Christmas cheer!

Today during class we did some Christmas themed activities to celebrate the up coming holiday, Christmas! 

We were given the option to do 6 activities, I did 3 activities. First I did the scratch quiz and it was pretty boring! It only had 3 questions, but anyways. Did you know the Japanese eat KFC for Christmas?

Next I did the quizlet quiz and that was pretty hard! The questions were all in Maori, and some I had to answer in Maori which wasn't fair but in total. I got 8/10!

And the last one I did was a Pick-a-path Christmas edition! It had interesting questions and answers and I enjoyed it very much, but the answers all added up to feeding the reindeer which then you had to find Rudolph! After I finished it 5 times I went through the Pick-a-path several times to find different endings and that wasn't very exciting at all so I just moved on.

I then found out that if I do 2+ activities and blog about them I would be able to play prodigy if I finish it! So here I am now, the reason why I'm making a blog post about Christmas themed activities which were pretty quick to finish. Just saying.

I enjoyed this very much but I wouldn't wanna do this ever again.

How do you celebrate Christmas?

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End of year time capsule

 This week in class I did these slides about me and my interests this year.

So the first slide was about subjects this year that I really enjoyed! These include: P.E, maths, and literacy.

The next slide was about some of my favourite things! These things include: My favourite colour, my favourite movie, and my favourite type of music.

Next is about my best friends, basically we had to take a picture of them and describe them! These include: Zyah, Heath, and Makaia.

And next one is about what I currently look like, we had to take a picture of our self and use adjective to describe our self! These include: geek, smart, and a literal vampire.

The 12th slide is about things about school that I appreciate, we had to type in things that we appreciate school for! I put ''So I can go swimming.''

The 13th slide is about my ideal lunch, we had to put foods we liked into our lunch and describe our everyday lunch.

Next we did a this or that kinda slide like for example, write an essay or speak to the whole class.

This next slide is about the highlights of this year and write a email to our teacher about it.

This slide is about somethings about this school year and describe it to them, this includes: A subject I improved on this year, a funny moment from this year, and My proudest moment this year.

And this slide is about the future like next year that they asked us, like something your excited for this year and how are you feeling about moving to another class next year. I didn't know how to feel on that question..

This slide was one of my favourites, we got to describe what kinda holiday we wanted to have after school finishes like how long it is, who's it with, etc.

And this last slide is a puzzle we had to complete it was my absolute favourite slide of this. The puzzle when assembled says, ''School's out for summer''

And that's it! I really enjoyed doing these slides and I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post.

What year are you gonna be in next year?

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Visualising my mihimihi

 So today in class I created my Visual Mihimihi!

Basically, you have to put two karakia, a whakatauki, your pepeha, your whanau, things you like, and things you don't like.

And so creating my Visual Mihimihi was very fun to do, even though I didn't like it at first.

It took me one and a half blocks to make and I'm very pleased with the result.

I hope you enjoy my finished mahi everybody.

Visual Mihimihi

Do you know your mihimihi?

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The life cycle of a star!

 The past week I've been working on a project about the life cycle of a star, basically me and my group had to research about the life cycle of a star. It was really fun and wasn't that hard.

My group consisted of Heath, Trey, I think D'zyre, and me. First we had to do a little bit of research, create a list of things to create our project, and get started on our create part. Heath put plans up for ideas on our final project but eventually after trying to decide on two we picked the more complicated version, I researched almost all of the life stages and put their definitions on our slides. 

After a day or two Heath decided we needed to get on with our create, and we got some left over paper mache and started to create the cycles. I got some more powder and make the majority of them and left them to sit for a day, the next day I painted them with Trey and created some more after forgetting some and leaving them to sit for another day. I painted them and Heath realised we needed the Molecular cloud and Open cluster so I quickly made those and left them to sit for one more day, Today I painted those ones left it to sit and got the paper so we could glue it all together. Heath sloppily put the "arrows" pointing to all the evolutions in order with a HUGE brush.

When we finished our project we had to record it so we could post it onto our blog so before break we picked outside to record it and it took 2 videos and the whole of first break to do Heath's version, we ate then got back to recording and finished my version finally. Every now and then Trey popped in to see our progress and the company was great, eventually we sent our videos to each other and now we're creating our blogs with Trey washing dishes in the background.

Do you have a favourite planet?

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Also here's links to my videos:

https://watch.screencastify.com/v/ctl6FdneQUVlpCBGwzIp https://watch.screencastify.com/v/g3HDMYwnOVJYfOsPJBHA

Explanation writing: Why is Jupiter SOO huge?

Why is Jupiter SOO huge?

