2020 the year that was

 Kia ora bloggers, I have made a poem of what has happened this year. It is called 2020 the year that was.

It has got everything from lockdown to helping the kiwi kids. Here it is 

During swimming work

 Kia Ora bloggers, in class we had a matrix of work to do I have chosen to create my own super villain by the name of Darth Sagus. The other task I chose to do was a video game but I have lost the game it didn't save.

We have been doing these while some other people in the class go swimming. 

Here is my supervillain! I also have a picture of my game.

Cool Ki o Rahi video

 Kia Ora bloggers, today I made a scratch video on Ki o Rahi a Maori game.

The general idea of the game.

 Ki o Rahi is a ball sport (the ball is known as the “kī”) that is a combination of netball, handball and tag rugby. 

 Games are 5 minute quarters with an immediate change at quarter time and a 2 minute break at half time. 

 The sport is non-contact but players wear a belt holding two velcro tags around their waist. Shirts must be tucked in at all times. 

 No watches or other jewelry are allowed to be worn during play.

 All players must wear black shorts. IFC multisport shirts will be provided and must be returned.

 Appropriate footwear must be worn at all times – no metal studs or bare feet.

 In the case of a default, the non-offending team will be recorded as winning 5-0.

Here is my animation! Hope you enjoy it!  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/444776190/

Hangi cooking comparision

Kia ora bloggers, today I had to make something that shows the difference between a hangi and the new hangi cookers. I made a canva to show this, I do two different posters one for the old hangi way and one for the new hangi cooker.

The two different ways have pros and cons. The pros of the new hangi cooker is that it cooks quicker and needs less work, but the cons are you can't cook as much. The old way for the hangi's, the cons are it takes time and effort and needs people to help, but it can give a better taste.

Here they are!

Haka history

 Kia Ora bloggers, the last few afternoons we have been learning about the culture of New Zealand. We had a task to do it was to choose either the haka, the moko, and the Korowai. My group picked the haka, we had to learn about the meaning and use of it and things like that.

Here is my work!

Lit Leaders trip

 Kia Ora bloggers, This Monday and Tuesday I went on a leaders course with the other leaders of marshland school. We learned about seven habits a great leader has, we also got to do lots of fun activities like rock climbing, table tennis, and playing foosball.

The place we went to was Papanui youth development. They have lots of people from other schools come and they work with disabled people to help get them ready to go into the real world. 

Comment if you have been there before!

The 7 habits

Science experiment

 Kia Ora bloggers the last few weeks we have been doing an experiment and writing about it, we made crystals. Our question was what crystal will work the best if we change the dissolved material. We made three different crystals sugar crystal, salt crystal, and borax crystal. The sugar crystals grow long but thin,  the salt crystals build up very slowly, the borax crystal grows wide but shorter.

Our crystals worked well, our sugar crystal worked perfectly like the video, The salt crystal didn't work as well, but the borax work perfectly as well. 

Here is our video on it! 

Sign language

 Kia Ora bloggers this Wednesday for sign language week we had to do hello my name is _____. I have a video on this. At the start instead of saying hello my name is, you say hello my name what.

Here is some information.

 NZSL is a combination of hand shapes, facial expressions, and body movements.
NZSL is the natural language of the Deaf community in New Zealand; it reflects New Zealand culture by including signs for Maori terminology and concepts, which can not be found in other sign languages or countries.
As one of the country’s official languages, more than 24,000 New Zealanders use NZSL daily. It is also the 12th most frequently used language out of approximately 190 languages currently used in New Zealand (Census 2006).
So why aren't other languages recognized in the same way? Other languages - Samoan, Tongan, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc - have recognition in their own country of origin. Like Maori, NZSL is strictly “home-grown” in New Zealand.
There are hundreds of sign-based languages in use around the world, and even within a given language, there can be regional dialects. For example, people in Christchurch may use slightly different signs than people in Wellington.
As spoken languages can be different from one region or country to another (for example English), so too can sign languages. American Sign Language, for instance, is quite different from British Sign Language.
Points to remember about NZSL

Rocket inquiry

 Kia Ora bloggers this term for inquiry we had to make a bottle rocket and learned about newtons 3 laws and we made a video on it. Our class did the wonder project wich we learnt about what makes a rocket fly better where to launch it and other things.

My group was called Yee.T gang our rocket went negative wich was pretty funny but we weren't the only people wich was good. One rockets went 66 metres but one of our ambassaders went 74 metres I think.

Watch the video!

Maori game instructions

 Kia Ora bloggers The last few days we had to make a video and put a QR code on a poster to explain the rules so people can play the game. The game we got wasm pukana it is a Maori game the rules are here, play the game see if you like it?

Flight experiment

 Kia Ora bloggers, this week in literacy we have been doing a flight experiment. In my one, I wanted to see what could make an f-15 paper plane fly further. The flaps on the wings the wing size and the nose.

It didn't really do anything actually the one with no changes was the best flying plane. My infomation that I took was in a google doc.

Python psa coding

 Kia Ora bloggers, today we made a python coding about an issue in the world my on was on littering in the ocean. We are learning to write in python what it does at the moment is has blocks you can drag and it comes up in python when you use it. This one we have made only used simple coding like move somewhere or turn and say something but after a while, we will get to be really good coders maybe.

https://www.codesters.com/curriculum/hour-of-code-2019/Create+a+PSA/20/ copy this.

Matariki story

Kia Ora bloggers, the last couple of Fridays we have been working on a Matariki project. For my project, I did a Matariki story. My story is a normal Matariki story but I used book creator to make my book. I hope you like it!

 Sorry, it is a bit small.

Hitchhikers Guide Symbols

Kia Ora bloggers, in literacy this week I did my symbol writing. For symbols, we had to find something in the book that meant something. We had to find five of these. Next week I just have to do my genres then I am done with my site. check out my site, do you like it?

ASCII Code

Kia Ora bloggers, today when made our names in ASCII. ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below!

My name in numbers is 20 15 13, 19 5 12 12 5 18 19. My name in ASCII is 01110100 01101111 01101101 01110011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 01110011.

Global issue image

In inquiry, we had to go around tables and write about the image on the table. When we had finished that we choose an image and wrote a paragraph on it here's mine. This shows some irony that they don't believe in global warming but the water has risen over there message. This proves global warming is real. I picked this one because it has a bit of humor. Do you like the image?

Super Siapo art

Kia Ora bloggers, today I made a Samoan Siapo art. Siapo art is one of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time-consuming, because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped, and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth.  There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan cultures such as nets, coconut leaves, shells, and flowers.

Do you like my design?

Titanic irony comic

Kia Ora bloggers today I made a comic with Kayden Palmer. Our comic had to have irony in it. We used Dramatic irony the other ironies are situational and verbal irony. Dramatic irony is knowing something that the person in the comic/movie doesn't like you know the iceberg is really big underneath the water. Do you like the comic?

Maths and literacy work

Kia Ora bloggers this week in maths we have been playing a game called take three. There are 21 counters you can take 1, 2, and 3 counters away. We had to find a way to always win. The way to win is to start and take one then you must keep it at multiples of four. In literacy, we have been writing more themes on our website. I added language to mine. At home maybe you could play take three as well and rig it?

Trick algebra in maths

Kia Ora bloggers, in maths this week we have been doing algebra questions. We have had 1 compulsory to do with a sheet each day. Some of the question there isn't an exact answer but there is a method on how to get multiple answers.