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.  

Impasto

 Impasto is a type of art that you use thick strokes so that you can see the texture on the paper. Van Gogh used it for famous art. 
What does the word impasto mean? Mixture is the meaning of Impasto.

How can impasto brushstrokes express emotions? Because you can add thickness to certain places.

Was Van Gogh one of the first painters to use the impasto technique? Yeah, he was a pioneer.

Envy

It is something that happens when you want to be more like someone else. You can use it to figure out what you want to get or be. 

Friends

Friends are good to have because if you don't you're lonely and you might explode. 

• Taha whanau is about who makes you feel like you belong.
• Good friends help a lot because you can talk more to them.
• Respect is good because people can trust you. 

Fiji win gold

Fiji rugby sevens won a match of rugby sevens on Wednesday (NZ time) beating New Zealand. They were in tears at the last whistle and then chanting their national anthem for the second gold win. It was a closer match than the British match. This match was 27 to 12 and the other was 43 to 7.

 

cometment

 Today we are learning about commitment and how we are showing commitment throughout the year. I think that I am about half on the thumb scale. The different spaces we can show commitment are outside in the class and moving through the class. I think I could work focusing on the task. I think I find using my Chromebook the hardest because I can go on different sites.     

Art

 In art, we made a lino block print for our personal logo. I made mine based on the PS logo because I like PS. I enjoyed cutting the block to make the picture. I made it black and white because I felt like it and it was my first one of the batch. Here is the picture and some of my hands. In my opinion, the ink went onto it really well. Is there anything else I can do to make this look good.

Hands on fire!!

                    *Warning: do not try this at home* 

Today we put our hands on fire and it was cool because it was safe but we were also on fire. Everyone's second turn was the bigger one because they knew what it was going to be like. The second one for mine I grabbed most of the bubbles and then Mr. Stock used the lighter then the flame jumped up and then would go out. I enjoyed it but it was weird to have your body on fire. We had to line up and have safety goggles on and we had to wet our hands and then get the bubbles and then the fire blew up.  

Codeing

In my coding class, I made a scratch game it is a masterpiece so if it gets 5 likes I will make the best HD remake of a game in existence so now you have to like it. here it is the best thing I have ever created in my life. game

2050

Hi, bloggers today I am gonna discuss what will 2050 be like. I think that it won't be that much different from now but gas will be more expensive than it is now. The cars might look different but are basically the same except because they might be electric and have to charge at home. Buildings might look different because of space and resources. There might be more apartments instead of houses. Food might look and be different from fast food. Our idea is to make a car that runs off screams so it saves gas but anyone else in the car would not have a good ride. The way it works is that there is a built-in iPad that plays a video and then goes flat then the kids scream to power the iPad and then that goes into the car to make the car have the power to go and then charges the iPad then it repeats that prosses.   

STEM

this term we have to ask a quiestion about what woud the world be lik in 2050. The options were transportation,fasion,enviroment and inventions. I chose transportaition because cars could look cool in the future because we can have better technology. 

Using a microscope

Today in science we used a microscope to look at an onion epidermis. First, we had to make a slide to put the onion on so we got the thin onion epidermis and then stained it with iodine. Then we had to look through the lens and then we had to move the scope to see it better. When we did that it looked like a brick wall. I was crazy that something that big had small things in it. Here is a picture of onions and the epidermal cell.

 

Matariki

 Matariki is the new year for Maori.  here are facts on Matariki

1. it is a constellation of 7 seven stars

2.  you eat food 

3.  and it is a time to remember people who have past away

4. its on Friday 24th of June                          

Taste and smell

 This term we have been testing if you can find out a flavor without seeing it or smelling it. The first one we did was the lollies. First, we had to get the colors and then one person had to hand it for us then we put it in our mouths. Some of the flavors we had were hard to taste

Beginning with the basics binary numbers

 Binary-something with two components 

algorithm-step by step process

0001-a

00100-b

00011-c

00100-d

00101-e

00110-f

00111-g

01000-h

01001-i

01010-j

01011-k

01100-l

01101-m

01110-n

01111-o

10000-p

 

What is normal isn't normal

 Hello bloggers today we read a text about how being weird is normal. After we read it we had to right a summary about the text so here it is.

The text explains that being weird is normal because everyone's normal is different so it is ok to be weird. It also says that in some countries things that you like can be weird but normal in a different country or a different time. It also says that a group of friends might be normal to like something but weird in a different group.   

