Hero's and Villains Narrative writing

 In Hur 4 we have been doing writing on Hero's and Villains. We did the Narrative writing in buddies so when we finish we can buddie check the other person's writing. My buddie is Dyaln. I haven't really finished my story I just need to go over it more and edit some stuff but here is my writing still. You can't Embed a Doc so here's the link. I have a lot of writing. More than most of the people in the class. I started losing ideas near the end and middle.

Coastal Wovles

 In Hur 2 we have been researching stuff about coastal wolves. We could do this in buddys or by are selfs. I did it with a friend. The video we first watched was about a photographer who takes pictures of many different thing likes animals and amazing sites. He talked about how the wolves fur doesn't have and value and they are really skinny because all they mainly eat sea food like fish and other things like that. They aren't like timber wolves. Hunters just kill them to get the feeling to pull the trigger. Heres a slide show we did on coastal wolves. This might explain more.

Mars Comunication

 In Hur 3 Mission to mars we have been learning about what type of comunication we could use to talk to the people on mars but everyone knows that there aren't people on mars yet. We were in groups. We chose a type of long range comunication back in the day. We chose semaphore. Semaphore is where you have two flags in your hands and you move them into positions to make letters and numbers. So if I kept my left hand on my lap and my right arm on a 90º then that letter would be the letter B. Theres movements for all the letters in the alpahbet. Theres even one for a space. Now I'll be talking about the Method and some other things about it.

Method:

Step one: Get two different types of square paper. (Two of each type of paper)

Step two: Cut the paper on a diagonal

Step three: Tape the long sides together so it makes another square. (Tape two different pecies together)

Step four: Tape or glue a small pole or stick to one of the side on the newly made square of paper. You now have a flag.

Results: We didn't end up doing it for reasons.

Evaluation: We could have actually do the activity.

Someone doing Semaphore

Inclusiveness

In wanaga we have been doing a slide all about Judgement and Inclusiveness. After we answered some questions in a group. Now we have to answer some questions on our blog that were at the end of the slide.

Blog about a change in your judgement or thoughts that you may have had about someone different to yourself. 

How has this made you feel?

It made me feel really weird.

How have your thoughts changed during this lesson on inclusion?

They have changed more than anything else.

How will you respond now in situations if were faced with them again?

I'll probably just remember what I did in this class.

Nz Gold Rush

In Hur 1 we have been learning about Gold Rush. Gold Rush is were tones of places started digging for Gold because it was a rare metal and it could be sold for thousands if you had a lot. It was used in Jewellery because it was a malleable metal what means it was able to be melted down and turned into different shapes. We read something about Gold Rush and then we had to answer some questions about it. 

Why is gold valuable? 

Gold is valuable because it's rare and it's used in nearly every Jewellery. 

 Write a sentence containing the words 'flecks,' 'quartz' and 'vein' to say where gold is found. 

Flecks of Gold can be found in quartz veins in some hard rocks. 

 Where would you find Alluvial Gold? 

At the bottom of rivers you can sift them out of the other gravel and small stones. 

 Copy a quote that any gold miner would tell you if you asked, Where is gold found?" "

Where it be, There it be." 

 List 6 regions where gold is found in NZ (Begin each one with a Capital/Uppercase letter). 

1: Otago 2: West Coast 

3: Golden Bay 4: South Island 5

: Coromandel peninaula 6: Marlborugh

Name the first European to discover gold in Aotearoa.

Charles Ring

Where was he from? Tasman.

Where did he find gold? Driving creek near the town of Coromandel.

When did he find gold? 1852

State how much gold has been found in NZ up to 2003.

1. 312 tonnes from the Coromandel Peninsula.

2. 274 tonnes from the West Coast.

3. 265 tonnes from Otago

Gold rushes in the following regions started on which date?

1. 1860   2. 1960    3. 1980

Parihaka

For the past weeks most of us having been working on Dlo's about Parihaka. Some of us did an animation like me and we could also do it in buddy's like me. Here's our animation. 

Mean, Median, Mode, Range

In Maths we are making a Dlo about how to figure out what the Mean, Median, Mode and Range of a set of numbers. I made a slide about all of them and then I gave an example. Then I made a video about it whats just me flicking through the slide but I'm not gonna put it in this blog post I'm just gonna put slide show on this blog post. Here's the slide show. 

