Ayla - Tangram Puzzles

Last week, Miss Paton taught us how to make Tangram Puzzles. Miss Paton said that the Tangram Puzzles are basically like a Chinese geometrical puzzle. It consists of cutting a piece of paper into 7 different shapes, and then arranging them into different shapes. You can make animals like I attempted to here. My results are shown on these pictures here.

Ayla - St Mary Drawing

 

During our Zoom Meating on Monday, Miss Paton told us that one of the tasks we could do was to draw St Mary entering heaven, in honor of the Feast of the Assumption (St Marys resurrection). Here's my drawing!

Ayla - Supermarket Trip Presentation -Whatś in our food

 

On the first week of term 3, Room 2 went on a trip to New World to look at different  food labels, with a lady from the Heart Foundation named Isabelle. The categories were Breakfast Cereals, Bread, Muesli Bars, Snack Foods, and Milk or Dairy Products. When we got back, our teacher told us to make a presentation of our trip. If you want to, take a look at mine.

 

Ayla - Famous person within the Early Church - Lydia

 

This week we have been focusing on famous people in the early church. Miss Paton told us to make a presentation on one of the famous people based off of information we had gathered, from in a group. Our group chose Lydia. Here is my presentation.

Ayla - Matariki information report

 Matariki Information Report
By Ching and Ayla

What is Matariki?
Matariki is the Maori name for the cluster of stars known as Pleiades. The stars are seen for most of the year but they disappear in late April. The cluster of stars re-apear during the middle of winter. Matariki rises in mid-winter and is the start of the Maori New Year.

What does the name Matariki mean? What was the Maori myth behind Matariki?
There are other names for Matariki such as eyes of God, little eyes, and seven sisters. Matariki was also believed to be the name of the oldest sister. The oldest sister would guide her younger sisters to their places in the sky. There was a myth that Ranginui (the Sky Father) and Papatuanuku (the Earth Mother) were separated by their children. Then Tawhirimatea (the God of Wind) got so angry that he tore out his eyes and threw them into the heavens.

Matariki was a time for…
Matariki was a time for remembering the people who died in the last year and also a happy time to harvest crops like kumara and taro. It was a great time to go fishing, and for hunting birds. People also flew kites because ancient custom says that they fly close to the stars. It was also a time to make plans for the future. Also during, Matariki people would sing, dance and feast. Matariki is also a time to tell stories.

Matariki celebrations, the past and today.
The celebration of Matariki had stopped in the 1940’s, but then revived in the early 2000’s. At first, not a lot of people celebrated Matariki, but over the years, thousands of people joined the celebrations.

Extra Information
The nine stars are called Matariki, Tupuarangi, Waipuna-a-Rangi, Waiti, Tupuanuku, Ururangi, Waita, Pohutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-Rangi. Each star holds a certain significance over our wellbeing and environment, as seen from the Maori view of the world.

𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓱𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓱 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

 

This is my features of the Church presentation. It shows different parts of the Church.

Ayla - The Early Church Poster

This is my poster based off of The Early Church. It tells facts about what happend in the older church.