That Was Matariki Writing

 Monday July 17th 2023

That was Matariki

 

Have you ever seen Matariki? Sure you have!

Remember the time when you and your family were outside, 

When you looked up into the night sky and were greeted 

by the sight of 9 stars, a star cluster? 

That was Matariki

 

Have you ever felt Matariki? Sure you have!

Remember the time you could hear the trees swaying

In the distance? When you stepped outside to be met

by a swoosh of wind? The wind growing stronger and 

You start to get pushed back by the force?

That was Ururangi

 

Have you ever tasted Matariki? Sure you have!

Remember the time when the crops had been freshly

Harvested? You decided to boil up a few and eat them

For dinner with some kaimoana you caught?

That was Tupu-a-Nuku and Waita

 

Have you ever heard Matariki? Sure you have!

Remember the time on a cloudy day, when there

Was a light pattering sound hitting your roof, the 

Light outside started to dim and you couldn’t help 

But feel calmer?

That was Waipuna Rangi

 

That was Matariki.

For the past 3 days we have been working on a matariki based poem, we had to incorporate 3-5 different stars which symbolizes the star that you chose. We used our common senses such as, Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste and Touch to describe whatever star you had decided to choose.

 

The poem was written with the same structure as our previous writing in term 1 “That Was Summer’ where we described our summer!

 

 

Rugby

R U G B Y

 

This morning room 13 had kelly sports, for our kelly sports we had rugby league. We practiced how to tackle, how to pass and we also played a few games. I was honestly just tired and my legs were not cooperating so I sat out during a few of the activities, though I did cheer people on. 

 

A few activities we had were, ball rush (on our knees), this passing game (where you had to like run and then roll the ball back so the person behind could throw it to the next person so they could do the same), a type of rugby game but in a formation type way (Idk how to explain it), and a game like invisible touch but rugby version (Tackles and you actually had a ball). 

 

That’s basically it.

 

Great Beginnings

Great Beginnings

Monique

 Sure that he had arrived at the correct location he hopped out of the car, grabbing the equipment needed then slowly closed the door and locked it behind him. Looking into the dark abyss ahead he felt an eerie feeling. He didn’t know what he was getting himself into.

 

For literacy we had to construct a piece of writing called great beginnings. We used our imagination to try and envision our story to make the reader want to know more but leave it as a cliff hanger.

This was my beginning

10 Facts About Copper

 10 facts about copper

  1. Copper is the first element in the eleventh column of the periodic table. It is classified as a transition metal.
  2. Copper was one of the first metals to be used by man.
  3. Copper atoms have 29 electrons and 29 protons with 34 neutrons in the most abundant isotope.
  4. The Atomic symbol of copper is Cu and it has an atomic number of 29.
  5. In 1857 the largest single piece of copper weighed 420 metric tons.
  6. It is very ductile allowing it to be easily bent and stretched into a wire.
  7. It is an excellent conductor of electricity and heat.
  8. Approximately 60% of the metal produced is used for electrical wiring and in manufacturing cables.
  9. It ranks as the third-most consumed industrial metal in the world after iron and aluminium.
  10.  This metal can be recycled completely without a breakdown in quality.

What was copper used for??

Here are a few things it used to be used for back then. Jewelry, tools, sculpture, bells, vessels, lamps, amulets, and death masks.

What is copper used for now?

 These are some things copper is used for today: electric generators, household/car electrical wiring, and the wires in appliances, computers, lights, motors, telephone cables, radios and TVs.

This was our 3rd camp activities task, these are just a few facts about copper found from (link 1 link 2 link 3)

Cybersmart – Week 7

For our week 7 Cyber Smart challenge we had to fill in a screenshot bingo, we were to take screenshots of certain things like our class site, blogger, comments etc.. we also had to create a crazy animal by taking screenshots of different parts of different animals and putting them together, i ended up making a..uh cat, horse, chicken i guess?

LCS – Tri-fold

Our Group (Selina, Pasimati and I) used a tri-fold to display our slides/work. IT holds all the information we have learnt about Manawatu/Wanganui (Our Region) We spent a few weeks focused on the slides and the tri-fold was made last minute (I reckon it turned out pretty alright with the amount of time we had to make to it)