Thursday, May 14, 2020
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
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.
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.
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
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!
Challenge
Post the first Animal you see in the English dictionary
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)
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)
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