Movie Review

 Hey Bloggers,

 I apologize for not blogging for an entire month, I have been working very hard on my inquiry ad haven't had the time to do a blog post. But anyway, we have been doing certain tasks on a rubric since swimming has made timetables quite mucky. One of these was to do a movie/book review. I did mine on the 2002 musical wonder that is Chicago. I do not recommend this movie if you are under 10 the themes are quite interesting to say the least. What Musical Movies have you watched? I would like to know!

Ki o'rahi

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This is part 3 of Embracing our culture and this post it's about a sport called Ki O Rahi, this is a sport that is kind of like rugby, but at the same time not really.  this revolves around using your teamwork and kill to get right to the middle where the goal is. The sport's rules are different for every game, tribe, and family but there are three kinds. touch, tackle, and, rippa.  I have made an animation of how this game works, it's very basic but it may be hard to follow along so I deeply apologize for that.  but it is showing you how the game runs. have you played it before? I would love to know!

 

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New Hangi Inventions

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This is rather part 2 of Embracing our culture. But instead, we are looking at the traditional way of cooking food, The hangi. Hangi Is a way of cooking food using the earth as an oven, this is demonstrated by digging a hole in the ground, putting food in little boxes, using hot stones to cook it, then putting mounds of earth on top and letting it sit there and cook for 3-4 hours.here is the link to 100% pure New Zealand if you wish to find out more.  but as you may know, technology can change even the most sacred of things, so some qualified engineers invented the Te kohatu hangi cooker. I demonstrate this in my poster that talks about how technology can change such things as hangi and what was the difference between the past and the present. there will also be a video down below on the workings of this cooker. so what do you think of this cooker? Have you ever had a hangi before?

Embracing our culture

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I apologize for not posting in the last couple of weeks. I have been away for most Fridays and that is when I do my weekly blog posts, but I'm here to make up for it. Recently we have been looking at international relations and for a start, we have Been looking at our very own country. Starting with New Zealand. It is important that we embrace our cultures so that we don't forget where we come from. We have been instructed to learn about three things from our culture. The haka, Ta Moko, and The Korowai. down the bottom are my answers to what I have learned in the past few days. I would like to finish off with this question and this question only, where are you from? I would love to know.

New Term

 Hey Bloggers,  

It's a new term, but more than that is it's my last term here before going to Highschool. My holidays consisted mostly of laser Tag and Reading but I would also like to know about your holidays in the comments. For the first few days of term, I went to a Leaders training course that consisted of learning the 6/7 habits that a leader should develop. It was also full of fun, and complicated challenges that used a lot of teamwork. But what I am going to share is the Tessellation I did in Maths. 

Tessellation is defined by a flat surface covered by one or many geometric shapes, These overlap with each other leaving no gaps in between. As you can see I did my own tessellation followed by an answer to the question, Can all triangles Tessellate?

I would now like to conclude with a question for you, what have you learned this week in maths? Did you have any problems? if so how did you overcome them?

NZSL Ninja Challenge

 Hey Bloggers, 

This week is NZSL week, more than 14 years ago NZSL became an official New Zealand language (6 April 2006) I would like to give you a brief history of this wonderful language. New Zealand sign language uses a mix of English and Maori Translations, this is why it is not a universal language. The first (NZ) school of the deaf opened in 1980 in Christchurch and was called 'Sumner School of the deaf' and is still open to this day. This language. This used to be banned from being used in the 1880s, however, in 2011 Television used interpreters for the briefings after the Christchurch earthquakes. This was the first tie the interpreters were seen on screen. 

To celebrate we went on this game called 'Sign Ninja' that taught us the basics (colours, numbers, food, drinks) of NZSL using a Ninja type game, then we were instructed to create a video of us saying "hello my name is_____" in sign language. Down below you can see my attempt and the sign language game that we played. Why don't you have a go at doing these challenges? What words do you know in NZSL? I would really like to know in the comments.

Video NZ

Our Final Rocket launch!!

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As you may know for the past 8 weeks we have been learning about how to design our own rocket. and recently we have been launching ours into the air, one final time. This was a great experience to have and would 100% do it again if I had the chance. Some of the things I found hard were the gluing of the fins and keeping them on during the test launches, this works its self out in the outcome because no fins came off during the last flight due to us using stronger glue. Overall my team was personally amazing and wouldn't change our group for the world. What would you call your rocket team if you had one?

animating a interactive PSA (sort of)

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For the past few Wednesdays, we have been looking at PSA and more importantly, how to create them using code. Mine is about littering when we see a girl litter and her teacher tells her not to do it, But I made the teacher spin round while he said it (which is the main reason I didn't screenshot it) This was pretty basic and the software was personally better than a scratch, If you made a PSA could you link it in the comments I Would love to check them out.

