Art Expo - 2020

 Today we got to travel around every single class in our school!! Why?  Because our theme for this term is Art Alive (Toi Ora). So each team in our school had every single student, even our little children do a bunch of art work based on basically what the teacher wanted it to be.

We travelled from our block (Team 5) to the team 4 block. I honestly enjoyed seeing their art works. They had different Polynesian designs with different descriptions on the meanings behind them.  I loved nearly every single Cook Island  design because they all had so many different meanings that I never knew about. The Tongan, Samoan, Niuean and basically every other Polynesian art works looked so beautiful.  

We kept travelling around the whole school. The little kids work was even better in my opinion. Room 23's art work was by far my favourite from team 3. Their art work was based on Tie-dye t-shirts. They hanged up really good looking tie-dye shirts. I loved how colourful and unique they were.  They had such vibrant colours and had different designs on them.  

Overall my most favourite art work was from Room 24 in team 2 or 3. Each child in Rm 24 chose some colourful Rangoli designs and got to make their own Indian elephant art work. It was pretty impressive seeing how well  they drew a elephant without tracing, and to be honest I think it's a whole lot better then my  drawing of a elephant. 

Then we came back to our block. I loved every single art  work and I hope it goes on every child's blog to show their hard work!!

 

Cinquains (Sin-Canes)

This week in literacy we looked at cinquains. Cinquains are poems that are 5 lines long, they don't have to rhyme and the number of syllables per line changes, and goes in the order of 2,4,6,8,2. I had quite a bit of fun, but I lacked creativity and basically wrote a cinquain about the first thing that came to mind.

Rolling Dice

 

For this task we had to go on a dice roller app and we had to roll 2 dices and record what numbers we got in the table.We also have to write down how much different number combinations you will get if you roll 2 dices.Then we had to answer how many times did we get a double and how many rolls is it likely to take for Whaea Kelly to get a double and begin the game.

Edvard Munch

 

For this task we had went to Room 1 and created a poster of a famous Artist named Edvard Munch. If your search up on google how to pronounce his name, it's not actually pronounced Munch as in your eating. It's actually kinda pronounce like Edvard Mouk. I may have gotten that wrong, but thats okay! Anyways, so we had to make a poster about all the information we gathered from watching a few videos.

I enjoyed this task because once again, I got to learn heaps more about someone else. Thank you to Mrs Moala for all the information and i'll be sure to remember it for the near future!!

Georges Seurat - Art Alive

 

For this task we went to Mrs Tele'a's class and learnt about Georges  Seurat. We had to find out different information in a video. We also learnt that he was the mentor of another famous artist named Vincent Van Gogh. I enjoyed learning heaps of information about a different artist and his different form of art!! I can't wait for next weeks lesson and when i get to learn how to paint like this!! Thank you Mrs Tele'a for teacher us about all  these different information. 

Tokelau Language Week!!!

 

For this task we had to write Fun Facts about Tokelau. Me and my cousin decided to write down the history, fun facts and a legend from Tokelau. Happy Tokelauen Language Week!!!

Algebra

For this task we are focusing on Algebra.  We had to identify the rule for the patterns on our maths. Then we had to make the line graph to show more of our work. Then lastly answer a few questions. 

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior - Art alive

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a famous Photographer who's been everywhere. He is also a journalist who's been taking photo's for so long!!

Plastic Pollution - Explanation Writing

Have you ever thought about the effects of plastic? They have a major dark-side. However, there are many different ways of helping the marine ecosystem with plastic pollution by minimising our use of plastics, buying 2nd hand items and cooking more at home.

What is Plastic Pollution? It's plastic where it shouldn't be. It's in the sea and on the beach and it's causing harm because we're using more plastic than ever. It's durable, cheap to produce and we're consuming it at staggering rates. Most times when you throw your rubbish into the recycling bin, you think it’s being recycled right? Well, it’s not. Places like China, Vietnam, and Malaysia are having to take all that rubbish with them. 

Firstly, we can refuse to buy plastic items in the first place. Like plastic wrap, disposable cutlery, straws, and more. This would probably be best if you like buying things. But the second option is buying reusable things. Like cardboard bags, reusable coffee cups, Stainless Steel Drink Bottles, and more!!

Another way to reduce our use of plastics is to purchase second-hand items where we can.Things from places like your local salvation army store, trademe postings, and more places have things that are still ready to be used, even when they were previously used. Things from 2nd hand stores are way cheaper than the price they cost at other  places, so you get to save more money. 

Lastly, you can cook more!! Instead of wasting your money, taking in more plastic and eating food that isn’t  even healthy for you. You can use the different ingredients in your house and make  your own homemade meals. Like home-made Pasta, burgers and more things. It also helps you not buy more food with more plastic containers. 

What are you prepared to do to contribute to minimise our use of plastic products? These are all the basic things you can do to help our Ocean Ecosystem. Minimising our use of plastics, buying 2nd hand items and cooking more at home. Do these to help for the sake of our sea life and our lives. 

Random Facts: (Not Included) 

There are 9,000 volunteers in 42 countries who take part in 239 cleanups, and who gather up more than 187,000 pieces of plastic trash. 

Plastic is mainly being shipped to places in Asia like China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. 

Companies like Coke and Pepsi aren’t being responsible for their plastic trash.

Shearwaters consume more plastic than any other marine animal.

There are approximately 500 billion plastic bags being used worldwide.

Over 1 million marine animals are killed each year due to plastic debris in the ocean. 

There are 100 million tons of plastic in oceans around the world.

Plastic pollution started in the 1960’s. 

