Lets go Matariki!

 Kia ora Koutou! Ko Lucinda Toku ingoa. Matariki is creeping upon us, but Toroa is already organized. To celebrate the Maori new year (2 July 2021) we decided to go for a beautiful piece of extraordinary art to showcase one of the most popular star constellations. Matariki, the mother, and her six daughters, Tupu-ā-Nuku, Tupu-ā-rangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī and Waitā, and Ururangi.

My Art pieces! This type of art is called 'Printmaking' You usually do it on foam.

Which one do you like best? 

Interested in this type of art? Want to celebrate Matariki in a unique way?

Heres all the steps to make this beautiful art;

1. Find some information about Matariki. What time do they come out? Are there any other names for Matariki?

2.  It time for a draft! Get out a piece of scrap paper and fold it a quarter of the way. Sketch your mountain, Mt. Cook, Mt. Arthur, etc. making sure that your Mountains don't take up the whole page. Here comes the Matariki part.

3. Look up a map of Matariki to see exactly where the stars go. Copy that onto your scrap paper but draw it backward. When you print it onto your paper, it will be reversed so as to make sure it's the right way, when you onto your foam draw it backwards.

4. Time to GENTLY draw it onto your foam. Making sure to draw it backwards again too. Remember, DO NOT down hard on the foam otherwise, when you put the ink on it, it won't look very good.

5. Next, get an assortment of ink colours and using a roller (It sounded like a cat rolling its tongue!) to roll on the ink. Make sure to put heaps on so, it doesn't look drained. 

6. Leave it to dry for a while. Decide whether or not you would like to put a border on it but I would recommend doing so.

7. BOOM, you've got your amazing Matariki art.

I love Matariki because it really showcases our Maori culture. I hope you like my art.

Blog ya later!

  

Whats the Weather today?

 

Kia ora Bloggers!

My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. For the past few Fridays, we have been working on a Maori Weather animation from scratch. I have never used scratch before and found it hard to get used to but soon I got the hang of it. I enjoyed choosing the characters and backdrops but found the coding a challenge. 

If you are having trouble understanding the Maori words then here's what they mean:

Kia ora - Hello

Kei te Pehea te Atua O te Rangi - What's the Weather Today?

 Kei te Wera - It is Hot

Kei te Hukapapa - It is snowy

I hope you enjoy my Maori Animation and will understand the meanings now.

What do you think I can improve on? 

Feel free to Comment!

Whats the weather Like today?

 

Konichiwa Bloggers! Today, we are learning more Maori pronunciation! So, the teachers asked us to create a poster on Canva on how to say " Hows the weather today?" and to reply with " It is Fine" or you could say it was raining or hot and so on. But in Maori words. I found it quite exciting to find out all the different Maori words and learn how to say them. I enjoyed decorating my poster and playing with all the different designs. I hope you might just learn a few Maori words from my poster. 

What do you think I can improve on? 

Feel free to comment!

The Maoris point of View

 

Kia ora Bloggers! My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Today, we have learned more about the treaty of Waitangi. There were actually 2 Versions of the treaty. The Maori one promised the Maori that they would have full control over their lands and that the queen would protect them. The English one says that the English get all the Sovereignty and could buy the land. This ended up with War and confusion, English taking away their culture and there freedom. This video is about a Maori's point of view of how they felt about all the changes happening. I don't think this is my best work because the app I was using didn't let me download it and I had to use screencastify to video. We had to write a script for what the Maori would say and put it on the app Voki. I found it fun to write it down but the video was very annoying because of all the mistakes. 

What point of View would you choose? Maori or English?

E noho rā!

The Mystery's of the Tāmoko Revealed!

 

Kia ora Bloggers!

My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Last week we were assigned  to watch, research and make notes on the traditional gorgeous Tamoko! Today, after we finished our art we had to finish off work we hadn't finish yet. I hadn't done my Poster for Tamoko, so heres what I achieved today. I copied my facts that I had written down in my book onto the poster and made it look stylish and Cool. It wasn't to hard nor to easy to make. I had fun looking at all  the different fonts and Pictures I could use. Thank you once again Canva! Sorry if you can't read the writing. It wouldn't let me download it.

What are some famous Tamoko artists? What are some Tamoko designs?

Feel free to comment!

The Coming together of Maori & the English

 

Kia ora Koutou! My name is Lucy and I am a Marshland school Student. From the beginning of this week, we have began Inquiry and looked in on the Treaty of Waitangi. We also researched and watched lots of videos about when Captain Cook came to NZ. The task that we had to do was the journey Captain Cook took to NZ and write about all the issues that happened on board and how long the Voyage was. I found it quite Cool to find out how the English got across that never ending ocean. Some of the facts were very surprising!

Whats your favourite fact? 

Feel free to comment!

Don't you just love the Maori for their way with words?

 

Tēna Koutou Bloggers! My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Today, (with help from the Teachers) Toroa learned and created their Beautiful Pepehas. We included our Family, where we came from, our Mountain and our River. After we wrote our Pepehas down, the Teachers told us to make a adobe spark video version. It took a lot of hard work, encouragement and resilience. I found it challenging but fun. I hope my Pepeha will help you get to know me more, as it talks a lot about ME! I think that the Maori are are a very unique and beautiful culture and I hope you think so too. Enjoy my Pepeha!

What do you think of the Maori culture? 

Feel free to comment.

I hope you understand this Maori Slide!

 

Kia ora, My name is Lucy and I am a student at marshland school.

One of our tasks on Friday was to make a Maori slide about the Maori words we learnt over the past few weeks. Gemma my friend and I made a slide about a market called the Aihikirimi Market where a Man asks for an ice cream in Maori.

Do you like our slide?

Anything I can improve on?

I hope you enjoy my blog post.

Blog you later!