NASA SLJ - pictures

 

This is my picture for this activity of the summer learning journey.

Summer learning journey - Art

 

This is another NASA summer learning journey activity. I really liked doing this because it was art and I like space.

SLJ - NASA pictures

 

This is my next picture for the Summer learning journey. I enjoyed this because we got to do art.

SLJ

 

This is my summer learning journey activity for today, This activity was to color in a picture of something related to NASA. The picture I chose was an astronaut. I enjoyed this because I am interested in space.

Today with Takutai we did the summer learning journey. Today’s activity was to write about our culture.  I enjoyed this because I could see what I knew about myself.

Polynesian Voyage - Summer learning Journey

 

This week Whenua and Takutai we have been practicing for the SLJ (Summer learning journey).

In this activity, we had to write about 5 objects to bring with us on a Polynesian voyage.

The 5 objects I brought were - Carrots, Eggs, Seeds, Potatoes, and a filter straw so I have unlimited water.

Diya - Diwali

 

This is the Diya I made for Diwali. A Diya is a clay oil lamp used in India to celebrate Diwali. I enjoyed making the Diya as we got to mold it out of clay and then engrave patterns and paint them. I have two photos of my Diya one from the top and one from the side.

Rangoli

 

This is the rangoli pattern I designed, A rangoli pattern is a pattern that symbolizes welcome. It is used in India during Diwali - the festival of lights. I found this fun as we got to make a pattern, I found this challenging as I had to find colors that go well together. Rangoli patterns are colorful and made of sand, they usually are the form of a flower shape.

Diwali and Matariki

 

This is the worksheet Curtis and I worked on, It explains what is similar and what the celebration is.

Poetry - Quatrain four stanza

 Winter is cold 

Icy and Bold

Silent and cool

Like a frozen pool 

Spring is the season

where lambs frolic free

unpredictable weather

The season people wish it to be

Summer is sunny

with amazing scenery

warm and bright

full of light

Autumn is chilly

full of fallen leaves

frosty and quiet

and cold streams

Poetry - Quatrain

 Quatrain

Harry is amazing

There's none like him

He is the best

 and hasn't injured a limb

Dogs are the best 

Cats are the pests

Dogs are cool

 and like to swim in a pool

Roses are red 

Violets are blue

I have a crossbow 

And can shoot you

Roses are red

Violets are blue 

My doggo 

Is cooler than you

This is my poem, This type of poem is called a quatrain. I enjoyed this because it was really fun.

Calendar art

 

This is my calendar art for 2022, I found making this very interesting as we learnt about the warm and cool colours. We had to draw a special place for us, my special place is down at a creek where our property ends (e.g the fence posts) I enjoyed using the pastels to blend them into each other so they look better. This is one of my favourite calendar arts we have done as it is something unique for each person's art ( mine is a creek someone's is a beach.) 

Poetry - Cleirhew

 There was a boy his name was Harry

He was often on the contrary

He was very cool 

He did not own a pool

Katniss Everdeen

She shot someone in the spleen

She was chosen to go to the arena

She did not live in Argentina 

Big Nate

Was always late 

Was conceited 

A lot of cheese doodles needed

Calvin and Hobbes

Susie Derkins did dob

Built a transmogrifyer

Which the desire

Hello, these are my clerihews, A clerihew is a poem with a rhyming scheme of AA BB A rhymes with A, and B rhymes with B. I liked writing about my favorite characters and myself.

Poem - Epitaph

Here lies Taj Cat

Who looked like a rat

His parents called the exterminators

He yelled and screamed and called them traitors

But his parents did not care and they feed him to a bear

Here lies Jari Jim

Who always fell in a bin

Instead of falling he tried to fly

Where Jari Jim met his demise

This week we have been learning about poetry. These are my epitaphs, And epitaph is a short poem four to six lines for a gravestone. I liked this because I could do lots of rhyming and was fun making up names. I found some of the rhyming words tricky to think of e.g exterminators. 

Poem - Labradors

 Lucky love

 Advanced adventurer

 Brave beauty 

 Ranger of territory

 Awesome dog

 Dramatic dreamy daunting dog

 Outstanding odd

 Rebellious red

 Silly shady

Hello this is my poem about Labradors. They are my favourite breed of dog.

Paralympic medals

 Paralympic medals

The Paralympic medals are a key part of the Paralympic games. The medals indicate who is first, second, and third. The Tokyo 2021 Paralympic games medal design is a traditional Japanese fan, representing the Paralympic games as the source of a new wind refreshing the world.

