What The Spca Does Summer Learning Journey

The charity that I cose for the Summer Learning Journey 3rd activity in day 1 week 1 was the spca.

LeBron James Interview For Summerr Learning Journey

This is the Summer Learning Journey week 1 day 3 activity about interviewing my favoutite basketball player.

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week Day 4

Summer Learning Journey Day 2 Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce

TAKU MOKAI

We have been learning to indroduce our pets in Maori. Here is my poster about my cat.

Summer Learning Journey Day 1 Activity 2, Exploring Our Works/ Teaser Week

LUKENS      MIHI      2019
Kia ora koutou katoau
Ko Luken tōku ingoa
No Mawhera ahau
Ko Mount Serial te maunga
Ko Mawheranui te awa 
Ko Tainui toku iwi
Ko Tainui toku waka
Ko Reyland and Beere  ōku ingoa Whanau
Ko Corrie tōku Whaea
Ko Grant tōku Matua
Ko Tryton tōku Tuakana
Ko Jayni ko Poppy ōku tuahine 
Ko Pixie tōku ngeru
Tēnā koutou katoa

The Dreamgiver

Kowhaiwhai Patterns

       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 DLOs

Packing Our Bags for Area 51

Walt: develop our own poem in response to a model
(Packing Our Bags For...by Luken & Noah)

WALT: use an increasingly descriptive vocabulary to
add interest to our writing.

WALT:  have some fun and be creative with ideas and
imagination.

Packing Our Bags for Area 51 

One triple layer jacket

Soft polar bear fur 

Bulletproof suit underneath

To stop sniper or Ak-47s bullets 

In case I need protection.

One pump shotgun

Hard strong metal

Green and black

To stay camouflaged

In case there are aliens or guards.

One gas mask9

Big matt black 

Torch on the top

To see at night

In case the air is polluted.

My Piece Of Perswasie Writing Of Why Motocross Is A Great Sport

MOTOCROSS IS A GREAT SPORT

Motocross is popular in many different parts of the world. Kids at the age of 3 can start motocross and it’s a great sport for little kids to
do so that they don’t get bored. It’s a sport that’s also done by adults. Below I’m going to tell you some reasons why you should do motocross. 

Firstly, motocross can keep people very fit. In motocross it’s very helpful to have a mountain bike because when you ride it around it keeps your arms and legs very strong. You need strong muscles all through your body because if you fall off it will not hurt so much when you have strong muscles. If you don’t have very strong muscles and skin it is very easy to break bones when you crash. Motocross also keeps you fit because you have to balance and push your bike into the pits and gate and on and off the trailer.

Also, Motocross is a sport done from all ages even teenagers and children can race. Although you don’t have to race because it is also very fun just having a bike and going trail riding. When you get to 56
you aren’t allowed to race because that's the retirement age for racing, but you can still go and ride trails up in the mountains. Motocross is a great sport because you can do it at all different ages.

Furthermore, in motocross you can develop a really good friendship with other riders. You might race or maybe you will train together? When you train together the people that you train with can easily become one of your best friends because when you train you are usually training at each others houses our you might go swimming together after training. Motocross is a great place to meet good friends.

In Conclusion, motocross is a great sport in general because it keeps you busy and fit so you can have something to look forward to. If you end up really liking the sport you could take just having fun one step further and you could become more serious about motocross. After reading this piece of persuasive writing you should be thinking about buying a bike and having a go!       

The Toki Pounamu Film Festival

   Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Today we went to the Toki Pounamu Film Festival at the
Regent Theatre in Mawhera/ Greymouth. All of the senior
schools around the West Coast went and there were lots of
little 2 to 3 minute long films. This was Karoro schools first
time entering into the festival.  
            My Favourite Film

My favourite film was the one where there was a few year
eight girls from our school and they talked about the bush
up behind our school. There was lots of commentary and
they were talking about our environment and our Maori
culture in Mawhera\ Greymouth. One of the main things
that stood out to me was the flow of the pictures going
from one picture to the next picture. It was good because
the person that was talking stopped talking about the photo
at the right time and started talking about the next photo at
the right time as well. Overall, all of the films were really
cool and fascinating because all of the films were different
and each one had its own type of story. Although, the one
about the bush that the girls did just stood out to me and
when I was listening and looking at the pictures it almost
felt like I was actually in the bush and that was what I could
see. Overall  the Film festival was a very fun thing to do and
watch together as a senior school.

