Genius hour

Rosie and I have been doing this thing called Genius hour for art. We have four ideas but we have two main ideas. We have splater paint and we the other thing is about an artist his name is Alex Mcleod.

Here are some of his paintings:

And here is some Jackson Pollock art:

This is What I am interested in, How about you?

Weaving

This week we have been doing weaving so here is my stuff

This is water couler

This is pastel  

This is black and white paper

Rubbish

Maths.

Today in maths we learnt about Fibonacci. Here is a video. Fibonacci sequence in nature<click to view

Hope you enjoy.

Reflection: I learnt about Fibonacci.

Toolkit: I was listening and following instructions.

Sound facts

• Sound comes from vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves which move through mediums such as air and water before reaching our ears.
• Our ears vibrate in a similar way to the original source of the vibration, allowing us to hear many different sounds.
• Dogs can hear sound at a higher frequency than humans, allowing them to hear noises that we can’t.
• Sound is used by many animals to detect danger, warning them of possible attacks before they happen.
• Sound can’t travel through a vacuum (an area empty of matter).
• The speed of sound is around 767 miles per hour (1,230 kilometres per hour).
• The loud noise you create by cracking a whip occurs because the tip is moving so fast it breaks the speed of sound!
• When traveling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through air.
• The scientific study of sound waves is known as acoustics.
• Although music can be hard to define, it is often described as a pleasing or meaningful arrangement of sounds.
• The sound of thunder is produced by rapidly heated air surrounding lightning which expands faster than the speed of sound.

platapus facts

The platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal that has a very unusual appearance, it is duck-billed, has a beaver-like tail, lays eggs, has otter-like fur and webbed feet. The platypus is only found in eastern Australia in small rivers and streams within the states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. When descriptions, drawings and even live specimens of platypus were first taken back to Europe for study by British scientists many believed the animal was a hoax, a beaver's body sewn together with a duck's bill as some sort of joke. Platypuses and echidnas are the only two mammals in the world classed as monotremes which means that they lay eggs instead of giving birth. Females platypus lay 2 - 4 eggs, incubating them for two weeks. The back foot ankle spur of a male platypus contains a venom that is powerful enough to kill small animals such as dogs. The venom is not lethal to humans, but it can cause severe pain, that sometimes lasts for weeks. The average length of a male platypus is 50 cm (20 in), the smaller females average 43 cm (17 in) in length. Platypus weigh 1 to 2.4 kg. Platypuses can live more than 12 years in the wild. Their natural predators include snakes, water rats, hawks, owls, eagles and sometimes crocidiles. The platypus is an excellent swimmer, diving under water on average for around 30 seconds to forage for food before coming up for air. Platypus close their eyes and ears when under water, so in order to feed on worms, insects, and freshwater shrimp, they use their sense of electroreception and dig up muddy river beds with their bill to detect the electric fields of prey. The platypus uses pouches in its cheeks to carry prey back to the surface where it is eaten. The platypus eats about 20% of its own weight in food each day. The platypus is usually nocturnal, coming out at night or twilight to feed, sometimes they are also active on overcast days. The platypus sleeps on average up to 14 hours per day. The platypus was hunted for its fur until the early 20th century. It is now an Australian protected species. The platypus is the state animal of New South Wales (NSW). The platypus has been used as a mascot for national events in Australia and is featured on the Australian 20 cent coin.

wolf facts

• Wolves are excellent hunters and have been found to be living in more places in the world than any other mammal except humans.

• The wolf is the ancestor of all breeds of domestic dog. It is part of a group of animals called the wild dogs which also includes the dingo and the coyote.

• Most wolves weigh about 40 kilograms but the heaviest wolf ever recorded weighed over 80 kilograms!

• Adult wolves have large feet. A fully grown wolf would have a paw print nearly 13 centimetres long and 10 centimetres wide.

• Wolves live and hunt in groups called a pack. A pack can range from two wolves to as many as 20 wolves depending on such factors as habitat and food supply. Most packs have one breeding pair of wolves, called the alpha pair, who lead the hunt.

• Wolf pups are born deaf and blind while weighing around 0.5 kg (1 lb). It takes about 8 months before they are old enough to actively join in wolf pack hunts.

• Wolves in the Arctic have to travel much longer distances than wolves in the forest to find food and will sometimes go for several days without eating.

• When hunting alone, the wolf catches small animals such as squirrels, hares, chipmunks, raccoons or rabbits. However, a pack of wolves can hunt very large animals like moose, caribou and yaks.

• When the pack kills an animal, the alpha pair always eats first. As food supply is often irregular for wolves, they will eat up to 1/5th of their own body weight at a time to make up for days of missed food.

• Wolves have two layers of fur, an undercoat and a top coat, which allow them to survive in temperatures as low at minus 40 degrees Celsius! In warmer weather they flatten their fur to keep cool.

• A wolf can run at a speed of 65 kilometres per hour during a chase. Wolves have long legs and spend most of their time trotting at a speed of 12-16 kilometres per hour. They can keep up a reasonable pace for hours and have been known to cover distances of 90 kilometres in one night.