Magnificent Matariki

Hello, Again Potatoes!

Can I just mention that spellcheck wanted to make 'Matariki' a 'Margarita'.

I have proof.

 See? I don't think Stars are the same as a pizza!

Anyway, I should probably get into the actual post now, shouldn't I?

In Toroa, we've been looking at Matariki, or 'The seven sisters' or the Maori New Year. And My friends, Leticia, Charleyse and me did some art about it. The class had a few different things we could do, like puppet shows, or animating original poems, but my group decided to draw a bunch of animals that could be used to represent each of the stars. Have a look!

I drew the Cat, Bird (fantail) and Owl.

Charleyse drew the wolf with wings

And Leticia drew the Donkey, Jellyfish and Eagle.

The Owl represents Matariki, the Eyes of Tawhirimatea.

The Cat represents Waita, Sprinkle

The Donkey represents, Tupu-a-Nuku, Earth tohunga

The Fantail represents, Waipuna-a-rangi, Sky spring

The eagle represents, Tupu-a-rangi, Sky tohunga

The wolf represents, Ururangi, Entry to the heavens\

And the Jellyfish represents, Waiti, Sweet water

Thank you for reading this post!

I had a lot of fun drawing the animals.

I'll see you all in my next post!

Bai!

~Potato

~ !!Patterns!! ~ !!Predictions!! ~ !!MATH!! ~

Hiya Potatoes!

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone!

I hope you've all had an amazing day so far! I know I have.

I'm going over to a friends house after school today, then on Saturday, I'm going back to their house to have a sleepover. I'm pretty excited about it if I'm being honest.

Anyway, Let's get into it!

~WEBSITE UPDATE~

Kia Ora Potatoes!!!

Today I'm posting a website update! (Obviously) 

This week we worked on the 'Symbols' part of or sites, We had to write about some of the symbols in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy! For example... 42, it symbolises the meaning of life! (On Magrathea at least)

We also finished watching the movie this week. If you haven't watched The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, I suggest watching it, It's a really good movie.

Anyway, Let's get into it!

Potato Gender and Race Inequality.... I guess Humans too..

Kia Ora Potatoes!

Hope you've all had amazing weeks so far.

I definitely have!

Today we did cross country training, ugh... I didn't enjoy that at all. I can't breathe. But put that aside and this week has been really cool!

Anyway, I'll get onto the actual post now.

As you're probably aware, For inquiry we're focusing on Global issues. I'm focusing on Gender Inequality, but for this task, it didn't matter, we just had to write a paragraph on an image out of the selected images our teachers picked out. I picked one about racism, specifically Rosa Parks.

Have a look:

ShArK aTtAcK!

Koru Art!

Hello Potatoes!

How are you? Hope you're doing well!

Today we did more Koru artwork!

I finished my pastel koru art and my clay thing.

Wanna have a look?

Pastel Koru Art

Clay thing design

Clay thing play-dough mockup

Finished clay thing

Moon represents me

The detail on the moon represents my friends

Large koru represents older family members

Small koru represents same-aged and younger family members

The detail on the koru's represent anime

For literacy this week we worked more on our websites!

We had to do 4 paragraphs on 3 out of the 5 themes from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, But I had some spare time so I did all 5!

I'm not sure if you can embed websites if you can I don't know how, but I'll give you a link to look at it
LINK

It took me a while to write all the themes but I think I did a pretty good job, tell me what you think in the comments.

I'm not really sure what else to write...

so I guess I'll see you all next week!

Cya!

~Potato