Fantastic Matariki

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 a taniwha and the body of it is faded into a cloud because it represents wind I also colored it to be like a rainbow.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

Matariki print

Kia Ora everyone!                                                                                                                                                    Welcome back to my blog! So it's nearly Matariki and our class decided to make Matariki art.                                 Here is mine, I really enjoyed this activity! 

Are you celebrating Matariki? Now if you want to make one of these of your own here are the instructions. 

1. Draw your design on a spare piece of paper just remember With the stars you must make sure to draw them on the opposite side and possibly way than mine because if you don't it will not end up like mine and it will be the wrong way round
2. Draw it again on a piece of foam (make sure to have a bit of pressure)
3. Have a roller of paint and then paint of two colors ( or more)
4. Put a piece of paper over your wet design ( Make sure to add some pressure so it sticks)
5. Take the paper off and add your name so you don't get mixed up
6. Rinse the foam under a tap ( so all the paint is off)
7. Get a paper towel and dry it so you can have another go 
8. Do it as many times as you want!
9. Get a piece of card and cut out an even frame
10. Put the picture in the frame and cut off any extra paper hanging out the side
11. Glue it all together
12. Add your signature down the bottom

HEDGEHOGS :(

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It me again this week we have been learning about pests and then we got given one I got hedgehogs to learn about so here's my canva

See hedgehogs are nasty creatures 

STEAM

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Welcome back. This week in Toroa we have been doing science experiments. This week one was dropping an egg from a certain height but the challenge was don't let the egg break so the teachers gave us certain materials to try and wrap it up or make a parachute for it. This an image of my teams.

(if you cant read it zoom in)

(oh our egg broke)

Well that's it maybe you should try and do this science experiment

the beat of the drum

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Welcome back to my blog I know I haven't really been doing any blog posts lately so here's one.

This week in toroa while the production kids have been away the rest of the kids had been working on making their own drum beet with anything in the class but before we started doing them we had to actually make them unfortunately I don't have mine to show so here's the video of me doing it.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Have you ever created your own drum beet?

The holocaust

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                                                               Link to my website

This term in Toroa hub for literacy we have been learning about the holocaust which is a big war where Germany invaded the Jewish countries and took them to concentration camps.

 

The reason the Germans took the Jewish away from their homes was so they could enslave them until they were useless then they shot them but sometimes they tricked them by saying we're taking you to a shower but really it was a gas chamber which is a way of killing humans and animals. Whenever the Nazis put Jewish in the gas chamber they left them there for 10-18 minutes which was enough time for them to drop dead.

During the Holocaust, there was a Jewish girl called Anne Frank who lasted 761 days hiding behind a bookcase/Secret annex with her family and a boy she liked. On August 4 1944 the Nazis went to investigate Anne Frank's house because there had been weird and illegal activity going on in there that's when one of them discovered that there was a hiding annex behind the bookcase and they all got discovered and taken to a concentration camp.

Anne Frank and her sister almost survived but 2 weeks before the Russians came to stop they died from typhus which is where your cold and haven't had any food.

English translated into Maori

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Welcome back in Toroa for the last couple weeks we have been making scratches about the weather here's a link to mine.

(you will have to press the green flag)

My scratch link

Hope you learnt a couple things anyway it took me a long time to figure out how to make them speak because I never really use it.I think scratch is a really good website for doing stuff its also fun.

RULES: Don't have capitals when you type in the weather

You should try and make one but in a different langauge. BYE BYE FOR NOW