It's Cool To Be Kind

 

Te Huarere

this activity is EPIC! it has taught me so much about maori words and it even taught me how to pronounce it. this activity was definitely a thumbs up! 

Treasure code Summer learning

 

this activity is so much FUN!!! i got to learn so much that I didn't even know about, but this task can get really confusing. i hope i can do this again sometimes or maybe even trick my friends, what do you think of this activity? 

i rate this a 10/10!!!

Hana Kōkō design

 

this is my Hana Kōkō design. ithink this task was very fun and also very challenging but somehow i managed to finish.

for what i think of this activity ill give it a 10/10

by Railey

Which doesn't belong

HAIKU

 

hi my name is Railey, i think this is one of the best activities i have done this week, hopely there will be more.

Tānerore

 

this was super fun to make but very challenging because i kept messing up but it was all worth it.

the options we had was to do it on a template or paper and pencil (i chose paper and pencil).

 

Te Reo Maori

  

Optical illusion

 hi my name is Railey and today i learned about optical illusion.

i chose to draw these because they are simple and very easy to make. the only things that you need to make these are pencil, ruler, sharpie, and a rubber.

what is an aquifer

 

pike river

 

summarising

 

Benny

 

ATHLETICS DAY

 

In 13th of November 2020 we had a very fun event, we call this Athletics day. it is the day where 4 teams compete for the best winning house, the teams were, Tobruk, Tripoli, Benghazi, Alamein. The point of the game is to get the most points for your team by playing field events such as shot put, discus, high jump, long jump and  standing jump. Aach team has a gazebo to stay on so people don't get sun burned.   

For the first game I did, was Shot Put the rules of this game is to places the shot by your shoulders and your not allowed to throw only push, whoever gets the farthest push wins the game and gets to represent their school. The next game I played was Standing Jump, the rules of standing jump is to jump where you were standing and no double movements. For the third game I played was discus, a tip for discus is to throw it at the right time and ahold it from the front. the  fourth game I played was long jump, long jump is a simple game all you need to do is run and try jump your farthest but you have to jump before the line but if you don't you get disqualified. The last game I played was high jump, for high jump you just have to jump over the pole then land on the soft mat, but the only technique you could do was scissors. after all of that then we had morning tea.

After morning tea we moved on too...RACING, first it was juniors first it goes to 5 year old boys/girls then to 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, there are a 50 meter race then 75 meter race then 100 meter race and a 400 meter race but that is only for the older people. But then in the end Alamein won then Benghazi then Tobruk then Tripoli

microscope

 

refugee summary

 Joseph:

Joseph is a refugee boy who lived in Germany, who wanted to leave to go to Cuba. he is jewish born in 1926, who has a friend called Klaus, sisters named Ruth, mom named Rachel and a dad named Auron. His dad was sent to a concentration camp. When his dad got let go from the camp he returned skinny and very spooked,they took a train to berlin to hamburg and shipped to Cuba. while they were in the boat  dad jumped out and got sent to prison(Cuba) and during that ship an old man died at the sea  and made a burial in the ocean. “Flashback” when he was still back in Cuba Joseph had a bar mitzvah which means that he turned 13 and he is a man now that can take care of his sister. When they got to Cuba they had to stay in the boat for weeks because they were not sure if they were allowed in. At the end Joseph sacrificed himself for her 4 year old sister and they were sent to concentration.

Isabel:

Isabel is one of the characters in refuge her dad tried to escape from Cuba and go to Florida because Syria had a civil war so they wanted to get away. They lived in a pink cinder block house, their money is called pesos. Then the dad tried before with him and other people, when they tried to escape the grandma drowned. The neighbour Ivan was Isabel's friend. Ivan’s dad was building a boat so they wanted to join them and help them. Isabel had a trumpet and a cat, Isabel went to buy some gas but she had no money so she traded her trumpet and her cat for some gas. On the boat was Lito, her grandpa, her mum who was pregnant, Ivan, luis he is a cop, luis’s girlfriend and seora castillo. But then he got caught by the police so the police shot at them, when they shot it hit the boat and it made holes so they covered it up with their sock. There were some problems like a hurricane and a cargo ship came and made a big wave and pushed them back. They landed at the wrong place and the tourist saw that the mum was pregnant and threw chips,water and pills. So they went off again on the way there Ivan and Isabel was pedalling and then a shark ate Ivan and Isabel jumped back in the boat and Luis shot the shark then more sharks came because of the blood. But then the sharks just left so they carried on then when they got there a coast guard saw them but if the coast guard catches them they will get sent back but if they make it they got to stay, that is called wet foot and dry foot but the coast guard was going to catch them but then Lito sacrificed himself by jumping out the boat and getting caught by the coast guard so they can make before they got to the land the baby was born and they named it after the grandma that drowned.

