Lake Ohau Fire

 

WALT: Research Facts and Information correlating to Current events in the News

Today for Current Events I chose to do my Presentation on the Lake Ohau Blaze that devastated houses, land and estates around the Area, it is safe to say no one was Harmed or Killed in the Fire.

I enjoyed this activity because it was interesting to Research and the Information was Readily available to be Sourced and gathered to bring together the Presentation, What I did not like about this activity that some of the Sites gave a Complete lack of information and gave no Sources.

Summer Learning Journey W1

 Today we started our Summer Learning Journey challenge in which we had to recolour famous artworks and swap around the colours, play around with the Sandbox and mess with the Colours, here is my artwork:

I chose these Colours because I thought that they looked nicer and matched the image more than the original, for reference; here is a photo:

Current Events Covid-19 Vaccine

 

For our Current Events quiz today I chose to do some writing on the Covid-19 Vaccine by Moderna. I found this activity pretty easy to write and decorate as the News had just come out and just began producing it.

I didn't find it that difficult to do, If you want to go back and see previous ones search for the "Current Events" tag on my blog.

Current Events Napier Flood

 

I did this presentation about the Napier Floods for our Weekly Current Events, it just explains what happened and how it happened.

I found this easy to make because it was a simple topic and there were lots of sources that gave me information, it wasn't difficult because it was just really simple and easy.

Sportsmanship for Dummies

 

This was a Slideshow that I created showing the Values of Sportsmanship, we did this for our T-Shaped Literacy Reading activity. I made 2 slides, one had photos and a small blurb about how you can be a good sport.

I wrote a small Rap Song on the side but didn't have time to record it, I loved making the Slide and it was funny to make. I found it challenging to come up with the Lyrics to the Rap Song.

Sportsmanship Word Map

 

WALT: Make connections by thinking about underlying ideas within and between texts.

WALT: Make connections by thinking about underlying ideas within and between texts.

For our Olympic Sportsmanship T-Shaped literacy, this was one of our activities. We had to pick a word from a list and do some research on it.

I found it very easy and there was really nothing hard about it.

    

DOJ Files a Lawsuit against Google

The United States Department of Justice has filed an Antitrust Lawsuit on the widely popular Web Searching index “Google”, following antitrust laws the D.O.J has filed a legal suit on the Corporation for violation for Trust Laws and Breaching agreement standards. They claim that Google, being a massive company with billions of users are blocking other Engines out using its tremendously large Size and broad reach across nations, and using Currency Exchange to prevent other Internet Surf index Engines from succeeding and thriving, not allowing them to put up a fair chance.  

The Washington DOJ has started to take action against Google misusing and abusing its power, they have been misleading Competitors and paying more money to make sure that they stay at the top of the Web Search Index Hierarchy. The DOJ claims that the Search Giant is “Crippling the Competitive Process” and that, “American Citizens should have right to see and use other companies”, the members of the DOJ that are suing Google have requested for the Judge not to pick apart and abolish and annex their company but to sell of a portion of it to someone and choose to look at something else. Using complaints and previous suits against the Corporation the DOJ are claiming that they are misusing consumers trust and are not playing a fair game with the Competitors. 

The DOJ suit is looking to become successful in selling a small portion of the Web Giant and giving the people willing to sue another engine a chance to find it; blocking out some for the unfair reach and advantage of Google, the DOJ thinks that Google They claim that “Google resisted everything” and that following up this suit would grant 3rd party engines access to reach and portions of sites. They will be prevented from taking out all the 3rd Party Companies like Yelp. The Judge involved with this case is following through, even after a Google Rep stating that the DOJ, a Federal Agency. “Does not have to votes to sue them.”

WALT: Research Current Events shown in our weekly quiz.

I chose the DOJ suit against Google, I thought that the topic was very interesting and wanted to learn more. I enjoyed doing research and creating the presentation. It was easy to do because it was just doing a bit of writing.

I found it difficult to source some of the sites I visited to validate the information that was listed, some of the info didn't match up with other sites.

I hope you enjoy the Presentation; leave a Comment with some Feedback.

Alfred Nobel Timeline

This was a Timeline Slideshow I did about the inventor Alfred Nobel, he was a Swedish Inventor and made several huge inventions like Jelly and Dynamite. He was Born on 21st of October, 1833 and died on 10th December, 1896 of a Stroke.