Collaging Google Drawing

We have been learning to make a collage on google drawing. 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 a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this?

My NZ Katydid Report

We have been learning about minibeasts in class for sience. We have been creating information reports on a minibeast of our choice. The minibeast we chose had to live in Aotearoa/NZ. Here is my writing. I worked with Kayden.

Physical Features

The NZ Katydid is green and it jumps very high. The Katydid is related
to weta. They’re also a type of bush cricket and grasshopper.
The grasshopper is a type of insect. The Kikipounamu/katydid are
moeao(nocturnal) and are also able to fly. Their life span can be a
little bit shorter than a year.

Habitat

The Kikipounamu like to live down low and not up high. They’re
sometimes found where there are lots of plants around. They’re
mostly found in Shrubs. They live(wahi noho) in shrubs and near
plants so they can move underneath the leaves (rau) and not be
seen. They also can live in gardens.

What They Eat

KikiPounamu’s favourite food(kai) to eat is flowers(puaka) and
flower stems. Their most common food to eat is fruit because it
lives in gardens and in the gardens there is lots of fruit growing.
Their least favourite food is other little types of insects(mu) like
aphids (aphids are a type of little green insect). Out of all the
insects they mostly eat aphids because they’re the tastiest insect
that’s smaller than them.

Reproduction

The Kikipounamu lay their eggs (heki) at night because they’re
moeao (nocturnal). Plants are a very important role in the
reproduction and lifecycle. The eggs are laid on the ground in
the soil in the gardens. The females have a long straight organ
that comes out of their body and lays the eggs (heki in the soil. 

Social Behaviour
The Kikipounamu doesn’t often live in groups but if they do live
in groups they will be very small groups. They don’t talk to
each other if they are not in a group. Only the ladies (wahine) are
in groups. Only the ladies (wahine) are social, unlike the
male (tane) Kikipounamu. The girl (wahine) katydids are very
playful unlike the  male (tane) katydids.The Kikipounamu
makes a chirping sound.

Threats

Cats are predators to Kikipounamu, also possums,rats and stoats.
Us humans have to stop destroying their homes by picking
flowers off bushes. We need to stop wrecking their habitat.
“It’s the right thing to do.”

By Kayden And Luken 

      [ZB]

My Weta Motel Writing

Last weekend on Saturday night me and my Dad made a weta motel.
We were waiting for the rugby world cup to start and it was only 8:00pm
and the rugby started at 9:45pm. I thought that I should build a weta motel
with all the spare time that I had. So my Dad had five pieces of driftwood
that I could choose from to build my weta motel. I choose the piece that
had lots of little holes in it so they can crawl through them. We cut the
piece of wood in half so that we could place the pieces of wood on top
of each other. My dad had a sheet of rubber so we cut it down so that
\we could screw it onto the end of the wood and use it as a hinge so that
you can open and close the lid. You can look inside and see if there are
any weta or other insects  inside. To make it so that the pieces of wood will
go together we had to cut some pieces of the side so that it evenly
matched together. Today Sam and I took the weta motel up the
bush track, we covered it up with mud, leaves and sticks so that it smells
like the bush and blends in. In a few weeks time we can go back up and
see if there are any weta in there.

My Dirt bike Animation

Today in our class we have been learning to create animations. We have changed up the code so that it'll go faster and will loop. We changed the word false to true inside the code to make it loop. We had to use free to use images. I hope that you enjoy my dirt bike animation.

Weta Report Term 3

WALT: This is a piece of writing that we did for our minibeasts topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an information report on this insect.