Mahmoud:

Mahmoud is a 12 year old boy who lived in a small destroyed city in Aleppo, a small town in Syria. Mamoud was Muslim boy and and prayed five times a day he also lived in a apartment with his family. One day his apartment got hit by a missile and they wanted to move into a new house that was far away from all the war and destruction, so they decided that they wanted to go to Germany. Mamoud’s friend got killed from a falling bomb from the sky, which left Mahmoud sad and it was made clear that Mamoud’s teacher didn’t like him. One day him and his family packed up to go to Germany but during their travels they were arrested. Mamoud and his family were put into jail in Austria for illegally crossing the border but were released roughly after a year. When the family were released then carried on in their travels eventually landing in Germany. Based on the story Mamoud and his family were living with an old elderly lady.

cause and effect

wind chimes part 2

Text download here

Define these words

• Chinking- making noise

• Upriver- it means going toward to the source of the river

• Ponga- ponga is a type of tree.

• Sentry- something like a guard

• Pouwhenua- the statue that was carved

• Fatigues and masks - a jumpsuit but a uniform

• Staffs - its a type of stick

• Bivouacs - a tnt made of sticks

• Solar lights- it a light powered by the sun

• Glow worms - it is a worm that glows

• “Home in on us”- Home in on us means focusing on something.

• Searing blow.- a painful hit

• Remote- remote is isolated from something far away.

• What was mum's old job? Mum's old job was a teacher.

• Why is the camp called ‘camp radicals’? The camp is called camp radical because the people that are out there are living in the woods.

• What is the tikanga about carving pou? Learn all about the tools so you can use It.

• On page 42, why did Tre smile to himself?  He saw his dad's carvings.  

• What was the purpose of the pouwhenua? One is a camera and one is a marking point.

• How could you describe where Tre put his bag down?  Big marae style

• What were the people in the village doing BEFORE Tre and Muse’ arrival? And now? Some kids are reading. Kids are making cups and cooking/ carving.

• Who carved the pou?  Dad.

• Why did Tre only murmur “nice one” to Phyn? (Rather than hugging him/celebrating/etc). 

• Why was Muse leaving in the middle of the night? Because they were in trouble because muse had a tracker .

• What was on Muse’s arm? A tracker.

• Who is Phyn in relation to the other characters? Tre’s brother.

• Why did Phyn hit Tre and with what? Because he knew they were gonna get caught and so he hit them with a stick.

• Who will now follow in dad's footsteps? Phyn and hopefully tre.

• Was it the Phyn was silent written in italics like that? Because he was angry

• What was their plan after leaving the camp?

Wait until the tacker dies.

• If you were Tre, what would you do in this situation?

Go wih muse to put a stop in the tracker

wind chimes

  -Wind chimes

Define these words from the text

• Yielding- something not hard or rigid

• Wilderness- is the wild

• Batons- stick 

• Wood splintering 

• Hauled- forced to be pulled

• Settlement- when they set up their house or something

• Scarcely- able to breathe 

• Droned- a low humming sound

• Stifling-very hot room causing difficulties to breathe 

• Unsteady - something that's not ready to use 

• Disobedience- Disobedience means failure or refusal to obey rules or someone.

• Barely- don't really know them

• Clarity- being coherent and intelligible.

• Ridge long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.

• Porch- a covered protecting in the front entrance.

• Upstream opposite direction  

Explain what a ‘muse’ is. Inspiration is when you look at it you get inspirarion

• Where was Tre the day the voids turned up? How do you know? He was in class because you can see 

the teacher reading a book.

• What is the author implying by saying “as if they had done it a thousand times before?” (page 4)in the town it looked like that the voids have destroyed that town before.