I hope you enjoy the Timeline

How to figure out a Timetable (Simple)

 How to Read Timetables in a Simple Format and follow them: First of all, you start off by Reading the question; as always. See the image to the right. You start off by looking for Nicklin Way on the Timetable and follow it down to Bungama St, you see the time on Nicklin Way and do some simple addition to add the time onto 1:45 pm to 2:02, thus meaning the answer would be 17 minutes.

In my opinion, this task was easy and took me 5 minutes; I really dislike this activity because it is boring and only have to do 2 Maths Tasks and write/do a video of a DLO.

Current Events quiz: FBI Raid

 

WALT: Research and describe current events that were in a quiz and the news at this point in time.

I chose to do some research and do a small Drawing about a Michigan Militia Groups plot kidnap the Michigan Governor. the FBI Raided their house and arrested the 6 men.

I enjoyed doing the research and writing and designing my Drawing, the sites, some of the sites I went to lacked information and went off the topic. 

Yesterday, we did a quiz about current events and had to answer the questions about local things that happened in the news, I chose the FBI raid on 6 men's houses. 

I found it challenging to find some of the facts and images whilst doing my research.

Why was the COVID-19 Vaccine put on Hold?

The COVID Vaccine was put on hold because of a Participant/Patient that fell ill and got serious side effects that were found after the patient had received the vaccine for the Coronavirus, AstraZeneca's attempted to create this Vaccine but failed, the process was halted because a patient had side effects from the vaccine. This patient developed side effects and slowly contracted an Unkown Disease, the Patient had symptoms of the Flue and COVID-19 so, in turn, they halted the vaccine.

I found some of the research difficult because the news sites didn't give all of the information. The research was fun though, choosing the question was hard.

We did this to boost our knowledge with general questions about Politics and world events. Some of the questions were difficult and hard to answer. I foduns oem fo the questions hard to answer, I'm not quite sure how many quesitons I got right in the quiz.

Maui Animation

 For an Activity about Maori Language week I made an animation on a site called "Piskel", you use drawing tools and blocks to draw an image and you can animate the image and manipulate its properties using the things/tools that it gives you. 

Mo tetahi Mahi e pa ana ki te wiki o te Reo Maori i hanga ahau i tetahi pakiwaituhi i runga i te papaanga ko "Piskel", ka whakamahi koe i nga taputapu tuhi me nga poraka hei tuhi whakaahua ka taea ai e koe te whakaari i te ahua me te whakahaere i ona taonga ma te whakamahi i nga mea / taputapu e hoatuhia ana ki a koe.

This was the animation I made, it shows Maui doing a spin around and walking into one corner and comes out the other, it is quite simple. I didn't draw the image myself obviously. Credit to penguin.co.nz for the image. I hope you enjoy. 

Koinei te pakiwaituhi i hangaia e au, e whakaatu ana i a Maui e huri haere ana, e hikoi ana ki tetahi kokonga, ka puta ki tetahi, he maamaa noa. Kare ahau i maarama ake i te whakaahua. Nama ki penguin.co.nz mo te whakapakoko. Ko te tumanako ka pai ki a koe.

Leave a comment and give me some feedback on it.

Waiho i tetahi korero ka whakahok kupu mai ki ahau.

Maori Language week Quiz

 Here is a quiz I made about Maori Language and culture, it consists of questions about the language and asks about different words mean certain things, have a go at the quiz to see if you can beat the quiz; try it with your friends.

https://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=ed52238f-2481-4c07-97a7-5fdcd4a561d2

It was fun to make but some fo the questions were difficult because there aren't a lot of them to ask.

Maori Language Week Crossword

F X Z X R C A Y R N H A N T S 
N C U F K E P F I N O Y E H E 
Q Y D Q M R U V A R A I F E I 
U M L B O I K V E K T U Q Z U 
E P H N F Q U T H E A K M X A 
S O Q I Q U O N I M Y H R A M 
M A P O K A H S C C A D X O I 
D H F Q F Q V Z W S O C M D U 
E L F X Y B Q G J N H K X F P 
K L G X M K H C G W C U H A F 
Y K Z S P H O A V S O M O H W 
A B P U Y O T T P T L L W F N 
K I A O R A I Y I J T J D A W 
F J G P C S T K Y W H F T R D

F R R H H X I T W R Z K R Z X

This was the crossword that I made for Maori Langauge Week, try and solve the puzzle and put the answers in the comments; show this to your friends to see if they can solve it. This quiz consists of important Maori Phrases, names and other things about Maori Culture and history. 

