Matariki Kite Art

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! Do you know what Matariki celebrates? 
These past few weeks on Fridays we have been making some Matariki-themed kites. What we had to do for our design is a Taniwha in the middle and colorful background, I chose to do a simple Taniwha with the colors blue, (dark and light) Purple, Pink, and black for the eyes. Our task was to draw up a draft copy of what our design was going to be. After this, we had to get an A4 or A3 piece of paper and draw our kite size/ shape after this we had to fill in the taniwha with pastels and fill in the background with watercolor. 

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STEAM- Table Construction

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! How was your June 2021? 

This week for Wednesday we went back to doing S.T.E.A.M work (steam stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths) Our task today was to construct a sturdy table/ tower that was at least 15cm above the table using 10 sheets of newspaper and 1m of tape, our goal by the end was to be able to hold at least 1 textbook for 3 seconds. We had 25 minutes to construct and 5 minutes before that to come up with a plan and ideas how we would make the tower. In my group of 5, we had the idea to have a base plate with 6 supports in the middle holding up another thick plate on top, this design was going well but then we ran out of time and tape, we hadn't finished but we had to just go with it, when we went up it all fell apart and all came crashing down we had 30 seconds to quickly reconstruct our tower and what we ended up putting all of the supports inside each other as they were all different sizes and then we had made a tube that was very thick and ended 1 book and then the second one held for about 1/3 seconds and then all fell down. 

I think that we had a good initial plan but our compromising was quite good and we're all proud of how much it held. What do you think of our design? Do you think that you could've come up with a better design? Please leave me some feedback and maybe check out some of my other posts. Blog you later! 

Māori New year - Matariki Art

 

Kia Ora Bloggers, Do you know what the Meaning of Matariki is?

This past week in Toroa we have been working on some art, this art is based around Matariki. 
Our process was first we had to make a sketch/ draft copy on a piece of A4 paper of our design, this had to include mountains and the Matariki stars after we drew our very first sketch we then had to turn the stars into swirls. After this, we had finished our sketch but had to reverse the image so it would be the right way when we flip it later, then the first step had finished so we moved onto the second step the foam, our task was to copy our design onto the foam and be very careful not to snap, poke through or slice the foam as we only had one piece if that broke we had no other chance, Our third step is what I'd say was the most fun one, The oil paint, this was a very fun step and what we had to do was get a roller with some paint on it and then just roll it onto our foam, we got to as many colors as we wanted ( I chose to use two ) and then we flipped it onto a piece of A3 paper and got a clean roller and rolled it onto the back to make sure it was on correctly and the paint showed, Then we got to choose if we wanted to do another one, I chose to so I had to wash off the first coat of paint, make sure it was super dry and then do the process again ( This time I chose to do Purple and Balck). After I had done my second one I decided to not do another and snapped the foam in half so It wasn't mistaken for another person's one. So today our task was to first of all pick what one we wanted to frame and then to frame it, we had to cut a frame out of A3 card and then glue it to our Picture so we had a nice clean border. Then we were finished, I think I did quite a good job on my design and I like how the colors blend into each other. What I probably would've done differently is make the indents a bit more visible because you can't really see them and maybe added on a bit more paint because there are a few spots I missed. Do you know the names of all the Matariki stars? What mountains would you've done? 

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Touch Me Two - Senses Science Experiment

 Kia Ora Bloggers, How has your week been so far? 

Today we did another mini science experiment but this week it was about our senses, in particular touch. We got into pairs and then half of the class ( my half ) got given a kit, inside was a 15cm ruler, 4 colored pencils, 1 normal pencil, 1 rubber, 1 pencil sharpener, and one caliper (to poke). Our task was: There was a person A and a person B, Person A started off blindfolded while person B poked, we had to do it with 2mm, 5mm, 10mm, 15mm, and then 20mm we had to record how many pokes we felt from the caliper. After this, we finished and moved to the other person. From our data we collected, we think that 15-20mm were the times you mostly felt the 2 pokes and not the 1, with the 2mm we didn't feel the 2 pokes at all. 
Have you ever done something like this? Do you know what a Caliper is? or have you ever used one? 
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Egg Experiment

 

Hey Bloggers! 

On Wednesdays for tech, I am in the Afternoon group which means we leave at 12:00, so we have a session in the morning and we have started doing science! last week we did a moon experiment and this week we did an Egg Experiment, we had 25 minutes to create a plan and construct a safety protection for our egg. Our supplies were 3x sheets of A4 paper, 1x sheet of A5 paper ( a bit thicker ) 1x plastic bag, 2x lengths of sellotape, 1x meter of string, and last of all 1x egg, after the 25 minutes Mrs. Osborne dropped the eggs off the mezzanine floor in our Makerspace. Sadly our egg didn't survive but we were pretty happy with our design, it had lots of cushioning and we had wrapped it pretty well but it was a bit sad that it cracked. 

Do you think it was a good design? Would you have designed it differently? 

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Tidying up and Compensating Numbers

Hello Bloggers! How was your Holiday? 

In Davies Maths ( My maths group ) This week we have been learning and working on how to tidy up and compensate numbers. In this blog post, I will be explaining how to tidy up numbers and also compensate them. To start this you have to first have 2 numbers for your equation e.g 132 + 76, you then have to either subtract or add to make one of the numbers a number ending in zero like 132 -2 + 130 now you have the tidy number you have to do the opposite to the other number like this, 76+ +2 = 78, now you have your new numbers the equation is simple, 130 + 78 instead of 132 + 76. Now for subtracting your numbers now are 132 - 76, now we can do 132 +8 to get 140 but with the 76 you have to add as well so, 76 +8 to get 84 now you have 140 - 84. So there is how to Tidy up and compensate your numbers to make an easier equation. Did you know how to do this before my post? Do you find it easy to do? It would be very helpful if you could leave me some of your feedback by leaving a comment. Blog you later! 

Hundertwasser Art

 

Hello Bloggers! How was your 5 day Easter weekend? 

In class, we have been doing some art that is inspired by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, his style of art is like a kid's brain, colorful, different shapes, and no straight lines. Our task was to draw our design in pencil on a sheet that had all of the different things we would need like onion domes, houses, raindrops, floating eyes, and a hidden face, after that, we got to draw our sketch design on a normal piece of paper after we finished our sketch we got to do it on a thicker, bigger piece of paper and once we did that in pencil we got to go over it in vivid. Finally after vivid was the pastels, we had to use a mix of contrasting colors and analogous colors, we had a color wheel to go off but we could choose what colors we wanted. 

Can you spot everything in my art? Can you find the hidden face?

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