Tessellating Patterns

WALHT: Design and create tessellations to explore transformations.

I designed and created the below tessellating patterns by...

First Pattern

1. Create a rectangle on paint
2. Draw a curvy line on the top of the rectangle
3. Copy the curved line and paste it at the bottom of the rectangle
4. Draw a curvy line on the right side of the rectangle then copy it to the left
5. Erase the rectangle and it’ll leave you with your shape
6. Colour your shape and copy and paste it so it’s symmetrical to make the pattern

Second Pattern

1. Draw a triangle
2. Colour the triangle
3. Copy and paste it so it makes a pattern
4. In the remaining spaces add the same triangle and rotate it 180 degrees

First Pattern  Second Pattern

Angry Flamingos

The Man

One morning Patrick raced out of his mum’s car running into his classroom late. This man told Patrick he was late. Of course he knew that but his teacher didn’t tell him that. He was wearing a tattered hat with creepy crawlies, a gigantic bow tie, he had auburn frizzy hair, green orbs and was very, very pale.

Patrick was standing at the door gazing at the man.
“Good Morning Patrick” He was still gazing until the man clicked his fingers in front of Patricks face. “You better hurry” he said as he handed Patrick some armour. When Patrick looked up the man vanished.

Patrick questioned his classmates on what was going on but they just stared at him blankly. He stared back at them and decided to put on the armour given to him by the man. When the bell rang to go to the next class Patrick received a peck on the shoulder. There he was standing face to face with an angry flamingo. One of Patrick’s classmates hit the flamingo in the head with a school book leaving it to fall on the ground and disappear. All of the students were trying to kill the angry flamingos with school supplies like rulers, books and staple guns.

When Patrick walked through the hallway no one was in sight except an 8’5 angry flamingo. This angry flamingo wore a crown on her head and tried to peck Patrick until he bled to death. Patrick then remembered why that man said you’re the one. He was the one to kill the angriest flamingo of them all. He got scissors out of his suit and trimmed off the flamingos feathers. By doing this the flamingo became shorter and shorter until she was the size of an ant. Before you knew it the flamingo was dead from Patrick stepping on the tiny flamingo.

Out of nowhere the students and the man from earlier on came back to school. They celebrated and enjoyed themselves at a tea party. Behind one of the bookshelves a baby angry flamingo was eyeing on Patrick ready to attack.

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the way of how plants make energy. The things absorbed by the plant are water, sun and carbon dioxide. The plant then uses the things its absorbed by making the energy for itself which is glucose/sugar. Oxygen is produced by the plant in this course which is then turned into the air we breathe.

Highly Recommended Movie (Three Words)

I recommend "Three Words" by Room 3 at Saint Pius X School because it has a nice meaning behind the movie. It was very simple but it was also very good. The students from Room 3 had three or two pieces of paper that said something with only three words. Some of these three words were Learn Create Share and We Use Netbooks. I have 3 words for this movie which are Highly Recommended Movie. 

The Weta

My Article on the Weta:

Physical Features
The Weta’s appearance looks a bit like a grasshopper, katydid or cricket. They are very large compared to other insects. Their legs are quite big but most of the time they’re spiny. A lot of these creatures are wingless and all of them can’t fly. The colours on a Weta are usually shades of brown and black.

Their Environment
Weta’s can cope with more than one kind of temperature that’s why their environments aren’t in one area. These different areas include caves, forests, grassland and shrub lands. Most Weta’s live up in the north island of New Zealand.

A Weta’s Diet
These creatures like to eat during the nighttime since they’re nocturnal. They munch on leaves hanging on trees. Tusked Weta’s like to eat earthworms and beetles. Weta’s also eat plants and other insects which makes them omnivores.

Types
There are five different types of Weta which include the tree Weta, cave Weta, giant Weta, tusked Weta and the ground Weta. But if we’re talking about how many species are there that would be 70 and 16 at risk.

Breeding and Evolution
Their eggs are laid during the colder months in autumn and winter and they hatch during the spring time. Each Weta has an amount of how many years they live for but the cave Weta has seven. A tree Weta has at least one or two years before it’s developed into adulthood. During this period of time it would have shed its skin at least ten times. This is also part of the evolution of a Weta.