Key: Aoteroa, Haka, Hakopa, Hotiti, KiaOra, Maui, Mea, Naumai and Teitei. 

Try and solve them all.

Pop Art/Calendar Art Slideshow

WALT: Create an image with the illusion of movement using bright colours and Pop Art and Culture images.

We are creating a piece of art for our Calendar art, we are using bright colours and several shadowed pieces of paper to make Pop Art; we got the inspiration from the Famous Painter and Ruke-Breaking Artist, he did artwork like no one else did. For more info on him and too see what we've been doing look at the slide.

There is also information about Pop Art and art pieces that I like, Hope you enjoy reading it.

Generation Zero.

Generation Zero- 

Generation Zero is a New Zealand Youth Run organization dedicated on changing the planet, Generation Zero is a non-profit, volunteer-run basis on what climate change is and how they can fight it, Gen Z, as it’s commonly known as is used to teach people about fossil fuels and find new and innovative ways to combat it and lessen the effects of climate change due to pollution from fossil fuels and gases as the such. They are an organization that makes no money but instead spread the word of Climate change. They find ways to teach people about climate change and they strive for glory in cutting off the emission of fossil fuels which are affecting the planet. Generation Zero started out in Mexico, they find ways to cut carbon emissions from transport, they are a Youth-Led organisation located in most major cities scattered around New Zealand. They find innovative ways to travel from Point A to Point B definitely without using oil or fossil fuels, which as a result will help cut the carbon emission, slowing down global warming's effects on the earth.  They are always looking for young people to recruit as they believe that younger persons have more ability and that they should be at the front pushing for a new age.

I hope you might think about joining Gen Z and their fight against climate change. They are a really good cause and you should consider volunteering in later years.

For our reading, we had to write a small piece of text about "Gen Z" and what they do.

Global Warming: Cause and Effect.

For our Reading we have done a cause and effect sheet about our book which is covering the topic of Global Warming, Global Warming is a serious problem for the world and we wanted to learn more about it, hence why we have based our Reading off of Global Warming; This post ties into our Enviro Inquiry about Biomes, What lives in them; how they survive and facts about them.

The effect is the aftermath of the Cause, i.e Earth is warming from fossil fuels like coal, greenhouses gases, carbon dioxide and nitrate gases which are going into the air. Effect: bla bla bla.

I hope you learnt something of this post if you did or didn't let me know in the comments.

Hello/Goodbye Poem

WALT: Create a "Poem" about lockdown revolving around "Hello/Goodbye"

This is a poem I wrote about the lockdown and what I miss about lockdown but what is good about not being in lockdown now. The poem symbolizes my favourite things about lockdown but also shows what I like about being in level 2.

The idea of the poem is to welcome in the new things about not being in lockdown and say goodbye to the things about lockdown we loved.

Some things were good and some were bad. Both are included in this poem.

Enjoy reading it, comment your thoughts about it below.

Orographic Rain

This post is all about the type of rain called Orographic rain, this rain is connected to the coast very well as it explains why we have so much rain here, have a read and take a look at the facts. Maybe you learned something new about rain and the different types.

Ecosystem Word Find.

This is a word find that I did via google drawing about ecosystems, have a rack at it and see if you can find all the words. Use the key to check if you have found the correct word or what ones you have found.

This word find is all about Eco-Systems and vocabulary surrounding it. These Words all have something to do with eco-systems and life within them. I found it a bit difficult to place the words in the Word find but I got it in the end.

Type where they are and how many you found in the comments.

My Bubble Memories

These are some of my best memories from the time spent in my bubble, well it's really just the only photos I could find but that's beside the point. I really liked some of these moments, like eating that bread. Or eating the wicked wings from KFC. And making and eating that cake. I also liked getting the warrant for my Triumph Trident T150 2. I found it pretty difficult to get some of the photos, but I liked reminiscing on the lockdown.

