Cool! A disco!

 

Turanga Festival

 

Turanga Festival is a special time to sing songs and celebrate the maori culture. As soon as I walk in, I see huge black steps leading up to a humongous stage in front of millions of beady little eyes. As soon as we were on stage, waves of applause came from the audience. Gentle songs filled the air with excitement as the day faded away. Hundreds of words streamed out of our mouths as the audience roared with  glee. A truly magical moment.

Stop motion roller coaster

 

Guy fawkes writing

 Guy Fawkes Day

England and New Zealand, similar in size not in people. England, the creator of some holidays, New Zealand, A peaceful country with wildlife everywhere. Both celebrate in different ways but what about Guy Fawkes?

Guy fawkes in England is taken seriously. In New Zealand, different cultures equals different ways to celebrate. In NZ, Celebrations are in family groups rather than humongous town or city groups. As peaceful as a cloud floating along in the sky. Yeah, pretty peaceful if you ask me.

England celebrate by having huge bonfires and set fireworks of it and use glow swords, glow sticks and glow necklaces. They all help you see each other in the dark as color as well as smoke fills the night sky as time fades away.

Very different ways to celebrate from 2 very similar countries. Guy Fawkes is one of my favorite holidays because you can connect with people you don’t know as you watch fireworks burst in to the sky like a rocket.

A thank you letter

Jerrod S

Campion college

Campion road

Gisborne

9.11.2020

Dear Jerrod

I am writing to thank you for all your help at camp, we all deeply appreciate what you have done to help us. We thank you for all your hospitality and friendliness towards us with helping and being our guide.

 We know It could not have been easy with half of us messing around all the time and misbehaving around you. All you have done has given us a great experience at camp and to appreciate what we have today. My favorite part of the trip was nerf war, thank you for making that experience so fun. You have been a fun guide and a friend to all of us so we thank you for being great.

Yours sincerely

                St Marys

 Aedan -  Campion road

                Gisborne

                9.11.2020

Matter book

 

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Service challenge

 

This week we have been doing another value poster challenge set by miss Steel. This time the value was service as you can see and we had virtually the same goals as last time. I enjoyed finding information that we needed because sometimes it can be a challenge. I spent about a hour on this and hope I win and get the 25 blessing beads for my house.

How do mood rings work?

 

Mood rings work by heat coming out of your hand and depending on the temperature of the heat is what color it'll change to. The colors are and mean:

-violet: happy or romantic

                                                                   - blue: calm or relaxed

- green: neutral

- yellow: tense or excited

- brown: nervous or anxious

As you can see the are very complex but people are hesitating to believe that they work. Even if they didn't work there still very fashionable with there changing colors and shiny edges.

Online book

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Chinese language week.

 

CST challenge

 

For the past few weeks we have been learning about the CST principles. On our learning hub we had a set of questions and we had to answer as many as we could and put the answers on google slides. I guess our class all had different way to answer the questions. Next time I would change the pictures on the slides.

Rapping with my lord

A few weeks ago we were making a rap. We were learning about the three sacraments of initiation, and to help us we made a rap. We were put in groups of 3 or 2 and had to type a rap on a chromebook and then print it and miss hickling filmed us saying our rap then we put it on We-Video. I enjoyed singing the rap but We-Video is harder for me then some people because I just started using it. Next time I would change the background and maybe some sises of writing.

Speech-Castify

 

Today our class was making a screencastify of us reciting our speech on screencastify. I found it hard to look at the words and the camera at the same time. I am enjoying posting it to my blog because it is a pleasure to share what I do at school to the world.

Information report poster

Speech... Hmmm, I wonder what its about?

 Do video games affect the way we live?

So everyone knows that video games can be fun but do some effect our life? Well today your gonna find out so listen closely. Personally video games are one of the most fun things we use in our everyday lives but it doesn’t mean there good for our health, or our life.

