Sunday, December 6, 2020

The Chinese got a flag successfully on the Moon

Hey guys. I did our final post on our current events! I talked about the Chinese getting a flag on the moon successfully. So I hope you enjoyed these posts!

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Art Colouring Book

 Today our classroom signed up for the Summer Leanring Journey. We did something called art colouring book you recreated a famous photo by doing it with differnt colors or trying to make it look the same. I tried to recreate the image Wattermelon Seller! It was fun and this is what I did. 

The original 

My recreated image




Thursday, November 5, 2020

Olympic values

 

Hello, I made another post today about showing Olympic values. Our reading topic for these past two weeks has been showing good sportsmanship and bad sportsmanship. This took me a while to make but it was really fun! I hope you enjoy :)

Sportsmanship guide for dummies

Hey guys, Over the last two weeks for reading we have been trying to do sportsmanship guide for dummies. I have created this work with my friend Jacob. I hope you enjoyed it! It took a long time.

Monday, October 26, 2020

One of five puppies born with green fur

Hello, I am back with another post of this weeks weekly event questions. I didn't get a good score because my Chromebook didn't load until later so I had to guess a lot of the answers, I got 8/20. I chose to research and work on this question and it was a puppy born with green fur and I found it really interesting to read about and I put some of the articles that I was reading. anyway, I hope you enjoy  

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Maths DLO

Hey guys, before I posted a video on the same thing but I made a mistake and I made a new video which was a pain. So here it is. I hope you learn something new from this. and I hope you enjoy it took a bit of time but it was really fun!

Monday, October 12, 2020

16,000 unreported cases of COVID-19 in the UK!

Today we did a general knowledge test on different things. I scored 9 out of 15 and I am happy about that. We did another one of those things where we learn about what happened and I chose this because I found it interesting. This was really run and we only had half an hour to do this so hopefully, you enjoy! 

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Why was the trial of Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine put on hold?

Hello guys. Today I made another post! We had to do a quiz at our school. It had about 10 questions and I scored lots of points and came second with my class mate, Holly. After that, we had to reaserch one of the questions from the quiz. I reaserched on why was the trial of Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine put on hold. I took me about half an hour to make and I liked reaserching about it because of how interesting it was. Anyway I hope you enjoy!  :)

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Maori week

Today I made a khoot. There were 8 questions and I don't think I can post this online so here are the questions are below. This took about one hour and I really enjoyed it because I like making quizs. This is also my third post. I hope you enjoy it!  


What is love in Maori?

True or False- Human is Kiato

What is the Maori word for 'I want to play?'

What is 'joke' in Maori and English?

True or false- There are 775,837 Maoris in New Zealand

What date was the Tiriti o Waitangi signed?

How many wars do the Maori have with New Zealanders each year?

True or False- Maori live in Niu Tireni 

Can you answer all of them? tell me if you can! 

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Maori gif

Kaiora. This week our school is doing Maori things and this is my second post. I had 493 frames and it took me about 3-5 hours to make in two days. I made this gif based on a Maori design but it was a challenge. Here is the video and I hope you enjoy it! and sorry for the thing down the bottom... 

Monday, September 14, 2020

Maori week. Word search


Today my friend Reid and I made a world search. The words are Ako, Aroha, Iwi, Kai, Tori. Can you find them? I liked making it because of the rulling and I got better at it too! I didn't I found it tricky to write neat words. So. Can you find them?



 

Thursday, August 6, 2020

William Pike refection

This is my reflection of William Pike. But first, William Pike is great because of all of the opportunities that you have. Basically what you do is you go on trips, like skiing, rafting, rock climbing. You have to do community service for a certain amount of hours and a passion project for a certain amount of hours. This is what I have written my refection on rock climbing and rafting



Rafting

Rafting on the Arnold River was awesome! On Tuesday 21th or July, we went rafting. My second favorite thing to do is rafting. I still like hiking the best. Rafting is a great experience and it’s exciting for most people. Before rafting, we were at school waiting for the bus. When the van arrived we drove into town, they took us to there “equipment store” and we got all our tools ready. Our raincoat sort of thing, life jacket and helmet. Then we travelled to the place we were about to raft on. The five instructors introduce themselves. They gave us some cool facts about some leaves and other things we could eat to help us in the wild if we ever needed it. Then they told us about safety on the raft and how to pull someone up if they fell out. 