Overall I have enjoyed lockdown but can't wait for it to be over with so we can get out again.

Interactive DLO

This is an interactive DLO where you can answer the questions, you must be in full screen for this to work properly, and don't cheat and skip slides. We have been doing our Maths this week on Reflection, Rotation and Translation.  You have to press the link to what you think the answer is, once you get it right you move onto the next slide. This activity is fun to do and was fun to make, some parts may be challenging, and some parts were when I made this just have a crack at it. See if you can get them all without getting one wrong.

Matariki Harakeke Weaving

This was my attempt at weaving a Harakeke Whetu star for celebrating Matariki, my initial attempt at the star was going very well until I had to put the points together, Neither I or my Mum could understand the instructions as the images they showed weren't very clear. I ended up undoing all of the star points I had made and had to restart with the points.

The 2nd attempt at making the points for the star went downhill fast. I managed to get it slightly resembling it but only by slightly winging it and altering the design. Then I pulled on the final point to finish it off and it all fell to pieces. All I had left was 4 flax bits when I decided I might try it another day.

I really enjoyed finding the flax and it was really fun, yet frustrating to weave it together. I liked the idea and concept of it yet I failed miserably. The only photo I took was when I had the 2 bases complete.

 I found it was very challenging was actually putting it together at the start, you had to wrap your hand and then knot it; it took alot of attempts to get this step correct. In the end I decided I would just try it some other time and see if I could do it.

Daily connection question

If you could have a dinner party with 3 people living or dead who would it be and why?

The people I would bring to a dinner party would be:
1: My Dead Grandpa. I never got to meet him and I've heard so many stories of how great he was, I always wanted to meet him but he died before I was born; I've always wanted to know who he was, what he looked like and how he acted. All I know about him was he chopped down trees with axes, think of a Kauri tree, and that be built the Fijian Airport.

2: Brenton Tarrant. I would bring this man to the dinner party because I want to ask him why did he think it would be a good idea to go into a sacred Mosque with firearms and commit genocide. I want to ask him if he ever thought about the families of the people he killed, I want to ask him if he ever thought of the grieving mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters of the people killed in the mosque. I want to make him stop and think, see if he felt any remote for his actions.

3: Jack the Ripper. I would bring him to a dinner party to ask the same thing. Why did you kill all of those people? was it for a reason? Or just because you felt like it. Why did you target young couples too? I also just want to see his face, ask him if he felt remorse for his actions and what he has done. I want to see his true identity, see if he was crazy or just a mastermind with a screw loose. I want to ask him if he ever wanted to turn himself in or if he ever stopped to think what he was doing was wrong.

My lockdown poem

“Lockdown is silent,

the heavy rain stabs you in the back like a trident,

These rhymes are sweet like thyme,

As much noise as a mime,

All-day in,

We don’t have a bin

I still have my chin and my shin

Wating for the day,

When I’m in Guadeloupe,

Lockdown really fun,

But there ain’t no sun,

Now I’m done.”

This was a poem I came up with for our writing activity. This epic rhyme symbolises my thoughts in
lockdown and expresses emotions artistically through writing and song.

What I found to be challenging in this poem was trying to think of 1 of the words to rhyme with,
the rest was pretty easy.

What I liked about this activity is that it was fun, in the sense that I just like rhymes and poems.
I also liked how it turned out in the end.

My Matariki Reflection.

   

What lessons have I learnt this year: 

Some lessons that I learnt this year actually changed me for the better, alot of these lessons have been regarding physical health and awareness. The biggest lesson I have learnt is that you do actually need lots of exercises, for a long time I have been doing minimal exercise for quite some time. Another lesson that I actually have learnt this year is this you can’t just fill up on juices and drinks filled with sugar. I used to only drink juice, fizzy drink and other sweet beverages but I have learnt that lesson, even though Matariki is a time for leisure It is also a time for knowledge, the knowledge I had was not to stay un-fit and unhealthy.

Another few lessons I have learnt this year is that you don’t need to be going to the supermarket constantly and can work with what you’ve got, even though Matariki states that the winter stocks were plentiful, many people’s “stocks” were low, but people (our family included) learn this lesson, to work with what you’ve got. This pandemic and lockdown have brought many lessons, especially handwashing. Alot of people didn’t wash their hands often enough before this pandemic but I feel that lesson as been spread onwards to everyone.

