Matariki Art

Last Wednesday while I was away the wonderful Ms Eadie taught the beautiful year 3 learners to create another master piece. This time they look the theme of the up coming Matariki celebrations. They created a beautiful greenstone surrounded with lovely stars to show the starts of Matariki. Check it out.

Fairy Bread Recount by Kristopher

On thursday we made fairy bread. first we washed our hands and put one glove on. After that we got a piece of bread.we got a knife.we buttered the bread.we put some different kind of sweet and crunchy sprinkles we got a shape cutter or something’ and shaped it like a star.when know one ate a piece of the bread i was sneaky and i took I bite of it my friends were going to tell on me.but chaun took a bite to we asked miss Davis if we could eat it now chuan was eating the whole thing very fast. Me and siua were like wow he must be a hunguest. It was fun making it and i hope we do it again.

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Jezer is a Star!

This term Jezer explained how he is a Star. We think you are awesome Jezer.

today am learning to be a star.

A Creative Animation

This is Atawhai's wonderful animation.

We made a tamarereti video  to celebrate the seven matariki stars.I hope you like it. 

Technology of Kites

Israel's Reading activity. This term we have been learning about technology and making kites. We have made a range of kites and discussed the technology. This is Israel applying his knowledge from what he has read.

This week we are learning about Maori Technology.So far it is so cool learning about this. 

Teingoa's Tamarereti Story

This term we have been learning a lot about the story of Tamarereti. Teingoa retold the story in his own words. Well done Teingoa. 

A long  time ago there was a village next to a lake. When it was very dark people didn't go outside because they could not see. But there was a boy called  Tamarereti who was a brave warrior. One morning he was so hungry. He went fishing and got lots of fish. Then the wind went away so he just went to sleep and waited for the wind to come back. Later the wind came back and took Tamarereti to a different island. It was getting dark so he ate the fish and after he was finished he did not know where he was and he knew

the taniwha would come and eat him.

He took some shiny pebbles and threw them in the sky so he could see. When he was back at home he went to sleep. Then he woke up when it was morning because someone was at the door. It was Ranginui. He came and said to Tamarereti “thank you for lighting up the sky.” The end.

We are Stars!

Last week we wrote about how amazing we are and the things that make use a Matariki Star. This is Angelica's wonderful I am a Star poster. Great work Angelica we know you will achieve all your goals. 

                           Today we were writing about our self and how we are stars this is mine.
See Angelica's blog for more of her awesome creations.

Kharizma's Movie

This term Kharizma work very hard to create an exciting animation. She drew all the picture and wrote the script. Her animation retells the story of Tamarereti and how he put the stars in the sky. 

Great animation Kharizma. To see more of Kharizma's creative work check out her blog. 

Flying our Kites

Room 14 have been waiting and waiting for a windy day to fly our kites. But we never got one. So sadly we had to made our own wind by running. Today we took our kites outside and ran around the court to see if we could make them fly.

We really enjoyed testing our kites and now we have taken them home to wait for a windy day to see if they will fly without running.

Tamarereti Animation

This term we have been creating animation about the Tamarereti Matariki Story. This is Kiarah's wonderful animation. We hope you enjoy the story.

Making Kites

We have been working hard all term to make strong kites that will fly without us running. We tested all kinds of materials and decided that plastic was stronger than paper and that we needed a strong frame to hold our kites together. We also talked about how have limited instruction made kite making more challenging.

First we had to tie our plastic sticks to create a cross. 

Then we had to put string around the outside to make a solid frame. 

Some of us found this part very challenging but by working together and helping each other we created string kite frames that were ready for their plastic. 

Once our plastic was on our kites we added a tail and some string. 

Now we just need to wait for the perfect windy day to fly them. We have learnt a lot about kites this term and we look forward to sharing our reflections on how they fly.

Hyperstudio

This term we are working on creating an animation that retells a Matariki story. We have been working hard to create our images for our Animations and we wanted to share some picture of us hard at work.

Flying Things

This term we have been learning about flying things. We have made paper kites, Paper planes and now we are beginning to explore how plastic can be used to make our kites even stronger.

We are excited to share with your our journey so far as we explore the technology of Matariki through creating kites and paper planes.