Kupu O Te Wiki

Each Week we have a Maori phrase to learn here are the phrases from week 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Collaging Google Drawing

Today in room 1 we have been learning to make a collage on Google Drawing. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to group together. We had to make a New Zealand bird and have a background of its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this? Here is my work it is a New Zealand South Island Robin.

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

On Thursday the 14th of November, the seniors from Karoro school went to
the Regent Theater to watch the first ever Toki Pounamu Film Festival in
Greymouth. The festival was made of videos that students from all around
Greymouth had made. The videos had to relate to the theme, ‘Our Place’,
that was only for the schools in the Toki Pounamu cluster. 

There were so many different videos that schools had thought of as ‘Our
Place’. Some included the ocean, mining, history, their school of town. The
schools that had entered were Karoro, Grey main, Paroa, Blaketown, Saint
Patricks, Kaniere, Kumara and Paparoa Range. 

All the videos the schools entered were great.  The one that was my
personal favourite was Paragrey, by a group of students from Saint Patricks;
their names are Diana, Antonia and Eva. Their video was a song about
Greymouth. Their song was originally Bad Guy by Billie Elish but they
changed the lyrics. That was my favourite part of it. One thing that I noticed
that they could change for next time is some of the pictures that they used
weren’t from Greymouth. 

Overall I enjoyed the film festival and the videos chosen. I also noticed that
the videos were suitable for all ages of viewers at the film festival and
especially because they could only have the festival go for 1 hour.

Kowhaiwhai Art

In He Kākano this term, we have been learning about different kowhaiwhai
patterns and their meaning. First we had to do some practise patterns and
when we felt confident we started drawing some ideas. It took us a while to
figure out whatwe wanted to do but after quite a few sessions we came up
with our pattern. 

The meaning behind our pattern is that the koru symbolizes friendship this
includes the red koru heart. The white shapes symbolize abundance. The meaning
behind thissymbol in Māori means a large quantity of something. So overall our
pattern means a large quantity of friendship and love. We chose the colours red,
white, black and green because we wanted to keep the colours close to the original
colours that were mainly used in Māori art. 

By Milan & Phoebe

Maori Phrase Of The Week

We are learning to say simple maori phrases. This week the maori phrases are: 

                         He kuri tāku mokai- My pet is a dog.  

      
                                     He ngeru tāku mokai.

City Animation

In class we were making animations and my animation was about some kids meeting up and went shopping.

Ski-ing Word Art

This week the year 7 and 8's went ski-ing. We did a word art of some vocabulary from ski-ing. Here is my word art.