Mystical Matariki Kites

Happy Matariki everyone! 

On the 2 July, we celebrated the Māori New Year, a time to consider the year ahead. The days are starting to lengthen and spring will soon be here, we just need to get through this cold winter first! 

Matariki and the Pleiades star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two; one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow-colored. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.

My kite has Tawhirimatea and the wind represented with the clouds. I then colored it in like a rainbow.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

This is my kite. 

The death of James Peaceful animation

Hi, Bloggers this week for literacy we are reading a book called private peaceful. We have only read the first 2 chapters of this book but it seems really good. For our task, we had to do an animation about James and Tommo Peaceful we had to make an animation on how he died. This is my animation. The little boy is Tommo and the big person is James. To play this animation you have to hold down the arrow button. 

Aladdin

 Hey, bloggers in school we are learning a play called Aladdin we have to do tasks when we are not learning our lines or learning any dances or songs. This task that I'm doing is drawing some of the characters. I drew Aladdin and Jasmin. 

Aladdin

 Hi bloggers, we are doing a production called Aladdin, when we are not learning any of the dances we have to do some tasks. There is a task that we have to make pixel art. This is mine I drew Aboo the monkey from Aladdin 

Egg challenge

 Hey Bloggers, 

This week on Wednesday we did a thing called S.T.E.A.M. Steam stands for science technology engineering arts and maths.

 For our challenge, we had to create a way how to drop an egg from a high place and try to make it not break. Our design was that we wrapped our egg in a card then wrapped it in lots of paper and then put the string around it. after we did that we put a plastic bag around it and put some air into it.

 The materials that we had to use were 3 pieces of paper, 1 meter of string, a plastic bag, sellotape, scissors, and paper so sketch your design on it. This is our design.

 

My awesome burger

Hi Bloggers.

In literacy, we are learning how to structure a paragraph. We are using T.E.X.A.S, The T in Texas is for Topic sentences, the E is for Expand or Explain, the X is for eXamples, the A is for Analysis, and the S is for Summarising. 

Today for literacy we had to make a burger. This burger is representing how to write or structure a good paragraph. It shows that there are sections to be a paragraph.

 

'Bread: topic sentence Lettice: Explanation Fillings: Example - detail 

Holes

Hi, Bloggers for literacy we are reading this book called Holes. The book is about a boy called Stanley Yelnats. Did you know that Stanley Yelnats is still the same backward.

Have you watched or read the book or movie Holes?