Gold                                                                                               

1st place

Weight: about 526g

Thickness: 7.5 - 10 .7mm

Diameter: 85mm

Over 6 grams of gold plating on pure silver.

Silver

2nd place

Weight: about 520g

Thickness: 7.5 - 10 .7mm

Diameter: 85mm

Pure silver

Bronze

3rd place

Weight: about 430g

Thickness: 7.5 - 10 .7mm

Diameter: 85mm

Red brass ( 95% copper 5% zinc )

Features

The Paralympic medals all have a side indented with a corresponding amount of circles to the placing the athlete/s got e.g 3rd place has three circles and the same with the ribbon So that athletes with a vision disabilities. The Rio 2016 Paralympics had a place where small metal balls could be stored - Bronze has 16 balls and makes the lowest sound, Silver has 20 balls and Gold has 28.

This is my work on the paralympic medals. It explains the features, what their made of, Their weight, and their thickness. I enjoyed writing and researching about the medals.

Back to school

 

This is my worksheet for today, It is a form we have to fill out, to show how we feel about coming back to school and what we like about lockdown. I liked this because we got to talk about the lockdown, I enjoyed lockdown because when we were working there were fewer distractions that classmates can create. I enjoy school because we learn a variety of subjects about intriguing events and people. I will keep the lockdown label until we go back down to level 0.

Paralympics - Para sports

 Paralympics

There are currently 28 sports in the Paralympics. The Paralympic Games or the Paralympics is a series of international events for athletes with a range of disabilities. Of the 28 sports, the two newest sports are badminton and taekwondo. It occurs every 4 years and was created by Sir Ludwig Guttmann and took place in 1960 in Rome for the first time.

The Paralympics logo.

Para-Sports

The current twenty-eight Para sports are Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Boccia, Canoe sprint, Cycling road, Cycling track, Equestrian, Football five a side, Goalball, Judo, Powerlifting, Rowing, Shooting, Sitting Volleyball, Swimming, Table tennis, Taekwondo, Triathlon, Wheelchair basketball, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair rugby, and Wheelchair tennis.

Taekwondo

Paralympic Taekwondo is an adaptation of Taekwondo for athletes that have disabilities. The Tokyo 2021 Paralympics are the first time Para-Taekwondo has been held. Matches are made up of two to three-minute rounds and take place indoors on an octagonal-shaped court.

Badminton

Para-Badminton is a variant of badminton for athletes with a range of disabilities. Like Badminton, Para-Badminton is played on a rectangular-shaped court separated by a net. The aim of para-badminton is to, using a racquet, pass the shuttle from one side of the net to the opposing team on the other side and attempt to force an error in the opposition, therefore winning a point.

Archery

Para-Archery was introduced in the first Paralympics in Rome, 1960. The archer will fire a series of arrows at the target (122 cm in diameter ). The standard distance away from the target is 70m. There are two types of bows in para archery: The Recurve bow and the Compound bow. The Recurve Bow has limbs that curve away from the archer to increase power. The Compound Bow has a levering system usually made of pulleys and cables to bend the limbs.

Goalball

Goalball is a game for people with sight loss. The aim of the game is to roll the ball over the opposition's goal line. The Ball has bells in it so players must rely on their hearing to stop the ball. During the match, spectators must stay silent as the athletes cannot have noise interference. It is played indoors on a rectangular court with two goals on the side. It was invented in 1946 and was introduced to the paralympic games in 1976.

This is my information about the parasports.

What do you Meme?

 

This is My slide show for Our task - What do you meme. I enjoyed thinking of captions and reading them.

The last two are bonus memes.

Sophie pascoe - Paralympics

 

This is some information about Sophie Pascoe. I enjoyed researching her as she has made incredible acomplishments.

Where in the world? - Paralympics

 

This is my flight chart sort of thing. I enjoyed this because I got to research how far away stuff was on google maps.

Key word hunt

 

This is my worksheet for literacy. I enjoyed reading the story of a kid called mac wanting to raise money for St John 

History of dogs

 

This is a slide show on some of the history of dogs, I enjoyed this since I really like dogs and I got to research them.

WOTW - Obligation

 

This is my word of the week for this week.

Speech - Why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons

 Have you noticed that knives are quite sharp? It's almost like they're meant to cut things! 

Hello, Ciao, Hola and Guten tag. My name is Harry and I’m going to talk to you about why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons.

Now, I have two stories involving sharp knives. I'm in Hokitika with my friends making a knife at a workshop and I ask the teacher if it's sharp enough-she runs her finger along the blade- It wasn't sharp. I go back to filing the blade and then I eventually stop, and remember how she tested how sharp it was, and let me tell you personally that it was sharp. 

