side profile, which I didn't get a photo of, is a carbon copy of her mums. Amelia is quite a brave little girl and was named after Amelia Earhart. She was named after her because when she was about 30 minutes old she went adventuring and somehow got through a fence and fell down a bank onto the side of the road. Luckily we found her because Lulu was quite distressed and was baaing her lungs out trying to find her while looking after Amelia's little sister Gracie. So she was attempting the first female solo flight across the road. She then later got stuck in a hay feeder when it flipped over.  

This is Lulu's other daughter and Amelia's twin, Gracie. Gracie is the sassy lamb and started doing that thing that sheep do when they stomp their foot as a challenge to me when she was only 2 days old. Nowadays she even challenges the motorbike and dads working dogs. Despite this she is a sweet girl and looks VERY much like her mother when she was her age from all aspects, perhaps apart from her ears, as Lulus were very floppy. 

Here is some group shots which I took of them all...

And photographic proof that Teddy chases Gus,

Oh, and also a random lamb that got in with my sheep that I've named Michael.

Photo Competition

These last couple of weeks Mrs Allan gave us a challenge of taking Autumn related photos. This was so popular that it then morphed into a photo competition, using any photos. I entered using this photo...

It was quite funny that I ended up using this one, because I'd been taking quite calculated photos up till then, making sure the camera was on the right setting,  holding it very steady, and looking through the lens to make sure that it lined up properly. With this one I legitimately stuck my hand into blackberry bush, tried not to get caught on too many thorns, snapped a couple of very uncalculated shots, and then stifled a scream when I lost balance and fell into the blackberry bush, right into a very thorny spot. It took me about 30 quite painful seconds to get untangled, but don't worry, eventually I got all the thorns out with only a some bleeding. All that for this one photo. And yes I would say that it was worth it. Plus I got some pretty cool scratches up my arms, legs and back.

My classmate Violet won the competition with a gorgeous picture of her dog and cat.
To see all the amazing entries then Click Here.