Making water

I Hur 3 Science we tried making water by burning hydrogen. We had a one small test tube one bigger one to go upside down over the smaller one. We also had a plastic beaker to put the tubes in. First we put a piece of Magnesium in the small one and then we did a decent amount of Hydrochloride acid to melt the metal so the Hydrogen came out. Once you put the acid in the quickly put the bigger tube upside down over it. After a minute or two we took it off and kept it upside down so the Hydrogen didn't escape. We were in groups so each of us did this we moved the bigger tube still upside down and put the tip of the tub in the flame of the burner. Here's what we had to do after.

Six Photographs

In Hur 1 we have been learning about history. We have been reading a book called Six Photographs. It's a pretty nice story.  We did some things about the story. The story was made by Dylan Owen. There was a board of stuff we had to do. There was the book and a rap. There was also another thing about history on kids news. I don't want you guys to read too much so here's the doc with all the questions and stuff we had to answer.

Learning story Poetic arts

So it's getting to the end of the term and we had to do some stuff about what we learnt and what we did in a learning story. In the learning story you had to do three things about what we did, what you learnt, what part was your favourite and what is your next steps. Also you had to write how you committed, What you achieved, what you did to keep on going what is resilience and how you respected people. I won't talk anymore so here is my learning story. Our teachers were Miss Birch, Mr Scott, Mrs Hastie, Raewyn Davis and Miss B. Here's the pictures. The name of the stories are The creation of tuna and the Taniwha and the Rakai Gorge. If you what me to know anything or if I need to change anything please tell me in the comments.

Last period of arts kete

Today is the last day period of arts kete before we show off our art. Then we went onto a slide and made our own one or get one what was made and write down our Haiku poem and our diamante poem. Our teacher would print them out and give them to us. After that we had to get our art and get two pieces of paper that should be stapled together. Then we would glue the art down. After you would cut out the poems and a name that should be basically big. The poems font size should also be sort of big. Then we stuck the poems and the name down onto the black paper. The part of my Art display I am most proud of is maybe the collage because I really liked how I made it. Something that challenged me in this Art/Writing Hurumanu was maybe the weaving. My favourite style of poetry to write was the diamante poem because when I was in primary I did it but I never did it since. The stuff that's on my piece of paper is my tapa cloth, collage, weaving and my poems. Here is my piece of paper with my work on it.

Freeze Frame Bok choy

In Hur 2 the drama part we have been learning about freeze frames. A freeze frame is where you go into a position and have an expression and freeze. The only things your allowed to do is breath and blink. A freeze frame is something to show a story in a different way. Before people are allowed to look you have three seconds to get into position. We had to get some freeze frames about the story Bok Choy. We had to do six points in the story. Here are six points of the story.
1. Jacob helps his mum stack some wood when Ah Sum comes around with some Chinese fruits.
2. Williams mum and her son William have an argument and so Jacob runs away to go fishing. Just then Jacobs falls in the river and goes down stream. He try's to stand. He sees some rocks and smashes into them.
3. Jacob forces his eyes open to find himself in a house like thing. He goes to sit up and Ah Lum makes him lay down again and says, "Sleep, Sleep."
4. His mum comes to Ah Lums house and says, "What happened?!" and takes him home.
5. On the way home through the Chinese village and some Chinese men start nodding their head outside of their hut.
6. Williams mum talks to Jacobs mum and after the talk Williams mum says, "I hope your not cooking the Chinese stuff." "It's called Bok choy!!" and takes Jacob inside of the cottage.

Diamante Poem

In Hur 4 we have been learning about different types of poems. The one we have been learning about is a diamante poem. Diamante poems are were you get the name of someone or something and you put that word at the top. The next line you put two adjectives about that thing/person. The next line is three words and the words are going to be a verb. Then the next line is what that thing/person does. Before you do anything else you put for the last line something that's bad or the opposite of the first word/thing. Then go back to the other line and write three verbs. The last line is very obvious what you do. You write two objectives. We had to do one but about a story we read. Here's my diamante poem. The story was the Taniwha in the Rakaia gorge.