Samoan learning update

 Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country

• Link to a traditional dance video

• Basic greetings

• The alphabet

• How to count 1-10 

• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

Fa!

Space/ Rocket Launching Animation

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Since we have started our rocket experiments, we decided to make our own animations basing on our launch experiences from last week, this bases on the drift, weight, and launch to create a successful rocket go into space. If you want to look at this a bit deeper, you can look at Nasa's Apollo missions on their site. please tell me what I can improve on. 

My amazing samoan animation

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We have been picking up our learning of Samoan again starting with basic greetings, then we were made to make an animation of people having a conversation using the correct terms we saw in the video. I really started to enjoy Samoan after this lesson. The basic greetings you will see in this animation are "how are you?" "well, thank you" " Have a good day" "hello" "goodbye", these are the majority of them but I challenge you to guess what the other ones are, I need some feedback in the comments.

Parachute Challenge

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Recently we have been learning about how a parachute works (on top of our science and rocket inquiry) and we were tasked to create a parachute that could hold to mechanic nuts for our 'people'. I wasn't here for the majority of the task because I was off doing other things for the school so I really loved how it came out, we, of course, tested it and I don't think we got the best time of 2.5 seconds. How do you think we did?

New term Rocket challenge

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I apologize for not posting last week. on Fridays, I get really busy and have no time to post. Anyway, this term we have been Starting a space project that allows us to build and engineer our own rockets. We have been sorted into groups and every Tuesday we get an engineer come in and talk to us about how it is going to work. from there we have decided if we were going into the space industry what job would you get and why. This is my group's official slide for this project and we will probably keep updating it throughout the term. Also,  our name is Glad wrap and our logo stands for that in case anyone confused.

Aurora's (Southern Lights)

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Along with our Matariki and koru work, we have also been learning about  Aurora's. These are lights That surround places like the north pole. Looking at the beauty of the sky, hence the reason it was named after the Roman Goddess of The dawn, Aurora.   These light come in all shapes and colours, however Mostly green.
These lights start with the sun being so hot that the gasses around it leave pieces of the sun falling off and charging directly at the earth. from stopping them from crashing into the earth, the earth has a magnetic border around it so instead of part fo the sun. it creates the Southern/ Nothern lights in the sky. We made art inspired by the lights, What do you think?

Backwards stratagey

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This and last week in maths we have been learning different strategies in algebra to help us work out the problems. for a couple of days, we have been working on the backward strategy. The backward strategy is when you have a problem that has a part of the answer and it's your job to tackle the rest of the problem and figure out the rest of the answer. take an example where you have a problem like this (?x3)+5=20 you could either guess and check or turn you're + into - or turn your x into divide (can't do it properly) You get the basis. If you like take a try at my word problem and solve it in the comments.

Matariki

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Apart from our koru, we have also been learning about Matariki, the Maori new year, This year its July 13th. My presentation follows the story of Matariki and how the seven sisters and their mother came to be. this is my second blog post for today so I may be posting a lot more frequently or maybe I'll be posting like this every Friday. 

Urban Legends

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Last week in my literacy we were looking at the movie genre horror and all the cliche's, themes, and conventions of it. Then we got onto the convention of the 'urban legend.' This is normally used to warn the protagonists not to go somewhere or why this place is haunted, but they still go and check it out anyway. Finally, we were going to make our own (fake) urban legends. Mine's hard to explain so I encourage you to read it, what did you think? is there stuff that I need to improve on?

“The crying angel”

In the 1400s there once was a little girl who lived in a nunnery. Being raised by widows many townsfolk there may be some sort of witchcraft going on. The place wasn’t lavish it was run down and old, nothing that anyone should be living in. but there was one statue there that had two angels holding Jesus Christ as a baby. One day some townsfolk chopped off the heads of the two angels and blamed the young girl for it. She was later hanged while her body hanged in town, they built a statue of a hanging angel warning rebellious girls who dare to compete with Jesus. Legend has it if you are over the age of 10 and touch the statue it has seemed that you would be accused of witchcraft and hanged within six months, no matter the gender. When you do the angel will cry blood as a cry for help.

Ascii (pt 2)

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This is sort of part two but I finally have a photo of my beads. To be honest I choose the colors due to the lack of time we had to finish them. I think this was a very fun task and I would like to try it with other letters and names.

Ascii and binary

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we have been learning about ASCII, Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself.

ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language the letters I have are A and C. The numbers I have are 1 and 3 and can be changed into 1000001 and 1000011. after I turned my initials into binary numbers then I Used colors to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII were going to be here however I took it home and I am unable to get a photo currently so I will post it tomorrow.

Discovering wolrd probelms through art

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For this week apart from learning about different types of irony, we have also been learning about how different art can mean different things revolving about our global issues. For example, we went round in groups of three and went through several pieces of art revolving around racism, Global warming, and pollution. most of these were street artists and then we had to decide one to write about. I did a brilliant piece of art revolving around the world hunger. what global issue are you most concerned about?

