Matariki Book

Kia Ora Bloggers,

For the past few weeks we have been learning about Matariki and creating something about it. We had a few options like a puppet show, an animation, or make a children's book. I chose to make a children's book on book creator. I made it with Billie-Jo and it took about 3 sessions to complete. It is about how the Matariki stars came to be. It is not based on real-life events.

Here is the link to my book - https://read.bookcreator.com/R1IGm6DIthPO9IMKYpmPOoy9w3S2/rE9AGQadSleu18rsZVOkbQ

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Week 10 Work

Kia Ora Bloggers,

This week for literacy we have been studying Horror. We started by watching Hocus Pocus then we pulled it apart. After that, we tried making a poster for Hocus Pocus except we had to make it scary. Then we had to pick apart 3 different movie posters from different decades.

For maths, we have been learning about linear and non-linear relationships. We had to figure out if number sequences were linear or non linear. We also had to find patterns in different maths questions.

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Wizard of Oz Website

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Our Wizard of Oz websites were due on Thursday this week meaning that mine is finally finished. It took about 2 weeks and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. We had to write 9 texases on 3 characters, 3 symbols, and 3 themes within the story of the Wizard of Oz. The characters I chose were Dorothy, the lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West. The 3 symbols I chose were Dorothy's silver slippers, the yellow brick road, and the bucket of water that kills the wicked witch. Here is a link to my website: https://sites.google.com/marshland.school.nz/woz-hanakennedy/home

Global Issue Art

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On Tuesday we looked at some pictures that showed some global issues. Our teachers put them up around the class and we had to write on a piece of paper next to them what we thought they meant. After that, we had to choose the picture we liked the most. This si the one I chose.

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Cool Comic Strip

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This past week we have been learning about irony. We learnt about the three different types of irony: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is basically sarcasm, if the weather is terrible, it would be verbal irony to say 'What wonderful weather we're having.'. Situational irony is when you expect something but get the opposite. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something before a character does. My friend Bailee and I made a comic strip showing verbal irony. Here it is:

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Koru Art

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The past few weeks, we have been making a Maori koru necklace. First, we looked at some drawings done by Raewyn Harris, then we drew our own with pastels. Then we had to sketch out 3 designs for a koru necklace. Out of those 3, we had to pick one and make it out of air-dry clay. I picked one with two hearts and korus inside of the hearts. the smaller heart represents my immediate family and the bigger heart represents my extended family. Here is a video of the whole process. The voice-over feature wasn't working for me so I couldn't do a voice-over.

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Wondrous Week 8

Kiaora Bloggers,

This week we started a new subject for technology. My group has moved into cooking/food. We will be making bread and pasta throughout the term. For the first class, we made a simple loaf of bread to get to know the techniques of making and kneading the dough. It was delicious.

For Numeracy this week, we have been focussing on finding a way to always win a game. the game we had to win was called take 3.

How to play: There are 21 counters and 2 players. each player has a go and can choose to take either 1, 2, or 3 counters. Whoever takes the last counter wins.

I figured out that the way to win every time is to go first and to make the remaining amount of counters a multiple of 4. That way you can always win because no matter how many the other player takes, you can always make it a multiple of 4 again. And when you get to 4, the other player can take away 1, 2, or 3 but cannot get the last counter, so you win.

In Literacy, we have been continuing on with our websites. I finished the layout for my website so now all I have to do is the writing. I have written 2/9 of the texases. We are not allowed to do it in school time anymore because we will be moving onto our next study. Here is a picture of what my Themes page looks like.

See you next time:)