I have learnt that staying at home and connecting with your Whanau is very important, home-cooked dinner every night is ok and spending most of your time with your family and people in your bubble really helps to build a stronger relationship with those close to you. And that you should spend more time being with those you love. I used to spend the majority of my time cooped up in my room but have learnt to not be in there constantly and to spend time with my Whanau and those in my bubble. 

My successes this year:

I have been getting out more and enjoying the sun like I said I spent most of my time outside; Rarely ever going for walks and getting outside. My main success this year was going for a 20-minute walk every day; which was also a success for my Dad, he is also always cooped up in his little hut on his computer all day, but it’s his job so it’s reasonable.

I have also succeeded at not being as lazy, I have actually been bothered to do SOME things. If they are kinda fun and not just boring. Succeeding at not being lazy wasn’t really a success in my book but I’ll include it as it probably wasn’t good and feel I have succeeded not being as lazy as I was. Even though lockdown is getting to me, and so is the couch. I’m still going to attempt to persevere.

I’m not sure if our family has had any major milestones in the past year. I think my grandpa died; Not sure though. The biggest milestone that we’ve had in the past year was probably something about our horse or something. We did birth some puppies but that was pretty minor. We haven’t moved anywhere or travelled, we never travel and maybe 2 people died, not sure if that was a few years ago. The birth ties to that too.

The past year.

For me, the past year has been great. I’ve been getting more into my hobbies like shooting, target shooting. Shooting animals, playing pool, skinning animals and collecting knives.

The past year has been really great, even though it was a slow year it was fun. It was a very enjoyable year and I found out some of my favourite things that year. Like this good food that I had one time. And getting some of my proudest possessions. It wasn’t a very eventful year but it was still pretty mediocre, sorta fun. The past year for me was great. I haven’t been hit by a car, and I’m still alive, so it’s safe to say the past 12 months have been pretty good.

ANZAC Radio Interview

One of our writing activities is to do a group collaboration activity on a script for a radio interview, POV or back in the days in the ANZAC times, I chose to work alone and to do a radio interview with AI-Generated voices.

The video is asking questions about the war and answering them with facts we learnt in prior activities and other things, also to give it a human touch.

What I found challenging about this was editing the video to get it all nice and flush and not choppy. It was also how WeVideo kept crashing.

What I enjoyed about this activity was the writing, I loved writing the script and the editing; even though it was challenging it was fun. I also enjoyed reviewing the final product and was pretty happy with it.

Book Characters 3 wishes

I am reading a book called: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for 20 minutes a day, for a reading activity, we were asked the hypothetical question of: "If a genie were to pop into the midpoint of your book and grant the 2 main characters 3 wishes each what would they be?"

The 2 main characters in the book:

Arthur dent

Ford Prefect

3 wishes I would imagine Arthur to have would be:

For his house to not be destroyed

To still be on earth with his non destroyed house

To get home

3 wishes I think Ford would have:

Infinite Alchohol

A forever lasting party

Plenty of towels.

ANZAC History Facts.

Coming up to ANZAC Day most of our activities are ANZAC Related, today we went through a list of facts to see which ones surprised us and why. Some of these facts were really unbeknownst to me and really put a perspective in. 

No.1 Fact: ANZAC Day is commemorated in France in the towns of Le Quesnoy and Longueval. I really had no idea that anywhere in France celebrated ANZAC Day, nor that France had anything to do with the war what so ever; I thought that France didn't have anything to do with the invasion of Gallipoli, 1915. I thought it was just New Zealand, Australia and Tonga and the cook islands; who helped during the war.

No.2 Fact: There is no town called “Gallipoli”. It is the name of an area. I always thought that Gallipoli was a town in Turkey, or a city and nit a Peninsula; I thought the would name the town they landed in not the name of the area take the invasion of Normandy for example; I thought that they would keep it as the name of the city, not the area.

No.3 Fact: The wearing of rosemary on ANZAC Day is done as a mark of respect for the men who never returned from Gallipoli, or indeed, later wars. The wearing of it honours the memory of those brave men. Rosemary? Who would've thought they sued rosemary to commemorate the fallen men in the Battle of Gallipoli, or later wars; I thought it was aways just a poppy and nothing else, the poppy was always the sign and I have never heard of wearing rosemary. It also goes well with beef.


