Monthly Archives: May 2021

TED talk project

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What we did. 

In my class at school we had to watch TED talks and then make our own.

What I did mine on.

I decided to do mine on field hockey.

Why I chose that.

I chose to do it on field hockey because play field hockey and I noticed a lot of people didn’t know much about field hockey. So I thought it would be helpful to teach people about the basics. I also wanted to do a topic I was passionate about and I really love field hockey.

What I did to make it.

The first thing I did was decide on what I wanted to address about field hockey but I could not decide so I just did a it on the main key points of field hockey. Then I started writing a script on what I wanted to say, then I made slides that went along with what I was saying.

My experience.

I enjoyed making and practicing my presentation. It was fun to show it to my family and friends as well. But I was really scared when I had to present it to the class. Even though I was scared it ended up going pretty well with the class and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

Tree Books

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https://gignouxart.com/

My classmates and I made tree books at school. Our tree books are pieces of decorated paper, card stock, and cardboard. We worked with a local artist called Peg Gignoux, I put a link to her website at the top of my post. There were also small pockets containing things we wrote.

The first thing we did to made them was use a stencil to print words in ink onto a thick cardboard card stock and painted these big pieces of thin card stock blue. Then we folded the blue paper and cut the thick card stock into tree shapes and glued it onto the blue paper forming a book.

We then decorated it with shapes we cut of papers we painted with akua ink and pressed with plants. After that we added little pockets all around our books.

In the pockets, we put a poem we wrote about things that we took for granted before COVID and a list of things we wanted to do one day. We also added a paper we wrote about someone in our family and we put in a wish that we had too. My wish was “I wish for everybody to be happy and healthy.”

I loved working on this project. I had done collage before but I never had used akua before. Once we had finished we had then displayed in an art museum (which was super cool) and we read Wishtree by Katherine Applegate because it matched with the theme of trees. I showed my family my tree book after I had finished, they really liked it.