Koru Presentation

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I'm a little late for posting this but this is the transformation of my koru art and now necklace. If you have been following my blog recently you would have known about the koru at that I posted last week, this will also be featured in it. take a look and tell me what you think in the comments.

Siapo art

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For the last week, we have been working on our Siapo art or we could technically call them cloths. Siapo is the Samoan word for fine cloth and is made from materials such as bark from the Paper Mulberry trees, this can also be called masi. these are dyed and woven into a certain pattern usually to represent something important to them. These cloths are used as floor mats, bedding, room dividers, and clothing. I did a side by side comparison of a real siapo and the one I created. Have you done anything like this before?

Week mashup

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How are you doing? This mashup is mostly going to be about my inquiry, We are doing Global issues. We get to choose a problem and create a visual piece for it. I'm doing goal 8 from the United Nations  17 goals by the year 2030. That is Decent Work and Economic growth. for years our economy has been struggling due to it being helped by low-interest rates that later leave inflation to finances like the bank. also, I finally have got my koru artwork completed and I'm ready to show you, unfortunately, my adobe spark is not completed so I won't be posting that instead I will be posting it later. ( sorry I can't change the order of the slides)

Diffrent types of Irony

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Today we were learning about the different types of Irony. from Dramatic to situation and verbal irony. We also had to demon straight one of the many forms in a way, this way was a short comic strip. Me Ngawai did Situational irony when something is not what it seems. I'm a little embarrassed about my faces throughout this but either side of the spectrum we are all going to be embarrassed at some point. What did you think?

Week mashup (kind of)

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This week I have been very busy, however because of my maths work being posted down below. With my Kuro work being finished but unfortunately, there is not an image to show you due to it not being uploaded. instead, I will share another screenshot of my essay/site on "The Wonderful Wizard of oz"

Maths week 7

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fort he past week we have been learning about interior and exterior triangles and how to work them out in different shapes, we have also been learning how to make triangles with certain measurements, what a busy week. these photos are the demonstrations of what I have been doing. The pentagon is a thing where we had to use a compass and different angles to make a certain shape. have you done anything like this before?

Back at school, Finally

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How are you guys? I hope you are great. I apologize for not posting until Friday, but this means I can do a mashup of what I have done this week. for maths we have been learning bout the scales of maps and how many center meters  (on the map) = to Km. I remember we had to measure certain distances and tell our educator how far a certain 2 places are. for literacy, we are doing websites so we can further understand the importance of "the Wonderful Wizard of Oz" I can show you a screenshot of a little blurb but its not edited so it won't necessarily be in the final product. We have to talk about Characters, symbols, and themes, Though I am making it an extra step further and finding out the secret political meaning behind the story. Have you found stories with hidden meanings?

Final Days

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I'm sure you guys are aware of schools opening next week so The Stuff I will be posting will be a lot different from the stuff I'm currently posting. Anyways, not much has happened for me these last few days. I have got some walks in but nothing too special. Today I did my Friday task and that was too see if you could create a place where you could live on animals' backs. Of course, this could work depending on what animal or what size you and you're things are. for this quick drawing, I have put my things on the back of a turtle called Frank. There is a line for washing and even a line for Wifi. would you live on a animals back? if so what one?

Days 21,22 and 23

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I am happy to say that I have finally watched the Wizard of Oz, after many weeks of trying to find it, We found it on Youtube and to say the least it is an outstanding film for the time. even when it was not in color. We had to make our own sort of Winged monkey servants if we were the wicked witch of the west, I made the ribboned Widows. (as seen down the bottom)  Another thing is learning about how to use and Atlas, compass, Ect. We had to find the latitudes for the 7 wonders of the world, plus a few extra. Have you been to any of the seven wonders?

Day 19 & 20

Hey guys,
Today  I have not been very busy, because I cannot watch the wizard of oz and we don't have our usual tasks today. however, in Technology I was meant to make a tinted glass window with a design on it. also, I did make a cake design, the theme is an English garden tea party sort of thing with the flowers being made out of fondant. What do you think of It?

day 16, 17 and 18

Hey bloggers, 

I'm sorry for not posting this week, I just had nothing to blog, but now I do. recently I have finished the wizard of oz and I have been learning more about capacity and volume. I had to measure certain items in water and find out the cubic centimeter for that item. I did a mandarin, rock that was painted and a cup.  What have you been learning?

day 15

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Recently I have been creating a board game for my tech teacher, unfortunately, I have just shared it with her so I won't be sharing that, however, I  have been reading the wizard of oz and I'm up to chapter 17, and close to the conclusion. We were told that we had to do some tasks, one of them for me was about why purple isn't in any flags and we were also told to make our own flag for our household. so down the bottom is my creation.

