Sunday 17 September 2017

The art of collage.

We have been exploring the art of paper collage, an art technique that is created by using different pieces of paper that are assembled to create a mural. Using the story of How Maui Slowed the Sun we will work together to create a collage of Te Ra (the sun).

The blank canvas that helped to set the background for our mural.

We worked together to prepare the paper for our collage.
Some children painted while others had to tear the paper into
small pieces which is part of the collage process.
Next some children began to lightly spread some glue onto the torn pieces
of paper and began to place them in their desired places.

Finally we completed our collage mural which now sits magnificently above us all so we can be reminded of how we worked together to create our spectacular interpretation of the character Te Ra from the tale of Maui.


Thursday 14 September 2017

The Great Maori Warrior, Maui!



In term 2 we were so inspired by our Matariki learning journey and the traditional stories that motivated and inspired our wonderings that we chose to use this opportunity through our writing in term three to explore another traditional legend and story about the great Maori warrior, Maui. 


After reading the tale of How Maui slowed the sun we used this to practice writing a description of our favourite character in the story. We decided to write a description of Te Ra or Maui. Over the next few days we talked and wrote about his characteristics from what he looks like on the outside to his characteristics on the inside.


Here are some of our descriptions of Maui.



Some children chose to write a description of Te ra. Enjoy!