Matariki PT,2..

Today for my Matariki reading work, I completed Reading the online resource and also I started doing the Writing activity where we have four questions, and we have to answer them in 3-5 sentences.
This was the question I had to answer::
What is Matariki?

And my response was.

1. Matariki is the sign for the new Maori new year. Matariki consists of 9 stars and 7 of them are
2. known to be sister stars.  Matariki is a constellation that happens once a year.

I also found out that Matariki helps tell if you crops will grow good or bad.

I think doing this topic is fun and it is great to learn about the history behind it.

Matariki Reading Activity

For this week, my group for reading has a topic about Matariki. Matariki is a symbol of the Maori new year. Matariki consists of seven sisters and a mother and a brother. Matariki is the new year and it starts in the winter. 

Today I finished the starter activity and the reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-OluHpI6I

what i knew before the readig:

Matariki is a traditional sign for Māori new year. Matariki consists of 7 stars and it doesn't happen at the same time of the normal calendar year change. Matariki date changes every year.

Thank you for reading this/

Artist Statement

1. Describe your work. Create 3 sentences to answer the following: What is it a picture of, What shapes have you used, What was your inspiration.
-My Responce:

• The picture is of the name squidward with flames coming off of the S.
• The shapes i used were flames and letters to create it.
• My inspiration was, my friends are all named after sponge bob characters and i am called squidward.

2.Did you have any trouble creating this piece? if so what happened? (2 sentences) 

-My responce:

• I didn't have much trouble making this piece of art. but something that did go wrong is that when drawing the final designs, i had the letters to small so i had to erase it and rewrite it a few times.

3. Does your work have a meaning? are you trying to give the viewers a message? 

-My responce

• Well my lino cut doesn't have really any meaning apart from keep trying and you might not get it the first time but that doesn't mean you stop.

4. What are you enjoying about creating this piece? What could you do better? 

• I like/liked doing the brainstorms and i can work on doing the cutting and the final sketches.

5. What have you learned? 

• I've learnt that lino cutting is difficult.  

Here is my finished / Printed copy.

Kete

For this terms kete, He have been learning about Hauora and health. Hauora has a main four dimensions. Taha tinana (Physical well-being), Taha Hinengaro (Emotional & Mental well-being), Taha Whanau (Social well-being) & Taha Wainia (Spiritual well-being). For this activity built off it, we had to fill in a template with four boxes representing each of those four dimensions and explain something that we do to show and represent that dimension and balance them. then we got to decorate it how we wanted and we put our name in the middle!

SVA Reading Activity :)

For our reading task for week #7 We had to learn about the SVA. SVA stands for student volunteer army, and they are a group of student volunteers that help people and the environment by completing different jobs around the place after the earthquake.  I will be sharing you three things that i learnt about the SVA.

- I've learnt that the SVA is a group of people that help protect & clean the environment in our community. They also help clean places that were damaged by the earthquake.

- The SVA have sent out a servey for anyone that wants to join that doesn't have a devise and become apart of the student Volunteer Army.

- And lastly, I learn't that SVA stands for, Student Volunteer Army.

I hope you learnt something and i hope you enjoyed!!

Reading

E-pro8 Challenge

On Wednesday the 23 of may, I had the opportunity to go represent my school at the E-pro8 Challenge. The E-pro8 challenge is a booklet with a series of challenges based off of a main topic. There were four main topics that each had around ten little tasks off it. We were all in teams and in the team i was in had  Matthew, Greg and Rikin. My group got a total of 200 points and most of the tasks were 50-60 but everyone got bonus points for having a tidy work station when the host came around. We all had 2 hours to complete as many tasks as we could. I had a great time and I would love to do it again!