Tawa @ Ngatea Primary School

Labour Day is a National holiday for many hard working New Zealanders which is on the fourth Monday of October. You get a longer weekend to spend time relaxing or catching up with family members. Labour Day is also for schools, government offices and many businesses are closed. New Zealand first celebrated Labour Day on October 28, 1890 (a long long time ago) and the first official Labour Day public holiday in New Zealand was celebrated on the second Monday of October 1900 (twenty years later from the first one) , The holiday was moved to the fourth of October 1910 and has stayed like that since then.

Term 4 Art This term for art I decided to do Picasso art with Mrs Barker, it was only me and Olly so it was a two man group. First we had to look at the doc and checked out what to do, then we made a draft which we failed really bad. Then Mrs Barker came and took us through what we had to do, we first made our head the shape of an egg, next we had to put two lines vertical and horizontal and on the horizontal line we drew the eyes then added a line in at the top between the horizontal line and the top of the head. After that we made our hair above the line I was just talking about, we next had to make a line in the middle of the bottom half to make a mouth and above the mouth draw the nose and speaking of the nose it was my favorite part of it because I got to watch a step by step video on how to do it and I did it pretty good. Image of what I have done so far:

Holiday recount In the holiday the most exciting thing I did was going ice-skating with my brother and Incca ( my mums friends daughter ) and that was my second time going there in my whole life and I was pretty good at it, but I stumbled a few times. My other most exciting thing was getting my first phone which was an iPhone 5 (black) with two cases (my little brother got a phone before me then lost it, so he’s not going to get one until he is fifteen:- ) and that was really cool. My average things were having kill another one of the pigs so now we only have two a boy and a girl. My cousins cat had kittens during the holidays, but they are still too little to get out of the room where they born. The things I didn’t like in the holidays were staying at my cousin's house when it was raining because their house is made of corrugated iron and it was really loud and I had a horrible sleep and when I woke up I stayed in bed till about ten thirty. One of the yum things were maki...

This week for iDrive I did something with our wheely chairs, first it started with all the black and blue wheely chairs looking untidy. Then someone came up with this bright idea that we should change the fabric on them (which was Kate). So me, Finn, Mason, Hamish and Mrs Barker (one of our teachers) decided to do them. First we had to take the hundreds of staples out, then we chose a bright fabric for them. Next we had to measure the fabric we wanted and cut it out then staple it on. On some of them we had to sew a hem using the sewing machine. Since I finished so fast I ended up doing two, my challenge were  taking out all the staples. And this is how it started And here our our new and improved wheely chairs                                                                             ...

Last Friday we did the Learning and the Making Conference and the four things I did. First I ran a workshop which was Google Drawing it was harder than I thought getting all of the kids to get into groups but we worked it out eventually. Next I did cooking with Miss Williams. We made hot-dog pasta and it was yum but different because I had never had that meal before.  The third workshop I did was Paper Mache and it was a double session with Mrs Malanaphy and Mrs Heaven. I made a fish with zentangles on it, and the background was pink. I made the eyes out of buttons which was cool. My favourite would have to be cooking because we got to eat it at the end. I forgot to tell you that the hot dog pasta was frankfurters cut into quarters then we stuck spaghetti pasta inside then we boiled it in a pot and served it with pasta sauce YUM!!!!! (me, Callum and Josh had to do the dishes). Photo1 is all the presenters with me in it.  Photo2 of hot-dog pasta but this one has cheese s...