All About the Haka!

Here in NZ, we do the haka. But what is the haka? This video will teach you all about what the haka is and why we do it!

A haka is a war dance. It started in 1888. 

Sundown: The war dance scares the opponents. Nowadays the haka can be used to welcome people, ceremonies, and celebrations or to express thoughts and feelings. 

The haka is a group of people standing in rows Moving in a sequence. The haka uses your whole body, mouth, and eyes. Maori chants and songs are used while moving. The songs tell stories and legends of Maori Culture. 

The Ka Mate Haka is the most famous haka because it is performed by the All Blacks at every intentional rugby game. It was created by Te Raruparaha. The story is about his escape from death. 

I want to learn the haka.

And that’s all about the haka!

 Christmas Drawings!

1. Elf on the Shelf

2. The Grinch

Room 11 made these drawings by following along with ArtForKidsHub on YouTube. We drew them with a pencil and then traced them with a sharpie. My favourite is the Elf on the Shelf because it is SO CUTE!!! I coloured mine with colour pencils, but some people coloured with markers. 

Fabrics

 Fabrics

What you need: 

1. Fabric Dye

2. Acrylic Paint

3. Pure Cotton Fabric Squares

4. Paintbrushes

What to do

First, dye the fabric with the colors you want. When the dye is dry, paint the design you want. 

Here's my plan: 

Here’s the finished product:

I really liked the part when we dyed the fabric. 

Upcycling

 Upcycling

Ingredients

• Empty recycled plastic bottle.

• Acrylic paints (white, and 2 or 3 colors of your choice)

• Paintbrushes

• Box knife

• Pencil

• Vivid marker

• Paper

Method

First, pick the recycled bottle that you want to make into a planter. Second, choose how you are going to cut it. Next, use a vivid marker to mark out where to cut the bottle. Then, cut the bottle using scissors or a box knife. Next, sandpaper the bottle to make the edges less sharp and so that the paint stays. After that, paint the bottle white and let it dry. On your piece of paper, draw your tessellation. A tessellation is a shape that fits together with another of itself. Then, apply a second coat of paint and let it dry. Draw your design on your bottle VERY LIGHTLY in pencil. Next, paint your design and let it dry. Then, paint the last coat. When the last coat dries, paint it over with PVA glue. Let it dry. Do a second coat of PVA glue. 

I really liked the part when we planted the flowers.

Haiku

Haiku

Snake twisting, coiling.

Could bite in an instant and

Could kill you easy.

How Chromebooks have helped my learning.

 How Chromebooks have helped my learning.

 Transformation on Scratch

On Scratch, we made short videos about transformation. the four things of transformation are rotation, reflection, enlargement, and translation. Rotation is where you rotate, reflection is where you reflect, enlargement is where you get bigger and translation is where you move somewhere.