Speech

 This week we have been practicing speeches. Our teacher wanted the specch to be atlest 2 min and 30 seconds my speech was 2 min 35 seconds. Here is my speech I hope you like it. 

Dear world,

This planet is very dirty with lots of rubbish everywhere that’s why if you have rubbish, put it in the bin, putting rubbish in the bin helps the environment. By helping the environment you can put rubbish in the recycle bin or the rubbish bin. The rubbish can fly thousands of meters and sometimes it makes it to the ocean. By rubbish filling the ocean “pollution” comes in and pollution to the sea animals can cause lots of deaths and even extinction. Rubbish such as plastic in the ocean can cause deaths and statistics say 700 species such as turtles, fish, and lots of more marine life could go extinct because of it.

For example here's a list of the animals that are dying from our plastic trash sea turtles, Sea birds, Sea Lions, Seals, Fish, whales, and dolphins. These animals are suffering from our plastic and rubbish being put in the sea.  When these animals die, the life in the sea would no longer be magical and attracting it would be plain and boring. Rubbish is getting tangled up in the turtles mouths and shell causing them to die a slow sad death or a tough time for the turtles.

We throw out a whopping 8 billion worth of food waste every year, 8 billion is a really big number in food. And statistics show that an estimated 14 billion pounds of trash - most of it is plastic, which means that 14 billion pounds of trash is being dumped into the ocean every year. Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose in the ocean, which means a lot of plastic from thousands and thousands of years ago that plastic could still be floating around somewhere in the ocean and that also means that fish and other kinds of sea life are dying every day from our plastic trash.

This plastic trash that we have been polluting has been dating back to the 1960's and when plastic has been in the sea in 1960 it still hasn't decomposed till this day.

And how would you feel if your home was being polluted? I know that I would feel disgusted, that's why we all need to step up and save this planet so it can be habitable once again.

Be a part of the solution, not a part of the pollution...

EOCT Activites

 Adrenaline forest a moment in time:

As I swing through the forest and the trees I can smell the refreshing wood, and air. I see lots of branches and ongoing tree lines in the distance. The feel of the rope forcing me down gives the sensation of a falling effect. When I clip the rope back on a boost of adrenaline fills my body as I swing back into action. 

Gymnastics - Term 4

Monday, November the 23

Today we got to have a go on the apparatus's. The apparatus's included a trampoline, a mini trampoline, parallel bars, bar, floor/mat, and the beam. We have been doing this for a couple of weeks now and we have considered to do a blog post about gymnastics. 

List of 4 moves on apparatus:

Trampoline :

1. Tuck jump

2. Front somersault

3. Back somersault

4. Knee jump

Mini trampoline:

1. Tuck jump

2. Jump on mat and land

3. 360 turn

4. Somersault

Floor/Mat:

1. Handspring

2. Hand stand

3. Head stand

4. Cartwheel

Beam:

1. One foot balance

2. One foot walk

3. Two foot walk

4. Two foot balance

Parallel bars:

1. Knee tuck

2.  Circle up

3. Roll of bar

4. Hang of bar with legs hanging up

Bullies : SCRIPT DECEIVE

 

This is my bullie story of what happens when bulling happens

Role - Actors - Victim: The person who was getting bullied - (psychologically) - (verbally)

The bully role: The bully was being mean to the person that looked different to every body else  - the were being mean verbally.

Bully I was the bully, I bullied him because he looked different to everybody else but deep down I kinda wanted to be him and the way he looked and talked.

Picture of bullies and bullied:

Niue Language week

 

James Kerapa's - HUR6 learning story

 This is my learning story for HUR6. This shows all the thing I done, liked, my next steeps, and my CARR values all in this HUR6.

COVID-19 enquiry

This week we have been graphing the best and worst COVID-19 casses/deaths. This slide shows you the graphing that Ive been doing for the past weeks.

People affected in earthquakes

 People who were affected by the Christchurch earthquake?

 This week we have been learning about the 2010 and the 2011 earthquakes. Here are all the things that helped and were destroyed in the earthquakes.

• Family 

• People with homes destroyed

• Injuries

• People had to move away from Christchurch

• Business were broken so they had to 

Move

People who helped people trapped in broken structures

• Taiwanese rescuers

• Police officers 

• Student Army

• Japanese Search and Rescue

Here are some pictures of the aftermath of the earthquakes...

Lego Mars rover Parachute

 Lego Mars rover Parachute

Today we have been making a Mars rover parachute. First you are given a sheet to fill out all of the details and what the rover does. Then you go on to draw your rover however you want and then you, recreate the rover in lego .You build the rover with lego and you make a space/room for the egg to fit into the rover. After that you stick a parachute onto the end of the rover and if it falls down without breaking you win a PRIZE!

Compass

Today we used a co/mpass to find North East West and South. It is quite hard to find the directions because you have to turn your hand in awkward directions and it hurts a wee bit as well.

