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!

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?

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.

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!

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!

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!

Interesting Irony!

Hi Bloggers, for inquiry today we made a comic strip on irony. My partner and I did dramatic irony which is when the audience knows something that the characters don't, in this comic it's that the person we are talking about is sitting behind us.

This is the comic strip, in the first panel Mia is talking about Daisy in a negative way, but what she doesn't know is that Daisy is sitting behind her. In the second panel, I'm also talking about Daisy behind her back. In the last two panels, Mia and I realise that Daisy has been sitting behind us the whole time.
This is dramatic irony because the audience (you) know something the characters (Mia and I) don't.

Have you ever seen dramatic irony before?
Do you know all 3 types of irony?

That's all, Bye!

My Inquiry and Moari!

Hi Readers,
This week I started Inquiry and the topic for the term is a global issue, and for

For Inquiry, I researched a global issue and learned about it. I chose sexism and got a lot of information on it.

Here are just some of the facts:

• At least one law in 150 countries restricts women. That’s 8/10 countries
• 18 countries allow husbands to ban their wives from working.
• 1 in 6 girls can’t access secondary education.
• 41 countries give no legal consequences for sexual assault while working.
• Social norms are causing women to go into poverty and these norms must be changed.

• If we want to change the social norms we need to get both men and women to help.

 For Maori we made koru art, we did this by sketching in pencil, outlining in a black pen, colouring in pastel, then dying the background with black dye.

I'm sorry it's upside down :(
I love the way my art came out, and the cool-toned colours I used!

So that was my inquiry and art!
Have you drawn korus before?
See you!

My Awesome Ako!

Hi Bloggers!

This week was my first week back at school, it was great to see everyone!

For Literacy I get to make a website using new google sites all about Oz, I'll upload it once I've completed it.
The website has 3 symbols, themes, and characters that are important to the book and film.
The symbols I chose were the yellow brick road, Dorothy's slippers, and the Emerald City,
My Characters are Dorothy, The Tin Woodman, and The Wizard of Oz,
And my Themes are Home, Friendship, and Power.

For Numeracy, I learned how to do python which is basically computer language.
I had to change how I worded equations. For example, instead of using an x for multiplication I used * and instead of  22or3 I used ** then the number I needed.
Here are some examples.
If the equation is 72-3+5x2=
In python, you would put 7**2-3+5*2=
If the equation is 6x9÷5-1=
In python, it would be 6*9/5-1=
To get the answer you have to put control+Enter.
If you want to give it a try then click here

Last but not least today I started Koru art and I got some inspiration from Raewyn Harris she has some amazing pieces of art. I haven't completed my Koru yet so I'll upload it in next week's post!

Have you ever used python before?
What is your favourite piece of art by Raewyn?

That's all for this week!
Stay safe!

Super Spca

Hi Bloggers!

In class today we made posters about our favourite charity,

I chose the SPCA because saving animals is important and pets shouldn't suffer.

We had to use short sharp sentences as if it were a poster on the side of a path.

We also used bright colours and logos to make it stand out.

What is your favourite charity?

Do you have any pets??

See you in my next post!

Inuit

This week we learnt about the Inuit and here is Mine and Maddi's work

My Posts On Swamp Media!

This term I did Swamp Media

Swamp Media Link

My Posts are called
- Top 5 Netflix shows to watch right now!
-Top 5 things to do this summer
-What Brooklyn nine-nine character is better
-What Stranger Things character is better
-ASMR is it good
-What Stranger Things quote is real
-VSCO GIRLS ARE TAKING OVER

Online Media

This term for Inquiry we have made a website
Click Here
I'm sorry if you can't see it, it'll be open next week!