Mystical Matariki Kites

 Happy Matariki everyone! 

On the 2 July we celebrated the Māori New Year, a time to consider the year ahead. The days are starting to lengthen and spring will soon be here, we just need to get through this cold winter first! 

Matariki and the Pleiades star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two; one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow coloured. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.

My kite has Tawhirimatea and the wind represented with the clouds. I then coloured it in as a rainbow.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

Rhinos

Hey bloggers 

In Mrs orborns literacy we have been working on an information report we had to choose an animal that we saw at Orana Park I chose rhino. Here is the Link to my report. I enjoyed making this because we got to go to Orana Park.

Have you ever been to Orana park?

What is your Favourite animal

Egg Science

Hey bloggers

In Toroa we have been doing some science! Our task was to Create some sort of

coushin  that protect a raw egg from cracking Our supplies were 3 sheets of A4 photocopy paper, A plastic bag, 1m of string, 1 sheet of A5 thin card, Cellotape, Scissors And Paper to sketch design on.

This was really fun because we got to watch all of the other designs being dropped only two groups survived.

What do you think would protect an egg? Blog ya later

The angle robot

 Hey bloggers 

In Mrs Osborn's literacy group we have been learning about angles our task today was to create a robot using google draw but we were not allowed to have curved lines because  You Cannot measure

angles with curved lines. This was a quick easy and fun task. 

Is there anything I Can Improve on?

Angles

Hey Bloggers 

In Mrs Osborns Math group we have been learning about Angles.

Our task was to write our name out on a piece of paper and it had to be in all strait lines then find at least one acute obtuse strait right and reflex angles. 

Can you spot any other angles I could add?         Blog ya later

 

People Of The Forest

Kia Ora Bloggers

In Mrs Osborns literacys group we have been learning about orangutans our task was to create a infographic with some facts and images to do with Orangutangs in my one I have covered diet, birth,

how they are endangered and their body 

What could I of done better?                    Blog Ya Later

 

Angles

 

Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have started to learn about angles.  

We learnt about 3 different angles today - acute (less than 90°), right angle (90°), and obtuse (larger than 90° but smaller than 180°).  We also learnt how to use a protractor to measure angles.  We know that we need to measure an angle from a vertice (a corner where two straight lines meet).

For our create task, we had to measure three different angles on the first letter of our name - can you  figure out if they are acute, right angle or obtuse?