😃Highlights and lowlights of 2020😁

 The highlights and lowlights of 2020

My highlights of the year 2020 are...

- going to lake gem and planting a lot of native plants around that area

- achieving my goals at and around school

- the school production

- doing Rainforest art with my friends

- seeing my friends after lockdown 

- coming out of lockdown 

My lowlights of the year 2020 are...

- not seeing my friends through lockdown 

- seeing what is happening to our world not just with covid, but how many species are going extinct and the pollution.

!Lets compare!

 This week Kakapo class have been doing a blog comparison, It is when you get one of you'r first ever blogs and compare it to one of you'r most recent blogs and see how much you have improved.

So here is my comparison

Angles

Angles

In kakapo class we have been learning what the different angles are and how to measure them with a protractor, and what different parts of the angles are.

We went around the school and we had            to find 5 acute angles 

(A degree the is lower than 90°) 

          and 5 obtuse angels

(an angle that is in between 90° to 180°)

 Than we had to see the difference of a right angle (an angle that is exactly 90°) to an acute angle.

To use a protractor you find a angle to measure then you find the semi-circle down the bottom and put it on the vortex (the corner that joins it)than it should show you what the degree is.

Addition pyramids

 Addition pyramids

This week kakapo class have done different ways to do Addition. The way we did it was with Addition pyramids. Addition pyramids are when there are circles staggered up in the shape of a pyramid and there are numbers put in specific places. You start from the bottom and work you're way up to the top, you add the two numbers together and put the answer in the circle above and carry on to the top.

Caring for Mother Nature

  

Caring for Mother Nature 

We all love mother nature, so us Kakapo class want to be Eco friendly by planting 800 trees out at  lake Gem. We planted Mānuka, Kānuka, Harakeke (flax), cabbage trees, Karaka, and Houpara. All beautiful native plants and trees to New Zealand. We also had help by the lovely people at Summit forest and Bushlands trust.

Then when we got there a nice lady called Karen talked to us about the place and what was so  important about it. Like how the forest was owned by the tribe Te Aupōri Then how four other tribes made a truce and shared the forest with each other 

 (Te Rarawa, Ngati Kuri, Ngati Takoto, Ngati Kahi, and Te Aupōri)

After the talk we got straight into it.  There were people planting and digging even people bringing the plants up the hill (that was tiring if you ask me )

It was a amazing experience and I would love to do it again.

Dame Miraka Szassy

                                  Dame Miraka Szassy

 I chose Dame Miraka Szassy for my local legend activity, Because she was a strong believer who fought for people to have there own rights but not just that because she was a kind caring person that loved helping others. 

She was a Maori leader making contributions to education, and making small business developments. Born in Waihopo north of Kaitaia 7th August 1921 and died on 20th December 2001. 

Dame Miraka Szassy was one of the first Maori women to graduate with a university degree, and in 1945 she was one of the first Maori women to get a bachelors degree, and she was made president of the women's welfare league. In 1990 she was made Dame of the British empire. Then in 1993 Dame Miraka Szassy received a doctor of laws from Victoria University in Wellington. Later on in her life she was part of a advisory committee that led to a creation of the ministry of women's affairs in 1984.

I chose her because her achievements were huge and deserves to be remembered she was a amazing lady.

Powerful paragraph

Last week my class did a warm up by doing a description piece of writing that can only be the size of a paragraph. We get a photo and once we are done describing the photo the best we can, we volunteer to read our paragraph out loud to get feed back (what was good about the writing) and feed forward ( what we can try make a bit better next time)

Here is my writing
I could hear the floorboards creaking. It was getting closer as much as I wanted it to go further away from me. I am worried it is going to gobble me up. I bend down on my arms and knees when a salty tear runs down my check, I want my fierce teddy bear crew to join me on my mission. But as I checked it was only Mr. Bear under the bed playing with his teddy friends.

A moment in time😀

A moment in time 

A moment in time is a warm up or it can be an activity when the whole class either get a video or a photo then we describe it in a deeper level of thinking instead of staying at the surface level of thinking.

