Did you know that there are eight phases of the lunar moon?

In Kea we have been learning about the different moon phases.

First, we sat down on the mat and watched a few videos. After the videos we split into our writing groups and did the experiment.

The things we needed were a glue stick, pencil, white A4 paper, and black paper, scissors, and a stapler.

We sat down and started our experiment. I cut the black paper around the drawn circle. Next we traced the circle onto one of the pieces of white paper and cut it out. After, we glued the black circle onto the white paper (the other one, not the one we cut), and stapled the two white papers together.

Finally I went to paint the moon cycles around the outside, until someone’s paint fell onto mine and it was ruined! I made a second one and it worked. I felt relief. We all sat down and went to play. It was a fun experiment and a really cool one.

On Monday Kea went to the old library.

First we had to sit on the mat and the teacher explained the rules.

Then we started to buddy up, my buddy was Tamana.

Next we peeled the vegetables and then we had to go to the next group.

The next group was about the Matariki stars and we coloured the charm.

On Monday Kea  did a learning experiment with Takahe. My buddies were Siva and Nate. We did some art and cooking.

First, I did art and I was colouring a star. We also had to draw stars with chalk and a wordsearch.  I did a wordsearch There were only eight words to find  then when I was done I coloured a star so we can make it in to a charm. 

Next, we went to the kitchen and I made butter with rosemary. First we had to add cream to a jar with a pinch of salt and then add rosemary after that you have to tightly close the led of the jar then shake until you see the water spilt from the butter. 

After,that we ate bread with butter it was so fun I was happy even siva said it too my favourite part was shaking the jar.

¨Hello Kea kids, today you are going to partner up with Takahe kids today and experience great activities.¨ Mrs Venkat said as she turned to the board, the board had options of choices with activities we could do. ¨Some of you guys will stay here in the old library and some will come with me into the kitchen. There are activities to do, word search, colouring in the gem stars and chalk. There is a paper with all the Matariki stars written on it and you have to draw the Matariki stars with chalk outside.¨ We also talked about Tuakana-Teina which means when a young person and an older person come together.

Half of the Kea and Takahe kids split off and went to the kitchen. I stayed in the old library with Whaea Ocea. We had to choose our buddies but there were no kids left so I went with Antonia and her buddy Siva. We went to do the word search first. After we went to colour in the star gems, there were heaps of options of stars and I chose one and started colouring. I put some gems and glitter on it to make it decorated then I went to go help Siva to finish off her star.

After that it was our turn to go to the kitchen. While Siva was drawing the Matariki stars me and Antonia went inside to make rosemary butter.

The equipment we used was:
Spoon
Jar
Our ingredients were:
Cream ½
Pinch of salt
Rosemary

We first poured cream into the jar halfway. Secondly, we put a little salt inside the jar. Then we put a little rosemary inside the jar. Lastly we had to shake the jar until its shaped into butter. After it was finally shaped, Mrs Venkat spread it onto the bread. We all had a chance to taste and it was amazing because the texture of the bread was great.

Overall, it was fun and exciting and my favourite part was when we had to shake the jar to make butter!

In storychat one of the tasks was to make a stop motion about the different phases of the moon.

In storychat Tehillah and Katalina had done a pasifika slide for national language week.

In Whaea Oceas group for storychat me and Katalina made a reasearch slide show about some legends and history.

Making Traditional poi’s

Firstly we watched a video on how to make maori poi’s.

After that we gathered our materials(Fluff,String,String,Siccors,plastic sheet and tape

Next we got a black string and measured it up to our shoulder 6 times.Then we grabbed our blue string and wrapped it around o4 of our fingers 30 times .After that we cut the blue string in half and put it through 1 side of the black string.Next we placed a heavy object on the pompom and started plaiting.

After plaiting we grabbed a chunk of wool and tied the black string around the wool. 

Finally we wrapped a plastic sheet around the chunk of wool and made a poi.

Thanks for learning how to make a poi with me.

How to make a lunar cycle

Introduction: First we watched a video about the lunar cycle just so you know what to do

Step 2: Get a black paper to make a circle for your moon and get 1 white paper so you can fold
Then cut it so you can have 2 papers.

Step 3 Cut out the circle from the black paper.

Step 4: Glue the black circle in the middle of the white paper.

Step  5: Put your paper together how  tell Miss Kelly if she could stabilize it

Step 6:Paint your moon

Step 7:Leave it to dry up. Where your window is so it could shine on it.

Week 4 publishing

Tuesday 20/5/25 2025

On monday kea learnt about how planets go around the sun and

We also watched a video for the experiment to work with us and 

Learn some stuff and to know what we were doing we learned 

Some like Mercury are the first ones closest to the sun.

Venus is the second one closest to the sun.

Ereth is the third one closest to the sun. And Mars was the 

Fourth closest to the sun. jupilea was the filth to the sun. 

And Saturn is the sixth closest to the sun. Uranus is

Seven  closest to the sun. and Neptnne is the last one closest to the sun.

Week 3

Whaea kelly did learning  experiment about the water cycle. 

Evaporation is when the sun goes on some water like the ocean or 

a puddle and tums it tiny water droplets  called water vapour. We put water in the plastic bag and we put the blue food colouring then I carefully shook the water was blue colour then my class draw something on the plastic bag. I didn’t do it but my whole class did it. 

Week 1 

Today we are learning about gravity said Whaea Ocea. First we gathered in groups. Then me and my buddy get the cork and feather then we test the gravity by dropping the cork and feather at the same time. First cork hit the ground first, then the feather came slowly. Then we borrowed some more things and tried again and again. 

Week 2 

On Tuesday my class was going to plant some lettuce seeds and other vegetable seeds. My was lettuce and other people broccoli beetroot and other vegetable seeds. That was really fun. 

We came in side  and sat on the mat and Miss Ocea said “we are doing the learning  experiment. We went on the learning slides and asked a question about the planets. after all of it then we went to our writing groups. We got into a circle and Miss Ashley asked us “who wants to be the sun?”Robby said me “me! me! me!” Miss Ashley picked  Robby to be the sun and he stood in the middle of the circle. Next all the other kids became the other planets, I was Saturn . And I had to go in a circle over again I had to go slow cause Saturn is a long way and the six planets and it mean it travels as we drew the planets.

 First we sat on the mat and Miss Ashley shared a story about maramataka (the Maori planting calendar). We got into groups and we went outside to the front of the office. We talked about seeds and we planted some lettuce and we put soil in our little cup. We went back inside and sat on the mat and Miss Ashley talked about what we did. I enjoyed it and now, I like learning about plants. 

yesterday we learned about planets and space. our planet earth orbits around the sun like Mercury and mars and the other planets. All of the planets orbits around the sun and rotates. Did you know the sun is 15,000 degrees celsius and the sun is a giant star made of hydrogen gas. And did you know the Earth takes 1 year to orbit the sun. For Earth that takes 365 days. Mercury takes 88 Earth days and Venus takes 225 Earth days. Mars takes 687 Earth days and Jupiter has 4,333 Earth days.