Click here to see my success citeria 



The physical features of a weta

Weta are insects that are native to New Zealand. The biggest type of weta is the giant weta. The giant weta is the world's heaviest reported insect. Any type of Weta have ears on their front legs near their turi (knees). It helps them listen for smaller insects to eat.  The giant weta can grow up to 10 cm long and other weta are a little bit smaller. A weta has it’s spine on the outside of it’s flesh and it’s called an exoskeleton. The exoskeleton is there so that the weta can breath through it. These weta might not look helpful but they help us humans survive. Most wetas are omnivores or predators. Weta could survive if nuinga(lots) of people die out but if weta and other insects die out nuinga(lots) of people wouldn’t be able to survive.

A Wetas Habitat and Location

There are different types of weta and each different type of weta kaiao (live) in different places. The tree weta live in rotten logs, in hollow planks and in the forest in trees. The cave weta lives in caves near the seaside. The tusked weta lives on the ground since it can kaiao in extreme weather. The Giant weta lives in alpine trees and rocks where the Australian plate and Taitonga (South) Island plate meet AKA the alpine fault line. If you found a weta, it’s most likely to be a tree weta.

What Do Weta Eat

Every type of weta eats something different. The tree and giant weta mostly eat lichens, leaves, flowers, seed-heads and fruits. Most other types of weta like the cave weta and tusked weta eat grass and carrots if they’re just nohu tu (sitting) around. If you found a weta and it was eating a kopura (seed) it will be feeding time.

When Do Weta Breed

When do weta lay their eggs? The weta do not look after their young. They just leave and they have to start their lives by themselves. It’s not likely for you to see a weta egg because the weta lay their eggs at night and in the ground. A weta will breed in the Aroaromahana (Spring) or in the Arawheu (Summer). Weta breed at night because they’re nocturnal.



Are Weta Social
Do weta live on there own or in groups? The giant weta seems to be less social than all the other weta like the tree weta, cave weta and the ground weta. Only the tree weta sometimes live in small groups but every other type of weta live on their own. Sometimes the Taurawhi (male) weta fight for the Uwha (females). Most weta live on their own except during breeding season.

Weta Threats

What are the weta threats? The weta threats were just birds and tuatara. Humans have introduced the ngeru (cats), hedgehogs, Kiore (rats), weka, kiwi and mustelids (mustelids are like little stoats). Weta look after themselves by eating food, living in their habitat and breeding. Humans have impacted on weta by destroying their homes, and that means they can’t breed or eat so they will just die out and become extinct. We need to protect weta habitats so they can survive.

All My Information
This is all of my information that I've learnt about weta. Thank you for reading my work and I hope that you have learnt something.                     
                                   By Luken

Mini Beasts Reading Work

At school we have been learning about mini beasts. We  have been reading about them and have been completing activities about them. Here is some of my work I did with Joe.

Area And Perimeter Maths Work

He Kakano Term 3 2019 Location And Direction

Hi everyone below is my He Kakano Term 2 2019 Location and Direction work that I have worked on for the previous three weeks. I worked on this work with Hamish after looking at my work go to his blog and see the work there too. I hope you enjoy my work thanks.

To Build A Bot And Emotional Robots- Reading Work/ Robots

This Term we have been learning about 'emotional robots- A.I' and about kids building robots. We did this in our reading work. We read two interisting articles about building robots.


Click here to see my reading work.

Transformation DLO

Writing- abandoned places

-Abandoned places - writing
Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-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

