Summer learning journey day three

summer learning journey Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots - week 1 - teaser week

The Dream Giver

Issac's Rugby League

     RUGBY LEAGUE
            



In this writing I will be telling you why 
we should get more people to play rugby league.
Just this year Suburbs under 15’s had a combined
team with almost every team in the grade. This is
a problem that has affected New Zealand a lot with sports funding.
This is why I want to convince more people to play rugby league.




Firstly, Rugby league is a fast thinking sport that you can combine
brain and brawn to help win the game. Most people believe that
rugby league is too rough and it is all about trying to hurt the other
team but they are wrong! It is about teamwork and sportsmanship.
While it is rough and sometimes painful there is more chance getting
hurt in your car then there is playing league. 





 Secondly, Rugby league recently has had a massive drop in players
which means there will be less teams for people to play for. At this
rate soon their will only be a hand full of teams to play for. As you
can see if this happens then sports will vanish very quickly.
Rugby league can train you for many
different sports like soccer because you get
amazing leg strength and even mountain bike riding.
I belive that we should all play rugby league.





Thirdly, as technology grows less people take part in rugby league.
That is making more people turn to gaming or being non social which
is very bad for your mental health. As human beings we need human
interaction to live or everyone would be mentally unstable. This is why
we need more league players. 



  In conclusion I belive that we should be helping the league community to get more funding and more players to have more teams. Lets bring
back rugby league! 

The Crime Report

                                         TOKI POUNAMU 
                FILM FESTIVAL

Today we went to the Toki Pounamu Film Festival. Each school made a small clip to show a bunch of different schools. My favorite one was when there was a robber who stole 2m💲 was found sleeping behind a shed and then ran away but was caught by two detectives.One angle that I really liked eas when they did wide screen with slow motion.

I really liked the idea of a news report about a robber who stole 2m💲at paroa school. The way it shot because it seemed like it was shot with a real camera.

I'm a kiwi on Google Drawing

We have been learning to make a collage on Google Drawing. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make a NZ bird and put it into its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this?

My New Zealand Minibeast Report

We have been learning about 'minibeasts' in class as part of science. We have been creating informaiton reports on a minibeasts of our choice. The minibeast had to live in Aoteroa/NZ. I worked with Noah.

Flax Snail Report

Flax snails are native to New Zealand/Aotearoa. A flax snail is a gastropod which means it is cold blooded and they are also invertebrates which means they have no spine. Flax snails can grow up to 115 mm long. They have a large shell which protects them from predators. The shell is a dark green/kakariki and brown/parauri colour. They can grow up to 20 years old.


Habitat and location


Flax snails live in broadleaf forests and scrub on the top of the North Island of New Zealand. Baby flax snails live in trees 6 meters above the ground. Despite their name they do not eat flax or live in flax.


What Do They Eat?


A snail is an omnivore which means they eat plants and meat. The baby snails eat the microorganisms that grow on the leaves. They eat fallen leaves off trees and some other small insects, worms and even some other snails. They feed on karaka, kohekohe, and rangiora leaves. They have thousands of little teeth that are very sharp which makes it easy to eat their food.


Breeding 
They lay their eggs in the dirt or behind a rock. It will take about 2 or 4 weeks to fully develop. They lay 30 to 120 eggs. Each egg is 12 to 14 millimeters long. They live in big groups which keeps them safe from predators.


Threats

Some of their predators are flies, mites, millipedes, centipedes, some caterpillars, birds, fireflies, leeches and beetles. Beetles also eat their larvae.


This report was about flax snails. Thank you for looking at our work.

By Noah and Issac. 

My animation

 Today me and my class did animation. We had to use free to use images. We also had to change the code to make it work smoother and faster. On this aniamtion their is a bit of a jumpscare at slide 30 when the slide show ends.
I hope you enjoy my animation.

Weta Informaiton Report Term Three 2019

This is a piece of writting we did for our mini beasts topic when we we're learning about weta. We had to to write an informaiton report on this insect.


click here to see our succses criteria.



   In this text you will be introduced to the weta world



                       Weta classification
Weta have over 50 species but I am only going to tell you about the seven main types of weta. The tree weta ,the giant weta, the tusked weta, the ground weta,the weta punga,Stone Weta and the Bush weta. All of them are different, like the tusked weta that is very rare to see but of course it has tusks. It uses to fight off other males when mating. All weta are natvie to New Zealand which means they are only found in New Zealand. Weta are invertebrates which means they have a skeleton outside and no spine. Most weta  shed their skin.  Weta can stay underwater for ten minutes. Weta, like all insects have antenna that is used for help in dark places.




