The Murky Murderer

 Hey folks.

This could potentially be my last blog post since it's the end of the year. I've been blogging since year five so it's been 4 years I hope you've enjoyed my blog!

This week I made a supervillain called gretgy. We needed to write their backstory and draw our hero or villain, here is the backstory.

When they were young a riptide swept them out to sea and they drowned but they swallowed a toxic fish

that had been swimming in infected water. When they swallowed the fish its poison infected them and

they turned part fish. Now they seek vengeance on adults that didn’t save them and young children.

I also wrote a review on the show Gilmore Girls, if you haven't watched it then you should.

Gilmore Girls is a 7 season tv series 

It’s a Comedy Drama series About a Mum and her daughter and their life.

Out of ten, I’d rate it a 9/10

This is because it’s interesting without being too much and there’s always something happening without it being too overwhelming, the characters are all very different but work well together to make Stars Hollow. The show goes at a good speed and you could watch it whilst doing something else or just sit and watch. The reason why it’s not a 10/10 is because of Dean. He’s nice at the start but once he and Rory break up he becomes a jerk and when he’s married and the actor is kind of a bum.

Also, Rory gets worse and worse over time.

Hope you've enjoyed my blog, Bye.

Our Backyard!

 Hello Bloggers, since the pandemic we haven't been able to fly in or out of the country. This has caused local businesses that are more for tourists to suffer. So we made a radio ad challenging kiwis to explore their own backyard, which means go and visit another part of New Zealand to have fun and support businesses there. We chose the region Manawatu since it's kind of a forgotten part of New Zealand and it's actually a pretty cool place.

Here is our radio ad!

Hope you like our ad and maybe it'll persuade you to go into your backyard.

Will you travel in New Zealand these Holidays?

Have you heard of Manawatu?

See you later, Bye!

Hangis And Technology

 Hey Bloggers,

Recently I've been looking at the changes between then and now Hangis. Not much has changed apart from how long it takes to cook.

I've made a slide showing how it was in the past, how it is now and the similarities they share. 

As you can see Hangis are still traditional but they have improved to make it easier and quicker for people who haven't got enough time to do a traditional Hangi but still want one.

But traditional hangis took over a day to prepare and around 4 hours cooking time aswell as preparing food.

Have you ever had a traditional Hangi?

Have you used a Hangi cooker?

Comment some feedback and I'll try comment back!

See you later!

Korowai Changes

 Hello Bloggers!

On Tuesday I researched the changes in Korowai Cloaks and found that not much has changed.               The only thing that has significantly changed is the designs, the designs have increased in variety.

Here is an example of old and new Korowai Cloaks.

As you can see the pattern and colours have changed, but those are basically the only thing that has changed. Here's my slide!

Have you ever wore a Korowai?

See you later!

Leaders Camp

 Hello Bloggers

On Monday and Tuesday, I was at a leaders camp in Papanui.

We played some games and did some teamwork activities as well as learning 6 habits some of the greatest leaders have.

One of the most important habits I learned was to be proactive instead of reactive.                                           Being reactive is blaming others, getting mad, holding grudges, etc, being proactive is to be calm, confronting, forgive, etc.

Another important habit is prioritizing, to be good at prioritizing you need to think about the things that you need to do instead of what you want to do. for example, you need to do homework, chores, etc and things you'll want to do are video games playing outside, etc.

In this activity, we had to trust each other and all lean back at the same time whilst holding the rope, once we had shown we could successfully do that we put Jordan on top of the rope, using the tension we made on the rope Jordan didn't fall off.

In my opinion, the leader's trip was fun and I learned lots of things.

That's all, Bye!

All about Rockets!

 Hello Bloggers, this term for inquiry we've been learning about rockets!

Near the end of the term we made a video in our groups on our knowledge of rockets and we made it dry humour, this made our video look odd but know it's meant to be like that.

Our group had a lot of fun filming this so I hope you have fun watching it.

That's our video.

I hope you liked it!

What did you learn? What would your rocket look like?

Ka kite!

Percy the Penguin!

 Hello Bloggers!

For the past couple of weeks, the art extension group has been working on Percy the penguin, Percy will be put in town as part of a scavanger hunt like the giraffe one we did a couple years ago.