        CRAMPY

One night, I had just brushed my teeth and was prepared to go to bed. I was looking out the window at the ocean and then I had heard this weird grumbling noise coming out from the sea. One minute was looking out the window, the next minute I was knocked over on the ground unconscious. Sometime later I woke up and realized that there was sand on the walls and everywhere else inside. You had to crawl to get outside because of all the sand on the ground was so high. Then I walked outside and there was sand the roofs as well. I said to myself under my breath, “What happened?” I went outside and children were coughing up water. All around them I could see their lifeless parents on the ground. I peaked right around the bend of a mansion and I saw a Wheke(Octopus), a mangō taniwha (Great white shark) and 13 honu (Green sea turtles) that were alive and breathing in air. I realized that these creatures were magical and were breathing in air. Suddenly it dawned on me that something strange had happened and that these creatures were trying to get me. I now realized why there was all this sand  everywhere. There had been a tsunami that had bought all these magical, evil creatures up to land. The first thing that I did was run straight back past the children and ran for my life. The buildings around me were creaking very quietly. It looked like the buildings were going to tip over from the weight of the sand. As I was running I looked behind me and they were getting closer to me. I wasn’t sure what to do...

                                                              By luken

Making a Paper Plane

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 Reo Maori

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week-Kōrero 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 our Korero te Wiki-Phrases of the week. See my scratch project below.

Standard Written Form Addition

Adding Or Subtracting Too Much Then Adjusting

My Marae Recount

Marae Recount                         

On The  1-2 of May Room 5 and Room 7 went on a camp overnight to the Arahura Marae. Jerry was a local from the marae and he showed us around. We went there to know and learn about Maori culture.

The Powhiri

The Powhiri is a welcoming ceremony that they do to welcome guests onto the marae. First,  in the
Powhiri is the Karanga. The karanga is when the two female leaders from the Marae staff and the guests call to each other in Maori. Our female leader was Miss Ireland. After the karanga was the Whaikorero; the two male leaders talk to each other and then the rest of the group will sing a song. Our male leader was John that works at Grey High. The hosts do their whaikorero first then sing a waiata. John did his speech. That was very nice of him to stop work and come to do this for us. He gave a koha that the hosts picked up and we kept on facing them after they picked it up. Me, room 5 and the rest of  room 7 sung, ‘He Honore’ followed by the hongi.  I was the most nervous for the hongi because it felt very different for me and  I felt a little bit uncomfortable. I was pleased though that I still did it.


Evening Rotations

In the evening rotations you could do a technology challenge with Miss Ireland, soap carving with Ms Barrow, flax weaving with Ms kemp and indoor games with Adrian and Phaedra. You were only allowed to do two things and my two were Technology challenge and soap carving. You got to do 1 hour of something

for the first hour then another thing for the last hour. My first thing was Technology challenge and the challenge was to make a taniwha. Me, Kade, Issac and Kayden were in a team and Kade was our mascot. Me, Kayden and Issac made little balls for his back like spikes with a very strong and steady tool. He had a short tail so when he was sad Kade could put the tail down without touching it and goes up when he’s happy. Over all we scored a 36/40, the other team, that was just girls beat us and got a 40/40, and that was the hour up and it was time to do the soap carving. The soap that we had to carve in was pretty rounded on the edges so to make it easier I flattened up the edges with my skewer. I carved a koru, an upside down koru and a maori warrior face. Charlie and Cameron just made a huge hole and was just having fun destroying there piece of soap and in the last 5 minutes I destroyed my piece and used it as some wax for my Tech Deck ( It works really well ).

The Walk To Mahinapua

On the second day of staying and just before coming back to school we went for a walk that took us to Lake Mahinapua. Me, Kayden and Noah were in a group and there was an activity sheet and on it there were some plants you had to try and find.  On the back of it there were a couple of questions that you had to try and answer about the track. There was a rusty shovel that had a couple of sentences on the sharp part that the dirt goes on. In them sentences there was information on what you need to know to answer the questions. It was a very muddy, dirty, slippery and a fabulous walk! The Lake Mahinapua is special to two of the carvings that were in the Wharenui. It was about a war and the tribe Ngai Tahu tried to take over the West Coast because all of the pounamu was on the West Coast.   The tribe that lived here on the West Coast had this legendary sorcerer that could see and sense if there were people coming. He saw the enemies coming and said to the god of the winds to make their waka capsize, so he did that. The tribe that lived here was on the sides of the lake and stabbed them when they swam back to shore but some drowned and their was this one person left in the Ngai Tahu war party and he took
the three chiefs heads with him.  He wouldn't be able to swim back to Christchurch with three whole bodies so he took the heads back because it’s the most valuable part of the body. He took the heads back for proper burial in the ground and he had to go back in a straight line. That war is why Hokitika is could Hokitika because Hoki means to return and tika means straight. That was the end of the walk and stay so then it was time to come back to school.





