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.

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?

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 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?

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!

My Last Week of Online School!

This week is my last week of online learning!
I'm excited and sad about going back because even though I get to see my friends I like learning in my own environment.
In this blog post, I'm going to tell you my favourite Literacy and Numeracy of the week along with my Friday Tasks!

For Numeracy this week I learned how to multiply, divide, add, and subtract fractions.
We did some questions to get the hang of it and show our understanding and then we had to do an escape room. I liked the first one more because you were trying to solve a secret recipe to escape!

For Literacy this week my favourite task was taking a part of the wizard of Oz and flipping it in to something darker.
Here it is!

Dorothy had just returned back to the emerald city after slaughtering the Wicked Witch with the Tin Woodman’s Axe and the Lion ripping her into a thousand pieces.

Dorothy and the rest of her group took the head of the witch back to Oz as proof of her death. Dorothy and the Tin Woodman were holding the head by the witches fried black hair, her skin was a light grey and blood kept dripping down and had made a purple trail of blood showing where they had come from. They had been walking for a night and half a day now and they were getting hungry but had no food at all, and they could only see grass in every direction. While Dorothy went into some bushes looking for berries, or anything edible The Lion snapped and looked at Toto, The Lion got low and pounced at Toto and bit him right in the middle! Toto barked and whimpered and howled just hoping Dorothy would come and save her, while Toto barked the Tin Woodman started crying because he had to watch the poor dog die and that made him rust before he could even think about hurting the Lion with his axe.

By the time Dorothy came back, the Lion had eaten Toto and dented the Tin Woodman beyond repair and ripped up the scarecrow, when Dorothy came back and saw straw everywhere she screamed and yelled at the Lion “What have you done?! And where is Toto!??” 

The Lion looked at her and said: “I’m so sorry, I couldn’t help myself!”

Dorothy looked at the Lion with the Tin Woodman’s axe in her hand and said: “How dare you, I let you come with me to Oz, I was trying to help you but now, now that you have destroyed the rest of my friends here I’m going to destroy you!!” With that Dorothy swung the Woodman’s axe and the Lions head just flew right off and blood went everywhere but Dorothy just had to keep going and try to forget.

Last but not least are my Friday tasks!

This Friday I made a perfect environment for my chosen animal and created a bedroom I would like.

For my chosen animal I picked my brother so in his sanctuary I have

• A PS4
• Fortnite
• A couch that folds out to a bed
• Lots of water
• Drawers
• Shelves
• Food Cupboard
• And a trampoline

To finish the online activities I made a bedroom on Minecraft.

The bedroom included

• A bed (obviously)
• Chests/Drawers to put stuff in
• Lots of books to keep you entertained
• A desk to draw and do school work.
• And a computer.

These were my favourite activities of the week!

What would be in your dream room?

Have you ever done an escape room?

Bye!!

My Lovely Learning!

Hi Readers,
This week I only had 3 days of school since Monday was ANZAC day and Tuesday was Teacher only day.
For math, we learned about how to use a Cartesian plane and how to do transformations on it.
I found these tasks relatively easy since I was already familiar with Cartesian planes.

The first two transformations we looked at on the Cartesian Plane were Translation and Reflection, and on Monday we'll be looking at Resizing and Rotation.
The images above are three shapes and the transformations of them.

For Literacy this week we looked into the themes of Perseverance and Home from The Wizard of Oz.

These are my answers to some perseverance questions,

And the questions on the theme of home.
You may notice it says Q2 & Q3 that's because the first question is to do with the end of the book and I haven't quite finished yet.

Last but not least for Friday Fun day I made a board game and a made-up animal.

I can't include a picture of the board game because I haven't coloured it yet, but I can show you the rules for 'Escape the Upside-down'
*Sorry I can't, it won't let me send through the email.*

For my animal, I made a Zataphant which is a cross between a Cat, Zebra, and an Elephant.
*Same here :'(*
That's all for this week!
See you next week!