After that, the fun began.

I didn’t really step out of my comfort zone because I have done rafting a lot of times with my friends and family, but the biggest challenge was probably working with people that you haven’t worked with before. I had 5 people in my raft. Rhys, Grace W, Brayden, the instructor (Georgia) and me. The best part of rafting was the rapids. They weren’t very big, but it was really fun, my second favorite part was standing on the edge of the raft without holding a paddle. I didn’t fall in somehow but I jumped in seconds later. 

Sadly the rafting ended and we played a few games on the grassy field where we stopped. We played three games. Evaluation, woctopus and a game I can’t remember the name of. We had to get in pairs of two and the person would say “face to toe” and one person would put there head on the other person toe. The game was about teamwork. Then we got in the vans and drove home on around two 2 o clock. When we got back to the little shed we gave them their gear back and got dressed in our warm clothes. After that they asked for feedback and asked us some questions like, “what would you do differently next time?” then we drove to school where we got picked up by our parents. 

As I said at the start rafting was awesome!



Rock climbing

On Thursday the 23rd, two days after rafting we went rock climbing! Sadly it was wet so we couldn’t go rock climbing on real rocks because if we went rock climbing on real rocks it might be dangerous. So instead we went to the rec centre by ST. Patricks. When I walked in there and looked at the walls I thought it would be a piece of cake! I thought… it was more challenging when I started to climb it because when it comes to hights I’m a scardy cat. Anyway, before I get to climbing here is the back story. It all started when we were at school. We had just gone rafting a day before that day but who cares? We were about to go rock climbing! So some vans came to Paroa School and we got in. When I went to clip my seatbelt in I discovered that it was indeed munted. So I got first class, the man offered me to come in the front seat with him so that I didn’t have to sit by the girls and I could still talk to my friends. Anyway we got to the Rec Center and we meet some of our instructors and they showed us the jobs that we could do. After about an hour we went climbing. They set us into groups of three. I was with Alisha and Georgia. So they made me go climbing first. Before we started they told us to say things like “ready to climb” and “ok” when they asked me, “what do you say?” so I said “if I don’t return tell my friends that they were great” then I started to climb. This was a really tall wall with lots of tiny pieces that I had to climb on. I was happy with myself, I got about halfway. They couldn’t get past the first few rocks. That’s one advantage of being small. Anyway, I came down and did a job called the backup rope or something similar to that. If the person who was belaying stopped and let go I would rush up to the lock in the rope and pull the rope down. After they tried to complete it they didn’t and we moved to a much easier stage. I didn’t complete that one either but Georgia did. I had a go at belaying Alisha. It was really easy we only four steps. I had to grip it, pull it down to lock it, put my hand on the opposite rope that was in the lock and hold it and slide my hand up and restart. After we had finished for a lunch break the instructors showed us them climbing the hardest wall. It didn’t look fun… but after that, we started climbing again. About half an hour later we stopped climbing and we played some games. Oh, and I saw some of my old friends from St. Patricks a year ago. But they are now in high school. So, in conclusion, rock climbing is my third favourite activity. 


Ocean biomes

After lockdown, my friend Jacob and I made a video on ocean biomes. I thought I posted this but I didn't so here is the video. Hope you enjoy :)

Monday, June 22, 2020

Making an environment for the yellow ants (They came if you look)


Today two of my friends Grace and Reid, helped me make an environment for CYA (crazy yellow ants) and this is a photo of what it looked like enjoy looking at the thing and all try and find the two ants :)

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Hello, goodbye


Hello, guys, our teacher has set us this topic to write. It's called hello, goodbye.
It's a fun topic!
The most challenging part of making the drawing was the introduction.
That's because I had to have a strong intro that I could carry on.
The easiest part of this was the decreations.
All I had to do is get one image and make the desks and make the stars
I hope you enjoy it!