First of all, video games mess with our learning especially when using chromebooks to help learn. There are so many games on line in fact there are 1.2 billion games in the world and more than 2 billion people are addicted to games. Doing stuff we didn’t mean to is another major thing that affects our life. Like rage quitting, bad things in the chat box and shouting out loud when we get excited or angry. Like my parents like me in my room playing video games because I get excited to easily on my server.

Continuing from that, since we like video games so much they waste time with family since we always have our noses in electronics. Like my Dad has a star trek game and he is on it virtually on it 24/7. Also some games make kids violent in ways. Here are some games. Fortnight, wrestling and some roblox games. Like fortnight is a gun game were the name of the game is to kill other players. Minecraft is a kinda violent game but that is only if you choose to kill other people.

Finally, Video games change the brain. This happened to me once. I used to play minecraft a lot, I used to have daydreams about it. Then one day I decided to stop. I asked my parents to put a timer on my nintendo switch for 1 hour on weekdays, 1 hour and a half on weekends and have 30 mins of youtube a day. I have seen the difference, and felt it.

In conclusion, I have explained how video games affect our life in 5 different ways. I love having the timer, I feel like my life has changed entirely. Now maybe go and get some less time on video games and more time outdoors and with family. Unlock who you really are.

Rhetorical question, Emotive language and Facts and opinion.

WALHT: use persuasive techniques (FEARRR) to enhance our writing

Success Criteria:	Self Assessment😀😀😀😀
I have used my first technique to enhance my writing	😀😀😀
I have used my second technique to enhance my writing	😀😀😀
I have used my third technique to enhance my writing	😀😀😀😀
Use at least three different (FEARRR) persuasive techniques in your writing.	😀😀😀😀

For the past week or so, I have been working on my speech. Our class was learning how to wright  a persuasive speech. We done a bit of a class one before working on a new one with whatever topic we wanted. I chose how video games affect our life because I used to be a video game freak, read my speech for more information. I loved finding facts but the tricky part was finding the right order for my different arguments.

Megalodon Report writing

                       Megalodon

The Megalodon is a prehistoric shark that lived 2.6 million years ago and was the most feared predator that ever ruled the earth. It was 60-100 feet long and was a relative of the mako shark. The megalodon is over 60 tons in weight, that is the weight of 10 elephants or 3 great white sharks.

The Megalodon had 276 teeth that sat in 5 rows and had a bite force of 10.8 metric tons. The closest to it was the T-rex that had a bite force of 3.2 metric tons. Talk about power! It’s teeth were 7 inches/17 cm long and are the only remains of the Megalodon because it had cartilage bones. Cartilage is what your ear is made of and decomposes over time and does not fossilise.

Megalodon teeth have been found all over the world apart from Asia or Antarctica. Judging by where Megalodon teeth have been found, scientists believe that the Megalodon liked living in warmer waters.

The Megalodon would eat 2,500 pounds of food a day when us humans eat 1,996 pounds of food a year. They also eat a turtle like we eat a pretzel. The Megalodon swam 5 meters per second and were around for 23-3.6 million years until they went extinct. The Megalodon could open its mouth 6.5 meters so it could eat large prey. Megalodon means big tooth. I think that were all glad this humongous predator is extinct because if it was alive we wouldn’t stand a chance.

Written by Aedan Lockwood

Eyes of an animal

For the past two weeks we have been making eyes of one of these three animals. You could choose from dog, cat or owl. In the pictures above are one of each. I have the first one which is a dog, James is next with a cat and Emma chose an owl. Comment down below which is your favourite animal out of these 3 choses.If you want to know how to make them keep reading because your nearly there.

You make them by getting an eye template and tracing with pencil then black ink. Then get contrasting pastels and shade the inside in after you have put in your pupil. After make a paper collage with different colors all pointing to the middle. After you have glued all of that down get yourself a nose and stick it on you photo collage as well as your eyes and do an outline in white of its face. Color in the inside with white a few times. Then go over with your black ink and put on some whiskers if your animals need them.

