Summer Learning Journey - Task One

Three facts about Manu 
http://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories/Maui-and-the-giant-fish

1) He liked to dream of going fishing with his older brothers.
2) He doesnt give up ( He wanted to prove his brothers wrong )
3) Manu is the best fishermen out of all of them.

In this task, I read the story of "Maui and the giant fish". It is about a boy and his brothers. The boy (Maui) is the youngest out of his brothers and Maui wants to go fishing with them, but the brothers dont let him because they think hes too skinny or not old enough.

3 Amazing facts about New Zealand:

1. New Zealands native bird is a Kiwi.
2. In New Zealand there are no snakes.
3. 30 percent of New zealand is packed with forests.

Summer learning - Task 5

Company name - 
Karla's Airlines 

My logo means to fly safe and fast.
It is a small airplane with air behind it asymbling it going fast. The plane is light blue, but the tail is dark blue which represents air.

Summer Learning - Task 4

Return Trip

Cost - 1,305 Dollars
Airline company - Air New Zealand 
Time it take to travel - 10h 55 +
Stop overs - Nonstop 

Summer Learning - Task 3

Capitial City of Japan 
Tokyo

Population of the Japan
127,185,332

Population of the capitial city
9.2 million

Population for 2 other cities
Nara - 360,310   Kyoto - 1.475 Million

Languages spoken - Japanese

Regions - 

• Hokkaido.
• Tohoku.
• Kanto.
• Chubu.
• Kinki/Kansai.
• Chugoku.
• Shikoku.
• Kyushu 

Main exports - Processed Foods

Summer Learning - Task 2

Dear Mr Hadnett,

Lately, I have been thinking of traveling around the world. One of my main goals is to travel to Japan. The reason why is because they have very unique and different types of foods and culture. I was thinking of traveling by Airplane, only because its more quicker. Did you know that Japan is made up of 6,852 Islands and has the population of 126.8 Million.

Summer Learning - Task One

Japan 
Reasons why I choose this country: 
When im older I want to go to Japan.
 I want to learn more about Japan.

     

    

Mindfulness #2

For Inquiry, we are learning to show Mindfulness and how others can show Mindfulness.

I did a poster on ways I show Mindfulness. This is how mine turned out!

Mindfulness General

For Inquiry, We learnt how to show mindfulness and how to relax. 

This is how mine turned out!

Daffodil Reflection

This is my amazing daffodil art. It look lots of work and patience. I really like how mine turned out. We started our daffodil 3 weeks ago. We made 3 daffodils, a vase and borders. We coloured the 6 pieces of papers and dyed them 3 times. 1 was for our trumpet. 1 was for our petals. 1 was for our vase. Another was for our stem and 2 others were for our border.

 For our petals, we had draw a petal shape 18 times and cut it out. We glued the petals to the paper and made a daffodil. Next was to make the trumpet. We got one of the papers and drew a cylinder shape and cut it out. Later, we glued it together and cut the outside of the trumpet.

 We made our stem, by cutting half of it then we rolled it tight and glued it. While the glue was on, we had to hold the stems tight for 30 seconds. After I was done with the daffodil flowers, I was given 1 A2 sheet of black paper. I had to draw a border 2 cm wide. I had to do the same with my two background borders. I had rule the border up into 2cm strips.
I cut out the strips and ripped them into pieces to glue them on to make the border.

Overall, making the daffodils were very fun. I really liked how I did something different and unique. I really like the process of the daffodil, and I hope to do another one in the future.

Zoo Recount

On Friday 31st August, we went on a trip to the zoo. The first animal we saw were the otters. They were very small and cute. The otter’s area was very spacious and beautiful. In the Tiger's area, they were doing construction on the place to make it more entertaining for the animals and people. Later, we went into a gate and saw lots of Australian animals like the kangaroos, wallabies and the tasmanian devils. After that, we stopped for a little snack and watched the alligator.  After morning tea, we went into the classroom to find Polar bear and Lion skins. The man (Fraser) told us that the polar bear died because he was growing mould on him due to the temperature in Auckland.

Even though Polar bears are supposed to be living in cold weather, in Auckland it is very very Hot. That's how the mould came, so they decided to put the polar bear down. We got to touch their skin to feel what they felt like. He also showed us a real live kiwi egg in an incubator. After this, we headed to the NZCCM, (New Zealand, Centre for Conservation Medicine). It was a pet lab, where they helped out animals from the zoo and rescued animals too.