Niuean Language Week - Niue's History

Fakalofa lahi Atu and Happy Niuean Language Week. For this task we had to choose something new to learn about Niue.I chose to learn about Niue's history.After we learnt about Niue's history we had to make a poster showing 10 things we learnt.

Immersion Assembly

Topic : Immersion Assembly

Introduction :  The 12th of October was the start of a new school term. We come into school and  have Immersion Assembly, that's when we learn the new topic of the term, and what each  team will be doing related to the topic. For this term, our  topic is art alive, or in other words Toi ra.  

Senior management team:

At the assembly Mr Jacobson , Mr Somerville and Mrs Nua were painting the school logo.After they painted the school logo Mr Burt told a story about how the school logo came to be.When the drew the school logo they drew a bird in the middle of the picture.

Team 1 :

Our theme is art alive so this term we are going to focus on learning about all sorts of art.Team 1 made a movie showing them as famous paintings.(example like the girl with the pearl earring)

Team 2 :

Team 2 made a movie showing them making different types of art.Mrs Gaston was making the teachers faces using different ways you could draw people(example like digital art).Then Mrs Carter made a movie showing how she uses art in her culture she was making some sort of design using rice powder.Miss Davis Made a movie showing how you can use different colours of circles and make like a never ending design.Miss Teleso made a video showing how to draw different pacific patterns.

Team 3 :

Team 3 made a movie showing them splashing paint at a white sheet.At the end is looked like a rainbow with all sorts of colour. When they showed us the sheet they added a drawing of a rainbow and a bridge.

Team 4 :

Team 4 forgot to make a video but luckily the could screen record there google meet.So when they had a meeting Mr Goodwin screen recorded and they had 5 minutes to draw what they were going to do this term.Then after 5 minutes Miss Tuia came with a drawing of a Maori pattern.Then Mr Goodwin showed a drawing of Miss Tuia's dog.Then the rest of the teachers showed their drawings.

Team 5 :

Team 5 did a play where they were acting like they where in a art gallery and they were going around the gallery and they learnt about the different art.The teachers where dressed up as famous art pecices. Mrs Tele'a was dressed up as a Samoan warrior.

My  goal  for  this term's topic is to get better at everything for art. And  goal for this whole year is to make the most of my time with my friends while i'm still in this school!! 

Line Graph - Maths

For this task we learned how to tell and use a line graph. Then had to complete a bunch of questions regarding our maths topic, line graphs. After that we had to make a line graph with our own data that we had  to collect from our maths class. My topic was about tropical fruit!! My favourite bit about this task was getting to make my own data based line graph.  

Reading - Create Task

 

For  this task we had to create a  post to explain  what are the main causes of Plastic Pollution,what are the Effects of it and what we can do to help. 

Nga Tau - Te Reo

For this task we had to learn how to count in Maori.After that we had to learn how to from 1-30 in Maori.We also had to make a poster showing how to count from 1-30 in Maori. 

Plastic Pollution

For this task we are learning more about Plastic Pollution, and what damages it causes in our oceans. 

Taha Tinana

For this task we had to go on a New Zealand sign language dictionary where we found out how to say 3 different sports in sign language.We learnt who to say the 4 different sports in sign language to celebrate New Zealand sign language week.

Rata and the tree

This is our reading task. It's about the myth or legend of Rata and the tree. First we had to agree or disagree towards a statement. Then we had to pick another myth or legend of Maui. I chose Maui and the sun. I enjoyed this task because I got to re-read this text and get a better understanding of this story.  

Writing - Sign Language

For this task we had to do a explanation writing for sign language week. We also explained what NZSL is. As our tests are coming up next term this was kind of like a practice for our writing test.

Taha Whanau - Introducing the members of my family

For this task we had to pick one of the Taha's. I picked Taha Whanau, because I wanted to introduce my family. I have one brother, two sisters my parent and me. That's my family!!

Taha Hinengaro - Mixed Emotions

Today I had to do a blog post about hinegaro and this was about my feeling and about how I feel about the three things on the first page. It was easy because I just needed to video my self how I feel
eating your favourite food
b) watching a action/thriller movie
c) take a Maths/Writing/Reading test

The three Emotions I picked was Nervous, frightened and excited

Taha Tinana - Sign Language

For this task we had to pick three different sports on slide one. Then we had to try and do it in sign language. The three sports I did was Netball, Soccer and Table Tennis. I picked these ones because I enjoy them. 

Te Reo Maori - Ko Wai O Hoa

For this task we were asking each other, Who are your friends? in Maori. Or we could do parents and teachers. Raua means only two people and Ratou means more than two. For the create task me and my friend Laolao decided to  make it look like we were messaging each other. I also  added Maori and English translation for those who don't understand. I enjoyed this task because I got to learn how to say my friends in Maori!!

Taha Whanau - How to introduce yourself in Sign Language

For this task we did Taha Whanau. We had to try and introduce ourselves in Sign Language. I enjoyed this task because I got to learn how to spell my name. 

Greek Myth

For this task we had did a math task based on the Greek Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Sign Language Week!!

 

Happy sign language week to everyone!! For this task we learnt how to say I live in the top half of New Zealand Aotearoa. This was confusing at first, but just started learning very slowly and took tiny stepson learning this. You can learn it too, just  copy from these bottom photos and work your way up! This is the Link that we  used to find out how to do this!! 

John Tui - Tongan Hero

For this task I had to pick a Tongan Hero. I picked a famous Tongan Actor, John Tui. I really enjoyed this task because I got to learn about a person I've never even learnt about.