"The School" Memoir

The School was usual enough, it had a staff room, a playground, a swimming pool, an office and even a library I barely went to. My friends and I did what we usually do - Eat, play infection, making memes, definitely not DABBING or eating apples while playing Minecraft doing nothing meaningful in life. 


WALT: Write a Memoir inspired by 
James K Baxter "The Town" 

Literacy Quiz

                                           Try your best to beat the Quiz

Duffy show-Moment in time

The show started with Duffy and his best cousin playing mine….. I mean Magic Bricks. As they were building a “castle” suddenly the dismantler had dismantled their “hard work” And had that made Duffy decide to go see his cousin sam. Then the background had changed and it was sam's room with her still playing magic bricks. Soon Duffy had entered the room sam was so addicted to magic bricks she didn’t even want to talk to him. That made Duffy grab his nanas Gucci glasses and do his nanas legendary dance moves. Well that was a giant mistake it had made Duffy stuck in the game and sam didn’t know how to get him out.

-A short moment in time when we had the Duffy Show

Moment in time-Cross country

Waiting for the right moment to….GO!!! Sir shouted as all of the boys in the race ran there hardest. As soon as we started to run someone instantly fell over which gave everyone else a major advantage also it was quite funny. So far the only person in front of me was Tawa but Frano quickly caught up claiming 2nd place to himself, at least my brother Jordyn was cheering me on. Running up those steep grassy hills really drained my energy and I could tell that the others felt tired as well.


Halfway through the course, feeling quite dehydrated and puffing quite frequently while in front of me was my brother-in-law Harding on the buggy cheering me on as he guided all of us through the uneven track. I tried my hardest to overtake the two contestants in front of me but I just couldn’t so I used the rest of my energy to boost to the finish line. Everyone was cheering at the runners while most of them (including me) had just crossed the finish line.


 Frano had just beat me while Tawa had come 1st, and I came 3rd...AMAZING!!! Also, it was my 2nd time coming in the 10 too. All the participants were very relieved after all of that pain and exhaustion so they (most of them) collapsed gleefully. Thank goodness I wore my lucky PlayStation branded socks today.

Algorithms

WALT: Use algorithms to help us understand maths and math equations and make them a lot easier to answer.

Life cycle of a kauri tree

WALT: Learn more about this giant tree and think of ways to save it from the dangerous disease, Kauri dieback.

REFLECTION: I've now learnt amazing things about this tree, it takes 100s of years to get the kauri tree into an adult and by looking at the drawing and okay video you'll hopefully learn lots too.

How to Play Roblox.

A GUIDE TO ROBLOX 

Roblox, an awesome game played by billions/most of the world. If you're new to Roblox/a noob this guide would be perfect for you. Before you start getting into the fun stuff you first must choose between being a guest (only a temporary account) or make your permanent own Roblox account (just don’t forget your password).

Then once you're logged in it will show your character's appearance and it will say “welcome back (your name or guest and a number)”. If any of your friends play Roblox you can friend them and they will either accept decline or it could take months. There’s a lot of things to do but before you play games, I suggest you purchase Robux (the game’s money) and get things from the catalog with it and get most of the free stuff as well. The gear you just bought or received for free can be put on your character to change their appearance.

Once you’ve finished customizing your Robloxian you can now spend hours on making your own game (on Roblox studio of course) or spend hours playing games pre-made for you to play. I would highly recommend jailbreak to pros/people who like escaping jail and robbing banks (not in real life, only in the game). There is a bunch of other good games like free admin ones or just simple role-playing games like murder mysteries.

When you have chosen the game you wish to play (most of the time) there will always objectives like not dying (best part about dying is hearing Oof)or it could just be a fun simulator like speed simulator where you just keep running and become the fastest thing alive (also complete the challenges).In most games, there will be items you can buy with robux and they can also help you to your advantage. Whenever you feel bored in (example)jailbreak you should go on the chat bar and ask people if you want to team up with them, that’ll make robbing banks easier and buying things with the money a lot easier.

But these are just the basics of Roblox not useful tips and brilliant tricks, you now are a...semi-pro since you know all of the basics. Have fun playing Roblox!! Oh, one more thing playing the game on an Xbox will allow you to have better graphics better games and exclusive things.


AN OOFIN GREAT GAME!!!

Subtracting numbers with decimals

 WALT: In the first slide

REFLECTION: This was a new strategy in maths we just learned for subtracting numbers with decimals.

