3, 2, 1 Blast Off!

The past few weeks my class Te Ngahere have been doing something called Wonder Project. Wonder Project is when scientists come to your school and teach us about rockets, talk about where they work, their interests and what they do for a living. Some of us have been making our own rockets out of plastic 1.5 litre bottles for the body of the rocket and cardboard or an  ice-cream container for the wings. I really enjoy Troy and Gustavo coming in and teaching us about rockets because rockets are one of the things I am interested in. Since Troy and Gustavo have been coming in and teaching us about rockets I have learnt that the thrust is pushing the rocket up, the weight is so it is stable and won’t flip over and the drag is so it comes back down to earth on the ground. The only thing I found hard to do was modifying our rocket and figuring out what my group and I need to fix up so the rocket is perfect. I think next time I will focus more on finishing the rocket rather than how it looks. I hope we do this again because I enjoy it so much! What do you find interesting about rockets? Here is my Rocket!

Ka Kite!

Learn Some Maori Words and Sentences With Me!

In Te Ngahere we have been doing some Te Reo Maori. For Te Reo Maori we had to write a script in maori about children going to a sports field and learning new sports because we were learning new words and sentences in maori. To make our DLO we had to make sure our script was green on the hand in sheet. When that was done we had to screencastify ourselves saying the maori words because we were learning how to speak more maori. We also had to make sure we could read and say the Maori words and sentences. I like that we did Te Reo Maori because I learnt more maori words and how to speak and pronounce them correctly. Do you know any words or sentences in Maori?

 

Mosaic Art

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a type of art called “Mosaic Art”. Mosaic Art is when you make any kind of shapes that fits closely together but not too close to the point where it touches. We do that because if we made the shapes far apart or too close together it would look wrong and wouldn’t have the Mosaic art effect. First, we made a google drawing to create our Mosaic art on. Second, we created any shapes with polyline. Thirdly, we coloured in our shapes we made. When we were doing art in lockdown I didn’t really know what to do and I did the shapes too close together. Now that I know how to do Mosaic art I really enjoyed it and I think it turned out really good. Here is my Mosaic artwork: Hope you like it.

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Movie Making

This week in Te Ngahere we have started making our own short films. We had to make our films three minutes long. Our film could be any types of films like action, comedy, educational, sport, adverts, music, game shows, news and weather, children's t.v, puppetry, drama and documentary. We were allowed to make our film about anything that was appropriate. My group and I feel really confident about our film this year. I like that we get to make our own films because I enjoy acting, especially because I am doing it with my friends. I think my friends and I are going to enjoy everything about making our own film and there is going to be nothing we don’t enjoy. The steps we have done so far are film type, script, location, props and sounds. Our next steps are content, titles and credits. Have you made your own film before?

Ka kite!