Archive | May 2021

Tree Books

May28

I made a tree book with my class. This was so fun and at the end, when we were done, we showed our families and they loved it. It was fin doing all these new things and learning from a real artist! These are the steps on how to make thus awesome book:

  1. Screen Printing: Screen Printing is where we took a screen and put it over a piece of paper. The screen has text on it so when we rolled over it with the paint roller it printed down words on to the cardboard. This process was so fun. We could put the screen anyway we wanted to.
  2. Paper Folding: This was a pretty boring step because all we did was fold a really thick piece of paper. We had different styles. For example, hamburger is when you fold the paper in half and it has a long bottom and a short side. Then we had hot dog style. This is the opposite and the bottom was short and the sides were tall.
  3. Akua Ink Art: This has a very weird name. But, in this process we put a plant on a type of paper. Then, we rolled our paint roller on some jelly looking stuff. Lastly, we would rolled the painted paint roller over our plant and piece of paper. It turned out so cool.
  4. Collage: This step was the funnest. We could glue on pieces of paper to our tree books and make it look like a jungle. I added rain drops and a monkey to mine. I also added trees in my forest to make it look like an actual forest.
  5. Pockets: This step all we did was glue on our pockets, which were tiny envelopes. We got to camouflage them with some of our Akua Ink Art. I liked the camouflaging part the most.
  6. Salute To My Roots: This was also so fun. We got to write about people in our lives that made us better or who influenced us. I wrote about my parents because I think that they have changed my life and raised me to be a good person.
  7. Life List: This was also so fun. I wrote a list of all the things I want to accomplish in my entire life. I will check off everything that I do. One of the things I wrote on my Life List was that I want to find the cure for Cancer. It will probably not happen but I can try. You can put anything on the list.
  8. When This Is Over Poem: This poem had two parts. The first part was about what I will never take for granted ever again after COVID-19 is over. I wrote things like ‘I will never ever take for granted seeing my friends faces or feeling the breeze on my face at the beach’. The second part was things we Couldn’t have done during COVID-19.
  9. My Wish: This was one or two wishes that you have. One of the wishes I wrote were ‘I wish that I can help someone that really needs help’.
  10. Wishtree by Katherine Applegate: This book is so interesting. It has taught me so many things about life that I never even realized. Right now in the book Red (a tree) and Bongo (a crow) are trying to make to humans, Samar and Stephen, friends. They are failing right now. I think at the end of the book they are going to become friends with each other.
  11. Frank Gallery: Go check out all these pieces of art. All of them are so beautiful. https://www.frankisart.com

I want to thank Peg Gignoux for helping us with all of our art. Go check out what she makes here: https://gignouxart.com/

TED Talk

May28

I made a TED Talk about How We Can Save The Environment. I had causes and effects. Most people put a paragraph or more on each slide but I put like then 1 sentence. On each slide I put a photo and a BLACK background. This will help the audience to not think that they have to read an entire paragraph. Trust me it helped me get better compliments and a better grade for my presentation.

When you are presenting, make sure you speak clearly, make eye contact with the audience and don’t stare at your note cards. That is how you make a bad presentation.  Not only should you speak clearly but make sure to speak loud. If your voice is quiet the audience might not even be able to hear you presenting.

Steps to make the TED Talk:

1) Decision: This is when you think about something you already know some about, because then you would have to start something new and it will take a lot longer to make. Make this topic something that effects your life and that you are passionate about.

2) Research: This is when you write down what you know and find out more about the topic. You can look things up on Wikipedia and add the link or look information up on Google and click on a site and find information there.

3) Slides: Add all of you information on note cards. Then in to Google slides find photos that fit with what you are talking about and organize them. Make sure to add the links. Don’t put more than 2 sentences on a slide.

4) Pictures: Add pictures that connect with what you are talking about.  Make sure the background behind the picture is black or the picture is in full bleed (which means taking up the full page). Add the links on to your citations slide.

5) Prepare: This is probably one of the most important steps. Make sure you present your full presentation to someone or to your self. Make sure to time yourself and see if you can make it longer if it is to long.

6) Present: In this step you will present your TED Talk. Be loud, so everyone can hear you. Be funny, so your talk is not boring. And be enthusiastic, to engage the audience. At the end thank your audience for listening and tell tour call of action. For example, my TED Talk was about the environment, so I would say: I want y’all to go home and pick up trash or not litter.

Now you are done. You did sooooo well. Answer any questions your audience has. Boom.