                                         Weta Habitat
Weta live in the native forests of New Zealand.
Tree weta live in tree holes, this is called a gallery, cave weta live in the sea coast caves, ground weta live underground, the rare tusked weta are also ground insects. \Giant weta are found
anywhere on an island sanctuary. The weta habitats are being destroyed by possums and humans. mostly the tree weta, because they live in the trees which are being chopped down by us and the weta are losing their homes. 
                                   WHAT DO THEY EAT

Tree and Giant weta both eat lichen,seed heads,fruit and flower tusks and ground weta eat small invertebrates, worms and snails.That is because tree weta and giant weta are herbivores and tusked weta and ground weta are carnivores. Weta are also threatened by things such as pigs, cats and mice. Humans introduced these animals.



                               Reproduction


Weta mate in spring and summer in a sharing hole. The male weta must fight off other males with his tusks and legs. Females lay their eggs in autumn,  10 to 6 eggs at a time. To lay the eggs the female must use something called an ovipositor, it looks like a stinger but it is used for laying eggs. The female stings her ovipositor into the ground and lays her eggs in the ground so predators can’t find them, this gives the little weta a better chance at life.

 Social behaviour

     Tree weta live in groups but every other weta live alone.Weta are able to make chirping with    there legs to talk to each other. the only time all weta weta become social is when they are in mating season but even then they will fight for the females so they are still not very social. Most weta only stay with their mate during mating season then they never see each other again unless they are tree weta which stay in sharing hole in trees.



                                                                Threats


Weta threats are possums, because they destroy the trees which Weta live in. Birds ,cats, mice are also some threats to weta. Some humans that cut all the wood and use so much electricity and that also kills trees from the pollution. Auckland zoo have set up a weta release program. Some people have cleared an island free of predators. The way we can help is go outside more to stop the trees dying from pollution and chop down fewer trees so weta have plenty of places to live.   by Issac.

Reading Term Three Week 4-5, Insects Jordyn and Issac

AT SCHOOL WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT MINI BEASTS. HERE IS SOME WORK I'VE BEEN DOING WITH JORDYN.

Area and perimeter maths work

To bulid a bot and Emotinoal robots- reading work

This term we have been learning about' Emotinoal robots- A.I and about kids building robots. . We did our reading work. we read two insaling articals about building robots  scratch project

Abandoned Places writing

Abandoned Places writing

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

Choose one of the images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

The PSYCHOPATH WITH A HOOK

“Hahaha” I could hear him getting louder with each step I was taking. Then he said, “Come out little one. I won’t hurt you. All I want is for you to come to me.” My heart is racing. I can’t leave or he’ll kill me and my family. Tears started to come out my eyes then I heard a foot step in the room next to me. I could only just make it out but I could see a pair of eyes. Then he jumped out at me and chased me down the corridor but again I lost him. I heard screaming. I knew he wasn’t far away. I needed to hide. I couldn’t get past the smell of dry blood and wet concrete. Down below it was all just forest.

It was hard for my legs which were sore but I knew I couldn’t sit down or the man would get me and I was too scared to do anything but just keep walking.   

All I wanted was to be with family.  Then I saw a dark room that had no light what so ever. I heard the psycho. He was close but even the dark couldn’t hide me from him. He grabbed me and I could finally make out what he looked like. The man was around 7 foot and was a solid build  and had a great long beard. I asked, “Why do you want me?” He replied in a deep voice, “Because you left me.” “What do you mean? ''Don’t you remember ?I was your brother? ''What, but you died?” “You thought I did but you were wrong.’’ “We buried you and everything.”  “You thought you you buried me but you got the wrong body.”  

He locks me a room I still confused about how this could be my brother. The room is wet concrete and rock all over the room. I'm starving and cold and scared. I’ve never been more scared in my life and I thought that I was going to die soon. The man came in and said, “Come on.” I knew he was going to kill me. The man put me on a mīti/meat matau  hook.  The pain was excruciating! I screamed for help. He said don’t even try there's no one for miles. He grabbed his hook cleaned it lined it up and struck! Bam I woke up. I wondered what happened ? theT I realized it was all a nightmare. I checked my brothers room he was there and I checked my chest I had no cut and after that everything was fine. 

Then I heard a bang on the window I moved the curtain and when I did I froze up and couldn’t move. It was him  - my brother. I said, “But y... you were in your room”. “That's what you saw have a closer look close up.” So I did. I touched his head and it fell off the bed. I had been fooled. I then realized that my nightmare was coming to life...

transformaiton

Making a Paper Plane

Hi, today I researched how to make a paper plane. I have made a presentaion of the instrutions. When you have had a go, let me know how your plane flew, and mabey send me a photo.Smart Bloging.

My Te Reo Moari scratch project

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch  that teaches people some of our phrases of the week-Korero o te wiki.

Walt:
-use scratch to code for computational thinking.
-learn how to create basic code on scratch.
-say phrases in Te Reo moari.


Click here to see our see our Korero o te wiki- phrases of the week.


See my scratch project below.

