Tesselating Frogs

Tessellating Shapes

collage of nz bird

TODAY WE WORKED WITH MISS MINEHAN TO CREATE A COLLAGE OF A NZ BIRD.
I CHOSE THE WEKA BECAUSE WE HAVE LOTS OF THEM AT HOME. THIS TASK WAS FUN BECAUSE I LEARNT SOME NEW SKILLS

Angles In Our World

Te Reo work in He Kakano

KOWHAIWHAI PATTERN

         MY KOWHAIWHAI ART 

BY DANIEL 

In He Kākano (our senior māori group) we have been
learning about
kowhaiwhai and their meanings. I had to create
a piece of
artwork showing
at least one kowhaiwhai  pattern.
Here is what I created. 

The red koru represents my whanau.
There is mum dad my sister and myself.
The dark green koru represent the nature and the bush.
I put these on because my family
loves going tramping and being in the outdoors.
The light green Design
represents ABUNDANCE.
I chose this design
because the bush is all about growth and ABUNDANCE.  

The yellow design represents Te Rā ( The Sun ) 

The blue design represents the weather
and how it can rapidly
change in Aotearoa.       

Wild Things

SPITFIRE ANIMATION

SPEECH

WILD THINGS

St John People Savers

Ski Trip 2019

Snow  mountain  beautiful  white  ice cold protruding exasperating

  

We are learning to write recounts. Recounts can be presented in many ways , including visually. I have presented my recount through word art and photographs.

Jake Bailey

We had an inspirational speaker his name is Jake Bailey and he is a cancer survivor. he came to talk to us about life skills. He was head boy at both intermediate and high school.

The things he told us about were happiness, leadership, bravery and resilience. He told us that happiness is something you earn. Leadership is something you have but you use it when you are about 10 years old. Bravery is fighting through hard times in your life and keeping going when times get hard.

We need to live our lives the best we can and live it well  for those who have died. I think that Jake Bailey is a legend because he never gave up when life was really hard.

Cuboid Hunt

I worked with Grace to do the Cuboid Hunt. We did a video on the area of a cuboid and how to work it out.

SPCA

I AM SUPPORTING SPCA BY BAKING CUPCAKES AND SELLING THEM TO FRIENDS
https://cupcakeday2019.everydayhero.com/nz/daniel

Perimeter and area of shapes

Analogy

comic strip

Kea patrol writing

I strongly believe that we should have kea patrol at schools  because it saves lives on the main road. Karoro School is situated on State Highway 6 and even though the speed limit is 40 km/hour from 8:30-9 and 3:00-3:15 every school day, people still speed.  The two main reasons for having a kea crossing are safety and responsibility.

Firstly, safety is key for all schools.  By safety I mean young homo sapiens arriving at school and getting home untouched. Did you know two children get injured each week by getting hit on New Zealand roads! It is vital to have kea patrol because kids are thinking about nothing but getting home and they might spontaneously run across the active state highway.   Without road patrol we may have two or more children being hurt or even killed every single day.  

Secondly, kea road patrol gives year seven and eight students responsibility, leadership and an understanding of road safety.  By responsibility I mean year 7 and 8 students are trained by NZ Police to put other people’s children in their hands.  23,000 students do this every year by putting on their high visibility vest, getting the flags, picking up the lollypop signs and heading to the roadside.  Before any children cross State Highway 6 outside Karoro School the caller states “check” and when it is clear of traffic or traffic has stopped the other student calls “clear” and “cross now.”  Students ensure the teachers return safely and then state “off patrol” and take the signs out.  Did you know in England the adults do road patrol and are called Lollypop Man and Lollypop Woman?  In New Zealand the children always do it!  Road patrol provides our young people with a sense of road safety for themselves and others.

Kea patrol is a brilliant thing.  It keeps our kids safe from road danger and enables responsibility and leadership for year seven and eights.  I am very grateful that this is enforced and I have the opportunity to save lives on the road!

By Daniel 

SHOW REVIEW

Review of  MANA SPIRIT OF POLYNESIA

Hoop dances and moonwalks. On Friday the tenth of May the whole school went to the tech centre to see a performance. The show called ‘Mana’ was performed by Bernard Mangakahia. For me the show was average. I found it was boring in some parts but mostly fun.

Bernard talked about his family and he did some cool dances. The cultures that he danced from were Native American Indian and Māori  and Hawaiian.  I liked all of these because he could do tricks. He was constantly spinning while using the hoops to make animal shapes. Some of the animals he made were a horse, a butterfly, eagle , bumblebee and so on. 

Bernard performed for us because he wanted to teach people about cultures.  I think that the school should have people from other cultures come to perform.  I think that this is important because  we are not racist and we are open to all cultures.

Mahatma Ghandi

Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi stood up for his rights, exactly like Nelson Mandela had done. What he had done affected a lot of people in a good way.

Mahatma was born on 2nd of October 1869 and he died on the 30th of January 1948. Firstly, Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. In India there was a lot of things that weren’t fair and there was racism going around. Mahatma was greatly against it.

Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa to work for the South African office of an Indian legal firm. This is when Mahatma Gandhi unexpectedly found out there was racism. When he was on a train a white guy wouldn’t sit next to him, he found out that Indians in South Africa were received with the worst jobs.

