Category: Hanga | Create

Life in Aotearoa

This week we have been reading a text called “Life in Aotearoa” written by Matt Boucher. The text tells us lots of information about the evolution of life in Aotearoa – namely the different species that have come, gone, aswell as those that have stayed. In our response to text slides, we have been practicing our reading comprehension skills. We’ve also tried to identify and understand key vocabulary related to biology and ecology. We have also been answering questions that require critical thinking and understanding of the text.

The Assassins Journey

This is a story I made.

Hi my name is Scarlet and this is my story. I ran away from my hometown and my assassin group. My eyes were tearing up. I was beginning to think it was a bad idea, but I carried on by letting out a fortress tiger from its cage and hoped it would let me get on its back, fortunately I was trained to ride one of these tigers and we rode off in the distance. I heard the alamars and the yelling of my fellow demons as they frantically searched my room. I still couldn’t believe what I overheard the chief say. “What do you mean we can’t kill the rebellion’s leader? He is a sitting duck right as we speak.”
First thing I did was pass the demon’s gate and head over to the nearest town where I put on my mask; so no one would notice my face. I let the tiger roam around while I got something to eat. I was starving, at the camp there was very little food. I went inside a curry stall to see two soldiers holding a wanted poster of my head with a bounty of 20,000,000 credits($) and another one of the rebellion’s head with only 10,000 credits. All of a sudden I wasn’t hungry any more, that was a lie, I’m still hungry. RARRR my tiger ran into a house with the smell of meat. The soldiers behind me turned around at the sound but I was too fast and I knocked them out and wiped their minds. I took their food they were about to eat, I rushed out of there clutching the ramin in my hands. I ran into the house that Saber yes Saber I named him that. When I went in the house I could see the shadow of Saber upstairs so I headed up that way. Suddenly I heard the sounds of the soldiers from earlier getting up and shouting they were calling back up.
I went up stairs and found Saber. “ Saber, I was so worried about you,” I said. I felt the sense of a man standing behind me. I turned around Saber snarling. I was right, a tall strong looking man stood there ready to kill me if necessary. I pulled out my javelin and we began to jewel. He found out very quickly that he was no match for a flying tiger and a demon child trained to use a weapon ever since I was three. Suddenly I felt a surge of power and swung my javelin into his head. Me and Saber headed further up the stairs into the attic where I got a new sword.
Me and Saber broke a hole through the ceiling and Saber flew us out of there. We ran and ran until we found an abandoned house in the middle of the forest and Sabere settled down there.
Me and Saber are happy and this is where I can be free.

 

My Pepeha

This week I made my pepeha. We focused on the visual side of it.

I first made my Panguru Papata mountian  by tracing it using a google image.

Next I made my lake Waihou a rua this time a free drew it.

Then in the top right box I put my 2 nationalities Dutch and maori.

Finaly I put what is most important to me Family.

Sneaker art

This week for one of our art projects we learnt to express ourselfs trough drawings.

My first task was to write what your name was, what your favourite thing is and what date you were born.

My next task was to colour it in as you can see it is not the greatest but it is a 2013 nike Jordan so its good.

Here is my kick.

My Bookmarks + class site scavenger hunt

Taday My class and I completed this task to get our chromebook ready and also our minds ready for where everything in our class site is like where the reading site is.

My first task was to answer the question ” which kid has the most appropriate bookmarks. Number 3 has the most appropiate bookmarks because he has good links so he can do his work fast and quick

My next task was to delete all of your origanal bokmarks and add the new ones like epic books and my – drive.

After that I took a screen shot of my bookmarks and put that on my sids I also had to give a quick explination to why I choose one of thoose book marks.

Fianly I did a class site scavenger hunt where I had to find different things on our new class site.

 

My Nature Character

This week I completed another summer learning journey task.  Today I had to take photos of things in my garden and remove the background of them.

First I traced a bird picture. I used the polyline tool to make the bird.

Then I picked the leaf that I would want to use. Then I took a photo of it and removed the background.

After that I took some pettels from the hydrangea flower and used that as the feathers and removed the  background of course.

Soon After I  put all the pettels and leaves together to make a colllage that made it look like birds feathers.

Fianly I added a background to make this:

Paper Planes

Today I completed another Summer Learning Journey task.  Today I learnt how to make a paper plane and what makes a paper plane fly. A paper plane flies when there is enough force pulling it forwards, its like when you throw a stone it goes far because the force at that you threw it and because it is heavy it would go further.

My task today was to measure and see how paper planes would react to different mods added to them for example if you put slits on the edges of the wings if it would make it fly further or if you put more weight at the back it would do flips. I made two paper planes one with no mods and the other with mods like slit wings, weight focused at the back and with a flat tip. My paper plane with no mods went further but it didn’t go very high and my paper plane with mods went higher but not that far.  That is why I have come to the conclusion that if you have more weight at the back it will not go very far but it will go very high and if you have a straight tip and weight at the front your paper plane will go higher. Also if you use enough force then your plane will go far and high.

Here is a video of me testing my planes.

 

Rock pool (Anemone is not the enemy)

Today my task was to listen to a story about an anemone, he tried to make freinds with a school of fish that swam into the anemone’s rock pool but the fish were mean to him. So  when the water started to go out the fish were forced to swim closer to the anemone if you dont know anemone has this chemical reaction that makes it when ever anyone touchs one you get stung. So when the water went completely out tide the fish were forced to get stung by them. Once the water came back the fish’s left, once the mean fish a clown fish came in the rock pool but he was nice and when the water went out the clown fish swam into the anemone but did not get stinged the clown fish did not want to leave because the bigger fish could not swim into the anemone.

My next task was to rock pool using meaterials in my garden and outside. I gave my rock pool a treasure chest, because

there was not alot of  stones in my garden I had to use other items sutch as pocker chips and other things I found