Marvelous Mahi Toi

HI my name is Thea, for the last 3 weeks last term and this term we have been doing calendar art (Mahi Toi). The first thing we had to do was practice on four little korus, the korus had a light grey stencil for us to trace over, we had to practice drawing continuous lines and rule straight lines, after we did that we had to practice blending with coloured pencils, once we did that we went on the big paper. The colours I chose were red, orange, two types of blue and black. For the waves on the koru I did the black and the blues, for the lines I did the red and orange. It was hard to draw the continuous lines because I kept going over the lines and kept using my wrist(we had to use our shoulder not our wrist). Have you ever blended with coloured pencils? Thank you for reading my blog post! Here is my finish product! 

Magnificent Maori

Hi, my name is Thea and for the last two weeks we have been making scripts because the class has to record themselves with a buddy and say a weather report in maori. My buddy's name is Pharell. We decided to do our weather report on a slide and then screencastify us reading it. So far Pharell and I have only written the script and half of the animation. At first Pharell and I didn’t know what to do or what to write but then we went to the success criteria and we got our script GREEN! Have you spoken in a different language before?I’ll be posting my screencastify soon. Hope you come back to see it! Thank you for reading my post!

Magic Moods

 Hi my name is Thea and last week the class was learning about different moods, ( a mood is a feeling that the author gives a reader with the different words they use).  One of the things we had to do looked like this, It was..........…… (time of day ) when I walked …….ly (adverb) to the ....……………. (place).  It was a ..............(weather) day. The sunglasses I was wearing made everything look .......….. (colour).  There was a strong smell of ....……......(smell).  In the distance I heard  .....…....(sound). The teacher told us to get a paper and a pen, she called out a time of day, weather ect. At first I wondered what we were doing so I just picked random things but then Whaea Shanna told us what we were doing so I had to change basically everything but it worked out! The mood I did was anxious. Maybe you could fill out the paragraph too!? Thank you for reading my blog post! Here is my writing, I hope you like it!

It was noon when I walked anxiously to the streets of London . It was a rainy day. The sunglasses I was wearing made everything look blue. There was a strong smell of a cafe nearby. In the distance I heard the sound of people cheering.

The Biggest Fish

Two weeks ago on Monday my Dad and I woke up at 6:45am to go fishing, we picked up my best friend Maya on the way. When we got to the boat ramp Maya and I helped my Dad get the dinghy in the water, we put our life jackets on and put all the fishing gear in the boat and we were off. The first place we went was a buoy out by the islands. We waited for a while and then I got a bite, I yanked my rod and I was on, I reeled my fishing rod line up as fast as I could... but it was a 27 cm snapper (they have to be 30 cm or over to keep them) so my dad put it back. A few minutes later Maya got a big bite and and she reeled up her rod and her bait was gone. Two hours passed and Maya caught a butter fish and a 33 cm snapper, my dad caught a really big 44 cm snapper and a 32 cm snapper and I caught five decent sized snapper that were big enough to keep. The annoying that was Maya caught a 29 cm fish it was so close to being 30 cm but we had to put it back. I put my bait in for at least 30 sec and my bait was GONE!! But then I caught the fish. When we got home my Dad cleaned and cut the fish and and we had a yummy dinner! Have you ever caught a snapper? Thank you for reading my blog post!