This story is about bagels. Now I like bagels, and when I got home from school one day I made one. I got a knife and cut… I myself on the finger NOT the bagel which was quite unfortunate, Because bagels are really nice. Now I know what you're thinking and no I was not deprived of that delicious seagull, I mean bagel. 

Now kids, just don't play with knives it'll hurt, quite a bit, and I know you think I'm one of those people who are completely crazy for safety, but if I was you wouldn't be listening to this speech since I wouldn't have any stories. I'm almost fine because I have lots of experience and I'm a bit careful. Keep away from knives that are bad for your health which most are. 

Now time for some facts. In the USA 1.56 in 1000 people get injured from knives which doesn't make too much sense to me because some people get half an injury. Put your hands up...if you have injured yourself with a knife? According to my statistics, 1 in 4 people in my class has not had “near-death” experiences, those lucky ones. Now to the next story!

I think we can all agree that flaming arrows are cool, and I really liked them-I decided to make one and it worked, but it was very intense when the flame was 100s of millimeters away from my hand. I am forever traumatized from that very moment. I later found out that a crossbow works better than a bow since arrows are heavier so it's not as powerful which makes the fire still burn when it hits its target, and it makes a cool whoosh when it flies through the air.

This is a bit off-topic so don't be surprised if you are confused. Unless your parents are okay with you nearly killing yourself don't try this at home. Crossbows are very powerful. Mainly I'm saying this to make sure your parents don't sue me when you have spontaneously combusted using a crossbow, make sure your parents don't even think about suing me, I don't have a lawyer but please don't, cause I've heard it's not fun getting sued.

 About 500 people each year are killed from fire but archery is relatively safe with an average of 0.57 injuries per 1000 people. Still, those percentages don't make much sense to me. Now if you somehow haven't got the message, weapons are dangerous. I don't really have anything factual because most people should know that weapons are, Let's put it… bad for your health.

Overall, just don't play with weapons, (which is something I need to learn) but it's something you might too. My friend wanted to make an explosive because that's fun, And he along with his dad got some very explosive stuff and started making small explosives-BANG they blew up the kitchen. Now when I go over to their house and go past the kitchen the wall looks like it's been burnt but they fixed the rest. 

Thank you for listening to my speech      

This is my speech about why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons

Convert improper fractions to mixed number

 

This is is my work for how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers, The video our teacher sent explained it really well and made it a lot easier.

Belgian Biscuits - Whenua Bake off

 

Our class Whenua had a bake-off for lockdown and I made Belgian biscuits ( YUM ) 

I really enjoyed these as the biscuits are a subtle spicy flavor, the jam- jammy, and the pink icing is very sweet. My family reviews- Mum "so delicious that you want more". Dad "scrumptious". Sibling "Good"

Icing Recipe

milk, icing sugar, and food coloring

Add a small amount of milk then icing sugar is thick and not runny then mix color in.

 

Ghost cities- Pripyat

 Ghost cities- Pripyat

 

Named after a nearby river Pripyat, the town was founded on 4th February 1970.

 

Built to house the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant by 1986 Pripyat was a thriving economy. The schools and kindergartens, Cinema, A palace of culture, swimming pools and a selection of cafes and restaurants-much like a town you would find today. With around 50,000 residents, Pripyat offered a standard life above and beyond many modern Soviet cities. The town was in the frontline of disaster-just a couple of miles away from the unfortunate power plant. Nowadays nature has reclaimed its land.

 

 

The city was evacuated after the explosion of the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the 27th of April 1986. One of the four reactors went supercritical when the technicians failed to follow proper operating procedures during a test of its emergency systems. The core exploded and spread radioactive material over a large radius.

 

 

Today not much remains of the town as it is now a thick forest with damaged buildings dotted here and there.

By Harry

Octopus report

Octopus Report

Octopodes are famous animals and are very intelligent and inquisitive creatures, They are well-known for their skills to problem-solve to keep themself safe from predators. They can be found in many areas of the ocean.

Habitats

Octopus lives mainly around coastal marine areas around the world, They live in a den which is formed from rocky outcrops and piles of clam shells that they would have eaten. 13-28 ℃ and 55-82 ℉ are the temperatures required for octopus.

Life cycle

The life cycle of an octopus have four stages-Egg, Larva, Juvenile and Adult. Some of the predators of an octopus are Seals, moray eels and Sperm whales. Octopus actually eat other octopus! 