 My digital learning shows how I know how to make some insane art and tell the world about it. On mine I enjoyed coloring in the eyes the most because you can choose the contrasting colors that you use. I would say the hardest part is trying to get the face outline how you would like it.

Photo Collage Of The Rethink Center

Today I was making my photo collage about the rethink center. We went to discover different ways to save the environment and how we could help. We had a look at what we could  put in compost, took a look in the sewer and found out what was good in your pack lunch and what was not.

I have photos from when we were seeing who the gods of maori were from the pictures on our necks.

I also have pictures from when we were looking at some glasses made from recyclable materials and from when we were looking at some lunch boxes to see if they were healthy and good for the environment.

I made my photo collage by going on to the learning hub and getting some pictures of our topic. The choices were Turanga health, Matariki breakfast or the reathink center. The we made a copy from a hard drive and gave our slide a colorful background with the pictures that we chose.

I learnt a lot and my attitude has been whipped into shape about the environment.  Now i'm using browns in my compost and I am thinking twice about what I put in my lunch. I am trying really hard and have shared my information with my family and they said they would help if I wanted to. 

Wetapunga, Our native insect.😎😎😎

Classification

Wetapunga are one of the biggest insects in the world. There are 70 different species of Wetapunga but they only live on four Islands. Wetapunga also known as the weta are one of the heaviest insects in the world as well as being nocturnal. Male Weta can weigh up to 30gs but Female can weigh up to 70gs.

Description

The Weta has ears on each leg. That means six ears. They have a large head,antennas, a small mouth and a pair of strong jaws. The Weta is a insect close to extinction because of introduced predators from the UK.

Location

At Auckland zoo they have a new exhibit with fun education games to teach our generation about how important insect are. They also have two sheds full of Weta in glass cages until they are old enough to live alone. They put on about 385 Weta every trip to one of the islands.

Dynamics

When a Weta lays it's eggs, it leaves them in soil. When they hatch, they will live for 1-2 years if the unexpected doesn't happen . They mostly eat leaves, flowers, seed heads and fruit. When a Weta is little it sheds it's exoskeleton up to ten times.

Emoji math

Today I was making an emoji by answering questions.

I enjoyed watching the picture grow with colors because it was very mesmerizing

I found it challenging to answer some of the questions.

Faith Challenge

Today I was making a faith poster.
I enjoyed finding pictures to go on my poster.
What I found hard was getting info about it.
I like some of my scripture because they teach a lesson in there own way.

Evaluation of pet power

Today I was learning how to Evaluate a text.

I enjoyed reading the text because For me it was very interesting

I found it challenging to find the main idea because there were many key points.

Next time I would change the color of my writing.

Cyclone Bola

Today I was learning how to design a book cover.

I enjoyed using format options because I could customise the color of my writing.

I found it challenging to find the right book cover because most of them I didn't like.

Next time I would change the font of my writing.

Matariki breakfast

"Mmmmmm... savoury." I mumbled with a mouthful of food. There was tens and thousands of different types of food. Emma brought some pancakes, James brought some sausages, Arabella brought some fruit kebabs and Hinegawai brought some donuts! There was also some waffles, oranges, apples, bacon, mini pizza bread and cupcakes. You name it, it was there. It wasn't like heaven, it was heaven. We all had a total blast with music in the background. It was like an all you can eat buffet with live music.  As a bonus we could let the adults have a go at our matariki quiz which was amazing. I most enjoyed tasting the different types off food that was there.

Te Reo Translations

This week we have been getting maori word and finding the meaning to put it in a sentence. I found hard was finding definitions that I liked. I enjoyed finding the pictures that fitted in well.

Missing person poster

Inference puzzle two

Inference puzzle

Today we had to make an Inference Puzzle on the story we read ant army. I found easy was finding the sentences from the story. I found hard was Finding the meanings of the sentences.