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Orographic rain


Hi, guys, this is a topic about orographic rain. hope you enjoy :)

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Daily connection question

Home learning has its disadvantages and advantages. These are three of my thoughts on what I think is good and what is bad. First I will talk about the advantages and then the disadvantages. 

The good things about home learning are we are decreasing the spread of COVID-19 so we can go back to school sooner and save some lives of people. We also don’t have as many distractions. Your friends can’t bump you and talk to you. Home learning is a good excuse to get work done and mute your emails and turn your devices off. The last good thing is we get more time to spend on some projects. Like last week I spent about 4 hours on my maths angles because I did heaps of internet research, so now I am really good at that. I also spent a lot of days researching and planning my Matariki video.

The disadvantages of home learning are:

We don’t get teacher time. We can’t walk up to our teachers and ask them to explain what a word means. We have to email it, but most of the time it doesn’t teach us much. One of the biggest problems is kids do their work but don’t take the time to understand what it means. They also finish really early. So some kids don’t learn anything and the teachers can’t do anything about that apart from telling them they have to keep doing their work. For some questions, we have to email our teachers and they can’t tell us instantly so that wastes some time. Some kids don’t even do their tasks! 

So these are the good things and bad things about home learning in my opinion. 

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Maths Project

Hi Guys this is my new post. I have been working on this a long time to learn the graphic design app which is REALLY cool to use. Hope you enjoy it. Make sure you click on the image and open the image in a new tab to make it bigger!

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Matariki- writing topic

Hello guys, today our teachers have set us a Matariki topic. Our topic is to reflect on our past year, and the good things that have happened, the lessons we have learned, and some things that have happened with our families.

Before I start I would like to talk about Matariki. Matariki is a cluster of stars that you can see rising in late May or early June. The Maori call these seven stars Matariki. The English call them the Pleiades. For Maori, Matariki is the celebration of the New Year and the cycle of life and death. Some of us might think that it is weird because we celebrate New Year on January the 1st, but really it does not matter which day you choose as the first day of the New Year.

The celebration of Matariki died out in the 1940s but since the 2000s it has become popular again!

If you look directly at the Matariki star cluster you can only see six or seven stars, but if you look at it with the corner of your eye you see lots more stars twinkling! That's because the outside of our eyes is more sensitive to light than the center of our eyes.

There are lots of legends of Matariki, but the one I found most interesting was the story of a boy's parents who decided to separate. When the boy found out his parents were separated the god of wind called Tawhirimatea tore out his eyes and threw them into the sky to make Matariki!

Matariki is 440 light-years away. A light year is a distance that light travels in 365.25 days, so that is a long, long way because light travels at 299,792 km per the second! The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 93 million km. If that was only 25mm then the distance to Matariki would 708km.

Now to begin with my topic.

I have learned many great lessons this past year, but that's not surprising because I have had some great teachers and friends and family to learn from! one big lesson I learned is not to let your doubts and fears stop you from doing things. In term 4 last year my friend and I had to sing California Dreamin' in front of our own in front of our school! as the day got closer I was freaking out and was thinking up excuses to pull out. But I didn't and as soon as we stood up in front of the school I suddenly really confident and we sang really well.  So the lesson I learned there was don't let fear hold you back.

Another lesson I learned was not to do one-handed push-ups on a soccer ball by a muddy puddle. I tried, and two minutes later my mum was putting my clothes in the washing machine and I was in the shower washing mankey water out of my hair!

I have had lots of successes this year, like learning to build a huge chook house and pour concrete, getting into rep soccer, playing hockey and enjoying it, being a school captain, and lots of other things.

On the family side, the best news is that no one died or got really sick! My cousin Hayley broke her foot badly, but she's coming right which is good. My cousins Matt and Emma had a baby boy, and my whole family went to the North Island for a big family Christmas which was really nice.

So the last 12 months have been really good for me, even with the COVID-19 lockdown.