 

kintsugi

Today we learned about kintsugi. It is a word that means fixing something in a beautiful way. It also means to repair things that are not physical objects. It is a Japanese word and it is a useful thing to use. We had to make a list of things that we could use here is my list. 

indacators

 Last week we used acids, alkali, and water to find out if they had the things in them. Indicators can help us to do a lot of things like check if the waters good because if you put the universal indicator in water if it was normal and good water it would turn green. The cranberry juice had a slight color change with the water and the acid. The tea acid turned the tea orange water orange alkali turned it dark red and the turmeric acid yellow alkali red water yellow.       

Skittles observations

 Hello, Yesterday we did an experiment with skittles and water. When we put the water in a petri dish halfway and then put the skittles. The water carried the dye and then made the water change color. If you mixed the water it would go a gross brown color. If you flip the skittles over they turn white because they are the same but are different colors on the outside. The water smelt nice and sweet.

   

Science

Hello, today we're doing science, we are using bunsen burners. It was cool to see the flame go up and then come down. I enjoyed setting it up but because it is fire it is dangerouse and there are alot of safty rules

1. You need safety glases
2. the yellow flame is safer because you can see it
3. do not turn on the gas first because it can move and then it can be dangerouse
4. stand back 
5. tie your hair back if you have long hair

The way you light a bunsen burner is simple.

1. Get safety glases
2. get equipment
3. attace the tube to the gas tap
4. get match/lighter
5. turn on the gas and have match/lighter over the bunsen burner.

Heros from WW2

Today we were learning about heroes. We had to read some parts from a book then answer questions about the text. It was about WW2 and the brave people who fought in the war. In my opinion, anyone who goes to war is brave because you can lose your life.  Here is my work   

Hur 1: HEROES 28 (Maori) Battalion

Reference:  Gardiner, W. (2019) Ake Ake Kia Kaha E! Forever Brave! B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Bateman Books.

1. Read the following two quotations with the teacher, discuss the meanings, and then answer the question.

..” Walter (Waata) Heretini, ‘was as blind as a bat. He couldn’t hit a barn if it was 50 metres away from him. Like a number of others who joined the battalion, Heretini persuaded a mate to do the medical for him so he could get away.” (pp. 60-61).

“Lieutenant-Colonel Leckie ordered (Captain) Love to send a company to Musaid to strengthen the position… Love assigned the task to B Company, allocating Bren carriers to provide mobile reconnaissance. B Company was armed to the teeth, having ‘raided the enemy arms depot to some purpose. The return showed six spandaus, three anti-tank rifles, one 2-inch mortar, six Tommy guns, and fifty stick grenades from this source’.” (pp. 165-166).

Question 1.  Why were the soldiers of 28 (Maori) Battalion heroes?

Because they stole the weapons and did not know how they work.

2. Read the following account of the actions of stretcher-bearers (medics) with the teacher, discuss the meanings. And then answer the question::

“Two B Company stretcher-bearers won immediate Military Medals for their bravery in this action. Corporal John Tupene ‘worked unceasingly throughout the night scouring the battlefield administering to and personally evacuating friend and foe alike… In one instance under heavy enemy fire, he dressed and splinted the limb of a soldier of another unit and carried him out to safety. Temporary Corporal James Pirihi worked cheerfully and untiringly treating, evacuating, and burying casualties until none remained on the field.’ A week later, Pirihi ‘again showed great devotion to duty administering to friends and foe alike. In one instance in the face of enemy MG fire, he dressed the wounds of a German soldier and finally carried him out to safety personally.” (p. 210).

Question 2  Why were the stretcher-bearer's heroes?

Because they ran into battle with the guns firing helping friends and foe

3. Read this account from a hard-working officer, and his concern for the soldiers with the teacher, discuss the meanings and answer the question:

“B Company, commanded by Major Bennett, started 15 minutes after the forward companies….. With his company has lost contact with the others, Bennett dug in and awaited developments. The prospect of a German counter-attack was uppermost in his mind. ‘I was fearful for the forward troops’ welfare… We were like a little finger poked out into the enemy positions and likely to be nipped off with ease. I was not apprehensive of enemy troops but I was of his tanks. Without anti-tank defenses, I knew I was absolutely at the mercy of tanks should they have attacked.’ Going back to Battalion Headquarters, he found that Baker had been wounded and the temporary commanding officer, Major Hart, mortally wounded. Bennet assumed command of the battalion, a position in which he would soon be confirmed.” (pp. 212-213).

Question 3:  Why were hard-working soldiers’ leaders heroes?

Because they risked their lives for others lives which is super brave