Drawing Emotions

Today we had to do some drawing for Visual Arts. The drawing that we did was emotions. I did two emotions, I did the Silly face and the Sick/Tired Face. Here are my drawings.

Cooking

For school today we had to bake/cook something for our family. We had to do this because we can't go to tech today. For my family I cooked breakfast and breakfast today was french toast. Here are some photos. 

David Hockney

In class we had to chose an artist and find three of their artworks. Then we had to write about what colours they use, what style their art is, where they get their ideas, etc. Here is mine.

Things That Scare Me

Things That Scare Me

Chickens and Wekas

Dolls and Clowns

Tremendously chunky, shaggy spiders

Paranormal

Embarrassing myself

Being kidnapped

Book Extract

Reading a book extract 

Book Review

                                           

I Am A ... Reader

Statistical Investigation Cycle

WALT follow the statistical investigation inquiry cycle.

Callaghan's Ridge

On 11th of April room 1+8, Ms Kemp, Mrs Truman and some parents went to Callaghan's Ridge
for a day tramp. The first thing we did in the morning ws a check for raincoats and beanies.
After that we got into the cars groups in my car group was Hannah, Nathan.K, Korban and the
driver was Nathan and Hannah’s dad Wayne.

When we first got there we had to wait for a while because the parents had to drop there cars
at the end of the track and then walk back. While we waited we found some of the items on
the scavenger hunt list. For the scavenger hunt we were in groups my group was Korban and
Wairini. The items we found were Lancewood (Horoeka), Crown Fern, Fantail (Piwakawaka),
Sandfly (Te Ngamu), Bracket Fungi, Bellbird (Koromoko), Button Fern, Kidney Fern, Mountain
Beech Tree, Hochsteller Entoloma and Tomtit (Miromiro).

When we got to about half way we found a good place to stop and build our bivy and have
lunch. In my group was Clem, Billy, Jack, Brighid and me our adult with us was Lee Clem’s
Dad. How we built our bivy was we had a tarpaulin and rope we put the rope through the
holes in the tarpaulin and then tied it to the 4 closest trees to us. After lunch we packed up
the rope and the tarpaulin then started walking again. As we were near the end I started
slipping a lot and getting really tired. When we finally got to the end I felt so happy because
Callaghan’s Ridge was only my 3rd tramp and I had finished it.

After the tramp we got back into a group talk about how well we did, then got back into our
car groups and went back to school and by then the bell rang and we went home. In conclusion,
I would definitely go back and do Callaghan’s Ridge again because it was fun and I enjoyed
getting outdoors. Next time if I ever went I would want to go on a sunny day instead of a rainy
day.

Lightning Never Strikes Twice

WALT use adjectives, similes (and to use other language
features) to describe a setting clearly

Lightning never strikes twice, does it?

As I said to my friend, we were frightened out of our minds as we crouched, huddling together in bottom of the windmill… As I peered out of the small window lightning blinded my eyes. I waited Boom, Bang, Crash lightning strikes shot from the bruised looking sky. I looked to my friend but all I could see was her clear blue eyes in pit black light, I could tell she was shaking in the cold breeze of the night. It was exciting now that it was over but fear took over as the windmill started to creek. The objects in the windmill started to move and we could here steps on the ground “Hello” ……. ‘Who’s there” ……. “ Come out” …….. “Were just kids” …….

Turangawaewae Artwork

In Room 8 we have been doing some artwork about where our Turangawaewae is for me is in my backyard and because I live so close to the beach I add it to my backyard.

Beach Cookout

Today room 1 and 8 went to the Karoro beach for the beach cookout. We went with two
teachers a teacher aide and a group of parents. In my group was Clem, Jack, Brighid, me
and our parent with us was Kelly Swinburn.

The first thing we did when we go down there we got into our teams and then looked for a
place to build our fire. When we found a good spot to build our campfire we build a rock barea
and then started to collect kindling. Once we had enough kindling we built a teepee around it.
For our main course we made sausages in bread and for dessert we made pancakes with
maple syrup and mini marshmallows.

The whole team took apart in this by bringing something for the food and we all participated
in the building and putting out the fire. We did this because it was apart of the William Pike
Challenge. We also did this for a fun challenge and to learn new skills.

I really enjoyed going to the beach and doing the cookout. My favourite part was putting out
the fire because when we put water on it I like watching the flames turn to smoke. Next time
I would help more with the cooking.

The Noho Marae

The Noho Marae

On Tuesday the 6th of March the yr 7’s and 8’s went to the Arahura marae, it was lots of fun.

First was the powhiri; we waited at the gate for the tangata whenua to open the gates and the
karanga to start. As they were doing the karanga we slowly walked onto the marae. When we
made it to the marae we let the boys take their shoes off before the girls. Then we go inside
the marae and the men did the whaikorero (speeches). When the whaikorero (speeches) were
done we went to the wharekai for morning tea. After the morning tea we shared our mihi and
Ms Kemp read us a book about Poutini and Waitaiki.  

Later in the day we went to the Arahura river to collect some pounamu (Green stone) anything
we find we can keep. Only five people found some pounamu and four of them were boys. Most
stones that I thought were pounamu (Green stone) were serpentine. Serpentine is pounamu
(Green stone) that just hadn’t been in the ground for as long.

From the river we walked down a track to the beach and had a sculptures building competition.
In my group were Charlie, Korban, Daniel, Summer and me. We built a waka. We had sticks poking
out of the ground for the sides. For the inside of the waka we put sticks for panels. We had two
massive logs for the front of the waka and the back of the waka. By then we had to go back so we
left the sculptures and went back to the marae.   

In conclusion, for me the marae visit was really fun. I would definitely go back to the marae. My
favourite part of the marae was the building of the sculptures because it was fun building it.

Fractions

What I learnt

Place Value

Statistics

I found this challenging at the start but it got easier.

My Mihi

Learning my mihi was challenging but as I kept practising it got easier.

Treaty Of Waitangi

This year we did a little recap about Treaty of Waitangi. We learnt about the past NZ flags which are  United tribes, Union Jack, Tinorangatiratanga and New Zealand Flag. We also learnt about the great  fleets which was seven waka that came to NZ for the Treaty of Waitangi.

My Mihi 2019