Battle of gate pa

Jerry Mateparae is the governor general of new zealand.
Willie Apiata is aformer corporal in the New Zealand special air service.

homework

Technology

Tuesday:

In art tech on tuesday we started doing print making were we all got a small pice of polystyrene and draw with a pencil the objects we see in front of us.After that we went to another table were we had a small paint roller and cover it in ink then we rolled the ink onto our drawing and roll it onto our page.

Wednesday:

In art tech on wednesday we had to draw something in our book to do with the battle of gate pa,then we got a small plank of wood and we had to copy our drawing onto the wood.Once we finished that we got a vivid and went over the pencil with it after we got carving tools and carved out some were in the wood.We took our wood over to the ink table and went over it with yellow ink then got a big pice of paper and stuck the wood face down onto the page we had to that three times then hang it on a line with a peg to dry for tomorrow.

Thursday:

On thursday we got given a small pice of black paper to put on our two other cut outs to glue onto.Then we went and put green ink on one of them and red ink on the other one.
We had to carve out more of the wood block and herd the story of Nigel Brown and how he made a very big painting of Tauranga and all the things he did when he was younger.

Friday:

On friday we got given our 4th cut out and rolled blue ink onto it then we glued it onto a big black pice of paper and used our wood cut to put white prints on the black pice of paper.We put our black pice of paper on a peg on a line and left it to dry.

Box method homework

Me showing my dad how to work the box method.

Te whare wananga o te maro

In the whare the piece of wood going down the middle in the roof is called the Tahuhu or Backbone and the wood going from the roof to the top of the wall is called the Heke or Ribs.

On the carving outside in the middle are the 3 iwi and the coloured rope going up is each colour of each house in the school.

Valentines Day

St Valentines was a Roman priest who was secretly organising weddings for soldiers. He was jailed then sentenced to death by the King on February 14th AD 270. We exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers, with our special valentines. A special valentine is someone that you love.

American spend up to 3.6 billion dollars on Valentines gift each year. 50 million roses are sold each year on Valentines Day. 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentines day are men and 27% are women.15% of the US women send themselves flowers on Valentines day. Eros is the greek god of love and his roman form is Cupid.

Science Fair

For the last few weeks everyone in the school has been doing there science fair.
I did my science fair on "will microwaved water effect the way plants grow.
I can't wait to see all the other science one's in the hall.