Maori

Hi, today at Maori we talked about pounamu green stones, the first stone Mr. Matthew talked about was the one he was wearing outside his long sleeve, It was like an beek and when you turn it around it also looks the same and the one he was wearing inside was like a teardrop and has a spiral sign and he said you only get it from University of Canterbury. He showed us more stones others is like a big fish hook and he also talked about people before they make a knife, axe and more weapons.

Freak's Dictionary

Last week we were asked to do a blog post about our novel study. So today my blog post is about Freak's Dictionary were were asked to pick 10 words from the book and make your own sentence about it.

Freak's Dictionary 

JILLION - I have jillion's of pen at home.

NANOSECOND - The light caught in 1 nanosecond.

AARDVARK - An aardvark is similar to armadillos.

ARMOUR - A suit worn by khights.

ECALIBUR - A powerful with magic power. 

CAMOUFLAGE - Lots of insect blends into the place they go.

FOOZLE - To make a stupid mistake.

SEPTILLION - The bank has septillions of cash.

LANCELOT - King Arthur's bravest knight.

EDIFICATION - Education that tastes good.

Environmental Issue

Kumusta, Today I will be doing a blog post about Environmental issue. all of us were asked to make a game or a story or do it with sphero. Lot of us used Gamefroot because it fun making games and some were on on the sphero's. I choose Environmental issue because I don't want to see the environment die so I made a game so we can stop this from happening. I think this is the worst issue because a lot of people can be affected.

War horse

Kumusta, Today I finished my novel study war horse, we've been doing this since last term but I didn't finish it and now I finally finished it It was very very cool book It's a man and a horse show the truest friendship.

Orana Park

Kumusta readers,

This I will be talking about what we did on Orana Wildlife Park. We stayed at the learning commons until 10am. When the bus arrived the first group went to the bus first then the second group went, other were in the van because we can't fit all in the bus.

When we arrived at the Orana Park we met the two zoo keepers that are guiding us I think one was Elizabeth and I'm not sure about the other one but anyway after we met them we walk past the Meerkat they were cool they had grey colour and they are small but beautiful species. After that we separated into our two groups our group went to the reptile room Elizabeth told us about the reptiles that were there after that we went to the spider monkeys but suddenly they were inside there enclosure because of the wind, we walked past there enclosure then peoples started taking photos. Then the next animal we stop is the lion we saw there habitat but there were not outside because of the wind too, when we went to there cage we saw the older one stand up he was big like a horse but 2x bitter than horse we also heard them roar there not loud but it is still cool. At the last part we fended the giraffes. 

Community Circles

The last few week's we've been doing community circles, we put the chairs in a big circle then we share something or making a goal like hangout with my friends, making someone happy or helping them when they don't know what to do. Also Rachel talked about the zones of regulation. In this slide that Joshua and I made we included how it works, the rules and we included the zones that we need to be in all the time.

P.E Hurumanu

Today I will be making a new blog post about our new hurumanu. In the past few days we started our hurumanu P.E First thing we did was Fitness testing.

Why do we do fitness? We do fitness to keep our body healthy and keep us fit. Also if you are so good you could join athlete. Also to measure your ability's like how good you are.

What were your result? I think I really really done a great job and I will practice more and more to keep improving also I will promise myself that The next fitness testing that I will make changes.

Vertical Jump
    M1:2.2

     M2: 2.7

Sit and Reach:26

Sit Ups: 14

Grip Test: 15

Beep Test: Lv.8.4

What is one area you fell you need to improve? I think I will work on the beep test because I was jogging then the thing beeped but i think I really really did a good job and next time I will not be jogging and I will take it seriously.

I successfully work with other by helping them record and count there records.

My actions and feelings work well and I think same as the others in my group.

I help someone to record his sit ups because the others people in my team was doing something.

My Learning Conference

This is my slide I'll be presenting to my parent's.It's like a goal this is the slide the you're really really proud of to share in learning conference.