The theme we did for Percy was New Zealand, we thought of somethings that make our country special and we painted them onto Percy so it looks like a cloak/korowai. We've finished painting but over the holidays our teachers will be adding some finishing touches.

Now the moment you've been waiting for, here's Percy...

This is Percy, as you see he's covered in the things that make NZ, on the flippers there's a Poi and New Zealand, on the tail is the Kia Kaha symbol. On the front and back are lots of other cool things.

What's your favourite part on Percy?

What represents New Zealand to you??

That's all - bye!

Teenie Tots!

 Hello Bloggers!

This week we got to make our own businesses! My group thought of something extremely original... Luxury Toddler furniture! Bet you weren't expecting that, we had to think about some key things in our business so here's a slide!

The slide isn't top quality because my laptop wasn't working.

Hope you liked it, feel free to comment some feedback!

What business would go make?

What furniture would you buy?

Python PSA

 Hi Bloggers!

Today I made a PSA using python, PSA means Public Service Announcement, mine is on not littering because it's causing animals to die and destroy our environment. Because my target audience is school kids because sometimes they leave wrappers behind after eating, I made it a school to show them what to do. Python is a computer language/code that I used to make the PSA. The one I made had interactive features so you could put the rubbish into the bin but unfortunately, the website can't share stuff so I took some screenshots.

Here is the code I had!

Here is my PSA, each screenshot is in order of what happens.

That's all!
Have you made a PSA, what did you make it on?

What would you make a PSA on?

BYE!!

All of my Samoan!

Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan. This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you. If you click on items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country

• Basic greetings

• The alphabet

• How to count 1-10 

• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

• Link to a traditional dance video

• Information about Siapo

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

What did you learn in my classroom?

What was your favourite part?

Fa!

Our Parachute!

 Hello Bloggers!

Today we've been making and testing parachutes! We had to make sure that it could...

• Hold 2 hex nuts
• Be as slow as possible 
• Go straight down 

We started off by making a small one out of fabric and it kind of looked like a shower cap. It was so small that it didn't even make a difference and it went to fast.

We then made some random sheets of paper towels because they are light and we can make it as big as we need. This one was better because it was light and big so it slowed down the descent.

Here are some pictures!

Sorry the pictures aren't great quality.

Anyway see you next week.

Samoan Greetings

 Hello Readers,

This Wednesday I learned how to have a basic conversation in Samoan and made an animation to show you how to as well!

Translations:

• Talofa - Hello

• O ā mai ‘oe? - How are you?

• Manuia, fa’afetai - Well, thank you

• Manuia fo’i fa’afetai - I’m fine also, thank you

• Manuia le aso - Have a good day

• Tōfā - Goodbye

Hope you liked my animation!

Can you speak Samoan?

Try saying the phrases above!

See you next time.

My Quirky Poem!

Hello Readers,

In Literacy, we tried making poems in a similar style of Dr. Seuss.

The reason we're doing this is that we are learning about children's books and how to write one, and what to include.

Here is my poem (It's not meant to make complete sense).

Bill and Phil went to the windmill.

They grabbed the grill and it made a shrill.

Bill went to cook the chook.

Phil threw his hook at the book that was next to the chook.

Bill felt ill and Phil gave him a lick and told him he was sick.

Bill did miss Phil so he gave him a kiss.

With my poem, the word chook means chicken, because apparently it's a strange word and not many people use it.

That's all!

What's your favourite Dr Seuss Book?

Have you ever written a poem?

Amazing Aurora Australis!

Hi Bloggers,
Today we've been making art on the Southern Lights/Aurora Australis.
The Southern and Northern lights also known as Aurora Australis and Aurora Borealis were named after the Roman Goddess Aurora.
The Lights are made by the Sun superheating the gasses around it, this starts tiny pieces of the sun to blast away at 750 kilometers a second. Once the stream of particles called the solar wind hit the earth's magnetic field some of the particles get deflected by the earth's atmosphere but some make it through.
While they are in the atmosphere it excites oxygen and nitrogen atoms which causes them to light up to cause the Aurora Lights.
Auroras are also visible from space as big colourful rings around either the north or south poles.
Auroras have also been seen on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. They also occur on the north and south poles just like on Earth.