Taniwha

Clever, brave

Hard working, helping, splashing

Cleans the water for everyone to use

Blowing, whistling, howling

Rude, mean

Nor west wind/Te Maru

Tapa cloth. Tuna i te Rangi

In Hur 4 what is poetic arts we have been making Tapa cloth. Tapa cloth is where you soak and beat bark and spread it out to make a cloth like material. Then you put some patterns on it. It's a pretty fun thing to do. We made a draft and made a good copy after that. Then we had to make a haiku about our Tapa cloth. The things we drew was some stuff about the story we read and some of the stuff in the story. The story is called the creation of tuna. It's an awesome story. There was the one from the book and the one from a video. More about the Tapa cloths is that there are dozens of different cultures that do it. Now even more about the creation of tuna is that tuna in English is eel. Tuna came down from his dry heavens and immediately swam into a lake what was named Muriwai o whata. His name was Tuna i te Rangi. He lived there for many years. He swam under someones legs and got stuck in a trap. He got taken and cut up into four pieces. They all got thrown into different places. The head turned into the Conger eel, the tail turned into the blind eel and the lamprey eel and the other body parts turned into the fresh water eel. That's all and here's my haiku and my Tapa cloth. In it is eels, a sun, hinaki in a river, A river, a tree and a pa/marae. If you see any mistakes that don't make sense or any lines please tell me.

A flowing brown tree
Fast and hard to walk across
Awaiting a fish.

The bullet

Today in Hur 2 we had to read a book of our choice and then answer some questions about it. That's what this blog post is about. There are six questions. Also the two main characters are Rodney and Charmaine. Here are all the questions from one to six in a row.

Do you think Rodney cares who or what the bullet was meant for? Why do you think that?
I don't think Rodney cares at all who the bullet was meant for and he thought it was really cool because he said to his sister said, "It may be dangerous!" But Rodney thought she was just being jealous.

What clues can you find in the text that will help you to understand why the boy might be with the police? Cause hes been dealing stuff he shouldn't have been. He was also trying to give a kid a cigarette and maybe had a whole gun in the car.

Why doesn't he look cool anymore? What has changed? He doesn't have the bullet anymore and he was only wanting to cool cause he had the bullet and he sort of wanted friends.

What is Charmaine's opinion of the boy? What does she mean by, "Guys like him"? Do you agree with her? Why or why not? I agree with her because the boy could not be doing stuff that is legal and might be dealing drugs.

What do you think Rodney has learned from the events in the story? Not to talk to strangers and don't listen to people who are trying to give stuff to you for money cause it could mean a bad thing in the end.

What do you think the author's theme or message was? What is your response to this? The message is not to randomly pick up stuff off the ground and not listen to strange people you don't trust. I really liked how they put the message in a story instead of doing it the boring way by just writing it down on a poster like thing.

Creation of tuna

In Hurumanu 4 what is poetic arts. We have to answer some questions and then put them on our blog. But first we had to watch/listen to a video to understand all the questions. In total there are five questions. Here are the answers to the questions.

The problem Tuna o Runga I te Raki he had was that it was so dry because of the sun.

What is a hinaki? What does tipua mean??
A hinaki is a type of net for tuna/eels. They would put some bait in and put it in the water. It only had one entrance and the whole thing was woven.
Tipua basically means demon cause all the things about it is strange, terrifying, abnormal and supernatural.

What type of animal is a tuna?
A tuna is a type of eel but the Maori way of saying it. You can see them in willow bank and in some streams. There are some near the Margaret mahy playground.

Compare the art from the book and art from the video clip. what are some differences?
In the video clip its more black and white and not colour full. It looks like it is drawn. It has less detail.
In the book its more colourful and looks like its painted not drawn. It has more detail.

I like the art style of the video cause you can see more of what actually happens.

Word Art

In wananga we have been making a word art with all the emotions that we felt at home in the lock down or when you came back to school. We had an emotion wheel to help us pick out some emotions. I think I went a little overboard but that doesn't really matter.

I felt weird when I had to go out for a walk.
I felt weird during the recent lock down event when I had to go outside for a walk to look for teddy's because there wasn't many people walking around, there was only people inside out of site and if there
was people walking they were people we didn't know.

Level 2 in school

A few days ago we entered lvl 2. It's an exiting thing we can go back to school and everyone can do their jobs. But at school there are some rules you have to follow. They are easy even though they may seem hard here are to easy things to follow at school.

Facts about Puffins

Today at home we get to choose something we wanted to learn or do. I decided to do one what was were you got to choose an animal you wanted to research about and then put all the stuff you found out into a Dlo. I wanted to learn about some things about Puffins. Here is the Dlo.

Multiple Sentences

In Hur 3 we have been learning about some different sentences. We have learnt about W-Starts, Adverb Starts and Very short sentences. W-Starts is were you start with one of these words, When, Where, while and whilst. Adverb start is where you start with an adverb. The adverb or word has to end with the letters ly. A Very short sentence is just a really small sentence that gives you suspense or drama.

Here are some examples...

Very short...

The boy slowly placed the seed.

The teacher grabbed the seeds.

W-Start...

While the the teacher handed out the seeds, the students grabbed a beaker.

