Making Kawakawa Balm - Part 2

Did you read the first stage of us making Kawakawa balm? It's here.

Our kawakawa oil has had time to infuse so this week we finished making the balm. 

We poured 1 1/4 cups of kawakawa oil into a pot and melted 1/4 cup of beeswax into it. Then we tipped it from the pot into a jug to make it easier to pour into our jars. All we had to do next was screw the lids on. We have each taken a jar home and are selling the rest to pay for the jars, beeswax and oil.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

As part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori we made a Scratch Jnr project on our iPad.

We inserted 2 characters and used the microphone to add speech so they could greet each other. 

Then we added another scene and added ourselves as a character. 
We used the camera to put our face into the character.

Here are some of our movies of our projects.
What else do you think our characters could do and say?

Here is Flynn's mahi

Here is Orlando's mahi

Here is Fenn's mahi

Beeswax Wraps

 Our class made Beeswax wraps. We brought a piece of cotton material to school. The wax was melted so we could spread it over the material with brushes.

We used iMovie on our iPads to make a movie about making the wrappers. You can watch them below.

Do you know what beeswax wrappers are used for? 

We made ours so we could wrap our lunch up in it and not use plastic. 

What else do you think they could be used for?

Here is Grace's movie

Here is Rylee's movie

Speeches

We have been busy writing our speeches and next week we will be presenting them to the class. Our topic is NZ wildlife. We could choose any creature we liked. We started with our pepeha then a hook to grab the audiences attention and then wrote facts. We have ended with an "I" statement e.g "I think tūī are beautiful birds because their feathers shimmer in the sunlight.

Have you ever said a speech? Do you have any tips for us when we say them in front of others?