 In addition, while we were looking around, stopped to eat lunch. While we were eating lunch, we were watching the elephants play around and eating its food. As we were on our way to the african animals, we saw were the lions. The lions were sitting and resting.

Overall, the Zoo trip was pretty cool. My Favorite bit was when we went through the meerkat tunnel. It was pretty short but worth it. I hope next time when I go to the zoo, I could explore more and visit the newly constructed areas around the zoo.

Zoo Photo Slide

Today I decided to make a Zoo photo presentation. This was all our photos from our Zoo trip and our expirence with the animals!!

Child Labour

1 out of 5 children in Africa are in child labour. Child labour can be harmful by health, safety and A
ability to have a childhood. 246.4 Million kids perform dangerous child labour for addition with hazardous
conditions. All over the world, more than 24.6 million kids have performed child labour. Million’s of girls in
the world work as domestic services in an unpaid household. Some work in plantation’s and others work
in the livestock herding.

In Arab, 1 out of 32 children become people’s slaves. According to scientists studies they have shown
that, boys have a greater risk of child labour than girls. Out of 152 million, 88 million boys are in child l
abour and 64 million girls perform child labour too. In africa, 62.1 million kids get founded to perform child
labour. Also, 62.1 million in asia and pacific perform child labour. 4.1 percent of Central asia and Europe
are slaves.

Overall, I believe that child labour should not be happening. I think the children all around the should have
a chance to get a education and to get a life of their own.

Elephant Reading - DLO

For Reading, We did a dictogloss. We had to make all that infomation, and put it on a Google slide.

This is how my slide turned out!

Reading DLO - Conrad Murray

Abortion Presentation

For Inquiry, we got to pick our topic that we can search. Abortion was my topic that I choose. This is my presentation, that I made with my other classmates. This is how it turned out.

Poupou Art Reflection

1. What did you accomplish?

Making my poupou big.

2. Are you satisfied with your poupou artwork?

Why / Why not? I am because It turned out what I expected.

3. What did you find easy when you created your Poupou artwork? Coloring it in.

4. What did you find challenging when you created your Poupou artwork? Tracing and making another one.

5. What do you need to work on?

More detail

6. What would you change, modify / adjust with your Poupou artwork? I could make the eyes even

7. What would you do next time to improve your Poupou artwork? Do a body

Gathering Weather Tempertures 3rd - 7th September

Mode - temperature the most

Range - highest number subtract by the lowest

Average - Add the numbers and divide the number by the number of things.

The Average temperature - High Auckland

14.3 degrees because 14x4+17= 73  divided by 5 = 14.3 degrees celsius

The Average temperature - Low Auckland

7x2+9+8+6= 37 divided by 5= 7.2 degrees celsius

The high range of Auckland was 3 degrees celsius because if you subtract

14 from 17 it will be 3 degree celsius.

The low range for Auckland was 3 degrees celsius because if you subtract 6

from 9 it will be 3 degree celsius.

Majority of the day, the temperature is 14 degrees celsius.

At night, most of the temperature is 7 degrees celsius.

In Auckland the days are hotter and the nights are average.

In Auckland the hottest day was on Friday, the temperature was 17 degrees celsius.

In Auckland the hottest nights were Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday they were all 14 degrees celsius.

In Auckland, the hottest night was on Friday and it was 9 degrees celsius.

In Auckland, the coldest night was on Monday it was only 6 degrees celsius.

Average temperature - High Christchurch

12+12+11+11+10= 56 Divided by 5= 11.2

Average temperature - Low Christchurch

3+3+4+2+1= 13

13 divided by 5= 2.6

The highest range of Christchurch is 1 because 12 minus 11 equals 1.

The lowest range of Christchurch is 3 because 4-1=3.

In the high, most of the day the temperature is 12.

In the low, most of the day the temperature is 3.

In Christchurch, the hottest day was on monday it was 12 degrees.

In Christchurch, the Coldest day was on friday and it was 10 degrees.

In Christchurch, the hottest night was on wednesday and it was 4 degrees.

In Christchurch, the coldest night was on friday it was only 1 degree.

