Summer learning journey day 3

Summer Learning Journey activity 2, day 2, 2019

Tāku Mōkai

We have been learning to say our pets name in Maori and what they like to eat. Here is my work.

Summer Learning jouerny. Activity 2 Exploring Our Roots - Teaser week

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Kia Ora koutou.                           

Ko Cooper tōku ingoa                                            

No Mawhera ahau.

                                                                                            
 Ko Endeavour tōku waka

  
  Ko Pākehā tōku iwi

  Ko Aoraki tōku maunga

  
 Ko Mawheranui tōku awa

  Ko Jarred tōku matua

 Ko Cristy tōku whaea 

Ko Stella tōku tuahine

Tēnā koutou katoa 

                                                                                                  Ko Stella tōku tuahine 

                                                                                                     Tēnā koutou katoa    

                                                                        

Kowhaiwhai Pattern

By Luken,Cooper and Korban In He Kakano (our senior Māori group) we have been learning about kowhaiwhai and their different meanings. We had to create a piece of artwork showing at least one kowhaiwhai pattern and this is what we chose.


 This kowhaiwhai pattern represents speed, swiftness and agility.

 We chose this one because we all like sport and we’re all fast. This design represents the patiki or flounder. It is a symbol of hospitality. We chose this design because we all like eating food.

Algebra DLO's

Packing my for Mt Cook

By Cooper and Kayden :D

WALT Develop our own poem in response to 

a model (packing my bags for….. 

By Cooper Norcliffe)

WALT Use an increasingly descriptive vocabulary 

to add insert to our writing

WALT Have some fun and be creative with ideas

And imagination.

Packing My Bag For Mount Cook

One pair of tough, pink, stand out boots with diamond sprigs

To grip the snow

For climbing the steep slopes

To get to the summit of Mt Cook.

A pair of super green bionic

 gem encrusted binoculars for

 looking at the pink birds nesting

As I explore along the way

One thick jacket with heaters in it

On top of my t-shirt made from a heated blanket

Duck taped and super glued on so it does not fall off 

So I don’t freeze to death

Four cans of squiggly spaghetti and 

one bowl of gassy baked beans for energy on our adventure,

a mini portable stove to cook it on 

Carried in it’s own egg shell casing

In case we get hungry 

And one friend 

just incase I get lonely on my journey.

My Film Review

Toki Pounamu Film Festival Today Karoro School went to the Toki Pounamu Film Festival at the Regent Theatre to watch about 5 or 4 Schools from the West Coast present films. This was the first Toki Pounamu Film Festival on the West Coast. We watched 3 to 2 minute long films and all the films were very cool and interesting.

 I enjoyed the 1st film. It was a crime/robbery film and I liked it because it was very funny and it was very cool to watch. I also enjoyed the part when they were on the phone and they were talking about the robber and all the sheriffs were talking about who was the best sheriff in the town. They used slow motion and I also liked how they used time lapse. 


 My second Favorited film was the one when they went to the Tip Head and interviewed the waffle man and the girl also interviewed her dad while he was white baiting and I liked it because it was a family film. I did not like though, how you could not really hear her voice because it was so windy. I also liked how they did not annoy the seal that was laying in the sun on the big rocks. I liked this film because it was different to all the others.

kiwi collage .

We have been learning to make a collage on Google Drive. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make a NZ bird and put it into its habitat. It was lots of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this?

My NZ Stick insect

We have been learning about minibeasts in class as part of science. We have been creating information report on a minibeast of our chose. The mini beast we chose had to live in New Zealand Here is my writing. I worked with Flynn.

Animation

Today we were learning to do an animation on google slides. We had to use free to use images and we had to change the code to make it work.We had the code I also changed the word false to true inside the code. In the code I also changed the moving part faster. Hope you enjoyed my animation.

Weta Report-Term 3

This is a piece of writing that we done for are minibeats topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an information report on this insect.


                                 Click here to see our success criteria.

                   The Weta

     What is a weta?

Weta are a native insect to New
Zealand/Aotearoa
.pepeke/Weta are invertebrates and they have
an exoskeleton. An invertebrate is an animal
that has its skeleton on the outside which is
called an exoskeleton. They don’t have a
spine. Weta look similar to crickets. They have
six legs. They have two antennae. They have
ear just below the front of their knees. They
have an abdomen and a thorax. People often
think they look ugly.This is why Maori people
called them punga which means the spirit of
ugliness. There are five main types of weta
but there are over 70 species. Although weta 
might not look pretty they are important.