The first compass made was by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Directions - NESW - Never Eat Soggy Weet-bix

One thing that affects a compass reading correctly? Wristwatches,

Keys, Tables with metal legs, steels or screws, Mobile telephones.

3 jobs that require a compass

Marines Fisheries

Guide exploration team

Military

3 Sports that require a compass

Hunting

Sailing

Orientation

Early Polynesian Navigation

This week we have been learning about the early Polynesian navigation. They used lots of things to navigate the world. 

Early Polynesian Navigation

Have you ever seen a Polynesian voyager or wayfinder? The Polynesian wayfinders navagated with clouds, water or swells, birds, the sun was their compass, and stars. The voyagers were relying on canoes to guide them to where they wanted to go. When they knew when to go it was when the sun rose in the east and west.

Sunset and Sunrise made it possible to see ocean swells.

The wayfinders look at swells when the suns out. That made it possible to navigate the world.

The wayfinders navigated the pacific ocean using sun + moon, fish, clouds, ocean swells, and birds.

Birds were near land as they had a 190km range of flight pattern and flew back to shore.

Clouds reflected islands or lagoons. Big groups of clouds could tell their direction. They told where there were islands.

The wayfinders used the sun to tell them when to find the ocean swells, they hunt and find swells when the sun comes up in the east, and when it goes down in the west. They know when to not navigate and rest.They also used clouds, birds, ocean swells, and stars. 

Women In War

 

 This week we have been learning about women in war. Our teachers gave us questions and we had to put it on a DLO so this is what I came up with.

WW1 ANZAC face of the war statments

 This is my Anzac face of the war statements. I made it interesting and added some soldiers staring into the night sky to make it look like that they are in war...

Navagtion

 Aim: 

I want to walk in a straight line with no senses.

Hypothesis:

I predict that I will walk in a straight line.

Method:

Equipment: 

• Bucket
• Blindfold 
• Cotton wool

Instructions:

1.  Using a blindfold cover your eyes
2. Put some cotton wool in your ears
3. Put the bucket on your head
4. Spin in a circle 3 times
5.  Get your partner to line you up in the right direction
6. Begin walking in a straight line

Safety:

• Stop when you her the whistle immediately!
• If your partner says stop you must stop!
• Do not walk into objects e.g Bushes, Trees, Buildings, and people

Results:

• Find a satellite image of the field

Satellite image:

Discussion:

Words to do with direction

• Left / right
• Straight/Curve/Zigzag
• Backwards/Forwards
• Diagonal
• Up/Down
• North East or Nor' East
• North North East
• Bogey at 6 o'clock
• 360 Degress

Results:

First time I got really close to the target but time ran out and we had to go back

Second time my partner lead me too the target but then he turned me around and put me in the oppiste direction and at the end I wasent even near the target because I was still at the same spot where we started!

I was nervous that I was going to walk into something because the bucket was over my head, and I was blind folded

Communication Challenge

This week we have been doing a challenge called, the communication challenge. For this we had to use hexadecimal. One of the buddy's had to go down to the end of the field and tell the people 100 meters down at the other end of the field, actions about the code. 

This didn't work well because it was hard to say the actions to make it the right word.

We could make some easier actions next time, so the other people could see it better.


-James

WW1 Memorial

This week we have been learning about WW1 this is my war memorial I've just gathered a bunch of my classmates names and put the in the memorial to make it look like they served. 

We have WW1 memorials to remember who served and died in WW1, and because lots of the men/women that died there they got buried overseas. So this is there grave in New Zealand.

CyberSaftey Comments

Today we have been learning how to right quality blog comments. We had to sort the good and bad comments on different side of the drawing. There weren't many good comments most of the comments were bad comments but I think I found 3 quality blog comments on this drawing.

Value for money shopping

Today we did a Value Shopping task. We had a budget of $50 our things we had to by were

1. Toothpaste
2. Shampoo / conditioner
3.Eggs
4.Bacon
5.Milk

I tried to get my lowest price and the lowest I could find and get down to was $ 13.48.

The hard part about this was finding the lowest prices you could get down to.

And the easy part was using the online shop because you can just type in the food / drink you want and it will come up with the picture and the price of the food and drink.

-James

Parihaka

This week we have been learning about the Parihaka invasion. I this slide show here is all I learnt about the Parihaka invasion. There is also my Parihaka questions that are all anwsered about the Parihaka invasion.

Median, Mean, Mode

This week we have been learning about Median, Mean, Mode.

Definition Median: So when there is a bunch of numbers you have to fin the median - (middle) to see the Median you have to count each numbers of ether side of the median number and see if there is the same amount of numbers on each side. 

