Matariki Animals

Hello Readers,

For this blog post, I made the stars in the Matariki cluster relate to animals and I painted them.
Here is a photo.

The names mean-
Waipunarangi = sky spring, I chose a Springbok because they 'spring' and are jumping in the sky.
Waiti = sweet water, I chose a jellyfish because they live in the water and are one of my favourite animals.
Waita = sprinkle of water, I chose a frog because they like the water but aren't an underwater animal.
Matariki = eyes of Tawhirimatea, I chose an owl because they are known for their bright, bold eyes.
Ururangi = entry to the heavens, I chose an angelfish because they have angel in their name.
Tupu-a-rangi = sky tohunga, I chose a giraffe because they live up in the clouds.
Tupu-a-nuku = earth tohunga, I chose a pig because they love mud and the ground.

Thats all for today! See you later.

This Weeks Work

Hello Readers,

This blog post is a combination of some work I did this week.

This term we are building rockets in groups to learn more about Newton's Laws of Motion. For the first week we did a Tic-Tac-Toe activity to introduce us into space. For one of the option we had to make a space landscape artwork. I made mine on Procreate, here it is.

In Literacy this week we have been focusing on the genre Film Noir, For this activity, we compared a Film Noir example we found to an example from another genre. I used Double Indemnity and Sherlock BBC, and wrote down some similarities and conventions. Here is my slide.

That's it for this week! Bye.

Southern Lights/Aurora Austarlis

Howdy folks!

Today we have been learning about the Southern Lights as part of our Matariki this year. The southern lights are lights that occur when particles from the sun speed towards our magnetic field that surrounds the Earth at 750 km per second. Only some of the particles make it through the field and they react with the nitrogen and oxygen atoms and create the beautiful light effects in the sky. There are Northern and Southern Lights with the Northern appearing in the Arctic and the Southern appearing in Antarctica, the Northern Lights are also called 'Aurora Borealis' and the Southern Lights are also called 'Aurora Australis'. The lights are very unpredictable and usually appear during Autumn and Winter season, they are normally green but can have pink, violet, blue, and red. The name Aurora comes from the name of the Roman goddess of dawn.

For our art, we first ripped up a piece of scrap paper to create the mountain range shape. After that, we taped it onto a black A4 piece of paper. Then we took white paint and splattered it onto the black part. Then we waited for that to dry, after that we put chalk on the scrap paper then smudged it upwards to create the light effect. Last our teacher sprayed hairspray on it so it set.

That's all for this blog post, have you seen the Southern or Northern Lights?

See you next time!