Matariki

Tortara have been learning about Matariki and all the ways to celebrate Matariki.  

Matariki is the Maori new year even though it's in June. The Maori legend for Matariki is that the sky farther and the earth mother were tore apart by their child and the child tears are formed as Matariki. If you want see Matariki you will only find them at dawn. My class have been doing Matariki activities, my faouvrite activity was weaving. Weaving was my favourite because it trained my muscles and taught me more things to weave with flax. I connected some of learning from last year to help with my weaving.

Over arm throw

My P.E is over arm throw .Something that challenges me is the distance I throw the ball to. I am working on how far I throw the ball. when I try to throw the ball far my acrassy goes away. I thought knew a lot about over arm already but I didn't know these things. Side and point,smiley face,step and turn and throw

What you do	What you say	Photo
Point and look forward	Side and point
Bring your arm down like a smiley face	Smiley face
Turn your legs, just your legs	Step and turn
Well, throw	And throw

Art

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I am proud of my art because of my *perspective and castle I think that I will be a great artist when i'm older.

*perspective means getting close and getting further away.
When it's close it's dark and big but when it's far away it's light and small.
My favourite thing about my art is the perspective that I added to show how the mountains are further back. Something that challenged me was the detail that I tried to paint.

Area

I am proud of my area because I like challenging myself on hard questions . Instead of adding the sides together you only write 2 numbers and you x the numbers that you write. if you need help and you have a two digit number you spit the number and you x your other number with the tens and the one and then you add them together. My favourite strategy is splitting numbers.  

Areas in my dream classroom