Ernest Rutherford poster

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This term for literacy we are doing science, for this task we had to pick a scientist to research. I chose Ernest Rutherford who created the map of the atom and was born in New Zealand, We had to do a task before the poster to find out about the person that we picked.

Pattern problems

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To start the term we did pattern problems in maths, For our pattern problems, they were quite easy once you learned how to do it.  On my slide, I have shown how to work out a pattern problem using an animation form.

Aurora lights art

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In Maori, we have been looking at Matariki and the southern lights/ aurora's, today we started art about the lights.

The name Aurora comes from the Latin word that means sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn. An Aurora is a natural light that appears in the sky, usually, the color is green but can sometimes be either blue or red. The natural light usually occurs in the 'aurora zone' near the arctic poles, the north, and the south.

Aurora is made by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within the atmosphere. Auroras are made with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and have plasma particles in it that gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

As they accelerate towards the Earth, they occur between these ion parts and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, giving energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

For our piece of art, we had to grab a black piece of paper and rip it into a mountain-like shape. After that, we had to get a paintbrush and splatter paint on it to make the stars, then after it drys we get chalk pastels and put it on the white paper that we stuck to our black paper. Once it was on the white paper we used our finger to brush it up. Finally, we had to add the 7 Matariki stars. Here is my art piece: