Marvellous Art

Te Ngahere has been practising and learning to draw continuous lines, draw curves, rule straight lines, select colours for effect and blend colours. We had to use a pencil to draw over a lightly shaded template to practice drawing continuous lines and use a ruler to draw straight lines. At first it was hard because I have never drawn continuous lines and I kept going over the lines but then I got it. After we finished the sketching we had to learn to blend with coloured pencils. We had to draw a shape and then blend the pencils, I used three different types of blues. The hard bit  was blending with pencils because the lines you draw sometimes leave gaps in your drawing. Are you good at art? Have you blended with pencils? Thank you for reading my blog post!

The Crazy Castle Creation

For the last 3 weeks Te Ngahere have been doing measurement for maths. For example you have to figure out how long it took to bounce a basketball 10,000 times or make a castle with measurement or figure out the percentages of a pounamu pendant. My favourite activity that my group has done so far is the castle making. We had to make a castle with exact measurements, we had to make seven 17 cm across  and 8 cm down with 1 cm tabs on each side for the walls, two 21 cm across and 11 cm down and a 1 cm tab on one side for the square towers ( you have to fold them three times to make them), make four 21 cm across and 10 cm down and add one tab on it and make a circular tower, make four 8.2 cm on each side to make cone and use a compass, add a tab on one half on the half circle and last but not least make the rectangular great Room It is 12 centimetres long, 6 centimetres wide, and 9 centimetres high Add tabs where needed, make and fit a roof, put it all together and you have a castle. The hard bit was when I was making the walls I kept getting the measurement wrong but after several times I got it. Have you ever made a cardboard castle? Thank you for reading my post!

Enjoyable Rippa Rugby

On Monday we played some rippa rugby, the teacher put us into groups, I was in the green team. To play rippa rugby you have a velcro belt with two tags on it. To start one team has a rugby ball and the other team doesn’t. You have to put the ball on the floor and touch it with your foot and pass back (you can only pass backwards). When the your team gets a try (we you touch the ball down on the other teams side at the end you get a try) you go back to your position and just touch it on your foot and run. We played the yellow team, and we lost. Have you ever played rippa rugby? Have you ever done PE drills? Thank you for reading my post!

The Odd Assassin Movie

In Te Ngahere we have been making movies for about 5 weeks. First we had to make a script and practice saying it. Our movie was about a king assassin who wants to kill Ondreous, Pharell and Archie but they want to kill him first, they have to go on a long journey to find him… in our group we had Ondreous, Pharell, Tiana, Archie and myself. We just finished our movie last week. Have you ever made a movie? Thank you for reading and watching my blog post! Here is our movie!

Wild Wonder Project

Wild Wonder Project

For the last few weeks we have been building rockets for the Wonder Project. I wasn’t there when my group launched it. I don't know how far it went but it flew. Then we had to modify the plane from 3 fins to 6 fins. Before we launched it we had to do the stability test, for the test we had to put water in the bottle to make sure it didn’t leak, next was to tie a piece of string in the middle to make sure it was equally balanced, for the last test we swung the bottle around with the string on to make sure it was balanced when going through the air. It was pretty hard to make the rocket because the fins kept coming off, but we got it! The second time we launched of rocket it went 62.1m! Have you ever launched a rocket? Thank you for reading my blog post!