Today I will be explaining the cause as to why Jupiter is as huge as it is as far as we know, as well as some additional facts sprinkled into the mix.

The main reason why Jupiter is so huge is because Jupiter was originally going to burn into a star, a star is basically, imagine an ordinary star you see in the night sky but, bigger, brighter, hotter, and in the center of the solar system. An example of a star would be the sun which gives us day, the sun is the main reason we can jump and fall back to Earth because something called gravity keeps us from floating away into space.

The reason why Jupiter was unable to transform into a lovely star like the sun is because Jupiter was unfortunately still way too small to start burning into one, because of the fact that Jupiter is unable to morph into a star people nickname Jupiter a “failed star” but some people believe that nickname makes no sense considering Jupiter would need to be 83-85 times the mass of itself to become a tiny star.

I feel like one other reason Jupiter couldn’t become even a tiny star is because of the fact that Jupiter is a gas giant, in fact, Jovian planets are failed stars since they are still composed of the same material like stars but lack the mass to develop into stars like it’s parent star. Jovian planets are the outer planets of the solar system, they are separated from the terrestrial planets with the help of the asteroid belt. They are primarily gas giants and have many moons, Jupiter has 64!

Another reason Jupiter could never start smouldering into a star like its parent is Jupiter’s usual temperature is -238° Fahrenheit which is unusually cold considering the sun is a big ball of flame, also Jupiter’s wind speeds are 432 km/h which may be the least threatening to Uranus and Neptune, but at the very least could make you feel like your in two category 4 tornadoes, just so you know, Uranus and Neptune are Jupiter’s neighbouring planets.

Jupiter could also have been prevented from becoming a star because of its current living conditions, by its living conditions I mean that, it's a Jovian planet and already has several moons orbiting around it plus, it’s behind the asteroid belt/the warmer region so it’s in the colder region which could be another factor contributing to Jupiter’s temperature and another reason why Jupiter isn’t a star.

And with that, that’s all the reasons why I personally think that Jupiter is as huge as it is today.

What's your favourite planet?

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Te Marae o Waitaha

As part of te reo Maori, we learnt the pepeha/whakapapa of Nga Marae Ki Waitaha.

I chose Rapaki Marae. These places are important to Kai Tahu whanui.

Make Your Name!

 Today in class I participated in a challenge called the "Make your name" challenge.

Basically I had to take pictures of real life to correspond to the letters in my name.

Everyone was split up into pairs, I was with Zyah. We were given an iPad and decided to do Zyah's name first.

We took FOREVER! Trying to find an object that starts with Y, we ultimately chose a yellow boat.

After we finished Zyah's pictures, we did mine. When we were trying to find objects for my name to take a picture of we just kinda were messing around with it, Zyah said we could use her tights for T but I changed it to tree.

After we finished taking our pictures we went onto Pic collage on the iPad and made a collage with our photos to create our names, when I finished Zyah decided to change hers to look snazzier like mine and we took two pictures and two videos. I shared my pic collage to myself and started messing around with the camera settings on the iPad.

First we did the slow-mo and made ourselves look awesome, then we did a time lapse and the time lapse made us look like Sonic.

When we stopped messing around we finally put away the iPad and figured out we had to do a blog post several minutes after finishing, and that's how we're here.

I loved taking pictures and creating the pic collage, but trying to find objects for each individual letter was really hard. I really loved it though.

Have you ever made a pic collage before?

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Scratch-y Solar System

 Today in class I created a solar system on a website called Scratch.

Creating my solar system was quite easy compared to others, we were given a slide presentation to create our own solar systems step by step.

First step is to go onto the Scratch site and create an account.

Second step is to make a remix of alexmay28's solar system (don't worry he's okay with it)

Third step is to customise your planets to your liking.

Fourth step is to create the orbit of your planets by coding! (When you are trying to create the orbit of your planets only change orbital radius or radius because the other codes change different codes like placement)

And the last or Fifth step is to publish your amazing creation to the world of Scratch!

Reflection: I think I did awesome on my solar system and I really love the way the planets orbit around the sun, the colours for the planets are almost identical to the real ones and I absolutely LOVE how I did my Jupiter. I think I didn't have to change anything to improve on my work because I already think that it's perfect in my eyes.

What's your favourite planet in our solar system?

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Link to my solar system.

Banner #2 Spain!

For the past 3 days my group and I have been learning about one culture. The culture that we chose is Spanish. We've done heaps of research on the topic, we researched about their traditional kai (food), traditional holidays, their games, clothing, and their beliefs and values. Some of the information that I got was that Churros are usually eaten at breakfast with chocolate and cinnamon, Spain plays basketball and also does bullfighting.