On the trail of a Taniwha activity

This is one of the literacy activities we did while reading the book called on the trail of a taniwha.

Sonic drawing

REFLECTION: We were making sketches of either our face or an image and I chose to sketch sonic.

My speech

Intro
Why are we all so addicted to technology? Well, today I will tell you a whole lot of reasons why we are a little too attached to our devices.

1. Technology can affect our health in horrible ways and give us things like eye-strain,neck-strain or hearing loss. Don’t worry stuff like that only happens when you’ve been online for hours and when the volume is up high on the current device you’re using. Still, if we all do things online for like 9 hours each and every day we will get less exercise and then we will become lazy and unhealthy. Unfortunately sometimes when we buy things online on eBay or TradeMe there are always people who could scam us just to get free money for absolutely nothing!!!and we might get hacked by hackers which is another terrible thing that could happen online.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
2. There are bad things about technology but it can still help us in many ways. Whenever we have to wait for a while we can play games on our phones to kill time until you can leave or something like that. Most people have consoles that can be played on at home for entertainment like an Xbox One or handheld ones that can be played anywhere. It also helps very intelligent people develop new kinds of tech that are yet to make.

3.BUT!!!The one main thing about tec is that it helps schools everywhere with their learning at school and their homework. The good thing about this is that teachers don’t have to print homework, they can just check an email or on google classroom. It saves the trees since we then are using less paper and it saves time as well.

4. Even though it’s helpful we need to use less time on our device and just a bit more time doing other offline things. One of the best things to do is to put yourself on a schedule and keep on track for a very long time and have a minimum of 2-3 hours per day.I’m not saying we should abandon our phones and stick to books I mean a little less device time could possibly make us a lot more unaddicted to well technology.

CONCLUSION: In conclusion, tec is a wonderous thing that helps us in loads of ways but at the same time it can be a dangerous place filled with hackers and scammers.


Reflection: This is the speech I made in term 2 about why people are too addicted to technology.

Gillian lee's 4th failed journey up Everest

     GILLIAN LEE'S 4th FAILED JOURNEY UP EVEREST

In May Gillian lee, a determined (Australia) mountaineer was trying to achieve his goal by climbing to the top of Mt.Everest.But this Climber didn’t want to use oxygen bottles nor take the easy route and wait in a huge line. So he chose to take the Tibet route on the north side, the much harder route to climb.

At 7600M high, Gill was starting to cough non-stop which caught the Sherpa's attention. They told him to stop and go back to base camp but Gill refused and he just continued to climb. As soon as Gillian's lips turned blue he instantly fainted, so they carried him back to his tent and put him in his sleeping bag while giving him oxygen and hot water bottles. A few hours later they dragged him on a sleeping mat down as far as they could with the help of a group of Chinese rope fixers. When they ran out of snow to pull him on, a group of people with yaks strapped Gill onto one which he described as "an uncomfortable ride". 6 hours later they got back to base camp and waited there until a helicopter arrived to take him to Kathmandu Hospital. 

As soon as Gill entered the Hospital his mother Julie Peck was waiting filled with rage, ready to tell him everything he had done wrong. Gill had put others lives in danger and his mum even called him selfish. The BIG question is, will he continue to climb Mt.Everest and fail or has he learned his lesson?

REFLECTION: We had to write about Gillian lee a climber that wanted to climb Everest without oxygen. Please enjoy the quality piece of writing I did about Gill.   

Te Reo comic strip

WALT:Ask and answer questions in Te Reo (also translate in English).These are all simple questions that almost anyone could ask and answer.But the main thing about this poster is to extend our vocab in Te Reo. 

REFLECTION: The hard part about this poster was the Reo since we had to extend our reo not just use basics like mama and papa. Anyway I hope you enjoy my poster.

Quality's of a great leader

WALT:Think about what it takes to be a great leader,here's a poster of what I did to show some of the quality's of a leader

A six sentence story

 1.Once upon a time...There was a friendly (talented) cat named Big.

2.He lives by a hot sandy beach with his friend Froggy.

3.Out of all things in the world he loves to go fishing anytime and anywhere.

4.One day Big went fishing for awhile when he walked back home, Froggy was missing!

5. 5.He then felt very lonely, So he promised himself that he would

find froggy by the end of the next day.

