Day 4

DAY 4: Like a Scene Out of a Movie

Activity 1: The Southern Lights

Once in a while a very special event takes place in New Zealand. It is a show of beautiful, bright lights that appear in the sky over the South Island. The lights are called the ‘Aurora Australis’ or ‘Southern Lights.’ They are similar to the ‘Northern Lights’ that are often seen in places like Northern Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The southern and northern lights are so stunning that they often leave people, who are watching them, speechless.

For this activity, you are to write a short acrostic word poem about the beautiful lights. Hazel has written an acrostic poem about summer to give you an example.

For more information and examples of acrostic poems, check out this poetry website.

S - Sun outside,

U - Umbrellas in the sand.

M -  My friends and I, having fun,

M - Making sandcastles,

E - Enjoying ice cream on a hot day,

R - Racing to the beach!

L- Lightning Light, in your eyes

I - Incredible, Lights shingin up and down

G - Giving my friends, a look at the nice veiw

H - Humunges, colours going past

T - Terible, Lights blasting

S - smooth shiney, wind blowing

Activity 2: The Seven Sisters

In the middle of winter, a very special cluster (group) of stars appear in the sky over New Zealand. This cluster is called the ‘Matariki star cluster.’ It re-appears in the sky each May/June and signals the start of the Māori New Year. Many songs (waiata) and stories have been written about the cluster. One of these is called ‘The Seven Stars of Matariki.’ It was written by a New Zealander named Toni Rolleston-Cummins. She is from Maketu. Click here to listen to Toni read her story.

In the dark night sky their were 7 stars up in the night sky. Those stars were the most special star in Maori culture. Those 7 stars represented matariki and that is why we celebrate matariki. Those 7 stars are all women their names are, Waiti, Waita, Waipuna rangi, Tupu-A-Nuku, Tupu-A-Rangi, Ururangi, and last but not lest Matariki. The name of those 7 stars were called the 7 stars of matariki. Matariki is the mother of the six stars she is the seventh star and the mother of the other star up in the sky. All of the sister love to plat their Hair they like playing with it they enjoy having fun with peace and quite in them. And this now about the 7 stars of matariki I hope you enjoy...

Activity 3: Crazy, Cool Clouds

Have you ever looked up into the sky and seen a cloud that had a really cool shape? I certainly have, and so have dozens of other people. Take a look at the three pictures of crazy, cool cloud formations below.From left to right: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3

Clouds are formed when small drops of water stick together. To learn more about clouds and how they are formed, you can watch this cool video. Once you have learned about clouds, please choose your favourite cloud picture.

The shapes
In this picture I see a circle shaped tornaito that is kind of shaped like a bolw shape



What is this Tornato:
This is a really REALLY big tornato that it is so big some people could die from it. it could break your own house down into shread whit this type of tornato you could get really really hurt and that is reall good