HERE IS MY WRITING

I felt a deep sorrow fall into my heart thinking if I was to late

I could feel my eyes going a bit teary, my hands were shaking as I struggled to put the mask on the cat, I was empty inside as I felt a pity for the cat, my heart was racing as I picked up the cat up. Then I saw the cat moving I felt a sudden relief it was miracle.

HERE IS THE VIDEO

The great pacific garbage patch😔

😧What is the problem???

What is the problem?
People are buying all of the items that contain plastic, which is very bad for the sea life in various ways which is horrible.

What are the ways that it affects the sea life?

well the main effects to sea life is 

that all of the plastic that people use like polystyrene cups, plastic bottles, plastic bags that you can get so easily at the supermarket, and plastic straws are being put in the bin then is being put into the landfill to disintegrate but instead it fly's away into the ocean. When it gets into the ocean it will go into micro plastics so we wont be able to see it and the sea life will eat it and slowly die because to the sea animals plastic is toxic.

What is the solution?
The solution is if we find a way that doesn't affect sea life and gets the rubbish out of the ocean we can try our hardest and not use plastic, we might have a chance to have a healthy environment where we do not have to eat,drink,or swim in rubbish we have another chance to live longer without these problems.

Dear future generations

 Dear future generations

Last week we did a piece of writing about the video we watched called dear future generations
and the writing was going to have the same structure of the video.

So here is my writing.

Dear future generations

When I say this I think I speak for the rest of us, Sorry 

Sorry that we traded in prized possessions like trees,

That clean our carbon footprints, that purify water, that give us medicines that cure 

Diseases, that provide us with oxygen  to be able to see different species of animals but sadly
we have gone blind.

Sorry that we let fossil fuels just rome in our atmosphere and create climate change 

Which is affecting sea rising levels, so sorry.

Actually I am not sorry

Because mistakes are mistakes that are able to be fixed, we can unite and fix this we can
stop cutting down 40 soccer fields a minute and stop releasing fossil fuels that make climate
change, so just know we can.

Why the Rainforest is important😀

Rainforest art!!!

For the past few weeks we have been doing art about Rainforest art. We all got to chose our own birds and plants to draw and my bird was a Purple starling. first we got waxed crayons and drew leaves of the plant we had chosen. Then once we had done that we got dye and stroked it across the page of A3 Cartridge paper. When it had dried we got A4 Cartridge paper and used the same waxed crayons to draw our birds and paint it with dye. when all of the art work dries we got all of the scrap bits of paper and glued little springs on of the paper so it would pop out. 

!!!Level 1!!!

! Level one !

It is level one and we are COVID-19 free!

Us New Zealanders should be so proud to live in this country and represent it.

We are so happy that there is no more social distancing and we are finally able to walk up to our friends and give them a high five.
It is so much fun being able to come back to school and I am so happy that I am able to have fun with my friends.
We have been in lockdown for so long for example we were in level 4 from 26/3 to the 24/4 then level 3 was from the 28/3 to the 13/5 and level 2 was from the 14/5 to the 8/6.

!Feeling cold!

!Feeling cold!
Today me and my class did a warm up, and  we call it powerful paragraph. Powerful paragraph's is a warm up so we can get our brains thinking properly and learn more descriptive language. Like personification, metaphor's, and simile's... We have a set limit on how much we can write which is hard, But it is a fun little activity to do.

It was lying in the thick strong ice, stealing your hearts away, but beware of its MASSIVE claws buried in the blades of snow.It is above Crystal clear water all alone, hungry, and cold. But it is not what it seems it is just a baby seal waiting for his mother.

My Persuasive writing

To close or not to close the boarders because of Covid-19?

I agree to leave the boarders closed so 

we don't lose half of the country's population, and to make sure our people are protected.

I agree because if we break our bubbles 

this infectious virus will get into our

system and spread so easily.