For art we ripped a piece of paper to look like mountains, then we taped it onto the black paper and got chalk pastels, with the pastels you put the colour only on the white paper then smear it up to create the effect of the Aurora.
Since we are also learning Matariki I added the constellations with a yellow-tinted white.

Do you like it?
Next time I would change the colours so it would look more realistic.
Have you seen the Aurora lights?
That's all Bye!

Interesting Inquiry and Magnificent Matariki!

Hey Readers, this week for Inquiry I wrote a small explanation on my issue of Hyperfemininity.
I also painted the dress and I'll paint more of it later today!
Here is my Explanation of my art and why I chose it!

My Art shows that women are still being held to insane stereotypes that aren’t right. Women shouldn’t have to be married and have kids if they don’t want to. It’s crazy that men or even other women at times think that this is how women should be treated so I showed that this is wrong. I did this by taking a girl who must wear and like pink and made her chained up and stuck to the stereotypes showing that she can’t getaway.

Here is a picture of my Finished Sketch and Painting so far.

For the past three Fridays, we worked on Matariki art. I showed a picture of my progress last week so this week I'll show you the finished product!

If you can't read the explanation it says, This is a piece of art showing the meaning of the stars in the Matariki constellation through animals that best describe them.

The Owl is Matariki which means the eyes of Tāwhirimātea. I chose an owl because they have big eyes. 

The Eagle is Tupu-ā-Rangi which is sky tohunga, I chose an Eagle because it’s a flying, bold bird. 

I made Waipuna-ā-Rangi into a deer because it means sky spring and a Deer reminds me of spring.

With Waitī, which means sweet water I made a Dolphin because they are sweet animals that live in the sea.

For Tupu-ā-Nuku which means the Earth, I chose an earthworm for obvious reasons.

With Ururangi which is the entry to the heavens, I picked a Goat because I love them.

Last but not least, Waitā - a sprinkle of water. I chose a Jellyfish Because they are made from mostly water.

What Global Issue is the most important to you?

What art have you done for Matariki?

That's all! See you next week!

My Matariki Art!

Hi Bloggers!
Last week I started making Matariki art that showed what animal each star represented and why.
I made all 7 sisters and put them in a night sky and next week I'm going to add some writing about it.
Here is my art so far!

Here it is!
What animal is your favourite?
What art would you make on Matariki?
See you later!

Binary Initials

Hi Readers,
Today we are learning about Binary and ASCII. 
Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers. 
You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself! 
Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!

ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols
from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers,
and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s,
my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below! 

My initials are KB and you can see that the top letter is K and the bottom is a B!
What do you think? 
Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII? 
See you later!

My Wonderful Website

Hi Bloggers!

For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on my Wizard of Oz Analysis Website.
It's now finished and you can view it! The only issue is that if you aren't from Marshland school it won't let you on, so I'll tell you about it now.
CLICK HERE TO GO ON MY SITE
My site includes three characters which are Dorothy, Tin Woodman, & Oz.
The three themes I chose were Home, Power, & Friendship.
As well as my three symbols which are The Yellow Brick Road, Emerald City, & The Hot air Balloon.

I made my website on google sites and used the template called 'Project' Google Sites is free and super easy to use!

That's all for today!
Have you ever made a website?
What's your favourite character from the Wizard of Oz?

Amazing Art

Hi Bloggers,
This week for Inquiry we looked at art on global issues.
We had to write what the different pieces of art meant to us, then we picked our favourite and wrote a little more in detail about it.


To me, this piece of art is saying that this homeless man doesn’t want money. He wants to have a change in the world. This piece of art is trying to stop people who are becoming homeless. This art is representing thousands of homeless people who need change, and they need it now.

That's all
See you later!

Koru Creation!

Hi Bloggers, This Friday I made my necklace with a Maori design, I made it with air dry clay and used water so it didn't dry while I was sculpting it, with a toothpick so I could make small details in the clay.

Instead of just uploading an image of it I made an Adobe spark video.
This was the first time I have used it so it could definitely be better, but it's alright.

That's all!
Have you used Adobe spark before?
What design would you put on your necklace?

Bye!