Comparison

In the past few years ive been manufacturing blogs. Today we were to find our earliest blog post and compare the difference to our latest blog i find that there are some immaculate changes in my blogs lets see if you can find them.

Angles

 This week our focus on maths is learning angles. Angles are found in everyday life like in roofs, ramps, even chairs. To help find the angle we use a protractor the protractor is a semi-circle used to measure and find an angle. There are multiple types of angles like: Acute, obtuse, right, and, reflex. Today a task was to get in a group and find angles around our school I must say that was fun finding angles. You probably don't realise that there are heaps of them everywhere. Sometimes with the protractor it gets confusing and frustrating but when you get the hang of it, it gets really fun.

Powelliphanta snail

 This week a task on our learning contract was to complete a fact file about a native animal that lives in the bush. The reason we done this was for the younger class in our school because they are dedicated to the environment here is mine.

Our adventure

 Today we went on an adventure to Lake Ngatu to plant some native trees its the second part of our environment learning. First was learning about ways we could help and protect the environment now were doing those ways. Summit forests and Bush lands trust collected around 1000 plants for us to grow on a sand slope area. At first I had no clue how to take the plants out or dig a deep hole but it only got better I completed a few and got the hang of it this was turning out to be quite some fun. We stopped to get a picture and got back to work I realised at the top there was a lovely whisk of breeze and a beautiful view so I decided to plant up there. At the area their lived some big trees but the district council decided that if they fell they could badly injure a person so they cut them down so there were some big stumps enough to fit all the students. When the job was done we stopped for a picnic on the shoreline. After we came back to school, back to learning.

My local lengend

 A task on our contracts for the past 2 weeks were learning about New Zealand legends and what they have done. I chose Kelly Tarlton the man because he is a local man and I have an interest in marine mammals. Our criteria was to have the format of birth place, birth date, early life, what their well known for, and significant moments in their lifes here is mine:

Kelly Tarlton

Place of Birth

Marine biologist Kelly Tarlton was born in Dargaville

Date of Birth

On the 31 of October 1937

Early life

to a family of 3 (him, dad, mum) early in his life he would visit the ocean every day to go for a dip. His first job at 18 was taking photos of ocean monuments or random treasures. His first expedition was finding a salvaged cannon on the coast of New Zealand Kelly is most famous for finding captain cook's anchor and recovering itr in life he made his own underwater world attracting millions of overseas visitors. 

His best expedition was when he went mountaineering and got stuck eventually he dug out a hole to escape but when he watched Jacques Cousteau his life changed making the decision to go on water expedition’s

What are they well known for? 

 Kelly is most famous for finding captain cook's anchor and recovering it  in life he made his own underwater world attracting millions of overseas visitors

What are some significant moments in their life? 

but sadly 2 weeks before his planned new aquarium opened, he suffered from a deep heart attack. His aquarium is carrying a life's legacy.

                                                          

 

The Winguitsuiter

 A task on our learning contract was to write a moment in time about this a man in a winguit going down a mountain here is mine:

I was on top of a mountain nervous as a kid starting school. I took a deep breathe I jumped down I felt my heart pound feeling like a shark following me. I saw the trees shaking like a man in Antarctica. All I could taste was fresh breeze and all I could see was a long trail of limestone. I here rocks crashing into each other and birds singing in the evergreen trees I feel me going at the speed of light smash I dodged a dodged a flying rock. I see the end in sight metres away from the ground zoom my parachute redeploys I'm back on home soil.

My Happy Holiday

In the holidays me and my family went on a fun adventure to Christchurch. The reasons we went there was because we thought it will be fun to go on a adventure and see family. I've been to Christchurch before but we went on a different route via east coast when we arrived in Auckland I felt a sigh of relieve all we have to do is catch a flight to Christchurch and were there. We stayed the night at my cousins and of we go we at the airport boarding our plane before I knew it we were at our destination Christchurch we had some fun experiences I went to see family I hardy see and we went alpine skiing in the mountain ranges. We were up in the ski lift about to hop off and go I hopped off and then waited for my family and then were of skiing down. It was a strange sport I kept on falling over and going down in a strange position but I eventually got the hang of it. Then we went back up at Auckland we stayed the night at my cousins again then back home those were the main highlights in my holidays but I also was gaming with my friends and those were my holidays.

COLLAGE

Making Adjustments

In the Kakapo class we have been learning about how put a solution to help the animals in the oceans to survive in the great pacific garbage patch we started by reading a powerful book that guided us to research, we all watched a video about sustainability which had a powerful message. The great pacific garbage patch is a place where heaps of over 1.8 trillion pieces rubbish is it is located at the coast of California wraps around to Japan then around and it is twice the size of Texas the biggest state of America.

In Kakapo we adjusted one part of our contract so that we can write a letter to the big businesses to make a change to their use of items that they sell for example were looking at mcdonalds probably the biggest fast food chain in New Zealand to use sustainable products currently their using plastic straws and plastic cups which is not Eco friendly. 

Tropical

This week we were making birds, not normal birds, birds from the rainforest.  We did them from the rain forest because we learning about them. Firstly we had to find foliage from the rain forest to set as the back round mine is the Epipendola aureum , after we found the background we started to sketch out the foliage on the published paper when given the all clear we started using wax crayons we did some parts dark and some parts dark to add a good effect then we used dye to fill in the background after that we found a bird mine is the Oropendola the same process  as the bird but we cut it out and from the cuttings and 3D it, also we did some research I worked with Ricardo and Hiroshi I wrote the information and did some detail
here is my work:

Freedom

About 2/5 months ago we entered our covid 19 lock down.  There has been 1504 cases in New Zealand the current events that have happened has been a shock but we dealed it well 1 time it was 87 cases but now its almost the 3rd week in the row with no cases and there are no active cases in New Zealand . Level 4 started on the 26 of March to 27 of April level 3 28 of April to 13 May level 2 14 of May to 8 of June and now level 1. So there is no same old same old social distancing it will be good to continue hygiene but not as often and finally restaurants are now serving indoors. It feels good because we can start reviving the economy and it starts our way to level 0 which is good.

Livin in lockdown

During the period of New Zealand's lock down weve been active in our learning online and books.
My daily routine is wake up for breakfast do half and hour exercise then go to the school hangout where we can keep up with the class and recap on our learning and then I do my assigned school work then the rest for the day is helping, device time and outside time.

Our school work is fun and enjoyable we have to prioritise the most important tasks are the ones we need to complete first.

Life in lockdown

We have been in lock down for the past few weeks, I've had all types of emotions happiness and sadness mostly. Day 1 was an adventure learning the life in lock down even now im still learning. The fun part was playing games and family time and a sad time was when I heard about the passing of a beloved family member my great-uncle it hit our family hard he was the eldest of the family. The most part of it is to keep safe from this deadly virus but times have been fun and sad.

This is just to say...

We were admitting our wrongs and turning it into a poem. We used the same format from William Williams  but using our wrongs from yesterday or 8 years ago. We had to extend our vocabulary  to hook the reader to keep them reading. We had to add a background that relates to our writing. I enjoyed refreshing my memory and I found that finding the describing words was quite hard. Here is mine:

Welcome to 2020