Matariki Art

We have been making Matariki Art.  I am going to tell you how to make our art.

You Are Going To Need:

• 2 Newsprint's
• A Pencil
• Scissors
• An Image Of A Mountain Range
• A4 Black Paper
• Pastel Chalk
• Stick on Stars
• HairSpray
• White Mounting Paper
• A Glue Stick

First get the newsprint, the pencil and the image of a mountain range.  Copy the mountain range with the pencil on the newsprint.  Get the scissors and cut along the line you just drew.  Then get the other newsprint and put it under the other piece of newsprint.  Scrape the pastel chalk up on the edge of the mountains and then get all the other pastel chalk and scrape them up too.  After you have done that use your finger and push your pastel chalk up.  Next get the newsprint that you cut and put it on the piece of A4 black paper.  Then get the pastel chalk and do what you just did with the other piece of newsprint.  Next take the newsprint off the black piece of paper so that it looks like the mountains are in the shade.  Then put stickers that are shaped like stars on the picture in the sky where Matariki would be.  After you have done that you need to get the hairspray and hairspray the place where you put on the pastel chalk so that it won't be sticky.  Lastly get the glue stick and put it on the back of the picture and then stick it on to the white mounting paper.  

Tidy Numbers

My Maths group has been learning about tidy numbers.  Tidy numbers are numbers that are easy to add and subtract.  For example if you had to add 323 + 130 it would be hard so you could make 323 into 325 + 130 then it would be easier and then when you know that number you would just subtract two. 

The Giant Skateboard

 On Friday three people came to our school.  They bought a giant skateboard with them.  Our class and another class went out to see them first.  First the three men told us there names.  One of there names was James another was Matt and the last one was Beaumont.  Next they told us why they had a giant skateboard.  They had the skateboard to try and make more people go to the Olympics.  Then told us the rules.  There were two rules.  The first one was that you weren't allowed to go on the bolts that were on the side and the second one was you weren't allowed on the top of the skateboard.  Then they said we could go and see the skateboard.  There were seats under the skateboard that we could sit on.  Next the guy called James asked us if we would like to be in the paper.  We all said yes.  So the paper lady took a photo of us.  Then the three guys told us to come over to them and asked us if we had any questions.  We had lots.  One of them was what the skateboard was made of.  They said it was made of fibre glass and plywood and another one was how big it was.  They said it was 18 times bigger than a normal skateboard then the teachers said we had to go back to class.