School from Home - Day 1 - Part 2: Amazing Outdoor Art

Hello Readers,

This is my second self-isolation blog post for today, and this time it is a piece of abstract art I made using things I found in my garden. It is inspired by the Maori Korowai cloaks. They used feathers for their traditional cloaks but I used leaves because I didn't have enough feathers. They are made by layering lots of feathers to make a really cool texture.
Here it is.

I made it using: tape, paper, and fallen leaves. At first, I tried using glue to stick the leaves to the paper, but that didn't work very well because the glue wouldn't dry, so instead I taped the leaves to the paper which worked heaps better. It took a while to make but I am really happy with the results. Have you heard of korowai cloaks? If not google them because they are really cool.

See you later!

School from Home - Day 1 - Part 1: Beautiful Book Cover

Hello Readers,

The next weeks on my blog are going to be slightly different due to the COVID19 virus. Even though school has shut I will still be posting on my blog with the work I am doing while we are in self-isolation. The first activity I have done is to make a book cover using Canva. I didn't know if we were supposed to use a book that already existed or make one up so I decide to make one up. I don't know if a book called 'Dear Lucy.' exists, but if it does the cover is not for that book. Here it is.

Front

Back

My cover design is pretty bright and colorful which would help it stand out on a bookshelf. I included some reviews on the bottoms so that customers could see what other people think.

What activities are you doing during the COVID19 lockdown?

See you later!

My Perfect Pepeha!

Hello Readers!

This Friday I finished my Pepeha and I think it looks really awesome. If you don't know a pepeha is a way Maori use to introduce themself. It tells people their ancestors and tribe so that other people can make connections with them easily. Here is mine.

As you can see my pepeha is really straight to the point and immediately tells you where I'm from and my family. I used Bitmoji to get my little pictures on my slides.  Have you made a pepeha before?

Super Scratch Samoan Numbers

Hello Readers,

My last blog post was a video showing the numbers from one to ten but this week it is an interactive scratch program. First press the green flag then just type in your number and the magical toad will translate it into Samoan for you, then wait a few seconds and try a different number. If you type a number higher then 10 he will just ignore you. Here it is.

As you can see it is really fun and easy to use, it was pretty easy to make as well, the photo underneath it a screenshot of how to make it so you can recreate it for another language if you want. It is very easy to learn Samoan numbers because they are so similar to Te Reo numbers. Have you ever used Scratch?

See you next time!

Super Samoan Numbers

Hello Readers,

Today my friend India (go check out her blog) and I made a video showing how to count to ten in Samoan. If you saw my last Samoan blog post we made a stop motion animation but this time we made a Biteable video.
Here it is.




If you have learnt how to count to ten in Te Reo then it will be very simple to learn in Samoan as the numbers are very similar. As you can see the images in the background aren't very related to the numbers but we thought they were fun so we added them in. Have you ever used Biteable?

See you next time!

Brilliant Binary Coding

Hello Readers,

Welcome back to my blog, this week on Wednesday we are learning computer language or binary code. Binary code is the language that computers use and it only has 1 and 0. We made a drawing and had to code it using these numbers. Here it is.

0000000000

1110000111

0000000000

0100000010

0100000010

0000110000

0000110000

0000110000

0100000010

0010000100

0001111000

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

As you can see this is only the code and not the picture. Your job is to turn this into a picture by making a 10 by 16 grid and filling in the 1 spaces with black. Have you ever heard of binary?

See you next time!

My Superb Sestina

Hello Readers,

Today in Literacy we have been writing poems for NZ writing. These poems will be sent to our partner school in Hamilton. Here is my poem.

I saw the ground beneath me 

I remember the airless, floating feeling

My brother beside me was terrified

I’m leaping out onto the clouds

We are flying to our paradise  

Jellyfish die in the blue sky

The poems had to be six-line poems that have to have six words in each line. The first line was something you saw, the second was something you remember, the third was a person you were with, the fifth was something you imagined and the sixth could be anything. 

What would you write about?

See you next time!