Our amazing Harakeke baskets

 Yesterday I really enjoyed making our Harakeke basket to hold our sausages in this Friday.  WALT make Harakeke baskets to put our sausages in on Friday. We need to get our baskets finished in order to get a free sausage.

We did it by getting two bits of flax and taking out the little strong bit in the middle. Then pull each half into three pieces. After we put seven of the pieces on way and weaved one over under to the end and then one under over to the end and so on. Then after we ran out of sticks we would go onto the side that only had five pieces and folded the one on the outside of the middle one over and then fold the left end one over to the right and then put the right one to the left side. Then I would tie them together and do the same on the other side of 5 pieces. I would get the middle one of the three and put it through the tie at the end of the other three. The you get all of the other long pieces and criss cross them around over the bit of flax you just put through the tie and fold some through the part where the sausage goes and it should look a bit like this or even better. I really enjoyed learning how to make these Harakeke mats. Mine does not quite look like a basket it mostly looks like a flat thing instead of a basket. Is this something you want to make?

Emily Carr art term 2 art

 This term my class has been learning about a famous Canadian artist named Emily Carr. Sadly Emily passed away 2 March 1945. Emily had a painting that was sold after she was dead for 3.9 million she really liked to paint trees and had a funky style. Here's a picture of a painting that Emily Carr made.

You can search up Emily Carr's paintings and there are a heap of pictures on google that she made.

So my class painted trees. First we used a sponge and painted 2-3 colours of paint onto a piece of paper. Then we had to draw on a piece of a visual on what we wanted our tree to look like. After that we had to look at our visual and try and paint it on our painting after they had dried. We also added grass at the bottom and we are very proud of us. 

Do you like my painting? Do this make you want to research about Emily Carr more?

Tips to find out if and article is true or fake!

 This week my class has been learning ways on how to find out if articles tell real or fake stories. Here is my Canva poster about tips to see if an article is true or fake.

I did it by using Canva and finding a background that's not to busy so then you can read the words. I tried to make a good colour combination so it is more pleasing to the eye. Then I thought of a few tips that I thought were good enough and put them on. After I let you know that I did it by finding a design of cool text and put a heading on. Have you ever made a poster on Canva before?

Some Cool Pluto facts.

 Here is my Pluto website. Last week my class learned all about Pluto we also have been learning to make google sites.

I made it by going into my drive and clicking new then I went to more at the bottom and clicked on Google site. I started by stating the facts that I knew about Pluto and put in a picture. After that I went on a website got a picture about Pluto and found out how long it takes Pluto to get around the Sun. It takes 247.9 Earth years for Pluto to make one orbit around the Sun, at an average speed of 10,623 miles per hour (17,096 kilo meters per hour). I think I did pretty well with the website however I think I could have done better. I know a lot of things about Pluto now. Do you think Pluto should become a planet once again?