     

Where do weta live?

Weta live in many different places in the
world.Weta only live in New Zealand. Tree
weta are mostly found in rotten logs and
tree’s trunks. They even live in your woodpile.
Cave weta are mostly in caves near the ocean
shore .Ground weta normally live on the
ground near trees. Giant weta normally live
in forests and grasslands and some giant
weta live in caves.Tusked weta are mostly
found in the same place where giant weta
live. They live in alpine forests, urban gardens
and grasslands. Even though weta might live
in different places they are still important.

Weta feeding behavior

Weta eat quite a lot of different food. Weta can
be carnivorous or a herbivore and some can
be an omnivore. They also enjoy eating leaves
and lichen. They also eat fruit and vegetables
like carrots and other fruits and vegetables.
Some weta eat snails and worms and some
weta also eat other insects. Some weta can
eat seed heads, and plants and some also
eat flowers. Weta can sometimes eat the same
things as us. 

Breeding

Weta normally mate in the spring or summer.
The male weta normally fight the other weta to
protect their females. In autumn they lay their
eggs 6-10 at a time. Overall the females lay
up to 300 hundred eggs in there lifetime and
they can live up to two years.

Social behavior

Tree weta normally live in groups. And other
weta live on their own. Some males fight other
males so they can protect the females. Some
weta use their legs to make chirping noises and
that's how they communicate.

Threats

Some weta are endangered insects. Some
threats are humans because humans cut down
their trees which are there home. Birds are
their biggest predators. Cats, hedgehogs, birds,
humans, weka, kiwi, rats and mustelids(stoats,
ferrets) and also others are all predators.

Ending

Weta have been around since the dinosaur age.
Even though weta are ugly they are still very
important to our world. Weta are native insects
that are older than the 

dinosaur age.      By Cooper

Mini beast.

We have been learning about mini beast here is some of my reading work I have been doing.

Area and Perimeter work

He kakano Term 3 2019 DLO

Dlo

Writing - abandoned places

Abandoned places writing

Our learning goals are to:
-write a description using powerful words and phrases
include some Te Reo Maori
Carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling

Choose one of the above images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

Abandoned City

One day me and TEAM ZOMBS went looking for survivors after the big war. We got dropped/ngahoro off  out of the biggest helicopter in the world by Joe who is one of the ZOMBS TEAM members. Me and James went looking for survivors. We got loaded with guns. I got a flamethrower and James got a MINIGUN.

 I heard something as we were walking through the city and I was like, “Did you hear that James?” He said, “No.” Then he got shot in the leg! I went running/whakaomaoma to him. And I gave him bandages to wrap around his leg. Then we heard gunshots. Me and James went to have a closer look and there were two teams fighting. Then me and James were hiding in the trees until the fight was over. Once it was over  we went back to the abandoned city. There were cobwebs everywhere. I could smell the wet soggy dirt and wild peacocks which roaming around. I could also smell the wet soggy moss on the trees and on the side of the building.

 While I was searching the abandoned city all I could see was broken windows. There were cobwebs in the corners and on the windows. It felt paranormal. I could hear the peacocks screaming in the night. I could hear the birds and all the other animals tweeting and growling.  We could not find any survivors so we went back home. By Cooper

Making A paper plane

Introduction: Hi, today I researched how to make a paper plane. I have made a presentation of the instructions. When you have had a go, let me know how your plane flew, and maybe send me a photo. Smart Blogging.

My scratch project-Te Rea Maori

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week- Korero o te Wiki.

WALT:
- use scratch to code for computational
thinking
-learn how to create basic code on scratch
-say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori

Click here to see are our Korero  o te wiki- Phrases of the week
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1soDr946oBzf0tqOLumchhaizJ5VQemVC_Li8PvBwKHI/edit
See my scratch project here

My Marae Recount

   

Rm 7’s noho Marae                                               Experience

     

On the 1st-2nd of May rm5, rm7 and parents and some teachers  went to the local Marae  called Arahura Marae. We went to learn about the marae. When we got there we practiced our waita before the karanga started.