Teeth

Teeth

Splash! Went the fish in the crystal clear water. Sky high you could hear birds chirping happily in the gloomy clouds. Next door to the river you could see white patches of snow on the mountains witch wedged the river in-between like a ham sandwich. Over on an open area you could see bright green grass amongst the evergreen trees rustling in the wind. In the middle of the river you could just make out a silhouette of two men floating along in a row-boat with water gently rocking the boat back and forth.

A New Tool For Trampers

Today I was making a new tool that will help trampers to survive in the bush. I made a grapple hook axe because you need wood for houses and fires. What I found hard was getting the axe heads So I cropped a n axe picture for the heads. I enjoyed labeling it because you could  make it up. 

The meaning of transubstantiation

Them meaning of transubstantiation is The body and blood of our savior Jesus christ as the bread and wine that we share at church. We had to do this for R.E and find out the meaning of the word.

Holy Trinity

Today I was making the symbol of the holy trinity with a shape. So you had to get a shape and turn it into the holy trinity. I enjoyed making the right length of the arrows  because you had to put them in the right angle and height. What I found hard was getting the " Is not"s in the right angle.

Matariki Quiz

Today I had to make a quiz about Matariki with what we had learnt by reading a text and watching two videos about matariki. We had to link and put questions and answers in the right box with the right link to the right page. I liked linking te boxes because It was a new thing for me and it was fun. I found difficult was puting the answers in because you had to try and spell it corectly.

NZ Music Month

Today I was making a poster for NZ music month. What I found hard was finding the right instruments and fitting the right angle for them. Next time I would change the different instruments sises because I think some are to small and some are to big.

Jesus ascending To heaven

Today I had to make Jesus ascending to heaven on google drawings. What I found hard was that the disciples were harder to make as I thought because  they were made out of thirteen pieces or so. What I would change next time is the position of there eyes because some of them are a bit out of line.

Character Information

Today I had to make a character map of somebody from our class book called Cuz. You had to choose a character from the story and fill in the information about them. I liked filling in the part of how he looks like because you had to look at the book cover propoly. I didn't specifically  like filling in the green box because it was hard to think of all the things they do.

Caring for God's creation

Today I had to make a bug out of recycled material like paper, cardboard cups, string ect. I made a ladybug with no instructions because we didn't have the materials to make one from the video. next time I would change the antennas because I don't like the purple on the head. I enjoyed making the whole bug because it was fun decorating and colouring.

Scratch

Today I had to do do some learning on programing on scratch. you had to make a video on 1 to 3 cats and make them do something and I chose tag. the link is here. Next time I would change is the animation of the walking cats. Watch the video and enjoy!

Stop the Spread

Today I had to make a video about how the virus is doing against the world. You had to put a percentage of how many people you thought were following the rules and a news report about it.

Raspberry PI circuit

All the details are in the video, watch and enjoy!

Super power

Today I had to become a superhero and prove it by showing what your power was. I found it tricky because it was hard to think of a good super power. Next time I would change how long my video was because I think it was to short.

Lighting up the sky with raspberry pi

Today I had to take a quiz on raspberry pi. I know it does sound like the sweet treat but it is actually a piece of programing machinery.I got 40 out of 40 on the quiz and read 9 slides about it. We had 8 questions and each one you got corect was 5 points. You got 3 to 5 answers and had to click the right one.

Anzac fort

Anzac baking

   

                                         

















Today I was going to make some Anzac biscuits but we didn't have any oats so we made a poppy puff  pastry with berries as the middle. Me and my mum dyed the stem green and put cream on the pastry before I put the berries on. My favorite part was licking the spoon, I mean everybody loves licking the spoon. Next time I would change how much berries we put on it.





