Welcome back to my blog.
For a couple of weeks we have been learning about Matariki and today we have been learning about the southern lights. The southern lights are lights that light up the sky. There are southern and northern lights, The southern lights are near the south pole and the northern lights are near the north pole. There are many myths about the mysterious lights and how they are made. The sun gets so hot that little bits of the sun brake off and come towards the earth at a fast speed because the earth is in line with the sun. The earth is protected because it has a magnetic field that surrounds the earth. So when the sun bits come towards the earth and hits the earth most of the bits are deflected but some of the bits make it through the atmosphere and makes the bright lights. The colors can be green,purple, pink and sometimes blue.
After learning about the lights we got to make some art that is based on the lights. First we had to rip a piece of paper to make a mountain range. Then we got some black paper and taped our moutain range to the black piece of paper. Then we got a paint brush and white paint and flicked the white paint onto our paper to make stars. Once we had our stars we had to wait for the paint to dry. Then we got some pastles and drew on the moutains. Then we smudged the pastles up to the top of the page to make the lights on top of the mountains.
Here it is:
