Maui and the Fish

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For Maori this week we have been working on a story our story was Maui and the Fish. We first had to watch a video that had no sound. Then we had to write a story about what we think the voice over would be. We then had to put the story on a website called voki. This was quite a fun task and I really enjoyed it. Have you ever heard of Maui and the Fish?

https://tinyurl.com/yzn2z95n

Magnificent Matariki Art

 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 coloured. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.

My kite is a red and black Taniwha with a red and black background.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

The Paper Table

 

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Today we have been making paper tables. Our table was made out of 8 pieces of paper and around about 70cm of tape. Our challenge was to make a table that was able to 1 book up 15 cm high. Our table managed to hold 5 books which we were very surprised about. Our team was able to have the 3rd most stacked up!  This challenge was very hard but also really fun. Have you ever made a paper table?

Amazing Matariki Art

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For the past few weeks, our hub has been doing an art project on Matariki. We started off by learning where the stars were positioned and drew them down on a piece of paper. We then had to draw the stars down as spirals on our piece of paper the annoying thing was we had to draw them backwards. Once we had done that we had to draw mountains down underneath the stars. When we had finished it off we had it checked by a teacher. After that, we copied our sketch onto a piece of polystyrene. Then once we had done that we got to dye our polystyrene with the colours of our choice. When we had finished that we had to lay the die on a piece of paper and after about twenty seconds of the dye being on the paper we were done. It was really hard to make but in the end, it turned out looking really good.

The Egg Drop

 

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Today we did a test with an egg. We had to create a protection for the egg for when it dropped so it would not crack. We first designed the protection and showed the teacher. We then started making it. It took about twenty minutes to make. We each shared some ideas we had and made it better every single time. But then it came to the drop. The drop was about 3.5 meters high. The teacher dropped it. It was looking good at the start but when she opened it there was yolk all over it. So we failed our design but at least we had a lot of fun making it.

Crazy Hundertwasser Art

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Every Wednesday for the past three weeks we have been doing an art project. It was based on an artist called Friedensreich Hundertwasser. His style of art was he would never use straight lines and he would make his put funny lookung buildings in his art. He sometimes would put hidden faces in his art. It was also really fun looking at all the crazy pictures people had made. Can you find the hidden face?

 

Scratch

 

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Every Friday for a couple weeks we have been making an animation using scratch. It is about weather and how to say it in Maori. It was fun to make and funny watching the characters talk. Have you made something on scratch?