Thursday, April 23, 2020

ANZAC day 2020


Hello guys Jacob and I made this slideshow about anzac day. I just have to tell you not
to pause the video or the music goes out of the beat hope you enjoy! :)

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Daily Quiz

22nd April wensday 2020
Today’s letter is B
Q.The capital city of China 
A. Beijing


Q. A yellow, potassium-rich fruit
A. Banana


Q.The Fijian word for ‘hello’ 
A. Bula


Q. This meal is often called the most important meal of the day
A. Breakfast 


Q. Another word that means holiday home
A. Break


Q.A very large dinosaur with a long neck 
A. Brachiosaurus


Q. the surname of three brothers who played for the all blacks
A. Barrett

Q.the English word for kikorangi 
A.blue


Q. A pair of drums played by hand
A. Bongo


Q.the sport that Muhammad Ali is famous for
A. Boxer

Today's letter is C

Q. The body of water between the main islands of New Zealand
A. Cook straight

Q. The northernmost part of New Zealand
A. Cape Reinga

Q. The captial city of NZ's biggest neighbor
A. Canberra

Q. Queen Elizabeth the ll's favorite breed of dog
A. Corgis

Q. Fastest land animal
A. Cheater

Q. A cup-shaped vent from which volcanic materials escape
A. Volcanic Crater

Q. New Zealand's highest mountain Aoraki is also known as
A. Mount Cook

Q.  Mud, Hermit and paddle are types of this creature
A. Crab

Q. The English word for ngreu
A. Cat

Q.The most populated country in the world
A. China

24 April Friday 2020
Today's magic letter is D

Q. Name a country that begins with the letter D...
A. Dunedin

Q. Shrek's best friend was this kind of animal...
A. Donkey

Q. These medical professionals could give you braces or dentures...
A. Dentist

Q.The English word for Kuri
A. Dog (searched online)

Q.  Another word for soggy or wet
A. Dripping

Q. A mythical creature that breaths fire 
A. Dragon

Q. The opposite of swallow
A. Disbelieve (Searched online)

Q. A sweet food that is sometimes severed after dinner
A. Dessert

Q. The second  largest city in the south island of New Zealand
A. Dunedin

Q. A fictional character that can talk to and understand animals.
A. Doctor Dolittle 





Thursday, April 16, 2020

Daily puzzle

Taiao quiz for lockdown enjoy!
You can correct me if I get any wrong (optional) 

Q.The Maori word for love is?
A. Aroha. 

Q. There are 26 letters in this...
A.alphabet. 26 letters in the alphabet. but we only need 23... random facts of knowledge with mark :D We don't need x because we can make the sound with ks (socks, it's spelled fox but focks). We don't need q because we can do that with kw kween. We don't need c because we can do that with s (sity) or k (kat)

Q. An... a day keeps the doctor away 
A. An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Q.A famous British musician who sings 'hello' 
A.adele

Q. Our prime minister's last name... (NZ)
A. Ardern 

Q.The icy continent...
A. Antarctica

Q.Animals that live on land and water... 
A. Amphibians

Q. Capital of Samoa... 
A. Apia

Q. our national airline (NZ)
A. Air New Zealand Limited

Q. A fruit that is green inside and has a large stone 
A. Avocado   

Challenge
Post the first Animal you see in the English dictionary
Thanks for reading! did I get all of them right?


Thursday, April, 23

Q. What am I?
I am a 6 letter word
The first 3 letters indicate biggest thing in the world.
2 3 4  letter indicate parts of a human body
3 4 5 letter indicate part of circle
the whole word is the key of internet now

Answer:
The biggest 3 letter thing in the world is the oceans (sea)
The 3 letter word for a part of the human body that start's with ea is ear
The parts of the circle area for area and r for radius and c for circumference (arc)
Put them together and you get searc with the last letter missing
search is the 6 letter word that is the key to the internet

Thursday, April 30th

Q.What is the first thing a caterpillar eats when it's first born?
A. It's cacoon

