Hi bloggers,today we were doing activates for Matariki.Are hole school was celebrating Matariki,The seniors were doing ponamus,kites and feathers for a cloak.First i chose to do a kite.It was easy to build and colour.First you had to get a big strip of paper.The seniors had to get 2 to start with. and then we had to decorate it with felt tips,coloured pencils or pastels.We had to decorate are 2 strips.I chose Samoan flowers for my first strip and my second strip had zig zag with little dots in the zig zag.Then we had to give it to the teachers,Well the seniors were decorating there strips the teachers were making the triangles.They used 3 long tooth pickers and tied them with string and maked it as a triangle.when we gave are strips to the teacher the teacher cut it to smaller pieces. It was like smallest to biggest strips.Finally I am finished.
when I finished the kite i went to do the cloak.I went to get the cloak strip from the teacher and i got colouring pencils that was the schools..I went to sit down and the colours i got was red,yellow and orange,The first time i coloured my feather i coloured it lightly and so I gave it to the teacher and he said make it more lighter because when it hangs up on the wall you can not really see it.I went to colour it darker with the same colours.Once it was really dark i gave it to the teacher and he said much better and than i went to do the ponamu.
i went to go get my Chromebook to look for what kind of ponamu i want to make.I chose the cross ponamu to make,I went to get some green clay to make it like a cross shape.The clay was hard but we could still roll it.It was easy to cut it ad roll it.Yay I am finished the shape and so i did the pattern.I did dots and lines and than it was ready to bake.When it was read we got to hold it to give it to the person we wanted to.