The Mintie Challenge

The Mintie Challenge

Sayonara was the one that had the longest Mintie wrapper. It was 102 cm long. I think she had the
longest Mintie Wrapper because she took her time, she ripped small little pieces and she was very
patient. Nigel was the one that had the shortest wrapper. It measured 36.6 cm long. I think if Nigel was
patient enough like Sayonara, he would have got around the 50cm mark.  

Unfortunately, there were no same measurement in our class, but the closest measurement to each
other were 44.3 and 44.9cm. The most common measurements are the 40s and 50s. For the range, I
subtracted 34.5 to 102 which equals 67.5cm

Tongan language Week - Tongan Conversations

This week was Tongan language week. Our task was to make a video, and translate Tongan words into English words. This is how ours turned out!

What is your Ethnicity/Culture?

In our maths group, there are 8 Samoan children which is 38.1% of
the class. Most of the students in our class are Samoan, because
there are more Pacific Islanders that live near our school that are
Samoan.

Tongan and the Other category are the same. There are four Tongan
people and 4 Others. They both take about 19% of the class. I think
there are four Tongan and Others in our class because most Tongan
families are scattered around Auckland.

The Ethiopian group is coming second to last in our class. They have
a total of 3 Ethiopian kids in our class and take up 14.3% of our class.
I think there are Ethiopian people in our class because around Mt
Roskill there are a few Ethiopians that live around our school area.

Lastly, there are two Filipino students in our class. They make up 9.5
percent of the class.

What is the difference between highest and lowest?

The difference between the highest and lowest is 6. Because the
lowest ethnic group is 2 and the highest ethnic group is 8.

Elephant Infomation - DLO

Types

There are two types of different elephants.
There are African elephants and Indian elephants.
An African elephant is much bigger than an Indian elephant.
You can tell by its larger tusks and ears. Also by its grey wrinkly
skin.

Special Features

Elephants can grow up to 11 feet tall and weigh up to 13,000
pounds. There are many features such as long sharp tusks and
enormous ears. Elephants use their ears to cool off when hot.
Elephant's tusks can grow up to 10 feet long and can be used
to scrape bark off trees.

Diet

Elephants are known to be herbivore animals. This means they
eat plants, instead of meat. The diet of an elephant is very
simple. They eat foods such as leaves, roots, fruits, and twigs.
An elephant can eat up to 40,000 pounds of food and can drink
up to 30 gallons of water.

Endangerment

Each day more than 100 elephants get killed and are being
slaughtered in everyday life. In the year, 1978 in the United
States of America, elephants were listed as one of the
endangered animals. Kenya decided to ban shooting elephants
due to this issue.

The Elephant's trunk

The nose and the upper lip is known to be the trunk. An
elephant's trunk can carry up to 770 pounds. The average
weight for an elephant's trunk is usually 400 pounds. Did you
know that elephants are the only animals that can snorkel on
their own!

Elephant’s uses

Elephant tusks are a valuable source. They're very special
because they are rare. An ivory tusk costs at least $1500 to
$2500. Ivory is used to make pool balls and piano keys. It can
also be used to make expensive art and sculptures.

Conclusion

Overall, I believe that elephants are special and valuable
animals. They should be treated with respect, or else these
mammals will no longer be around to enjoy at zoo's or survive
in the wild.

Elephant Dictogloss Report - Presentation

For Reading, we did an activity where our teacher reads out an infographic story about Elephants. Later, we had to write down infomation about elephants. I decided to make this Digital Learning Object on Powtoon. This is how mine turned out!

Value Readings

For R.E, We are learning to remake our own prayer of the faithful. We used the CTK Way poster to help us with our own prayers. This is how mine turned out!

Making a sequential pattern - Romero Britto

1. Are you pleased with your artwork? Why / why not?

Yes, and No. I like how it turned out with all the patterns and colours but
I should have done more layers when I painted it. I felt like it doesn't look
good enough.

2. What was challenging when you did your sequential pattern artwork?

Painting the bits that are in full detail.

3. What could you adapt / modify with your artwork? Painting and adding more
layers on and maybe using more colours and patterns.

4. Who / what helped you with your sequential pattern artwork?

A very small and thin brush. It really helped me to get through the hard to reach
places.

5. If you were to teach a new person how to create your artwork under your
theme (Romero Britto) what would be the teaching points / tips?

