Card Sorting

Hi Readers!

On Wednesday we have tech, but before we go to tech we always have to do something. This week we had to sort out a deck of cards.

We had to get into a group of four and we were given 200 cards to sort out. We got the cards from a pub in town and we had to sort them. But it was a bit more complicated. We had to write out what we were going to do and then we could only do what was on the paper and if we were caught doing something that wasn't on the paper we would have to start again.

I was in a team with Matilda, Jhana, and Caprice.

This was our instructions.

Our team came in 3rd place.

What do you think? Have you sorted cards before? If you did this challenge, what place did you come?

Until next time!

My Matariki Book

Hi readers!

Every Friday when are at kapa haka the people that are not doing kapa haka are given a task to complete. So for the past 3 weeks, we have been doing a task about Matariki. We were given many options to do about Matariki and I chose to make a book on book creator.

This book took me a while because I had to find images that had the same kind of art style, and I am no artist so there was no chance of me drawing them my self. But in the end, I found them.

So here is my book.


Link to my Book

What do you think? Have you seen the Matariki stars before? Have you made a book before? What do you know about the Matariki Stars?


Until next time!

Brilliant Blog Post Mashup

Hi readers!

This week's blog post is a mashup about my literacy and my numeracy! Today has been a pretty normal week and nothing special really happened at school but at home, I have had a pretty exciting week as I got a kitten!

To start the blog post off I am going to be showing you my literacy work. For literacy, we have been learning about the genre of movie horror. To learn more about the genre we watched a horror movie (in my opinion the movie we watched wasn't very scary but we were limited as to what we could watch.) The movie we watched was Hocus Pocus. It had all the horror movie cliches so it passed the horror movie check.

We were tasked to make a movie poster for Hocus Pocus. It to be somewhat scary and had to be related to movies as well, so that means it had to include a picture of some of the characters.

Here is my poster

Next is maths.

For maths, we are learning about sequences. For this, we did a sheet about the patterns that we had to work out.


Here it is

What do you think? What horror movies have you watched? Have you watched Hocus Pocus?

Until next time!

Interesting Irony Comic

Hi readers!

We have been doing many things for inquiry,  and one of them is learning about irony. For this task, we had to make a comic with the photos we took using some sort of irony. Then you would put it into a google drawing and add text bubble and then you were done.

There are three different types of irony. Dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience is in on something that the main character is not in on.  Me and Jhana (my friend) worked together to make a comic using dramatic irony.

Here it is 

What do you think? Do you read comics? Have you made a comic before?

Until next time!

Stunning Siapo

Hi readers!

It is a Wednesday, which means it is a tech day! We go on the bus around 12:00 so before that we do art! So for the past 2 weeks, we have been working on something called a Siapo.

One of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa is the Siapo or Tapa.  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time-consuming, because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped, and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth.  

There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan cultures such as nets, coconut leaves, shells, and flowers.

So this is what I made!

What do you think? Have you made a Siapo before? Do you have Samoan in your jeans?

Until next time!

Marvelous Mashup!

Hi Readers!

This blog post is going to be a mash-up of my literacy and numeracy learning this week. It is mainly continuing things from last week and my last blog post but updated and better!

First up is my numeracy!

For numeracy one of my tasks was to figure out patterns, write the following numbers that continue on from the pattern, and then write the rules. Here is a screenshot of what I have done.

Some of them were pretty easy, while others took me a bit longer to work out.

Next is literacy. 

Once again we have been doing our website. Last time I blogged about it I had nothing on it and it was more planning, but now I am nearing the end of the website.

I while show you some pages from my website to you can get an idea of what the whole website looks like.

Here they are

What do you think? What have you done this week? Have you made a website before? If you have what was is about?

Until next time!

Amazing Abode!

Hi readers!

This week and last week we have been learning about korus and their significance to the Maori culture. Because of this, we have been making artworks using the korus.

After making our things we made a video showing all the planning, finished products, and information about the koru. Here is my video!

What do you think? What do you know about korus? Have you ever made an artwork with korus? Have you used abode spark before?

Until next time!