Room 16's Stopmotion

 This week, we have been learning about stop-motion animation.

Our task was to tell a simple story using the stop-motion app on our Ipads. To make a stop-motion animation, you have to move an object a little bit then take a photo. Keep moving the object and taking photos until your story is finished. 

We learnt that:

1. If you move the object too far each time it doesn't look natural. You need to move it a little bit for each picture.

2. Do not move or hold the Ipad. It must be still at all times!

3. Make sure there are no people in your background.

4. Before taking each picture, make sure the camera is focused otherwise it is blurry. 

5. You can animate anything, but when you are learning, keep it simple. Only have a couple objects that move. 

Here are some pictures of us making our stop-motion, Whaea Dana will post our animation when she has downloaded them all. 

 

Kupe's Travels

This term, we have been learning about Kupe and his voyage to New Zealand.

We created a Google map that shows where Kupe traveled.

Here are some things that we learned.

1. Kupe was a great chief from Hawaiiki.

2. Kupe followed Te Wheke o Muturangi to New Zealand. He killed him because he was eating all the fish in his village.

3. His wife saw the long white cloud and named our land Aotearoa.

4. He came in from the east coast and first landed in Wellington Harbour.

5. When he came back from killing Te Wheke, he found his daughters had slashed their chests and the blood stained the rocks. These are named The Red Rocks or Pariwhero. 

6. He named the two islands in the Wellington Harbour after his daughters. Matiu and Mākaro.

7. He went to Sinclair Head to gather seafood and collected seaweed to make storage bags for the kai.

8. He travelled around the South Island where he found pounamu as he explored up a river.

9. He started travelling around the North Island and went into the Whanganui River to find people. His servant drowned when he tried to cross the river to collect wild cabbage.

10. He planted karaka seeds at Patea.

11. His family travelled all the way up to the Hokianga where they decided to settle for a while because there was plenty of kai available. 

12. While in the Hokianga, he sacrificed his baby son which turned into a taniwha. He also cursed the place Kohukohu because his hangi didn't work. He left his taniwha Arai-te-Uru and Niniwa to guard the entrance to the Hokianga.

13. Finally, he went back to Hawaiiki. He passed on all his knowledge and his waka to his grandson Nukutawhiti. He brought heaps of people over to New Zealand and this was the start of the great migration. 

Here is our map of Kupe's journey.

https://www.google.co.nz/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1H-g_5oo79Cvn5laMyIfsVaplF_DDzzJ-&usp=sharing