• Where are Tre’s mum and dad? Why do you think this? At the hidden place

• What language feature is “as white as a hospital sheet”. it is white metaphor

• Who/what was the “one exception”. What does that mean?Muse

• How many regions are there? How do you know? What might be in the other regions? 7 region

• Where did the other kids at the new school come from? How long had they been there? How do you know?from the other region 

• What happens on page 8 that gives you a hint to something that might happen later in the story? The “run sign”

• Who said “Do Something, Tell me I’m not alone” on page 9. Tre said it .

• Do you think Muse spelt out RUN just for Tre, or do you think it's always there on her table? Why?spelt out RUN just for Tre because she knew that tre went to get out because he was different.

• How far away was the new school from Tre’s old house? How do you know this?very far away 2-3 days because it said the voids have been quiet for a few days.

• Does hushed mean killed? How do you know? If not, what else could it mean?no it means get hurt

• What is “the pen” (page 11)’ prison

• What was dad trying to tell Tre? Why couldn’t he just tell him where his/mum were? Because guards were listening.

• On page 14, what happens to tre when “his voice catches”? He catched a feeling 

• Why is Muse the one who rows the boat? Cause tre know where to go

• What language feature is “The harakeke closes in, swallowing them up”. A simile

camp

 3 days till camp! I can't wait till i get there to try out all the cool activities created for us. For example water slides, flying fox, games, archery, air rifles, swimming, high ropes, kayaking, orienteering and hanging out. But I'm most excited for archery and kayaking, but a little nervous because I've never been away with my family. And there are also bunk beds that I can share with my friends.

 

3 days later-Monday

It was hard to say goodbye to my siblings and my parents but I had to because I needed to learn how to live by myself and learn to be responsible to do stuff on my own. When we got to the bus all of us straight away went for our food and our snacks on the way, i ate rice with pork  which was pretty delicious on our way to camp ragland 40 minutes later we made toilet stop or a stop so the people can go have a look outside and have and take rest from sitting down after the stop we continued our our journey to camp ragland. 1h later. “We made it “ Railey said

After getting out our bags we went inside the hall, and we met this 2 nice instructor that introduced us to their beautiful camping site their names were Tony and jenny

We were talking about the rules and it was... having fun and i think that is a GREAT RULE! When that finished we went straight to our cabin we made a group of who gets to be in our cabin. In each cabin there can be 8 people per group/cabin.

And my group is Isi, Davlyn, Eh htoo, Havea, Wesley, Kordell, Michael and the last one is me. The next part of our camp was to do our beds and set up our beds and get ready for the next activity. For the next activity we went on the beach, it took about half an hour to get there and another on the way up. The worst thing I hated about it was going back up it was very , very TIRING. But I really enjoyed the view and the shells. When we came back from the beach, our teacher opened the pools  and we all jumped in. after the pool we had dinner and chilled in our cabin/playground and at the end we slept.

Tuesday

In was another tiring day we went for breakfast and went for another beach walk after the beach walk we got in 3 groups and did orienteering it was very hard because we had to keep on walking up the stairs and we had to answer some question to complete the activity, the next activity we did was kayaking it was pretty tiring because we had to paddle all the way to the other side of the beach and it was so much fun we had a race with the other group and surprisingly we won, after the kayaking we did sports.

Wednesday

On Wednesday morning we had a morning walk in the beach, then after that we went for paddle boarding. I think paddle boarding was really fun but really hard at the same time because we had to stand up which was really difficult to balance.

inference

why camp is great for kids

 School camp is a great way for kids to take a break from school and learn to discover new places, new skills/experiences, to take a break from social media/internet/games, and whanaungatanga(building positive relationships).

Learning new places is probably one of the best ways to enjoy a school camp, and a great way to learn about history about the city and people that used to live there. It is also a great way to be away with your familys and learn to be responsible for yourself and live a life of your own, it also gives you an opportunity to go on a holiday. It is a cheap vacation as it was only partially funded by parents ($70) and the rest was subsidised by the school. 

For the skills/experience that you can  learn from camp was, the difference between cow poo and sheep poo, new food to try, kayaking, paddle boarding, rock climbing, night walk,  (for the first time people saw glow worms during that night walk)orienteering, roasting marshmallows, fia fia night(performance), ping pong table, bunk beds/cabin, lookout/beach walk, pool, and for the last one a hugeeee flying fox. For the skills/experience that I learnt from my view was going kayaking for an estimation length of about 6 km and took about 25 minutes, and the next one was having a try paddle boarding which was pretty scary because there were some jelly fishes in the water but luckily I survived, for another experience I had to walk up a mountain that took about half an hour to get down and up which was pretty… tiring, but I did it. It was so calming on the beach the sand was so soft and wind was soaring through sky

School camp is also great for kids to get a break from games, social media, instead we can just talk face to face because gaming (being on a device all day) can hurt your brain and get you sick so it's very important to take a break from interacting with devices.

