Matariki

 This week Kaniere School  are celebrating Matariki which runs from June 19th until July 11th, it is a star cluster of seven sisters that can be see in the early hours of the moring before the sun come up. Some people think it means they're having good crops this year, or a good year. On Friday Kaniere School is celebrating, and we get free sausages if we have our Harakiki baskets, and parents are allowed to have a free one even without a basket. We have little plates and baskets to hold the sausage's in. This one is mine. I really like how it came out. First, we got 2 long pieces of flax (Harakeke), then we cut the core off the species of flax. Then split it in half by putting our thumb through and then sliding down that makes it into 2 pieces. Then we have to try and get 12 on each flax. after that we have to weave a mat 7 pieces on the bottom then 5 on the top. We weave them into a mat then do the handle. After we did the handle we started on the sides, I Gathered one side together then tied it together with strong thin piece of the flax, and the same to the other side. Then I have made a Harakeke basket. Kereru is going to teach the little ones how to do this.  Have you ever made anything using Harakeke? 

 

Emily Carr Term 2 art

 Emily Carr was a Canadian Artist, She was born on the 18th of December 1871, and died on the 2nd of March 1945 She suffered a severe heart attack and died at the age of 73, she started painting in 1898. Last term we painted tried to paint trees of Emily Carr's Style. First, we did our planning, then laying pieces of paper on the desk and then started on a white piece of paper, Started with the trunk then made our way on with the leaves. Once we finished we let it dry and after that, we put the border on. 

This is my tree I'm proud of how it came out my favourite part of doing this was probably doing the leaves because you can make it light in the center and a little darker on the outside. Red, Orange, Pink, Green, Brown any color leaves you to want! Have you ever heard of Emily Carr? Or done anything like this? Leave it in the comments!  

Professional Kawa of care poster

Today I finished my Kawa of Care poster about computers. We did this for the care of computers which goes for laptops too. I made this poster with Canva, it's a program that we use that helped us design our posters. It's free to use, so why don't you have a go. In Ruma Kereru you will see them up on the wall. Do you look after your computer?

Athletics

 This week we are doing some practices for athletic which is Friday next week at Westland High School. What I love about athletics is that we get a day of school and all the activities to do well we are there. My favorite thing to do in athletics is high jump and long jump. I'm really good at it but sometimes I'm not. Have you ever been to an athletic competition? What's your favorite thing about athletics?  All the school is going just like we did last year, We have been practicing almost every day you could say. We haven't started yet but we will get there soon.    

My Kite

 This is my kite I have made it out of a sticks called toetoe and white thick string. I have enjoyed it so far but I'm not done yet, I'm half way done or even more!. I have beening enjoying this so far because This is my first time making a kite at school and I have learnt how to do a new knot. I started off to help people before I could get mine done, then after I helped everyone get there toetoe I started I didn't know how to do the knot so the next day I Went to the white table and got the teacher to help me. Then I new how to do it, This is my results so far. We did these for marataki. I'll update soon!. 

Camp

Last week we went camping at Woodend Christian camp!. I loved the zoo but we will get to that later. We arrived at school around 8:18 am I was so sleepy but alive, We chucked our stuff into the car and then had a little short meeting. I said goodbye to Mrs Hickford and then left. I was in the car with Olivia, Lucy, Me, and Amelia, Amelia was the quiet one out of all of us. We have been on the road for 3 hours. Once we arrived at camp we got out had a run around to stretch and then we got our bags and put them away. I was in room 5 with Olivia, Lucy, Elizabeth, Cooper, and me. We had 6 extra bunks in our room. All the other girls were in room 1 because that was the year 6 girls' room. We did a lot of activates that day!, we did Aroejump, play on the playground, gaga ball, and explore. Then came dinner WE HAD DELICIOUS NACHOS!, I ate mine so fast. We went to be after that. The next day (I skipped a couple of days because I forgot what we did) ohhh we did a lot of activities My favorite activities were Air rifles, Archery, Climbing wall, Go-kart too. There was also another one but I didn't like it, it was Team building. The next day we went to the zoo!. My favorite animal there were the lions and the Giraffes. when we got there though we had to wait a while then we had some rules. Then we watched the animals feed we were there for a long time!. The next day we left "Goodbye Woodend camp! I'll miss you a lot!!" 

Collage

This is my funny Collage. I enjoyed it because I get to choose anything I want to do. So to make a collage you need your base thing you can do anything, then you get rid of the background at a remove.bg or anything else then you choose any other object and remove that background. Then anything else you want to add, And put them any were on your base. I chose this one because I didn't have anything else in mind. Have you ever done a college before? Would you like to try a collage?