Q. Walruses eat about how many clams in one day?
A. 6000 clams (googled)

Q. An ant say "danger ahead" by doing what
A. Squealing by rubbing its legs to make a squally sound (googled)

Q. What is a baby rabbit called?
A. Buck (googled)

Q. Which of the following is not a type of penguin? (Waterland Emperor, Chinstrap, Macaroni)
A.  Waterland

Q. Where is the only daytime kiwi found in New Zealand
A. Kiwi (It was a trick question)


Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Animal town

Animal Town By Mark :D
Before nearly anything in the world even dinosaurs there was a land of animals dogs, chickens, goats all the things that YOU think didn’t exist in that time but the leader got all the animals and sent them onto a different planet because of humans that’s right us we sent them onto the land of hardly any sun and rains all the time. After 2 years of pain, he decided to send animals one by one and after 1 year of sending animals back down the leader Kermit started to get sick he knew but didn’t tell anyone and travel back down to earth on the last rocket with the bears but something went wrong a black hole started to suck the rocket back they wouldn’t make it someone had to jump so Kermit jumped and said “I’M GOING TO KERMIT SUICIDE” and sprang out of the window of the rocket and him said he was ding anyway they were sad then they realized that most humans were cruel so they couldn’t get off earth so that’s why animals are here today! (Fiction and don’t abuse animals)

Idiom puzzles

April 16- Tuesday

This is today's figure of speech


This is what I think they are.

Let your brain wonder:
It means to give your brain something to do

fire drill
Is a different way of saying put the fire out

Fast food



Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Daily connection questions

Wednesday, April 15th

Q. What am I most passionate about?

I'm passionate about a lot of things like friends, outdoor activity, drawing and more. Since the COVID-19 lockdown, I have started to develop a real passion for cooking it started with pikelets. I know everyone thinks they can make pikelets but most pikelets are not as tasty as mine😂 Sorry I can't give you my recipe because it's... secret! last night I made Mousaka for dinner Mousaka is Greek and you use mince cooked in wine with tomatoes and then you make a delicious white sauce cheese topping and bake it in the oven tonight I'm going to make pork mince wraps. Maybe one day you guys will be eating in my world-famous chip shop😂

Thursday, April 16th

Q.What are you most proud of?

I am most proud of my friends and family and cousins. But I'm most proud of cooking. That's because I try to cook some food every day. I also try to learn some new recipes almost every day! I get to cook more food in my spare time right now because I'm not at school because of the Covid-19 lockdown, and I can make quick snacks in between my schoolwork. So, for now, that's what I'm most proud of!

Friday, April 17th

Q. If you could be any age for a week, how old would you be and why?

I would be 18 because that is the age that you can do a lot of things that I can't do right now. For example, driving cars! Or I could go to college and get a proper or part-time job. And also, when you turn 18 you become and have more responsibilities, and you need to be mature. It's like restarting your life for a second time. Being 18 would be great,  even if it was only for a week. The great thing is that in 5 years I will be 18 for 52 weeks!

Monday, April 20th

Q. What is your dream job and why?

When I'm older I would like to be a marine biologist, or a GP, or an actor. Of these, the job I would like the most is a marine biologist. If I was a marine biologist I would like to study the biggest shark known to mankind. The megalodon! I would like to find more information about them and solve lots of different things about megalodons that scientists don't know. For example, scientists do not know why megalodons became extinct.

But there are not many jobs as a marine biologist, which is why I am also interested in other jobs. If I don't become a marine biologist I would like to be a GP, which is basically a doctor who stays in a town and looks after patients. Or I would like to be an actor, who plays characters in a film. They are a vital part of a film and it would be fun to work as an actor.

So if I don't become an expert in megalodons then maybe I'll become your doctor, or maybe be watching a film one day and you will say "Hey that's Mark!"

Tuesday, April the 21fst

Q. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, or anything else, what would you want to know?

If I did come across a crystal ball I would like it was a joke. Or set up prank but if it wasn't, then I would ask it. "Will I become successful?" "where will I work after I'm done with high school? and why" and "when will I die and what of?" the reason I would ask these questions, is because these are the questions that I want answers too. I could try to change my future and try harder in my subjects.

So the reason I want to know will I become successful is because I would like to think that I am going somewhere in life. Instead of working as an MC Donalds chasier. All people want to be going somewhere in life, but some don't know that they aren't going to because they aren't thinking about it.

