Awesome animation

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa! Kia ora Bloggers! How are you? It's Māori language week so in class recently we have been looking at a lot of te reo Māori. It has been very fascinating learning more about the language! The teachers challenged us to create an animation that contains at LEAST 12 kupu (Words) and told a short story. This is me and my friend Tayla's animation.

   

Did you enjoy it? I hope you learnt something! Make sure to do some research on the language and have a great day!

-Zoe  

Perfect Pick-a-Path

Kia ora Bloggers! How are you all today? What have you been getting up over lockdown? Continuing on with our genre studies in literacy we have been looking at the fantasy genre and we got challenged to make a pick-a-path story. My friend and I partnered up to create ours, it took a while but we got there in the end and I'm pretty proud of what we achieved! 

Let me know how you did in the comments! Did you die at all? Did you enjoy it? I would also like to say that my friend did all the drawings and I think they look amazing! That's all from me this week, make sure to stay safe in lockdown.

-Zoe 

Fantastic Fantasy!

 Hey Bloggers! How are you? I hope you have been well and keeping safe in these tough times. Distance learning has been good, we are continuing with our regular timetable. Literacy has been fun, we are focusing on genre studies, and yesterday we started looking at my favorite genre which is fantasy. We were told to chose a film/novel and discuss how the different conventions are shown within that media. I chose one of my favorite book series, Into the Crooked Place. After that, we had to create a character that fit within that universe and discuss what roles they had to play in the storyline. This task was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it!

The site I used to create the character is here: https://picrew.me/image_maker/1170750

As I said I absolutely loved doing this, if you have any feedback please tell me in the comments! What is your favorite genre of film/novel? Have a great day and remember to stay safe!

-Zoe

 

Spectacular Spooky Story!

 Hi bloggers! Back into lockdown again, hopefully this one doesn't last as long. In literacy at the moment we're studying different movie genres, the first one that we are looking at is horror. I'm not a huge fan of horror films but it's very interesting to delve into the themes and conventions of the genre! Yesterday we were made to write a spooky story. I found this task extremely challenging to say the least. 

In order for me to have any interest and motivation while writing this, I had to make it a fantasy story of sorts, and it sort of just went downhill from there. Turns out writing tension is extremely difficult and I have no idea how to make anything seem scary so it just came out as lighthearted. Plus my writing overall isn't great. 

I tried. I can say that much. Anyway here's my "Spooky" story:

Please give me feedback in the comments! What's your favorite film genre? Mine is probably fantasy!

Have a great day and remember to stay safe.

-Zoe

Perfect Production

 Hey Bloggers! How are you? I know I haven't been active at all on here but I have a reason for that. As you might know, we have recently finished performing the Aladdin production! This was so much fun so I thought I might share some of the photos that we got of the show.

That's all the photos I'm going to be sharing, did any of you get to go to the show? If so then did you enjoy it? I really loved this experience and I will definitely miss the whole experience but I look forward to going back to normal learning (That's a lie). Anyway, thank you for reading, and hopefully, I'll see you soon!

-Zoe 

Marvellous Matariki Kites

 Kia ora Bloggers! Happy Matariki! How are you? On July 2nd we celebrated the Maori new year, meaning that the days get longer and spring is approaching. 

The Matariki star cluster has many, many different stories attached to it around the world. There were two we looked at. One about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow coloured.  

In order to make our kites we mixed these stories to make out our kites. This is mine:

What other stories about Matariki have you heard?

-Zoe

Marvellous Matariki

 Kia ora bloggers! How are you? What have you been up to? You might not know this but Matariki is coming up next month and to prepare we have created prints of the Matariki sky. This was my first time trying to create a print and I think I did ok.

 When we drew out the constallation we had to make sure we drew it in reverse so that when we printed it, it turned the right way and the constallation made sence. First we had to draw our desgin out on a bit of paper and then we had to draw that out on foam. From there we got to print it on a bit of paper. 

Then we had to make a frame. I'm absoulute trash with a craft knife so naturally this was extremely difficult. I got there in the end but it's safe to say that this wasn't the highlight of my experience. The image below is my complete print, in the end I made 5. Two were green and black and the others purple and black, I'm extremely proud of them!      

Heres my final print!

It's upside down... Blogger won't let me change that so I guess thats that. Please give me feedback in the comments and if you don't know what Matariki is make sure to reasearch it, it's really interesting! Thank you and see you next time!

-Zoe