Rāwhiti By The Sea: Matariki

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Makey Makey Interactive Matariki Artworks...

A group of students at Rāwhiti School used the 5 senses to inspire their Matariki Interactive Artworks.

We used Scratch to programme the left, right, up, down and space bar of the Makey Makey. Check out the slide deck below!

Matariki Keyrings & Bag tags...

This week I worked with a group of Year 4 to 6 students from Ata Hāpara. Their 50 minute challenge was to design and create a keyring or bag tag inspired by Matariki.

They'd had a few sessions prior exploring Tinkercad. They worked their way through some of the tutorials and learn some basic skills, for example, placing objects and resizing objects.

I created a classroom Tinkercad account and this was really useful expecially when it came to exporting student .stl files from Tinkercad. I used Simplify 3D to prepare the file to print on our Prusa 3D printer.

This was the first time I've put the Prusa through it's paces and it preformed quite well. If there were any issues it was due to the actual design in Tinkercad, for example it wasn't quite flat (0.00) on the workplane.

I'm looking forward to taking more groups for 3D printing...

Making our Artworks for Matariki....

We read a story called Celebrating Matariki. Tania then told us we had to do a draft picture about Matariki. Then we used black creative paint to go around the pencil marks. We had to let it dry.

The next day we dyed inside the creative paint. My picture is about the person trying to get the fish out of the sea and then they turn into the seven bright stars.

View our slideshow to see our finished artworks....

Our Trip to New Brighton Library....

On Tuesday 9th June the class went to the New Brighton Library. We learnt about Matariki. There are over 500 stars in a cluster and there's also 7 bright stars.
We made a poster about celebrating Matariki. People have food, kai. Matariki is about celebrating the New Year.
Learn more about Matariki at the Wicked website Matariki.