The second question I asked is Where will I work when I'm done with high school. This is because I want to see if I get my dream job. And I asked it why because maybe if I worked as a nurse it meant that there weren't any jobs open for a doctor when I apply or did

And the last question I would ask it is when will I die. I think a lot of people would ask this question.  but it could be two answers if you think about it. If you don't exercise and you're fat then you might die in about 3 years time. But if you're fit and not so fat then you might live for 10 years. It might say two answers to that question. The reason I asked how will I die is. Most people would like to know how I die because they probably won't know how they die and I would like to know-how.

So. This was today's daily connection question. If you ever came across a crystal ball what would you say? maybe I would steal the ball and my future job is a physic teller.


Wednesday, April 22

Q. List 5 things on your bucket list(things to do before you die)

These are the 5 things I would do before I died. 1. embarrass all my friends,  Skydive, break at least one rule.. come on everyone will choose that! Become a marine biologist and discover something that no one knows. 5. I would like to speak two languages that aren't English

The reason I want to embarrass my friends is that I love to see their reactions to when they get mad at me... it's a lot of fun but it's probably how I'm going to die 😂

I really would love to skydive because it sounds fun and looks amazing! I would love to be one of those people that does it before I die also a great challenge because I am scared of heights so I will be stepping out of my comfort zone.

3. break one law. By now before I die I would break one law. not too bad like rob a bank like pretend I work somewhere like I work for the primister but I don't really.

number 4. discover something like a marine biologist. That would be really cool to discover a new kind of species or discover an extinct animal

and lastly... learn to speak Spanish and french my two favorite languages that would be a great achievement for me to learn that...

So. These are 5 things that I want to do before I die I hope you enjoyed it!

April 24 Friday

Q. What is your happiest memory?

My happiest memories were probably with my friend Charlie. It was really run to play and talk to. Before he had to go back to his place. There were lots of memories and I can't choose my favorite moment with him. Another happy memory was when 5 or 6 of my friends were walking around with me, and we saw a chair. They started to force people onto the chair and run them around the school on the chair. That was really funny as I watched all of my friends run away with a person screaming at the top of the chair.

Those were my two favorite moments at school. I have too many happy memories with my family so I can't choose one.

Friday, 1 April

Q. What makes your family amazing

There are lots of great things that make my family really cool. We all have our skills at least one but my family sometimes surprises me with their skills. I have learned lots of things about my parents over the past month. What makes my mum so amazing is she works hard for some money so that, there's food on the table. She also makes some great food and snacks. She also pays a lot of attention to my sister and I, so that's why my mum is so amazing (she also gets me some PlayStation cards sometimes to...)

My dad is the tech guy... or the old fashion tech guy, he can't really work with the ps4 but he knows to use photoshop and freehand (these are all graphic design apps) and he always helps me with things when my sister and I need help. With this COVID-19 lockdown, he has been helping me with some projects and showing me how to use graphic design apps. He also does lots of outdoor things with me. He takes me hiking, camping, and organizing great trips!

My sister is basically my friend. Sometimes.  She is the one who asks me to play games with her. We used to jump on the trampoline together but now she's too old. Just kidding but we don't go on the trampoline together. She also does some chores so that I don't have to do as many and make me some snacks.

So that's why I think my family is pretty marvelous. Thanks for reading

April, May 4th

Q.  If you could change 3 things in the world what would they be and why?

The three things I would change in my life would be: (1) I would stop all wars. (2) I would change to make sure all of the homeless people that live on the street got a house to live in, and a job and some food. (3) I would like to give our primary teachers a big pay rise :)

These are my reasons why we should change these things and how we can make them happen:

We should ban war because it can damage people in many ways. Someone's family member could die fighting, or be damaged for life, or get forced to move out of there town and live on streets in London or someplace. We should and we could stop all wars that happen around the earth. Here is how. We could ban all the guns around the world. Not many people would die fighting with sticks and stones!  Instead of banning guns, we could make a world treaty against war, but that wouldn't do much because someone would always break that treaty. If we did agree to a treaty it could have penalties for people who break it, like a long jail sentence.