                      Going to Arahura river

 We got to go the Arahura river and your only allowed there if you get permission and you can only get permission by the marae staff. We were lucky to get permission to go there. We had to go down a steep hill to get to the Arahura river and then we went down this path. Then we got to the river and Jerry told as a little bit about greenstone. He said don’t look for green, look for a crispy white colour. Then me James, Joe and Jack went looking on the river bed. We kept finding some but it wasn't greenstone. Then Joe and James found greenstone.  After that we were finished so we walked back up the path and up the steep hill. Then we walked back to the marae.    

                                 

Story about carvings

When we got back from the Arahura River, Jerry told us a little bit about some of the the carving and the stories about the carvings. I really enjoyed them and there was three chiefs that went to Lake Mahinapua. They came from the East Coast to fight the West Coast because of pounamu. But there was one chief on the West Coast that knew they were coming so he changed the weather to really bad and their waka’s tipped and some drowned and others got to shore but the chief from the West Coast sent other fighters to the shore and killed the people from the East Coast. So three days later another chief from the East Coast searcher to get the three bodies of the top chiefs because he wanted to take them home to bury.   But he could not carry the 3 bodies so he cut of their heads and took them back to burry them.

                                                 

                                    Evening rotation

   In the evening we did our evening rotation. I stared with Adrian and Phaedra. We started with a game called rats and rabbits. I was a rabbit and Noah was a rat so I versed him and when Phaedra called rats the rats would chase the rabbits and tag the rabbits so the rabbits did not get to the end. But when she called rabbits the rabbits would have to chase the rats so the rats don’t get to the other side. When we finished that game we played hockey but with a big ball  and newspaper for the stick. Then we played one more game. It was just like ping pong but you could not hit the ball and the the ping pong bat was a paper fan.

Personal Comment

 For the first time going to a marae it was not as bad as I thought. I thought the food was going to be bad but it was amazing. I thought it was going to be small but it was really big. I learnt more about the Māori culture than I thought I would have and I really enjoyed it. 

By Cooper 

If I had wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

Get NZ writing-poetry

Get NZ writing-poetry Over the past few weeks we have been part of the Get NZ writing poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poems written across NZ We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here is my poem.

The Powhiri Process

The Powhiri Process

THE WERO

The wero is a greeting to see if you come in peace.They will
send the fastest runners to see if you come in peace. They
will place a stick or a feather on the ground and the visitor
will pick it up. If they pick it up they come in peace and if
they don’t pick it up they come in war. Today this is only for
special visitors.

Karanga

       The karanga is a welcome call performed from the
woman. It lets the visitors know that they can come on the
marae. It also welcomes the dead. And it tells the people
who you are.

Whaikorero

A whaikorero is a formal speech made by men.  The hosts and
visitors do these speeches. They acknowledge the dead and
welcome the people and they can argue about any issues.

Koha

The koha is a gift to the marae. The gift can be food, treasure or
money. It shows appreciation for staying at the marae. The
gift helps with the running costs of the marae. The speaker
with the guest will place the gift after his speech.

Waiata

A waiata is a maori song and it is a form of greeting.

In ancient times the waiata would normally be sung by woman.

HONGI

A hongi is where you touch noses with the marae people.
To make it more comfortable they would put your hand on
there shoulder. A hongi show respet.

Kai  

After the hongi the they go to the dinning hall to eat the kai.
They will eat breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Bye Cooper

Kawa of Care

We have been learning to follow the Kawa of Care which tells us how to look after your Chromebook and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. Here is my work.

Why Marae Are Important

Why Marae Are Important

I wrote this writing to explain what a marae
is and all its details

A wharenui represents an ancestor that has passed away so they can remember
them. A wharenui is a carved meeting house. In the front of the marae the is a
caved head called the koruru. On the front there are carved arms called maihi.
On the end of the arms there are hands called raparapa. On the sides there are
ribs called the heke. And straight through the middle is the heart pole and the
Maori name for it is poutokomanawa.

When there is an earthquake the marae will open the doors for people who has
lost their home and the marae people will start to cook them some food. In
Auckland they will open the doors for the homeless people and they will also
cook them some food and also they would help the people that need help. Some
people celebrate their birthdays at a marae and some people celebrate
weddings at a marae. But some people might be sad about when people have
passed away so they will go to a marae for their funeral.

By Cooper

Karoro School values

For the beginning of the year we have been learning about our school values. Here  is my work  showing our school values and some ways we can demonstrate these.

swim safe Achievement levels

We've been learning how to be safe when swimming and working on our swimming skills. Below is my swimming goal sheet and I've highlighted green parts I've completed. By the end of the year my goal my goal is to complete level 3.