6.So the next day Big searched everywhere by the beach and he found Froggy up a tree trying to get

apples.

nf

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Quality blog commeting

WALT:Write quality blog comments to random people blog posts.Here's what quality comments look like-

EMR: Thank you letter to Isabel

After snorkelling at Whatuwhiwhi we wrote a thank you to isabel to thank her for taking us their,here's what I wrote:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Dear Isabel,

I would like to thank you for taking my class and Te Manga snorkeling at Whatuwhiwhi. It was an amazing experience and I wish we could  go snorkeling again sometime.

As soon as everyone was in the shallow parts they already found blue-eyed triple fins. When we got closer to the reef, there were loads of kina, kelp and heaps of other species. Then I dived straight to the seabed and I caught sight of a small eagle ray. I thought that might of been my best thing I saw! Later on we swam to the colossal rocks and found a school of triplefins!

Once thanks again for taking us to Whatuwhiwhi to go snorkeling .

Yours sincerely,

LYRIK

Maths Array

WALT:Use Arrays for any hard equation that we need to figure out.

Anzac day activites

WALT:Learn more about what happen in the first war in 1914-1918

upskilling sentences

WALT: Turn normal sentences into descriptive complex pieces of writing.All we had to do was add in adjectives,adverbs,verbs,different nouns,and make the sentence a little longer.For example it was something like this-

THE HOUSE STOOD IN THE WOODS.👎
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SLOWLY, A LONELY MANSION BURNT TO THE GROUND IN THE DAMP FOREST BEFORE IT WAS NOTHING BUT A PILE OF INCINERATED FURNITURE AND WOOD.👍

REFLECTION:This took awhile to make but once I finally knew what to do it was very easy and probably anyone could do this.

Mathsbuddy intro

REFLECTION: This video was made to show possible questions,how fun it may look,most importantly  show people what mathsbuddy looks like and how to operate it and please enjoy.

Report writing (Giant Oceanic Manta Ray Part 2 of 2)

The meals and predators of the Ray. 

Report writing (Giant Oceanic Manta Ray Part 1 of 2)

                        Giant Oceanic Manta ray

                             11.3.19

Habitat

The Giant manta ray only likes water for example

subtropical/tropical waters and (for obvious reasons)  oceanic/temperate waters as well. It may be found on shore but that is a funny sight that happens very rarely.

PREDATORS

Although the ray is a very huge length, Its worst predators are a bull shark (Probably one of the worst) a tiger shark and any other types of sharks that are bigger than the ray. There other main predators are false killer whales and normal killer whale but they might not see them often.

DIEt

They go for almost any kind of fish but it must be smaller than it’s self or it will not eat the fish.Their next type of food that they eat is plankton which is clearly it’s favourite prey and easiest animal to hunt for.It’s final foods that it likes to gobble up is a bit of shrimp and other crustaceans

POPULATION
Right now there’s just about 100 to 1,500 of them left also there population in size is lacking.Really there’s going to be none left soon.there’s loads but soon and I mean it they will become extinct.

BREEDING

They breed every two years and at the warmest seasons of the  year (like summer and spring). They probably have about 2 babies a year ( they might have more or less). The babies weigh about 25 pounds when born that’s probably x5 the size of us when we were born (they must be very heavy babies).

Ahoy Waitangi NAVY TRIP

Just after Harlen and I devoured our delicious lunch a NAVY sailor asked us if we would like to ride on one of the rhib boats. We said “yes please” so we immediately chucked our gear on then we jumped in the back of the boat.They slowly lowered us down.Then another sailor unhooked a chain and away we went. As soon as we left some dolphins were racing Straight ahead of us as we turned at different times. AHH!!!! This is one of the most worst rides I have been on (expect the time when I went on the Invader). It was so fast that our turn was already up! What a relief I said to myself quietly.  Oh!! Time for more lunch NOM, MUNCH, AHH.

 BUS TRIP ON THE WAY TO THE WHARF

RHIB BOATS+DOLPHINS

BAILEY  HANGING IN THE LUNCH ROOM (WITH PS4) 

Swim safe with Rhonda (short write about side-stroke)

We had learn't many things during swim safe with Rhonda but the one main swimming technique that I enjoyed most was called side-stroke.It made it a lot easier to breathe and swim to shore.You just had to put your head on your arm sideways and scissor kick your way to shore.Their were more techniques I could talk about but side-stroke was my favorite.

All about me tree poster

My new and improved all about me tree poster for 2019.

BASIC MATH FORMS

   Here's a quick animation about how to recognize simple basic math forms like 7.1,three hundredths and 2586.309.hope you enjoy