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Maori inspired Decorative Kites and Reflections

Finished Kites and Reflections

My kite reflection

I love the way my kite turned out. I changed my plan to suit what I liked. And from what I heard I think Mr Mcdonald and Mrs Mcdonald liked it to:)

What to work on?

Sometimes the feathers would fall off or snap. But I still love what I have done. Also maybe I could have added more DETAIL!

By Maija

Kite Reflection

I think mine and Lily’s kite was cool. I learnt many important skills such as weaving, teamwork, time management, and Maori culture/art.

I think I could work on being more prepared/ bringing more supplies. It wasn’t exactly like             I had planned, but Lily and I did okay.

I had planned flax strips hanging from it etc. but that just wasn’t practical.
Hunter




Callum and I completed our kite, not how we planned, but it still worked out pretty well. We could have done some improvements to our kite but it was still pretty cool and we did it all before he left Kenakena School.

Roma

I wanted to do something that nobody else did and it looks way better than my plan. Also it is almost exactly like my plan but with no shells.  If I made another kite I would do something totally different because if i did something the same, I would have to look at the same thing.

Jono



 

When I found out we would be making a kite from a Maori tradition, I rushed at the opportunity. I was so excited, and all these ideas came rushing to my head. So I got my book and my pencils and drew up the dream kite, well in my world at least. Once I had finished the final plan, I was all ready to make the kite. Sophie had come up to me and asked to be partners. Of course I said yes, I mean more teamwork and materials the better. So we had our plan and we were ready to start, but once we had started everything that we thought of and drew on our plan so easily, became the hardest thing ever. As a team and with a few decisions, we decided to change our plan a little bit, so that it would make much more sense and be a little bit easier for us.

While we were making and weaving our kite it was quite easy, but just trying to make it look good altogether was the problem. Hot glue wasn’t on our side either, so we had to weave everything on, and attach it to the frame.

Once we were finally done it was a great outcome as all of our colors mixed together well and the design was perfect. So Sophie and I were very happy and excited about what we had done.

Maddie

 Sivai and I worked really well together in making our kites. We contributed our ideas and kept persisting when times got tough. Our kite isn’t exactly what we designed but I think it’s better than what we wanted to do!!! I loved making the kites and I sacrificed my fingers for our kite since I burnt myself at least 20 times with the hot glue gun.

Our kite is above our expectations and I think it’s very tidy and neat.

Noa

How Big is Our Classroom?

Pacing out to measure distance across the classroom.

We discovered that Liam was a great measuring tool.  He was exactly 1.50m

Making rolled newspaper measuring devices for How big is 1.5 metres?

Measuring the perimeter of the room.

Measuring the height of the room.

Reflection:  How big is 1.5 metres?  We connected our prior knowledge of how big one metre is from doing the Cross Country course.  We estimated how big 1.5 metres would be and made rolled up poles to measure exactly 1.5 metres.  We discovered that Liam was exactly 1.5m.  

How Big is our Classroom?  We discovered that 'How big?' has different meanings - it could mean the perimeter, the area or the volume of the room.  Most people measured the area or perimeter as finding the height of the room was harder to measure.

 

Kite Making

Maori Inspired Kite Making

Buddies

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Star Lab

We had a forty five minute lesson in the star lab at school.  It was a blow up dome like a bouncy castle.  We had to crawl into the dome and sit inside the dome.   The lesson was a mixture of watching a slide show and looking at projected slides on the ceiling of the dome that replicated the stars in the night sky and there was also a Star Signs slide.

The presenter had memorised her informative script to talk to our class.  We learnt a lot of new facts and were also able to share our knowledge occasionally.  We got to handle a fist sized meteorite. 

Maths Engineering

For Maths Engineering - each group had the task of making an object that when it did two rotations it would cover exactly 3 metres.  Due to time constraints, the concept of making a wheel with a handle was only achieved by one group.  The main purpose of the activity was striving for accuracy and understanding the concepts of circumference and perimeter, and using multiplication, division and measurement in a practical task.  One person from each group manually rotated their shape twice and the distance was measured from the 3 metre mark.  Some groups modified their shape several times as they were striving for accuracy.