Kowhaiwhai and Koru

 Hello bloggers,

Today I will be sharing a quick blog post about Koru's and Kowhaiwhai.

Koru's are the most common design found in Kowhaiwhai patterns.  Koru is The Maori word for loop and they are shaped like a spiral Koru symbolises, New life, Growth, Strength and peace. Koru's are used in Maori art, carving and tattoos.

Kowhaiwhai's are usually found on roofs of Maori meeting houses, Kowhiawhai represents Maori history, and Family trees of the tribe. Ponga's are also a type of plant and design and they grow all around New Zealand and they are usually found in wet damp places.

I hope you learn't something from the blog post

Anzac biscuits

Today is the day before Anzac day, and for online school we were given activities to do for ANZAC, one of the activities was to make ANZAC biscuits and post them on your blog and explain how they were created. So ANZAC biscuits were first created in world war one and the first recipe was published in 1921. Later on people started putting coconut in them, and the new recipe came out in 1927. They were made because they were a treat for the soldiers and some soldiers described them as an energiser food and they could last a very long time. Here are some photos of my biscuits. 

Please leave a comment. 

This is before they were cooked. 

                     And below is after they were cooked. 

Here is the link to the recipe.

Surprise in a cup

Hi Everyone.

Again I have done another activity for topic, and this activity was called cake in a mug. It was a recipe on how to create a five minute cake. The recipe was simple and then we only had to put the mixture in the microwave for 70-90 seconds. I enjoyed this activity because the cake tasted good and it was fun to make. I think this activity was a physical change because there was no new substance but the mixture started out as slop but then it started to rise. 

If you would like to give this a go then just search up Chelsea chocolate mug cake. 

Here are some photo's of how my cakes turned out. 

 If you wanted to get creative you could

                                                                       add cream or chocolate on top. 

The Wave Of Colour

Kia ora, everybody. 

Today we would usually go to tech, but because school's are in lock down I have had to do technology from home. For technology we had to look at videos and gather as much information as we could about physical changes and chemical changes. An example of a physical change is if you put a mentos inside a coke bottle it will fizz and create carbon dioxide but it is a physical change because the carbon dioxide was already in their so their was no substance. A chemical change is when you mix things together and it creates a substance like if you mix a gummy bear and hydroxide together it would create a gas which would be a substance. So when learning about these I had to pick an experiment to do and I chose the colourful milk one. I think this experiment was a physical change because there was no substance created.

please enjoy my video.

Drastic Llama

WALT in class we decided to use different type's of materials for art. Materials we used were paint pastel dye and pencil. We made Llamas for art you could either put a party hat on them or a crown or a flower crown. I had a lot of fun making mine. Lots of my friends Llamas looked amazing and my teacher even made one herself. When we finished we had to right a story about our Llama I enjoyed writing mine and loved telling the tale of my Llama here is my story and my Llama, just warning you she is a little drastic my Llama.


Llama Drama Scrap scrap scratch scratch. I started to hear the noisy children and the sound of Mrs Lee eating her lollies, I started to see the face of my creator with her dazzling freckles and shiny hazel eyes. I started to smell the fart that came from Ella. finally I was alive and free. Then my creator put a hat on my head, I wanted to tell her that she was covering my long red hair and my fantastic looks but I couldn’t seem to. After a while she had finished sketching me and put me under a pile of other Llamas and I was sadly stuck behind Mr Frown. The next day my creator paid no attention to me and forgot all about me. Suddenly this small lady with brown hair took her by the arm and they went away. I was worried, what if something was going to happen to my creator and what would happen to me. I fainted in horror and woke up behind Silly Samantha. I was going to break free and find my creator but people were still around so I had to make my move later on and do it fast. When all the other Llamas creators left I was about to move, when Mrs Lee the lollie eating lady came back in the door and I had to stay very still. Suddenly she burst out of the room and ran down the hallway. What's her problem I thought. I started to make my move and slid off the chair and onto the hard ground, I did a roly poly to the little blue table and hid behind the bar in case anybody came, next I soared through to the front door leading to the dangerous outdoors. I slowly slipped under the door and stood outside I was on a mission, then through my xray vision I spotted my creator dun da dunnn. Outside I saw that she had a big grin on her face and she looked happy to be going away with that stranger after all. I had wasted all my time worrying about her for nothing. I then saw all the other Llamas asleep and went back inside to join them. The next two days were quiet and then a day later my creator came back and picked me up. Oh how I was filled with joy. But she paid no attention to me and focused all on the background. She put swirls and curls and everything you could think of. Then she went and did exhilarating work, (how much fun I thought to myself). A while later she put on this big rag, it was disgusting. Then she put me down on old wrinkled and crinkled newspaper. She started putting watery colorful paint around me and she got some of it in my fur. How disgraceful I thought. The next day My creator didn’t come and see me till the afternoon and she didn’t even say hi to me when she walked past, how rude. Next she put on a dark blue dirty rag and put me down on a table (finally some attention I thought). she started mixing black and white into me I was horrified once she had finished rubbing the hard brush over me she put me on a table to dry. the next day my creator picked me up and put me on a table and started to type she typed and typed and typed. I won't go on because my tale ends here but now that i have been used I am not scared.

I hope you like my Llama and enjoy my piece of writing.
have you done something like this in class before?
what materials did you use in art?

Limerick poems

W.A.L.T in class we have been learning about the Irish culture. We had to do a hobbie that the Irish people would do. So me and my buddy's made a slide show on how to write a Limerick poem.

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