Flax Weaving

The Year 3 students helped to teach the Year 5 and 6 students how to make Matariki stars out of harakeke (flax).

The Year 6 girls were shown how to cut the flax, ensuring they followed all the Maori protocols for cutting harakeke.

We are learning how to strip the harakeke to prepare it for weaving.

Mrs King showed the Year 6 girls how to begin the star.  It was very tricky, but some of us persevered and succeeded. 

This is all of us completing the star with our Year 3 buddies helping.

We all managed to complete a star of some sorts!!

After we had finished weaving any pieces of harakeke we did not use had to be given back to 

Papatuanuku (our Earth Mother).

We also learnt we are to never step on or over the harakeke.

Flat Stanley

We had a visitor in our class he was all the way from Doha.  His name was Flat Stanley.  We were given the task to have some adventures with Flat Stanley.

This is Flat Stanley.

 

We decided we would teach Flat Stanley how to make Matariki stars out of harakeke (flax) and tell him the story of Matariki.

We took Flat Stanley out to help us cut harakeke.  Flat Stanley helped us strip the flax and weave the stars.

The photos below show us with Flat Stanley weaving our stars.

Giving Instructions

We have been learning how to write and give instructions.  Firstly we watched a you tube clip on how to make a paper helicopter.  We then wrote instructions on how to make the helicopter for a year 4 student to follow.  From this exercise we discovered written instructions alone were not adequate.  Therefore we discussed how we could improve by drawing diagrams along with the instructions, draw pictures/diagrams only and making a movie with oral instructions.  We have broken up into teams and trying out which set of instructions are most successful  You will have to wait for the outcome but this is how our written instructions worked out or not!!

This is us giving instructions and the outcome.

This is what the helicopter should have looked like.

Mini Camp

Whoever thought pitching tents, eating pikelets, and playing games in the sun could be so much fun!!  Egg throwing and catching was interesting especially when some people got egged.  Lastly we finished by having an Easter egg hunt.  It was really difficult as we had to find two halves of a laminated egg with the same pattern.  At times we had to negotiate with others that had the same pattern.

Nice and cosy!

Now you see us!

Now you don't!

You can always do with a mans touch.

How many people can fit in a tent?

My face does say yum, really!!

Cream, cream and more cream.

Catch that egg.

I've just been egged.

Evidence of getting egged, so funny

I finally found two halves that match.

Big decisions, what one to choose.