Fake news

Today I have been making some fake media. This is what I did.

The hard parts were finding the background and getting the picture of me right. The easy parts were getting the fish and removing their background. I used remove.bg to remove the backgrounds and I also used explore to get the images. Have you ever used remove.bg before?

Have you heard the news?

 Hi! Today I made a word art to do with media. I listed a lot of things that are media. Here is a screenshot of my word art.

The hard thing was thinking of them all. There are so many that I may have missed some. The easy part was putting them all together. If you want you can use this link to make some word art too. Have you ever made a word art before? 

Piskel animations!!!

I have been making piskel animations! It has been a lot of fun. The bottom is a volcano inspired by our volcano work we did last term. The top is a girl with some apples. For that one me and my friends spun a wheel online two times and I got person and apple. Have you done piskel before and if you have did you like it?

 

About me poster! :D

Here is my Poster about me. I hope you like it. :-)

 

Who wants to go to the pools?

 Today I am doing a review about Mount Albert pools.

The Mount Albert pools is a great year round place to go with your friends or family to swim and have fun. There is so much to do there you will love it and if you are lucky your parents might even buy you some hot chips at the end!

The best things about the Mount Albert pools are all the different things there are to do and it is great exercise. There is a hydro-slide, as well as the main pool which has a wave that goes on the half hour, there is a part we call the roundy-round that pushes you along. There is also a length pool where you can practise swimming and spas to soak in which are very relaxing. If you have young kids there is also a warm toddlers pool. The Mt Albert Pools is also a great place to have a birthday party. If you do not want to travel to far from home then the Mount Albert pools is in our neighbourhood and is also cheap. My dad says it is cheaper than having a pool of our own! The Mount Albert pools is indoor so it is great in any weather, funnily enough it is refreshing in summer and a great place to go in the winter. My dad also loves the saunas, but they are only for people over 18.

The bad parts about the Mount Albert pools is that it can get really busy in the summer on the weekends or in the holidays. When that happens the lines for the hydro-slide are enormous and there are heaps of people in the lanes if you are trying to swim. Sometimes in the summer they do not even let you in because there are so many people!

Last summer we went to Point Erin pools. That was cool too but it was further from our house. And it is really only awesome there on a beautiful sunny day, it is outside so you definitely can't go there in winter. 

I love going to the Mt Albert pools and if you haven't been there I think you will love it too. It is a great place to go with your friends and family and you also get to exercise while you have fun. Time passes so quickly that in our family our parents have to make us leave! 😀

Kōwhai Yellow

 A while ago I found some Kōwhai seeds on the way home from school.

On the 29th of August I found this awesome YouTube clip on how to germinate them. It was quite a bit of work. You have to get them out of the pod. Then either scour them with sandpaper or clip the ends of with a nail clipper. Then you have to soak them in a bowl of water overnight. The ones that float aren’t ready to be sowed so you pull out the ones at the bottom. Most of them will be at the bottom.

We then planted the seed and left them in a sunny window sill at home, making sure we give them some water.

Three weeks after we planted them the sprouted up. So far we have 11! According to the you tube guy we should re pot them in a few months. Have ever planted anything from seeds that you found?

Here the are right after we picked them up

Here they are after we just got them out

Here are the seeds

Here they are in the bowl

Here I am planting them

Here are the seedlings

 

Finally here is an even bigger seedling