My Holiday!

                             My Holiday!

Something awesome I did over the holidays was when I went to Australia for an International Waka-Ama Race called the "Gubbi Gubbi Race". It was a long trip but it was quite relaxing. My team and I have been training all year for this trip and we were finally in Sunshine Coast for our big race!


 The weather was scorching hot, it felt like everyday it continued to bake, but in our first hotel we were up at 7am in the morning and we were already swimming, it was awesome! The day came where we had to check out the lake to see where we would turn our waka (boat or canoe) but we ended up getting lost for 30 mins and it was hilarious!We came 1st & 2nd in all of our races, and came 4th in our finals. It was exciting and it was very intense because the competition we had were very tough and strong; but they were really polite and kind to us when we came off the lake. In Australia it was very because the motel we stayed in was really neat and it had a hot tub that we all just squezed into. It was relaxing because it was nice having everyone there together and it was bubbling hot! The motel we stayed in was also really really REALLY  high! It was scary at first but later we began to admire how high up we were. The floor me, my mum and my team stayed on was 45 floors high but my team manager and my Nana couldn't bare being that high up, so they stayed on floor 7 & 16. Also over the last few days we went to the theme parks Wet White Water World, and Dream World. We went on tall rides, scary rides and fast roller coasters! We spent all day there and it was lot's of fun we all enjoyed it!

After we got back from Australia we had to drive all the way back to Kaitaia from Auckland. It was stressful but we all made it home and it felt good to be back in NZ. When we arrived back home we all were glad to be back, especially the dog! He kept on jumping on everyone, barking and running around like crazy when we were all exhausted! We all ended up just going to sleep at 4pm because were so tired. I felt happy and proud about our races and to be back home!

What did you do over the holidays?
What was something relaxing/awesome or scary about your holiday?

Dot Art

                                Dot Art

This week in Te Kahu we've been working on our art for the Art and Cultural festival! For this activity we wanted to try a different technique, so we started to make dot art. Dot art is where you use cotton buds or dotting tools to make a silhouette of anything you wish. You can create a simple pattern, an animal or even an entire landscape. I decided to make a Chinese dragon since it's also a cultural festival, I thought that this task was going to be easy but it turned out to be really stressful and messy! Since we had to work outside we were all squashed on 2 small tables in the boiling hot sun, so if anyone moved their arms it would effect everyone else and smudge their paint. Everyone was worrying about their art because it would take so long just to paint on every single dot that no-one wanted to restart. In the end my artwork turned out pretty good and I'm glad it's over. Here is my template of my Chinese dragon!

If you did this art with us, what would you pick for your art?

Why would you pick that?

Wordy Drawings

                     Wordy Drawings

This week in Te Kahu, on our Literacy contract we had a task where we had to create a drawing that describes a word you have chosen or draw what you think matches that word. My word I have chosen is "quaint"After we have chosen a word we would then have to find the definition of the word and then write a sentence. I chose this word because I never really use this word in speaking or in my writing so I thought that using this word would increase my vocabulary and it might help me a little bit more when I am trying to describe something. For my chosen word I decided to draw a picture that goes with a sentence that includes the word quaint. My sentence is " A quaint cottage in the countryside." To create our drawing we were given the options out of Seesaw (another source that we use to share our learning with whanau) or we could use google drawings. Seesaw is more preferably easier for me so I chose to use the drawing tool on Seesaw. I am proud of how I drew my picture on seesaw and I enjoyed this task because now I use this word more often in my writing. I hope we can do more tasks like this so I can learn more words and improve my vocabulary even more!

If you did this task what word would you have chosen? Why?

If you did what would you draw?

Crazy Cardioid

                         Crazy Cardioid 

This week in Te Kahu, on Monday we learnt how to draw a cardioid. ( a cardioid is a curved heart shaped drawing which is hand drawn and made by using times tables.) For this task we had to fill in a small chart and each number in the chart went up to the number 60. Under those numbers 1-60 we would write down multiples of 2, for a starter the we would match up the numbers in the chart to the numbers on our circular template. When we were matching up the lines with the numbers we just had to go with what the chart said and pay careful attention to the numbers we were matching up. I made a few mistakes during this step, I would accidentally match up the wrong numbers which could've ruined my finished product but luckily I noticed my mistake and I fixed it. In the end it turned out better than I expected and it was much simpler then I thought. After we had finished and we had gotten a feel for it, we then had to turn the page over to another template and create another one but using different number times tables if we wanted otherwise we could just colour it in. I decided to try and draw another one, so I chose to multiples of 3, which is called a Nephroid. After I had finished I was happy with my end results. I enjoyed this task it was quite easy and fun at the same time. Here are some examples of Cardioids and Nephroids.

Would you do this task?

Would you colour yours, or create another one?

This is a Cardioid.                                                                                              

                                             

This is a Nephroid

Animation Time!

                        Animation Time!

This week in Te Kahu, we have a task on our Literacy contract that we had to complete. We have two weeks to get these tasks done but I got this task done on Monday, the success criteria was to create an animation presenting our findings on anything we have found out. To find our information we needed to have a few questions and see which one we were interested in most, I always wondered "How did a single asteroid wipe the dinosaurs?" I had fun creating this animation, and I like to think of it as a fun but challenging task. Here is my animation, and feel free to give me and feed back or feed forward. Enjoy!

-Tiana

What would you make an animation about? Why?

Keyhole Art

                           Keyhole Art

This week in Te Kahu, we have been getting creative with art, we were given a piece of paper with a keyhole picture on it and our task was to draw any sort of picture we would like to inside the Keyhole. Our aim was to draw what we would think we would see through that keyhole, or what we hoped we would see. We were allowed to view some references for an example or for ideas to get us thinking creatively. For my keyhole art piece I drew a dragon in a treasure trove, but i didn't look at any examples because i had planned what i was going to draw. I drew this picture because I love dragons and magical things and places. So I thought that if I looked through a keyhole I would see this dragon in its treasure trove protecting it's prized possessions.  Here are some images of keyhole art. I really enjoyed doing this task it was a lot of fun and I hope we can do more tasks like this.

If you did this task what would you draw/see?
By Tiana

These are some examples of Keyhole Art.

Matariki slide

         Collaborative Matariki Slide

This is my Matariki slide, on our wk 8/9 contract we had a task on literacy where we had to create a presentation on Matariki that was thorough but for a 1/2 yr audience. I decided to join in a collaborative slide that a few other class mates of mine were doing. Here is our final presentation and I hope you enjoy! 

Is there anything else we could've added to our slide? 
Any Feedback?
If you made a presentation for a 1/2 yr audience, what would your topic be?