I believe that homeless people should live in homes. They should be treated like we are treated. I think they should be able to get a job that pays and I  think they should have food and water. I think we should od this because if we were homeless we would love to have a home! we would love to have food and water. Most homeless people don't deserve to live on the streets they just don't have money. We can fix this with time and effort. We could make the richest people give enough money to the government and then they share it evenly to all the people who need it. That is called taxation.

Finally, the last thing I would change would be primary teachers getting a bigger pay rise. Primary school is the most important stage of education to pay attention to. The first two years of high school are very important but primary school is where you learn advanced maths, reading, spelling, etc. So because they have a very important task that can change children's whole lives, primary teachers should be paid a lot! Another reason I think primary teachers should get a big pay rise is that by saying this I hope that my teacher might give me better marks for this writing task! It would very easy to give our teachers a big pay rise; the government should just pay our primary teachers more. Or the teachers could go on longer strikes I think that the kids will like that!










A figure of speech

Monday- April 15
There are different types of figures of speech. These are called idioms. An idiom is a group of words that has a hidden meaning behind it. So for the first day of term 2 in lockdown, this is what our teachers have sent us https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/axz1rx/there_are_27_figures_of_speech_hidden_in_this/ These are 16 I found. (The saying and answers)

Pull your socks up.
Stop being sloppy 

Time flies 
time goes fast 

Don't put all your eggs in one basket
If you lose your basket with all your eggs you lose every egg you had.

Spilled the beans 
Tell someone something that should have been a secret 

Big cheese
The important person of the group 

Fish out of the water 
A person out of their comfort zone

In a nutshell 
Summarise something quicky 

Patched together
Quickly done rushed not well done. 

Keep cards close to chest 
don't let anyone know your tactics 
or intentions 

Ace up your sleeve 
Something well hidden before needed 
usually a surprise or secret advantage 

Tying the knot 
Getting or get married 

Shadow of your former self
Less healthy or happier than you/someone else 
was in the past 

Kick the bucket 
Going to die

Born with a silver spoon 
Born with a rich family.

Wears a heart on his sleeve
Can always see his emotions

Cherry on top
The best part








Monday, January 20, 2020

Summer learning journey week 1-7

If I had superpowers mine would be...

1. Telekinesis. I would have this because I could lift things with my mind and it would be a cool.superpower

2. teleportation. I would use this to teleport to school and teleport to places that I don't need to travel to. in a car  

3. invisibility. So I don't die from bullets and stuff like that. 

Those are my top 3 superpowers I would want.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Summer learning journey week 1-6

 When I was 9 I was playing on a playground and I fell off a platform when playing a game with 2 of my friends and hurt my arm at first I didn't feel anything then about 2-3 seconds later the pain was so painful that I had to walk over to the teacher's room where they eat lunch my friends came with me. The pain was so horrible that I had to get in the ambulance with my parents and go to the hospital. the doctors told me I had broken my arm and no one in the hospital could perform the prosecutor so I had to go an emergency plane to Christchurch. there they put me to sleep.

So when  I woke up there was a big mark on my left arm and I also had these black wires that went inside my arm to hold my arm in place. they explained what bone I broke it was the bone around my elbow and it had moved around somewhere around my wrist (It was around) and I didn't go to school for about 3 weeks then I would pop in and out. the teachers were very kind and while I was in the hospital the kids made me cards and stuff. And I guess that's brave that I didn't mind getting my arm cut open. If you were in the same situation I don't think you would mind to!



Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Summer learning journey. Week 1-5

Floating around the atmousfar1000 ft below the moon coming down and landed suddenly my feet land on the hard rocky ground "one small step for a man... one giant leap for mankind" my stomach hurts and I hold my breath hoping nothing bad was going to end in death or injury the gravity is very low I hop around like a bunny dogging a bullet as it tries to hop out of the way. the rocks that I throw up from my feet slowly float up to my head as I stick a flag in the moon I take one more look at the giant mentor.