Tane Mahuta

Today I am going to do a new blog post about our new C.I.P it is called Tane mahuta. Tane mahuta is a planting program. we had been doing it for bout 4 weeks now and now we've done cleaning inside the left side of the classroom. Also we done putting soil on the gardening side. I didn't know much what they did because I was on gym sport.

On gym sports we played a game like rugby but I didn't actually know what it is called. It was fun the rules was easy you have to get the ball from their side then you need to run as fast as you can without getting tagged just like capture the flag.

Stop Motion

In the past few weeks we started our stop motion film and today we finally finished it. It is really really fun being in this terms hurumanu. I enjoyed a lot, making characters and painting. My favourite part in this hurumanu is making the characters, it was so fun and also I really really like art because I like drawing. The most difficult is being with people in the other class and sometimes they don't do work they are just playing around being silly so we got behind. Anyway I'm still happy that we done the film even though it doesn't have sound it still looks cool!!

Climate Change

Investigation

You can decide on how you would like to do this investigation. Your presentation could be on the blog, slides, or Power point.

Write a definition, upload an image and list where these fossil fuels are mined.

1. Coal- Coal is a hard rock which can be burned as a solid fossil fuel. It's mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements; chiefly hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.

Also China Is the country that has 70% coal production.

2. Oil- A vicious liquid from petroleum for use as a fuel or lubricant.

Also

3. Natural Gas- Natural gas is found in deep underground rock.

Write a paragraph and upload an image about each of these renewable energy.

Solar - Solar power/panel a gadget that get electricity from the sun. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam.

Wind - A windmill is a structure that converts the energy of wind into. It spins windmills usually were used to mill grain, pump water, or both there is also one that convert energy.

Waves -  Wave power is is the capture of energy of wind  to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water.

Hydro - Hydro power or hydroelectricity refers to the conversion of energy from flowing water into electricity. It is considered a renewable energy source because the water cycle is constantly renewed by the sun.

Write a 6 sentence reflection about what you have learnt about Climate Change and how it is going to affect us.  

  have learnt that there's lots of changes happening to the world and how it's affecting our world. I have seen that some animals will die to the cause of this climate change like Bats and some animals that can't live without cold weather. I have also learnt that if the ice melts in countries like Antarctica and Arctic, the ice would melt into water and will straightly go to the ocean and will cause sea levels to rise up which might cause to cover some of our land. Climate change also cause storms which will destroy some of our city's.

Hurumanu Art

Hello readers, today I will be telling you everything we did in our Hurumanu art. We had been doing our clay characters and we also did some writing about our story. Today we were doing doing clay and we needed to get it one by the end of the period because next week we will be doing the stop motion.

Ashton was working on the painting while Me, Zack, Vin were working on the clay, we made 3 characters. This is the photo we did.

Music Descriptive Writing

LO: Create a piece of writing that describes a place or setting inspired by your song.

A room surrounded by magical brass instruments, my mind starts to erupt with a never-ending ideas that are coming out in my mind. The instrument sounded like a bird chirping in the tree, the beat of drums were relaxing like a person eating a ice cream in a hot sunny day. The melody blended together like a shiny stars and dark sky and the piano sounded like a hail and rain coming out in the dark clouds and hitting the roof like a sweet beat of drums.

Ki o Rahi

Ki o Rahi

What are the rules/how to play?  Played for 4 quarters or 2 halves of a set time, teams alternate roles of Kīoma and Taniwha at half or quarter time. Kīoma score by touching Pou/s with the Kī (for potential points) then running the Kī through Te Roto and placing it down in Pawero to convert pou touches into points.

What equipment do you need?  

• Ki
• Tupu
• Pou

Team Names: Kioma-The team that scores touchdowns

Taniwha-The team that scores by hitting tupu with the ball.

Maps:

Pawero-Outer circle

Te Roto-Outer Circle

Te Ao-Playing area

Te Ara-Pathway