1. Stay in line with the romero britto theme
2. Plan your colours and patterns before you start your artwork.
3. etc. Plan a draft.

6. What have you learnt about this process?

To staying in the romero britto theme and to start using more sequential
patterns.

Life Education Experience By Karla

 Room 1 went to the Life Education mobile classroom. We met a lady named Michelle and a giraffe named Harold. On Monday, we learnt about lot’s of things. I remember Michelle saying “ Everyone’s different. There is one you and there is never going to be another you”. That is what amazes me. 

 For the first lesson, there were words up on the wall. Our task was to pick 3 words that describe yourself. I choose quiet, patient and artistic. Soon after we had to pick a colour. The options were Blue, Red, Purple and Yellow. I chose Red. So all the people who chose the same colour had to go to on side the corner, so we can talk about all our differences.

 I remembered watching a video. It was about a girl and making hard choices. She had to make a decision around if she should listen to her friends or listen to her conscience. I remember one bit in the video where these girl were peer pressuring her into going with them to the park. Sadly, it is my last year doing the Life Education lessons and hope I see them soon.

Life Education Experience

 Room 1 went to the Life Education mobile classroom. We met a lady named Michelle and a giraffe named Harold. On Monday, we learnt about lot’s of things. I remember Michelle saying “ Everyone’s different. There is one you and there is never going to be another you”. That is what amazes me. 

 For the first lesson, there were words up on the wall. Our task was to pick 3 words that describe yourself. I choose quiet, patient and artistic. Soon after we had to pick a colour. The options were Blue, Red, Purple and Yellow. I chose Red. So all the people who chose the same colour had to go to on side the corner, so we can talk about all our differences.

 I remembered watching a video. It was about a girl and making hard choices. She had to make a decision around if she should listen to her friends or listen to her conscience. I remember one bit in the video where these girl were peer pressuring her into going with them to the park. Sadly, it is my last year doing the Life Education lessons and hope I see them soon.

Angela Davis - Reading Digital learning Object

In reading, I could pick any protestor I wanted. I picked Angela Davis.

Hybrid Animal Desciption

This hybrid animal has big ears and a long tail. It has a pig’s snout and a naked, hairless body in the shape of a sphinx body. This pink, skinny, wrinkly, body has very bumpy skin and small claws. If you were to touch this animal it would feel like an old person’s.

Anzac Day Argument

On ANZAC Day, shops would be allowed to open until 1pm. If you don't know, ANZAC stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC Day is a time where we remember those who died in World War One.

Most workers in New Zealand work every single day. In my view, I think the shops should be closed during ANZAC day because of the time and effort those people put in their work. Plus the only holiday they get is Christmas Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

Throughout Australia and New Zealand people have made up many traditions throughout these past years. In Australia many people get together with their families and do special activities.

On July 28th 1914, was when the first war began. Britain, France, Russia, and the United States of America fought against Germany, Austria, Hungary and many more. During the war, more than 18 million people died and 23 million were injured. The great war lasted four years, three months and 14 days.

This is why I think the shops should be closed during ANZAC Day. I strongly believe that we should close the shops, not only to have a day off but to remember those who fought for our country and to thank them for risking their lives for others. “ War is an organised murder, and nothing else “ Quoted by Harry Patch.

How to make a Google Presentation

Commonwealth Games - Tuvalu

For inquiry, we started a project about the commonwealth games. For our task, we had to pick a country that is competing in the commonwealth games and find out information about the country. This is how mine came out.

Cadbury chocolate factory - Persuasive Writing

Cadbury chocolate is a well known famous brand. The Cadbury chocolate factory is known for having their rich, sweet and smooth creamy chocolate. It’s a tragedy to say on Thursday March 29th 2017 the Cadbury factory closed due to the issue of money. The reason why the Cadbury factory is closing down is because in Australia the factory is way cheaper.

 I strongly believe that the Cadbury chocolate factory should stay in New zealand, not only because it's what we are known for, it’s because of the history that has happened throughout these past years. Another reason I don't want the Cadbury chocolate to go is that they might change the recipe so it won’t taste the same.

 In Addition, another con is that the people who worked there lose their jobs. In New Zealand that is a big problem. Did you know that there are more than 900,000 people unemployed. We did not need a much loved chocolate factory to close its doors on the workers.

