Olympic Slide 2016

My Book Review

Author: Ryder Windham Illustrator: Ryder Windham My Book Review

Title:  Star Wars episode IV a new hope.

The book was about:  Fights between the good and the bad, and also about the princess and luke skywalker saving the world for their father, Darth vader.  ( Even know he is bad he has 2 children just like their mother queen Amidala.

What I liked about it:  When leia and luke found out they were brother and sister, when they saved the world for their mother and father.  (D.V = Darth vader / Q.A = Queen Amidala.)

Reading this made me wonder if:  We could maybe have powers like Darth vader, I also wonder if we could be as cool as the people in the story, I wonder.

My favourite character and why:  Darth vader because he has the force, he is second boss of the stormtroopers, he is the father of luke and leia and the husband of Amidala.

A picture I really liked in the book was:  When all the people were running for their lives because it had lots of detail on the characters and it made me wonder if they sculpted the bodies and faces or just dressed the person in close and did the face.  I really want to know how they do it.

Overall this book was really awesome

Give this book a 5 stars

My Olympic Artwork 2016

My olympic artwork 2016

This term we have been doing our olympic art.  The artwork contains 5 different steps that are…  my tessellation in the background, the 3 values,our olympic athlete, similes and metaphors and the border.

For my tessellation background I only used a 3 by 8cm triangle and pastels.  With the triangle I also made hexagons and diamonds which I think is even better than using the atrial shape.  With a triangle this size you can make lots of shapes like hexagons, squares, stars and unfortunately a triangle.  

Can you tell where the triangles were placed in the hexagons?

How many triangles are there in the hexagons?

How many triangles are there altogether?

For the athlete we chose a person from the olympics and then Miss Hill's printed them out.  After when the athlete bodies are printed out, me, Daisy and Memphis cut all of them out even including the heads (but don’t worry we didn’t kill them.)  Then we had to see where we wanted the athlete person to be placed.

Now let’s move onto the similes and metaphors:

Do you know the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

Do you know witch 2 is a metaphor and witch 2 are similes?

The day Kitkat and Cakeey got cort

The day Kitkat and Cakeey got cort

On a bright, sunny morning as bright as a shining star there were 2 boys called kitkat and Cakeey on their way to school, but instead of them going to school they went the opposite direction and went to the beach.  Once they were at the beach, they could feel the golden, silky sand between their bare toes like if you run your hand down a kitten's back.  Then Kitkat said to Cakeey “ The golden sand is so soft between my bare toes.” “ I’m not interested! Why don’t we go fishing.” said Cakeey.  “Ya lets go.” replied Kitkat.  SPLASH!!.

While they were fishing 2 teachers were driving on the dusty road that was as rusty as an old nail.  “ I have a feeling that someone is watching us.” “ Why.” said Kitkat “ Because we are at the beach (with water that is as shiny as crystal and sand that is as golden as the sun) during school time.” screamed Cakeey.  After when Cakeey was screaming the teachers got closer and closer to them.  SLAP!! “ You are such a chicken” said Kitkat.  “What are those kids doing out of school.” Miss Humble bird said to herself.  “Ew, I can smell coffee” “ Hey you 2 get over here now” “Aaahhh it’s Miss Humble bird, RUN!!” both of them said.  So they ran away and decided to never dich school again.

Certificate from coding

This is my certificate from doing coding on course one.  

Tessellation

Tessellation

Define tessellation:

An arrangement of shapes closely fitted together, especially of polygons in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlapping.

This is a picture of triangles and hexagons.  If you see the triangles that have no colour, they are still part of the picture and they are not gaps.  

The difference between a regular pentagon and a irregular pentagon

A polygon can have a certain number of sides, but the sides do not necessarily have to be the same length. Both of the polygons below are pentagons because they both have five angles and sides, but look at the differences.

Regular polygon A polygon is regular when all angles are equal and all sides are equal.

Irregular polygon A polygon that does not have all sides equal and all angles equal.

Salzman, L., (1990).  Cool Tessellations.  Creative activities that make math and science fun for kids!  P6-7)

Tessellation

Tessellation picture	Information of tessellation
	The shapes must fit together without any gaps The shapes should not overlap a tessellation of triangles A tessellation is a regular pattern made up of flat shapes repeated and joined together without any gaps or overlaps.

Reference:
Definition of tessellation	https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=strict q=define+tessellation
picture of triangles and hexagons	https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=strict&q=picture+of+triangles+and+hexagon
The difference between a regular pentagon and a irregular pentagon	http://www.ck12.org/Geometry/Regular-and-Irregular-Polygons/lesson/Regular-and-Irregular-Polygons/
Tessellation	http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html

Matariki Celebration

On the first week of June each year our school celebrates Matariki.

Matariki is a māori new year, the māori new year is a time to have fun, bring families together, do kapa haka, share food, singing, dancing, telling stories and lots more.

Matariki is also the 7 sisters or the 7 stars. In our classroom we were doing manu tukutuku (kite making).

Our teacher Miss Hill's put us into groups of 2 and my buddy was David.  Before we made our kites we had to listen really carefully or we will all muck it up.  The first instruction was to measure our toitoi, and mine and David’s were 45 cm long each piece and we had to break them into 3 equal pieces.  I went  to the matariki celebration and at that Matariki celebration we had knucklebones, string games, kite making, kapa haka group, the reflection wall, Matariki pupus, koroos, and poi making.

  

At the Rangikura Matariki celebration there were lots of people and also people kept on coming threw the door like a never ending line.  When the kapa haka group started performing there was fruit, bread, and soup being handed out.  I had some soup and the soups flavour was… pumpkin soup is my favourite when i’m really cold.  

The Matariki celebration started at 6pm and finished at 8pm.  We did it at night because the stars only come out at night and so it is nice and dark.  If it wasn’t dark we couldn’t have the fairy lights going and it was like the best party I have ever been to but it is achilly a celebration.

Here are the materials we all used:

Toitoi

Pencil

Raupō

Wool

100cm ruler

Black paper

Pastils

Hot glue gun

Instructions:

Firstly get your toitoi and measure how long it is.

Secondly cut you toitoi were you put your line.

Thirdly lay the one with the fluffy bit of the toitoi, lay it straight and put the other 2 on top.

Fourthly measure 100 cm of string and wrap it randomly around the top then tie it at the back.

Filthy get the Raupō and split it so it is the right size for you and lay it on the top of the toitoi.

Once you have finished that get any coloured wool and rule 100 cm long again but do 3 pieces.

Next plat it until all your strips run out.

After all that get your black paper and draw a triangle at the top then cut the triangle out.

Then once you have your triangle done get a pencil and get a clear piece of white paper and practice a maori design and once you have found the pattern you want draw it on the black piece of paper.

After doing all that get your hot glue gun and stick your black paper on it.

Then put some glue on the back so it stays.

And there you have your own Manu tukutuku