Kupe V Cook

This week in our reading groups we did a Venn diagram about Kupe and Captain Cook. Kupe was a Polynesian chief and the founder of New Zealand, he was from Hawaiaki. Captain Cook was British naval officer that informed New Zealand to the British. In a Venn diagram there are similarities and differences between two people.

Summer learning journey

Today we had the people from the summer learning journey program. They were to give our prizes for people that participated in the program And the winners. 66 people participated in the program, as our prize we got a certificate and chocolates.

Kiwi Can

 For kiwi can out theme was positive relationships. For our energizer we were given a cone between two people, is we touched it the other person got the point. After that we talked about giving things a go. Our activity was one v one where we had to act out things.

Tech reflection

This week for tech we used mblock to make noise and change colour with our mbot. We also finished our flashing lights slide and moved on to our making sounds slide. We learnt how to make the mbot sing happy birthday.

Reading

For reading we made a summary  about the treaty of Waitangi using key about ten. In the summary we wrote what the treaty is and who was involved in it. Our summary starts at the signing of the treaty to the New Zealand wars

The Treaty of Waitangi is an important part of New Zealand's history. The treaty was to let the British live in NZ without having any conflict towards the Maori. The Maori also wanted to have full ownership of their lands and resources. The two versions (Te Reo Maori and English) were very different though, so they had problems. In the Te Reo Maori version they would get to keep their land and do whatever they wanted themselves. In the English treaty it was written that the crown would make the rules for the people to follow. After the treaty was signed, the Maori people felt cheated on and a conflict began between the two nations. That conflict was called the war of New Zealand.

Tech

oday at tech the year sevens did robotics, we learned about algorithm’s. Algorithms are a set of instructions. Our teacher for robotics is Ms. Ferguson. We had been given an Mbot which is a robot to give instructions to using our chromebooks.

Kiwi Can

For Kiwi Can Out theme is positive relationships. We also talked about the word courtesy. For our energizer we played change places. For our activity we had to act to show empathy or no empathy.

Writing

L.I to structure and write and explanation

For writing we looked at explanations. An explanation is how or why something is thew way it is. The structure of an explanation is TIIC which stands for Title, Introduction, Information and Conclusion. Our explanation was about plastic pollution and how it effects our marine life.

Why plastic pollution is

a problem for our coastlines

Did you know plastic pollution is a big problem to our ocean and marine life? Plastic pollution is taking over our coastlines. Plastic pollution is an environmental issue that affects our ocean, marine life and land. Many of our oceans are polluted with plastic. Think about Thailand, their oceans are so polluted that it changed from normal looking water to pitch black.

When the plastic washes up into the water, seabirds and marine animals mistake it for food. They also get caught up in plastic and the rubbish which ends up deforming the marine animals. There are pictures of turtles who’s shells have been deformed because they have been caught up in the plastic. Do you feel good about that?

When you litter your rubbish it goes to the water system and leads to the ocean. It gets washed up on our coastlines. Then it degrades into small pieces of plastic that get washed into the ocean. Seabirds and marine animals mistake it for food or get caught up in the plastic who then get deformed. 

If you see a piece of plastic just take some time to pick it up and put it in the bin. A small action could make a big change. So use the rubbish bin.

Kiwi Sport Reflection | Cricket

Today we kiwi sport session, our sport this term is cricket. Our coach was Brian from Howick Pakuranga cricket club. We did a batting activity, a fielding activity and a catching activity. In the batting activity we had three batters and the rest of the people were fielders, the batters had to hit the balls and run between the cones until the two ball were returned to on to of the cones.

For the Fielding activity we were split into groups. We had to hit the wickets and place one of the four cones on one of the stumps. We had to hit the wickets and place a cone of one of the stumps four times to win. For our last activity we played a catching game. Our coach Brian threw a ball at at us and we had to catch the ball, if we didn't we would be out.

Ordering numbers

National current events

Today we created a map DLO that shows current events around New Zealand. We have 6 national current events in New Zealand. The article we found most interesting, Ardie Savea being banned on Tik Tok. He was banned  from his doctor for dancing when he was supposed to be in bed resting because of his knee. The most shocking article was Southland flooding. Lukah, Acien, Vayan, Afatia, Liletina, Azatulah and I worked as a team to complete this activity.