Top 3

Task Description: This was a task set for us from Mr. Victor he told us to chose 3 images from a site that showed us pictures that were taken in Auckland. I've chosen my 3 and placed them in this slideshow along with a description of why I have chosen the 3 pictures.

Matariki Star Cluster - Daughter's

1. Pohutukawa - She is the oldest and she is the star that leads and connects the dead to us every year. 

2. ) Tipuanuku - The star that is joined to the food that grows underground. “Tupu” word meaning “to grow” then “Nuku” which stands for a shortened version of  “Papatuanuku” also proposing as “earth” in English.  

5.) Tipuarangi - The star that is connected to the sky, Meaning what lives, grows and starts in the sky, such as birds meaning not to eat them.

6.) Waiti - Is a star that means water, or such as clearing and clearance. Also to everything that comes out of the lakes and or rivers.

7.) Waita - “Ta” is the meaning of salt. Meaning the animals and creatures that live under the sea.

8.) Waipunarangi - Definition of water coming out of the sky, Rain. This star will predict the weather and timing of when it will start.

9.) Ururangi - “Uru” meaning is wind. The star will tell you how windy it would be and how demanding it will be.

10.) Hiwaiterangi - The star is known as a wishing star of the year, sending wishes and hoping yours will come true.

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Task Description: In this task, we were told to answer who Matariki's daughters were and what each star represents. I have answered down what each and every one of them do including what they do for the earth.

Connection's Task - Historical Aoteraroa / Treaty of Waitangi

 The treaty of Waitangi was an agreement between the Britsh and the Maori for the land Aotearoa. The Maori were the first to discover Aotearoa until the British people came over. The Britsh told the Maori that they will still own the land and an offering of learning subjects and supplies which drew the Maori in. The 500 Maori chiefs came signed the treaty and the Britsh/European came over and started to build and create buildings, Roads,  Houses, pathways and etc.

Umu' experience with the whole school

On Thursday last week, our whole school had a taste of Samoa for Samoan language week and the meal was Umu'. I wondered if it took long? Yes, it took a while but that was because the extra dishes were apart of the Umu' making. The school surrounded the dishes and the teachers did toasts but Samoan style. Some students took part in making the Umu' and prepared it. Here are some photos that might give you a little tour throughout the time.

On how to make the Umu' they cooked it on top of chopped wood and banana leaves and wet cardboard on top of the food and everything else. It causes steam and heat to stay put and cook the food like it should.

Similarities & Differences about the different cultures - Dishes/Foods

Task Classification: Today’s task: Create a VENN DIAGRAM to highlight the differences & similarities between your cultural dishes & the other cultural dishes you've chosen. My culture is the one on the left, Rarotonga and the one on the right is my selected culture to discover for myself. Here are my results :)

Topic: Leafs - Science

Last day of Science - Topic: Leafs

  Today was our last session in science, and we learned about Leafs and what more they can do other than sitting there on a branch. First, we found out what feeds them which is, Sunlight, Carbon dioxide, and water. Then we went off and looked at a leaf and described why the colors on the back and front were different. When we see a leaf we see the darker side which takes in the sunlight, with the backside it consumes the Carbon dioxide along with the vines that are on the leaf collects the water. We summed up everything and watched a 2-minute long video about an experiment on leaves, and we answered some that could make sense to us and Miss explained it to us in the end. This was our requested task to complete and share on our blog for our last science session. 

Analysing Blog Post

• Task description: Me and my literacy class has made a graph to present how we blogged before and after. Throughout the years I have gather my blog posts into the years that I have posted them onto my blog. I have been in pt.england school for almost the rest of my primary time until now.

An (About me) Information Template~

Things that interest me?

Information about myself.

A whole nother world could make me the happiest if I could make one. My imagination is wild, and if you take one second being me, it will be a whole another dimension. The things are extremely tiring and FUN!, But for me it is. The whole lot of places I would like to go and travel as well, all amaze me. And knowing what foods three will be in the world so delicious.
Foods that I like~

What may interest me? 

If I could travel the world that could be wonderful, but what really gets me going is Food! The most favorited in the world. Especially all kinds, Asian, Pasific, Indian or other. It’s very delicious, I know I'm supposed to talk about the kinds of foods I like, but it’s hard to choose over so many mouth watering dishes. But my favourite dish that I most likely to go for is Homemade food. My mother’s scrumptious dinners are an A+ for me.

What would I be in the future?

I just wonder? Where will I be in the future? Hmmm…? Come to think of it I sometimes think of becoming an english teacher for other children in other countries. I also thought of becoming a Chef, even though I don't know how to cook It’s worth a try. My last thought of what I might be as an adult, is a Dancer. Look this was a thought, but then realizing what might or might not come in the future is a big mystery to me.

Places that I will most likely travel too.

There are so many places that I would like to travel to, So the first place would be South Korea. The country is very interesting and historical. Because I wonder how come North and South Korea divided? But, I ain't gonna go that far into the country. Second place I would go to is pretty much anywhere. I can pretty much go to any country they all are very entertaining and pleasurable.

My favourite things to do~

My favourite thing is to listen to music and just chill, But the songs that I listen to it helps me get stuff done and helps a lot on unimportant and important stuff as well. Some other things like playing games and sports are a whole bunch of fun! But my most favorite thing to do is, Hanging out with my family and friends, having the time to Interact with each other, support each other, and being there for each other as well.

