Hello readers,
Today's blog post will be about the southern lights and the Matariki
In Toroa we have been learning about the southern lights and the Matariki.
Today we all did an art piece that represents the Matariki and the southern lights - before that we all had to work on creating a book, animation, puppet show of facts about the Matariki, and how and where to find them.
I decided to use a book creator to explain the Matariki, my book explains:
The story of the Matariki
Ways to celebrate the Matariki with your family
Matariki star facts
A drawing of the Matariki (drawn by me!)
And a special surprise at the end...hehe
Below is a link to my book so you can read it for yourself!:
Click here to see my book about the Matariki!
The southern lights/the Aurora
Hello readers - again…
The second part of this blog post is going to be about the southern lights/the Aurora
I have learned/found some interesting facts about the southern lights/the aurora:
In the southern hemisphere, the southern lights are also known as aurora australis.
Most southern light shows occur during the southern hemisphere fall and winter months, which go from March through to September.
The Cree called them the ‘Dance of the Spirits’
In Finland, they said the lights were caused by the firefox running so quickly the snow that his tail sent sparks into the sky
Ancient Chinese observers believed that the Southern lights/the Aurora were the flames of good and evil dragons battling in the heavens
Even today, these mysterious and unpredictable lights are called ‘Arura after the Roman goddess of the dawn.
An aurora, also know as a polar light, is a display of lights in the sky in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, in an area known as the auroral zone. An aurora around the north pole is called ‘Aurora Borealis’ or the northern lights
The southern lights last anywhere from 10 minutes to all night long, depending on the magnitude of the incoming solar wind.
Today in Toroa we created an art piece of the southern lights/the aurora - Down below is a photo of my creation:
The steps on how to make this are quite easy!
If you want to make your own follow these instructions:
1. Hold your plain A4 paper landscape and rip a mountain-like shape across it. This will be used to mask off the hills - Mask this onto the bottom of your black piece of paper.
2. Then dip your toothbrush into some of the white acrylic paint, then run your fingers through the bristles of the toothbrush to flick paint over your black piece of paper. This will create the background stars.
3. While the stars are drying, use your ripped card and color the top ripped edge of it in with your different colored pastels. Make sure you change the color every few centimeters.
4. When the paint is dry, place the chalked paper onto your black paper. Now run your finger through the chalk upwards towards the stars. This should smudge the colored chalk from the plain paper onto your picture.
5. Mix a small amount of yellow and white together. Make sure you use more white than yellow, you want it to only have a tint of yellow in it. Using your toothpick or the end of a paintbrush dot in the Matariki constellation.
6. Remove the paper from the black paper and walla!
Your finishing touch should look something like this:
Hope you have a great school holidays bloggers! - what are you doing these holidays??
Bai for now!