Whanaungatanga is the most important part of them all, building relationships. Building relationships is very important in camp because showing respect to the instructors is a really grateful thing because they cook you food, set up everything for you, and also for friendships, if you respect your friend they will respect you back.

And hear some examples how you can show whanaungatanga to others, introduce yourself, including people in games, hold doors for people, be a role model, be respectful, encourage others, help parents.

I think camp was the best thing that happened to me this year. It was pretty fun to get to know more people, get to know them well, and play with them all the time. And i also like their number one rule which was having fun. But the thing I liked about camp was kayaking, pool, gym, cabin, the activity, and some other fun things.

Why is swimming important to learn?

NZ is a island/country that has over 15,000 of coastline and over 700 beaches in NZ,

And also 82 people drowned in 2019, 68 in 2018 and in 2017 there are 92 people that died. Watesafety.org.nz explains that these drownings were ‘preventable’ which means they didn’t need to happen if they people had listened to lifeguards, followed the boating rules, fished from a safer place or learnt to swim. 

Why is swimming important to learn? It is important to learn swimming because it is important for your health and legs and prevents you from drowning.

PB4L(pools)

 

learning about zebrfish

 Zebrafish text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AfZGT3Fw8xj7Mh_A0OxjRzK_qOIYHrko/view

New words: .

• Anatomy- study of the body.

• Post-fertilization  - after the boy part and girl part come together to make a baby (when the cells combine)

• Himalayas - mountain range that separates China and India

• Embryo - a group of cells that turn into a baby or egg

• Genetic - relating to your DNA

• Himalayas - A country that has a lot of Mountains

• Ganges  - a long river in India

• Organs - body parts

• Juvenile - child/teenager

•   Sections - slices  

• Stained with dyes - putting different coloured liquids onto it so you can see different parts 

• Coronal -  cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back 

• Transverse -   cutting in half horizontally, E.g. cutting the head off the body

•  Sagittal - cutting in half  vertically - E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side.

Railey - zebrafish lives in a river in india, and they were known to be transparent/see through, and scientist study them because zebrafish don't take long grow and because they see through the egg so they didn't have to use xray and it only takes 2 to 3 days to grow or hatch an egg and they can survive for about 2 to 7 years depending of where they are. Scientist cuts them in different way to see or learn about them

These are the kind of cuts: 

• Coronal -  cutting in half vertically E.g. separating the front and the back 

• Transverse -   cutting in half horizontally, E.g. cutting the head off the body

•  Sagittal - cutting in half  vertically - E.g. cutting the left side away from the right side.

Scientists also cut them in different ages(hour/days post fertilization) and take pictures or use dye of what they look like when they grow up and how long they are or see their body part like eyes and body.

this is picture shows how a zebrafish looks when its a 3 day old fish cut in coronal way.

this is zebrafish cut in a traverse it has a length of 3.5mm

Zebrafish information

 

Zebrafish

 

early human evolution

 The evolution of humans can be easily seen through their Latin translations; Hominins (man), Homo Habilis (able/handy man), Homo erectus (standing man), Homo neanderthalensis and Homo Sapian (wise man). Over millions of years these creatures changed and developed. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution explains how we got to be the modern humans we are today.

Written by Miss Ashley

Theory of evolution

Charles Darwin’s ‘theory of evolution’ was made famous in 1859 when he published his book called ‘The Origin of Species’. In this book, he talked about the idea that all living things originated from one common ancestor and evolved over millions and millions of years. He also introduced the idea of ‘natural selection’. Natural selection means that animals/organisms with desirable traits (E.g. things about them that helped them to survive, like their size, camouflage, long neck, etc) would survive and pass their traits onto their children. The ones with undesirable traits (e.g. too small, too slow, couldn’t hide, couldn’t fight back) were eaten and their traits were not passed on. His ideas were accepted by scientists around the world as he had been studying different species around the world for decades. 