The risks of peoples health are far to high for this little country/island, and by letting tourist in are very risky, just imagine all of that horrible spread happening right in front of you'r eyes.

It would be a lot more safer and healthier if only New Zealanders were able to travel in New
Zealand and spend our own money in our own  country.

So in conclusion I strongly believe that the boarders should stay closed.

!Fun things to do when you are bored!

                      FUN ACTIVITY'S
Some people during lockdown have been extra bored, so I have been thinking why not share some fun things to do. I will share heaps of fun ideas  to do in town and out of town in the country.

• Build a pillow fort                          
• Go make a fresh garden               
• bake a yummy cake!                      
• Call you'r friends and challenge them.  
• Play with you'r PETS!!!                 
• Read a new book     
• play education games (Khan academy,Freckle,Studyladder)
• Turn something old into something new
• Do some art (Be CREATIVE)
• Make a scrap book
• Learn a new language
• Learn a new dance
• watch free movies (link down below)
• (https://www.popcornflixkids.com/pages/discover/d/movies)
• And if all else fails ask you'r Mum and Dad if they need a hand.

Today's update on Covid-19.

COVID-19

Problem: Covid-19 gets in us through either breathing it in or through our skin cell's

Solution: If we be hygienic by washing our hands with soap, and sanitise it creates a sheild of protection so it does not get through our skin cell's, and if we wear a mask we do not breath it in.

Today I have decided that i will give you guys a update on how things are going on with COVID-19.

So far the number of deaths are 0 which is good and the number of new cases are 0,

And that is amazing because the numbers are going down fast, and if we carry on this way we will have defeated COVID-19.

But the main thing we need to remember is...

to stay POSITIVE.

😁 A.N.Z.A.C friends 😁

ANZAC Friends

In world war 1+2 ANZAC people used all sorts of animals such as sniffer dogs, used to drag the sour wounded men to the aid, to carry small little crates across the snow, and the sniffer dogs always were used to carry some messages to the other opponents

war pigeons were used for messages to carry from the trenches to there family at home. In the war they used donkeys, horses, and even elephants for there heavy wait in construction, and for heavy wait transport.

Tortoises were used in the war so all the men had best friends, for comfort, and for love. In the war the most used animals that were used in the war were canaries+Rats because of their sensitive smelling. they were sent into the tunnels to sense poison gasses. To know if there is poison gasses they will come out fast, but if there is no gas they will stay.

So in conclusion animals are life savers, sensing poison gasses, and carrying the wounded.

😦Going crazy in lockdown😥

Going crazy in lockdown poem

Lockdown is crazy,

just as crazy as life,

this happened because of us,

and now we are stuck at home,

limited  to what we can do and missing friends,

we need to come up with a way,

to help this virus go away,

so at the moment, 

all we can do is be sanitary,

careful, safe, and stay at home.

Morepork / Ruru

Morepork/Ruru

Ruru's are an intelligent specie of birds and always keep to themselves, they are proud of their ways and take pride throughout the night. They are committed as a guardian and that is why they make their loud noises.

A Ruru looks so adorable even though they are very small and are about the same size as your hand. They have a bright, neon yellow pair of eyes and have different shades of brown in their feathers with a white patch around their beaks.

A Ruru eats a lot of little insects and bugs such as Beetles, Weta, Moths, and spiders

sometimes they might even hunt for small animals like small birds, Rats, and Mice to eat.

Ruru's have three main predators that mainly attack during breeding season. Their predators are Stoats, Possums, and Rats because they either crack or eat their eggs.

It's time to confess...😬

A week ago my teacher asked the class, what does confess mean and each student gave different meanings for the word confess. So once we finished talking about confessions my teacher announced that we would be doing confessional poem's. So after everyone went oh no! She read us a poem by William Carlos William's, and gave us a printed structure of the poem. Once we all got a topic to write about, we made a poem with higher quality of vocabulary, then we read it to a buddy gave feedback made the changes. Then we published it onto a slide.

and here is my finished product.

Welcome to 2020