Term 3 Week 1 Mashup!

Hi readers!
This is my first blog post of term 3. I feel that the holidays definitely were not long enough but oh well, we are back at school. So this is what we have done since school started.

The first thing I'm showing you is something we did on Wednesday. We were learning a bit about money and were given the task to go shopping for a family of four. One person is gluten-free, one is dairy-free, one is vegan, and one is normal. I did this task with Jhana and we managed to spend just under $170.

Here is the shopping list.

The second thing I am showing you is from literacy. For a while now we have been learning about different movie genre is film noir. We had to make a plot for a film noir movie. Here is mine!

Film Noir plot

The Dead detective

The plot for this story is that the detective is losing his job and the boss says that he needs to solve a case and he can keep his jobs, but if he can't he will be fired. The case he was given was a murder, a man was murdered in a restaurant and its the detective's job to solve it. The detective starts struggling with the case so he hires a private investigator to investigate each of the suspects each day. The investigator finds out the boos were the murder so he looks for more evidence and finds out the boss was giving him wrong leads and wanted him to lose him jobs because he was becoming a better detective then him.

The detective is poor, he grew with a wealthy family and they all died my a murder, they never found the murder and the detective said that he would be a better detective and help as many people as he could, but he had to be adopted. The family he was adopted to was not wealthy, in fact, quite poor. So when he left home he was left with a couple dollars, but he pursued his dream to become a detective, which is where he is now and trying to stay with his job.

He tells his colleagues about the boss and nobody believes. HE goes to reach for the evidence and it’s gone. He freezes and realizes about his loss. He is determined to keep going and run to the boss's office for evidence and sees the boss there. The boss heard the whole story and fired him, he had no chance of returning and went home. As he is walking out of the office he hears four gunshots, he runs back inside to see all but the boss dead, the detective gets shot. End of story.

What do think? Have watched a movie with the theme film noir? Who does the shopping in your house? Do you have any allergy that affects your diet?

Until next time!

Southern lights

Hi readers

We have officially finished our work on Matariki (for now at least) and so now we are learning a bit about the southern lights, also known as the auroral australis. The name aurora comes from the Roman goddess of dawn or the Latin word for sunrise.

The lights generally happen in the auroral zone, which is near the north and south pole. Aurora is caused by the atoms in the high altitude in within our atmosphere and energetically charged particles. Auroras are associated with solar winds that flow past earth. The winds flow from the sun and contain plasma particles that get pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields. As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

Now that you know what southern lights are I can tell you about what we were doing today!

We were making the lights using paint. It kinda hard to explain so here is a picture of what we're making!

The steps are pretty simple, that's why we got it done in a day

Here is my result

You notice the rather large stars in the sky and those are the Matariki stars! The teachers decided to put both the things we have been learning about into one single artwork so the artwork involves both the lights and the stars!

After looking at some videos of the southern lights I think it would a really cool thing to see and an amazing experience. Have you seen the southern or northern lights before? Have you seen the Matariki stars before?

Until next time!

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!