Amazing Aurora

Kia Ora Bloggers,

It is finally the end of term 2! It feels like we've been in term 2 forever. For the last day of term, we have made some art that is inspired by the Aurora lights and Matariki. Matariki is the constellation that becomes visible around this time. It is the sign of the beginning of the Maori new year. There are 9 stars in the constellation, these are named Matariki, Tupuārangi, Waipuna-ā-Rangi, Waitī, Tupuānuku, Ururangi, Waitā, Pōhutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-Rangi. 

The name 'Aurora' comes from the Latin word for sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, it is usually a greenish colour but sometimes it is red or blue. This natural phenomenon usually occurs in areas known as the 'auroral zone' near the poles of the Arctic in the north and Antarctic in the south. In Southern hemisphere latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora australis or the Southern Light. An Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields. When 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.

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Cool Comic Strip

Kia Ora Bloggers,

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

Kia Ora Bloggers,

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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Friyay Tasks

Kia ora bloggers,
Because it is Friday today, we got to do tasks that are a little different from usual. Instead of literacy and numeracy, we did stuff a little more creative. We did stuff from our tech classes today. I chose to do a sewing task. We had to get some old material that we had around our house and turn it into something new. I found these sweatpants in my mums room and decided to make it into a 3 piece clothing set. I don't think I'll ever wear the top but it was really fun to make. I made some sweat shorts, a top, and a scrunchie.

This is the second task that I did today was to design a food truck. I like cow print at the moment so I decided to make it cow-themed. The menu has Moookies and Cream, Chocolate Mooose, Mooogurt and Cream, and Moookey Poookey. Moookies and cream is vanilla ice cream with big cookie chunks to resemble cow print. Chocolate Mooose is chocolate ice cream. Mooogurt and Cream is vanilla ice cream with some frozen yogurt on top. Mookey and Poookey is Hokey Pokey.

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Day 3 of online school

Kia ora bloggers,
Today we had a fun Fri-yay task instead of the usual literacy task. We had to create an artwork inspired by the wizard of oz. It had to be inspired by the wizard of oz because that is the book we are studying this term. I printed out a picture of Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Lion, and the Scarecrow walking and cut them out. I then used the paper that I cut them out of as a template. I put it on a new piece of paper then sponged on watercolour paint. Here is the finished product!

I tried to make the colours match the person.
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