Friday 20 November 2020
Manu Tukutuku
As part of learning about Energy we looked to harness the wind using Manu Tukutuku (kites). We created out kites overseveral weeks using toe toe flower stalks. We were going to skin the kites with raupo but were unable to find any. The first time the lake where raupo grows was too low and and the next time the water level was too high. We solved the problem by using toetoe to skin the kite as well. Unfortunately this made the kite to heavy to launch successfully, so we decided to decorate the kites with feathers and shells and decorate our walls.
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Ruma Piwakawaka these all look fantastic!!! Well done. Kelly (Renny's Mum)
ReplyDeleteKia ora Ruma Piwakawaka. We liked the designs of your manu tukutuku. This reminded us of when we celebrated Matariki by running around with our kites. What do you think you could use the cover the kites so that they could still be balanced and fly? From Kea team @ Wesley Primary.
ReplyDeleteHi there my name is Asi Fififta from Wesley primary school and I am a year 6 in the kea team.I really liked how you wrote and explain about what have done and what you did. Maybe next time you can write about how you did it
ReplyDeleteand what you used.
thank you so much for the suggestions you gave on improving our blog post Asi. It is always helpful to our learning because we assume our audience has had the same experience as ourselves. WE followed a You Tube video on kite making. We used toetoe stalks for the frames and skin of the kite. We decorated the kites with shells and feathers.
DeletePiwakawaka
Ka pai! These kites look amazing, Nice hard work. What resources did you use for the kite? Great work guys.
ReplyDeleteHi Belinda
DeleteWe made our kites from toe toe. We were suppose to use raupo for the kite skin. Unfortunately it was a bit hard to get when we went to harvest it. We liked that we used all natural materials. One of the trickiest things to do was the skinning. It was hard getting the lashing tight so the toetoe stalks did not move.
Piwakawaka
Kia ora Piwakawaka,
ReplyDeletewe are Room 3 at Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School in Gisborne.
We are your blogging buddies for 2021.
Your kites look beautiful and creative. We like that they are plastic-free!
Some of us have made kits like this last year. Some of them flew and some of them didn't.
We hope you will visit our blog and read about our learning soon.
from Room 3
Hi Room 3, we are looking forward to being blogging buddies this year, and look forward to reading your blog.
DeleteOne of our past teachers came from Gisborne so it feels like there is a connection already.
Nga mihi
Mrs H and Piwakawaka