Kia ora, I am a student at Mairehau High School, Welcome - Haere Mai. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note my work may include spelling or other errors because some of it will be my first drafts. I would like to get your feedback - comments, thoughts, questions and ideas to help me Learn Create Share.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Fab 4 Literacy Skills
Monday, August 17, 2020
Artist Street Art
Friday, August 14, 2020
Scratch, Making a Pepeha
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Global warming - 52 word challenge
Global warming has been gradually increasing since the seventeen sixties, every year it is increasing' it is going to have a massive impact on the world when each year it is affecting the wildlife and the habitats of natural animals, low lying areas will be flooded and will leave many people homeless.
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Aggressive magpies - 51 word challenge
Monday, August 3, 2020
Street Art
Street Art
Predict the meaning for the following words and write it in the first box. It can help to break the word up, do you recognise bits of the word that can act as a clue? Have a guess!
Then google search the word and write the dictionary definition in the box on the right to clarify the vocabulary.
Word- | My prediction- | Dictionary definition- |
Gallery | Art in a building | a room or building for the display or sale of works of art. |
Mural | Painting on walls or building | a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall. |
Grafiti | Spray painted words that that don’t make sense to me | writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. |
Theme | A topic based off of a particular theme? | the subject of a talk, piece of writing, exhibition, etc.; a topic. |
Commission | When someone pays someone money to draw you something | an order for something, especially a work of art, to be produced specially. |
Illegal | Not allowed/copyright | contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law. |
Expression | Facial expression? | the conveying of feeling in a work of art or in the performance of a piece of music. |
Gesture | Hand movement’s signifying a expression | a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning. |
Contrasting | Blending two colors that go well together | compare in such a way as to emphasize differences. |
Mythology | Myth | a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition. |
Native | Something that's relevant to our country | a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not. |
Location | The place where you are | a particular place or position. |
Significant | Something your recognizing | sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy. |