Diet

Octopus feed on crustacean clams, small fish, snails and crabs. Octopus hunt by dropping on their prey from above and using powerful suctions lined on their legs and pull them into their mouth, Octopus also crawl along the sea floor tucking there legs into small spaces to search for food.

By Harry

Great walks NZ

 

This is my work for the quiz on the great walks. I enjoyed researching each walk and what it has.

Suffix

 

This is my worksheet for suffix learning today.

Word of the week

 

This is my word of the week for term 2 weeks 2. Our word of the week was innovation, The word innovation means finding a solution.

WOTW

 

This my word of the week for term 2 weeks 1. Our word was haughty it means superior in an arrogant way.

Kenning poem

 Quiet-Hidden

 Large-Antlers

 Fast-Runner

 Grass-Eater

 Often-Hunted

 Hi, this is a kenning Poem I made about a certain animal, can you guess what it is. I enjoyed writing about the different aspects of this animal. I like poetry so this was very fun for me.

WOTW

 

This is my word of the week (WOTW) Our word for this week was "Kaitiaki". Which means guardian or trustee. I found this word interesting and enjoyed thinking about what it could mean before I researched about what it actually means. 

Letter to the BOT

 Why we need solar panels

Dear Board of Trustees,

My name is Harry and or class (Whenua) believes our school should use solar panels to create electricity because they are a renewable energy source.

Benefits of solar panels

1 benefit of having solar panels is the electricity bill since you are generating your own electricity to use. Another benefit is that they are a renewable energy source so they are better for the environment than most energy sources. Most websites say that they require low maintenance so you don't have to fix them much.

Cost

Solar panels are around 65 inches by 39 inches. Normally a singular solar panel will generate between 1.7 and 1.8 KWs of energy in bright sunny conditions, you might wonder whether or not they work in rain and clouds and the simple answer is yes. Yes, it does. It would cost around 17,000 dollars which would take a lot of fundraising and take up 3 roofs of our school.

Why not?

Why can't we have solar panels to power our school? The country Tokelau is powered completely by renewable sources and quite a lot of schools have them such as Bayswater primary school in Auckland that got solar panels in 2008 and has incorporated renewable energy learning into their curriculum.

Overall I think you should consider this option and make our school a solar school!

Model

This is the model that Curtis Jesse and I made of our school. We learnt about solar panels. It didn't take as long since there was 3 of us to cut tape write. I think that this was an interesting project as lots of people made really cool models such as 3D, coloured in and small ones such as ours.

 

Solar panels

 

Today we made a model of our school and why we would need solar panels. our model shows the school we also learned about solar panels and how much KW they generate in sunny conditions. I enjoyed researching solar panels.

How does Tokelau get its energy?

 

This a piece of work Curtis and I made. It is about how the country of Tokelau gets its energy. It is the first country to use only renewable energy.

Why is exercise good.

 

Today we ran to 4 js with taiao and then when we got back our teachers had a competition which was who can make a post about why exercise is good for you so did this. 

Persuasive writing

 Archery Range

Dear Tania Gibson,

My Name Is Harry and I think we should have an archery range in Greymouth because it will Improve our hand-eye coordination when you aim the bow and I know there would be a lot of people that would enjoy firing the arrows at the target. The topics of the paragraphs say the health benefits, The fun of having it, and the safety needed.

The first reason is the physical and mental health benefits of having an archery range. Archery can improve your sight when aiming and can help your arm be stronger when pulling back the tight string. It can also help you get fit when running to fetch your arrows. This would not be too hard to make as the target could just be a cardboard box and you would only need about 10 arrows and about two bows in case one gets damaged. We could buy all of this (except for the cardboard box which we could probably find quite easily) at the local hunting and fishing shop.

The second reason Is that it would be super fun and we could have archery competitions and just normal shooting. I know a lot of boys my age that would like to have an archery range   (as I quickly did a survey to see if they would like an archery range in Greymouth which all of them said they would) If we had an archery range I think It would be very popular among boys and girls. There is an archery range in Reefton during the A&P show that not only does archery but sells beautiful wooden swords, quivers, arm guards, Bows, arrowheads which are just hollowed-out bullets that you can use to make your own arrows and display arrows. The people that own it go to different places and could come down to Greymouth to teach people better techniques.

The third reason we would all need to know a common safety is: You need to make sure you don’t shoot someone on accident by having a rule that you should stay behind the person that is shooting the bow & arrow, To look before you shoot and the most important, Don’t damage the equipment on purpose as this affects the whole sport for everyone else.