What was good about this activity is that it was laid out easily, and you didn't have to go hunting for facts that everyone already knows. This had some really good facts and really unknown facts as well.

What was difficult about this activity was that some of these facts I had never heard of and wouldn't have had any clue of; so I thought a few might be lies. I also found it hard to choose 3 as there were so many to pick.

Flights to Australia: Time, Travel distance, cost and routes.

WALT: Gather information about flight times, routes, travel distances and cost.

Our Maths activity today was to find flights to Australia, gather the Time to get to the destination, the routes, the travel distance and the cost of the flights.

Each of the 5 cities are all different in terms of cost, time and routes.

The longest flight being Perth, 17 hours and 30 minutes long, also being the most expensive coming in at $1,442 dollars; Followed by Canberra with $1,326 being $116 dollars behind.

Maybe you could use this as a travel guide if you ever want to go to Australia, or just to cross-examine to see which is cheaper and a better option to choose if you do ever go on vaction.

20 Minute Book intro

Hello, this video is explaining to you the book that I'm going to be reading for 20 minutes a day, starting today.

This book is called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. This book was suggested to me by my Dad as he thought it was a funny book.

The origin of this book was a tent in Europe, Douglas Adams was backpacking around Europe with a book called "Europe on 10 dollars a day", Douglas was bored in his tent and decided to write a book series called: "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy."

Link to Intro.

ANZAC Tribute.

World War 1 will always be a significant part in NZ and Australian History, specifically the invasion of Gallipoli, April 15th, 1915, where more the 50,000 Australians landed, and over 8556 NZ Soldiers landed on the Turkish Peninsula of Gallipoli.

Some videos about the Battle will be put into this slide along with some songs to go with them.

Video About the ANZAC Exhibit at Te Papa. This video tells the story of a Medic in the battle of Gallipoli, a Nurse and a Soldier in the Māori Battalion. This video tells the story from the New Zealand side of things.

Australian Version, This video tells the story of the invasion of Gallipoli on the Australian side of things, it has a more vast outlook and is overseeing the whole battle and the struggles of soldiers, not just 2.

Here are some of the first songs from World War 1:

This is one of the first songs. Pictures of the soldiers play throughout the background of this video. This song was sung and created by the Australian soldiers in World war 1, They created this song to sing at the hill of Achi Babi, which was never captured.

This is the Maori Battalion Marching Song. This song was played and sang by the Maori Battalion in world war 1, the soldiers marched to this song and chanted it throughout the battle.

Australian War hero songs. This song is a tribute to all the War Hero’s of World War 1 in the Australian army.

Puzzle of the Day

There are 27 figures of speech in this photo, can you guess one?

This was our puzzle of the day for our first day of working from home. If you can figure out any of these that would be great if you can; Post them in the comments below. Try to solve as many of these as possible.

A list of a few that I have found:

Kick the Bucket

Cat's got his tounge.

Time flies

Spill the beans

A Screw loose

Don't put all your eggs in 1 bucket.

Don't get cold feet.

Here is a list of all the answers if you need help, or use them to boost your vocabulary!

Use this to see if you got them all right.

1. Silver spoon in one’s mouth
2. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
3. Hit the nail on the head
4. Time flies
5. A picture is worth a thousand words
6. Plate is full
7. Kick the bucket
8. Crow over
9. The shoe is on the other foot
10. Cats got your tongue
11. An ace up your sleeve
12. Cards close to one’s chest
13. You can’t make an omelette without breaking egg
14. Spill the beans
15. Cut to the chase
16. In a nutshell
17. Put a bug in someone’s ear
18. Put one’s best foot forward
19. Cherry on the cake
20. Red herring
21. Big cheese
22. A piece of cake
23. Make ends meet
24. Joker in the pack
25. Tie in knots
26. Holding a cat by a tail
27. Heart on one’s sleeve

ANZAC Crossword

For our Homework due to Coivd-19 we were set several reading tasks about books on ANZAC where we could choose an area to focus on.

For this Activity I chose the logic and math section and chose to make a crossword about it.

Have a go and see if you can read this or even have a go at the crossword by jotting it down in your own book.