Questions:

Do you have things that are interesting or not?. Do you like Sports, Playing games and nor other stuff? Do you like different types of foods? do you have a favorite thing about this article?

Fruit kebabs.

Task description: Figuring out how many apples they have used to make 14 pieces of apples. But they were all cut up into quarters. Me, and my group have found out a way to solve the first question. I have put the information in the following slide so you know exactly what we were doing.

Asia Info:

Classification

The continent I will be talking and introducing about is Asia. Plus did you know that Asia has been most commoned and noticed by “The Great Wall Of China?” Well come to think of it, Asia is the most biggest and largest continents on earth covering 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. Asia is 34.0479° North, 100.6197° East. The other two continents Africa and Europe. Is shares the same continental landmass. And even I didn't know those, until I did a bit of research myself.

The types of food:

What foods that are in the continent? Well there are many countries in Asia which has lots of culture in the foods which gives out a beautiful and special taste to the foods. I will start off with “What type of foods are in Asia?” Well to be honest there are many types of asian foods in Asia, and very popular, but I will just talk about two delicious foods in Asia. So first is “Xiaolongbao” its a very mouthwatering dumpling that was made in “Shanghai” it’s also called a “soup dumpling” as well. The second is “Pork Belly Korean BBQ” the food is most expensive in the country “Seoul” The price is 10,000 Won ($8.50) per person.

South korea:

South korea? One of the countries in Asia. What may I talk about it? The capital of the city of course. The capital city is “Seoul” The meaning of lots of people in the city wearing masks. Because of the pollution that goes on in the poor city.

The Fish Tank~

WALT: have everyone contribute to the small group discussion.

Task description: Trying to find out what ratios match, and is correct for the 3 goldfish & 4 Catfishes, Within using the whitebait as well to help us with using ratios. I also will be showing you Me and my group's work of how we got an to the problem answer, or no answer at all.

Explanation template

Begin Writing Here: Wow have you been to Africa? I heard it was one of the biggest
continents on the plant. So, I will be telling you some interesting and magnificent stuff
about the continent Africa.

Africa is one of the most biggest and largest continent on earth. Within the amount of
animals and people that live there, they still need more support. And for where the
continent is? I will show by the Longitude and Latitude.  The coordinates are 8.7832°
South, 34.5085° East.

Some of the animals on africa are the largest mammals on this planet, Which is the
African elephant, For tallest mammal, Giraffe, And fastest, The cheetah that can run up
to 113 km/hour or 70 miles/hour, But some of them are endangered. The, Black Rhino,
Riverine Rabbit, Ethiopian Wolf, Grevy’s Zebra, Pickersgill’s Reed Frog, African Wild Dog,
Mountain Gorilla, Rothschild’s Giraffe, Chimpanzee and an African Penguin.
The White Rhino was endangered as well but is extinct today.  The White Rhino was
endangered, but then is now extinct, It’s been endangered ever since 1996-2018 March
19th.

The countries in africa? How many are there? How come they are all separated?
Well there are 54 countries in africa  do you know what those countries are? So for the
people that don’t know plus since there 54 countries it’s gonna be harder to explain so
I will say about 6 or so of the countries and click on the link if you wanna find out what
the other 48 countries Link. The countries are, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt,  DR Congo,
Tanzania and Kenya. Does africa have any fun places? Well yes like there background
and Scenery. But like fun places like Rainbows end, or Disneyland. And yes they do,
but it is Disneyland!  Disneyland is in Zimbabwe, even the surrounding are just as
beautiful as Disneyland over there.

The population of Africa? Well Africa is one of the most popular continent on earth, is it
popular in the country? The country Africa  has the population of 1.216 billion people on
it and the whole continent covers 60% of the world's land surface. Africa is the world's
second driest continent (after Australia). They also have the world's biggest elephant.
It is called an “African Elephant” since it was found in Africa of course it is named after
its country to not be mistaken. There are many more to discover in africa and I will stop
there.

Would you like to take a look at the beautiful sceneries over there? Would you like to
visit the wonderful place called “Africa”? Do you wanna know more about Africa? Click
the link to see what's up!

(Create Task) Skeleton Coast.

WALT: Question while reading to help further understanding of the text.

Task description: Well last week this was supposed to be our task but we were doing other literary work to finish off. This is a Create Task that our teacher has told us to do and work on. It is about (Skeleton Coast). I have got some of the information from a site, and I put down three things I have learned from the article.

Location, Location, Location.

WALT: justify our Maths thinking.

Task description: Using Latitude, Longitude,Prime meridian, Co-ordinates and The Equator. And also North, East, South and West.To help us work out where Calais and Maria are most closest to. Little Shoal bay? Anzac Street? The closest park to Birkenhead Beach? Three golf courses? Or Coronation Road? And to also find were the place are by using the Latitude, Longitude,Prime meridian, Co-ordinates and The Equator.

Harrry's War.

WALT: use prior knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of a text using specific vocabulary.

 Task description: Harry's war is one of true story that has happened in the world war 1. But not knowing if Harry is a real person or a definition to began with. But going on but the task we have, we had to write a postcard to Harry's friend Ted. So what are we supposed to write about? Well we had to be in Harry's position and character. Thinking like Harry we got the information from the book and wrote what Harry could of said back to Ted. So come check what I did in the task!