Overall I think having an archery range would be a great idea, I accept that If you do not like this idea because It might be hard to find a place to do archery in Greymouth and that the council has better things to do other than stuff like this. If you didn't do this I would be fine since I have two bows and can still shoot with my friends when they come over but would still like to have it.

Sincerely 

Harry

Vocabulary Map task

 

This is my work on the negative feedback loop. I had to explain the definition of a negative feedback loop.

Blog Profile

 

This is my Blog profile for this year about what I like and who I am. I enjoyed writing about myself and what I like.

Persuasive writing-Are Deserts ugly or beautiful?

 Persuasive writing-Are Deserts ugly or beautiful?

I think deserts are beautiful because deserts are also Antarctica and the Arctic, not just the barren burnt landscapes of the high-temperature deserts, I think that both types of deserts are beautiful as they contain vast quantities of snow or sand. I love the way the grey peaks stick out of the creamy white snow and the tan rocky outcrops in the high-temperature deserts. Overall I think that deserts are not ugly but fascinating landscapes.  

Today in Whenua we write a persuasive piece of writing, Miss Farr gave us a website with lots of different topics for persuasive writing I chose-Are Deserts ugly or beautiful? We are learning to do persuade as it is a great skill to have and be able to use.

Energy Reflection

This is my reflection on energy. I liked doing brainstorming with the house color to see what they knew about energy. The hardest part of this work was to answer the questions as I found them a bit tricky since I couldn't think of much.

Seasonal poetry

 

Belonging to me poem

This is my belonging to me poem. I chose my swiss army knife because it is special to me because it was given by my great uncle when we went on holiday to Te Anau. The picture down below is a picture of the knife I have.

Tree of life

 She held hope in her outstretched hands. Kneeling gently on the ground, she prepared herself for what she knew she must do. The cool water trickled through her muddy fingers, and the soft, black earth felt comfortingly warm on her palms. Planting the tree of life would mean a new beginning. The opportunities were endless…Feeling the excitement course through her quivering body, she lowered the tree of life into the small hole she had prepared. It was time to plant the very first Cadbury™ chocolate tree. If this worked she would have lots of chocolate and could supply Cadbury™ chocolate with her very own chocolate bar farm. The next morning She made the formula again for Cadbury™ chocolate. She got a cocoa seed and injected 3Ls of chocolate milk, 1kg of cheese, and 2 grams of cocoa powder into the seed. She repeated this process until she had 400 Cadbury™ chocolate bar seeds. She planted them all in neat rows. Once she realized that It takes about 100 years for a tree to grow. “Welp that was pointless,” she said… 

So she Invented the Cheese chef Oxygen froginator environmental seagull bagel cucumber squiggly blob tree maturer 3001.42567590 ( The C.C.O.F.E.S.B.C.S.B.T.M™ ) She zapped all the seeds and they instantly became trees, CHOCOLATE trees! she picked the chocolate and went home. Then she had another problem she had to wait for the chocolate season for more. so she invented the yearoundinator for year-round chocolate. she zapped the trees. ( she liked zapping things.) now she went to her most important question. what is her name? why does this person only refer to her as She? so She decided enough was enough and walked off the page... and then came back again and continued with her "tree of life" story. she zapped the trees so they would blossom chocolate faster than a normal tree. she sold the chocolate to Cadbury™, she employed workers to pick chocolate bars, she came up with her own name Miss chocolate, and her career was zapping things and selling chocolate. she also met a mouse called Jim.

By Harry

Descriptive writing

 It was a windy cold day when we got on the boat there were people everywhere talking loudly We got our tickets and went to the dock we got on the boat and sat at some seats by the window. As the boat left the dock the waves pushed against the hull and made it wobble like jelly. We went outside and climbed up the steps to the roof of the boat the wind blew around wildly. the dark navy blue water was calm but kept the boat swaying with every wave, we saw massive mountains that towered above us in every direction and waterfalls that looked down on us as we sailed past, the spray from the waterfalls kept the boat moist as we got closer to other waterfalls. when we got to the mouth of Milford sounds (originally call Milford haven) we could see the Tasman sea and the waves got more aggressive and forced the boat to get slower. we moved closer to the mountains on the other side of the sounds and turned back in the direction of the dock. we went back to our seats and could smell the salty sea air from the open doors at the back of the boat we watched other boats on the same path as us sailing down to the Tasman. When we got closer to the harbor we saw more boats reversing out of the dock. 

By Harry

Getting to know me

 

I enjoyed this piece of work because we got to do a self-portrait on the right side of my face there are things I like.