Matariki

In the sky are the Matariki stars. This celebrathon(celebration) is very popular  in Maori tridishen  (tradition)   Matariki is the start of the Maori New year. The celebrations last up to three days.

We are learning about the seven sisters.

What we did  to celebrate matariki

I really enjoyed matariki we calibrated(celebrated) it in a really fun way we built kites we painted the seven sisters.We nited them with wool.we made them out of plastic.We raed books about them.and made them out of food.

I am proud of my work because I stretched my learning muscles a long way in the kite making tieing knotsThe learning muscle I used was
focusing.

Something that challenged me was the knots in the kites because they did not stay tied up.we used flax and bamboo too shape the kite. 

Te Mata

Te Mata legend         

The village was being terrorized  by Te Mata o  Rongokako the giant.

Te Mata o Rongokarko challenged them in a battle but Then the ‘chief made his daughter be in love with the giant

So there can be peace in the land and the war can stop.Afterwords him and  henerako walked over the hill to Te Mata o Rongokako when they reached the beach henerako fell deeply in love with him and he fell deeply in love with her.After the chief got back the people of the mare where still angry for stealing their food and burning their houses.Next the chief had an idea, he said to him if you wish to marry my doughter you will have to bite a path through the hill to Waimarama so we can visit her whenever we wish. He loved her so much that he said OK;

When he got to the last activity he said my teeth are as strong as diamonds. He bit through the mountain but then something bad happened he bit straight through a big hard rock he swallowed and swallowed but he could not breath.Than he fell down and died.   

something that challenged me was the spelling I had to keep restarting to sound out the words.

I am proud of my work because it took a lot of determination and I have detaili I wrote what he could see and hear and feel.

The learning muscle I was stretching was my learning quietly because I wanted to get it done good. That is maneging distractons. I really enjoyed writing this because it sounded interesting.

Art

I have been learning to overlap on art to blend the colors.Over laping the colors was very hard because if I smudged it it would go all yuck.
Something that challenged me was doing the path and not smudging the colors everywhere.
I made my artwork look the best I could to make it look far away by making the path smaller.
I really enjoyed doing this fun art because it was with messy pastel I mean oil pastel.
Something I can do next time is put even more effort into my work so I can make my work better because I did get distracted.
I really like doing art because it is fun.