Monoprint

 Hi everyone, this week I finshed doing a monoprint. A monoprint is a type of printing which uses one piece of paper = one chance, it is hard and time consuming and makes your wrist and hand hurt. A lot of monoprints are animals and they are amazing, so we did animals. I did 2 amazing kiwi prints! First we drew a prototype, then we drew an actual one, then we traced the drawing on to a second piece of paper. Finally we printed it and coloured it. The results were AMAZING and here are some photos:

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Rehearsals

 Hi everyone Jonathan/Geewiz here and my school's doing a production. I'm excited and I'm Geewiz the magician's assistant. Lockdown has made us delayed using the props but we're getting better. The production is called Aladdin & Jasmine, our spin on Aladdin. This production is going to take place at Waikowhai Intermediate and the tickets are being sold at the office at Waikowhai Primary. 

Note: The show will go on even if in lockdown in some way. 

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Writing a myth

 The last 2 weeks my syndicate started writing individual myths about animals. The idea was to turn your idea on how something got something and turn that into a story. The idea could be as obscure as why the penguin can't fly or something else but first we had to plan. For planning we had to list down several different ideas on how the theory could happen and we had to decide on one. Then we wrote a paragraph using the 5 Ws and 1 H to explain the start of the story. That's the top bun and the patty is the middle, and the end is the bottom bun. Here's my myth:

Long, long ago when people were only first coming to Aotearoa, there lived many birds and creatures. There was a fantail and a pukeko. They both were cheeky but fantail had no tail and pukeko hated water. Now at the time some Maori were facing patupaiarehe, and fantail and pukeko were going to make a long journey to pull a huge prank. 

As they were about to leave the bush the wise elder fantail said “This isn't good, you are going to spend a week away just to pull a prank.” “Well it might be longer.” said pukeko “DO NOT G-”  but they had already left. Now in those days moa were alive and looked like dinos to fantail. It didn’t help that he came across a herd of them. Also birds like the quad-winged flesh eater lived, let me make a list of some: The bat-bird, The Zombird and the Ironbite e.g. Fantail and pukeko came across a lot more. Now at the edge of the long shoots valley or a lot of long grass they stopped.

They then wandered to the village because at the time a delicious feast should have been in the making and they would screech and scare the villagers and make them mess up the food but nothing was happening. The next couple minutes though in the background they heard lots of noises. They also didn’t know what was happening because they were distracted by a mouse. “Ahhhh! Giant mutant chickens!” said Jeffrey the mouse. 

Then they looked up and saw an albatross flying away with seven nets. Then the villagers saw them and a chase scene started as pukeko leaped over logs and ducked under roots, and the 3 day journey became a 3 hour journey. To lose them pukeko ran in a different direction but fantail was still being chased instead and the villagers started throwing things. One container splashed a lot of glue on his behind. Suddenly an ancient fan was thrown and stuck to the glue. The villagers started going back and eventually there were no more chasing fantail. 

Now pukeko fell into a swamp by accident by tripping over and knocking himself out and woke up stuck. Days passed and he started liking the water lapping at his feet, he eventually got unstuck but decided to stay. Fantail got back sad that his friend was lost and the new tail didn’t have feathers, the elder fantail cast a spell making feathers grow over the fan but he was still sad. Months later fantail got a letter from pukeko that said: Enjoying the swamp life, come over sometime! Pukeko. Fantail suddenly felt really happy and joyful inside. Nowadays fantail and pukeko visit each other and fantail has a tail, and that's why fantail has a “fan” tail.

Waikowhai Intermediate Visit

This week I visited Waikowhai Intermediate, Waikowhai Intermediate is the intermediate which I'm (probably) going to go to. First the year six's watched a video about the school, then we saw a couple performances from the performing groups. Next we had a tour of the school, my favorite classes were: the hard tech class, the library and the performing arts class. They also have a mountain of beanbags in the library. Here is a photo (sorry there were only two, both the same). 

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Wonder Project

Have you ever wanted to build a rocket? Have you wanted to become a video game designer? The Wonder project is the first step to doing that. Also we are going to actually fire a tiny rocket using water and air. This happens once a week where a ambassador comes in to teach use about rockets and other stuff. This week we assembled our crew and the and ambassador (Si Hung) told us about himself, he is a engineer. We are going to learn about Newtons Law and stuff like this. Here are some photos:

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Martariki Day

Kia ora and welcome back to my blog today I'm going to talk about Martariki. Martariki is a Maori event where 7 stars indicate the Maori new year. We did three activities. The first activity was making Maori kites, we use paper, cord, bamboo, decorative strips and feathers. The kites can't fly but they are cool. The second activity was making Maori bread which only used self raising flower and water. The final one was we had to make a stop motion and it was great. Here are some photos and the stop motion:

Cross Country 2020

Hi and welcome back to my blog, yesterday we did the school Cross Country for 2020. The Cross Country is a school event we do every year, we do activities and a running course in our age groups which makes our feet hurt. The year 6's don't do the activities but instead help and lead the activities. At the end the of the day the year 6's do the running course and then pack up, the year 0 & 1's, 2's and 3's run once around the course. The rest of the year groups run twice, the top 5 people in all of these groups go into the Cross Country zones (that's for another blog). The activity I did was the second one where we did a warm up, played duck duck goose and watched the runners. The run for the year 6's was hard as we had to run on the field, run down the steps to backtrack (I did this barefoot, which is probably why it partly made my feet hurt), Run though the bush (this mostly made my feet hurt), Run around the fence of the pool, run past te waka ako and we had to do it all again. I really liked the run and spending time with my friends but I didn't like that it made my feet hurt. Here are some photos: 

🧨🎆🎇!Blog ya later and happy 4th of July!🎇🎆🧨

P.S Happy school holidays as well!