Aladdin

 Kia ora bloggers!

For the past 13 weeks we have been practising with a group of year 5-8 for the production of Aladdin. In the first week everyone was very focused on getting ready audition in the next week we had our roles and were practising and then our performance started coming to life. We were practising non stop even at school on the weekends then the week we had been waiting for DRESS REHEARSAL and was everyone excited to see what we got dressed in, but then the night we really waited for our performance night which for us was Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday night were we got to steal the shop. Here our some photos

Did you  go to the performance?????

   

STEAM table

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This week in our STEAM projects we were doing a new task were we had to create table but its not that easy we only got 10 pieces of news paper and 1 meter of tape, even thought that sounds bad we had to make it 15cm meters of the ground!!!!!! even though we thought it was impossible we tried it anyways and to our surprise we created something that was ok or so we thought until it got put up to the challenge of holding a book and guess what it help and not even 1 it help 10 and a computer. In the end we came out on top so here is the evaluation of our table. 

Have you ever done something like this at home or school?

Jhanas Matariki Art

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This week we have been doing some artwork for Matariki and to make this art work we did something called printmaking which is printing a photo on to paper with colourful inks. First we started of by drawing the matariki star cluster onto a piece of paper but we had to make sure it was reversed so that when we print it isn't switched around then we get to draw on the foam which we put our paper with our drawing next to it and try draw it on the foam but we have to make sure we push a bit hard so that the lines are deep enough to show up. We also use a ballpoint pen so that it makes the best ridges. But the step by step process went a little like this.

Step 1 : First we started by getting a piece of A4 paper and started by drawing the matariki star cluster but making sure it is reversed so that after its printed it comes out the right way

Step 2 :Next after our work was checked by the teachers we got a piece foam with out names on the back and then we took our foam and copied our drawing on it 

Step 3 : Then was the fun part we got to actually make it so what we did was get some ink that was all set up in the maker space by our lovely teachers and then we used a roller to put ink onto the foam

Step 4 : After we we laid our foam with ink on the table we covered it with a piece of A5 piece of paper and used a clean roller to transfer the ink onto the paper 

Step 5: Then we peal it off and reveal but were not quite done then we make a frame for our work by using a stencil that has been made by our very lovely teachers and then we glued it together and then made sure to put our signature and what copy of our work is

Here is mine 

And thats it! have u tried print work before?

STEAM

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This term we have been focusing on science and have been doing very many cool experiments. This week we we're focused on having a little bit of fun so we tried doing the classic school egg drop challenge. Our group came 3rd I believe and had really fun forming our creation. My group worked really well together but I think we could of tried harder in listening to each other but other than that we did do great but our egg sadly did crack a little. here it is.

Have you tried the egg drop challenge before???

Maori Weather!

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These past weeks we have been learning all about the weather but in maori. We have been learning all about how to write and say the weather in maori like if its a beautifully hot day with the sun out we would say its wera meaning its hot. Our challenge was to create a scratch of two people ask about the weather in maori and the response. In my video you will hear my two people talking about the wether being fine and the weather being fine and being snowy! lets take a look 

Whats the weather today were you are?

Treaty of witangi

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This week we have been learning all about the treaty of witangi and how it’s was formed. The treaty of witangi is a very important thing to New Zealand because it is apart of its ancestry. Our task today was to create a treaty of witangi voki which either shows us as a Maori or as one of the European settler and show what we think our issues were. Here it is 

Did you know this about the treaty of witangi?

Safety

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This week we have been learning about our safety and how we can keep ourselves as well as others safe. We have been looking at scenarios of when we need to pick the best outcome to try and keep us and our friends safe. So what we had to do as look at a scenario comic strip that shows people being unsafe and then we had to draw in the last square what we think the people should do to keep them safe. Here is mine 

Do you think you would of written the same as me?

My lego person!

 

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This week was our first week back at school and I’m so excited to be a year 8 but then 

soon in a blink of a eye we will be off to highschool. Usually at the start of each year we 

do a self portrait this year we got the challenge from out teachers to make ourselves into 

lego person!!!! My person is wearing a champion T-shirt because I love champion and some 

black sweatpants because I like to be comfy. So here it is 

Do you think you could make yourself into a lego person?

Get to know me!

 Hey bloggers!

I hope you have had a really good week and some really fun days at school and work!

 This week we have been learning all about us. With the help of 

canva we created a video that shows all of our interests and some really

 fun facts so hopefully everyone will get to know eachother a little bit better 

because it really help to get to know your fellow students because you do get to spend 

a year or more with them. So here it’s is

Do you think you have gotten to know me a bit better?

Camp & Pepha

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Welcome to my first blog post of 2021! im so excited for this year because I will be the top of the school as I am now a year 8. School came in a flash as it feels like it was a 2 second break but we jumped into school but only for 1 day before we packed our bags and we were of to camp for 3 nights and 4 days. Todays task was for us to create a flashback on some of our favourites memories of camp. sadly I didn't have my device when we were doing our tasks so I did mine on paper. here its is. 

We have also been looking at our pepha it has been a very intresting challenge. For our task we had to create a video on adobe spark and speak to you all about our pepha. I personally found out some new stuff like i am Australian but my ancestors are from New Zealand. Here it is

Do you know your pepha?