Lockdown round 2

Hi everyone, hope you are staying safe in lockdown.  

It's been a while since we've been quarantined, and often being isolated at home can quite obviously get boring at times, so here are some ideas to keep you busy and content at home.

What do you do to stay busy in lockdown?

Maui fish story- script

Kia ora,

Today we had to write a story about how Maui created the North Island, after that we had to create an animation. I'll update it when Pippa and I have made that.

This is our script:

Kupu Playing Cards

 Kia ora everyone,

This term we have been learning a range of different maori games and sayings, one of witch is a playing and matching game. We learnt to ask "where are you?" which is "kei hea koe?" in maori. We then learnt a few different things we could answer with and then created a game which we could then play.

In this slide you will find out how to play, and the cards to play with (They must be printed out)

Matariki Explanation Animation

Presented By Choi-Boi Stations

Kia ora everyone, I'm back with another blog post!

Animators: Isabella S, Pandora H

Script Writer: Felix C

Voice actors: Felix C as the farmer and Tāwhirimātea, Pandora H as the narrator and side characters, and Isabella S as essentially anything else.

Since Matariki is coming up soon, we were tasked to create a short film or book to explain to the younger students in our school a little bit about what has been said to have happened, and why we celebrate it today. It had to be intriguing for the younger kids, and since heaps of people were doing puppet shows, we decided to animate sock puppets. It's not done yet, but we will update or make a new post when its done.

*I will edit the post soon and add the movie*

Blurb: Tucked away in a small village, a farmer tending to his crops gets a glimse of an extraordinary sight- no one believes him of course, but little did anyone know, there was something a lot more sinister going on behind the scenes- and it was real, very real.

Koru Art :))

Kia ora bloggers, 

Today we were creating Koru art with Pastels, we shaded the Korus and died the background, I did the colours of my Korus blue and green, and died the background yellow to really make it "pop".

I did mine surprisingly quickly, but it was heaps of fun, now we are going to continue by creating Korus to hang around our neck with air dry clay, so stay tuned!

Perfectly terrible Pepeha

Kia ora everyone,

This term we have been doing our Pepehas. Mines a bit plain, but, you know.

My Iwi is from the tribe up in Taupo, where are your family from?

SLJ Wk1 D1. My families culture.

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For the SLJs Wk1 Day1 Activity 2 we were given the task to describe our culture and families background.

My Mum's is Irish and Moari, her tribe from Aotearoa was Ngāti Tūwharetoa, from Taupo.

My Dad's background is full of English and Scottish. We don't completely know it all, because my dads dad was adopted, and his adopted mother didn't speak of where he came from.

The picture is shows where my mothers tribe was, and still is found, and I got it from Wikipedia.com.

SLJ Day 1 activity 1 (And Week 1!) Food and stuff .

Kia ora everyone!
For the SLJs (Summer learning journeys) day 1 first activity, we were challenged to make a list of ten food items we would take with us if we were going to go on a sea voyage for multiple weeks (Also considering the fact that there would be no refrigerator and/or freezer to store the food, and give an explanation on why we would take each item. This ended up being a lot harder then I first anticipated, and I ended up staying up till 9:30 PM finishing this, so my apologies if it seems a bit lazy.

Aloe vera: This can be used as a healing item or it can be made into a drink or food, it can also last for quite a while without a refrigerator.

Seafood: Although this needs to be eaten quickly, seafood is a good source of energy, and when your out at sea, it's not going to be hard to find and catch more to eat.

Nuts: Nuts can last for AGES before expiring, and most are very healthy, too.

Dried fruit: Although dried fruit contains a high amount of sugar, it's sort of self explanatory why I put it on this list, and just like the nuts, dried fruit can last for a very long time before expiring.

Honey: Honey also lasts for an extremely long time before it expires, and it is easy to store as well.

Crackers: Although after a day or two they might get stale, crackers are a good food to fill you up. And if all else fails, at least you have your honey you can spread on the crackers.

Food capsules: Food. In a capsule. Last for a long time. Looks and sort of tastes like a pill. I have no more to say.

Dark chocolate, marshmallows, and candies: Well they can all last for a long time, and they taste delicious. Anything else?

I created the terrible picture with a wacom intuos tablet and an art program called Krita.

Word Art

Kia Ora Tamariki! 

This last week we've been trying out word art, the year sixes did it last year about ourselves, but never mind. This year we had to do it on things that make us feel like we belong in our environment, my first one that I'm going to show (The red & black one) is about what makes me feel like I belong in school, and the second one describes what makes me feel like I belong in New Zealand.

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