                  

e.g: 1 2 4 2 8 9 0 = 2 because there is the same amount of numbers on each side

Mode definition: So if there is a 7 two times in a number sequence and there is no other double up of a number 7 will be your mode.

e.g: 1 2 7 4 7 8 it would be 7  because there is a double up of it

Mean definition: To find out the mean of the number sequence you have to add, and divided the numbers until you get the answer.

e.g: 4 5 2 so first you add the numbers 4 + 5 + 3 =12 then you dived 12 by 3 times because there are three numbers to add up so 12 / 3 = 4 because 4 x 3 = 12 

Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships

Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships

Healthy Relationships

Why is it important to have healthy relationships?

• Higher chance of the relationship lasting longer
• Good desire to be with people - this creates less stress
• Better self-esteem, happier, positive
• Create a sense of purpose - learning

Different Relationships

• Mother, Father, - Parents
• Boyfriend/Girlfriend
• Family
• Friends
• Teachers
• Pets
• Relatives
• Caregivers

Issues

• Modern day pressures
• Physical violence
• Lack of trust

What can we do about it?

• Jude/Student counselor
• Mr Mitchell, Mrs Turner Mrs Kavanagh
• Talk to someone

Healthy	Vs	Unhealthy
Respecting Each other		Violent
Being trustworthy		Aggressive
Honestly		Controlling
Being loyal		Humiliation
Helping each other		No trust

Gold and Mining

Today I finished my gold rush slide. We learned about the gold rushes in New Zealand. Most of the information is in this slide about mining and were it is found and all of that.

Questions About Mars

1. When Can a mission to Mars happen: It can happen when Mars is the closest to the earth it happens every 26 months

2. What are two geological features of Mars?: Mars has mountains, and it has some volcanoes

3. What is one possible solution to the story about oxygen on Mars?: There is a rover called (MOXIE) that produces oxygen on mars

4. If it doesn’t rain on Mars, where does the water come from? It is normal like earth, it's just the rain is thicker.

5. How will people get food on Mars? What is a possible solution? When they land on mars there will be stored food already there for them

Bed Bugs

Today we did a literacy task. I decided to do kiwi kids news, on kiwi kids news there were news articles one of them were bed bugs., so I wanted to watch the video. It taught me alot about bed bugs. Bed bugs look weird and are disgusting because they suck your blood and grow babies on your skin.

This was interesting because I thought bed bugs were fake...

- James                                                                                                     

Cooking - Savourier Muffins

Today we baked some savourie muffins. We had to follow the steps of making the muffins. 

I didn't really like the muffins because they weren't really good because I thought the were going to be actual muffins but the weren't not.

Ingrediants: 1T sugar 1 egg, beaten, 1 + 1/4 cup milk, 2T creamed corn, 2T tamato relish, 2T oil, 1T baking powder, 2 cups flour, 1/2 sliced bacon, 1/2 onion, 1/2 cup of cheese.

Here is the photo of the finished work....

Arts Kete - questions

Arts Kete  - questions

1. What was your favourite part of this kete?: I liked the drawing part  because you can be very creative with it and learning more about

2. Were you successful in completing your "Hero's Journey" comic?:  Yes because I got the villan the hero and its journey to save the day.

3. What was something you would change for the next time?: Try something different like a different style of comic.

4. Give 1 example of how you showed your CARR values in this kete: Respecting the equipment that has been given to me.

5. Any positive/thoughtful/helpful feedback for Miss Birtch?: I think she did a great job at running the comic strip kete.

-James

Digital Nerd boy

This is my digital comic of nerd boy that I done on the paper. I like doing it on paper because you can get creative and you dont have a limted range of tools like on pixton. But pixton is good for just a quick comic maker but on paper it takes time and practice.

Here is my finished digital version of my comic that I done on paper

Staying Afloat

Arts kete - Comic strip

Today we finished our arts kete. I chose comic strip, so in my arts kete class we sketched and drawed our idea down on paper, after that we got giving our good copy paper to do our final drawing.

Here is a picture of my finished good copy.

The WhaleRider

Who directed Whale Rider?: Nike Caro 

Who was the writer?: Witi Ihimaera

What I thought of the whalrrider was that it was interesting to learn about paikia and how she rode the whale becuase it was really interesting.

Hot Setting

Hot setting is where you ask people questions about questions about the stories that you have been 

Why did you decide to pull the kid out the water?

Why is Benny and his friend, friends?

Why did Benny run away from his friend for no reason?

Why did Benny push his friend of the dock?

Why did they bomb the kid in the kayak

Badge Of Honour

Matariki

Matariki is a legend and a Moari tradition.

He appears at 16 of june all the way  to 30th of June.

To celebrate this tradition we go down to the beach and see the 7 stars of Matariki.

We can also do a hangi down there for the food.

Most people have a feast down at the beach.

Which could also be a buried hangi or any other type of food.

And spending time with family and friends.

In Maori today we had to explain something that you do in the Moari.

Matariki tradition.

I came up with the time of the tradition and what happens at Matriki time.