Creating our Matariki Art

 

First we drew a horizon line. Then we drew the shape of our Kapiti Island. We looked at kowhaiwhai designs and koru patterns. We divided our paper into three sections- sky, land and sea and used vivid pens to outline our designs. We needed to choose cold colours, hot colours and earthy colours. 

Then we used dye over the top to really show our crayon colours. 

Then we added our Matariki Star cluster- can you see it?

Using Chromebooks

Last week we borrowed Room 1's Chromebooks to have a go at creating our own Google Drawing telling people about us. First we named our work. Then we took a photo of ourselves and we wrote our name on our canvas. We wrote about ourselves and we got to change the colour of the background. We got to change the colour of our words and change the font to make our writing look fancy. 

Our creations

 We drew a background picture then we took a photo of our background and put it in Google Slides. Then we took a photo of us and we edited the photo and removed the background. We put our photo of us onto the photo of our background. 

Then we wrote a story to go with our pictures. 

Shadow puppets

One day some of us were on the mat with Mrs P. We were reading a book about shadow puppets. After we read the book, we saw the instructions for how to make shadow puppets. We decided to try it. 

We made puppets and tried them out. They were so good other people in the class wanted to make some too. 

We had to draw our puppets and glue it into black paper and cut it out. 

Then we had to tape a straw on it to hold it up. 

Ms P made a stage for us. She cut a hole in a box and taped some paper over the hole. Then we used a lamp to reflect the shadow puppets onto the stage. 

Here are some of our puppets. Carol made the house and the tree.

       

Can you see a dragon, a bird and an alien?

We are going to make up some stories to act out with our puppets.

Timo and the King Fish

This week we have been working on our art that we did last week. This is our kingfish that we did for Timo and the king fish.



We chose the part that we liked the best to publish on the wall. We chose the exciting part, the bit that makes people want to read more.
The part that we picked was the  part that you liked the best out of your story. It was the exciting part. It was terrific. And the funnest part and your favourite bit.

Here is Tamihana reading his exciting part.

Timo's adventure

In Room 10 we wrote a story about Timo and a kingfish. We were writing a beginning, middle and end to our story.

This is the beginning part of Shaydon's story.

Here are David and Mason with their Kingfish. Kingfish are very big fish. Timo caught a Kingfish in the story. 

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