When he put the seed in, he Walked over to the table.

Adverb start...

Carefully, the boy put the beaker down.

Anxiously, the students waited for the seed to grow.

Adverb Start

Today in Hur3 we have been learning about Adverb starts. We first had to practice on our W-starts. I W-start if you don't know is where the first word start with a W. You have to choose out of While, Whilst, Where and When. Then we learnt what a Adverb start was. A adverb is a word that ends with the letters, "ly" Carefully, carelessly and quickly are some of them. We had to do all this with a white board and pen.

Here are 2 examples of W-starts...
While the dog walked, the kid started running after it.
Where did the boy go, no one ever knows.

Here are 2 examples of Adverb starts...
Carefully he placed the picture on the wall.
Quickly the girl ran to school.

Have you done any of these before?

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

In Hur1 we watched a video and we got a sheet we had to fill out. This time it was a different sheet but it was still based of the treaty of Waitangi. Here are 10 question and answers from the sheet. The population of the Maori in the late 1830's was around 70,000 and 80,000. The population was around 100,000. The main reasons was because of war and diseases. The main settlement was called Kororareka or Russell. Why the treaty of Waitangi was neglected by almost being set on fire, burred, Rats munching on it and water damage. 500 Rangatira signed the treaty of Waitangi. Sovereignty means leadership and some other things but the main thing is leadership. Tino Rangatiratanga means having your own authority.

A problem with the treaty was that the translation was messed up. A part in the English version was not the same as the Maori side. For the Maori side it said, "You will still have ownership over your land." But in the English version it said, "The crown will have complete control over the land." and basically control over nearly everything. The thing to help resolve a situation was they made the united tribes of NZ. The British saw the France as an enemy because of War and colonisation.

Different types of sentences

In Hur3 we have been learning about different types of sentences like Very short sentences. We had so make a simple sentence into a complex sentence. That was the start of our paragraph. We had to do one very short sentence and 2 W-starts sentences. The W-start is where you choose a word out of When, Where, Whilst and while. Here is my paragraph... 

This morning he ran away yelling in the forest madly. He ran and ran as fast as he could. Beside the river, beside a lake and into a swamp. The boy sat down to rest as well as eat something. He heard it. He heard something that changed his life. Gun fire! The boy got down and hid from the enemy team. Whilst he got up in a good position to snipe them, he got hit, “Hit!” the boy shouted and put his hand up. While he was walking back to respawn, he knew someone was following him. “Could I just respawn?!” The boy whispered.

Summary of New Zealand History.

Today in we watched a video and it had answers to a sheet we got. We had to answer them while we watched the video. Here are the questions and the answer. Abel Tasman was the first explorer to arrive in Aotearoa and he arrived in 1674. He named it Nova Zealandia. The second explorer was captain James Cook and he arrived in 1769. He also had a chief navigator to help him. The chief navigators name was TuPaia. The Explorers brought over Potatoes, Pigs, Ship rats and disuses. There was also a question that said whats a musket? Well a musket is a type of rifle that uses gunpowder. And there was a big musket war. The musket war ended in the late 1830's. The ratio Maori and Pakeha was 1 Pakeha equals 40 Maori. What do you know about the Maori History?

Simple to Complex Sentences

In Hur3 for writing we have Practising  on our Sentences. This is also a practice for the assessment that is coming up. For the sentences we have been changing some words and adding more detail to them. The example was The cat sat on the mat. Then they added and adjective, when, where and how. Then we had to do the same. But our first sentence was, The dog ate. It was hard to figure out what to do for the adjective. Have you done this before? Here's my work...

Simple to Complex Sentences

The dog ate.

The dog ate wildly.

This afternoon the dog ate wildly.

This afternoon the dog ate wildly while watching cats.

This afternoon the dog ate wildly and stopped to bark at the cats.

Red: Adjective
Orange: When
Green: Where
Blue: How

Buddy class/school and what does Empathy mean?

In HR we had a scavenger hunt to find out which class is our buddy class and we had to learn what does Empathy mean. This is about like we do art and writing and then we send it to them. We have a kit/box full of all the stuff we need. There's a bunch of 3-D glasses. All of this is for the book of the road. We also got, a page with stuff what we need the 3-D glasses for. Now onto the scavenger hunt. The teachers put up a slide of some clues. We could do anything to find out what school/class it was. The first clue was the school was on state highway one. then another of the clues was the school was in the north island. One of the last clues was that the school was in Cambridge. The school is St Peters in Cambridge Nz. St Peters is a private school. Empathy is where you are respectful and kind to others. It's also where you listen to others feelings and ideas. What do you know about St Peters?