 Secondly, Mahatma Gandhi was really famous for his actions and what he believed. He helped the Indians, by denying to get his finger print scanned and he wanted everyone to do the same. Mahatma thought that he helped the Indians in his country. Then they all started to follow in his lead.

 Finally, Mahatma Gandhi went to prison because he denied to the things that the government told him. He protested peacefully against racism and many Indians went to prison. Mahatma said “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” Mahatma meant by saying that fighting is a really bad thing and how it can bring the worse to people. I strongly believe that he should not have gone to prison.

 In conclusion, Mahatma Gandhi was a good person and did good things to have equal rights. Mahatma Gandhi went to prison for trying to make equal rights and make it fair. How his actions affected us today, that people of all races are allowed to have any job and many people are inspired by him. I think he was a good guy because he believed in equal rights and he stood up for other people.

 By Milan and Daniel Mahatma Gandhi

Taniwha Writing

The Protector of the Bush and Forest.

Once upon a time in a dark and dismal
forest there lived a taniwha. He is the
protector of the forest. His name is

Cutalot  He protected the forest with
a chainsaw  and a weed wacker. He
was 16 metres long and 2 metres tall
he liked to eat big macs and  
cheeseburgers.

One warm, sunny day a beautiful woman
called Hangitangi walked along the stone
covered beach where Cutalot lived. He
instantly fell in love with her. He wanted
her for himself. Her beauty astounded him,
her soot black hair blew in the calm breeze,
her sapphire blue eyes glimmered under
the fiery orange sun.  

Slowly Cutalot crept towards her and pulled
her into his pool. He said, “GET IN MA POOL
BOII.”

Over time Hangitangi fell in love with Cutalot.
In fact, Cutalot and Hangitangi become
leaders and heroes of the forest.   They did
this by eliminating all bad weeds and pests.
One day Cutalot found some gorse so he
walked off into the woods to get his
sprayer…

By Daniel        

stats work

Summer Learning Journey: Activity 3: Burning Up

Summer Learning Journey - DAY 2: The Air Up There Activity 1: Bee Informed

Unbee-lievable Facts about Bumblebees

• The word ‘bumblebee’ is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word ‘bumble’ means to hum, buzz, or drone.
• Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of 54 kilometres per hour (km/h).
• Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to 90 percent of their body weight in food with them to avoid starvation.
• Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do up to   50 times as much work as a normal honeybee.
• The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand due to a number of factors, including the removal of wildflowers and flowering trees, habitat loss, and extensive use of pesticides..

Week 3: Activity 2: Carbon Sinks Don’t Stink!

This is tricky because I love everything and am not fussy!

Summer Learning Journey: Week 3: Activity 3: Flying Fungi

Because we cant get rid of the 7 moulds in 1 go, we need 7 lots of 5 days.

35 days or 5 weeks to get rid of 7 moulds in the classroom.

summer learning journey week 2 day 3 activity 3

To lift a 500 kg squid you will need 16 adults to work this out I went 400 divided by 25 = 16
and you need you need 6.6666666667 children which is impossible so i rounded it up to 7 kids.  In total thats 23 people to lift the squid.

summer learning journey week 2 day 3 activity one

I am a night owls so is mum. Dad and Emma are early birds. 

summer learning journey

1 Cabbage
2 lettuce 
3 spinach
4 potato
5 tomato
6 parsley
7 eggplant
8 apples
9 lemons
10 broccoli

summer learning journey DAY 3: Awesome Animals Activity 1: Fantastic Beasts

THE LIVING STATUE

As I stood staring in terror, the deadly
black
slit seemed to swallow me up. The
weight
of the 15 ton giant, thumped into the
dusty
sand, like a runaway steam roller. And
now
the smell of bloody meat and bones
slithered up my nostrils and slid down
my
spinal cord.  

I knew I should be running for my life but
its ātaahua (beauty) held me rigid.   

It looks like someone has painted a
masterpiece on a scaly moss kakariki
(green) canvas and then spray painted
highlights on parts of it.  The fiery
yellow
eyelids look like a warm summer sunset
on a clear kengo (night). Its beauty is
shattered by a mighty belch that
sounds
like a tīhara (diesel) truck backfiring.
He ran as fast as a golf cart that had
been
biffed of a cliff.          

I say to myself, “Damn, I didn’t think
my
day could get any worse!”

summer learning journey

I think that it is a good rule because it makes them realize they have done something bad 

summer learning journey

I will  beat plastic polution by,

1  Not using any straws.
2 Taking material bags into the supermarket every shop.
3 I will stop buying things with lots of plastic on it.
4 I will use plastic bottles for insulation on my tree hut. This could go well in the building industry 

summer learning journey

Mountain biking because I love mud,water and speed. This is me on the Sullivan's  track at denniston plateau

summer learning journey

If I could save 10 animals it would be 

1.kiwi because they are native,endemic and also very cute 

2. Whio because they sound lovely and look magnificent 

3. bats because there are only 2 species of bat left in NZ

4. Rata because they don't flower every year  

5. Mistletoe because it is a very colourful epiphyte

6. Kaka Beak because i want to grow more on my bush track entrance 

7. Dragonfly its wings have intricate patterns 

8. Cicadas because they have an interesting life cycle

9. Ferns because i like when the sun shines through them on my bush track

10. Tui because I

 love their wattles