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?

The barrier game

The barrier is a fun game. You need two people to play, My partner was Rhys he's cool. I enjoyed this because we had to tell your partner where to put the shapes. so you start with your computers not next to each other then you got to put the shapes in a random place hen guide them where to put them and after that, you look at each other's screen and if its right or wrong you can still continue. you can do any types. In the end, you can make your own and continue like that you can do this whenever you don't have to go on a site or nothing!.

Magic

Today we had a magician come to Kaniere School. He was called El Gregoe, he's really smart. He's been practicing basically all his life. He started with some amazing magic tricks!., They were parrot ones El Gregoe made parrots appear and disappear. El Grego had a really rear bird's. I liked the yellow and blue parrots, they were called Zazu and Richy McCaw.  The red parrot was named Scarlett. My favorite part of the show was seeing the parrots. I wish I was like him. I would love him to come back! Have you ever seen him? do you want to meet him?. 

                    

Bazil is a duck that talked to us about bullying!. he was like "Never bully at school" At school its not cool to bully. Know one wants to hear the word "Bullying" Have you ever told someone not to bully?

Egg Experiment

This week we had a challenge. We had to make an egg bounce!. Ruma Piwakawaka tried two types of vinegars, White and Malt. we started off with two eggs and we put the eggs in the vinegar and waited 3 days for them to get ready. After 3 days had passed we tipped the vinegar out and the class felt them. They felt squishy and smelt weird we didn't get to feel the Malt one. Then Mrs Hickford said we were going outside to see how high the eggs bounced. Mrs Hickford was bouncing one on the table and guess what happened!. it falls off the table onto the ground! and pops!!. it was clear it wouldn't last 1.cm. After she cleaned it up we went outside with the other egg and bounced it next to a ruler you guessed it... It POPed open. now today we have 3 more eggs.

The Titanic

The story of the Titanic is true they made another fairy about the iceberg they say it was a fire in the hallways or a Sumerian that hit it but when it came up to see the legendary ship it was already in the water. Well, I think the Titanic got blown up Titanic Survivor Claims an Iceberg Didn't Destroy the Ship The story is here if you want to look for yourself. The explosion hit on 15th April 1912 and 705 survived. the Titanic was built on 31 May 1911 and was finished on the 10th April 19 and was set out on the same date it was finished made. This is the Titanic Timeline. Titanic had a sister called Britannic. 

The Titanic sank 2:20 am. On April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and a half hours before. ( if it did hit an iceberg. )  

Science

Today we did science. I thought when Mrs. Hickford poured the salt in it would like explored but it just made it runny it felt funny. We made a type of liquid it was hard and soft at the start but then when Mrs. Hickford pours the salt in it was all liquidy and soft. I don't think we have made a name for it yet tho I would like to give it a name tho. The way we made it was first we had to put "Sodium Polyacrylate." in first then we had to add as much water as we can, It will go all squish and soft, then we add salt when Mrs. Hickford added the sat I was thinking it was going to blow up!. So I had a lot of fun doing it and I hope I can do it again or more fun stuff like this. would you want to try it??. 
 

My animation

This is my animation I created it because it was fun and I really enjoyed watching donated trump turn half into a monkey. I am proud of this because I will use animations a lot now plus there really fun. I have learned that you can use different things for animation.

My Bio cube

This is my Bio cube it is really small too, I made it off my computer and sent a link to Mrs. Hickford to print out. It was information about Bruce McLaren he was a famous race car driver. Bruce survived a really bad disease but luckily he recovered. Bruce made his own race cars with his bare hands. on my cube is his name, where he was born and where he lived. but now Bruce has paced away he died on 2nd June 1970 I bet a lot of people miss him. I recent he was born to be a race car driver and his dream came true. 

The spooky walk

 Yesterday we went on a walk to the Cemetery it was cool. We first went to a house and it was so empty there was this one door in the house it smelt yucky and we wanted to go in but we were to scared to go in all of the houses we looked at smelt bad as. The next place we walked to was an mental hospital were the people go if they have problems in there head to treat them better. Then we went to look for the pool at the school but two car's were there and at one car some one was yelling. the next place we went to was this house in the photo when we found it. It was so run down it was like it had no soul, burned down, covered in bamboo we could see the inside from the outside because it was all burned down. Know who has been there for a long time and in one of the photo's there's like this baby toy one door was and we peeked inside it was around a lot of glass we saw a big hole in the top of the roof  and in the room we walked into there was a creepy window I bet it would of been a beautiful home and if it was still fine I would love to live in it. Around the house there was two garages and in one there was a rubbish hole  in one of the garages, in the other one it was covered in grass. I think the fire was from the balcony because in the last photo it looks really ruined.

MY KITE

 This weekly challenge was to make a kite for us to do this we had to find things to make the kite with because all the shops are closed. So we used a fishing rod and cut it in to two pieces we used a nail file to smooth the sharp tips . Then we used wax thread we used it to tie up the fishing rod into a diamond. then we used cellophane to cover the fishing rods. Then we got zip ties with a little of mum's help to tie them up so the whole kite stayed together.
I had the fun part of mixing all the colours together and painting my own design on it. I choose a rainbow. Then the last part was putting a tail on it. I used ribbon. I hope it fly's but its not windy enough to find out yet.

  

Noza

This is Nova he is the foster dog that we looked after on lock down. He is really cute, sharp little teeth and sharp little claws. He was so little that he still had puppy breath. He slept with me once, all snuggled up by my pillow.
I really wanted dad to have him because he didn't have a home yet, but dad didn't want him. I really didn't want to say goodbye to Nova, he made me so happy and I now miss him so so much. The breed he was a Wide haired pointer.
 

He did lots of funny stuff like the wood in the photo he couldn't jump up so we made him a step. When  ever I was wearing my hoodie he use to come running up to me to bite my string I pulled away sometimes. Sometimes I wouldn't pull away because he has small teeth with good grip. I really miss him he made us laugh.

 He loved to sleep on the couch and the bed's Faith would pick him up and move him like a rag doll well I can't say much I did that to.  He was so cuddly and soft.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

ANZAC poppy

My challenge was to make a poppy for ANZAC day so I needed mum's help for this, We cut the bottom of a drink bottle off, Cut down the sides and mum had to use a lighter to melt the edges witch  made it into a poppy instead of paint we used red nail polish, good thing mum has a lot of that because we used heaps. We put it onto the window sil to dry. once it was dry I drew a black circle in the middle. Here in this photo i'm holding my poppy and wearing mum's poppy apron. I had a lot of fun making this I love to do different thing's with mummy. Like modeling clay. 

My wall

On lock down I painted my wall blue it took a we while. Two week's later we painted pineapples on it. We found a stencil online and we bought it. We cut it shaped into a pineapple and then painted on the wall with the pineapple cut out. The turn out's are amazing, the photo might not be clear but it's still cool and this week we extended our bubble to my cousin Max. yah, the one that comes to Kaniere School. We had fish'n chip's for dinner.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              My pineapple wall.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

ANZAC day cookies

In the weeks we baked ANZAC day cookies. The ingredents were so yummy and I keeped licking the spoons. we rolled little ball and put them on the tray before putting into the oven. after they came out of the oven they were stuck together we had to split them apart. They still tasted good tho. We ate them all in one day we made three trays of cookies. would you like the recipe for yourself because here it is!.