Personal comment

It was the very first time for me being on a marae and I’m very grateful for the teachers and Marae staff for planning this for the year 5 and 6’s to go to the marae. It was a great experience, so for the next time I go on a marae  I will know  more about them.
 

                                               By Luken

Self Portratits-Quote Art Term One 2019

In term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and classmate at Karoro School.  As part of this we drew self-portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see as important.

Here is some of My art :  )

If I Had Wings Poem

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

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 accross NZ! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here is my Poem.

My Pōwhiri Process

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a marae. Here is my writing work about pōwhiri.w

The Powhiri Process

A powhiri is a maori welcome to the guests. I’m showing the reader what the
powhiri process is.

THE WERO

The first thing in the Powhiri process is the Wero. The Hosts do
the Wero to tell if the visitors come in peace. The fastest
warriors are sent down to tell if they come in peace or if they
come for war. The warriors put down something special like a
feather or a leaf from a tree. If the visitors don’t pick up they
object or if they pick it up and turn there back to the warriors
when they’re going back to their members, that means that they
come in war. If they pick up the feather and walk back slowly,
back to there members still facing the warriors that means that
they come in peace. Nowadays they very rarely do the wero
because the fights that happened  don’t happen anymore.

THE KARANGA

The Karanga is a call that the two women leaders do. In the
Karanga you need to be as quiet as you can for the calling. In
the Karanga the boys are around the side and at the back of the
group of people. The girls are in the middle and the female
leader are at the front of the group.

WHAIKŌRERO/ KOHA

In the whaikōrero there is a formal speech by the male leader
from the hosts and guests. The speech is about what has
happened to your tribe and to remember those who had past
away. In return the guests give a Koha to the hosts to say thank
you for letting the guests come. That is when the waiata comes
in.

WAIATA

The guests sing a waiata/song to the hosts after the visitors
speaker has finished speaking. The waiata shows a sign of
respect to the hosts for them to enjoy. A waiata shows that the
visitors come in peace. The hosts also sing a waiata after there
speaker.

HONGI

We do the hongi to show a sign of respect. In the hongi it also
shows a sign of friendship for one another. Sometimes in a
hongi it can make you feel a little uncomfortable. In a hongi you
touch noses then your forehead after your noses to do a hongi.

KAI

When we go inside, we’re just like normal finishing the powhiri
process. We sit in side the wharekai to go in and eat our food.
We develop friendship while eating our Kai. We show hospitality
when eating Our delicious Kai.

My Kawa Of Care Cartoon

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

I created a Scratch project.

Click here to see my project →→→→ Scratch project

Wharenui

Wharenui

This is about a wharenui. A Marae represents an ancestor that has past away. At the top of the
Marae there is a carved looking head and it’s called the kōruru. The kōruru represents the head
of the ancestor. The carvings in the Marae tell a story and the arms are the slanted carvings at the
top of the marae at the front. Just below the arms a little bit further down are the hands.
The Māori word for the arms are the maihi and the hands are the raparapa.

On the inside there will be a big pole in the middle called the poutokomanawa and on the back
wall there might be some pictures of the ancestors that have passed away. When you’re inside and
look up at the roof, there will be this big carved piece of wood from the front to the back of the
marae. It represents the spine of the body and is called the tāhuhu in Māori. There will be these
other carved wood pieces at the top going from the sides to the middle and that represents the ribs
of the body and is also called the heke in Māori.

The Marae is important because it represents an ancestor. At a Marae you can do lots of learning.
You can also go there when people need a place for when people need help. For example when the
Kaikoura earthquake happened the Marae over there let people stay there for free for Families that
had lost their homes in the earthquake.