He Kakano Kowhaiwhai Artwork

Our Kowhaiwhai Artwork 

By Billie & Hannah 

This year in He Kakano we have been learning about Kowhaiwhai patterns
and our challenge was to design and create our own Kowhaiwhai pattern.
Before we could paint on a canvas, we had to practice what we were going
to paint. We chose to do a very modern design with a 3D aspect. We are
very happy with how our artwork turned out. 

The top pattern means strength, to be strong when things are hard and
to be strong when you believe in yourself. The bottom one means to be
strong for other people when things are hard for them, and can also
mean journey. 

The design with the diamonds stands for everyone being different and
who you are. Is means everyone has a different body shape, personality, looks
and the way that you do things. 

The pattern in the middle with the flower means flourishing life. Things are
going well and the environment around you is doing well. Above with the
koru means family and friends or the people you are close with. 

This design with the rectangles means that you accomplish new challenges
and skills and they stay with you for the rest of your life.

Animation Slide Show

Today we worked with Mrs Minehan. She showed us how to make an animation on a slide show. I chose to do a snake eating a mouse. To make it work you have to duplicate the slide and each time make the character move a few paces forward. 

Then when we had to put it on our blog we had to embed it then copy and paste it onto the HTML section. Next we had to change where it said false to true and the speed to how slow or fast we wanted it. 

Scratch Animation

Scratch Animation

Adding And Subtracting Fractions

Food Chains And Food Webs

Statistical Investigation

How many (and what species) of living creatures
around/in/on the Pohutukawa tree?

Creatures	Tally	Total
Sparrows
Blackbirds
Spiders	11111111	8
Ants	111	3
Stick insect
Worms
Spider Mites
Slater	1	1

We will record our findings on a tally chart, with some options
of what there could be. 

We went out to the pohutukawa tree at the back of the school
and found eight spiders, three ants and one slater. We used a
magnifying glass and searched on the tree, around the tree and in the
tree. We noticed that we would only find the spiders on the bark of
the tree. 

We wonder if we did this in summer  would we have more
luck finding a variety of living creatures such as birds, cicadas,
crickets, lady bugs and other things like bees and wasps. 

  

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