                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

The Anzac Tree

Stack me up

Today I completed a task to stack as many items in alphabetical order without it falling down. The order of the  items was:          airplane (paper), book, car (toy), dish, erasers, flower, game poster, hand wash, ink drawing, jumper, kitchen roll, lego brick, match box, news paper, ornament, paper bag, queen of hearts (card game), radiator, suitcase. 

Anzac day acrostic prayer

World War 1 trench made out of lego

Today I made a World War One battle trench out of lego. In the no man's land (the middle) are two  explosions and in the trenches (the holes at the end) are three lego army men.  

Saint Patrick's day

Senior Triathlon Recuont

Easter acrostic poem

My Stain Glass Window

Brain break

Today I had to make a video and hide for ten seconds and then reveal myself. You had to get creative and not just hide behind a blanket or some pillows. Try to spot me before I appear after 14 seconds!

How Greece celebrate easter compared to New Zealand

Every country celebrates easter in different ways but today we are going to be talking about Greece and New Zealand and how they celebrate easter.Greece celebrate easter by throwing giant clay pots out windows to celebrate death being overcome. Easter is the most important religious holiday in Greek Orthodox calendar, a bigger event than Christmas.New Zealand celebrates Aranga Te by having easter egg hunts, eat hot cross buns and praying to God. Easter in New Zealand is known for having the Easter Bunny live nearby. New Zealand mostly spend Easter weekend bonding with takatāpui and whānau and watching easter movies.

The ant and the Grasshopper

There are five values that apply to each stories. The five values are:

kindness

Sacrifice

Compassion

 Forgiveness                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Unselfishness

Both stories are similar because most of the values are the same and send out the same message and that message is "help other people because they will do something good to you". The stories are different in there own way but mean the same thing like the in the story of easter Jesus forgave Tomas for not believing he was alive and in the ant and the grasshopper the ants forgave the grasshopper for not gathering food for the winter and let him in.

Term 1 Goals

This is my goals for this term. I know it is not so complex but it it still my goals for this term. I based them on things that I want to get better at. I meen to say is to do that's how life works. So I want to get better at all of these so I'm going to do it know matter what.

Room two's favorite video games

WALHT: Understand the data we have collected

What had the most?

Minecraft got 8

What had the least?

Pacman got 0

What was the difference between the most and the least amount?

8

How many people did you collect data from?

17 people.

How might you use your data?

If you were selling the games in the chart you know how many games to sell.

                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                   

Facts of Te Tiriti O Te Waitangi

Facts of Te Tiriti O Te Waitangi 

 1.the New Zealand wars went on for 27 years.

 2.Te Tiriti was broken in many different ways.

 3.Engalend wanted the Maori for their army.

 4.England took millions of Maoris land for visitors around the world.

 5.Over 500 chiefs signed Ti Tiriti in 7 months.

 6.in 1769 captain cook came to New Zealand.

 7.In 1790 Pokeha came to hunt seals and whales.

 8.In 1975 Maori and the british put the past behind them.

 9.For over 500 years Maori had New Zealand to themselves.

 10.British wanted to live in New Zealand to start a new life.

Waste Free Wednesday

GO WASTE FREE WEDNESDAY! You can do this to no matter what school your in. All you have to do is have no non recycleibible object in your packed lunch box and you will be rewarded with a clean environment. LET'S DO IT!

Seaweek

This week is Sea Week at school and we were doing slides about an animal that we chose. I chose a whale because I think whales are cool. I enjoyed it because we got to be creative and do whatever we wanted on it. Next time I would change the font, add more detail and be more descriptive over all.

Kawa Of Care

This is my Kawa of care. Our class came up with the rules and you had to make your one. My pictures are based on the rules. It shows what you should do and what you shouldn't do with your chromebook. Now go and be sensible!

Night Vision Goggles

                     This week our class was learning about night vision goggles because it was a cool topic to learn about. I found it hard because you had to find the right shapes and mould them into the shape that you needed. I enjoyed it because you got to decide what special feachers it has. Next time I would change the size because it looks to small from this point of view