Day 4 Week 2 of Online learning!

Hi Readers,

Today I started off with Literacy, I had to write what I thought it meant to have brains.

In math, I started creating an Android and writing down what transformations I had to use for each object.

This is my Android, I may do some changes tomorrow.
It isn't what I would call your stereotypical android, the features on it are definitely different, some of the features are...

• The shades
• The beautiful moustache
• The QR code with a custom message
• And the bumps on the top say 'Made by Kasey'

Stay safe!

My Splendid Sestina/NZ writing!

I saw the clouds surrounding me.

The paparazzi harassing me and Bill.

Bill and I partying all-day

I saw Bills Ex storming over

Cause I’m Bill Haders new bestie

Lawyers sky diving with quirky turtles 

Hello Readers,

This is my sestina for NZ writing, We will be sending our poems to a school up in Hamilton.

We are looking forward to seeing what poems they send to us!

(the poems are meant to be random)

The day Things Started Disappearing

This is my e-asttle writing practice, I haven't finished it but I hope you enjoy the start!

The Day Everything Started To Disappear!

On a stormy morning, the wind was smashing the trees into the windows and the rain was bucketing down, Halley had just woken up and went down the creaky stairs to feed her fish.

When she was about to feed the fish she realized that there wasn’t any fish in the tank but there was Scorpions! But she was too shocked to do anything so she just tried to forget about it.

She didn’t want her parents to wake up so she was going to let the dog outside.

After 15 minutes of looking high and low for Monty, she had given up.

She ate breakfast and watched some TV and when she had just gone to stand up she heard the stairs creaking and a whisper. 

She assumed it was her younger brother, Micheal, She looked around and no one was there and to be honest, Halley was getting pretty scared so she went to her parents’ room and they weren’t there either!

Halley was so scared she started shouting and screaming for someone to come… 

But I don’t think this is what she wanted.  She sat and sobbed and when she looked up she saw a clown! She was scared out of her mind right now and couldn’t possibly handle anything more and after she blinked the clown was gone, it was sunny, but her family still wasn’t anywhere!

Journalism

This week we have been learning about journalism.
And here is what I've been doing.

Word Mania

This week was the first round of word mania so here are my scores!

Btw I'm probably going to post weekly every friday.

Goal Reflections Term 1

Writing Goal: I will proofread & edit my work for spelling, punctuation and grammar. - I think that I have completed this goal thanks to the amount of writing we have done this term!

Reading Goal:I will read novels & be able to analyse the characters, settings, plot & themes in great detail. - I am exciting to go

into this next term, and do novel studies next term.

Math Goal: I will find the rule in patterns and express this rule as a fnto this formula - I think that I'm over half way up the goal ladder so by the end of next term I may have completed it.

Fun Vocab

In class we had to make word art on different words for example "SAD" and with it I have other, better words that mean "SAD". If you want to make one then go to https://wordart.com/. Have you ever made something like this before? Please give me feedback! ☺️

My Goal Ladder for Term 1

This is my goal ladder for Term one this year. The symbols represent where I am at, because I have only recently set my goals I haven't managed to move up yet. By the end of the term I hope I would have accomplished my goal.

My Speech On How To Save Planet Earth

I'm Sorry If This Is hard To Read But This Is The Only Way I Could Post. ) :

Heart and Circulatory System

Writing Challenge

“Well done Kasey you’re almost through to the final round! I must mention you are so close to your fortune!” the game show host admitted. “It is a rare occurrence for someone to win!” and just as I was about to win one million dollars I emerged into reality hearing my mum and dad shaking me till I woke up. “ Where is my money.” I muttered. My parents just stared at me and disgruntled.

By Kasey - Don't forget to leave a comment! :D

Welcome

Haere Mai, Talofa Lava, Mālō e Lelei , Maligayang Pagdating and welcome to my very own blog for learning. I look forward to sharing my learning with teachers, my school, my family and friends anywhere.