Chatter Pix

Chatterpix 

In my classroom we are learning the maori phrases of the week. This chatterpix includes the maori phrases for the past three weeks inside of an app I used to show my learning.

Angle Rules DLO

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Toki Pounamu Film Festival Review

On Thursday the 14th of November,  the Toki Pounamu team were hosting a film festival at the Regent Theatre, Greymouth.  The film festival was made to show schools videos involving the idea of, ‘Our Place,’ for the schools and students within the Toki Pounamu cluster. People entered their movies they made including the native bush, gold mining, ocean, coal mining, histories, etc. The schools that entered into the event were Karoro School, Greymain School, Saint Patricks, Kaniere School, Paparoa Range, Kumara School, Paroa School and Blaketown School. 

All these schools entered in videos and there was one particular movie I enjoyed. The one I liked the most was the movie made by Saint Patricks. Their movie was about the dangers the environment is facing and what we are doing to help. They talked about the pollution in the oceans throughout the coast wide and even greater, world wide. In their video they interviewed the old mayor, Tony Kokshoorn to gather some information. Tony talked about DOC looking after 80% of the native bush/ environment, building a new recycling pit and Greymouth citizens doing their part to resolve the matter of global warming. The students of Saint Patrick's asked, “If we do not make a change would our next generations have a future?”

 Tony replied, “Yes they would, but not a very good one.” The video they made wa s entertaining and was very well filmed with great sound with clear voices and a great understanding of the movie.

The way the Toki Pounamu team chose the videos to put into the 1 hour time limit that were entered, was definitely a fair decision. Some videos had some  restrictions that were unsuitable for younger students that were attending the film festival event. I agree that this was a good decision they chose to do and I support it.

Angles In The Environment

Angles In The Environment

We are learning to go into the environment and identify different angles like acute, obtuse, reflex, etc. We have to take photos and present them either

on a slideshow, document or a google drawing.

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1. Acute Angle/ Koki tāhapa 

This a photo I have taken when going out into the environment of an acute angle. This angle is on the inner side of the number seven on a  hopscotch activity on the concrete. An acute angle is an angle that is measured to be less than 90 degrees.

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2. A full angle/ Koki huripū      

This type of angle may look like a yellow flower you will find inside of anyone's garden and, yes it is, but it is also a full angle. The inner circle of the flower is a full circle which makes it a full angle. A full angle is an angle that is exactly 360 degrees.

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3)Obtuse Angle/ Koki hāpūpū 

In this photo, my friend (Dakota) has helped me take a photo of an obtuse angle. I found this obtuse angle in the environment on metal poles for when going upstairs. An obtuse angle is an angle that is greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.

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4) Reflex Angle/ Koki rāwaho

                                              

To the left is a photo I took of a reflex angle. This is on the handrail of the stairs outside of my classroom as well. A reflex angle is an angle that is greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. Reflex angles are harder to find in the environment because they are not as common as finding the right angles, acute, etc.

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5) Straight Angle/ Koki rārangi

This is a photo I took of my friend’s Chromebook with a straight angle on it. Straight angles are angles that

are exactly 180 degrees. Straight angles are definitely the easiest angle you could find in the environment.

 On every angle there are three important features. They are called the rays, vertex and the angle. The rays are usually found in between the two angles which measures the angle. The vertex is the point where the two lines meet and the angle is also the circle to determine the type of angle it is.

Personal Comment:

Doing this activity of taking photos of different angles and presenting them on a visual display is something I enjoyed. I agree that doing this activity for any classroom or students will test their knowledge of angles and where they can find them other than on their maths work.

Introducing Others In Māori

Introducing Yourself and Others In Māori

In He Kakano we have been learning how to introduce ourselves and others in Māori.
This is a video on what we have been learning and the translation to what we were saying.

Translation from Māori into English

Ko Mackenzie tenei ( This is Mackenzie).
He pai ki a is te pūrei tenehi ( Mackenzie likes to play tennis).
He pai ki ahau te  pūrei piana me puoro. ( I like to play music and piano.)

Ko Jennae tenei( This is Jennae).
He pai ki a ia te pūrei pahikiteporo ( Jennae likes to play basketball).
He pai ki ahau te pūrei tenehi. ( I like to play tennis).

He Kuri Tāku Mōkai- He Ngeru Tāku Mōkai

 He Kuri Tāku Mōkai and He Ngeru Tāku Mōkai

This week and last week phrases of the week were 'my pet is a cat' and 'my pet is a dog. ' On this post there is a screencastify recording of the phrases of the week on a coding website called scratch.

This is the link to my scratch animation I made for this week.

Our Kowhaiwhai Pattern

Our Kowhaiwhai Art

In He Kakano ( senior Māori group) this year we have been learning about different kowhaiwhai patterns and what their meanings are.

This term our He Kakano group had to choose a kowhaiwhai pattern to draw and paint or create our own kowhaiwhai pattern. We have chosen to work together to create our own kowhaiwhai pattern. We figured doing an animal in the middle would be a good ideawith koru patterns as a border, then we painted it.

To the left we have our full traditional design. The honu or turtle symbolizes a navigator in the moana with the traditional pattern around the edges which represents the waves.We chose this pattern because the traditional colours pango, whero and māare known to work together to get the job done. The blue paint isthe blue moana. Our whole design means, the turtle in our moana  helped navigate waka to Aotearoa.

We enjoyed doing this task of painting and creating our own design for our kowhaiwhai pattern. We believe that we did a good job of our mahi toi and took our time with it, with a great outcome.

This is an image of our kowhaiwhai art Mackenzie and I designed, created and displayed.