*purple up until the 19th century was considered to represent wealth and royalty, because of the ingredients in Europe that made it very expensive, during what was called the golden stage of the Tudors, Queen Elizabeth l passed a law that only royals or friends of royals could wear purple.

This is my family’s flag if we had one, the bubble represents quarantine and our bubble. The tv and the lines inside represent the curry and news we watch on Saturdays (it always leads it my dad yelling at the tv. The woman and the bike In the corner represent exercise, finally, the x in the corner represents my room that I never come out of.

days 13&14

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I'm now going to be posting 3 times a week instead of 5, anyway, a lot has happened since I last posted, hope you all stayed safe during the move down to level 3. still learning about different themes of the Wizard of oz and definitely still reading it. Learning about surface areas and areas also. one of our tasks that I will be showing you ways to create your own world of oz, I did it on Minecraft. I think it's pretty good since I only did it in less than a day.

Day 11 & 12

Hey bloggers,

Sorry, I didn't post for yesterday I had nothing to post but now its a Friday so I do have something to post. On Fridays we don't do maths so, we had to create an art piece for ANZAC day. I also made some emojis that if you can guess the phrase I will give you a virtual high-5 in the comments. I have also read some more of the Wizard of Oz. What have you been up to?

day 10

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I have been very busy throughout today, I did some more reading of the wizard of oz, did my math and literacy work, my literacy work is about courage and how to describe it, which I have put down the bottom so you guys can view my work. sorry, this is short but I have a bad stomach ache.

Day 9

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I have had a pretty productive day so far, I did my literacy task and did my math as well, we were learning about the numbers of pi and how to use in when measuring. then I had to make a tin man out of paper which I have started on but not quite finished, lastly, I have done some more reading of the wizard of oz, have you read any books over quarantine?

day 8

Hey Bloggers,

its Monday which also means the start of the week, s I started off with a huge chapter summary of Thw wizard fo oz, I'm not going to be sharing that in case anyone wants to read it so I'm not giving out any spoilers. Then I was learning about parts of a circle and did animation on it and lastly, I read some more of the wizard of oz. What have you done today?

Day 7

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Today I started off with a thing where I had to describe my own witch and why they would become such an antagonist, mine is about the Salem witch trials so if you are a bit sensitive to the topic I recommend not to read it. then I made some Wizard of Oz art and did some maths work. and finally, I finished the school day off with some excessive on the treadmill and finished chapter 4 of the wizard of oz.

Day 6

Hi guys,

How have you been? that's a question we should all be asking during this particular time. well, today I read some more of The wizard of oz. did some perimeter maths, and we did this thing for literacy where we had to match other books and films to the book wizard of oz and had to notify the similarities within setting, plot, and characters.

New Term

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It's a new term and still doing online school. today I started off with a call from one of my teachers, then I did some Maths (down the bottom) and I learned about social distancing and measurement. then I did some literacy tasks (down the bottom) and finally, I did some reading of the wizard of oz which is my novel study this term. What have you guys done today? (schoolwise)

hope you guys had a safe holiday
-Addison

Day 4

Hi bloggers,

Today will be the last day I will be posting because of school holidays being brought forward so they will start on Monday. anyway, I started off today with some matific and finally finishing off my essay. then I practiced on the ukulele the song, I'm getting really good at it but I have a hard time swapping through C and Em. I read more of Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. and finally, I did some drawings using some tutorials.

Have a safe and fun holiday,

-Addison :)

Day 3

Hey guys,

This is day 3 and today I started off with some Matific, then I did some of my essay, I have kept on reading Harry Potter and the half-blood prince.  I also played a game of Monopoly where I was forced to give my brother over $2000 in cash because I kept landing on his Park Lane and Mayfair. and finally, I did some artwork, I started this piece about 1 week ago but I only had some basic shapes done.

Day 2

Hi Bloggers,

Today is the second day of Quarantine and I started off today with some more of my essay, if you are interested in what I'm doing for my essay it is the sports film Remember The Titans. Then I decided to read some more Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. I learned a new song on the ukelele called Somewhere over the rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo. ( I will leave the chords down the bottom)

finally, I did some ANZAC art, I'm not the best when it comes to painting so it isn't very good.

Chords: C,Em,Am,F,G (in order)

strumming pattern: DDU UDU

Day 1

Hey guys,

As you may know, schools have been closed down due to COVID 19, this means I will be working from home and as for that I will be posting a lot more now. today I have been working on my essay as well as reading Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. I also decided to read some Kiwi kid's news and found out that Kylie Jenner names all of her toes.
The final thing I have done was I made a book cover using Canva Called My Life decisions.

Let me know what you're doing during quarantine.
-Addison