Yesterday was our fourth session with the Otumoetai Intermediate School kids. We worked in the hall on our robotics project. We had to programme the robots to following the line on our maps; work on our maps making trees, bridges, house and other objects; and publish posts on our group blogs.

We finally got our portrait painting finished last week when Mrs Cash helped us to put the finishing touching on with pencil. The learning intention was to paint carefully. This meant to be successful we had to:

• Choose the right size brush.
• Hold my brush upright, like a pencil.
• Create neat, clean lines with my brush.
• Paint in one direction.
• Apply an even coat of paint.
• Layer coats of paint to add detail.
• Take my time to do a good job.

Let us know how you think we did by leaving a comment.

Cameron wrote a piece of writing about Life as a Cow. He used some really good descriptive language to create a picture in his readers' heads, when he described his friend Jackson the cow and their friendly farmer. After creating pictures of Cameron the cow, Jackson the cow and the friendly farmer, Cameron put them on to a background scene of a meadow and turned his illustrations into a movie using Windows Movie Maker.