Money

hello, my good sirs. today in wga we are learning about why some people get paid less than other people. The main reasons are the jobs like if you work at McDonald's you are not going to get as much as some good athlete. The jobs that are harder and rarer to do get paid more because of the stuff they have to do.

Art

This term in art we have been doing watercolor and learning how to use it properly. We had to do a painting of a flower. I also had some random ones that I made up when I was painting. I enjoyed making the art so here are my masterpieces.  

The Holiday

The last two weeks were the school holidays and we could do what we wanted and I played PlayStation every day. I played a bit of Minecraft servers because I'm an epic pro gamer. I played with my friends most days. This is a list that I made to show you the different things. 

I played with my friends a lot on Minecraft. We played egg wars and lost most of the time but we sweated and died. We played lucky blocks and lost. We lost a lot of our matches but still played because we had nothing else to do.       

The only physical thing I really did was got food walked around the house and went to the toilet. I would get some food around ten and then go back to playing with the boys. We played a little bit of Fortnite creative and duos because why not.  

During the holidays I started a Minecraft world with my brothers so we can play the same game so we all made a house. Then we dug a hole for the PvP fight and we called it the PVP pit. I destroyed my brothers in and out of the pvp pit. 

The best part was getting up and waiting for my Dad to say we could play and then we did nothing else for the whole day. I was on the Ps5 or Ps4 depending on the day. Depending on the console I would play whatever the boys wanted to play.

When I would play Minecraft I would go to the nether to get the ender pearls and try to find the fortress. But I died a lot of time and then I was sad. But I would go back and go along with my day. 

When my friends weren't on I would play servers by myself I played Lucky Blocks and I got a solo win by running because there are too many sweaty players. I got some decent loot and I think the last player fell off the map and then I got my first (and only) win.

Jane Addams

 Today we were learning about Jane Addams who helped poor people by giving them somewhere to live and learn to cook and things like that. Heaps of people went there because they needed the basic things in life. Here are the questions we had to do.

• She Didn't actually build the house

• She is rich

• She wanted to help people

• When she saw poor people she wanted to help

• Her dad died

• She paid rent then got it for free 

Why did you want to build a house

Why did you give away a pair of underwear

When did you decide to build a house

How many people did you take care of 

What year did you start the house

Year 1 She was born

Year 6 Saw poor people and wanted to help

Traveled to London

Her dad died

Started the house in Chicago to help people

Built a playground 

The empty pot

 Today we read a story called The Empty Pot. It was about a kid called Ping. He was good at growing things but then the emperor was in need of someone to take the throne. Then he held a competition and then he go kids to grow plants. Ping couldn't grow it because they cooked the seed and then he showed the emperor and the emperor liked his courage and made Ping the emperor. The other kids had cheated and other seeds. Here is a word search I made for it.

Lisa Carrinton

 Lisa Carrington is an NZ kayaker. she has won 3 golds in Tokyo. We had to learn and write about her here are my answers for the questions. Lisa Carrington MNZM (born 23 1989) is a New Zealand flatwater canoeist. She won three consecutive gold medals in the Women's K-1 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as gold in the same event at the 2011 Canoe Sprint World Championships. She is one of New Zealand's most successful Olympians ever, having won a total of four gold medals and one bronze medal.

• Born in Tauranga, Carrington was raised in Ōhope, a satellite town of Whakatane in the eastern Bay of Plenty, and is of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Ngāti Porou descent. She attended Whakatane High School and Massey University in Alba

• Canoeing 

In June 2009 she won a bronze medal at the World Cup regatta held in Szeged, Hungary, competing alongside Teneale Hatton in the women's K-2 1000 metres event. In May 2010 the pair won the gold medal in the same event at a World Cup regatta in Vichy, France.

 

• Carrington and Hatton won three gold medals at the 2010 Oceania Canoe Championships; they won the 500 and 1000 metres K-2 events and were joined by Rachael Dodwell and Erin Taylor to win the K-4 500 metres. The pair became the first New Zealanders ever to reach a World Championship A final at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań, Poland;. Their time of one minute 42.365 seconds in the semi-finals meant they qualified third fastest for the final of the K-2 500 metres, however, they finished the final in ninth position.

• At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she defended her gold medal in the K-1 200 metres event and won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 metres event. In doing so, she became the first New Zealand woman to win multiple medals at the same Olympic games. Carrington was the flag bearer at the 2016 closing ceremony. She is coached by Gordon Walker.

• On 3 August 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Carrington won her third consecutive gold medal in the K-1 200 metres event. On the same day, she and her crewmate Caitlin Regal won a gold medal in the K-2 500 metres event

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• Lisa Carrington was named as New Zealand's senior Māori sportswoman and overall Māori sportsperson of the year in November 2012. In the 2013 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to kayaking. In 2014. 

• Carrington was named the NEXT Woman of the Year in the Sports category. At the 2016 Halberg Awards, she won the Sportswoman of the Year and also won the Supreme Award.

• On 11 February 2021, Lisa Carrington was named the most influential Māori sports personality of the past 30 years in the Māori Sports Awards 30 in 30 show, aired on Māori Television

• Carrington is an athlete ambassador for Beef and Lamb New Zealand, alongside Eliza McCartney, Sophie Pascoe and Sarah Walker. She is also an ambassador for Southern Cross Health Society.

Answer & do the following activities (15 in all).

1. Why is Lisa Carrington in the news right now? Because she won gold at Tokyo

2. What country is Lisa from? NZ

3. Where was Lisa born?  (clue. it’s a city).Tauranga

4. What province is that city in? Bay of Plenty

5. Identify Lisa’s iwi.Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou  

6. What satellite town did Lisa grow up in ohope

7. What High School did Lisa attend?   Whakatane high school

8. Name the University Lisa went to and where it is located. Massey University Albany

9. What is Lisa’s Olympic event? Flat lake canoeing

10. List 5 countries that Lisa has competed successfully in.Hungary France brazil

11. Who is Lisa's crewmate in the Tokyo Olympics?  Caitlin Regal  

12. Name 2 awards Lisa has achieved in NZ.gold medals

13. What are Lisa’s ambassadorial roles in NZ? (clue… there are 2) southern cross health society, beef and lamb NZ

14. Google ‘Lisa Carrington’ in Wikipedia and use the information there to add key facts below her pic

Lisa Carrington

Age:

Date -of birth: 23 June 1989

Height:1m 68cm

Weight:53kg

Sport:coneing

 

Olympics

 We were learning about the Olympics over the time that it was happening. We had to make a slide about five NZ athletes. I and my friend worked together so I did five and he did five. Here is the slide we made.