We had a google slides where we put all our information in one slide each like traditional food, clothing, etc. The slide I did was Beliefs & Values, "Spain doesn't have an official religion but the most practiced religion in Spain is Catholicism". Then I went on to finish 3 more slides that my fellow mates didn't finish like traditional games and traditional food.

We then had to create a banner or poster to showcase all our info, we chose a red banner then we were given the option to use colored paper instead of plain white paper to write our information on, we wrote our info on the colored paper glued it on and added some pictures and little sparkles, hearts, and borders around plus our teammates names at the bottom so that our banner wasn't so "wordy" then we put "Spanish" at the top so that people knew what our culture was. And then we were done!

Have you ever made a banner before?

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Link to my slides! Link

Te Waka Tiwai.

Today we researched a waka named waka tiwai, I went to mindful movers so I didn't get the first part. But after we got back we were given 6 questions, we created a document and wrote our information in 2 blocks.  The information we were supposed to get was something like, the names it was given over the years, what it was used for, etc. My group nominated me to make slides so we could put the pictures of the tools, the waka in the olden days, and the materials. After lots of hard work we then realised that those 2 blocks were only preparing us to made a poster of the waka we were assigned, so then we were given a piece of paper to draw our plan in less then a block then we were given our big paper to actually do our big poster. We were barely halfway finished when we had to write this blog.

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Tangata Rongonui.

 Today in class I created an biography about Shaun Johnson.

Whaea Jasmine told us that we had to pick a famous kiwi, then she put some examples on the board, at first I picked Moana Jackson but then I realized that some people might get confused on his? gender, so I picked someone else because I was also confused on his? gender. Then I picked Annette Sykes, and realized that she wasn't all that exciting to write an biography about, so then I thought about it, and I ultimately chose Shaun Johnson.

Shaun Johnson is a rugby player who is 30 years old, she was born on September 9th of 1990.

I learnt that he has a netball player wife who's name is Kayla Cullen and is 29 years old, he also has a daughter named Millah who is a couple months old, since she was born last year in August.

Kayla Cullen and Shaun Johnson were married a year before they had Millah, Shaun Johnson has been through many rugby groups before staying in the Cronulla Sharks.

Shaun Johnson was born in Auckland, New Zealand. and grew up in Auckland, his mother who's Laotian left him, his father, and 3 other brothers to go back and live in her home country. When Shaun Johnson grew up he went to Orewa College and played Australian rules football, basketball, touch, and rugby union.

He won several awards like the Golden Boot Award for the best player in the world, and Man of the Match award, he's played for around 13 years and is probably going to quit his rugby career this year.

He played as a half-back or five-eighth, he's 5'10ft and he's still alive today as he hasn't suffered any life threatening illness or injuries.

Reflection: At the start I shouldn't have been very judge-y picking who I should write a biography about and the research part was really hard since there was a lot of sites where it's just news about past events and will he be coming back for 2022, I didn't love doing this but at the same time I didn't necessarily hate it either. The only part about writing the biography would be writing this blog post right now cause I can share somebody who I don't know about with everybody.

What's your favorite sport?

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Tupuna Research

On Wednesday I started my Tupuna research, we were all split up into groups. Whaea Jasmine got the year 7 and 8's to stand up in a line then she got the year 6's up, she put me into Miriam's group. We were given 3 questions the questions were: What was the first maori iwi on New Zealand? What waka did they come here on? Why did Ngati Mamoe travel further to the south?

I eventually finished 2 of 3 of the question before we had to move on, then we were to pick a tupuna.we were most interested in, then we met up with the people who picked the person you thought was interesting. I picked Tutekawa, my group consisted of: Travis, Makaia, Amahri, Harlem, Mihi and me, our main goal for our tupuna research was to pick a tupuna research them and come back to your group after you've found enough research, then explain who that person is, what they did, where they went, which iwi are they in, and any other valuable information that could be useful to your group.

Tutekawa is the first cousin to Rakiwhakaputa the leader of Ngati Kuri Hapu, and Tukiauau the leader of Ngati Mamoe, he has a wife called Hinehikoia and he has a son called Rakitamau. He murdered Tuahiriri's wives Hinekaitaki and Tuarawhati, then the brother of those two girls murdered Tutekawa in Waikakahi, his name is Whakuku. Tutekawa was already very old at the time.

Reflection: I did lots of research and work and my group will be very pleased with the work I'll bring to them and I don't think there's anything major I need to work on for next time.

Who's the most interesting maori person you've ever learnt about?

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My Extravagant Koru Art

 in class I created some koru art, the main purpose is to represent me and my family as well as my ancestors.