Procedural Writing

Today in Hurumanu 3 we learnt about procedural writing. Procedural Writing is where you write down what your materials are at what your ingredients are. Then you write the steps on how to make or do something. We had to find out the ingredients and materials well mainly what we had for breakfast. Then we had to do a step by step on how you make your breakfast. Then we had to do a conclusion. The conclusion is where we had to say what was easier and what you can also do. Here's my Procedural Writing.

Yoghurt and plain bread

Materials

• Bag of bread
• Yoghurt
• Spoon
• plate

Ingredients

• 1 or 2 pieces Bread
• 1 Yoghurt

Steps: Grab a spoon from the drawer or cupboard

Then grab your Yoghurt out of the fridge and put the spoon with your Yoghurt on the bench/breakfast table.

Next get the bag of bread out of the cupboard as well as a plate.

After that put all of the stuff on the bench/breakfast table.

Then open the bag of bread and take out 1 or 2 pieces of bread and put the pieces on your plate.

Now you can open your Yoghurt and enjoy your breakfast.

Conclusion: I recommend having 2 pieces of bread because it fills you up more. It’s actually easier if you also grab a drink so you can eat the bread better.

Tangata Whenua. Who are we Hurumanu.

Today in Hur 1 we got to watch a video. It was about Tangata Whenua. While Answering questions on the sheet we got given. Here is one of the questions. The stuff they brought to NZ was some crops like Kumara, taro and mullberries. It was hard to hear the answers so the teacher/'s wrote it down on the board. It was so we didn't forget and we could find out what some of the answers were.

One of the other question was how did the Moa go extinct. They got hunted by the Moari and the rats and dogs killed the eggs. The Moa only laid one to two eggs a year. In the movie a couple chased a giant Octopus who has been stealing all their fish. They stumbled upon Aotearoa. They called it that because of the clouds in the sky above the island.

This was really fun and I would like some feedback please. It would be really helpful.

Respect in Sport.

For the past few days in HR we have been challenged to make something with out google slides. We also had to choose a value and then we had to choose what it was for. We are in groups as well. My group was Jaedun, Jessie, Kayden. We chose Respect in sport and we chose Biteable. Here one way to be Respectful in sport. Respect the referee and listen to their call or you will be kicked off the field. Here's the biteable we made. I would like some feedback so please comment.
Respect in sport on Biteable.

8 Facts about Mars. Hur 3

For the past few days we have been learning about Mars. /We have to make a Dlo showing 8 Facts about Mars. Mars is a really cool planet even if we are going to fly up to Mars in 2025 that's still a really long time to wait. But still I have 8 facts about Mars. Here's a hint of one of them. There's some amount of rovers on Mars. Don't search the answer because that will be cheating. Doing this was really fun and easy. I have a question for you guys, whats a your favourite thing about Mars.
8 Facts about Mars on Biteable.

The Martian. Hur 3

I the first week of school in Hur 3 our teachers let us watch the movie The Martian. The Martian is where there is a huge storm and they have to evacuate but one of them gets hit and gets left behind because they think hes dead. His name is Mark. He wakes up and finds a way to grow food because He doesn't have enough food to eat. Mark also finds a way to make water. It ends up blowing up in his face.

Mark goes into the pressure chamber to go inside but it explodes and he and the pressure chamber goes flying. All his potatoes die and he rages a bit. He covers the huge hole with a lot of duck tape and a big piece of plastic. Mark goes a head and counts all the potatoes he has left the last box he just couldn't count because the plastic was baggy and kept on going in and out and making a really annoying sound.

He was going to the Ares 4 landing site and make a shelter there but then he made contact with Earth because he found and rebuilt the satellite land finder. Then soon they were able to talk with their actual voice. He was in a small shuttle to get to the ship that the rest of the crew were in. They make a bomb and blow up one of the presser chambers to get to Mark faster but they were still to far away. So the commander goes out to try and get closer to him but she can't, so Mark goes Iron man mode and cuts his glove and the air goes flying and he closes his hand so he doesn't fly around and hurt himself, Mark aims and jumps out and blasts towards the commander.

Mark said some things about what he did on Mars to survive and once he finished and said, "Any question?" then everyone puts their hand up.He is safely taken back to the ship and they headed back to Earth. A few years later the next ship went to Mars.

My favorite part was were the presser chamber exploded. It links with our learning because they are making the Ares 1 to go o Mars and have a human to stand on Mars and do some tests.