My Marae Recount Trem Two 2019

                         

                   Room Five And Seven Marae vist

On Wednesday room five and seven went to the Arahura Marae for two days. We waited at school for the parents to arrive. Me and Kade sat in the back and talked about sport as we were driving. As we came up a hill, we paused to see the amazing marae. We had a karunga, a hongi, the waiata and our mihi as part of our welcome onto the Marae.  We went to the mare to learn about the marae and maori culture.



The food at the marae was delicious. I had hot chips, chicken and lettuce, also some pavlova. At lunch I had a sausage roll and quiche. Then at breakfast I had some nutri grain . The kitchen staff were amazing for making so much food in such a short time.

The following day we went to look for greenstone down at the river because we had been given special permission to go there. Most of the things people found was serpentine which Jerry said is like greenstone’s brother, Jerry is the person who explained the carvings to us and told us when we had greenstone. James, Joe and Jack found so much that it filled up there pockets! When we came back we had forty five minutes of free time before the evening rotations.

For the evening rotations I did the technology challenge. We made Kade into a very strange taniwha but sadly our team lost. Then I did some soap carving.  I did a bit of rushing so it didn’t turn out very good. I really enjoyed the evening rotations. The best for me was the technology challenge because it is fun getting to turn someone you know into something like a superhero.


After everything, we went back to the marae for sleep.  There was a lot of fake coughing that kept everyone awake. When it stopped there was a cough every 10 minutes. In the morning I woke to  huge laughter because James had a very funny thing happen to him… one of the parents farted on him!                                               

I would like to thank the cooks for all the meals, Jerry for giving up his time to tell us about the carvings and taking us to the river to look for greenstone, and last but not least I’d like to thank the parents for giving up there time to get us to and from the marae and also helping us with the activities. It was a great experience for me because I have never been on a marae before.

Quote art term 1 2019

This is a photo of my quote art. We took a photo of ourselfs and used that for inspiration but before that we had to get a quote that showed a value that we believe in. Me and Jack got some from Jonny Wilkinson, the best rugby fly half who ever lived.
The photo is when my art was was finished.

If I had wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

Wharenui

Marae on scratch   - click here to see work                     

Today I will be telling you about marae or wharenui. The wharenui is an old maori meeting house but
there are many scattered across New Zealand and new one’s being built.The marae represents an
ancestor. There is the koruru or the head, the maihi or the arms and the raparapa or the hands.

Across the whole of the building on the roof is the spine and ribs also known as the tahuhu and the
heke. Then you have the heart or the poutokomanawa at the center of the building and that is why you
need to be respectful. Also on the walls are photos. They tell stories of people who have past away.

The wharenui represents an important ancestor that has past away. The wharenui is like a history book
because of the photos and the carvings that tell stories about  people. Marae are the same as a
wharenui and they are there because years ago that was where some tribes lived to keep their people
safe. Wharenui are important because of how long some have been there and also because of what

they do.

Karoro School values

this year we have been learning about our School values. Here is my work showing our school values and ways we can demonstrate these.

SWIM SAFE ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL

We've been learning to be safe when swimming and working on our swimming skills. Below is my swimming goal sheet and I've highlighted green the parts I've coompleted.By the end of the year my goal is to complete level three.

Swim Safe Achievement Levels Highlight the achievement levels as you pass them. All Year 5’s should aim to complete at least to the end of Level Three.  All Year 8’s should aim to have completed all levels.
Level 1 Challenges		Level 2 Challenges		Level 3 Challenges		Level 4 Challenges		Level 5 Challenges
1.1	Unassisted entry into the pool.	2.1.	Sit and 1/4 turn entry.	3.1	Crouch and 1/4 turn entry.	4.1	Safe dives.	5.1	25m Sidestroke
1.2	Move in the water.	2.2	Float on front and regain feet. Float on back and regain feet.	3.2	Float with improvised flotation aid.	4.2	Dolphin body action.	5.2	H.E.L.P.
1.3	Safe exits.	2.3	Glide on front. Glide on back.	3.3	15m Freestyle.	4.3	Individual survival initiatives and assistance signal.	5.3	Clothed survival.
1.4	Face and hair wet. Submerge and blow bubbles.	2.4	Freestyle arm action.	3.4	15m Backstroke.	4.4	25m Freestyle.	5.4	Group safety initiative.
1.5	Open eyes underwater.   (NB:Goggles may be worn.) Pick up objects.	2.5	Horizontal rotation.	3.5	Breaststroke leg action.	4.5	25m Backstroke.	5.5	50m Freestyle.
		2.6	Sculling.	3.6	Breaststroke arm action.	4.6	25m Breaststroke.	5.6	50m Backstroke.
		2.7	Rigid aid assistance.	3.7	15m Scull.	4.7	15m Survival Backstroke.	5.7	50m Breaststroke.
				3.8	Non-rigid aid assistance.	NAME: issac                                       YEAR: 5 6 7 8