 Lastly, I think it’s really important for the Cadbury factory to be in New Zealand because our chocolate was originally made in New zealand and has had a 150 year history. The Australian's keep stealing our things. In New Zealand, I think we need to make our own things, because there’s always things that get sent from other countries to New Zealand.

Tapa Cloth Reflection

For maths, we are learning about translation, rotation and refelxtion through tapa cloths. These were my results:

 Are you pleased with your accomplishment? Why / Why Not? I am because I like the way it looks and I liked the process in making it.

 2. What were some of the most interesting discoveries you made while working on your Tapa Cloth? About the task? About myself? Surprisingly, I learnt that when bleach goes on dye it will turn white. Successfully my tapa had reflection, rotation and translation, which was my goal after completing this task. 

3. What were some of my most challenging moments in making my Tapa Cloth and what made them so? After when my dye was dried, I had to bleach to make some details white. The challenging bit was when I had to go in the detail and I would try not to bleach on the brown dye. Later, luckily we could fix up the mistakes with some brown dye.

 4. What would you do differently if you were to make a Tapa Cloth again? Make sure the designs are more detailed.

 5. What / who helped you with your Tapa Cloth? At the start we ruled 3 by 3 cm squares to help us with the designs. At the end, thankfully we could dye over our mistakes.

 6. What could you modify / alter on your Tapa Cloth? If I made another design my Tapa would look more bold and outstanding than it already is.

 7. What aspect of your Tapa Cloth are you most proud of? My favourite part of my tapa is my design, it’s not really bold but I like that it shows rotation and reflection

Writing - Plastic waste

As you put your rubbish in the rubbish bin it doesn't always end up at the dump.There is an 80 percent chance that your rubbish is either in the ocean, killing the sea animals or polluting our environment. Scientist believe that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the sea.

 I want you, yes you to be a litter free person. How? You may ask, well there are many different ways to be a litter free person. One of them is to only eat nude foods such as salads, fruits etc. Nude foods are those that have no plastic wrapping.

 I strongly feel that we should use lunch boxes.Using containers makes you more organized and easy to use.You can use containers for salad, noodles, rice and other lunch foods. So you don't need to use food with wrappers. In addition, another way you can make your school litter free is to have separate bins in which rubbish goes in. For example putting image on the rubbish bins, so that even the little kids can be litter free and it will also help them along the way, so they know where the put there rubbish. 

Furthermore, I vehemently believe that we should use worm farms. Worms farms make good soil, its good for food scraps and plants.Using compost bins is good for helping worm farms. The worm eat the food scraps and process it, later it becomes soil. When the worms eat the food, they provide nutrients to the soil.

 Lastly, if you be a litter free person it will make a difference on the environment. Spread the news, and become a litter free person. If you become a litter free person, we can live in a safe and healthy environment.

Model T Car

For reading, we are reading a book about hybrid cars, fuel powered cars and electric cars.
We had three options. We could either write about the model t car, compare all the types of cars or
make a digital learning object on renewable car and non renewable cars. I picked the Model T Car.

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Comparing foods - Occasional & Everyday foods

For health, we are learning about how to compare foods. On Friday March 9th, the senior hub walked to New World to write down Occasional & Everyday foods. We had to compare foods. We looked at how much fat, salt, sugar, energy and dietary fibre that was in healthy and Occasional Foods. 

Softball tournament experience

 It was such a good day. On 1st of March, the Years 7 and 8 girls went out to play at a softball tournament at May Road Memorial Park. The tournament was a girls only tournament. Once we arrived there the grass was long and wet. Already I felt sand flies on my legs and from that moment on I knew it would be a long day. As soon as we started warming up, we were all getting hyped up and ready to play. Our first game we played with Ponsonby intermediate. 4 - 7 to Ponsonby intermediate. Our second game we versused st joseph's which was a draw. After that game we loss against mt roskill intermediate and the scores were 6 - 7. So we won against passadena the score was 10 - 0. At the end of game we all congratulated each other because of the game. For our team Havana and Charlee were the pitchers. I was second base and central zone, so I had to swap with Angel. On first base was Melianna and sometimes Sayonara. That day I was very pleased with everyone’s great attitude and sportsman. At the end of the day we got back in our taxi we started singing to our songs loudly and dancing. That day was really fun and I hope I play more softball in the future.