First I drew four sketches and chose which one I wanted to base off of for the final product, then I got a new piece of paper and drew the sketch that I wanted to draw that best suited my family tree. Then after I finished I applied watercolor pencils on the paper, when I was done I went over the paper with water so that the colors would pop and at least try to stand out.

Here's a picture of my first koru art. 

After I'd finished my first piece of koru art whaea Caroline suggested we do another koru art piece, so I grabbed a black piece of paper and instead of a sketch this time I grabbed an idea from my imagination and, started drawing with pastels. After I'd done the sketching process I colored in with more pastels! I kept drawing, and reshaping, and coloring, and shading until it looked perfect in my eyes.

Here's a picture of my second koru art piece. 

The big koru in the middle represents my whole family from both sides of the family (my mum's side and my dad's side) , the upside down koru that's smaller on the left represents my dad's family tree, the one on the right that's the same size on the opposite side represents my mum's family tree, the colored in koru on the left represents my parents, the smaller koru on the right that are colored in represent me and my younger sister Eva, and the moon doesn't actually represent anything it's just there so that there isn't random moonlight.

On the first koru art piece, the big koru represents my whole family tree, the ocean represents how we all have lots of ancestors enough to create an ocean, the two koru on the side there represent me and my sister Eva, the upside down koru next to the leaves doesn't represent anything, the leaves next to the koru don't represent anything either, and the rows of leaves next to the huge koru represent the generations and generations in my family.

My favorite koru art is the first one since it took several weeks if not, more to make it since the coloring process took a long time.

Is your family interesting?

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A statistical investigation about my blog posts.

 Today in class I calculated how many blog posts I have published for the past three years starting from 2019 to 2021.

I calculated how many published blog posts I have made all together and the average or mean, I typed it into a google spreadsheet then inserted a chart, specifically a bar chart.

Then I customized my bar chart to my liking and started on my blog post that you are now reading.

How many blog posts have you made in the past three years? Or if you've just gotten your Chromebook how many this year?

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My First Awesome Experience At Camp Waipara.

On Wednesday the 24th of March 2021, I went to camp Waipara adventure center with most of the other year 6's from my class and all the other classes who have year 6's.

On the first day, we were dropped off the side of a road and after morning tea we were all walking to the camp which took us a long time but, we got there the first photo is of some of us walking through the rivers to get to camp.

When we got to camp we ate morning tea then we were all split into groups, I was in the third group and my group had archery first! In the photo some of them are standing sideways so you can get a better shot, you also need to pull the arrow/bow back so that you can touch the back of your jaw, that's so the arrow will travel farther.

After archery our group's next activity was kayaking, kayaking is very fun all you have to do is just push yourself forward with the more cupped side of the paddle and keep doing that with the other side of the paddle as well, there was only one game we played while I was kayaking that game was called candle tag.

The next day same situation, get into activity groups go to activity. That day the activity we were doing then was called sky sailing! We went over to the rock wall we saw in the entrance and we were all numbered off, I was 10 the last one. Before you did the activity you had to get geared up, you were put into this strap thing that made you look like a miner or like you were going sky diving then you had to put on a hat probably for safety precautions. Then you went up the side path and got hooked up then you had to step down onto the rock's cliff and run as fast as you can then when you stopped you could choose between the fast way or slow way, the fast way is you get dropped halfway and get slowly lowered, the slow way is just slowly descended all the way down. There was also a rock you could climb on while you were waiting or bored.

The next activity was a water slide and flying fox, I couldn't go on the water slide for reasons. The flying fox was long and tall it was lowered so far down that your butt almost touched the ground, I went down 3 times before stopping, it was fun while it lasted.

The second last photo was a photo of a group on one breakfast, the cereal choices were wheatbix, rice pops and corn flakes. After that you got toast put at your table which was delicious. I loved the breakfasts. There was also butter, jams, Vegemite, and honey for the toast toppings.

The last activity that my group did was raft building, raft building was actually pretty hard because my group had to decide what to add on to the raft, we ended up putting planks on the top and sitting on that which eventually led to us falling off the raft. We also controlled the raft using paddles but not the huge kayak paddles tiny wooden paddles with only one paddle on one side.

What I liked about camp was that the activities were very fun and didn't bore me in anyway, especially archery. The meals were also delicious the pie was my favorite.

What I disliked about camp was that the ride to the side of the road where we we're starting our walk was so long I fell asleep, the walk was even more tiring my legs refused to work properly after that walk my feet felt bruised from stepping on all those stones. Also the first day was literally scorching hot so that made my walk even worse, the rivers were fine though my feet enjoyed it.

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Link for timeline of camp activities: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/104Sh0leXT377_LVJXBkVjkV40rG9ErDHnht76kBy_4w/edit#slide=id.p