Written by Miss Ashley

First land organisms

The first organisms to venture onto land (apart from plants) was around 30 million years Ago. A fish called coelacanth was one of the first to venture onto land - into a shallow marine environment. Scientists think it was either looking for food, avoiding predators or laying eggs in the shallow waters. It had to develop a stronger rib cage in order to support its body weight out of water (as in water all things are more buoyant). Over time, they also evolved lungs so they could breathe, and their fins became more boney and became strong legs which helped them move.  Years after the first amphibian-like animals came along the first one had fins and years after it had half fins and legs after a lot more years it has all legs.

Written by Eh Htoo Wah, supported by Miss Ashley

Hominins

Hominins are the earliest version of a human that we know of. For about 6 to 5 million years ago hominids/ancestors have been known to live on planet earth located in Africa. They were around 130cm tall and weighed about 35kg. Hominins used to draw things in caves.  They eat hard items or food such as seeds and nuts. Hominins are closely related to humans or homosapin. And the first hominins that step foot on Africa or New Zealand 3 million years ago. And the olds hominins live for 5.8 million year. They were bipedal. They had grasp too. And they have family. Hominins evolved and turned into a human. 

Written by Mariah/Railey

 

Homo Habilis

Homo Habilis lived 2 million years ago. The person the first discovered homo habilis was Mark Leakly. Homo Habilis were flexible and versatile. They were also to eat tough food like leaves and woody plants and they also eat meat by scavenging from animal carcasses. Homo Habilis were the first kind of human to make/use tools. Their family is Hominidae and live in small groups. Homo Habilis inhabited parts of Sub Saharan Africa from roughly 2.4 to 1.5 million years ago. They also have several teeth in the lower jaw and have bipedal with no grasping feet; limiting them to a life on the ground. They are the most ancient representative of the human genus and their brain ranged in size from 550 cm cubed to 687 cm cubed. The tools made by Homo Habilis were made from volcanic rock cobbles. 

Written by Hope

Homo erectus

Homo erectus had Larger brains then the homohabilis. They were the first to leave Africa around 1.5 million years ago, then the homo erectus went into Europe/Asia. Their hands used to look like a foot but then it changed into a hand, then they had Dexterous Fingers which means they can use them. Homo erectus is a Bipedal which means they stand on two long legs. By 800,000 years ago, they used fire to cook food. Homo erectus ate meat and crisp root vegetables, they ate small animals and ate animals many times larger than their own body size, such as elephants, rhinos, buffalo, and giraffes, whereas chimpanzees. Homo erectus is an extinct species of archaic humans from the pleistocene. Homo erectus Height is 1.4 to 1.8m. Their brain size is 550-1,250 cm. They weigh about 41 kg to 65 kg. The homo erectus fossils are found in Africa, Asia and perhaps Europe. Their appearance is human-like body proportions and upright stance, a protruding brow ridge, large face and no chin. 

Written by Michael and Davlyn

Homo neanderthalensis

Homo neanderthalensis lived in southern Europe and Asia. They are commonly called Neanderthals, named after a region in Germany where fossils were found. They existed around 1,000,000 years ago and are often depicted hunting ice age animals such as mammoths. Their height was around 1.7m.  Neanderthals lived alongside early modern humans for at least part of their existence. They had large front teeth; scientists think they used these like a third hand when preparing food and other materials. They lived peacefully and had children with other types of humans. Homo neanderthalensis looked after their sick and buried their dead. They were mammals. Neanderthals could make their own spears and flint handaxes. They used their tools to kill large mammals and eat them. Their skulls were like the same size as homo sapiens; they had a large nose, strong brow bridge. Scientists think that their stocky bodies and wide open nostrils helped them survive colder climates. 

Written by Wesley

Homo sapiens 

Homo sapiens is the scientific name for modern humans. It is the only extant homo species (not extinct). Homo sapiens first migrated from Africa 70-50,000 years ago and lived in Southern Asia and Europe. Males were around 1.7m tall and females around 1.6m tall. They ate meat gathered by killing animals, plants and fungi. They lived at the same time as some Neanderthals, and lived peacefully alongside them, even interbreeding with them. Some modern humans have upto 2% Neanderthal DNA in them.

Ideas and draft by Saia, Kymani and Nitika, rewritten by Miss Ashley.

Over time, humans grew bigger and taller, travelled across continents, learnt to make and use tools/weapons, learnt to cook food, and grew bigger brains.