Maraia - A New Zealand Athlete

 A New Zealand Athlete

Today for Literacy we did an activity where you can choose any New Zealand Athlete competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and write about them. I choose Lauren Hubbard because she is a transgender and she is a great weightlifter .

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Maraia Ana Melenaite - The Ancient Olympic Games

 The Ancient Olympic Games

This week we have been leaning about the ancient Olympics Games and the first Olympics and their Origins, what activity they did, Where it started, Ancient Greek,who could partake and Olympics traditions. We had to do these in groups the people in my group were Ana and Melenaite.

Maraia - Characters That Made The Early Christians Recognisable To Others

 Characters That Made The Early Christians Recognisable To Others  

 

The early members of the church prayed to the - Holy Spirit for strength and guidance

Many of the early Christians were the first - martyrs who gave their lives as followers of Jesus

Because they were filled with the Holy Spirit - they could teach huge crowds about Jesus  

Today in R.E we did an activity about the early church and discussed the charistics about the early church and for the activity we had to match one sentence with the other. All the questions where about the early church and praying to the Holy Spirit. 

Maraia - Stella's Birthday Party Recount

 Stella's Birthday Party Recount

On the 21st of July, It was my friend Stella's birthday and she had invited me to her birthday party and she said that she was going to pick me up at 10:30. So on the 21st of July, my mum woke me up but I was super tired because the night before I was on my mum’s phone and I totally lost track of time and when I checked the time it was 02:45 am, and so I got a bit worried because they were coming early so I watched one more video and then went to sleep. In the morning my mum woke me up at 8:00 and I was still tired so I crawled back into bed but then she caught me sleeping and she told me to go shower. She put shampoo and conditioner into my hair to make it nice and soft. After I showered and got changed and then I had breakfast, for my breakfast I had Milo and some crackers and then I got my hair done and I packed Stella’s gift. I got her a bag and in the bag, there was a bunch of sweets and candy along with an angry bird's pillow. After a few minutes Stella and her mum arrived and so I gave her a present and she said “thank you” and then she introduced me to her friend from G.I. School and her name was Ty.  After we had talked we drove down to a rock climbing center. When we got there we had to get our wristbands and then we had to take a little safety lesson and what to do before we climbed and after we climbed the walls. After about an hour we went into the playland and played tag for a long time. While we left the playland we noticed that we didn’t see the sign that said 8yrs and younger and we got a big shock. Then we went down to mission bay to an American store and it was old-school themed. It had Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. We all ordered Chocolate milkshakes with hotdogs. I could not finish mine so I ate most of it and when I had a little bit I shoved it in my mouth and then we left. Then we ran back to the car and went to the park and climbed trees while Stella’s Mum had a nap in her car. After around 30 minutes Stella's mum came and got us and then we spent the rest of the day at Stella’s house. First, we watched “Pitch Perfect 2” then we just played on the trampoline she had and her rollerblades. Then Stella’s Dad dropped me and Ty back at home.

Maraia - What is Quality Blog Comment

 What is Quality Blog Comment

Today I realised it was a Wednesday and I did another Cyber Smart challenge. This challenge basic telling and explaining  what is a quality blog comment is. For the activity you have to highlight the different parts in the comments like the greetings, positive, thoughtful and helpful things. Those are the things people need to have when they comment on a someones blogs.

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Maraia - Training for success

  Training for success 

Today for literacy we did a "before we begin" activity, It was just question that you have to answer. It was about a time you wanted to do something and what you did about it.

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Maraia - Life in the early church - R.E

 Life in the early church

Today in class we did an activity based on the early church. For the activity we had to write some ideas about the early church and come up with two questions about the early church.

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Maraia - Who was the Black Samurai Wonderopolis

 Who was the Black Samurai Wonderopolis

Today in class we did some reading and in our literacy groups. For our group our story wasn't done yet so we did a wonderopolis activity. Wonderopolis is a site where people find out things you would or would not probably wonder or you can type up one thing that you wonder. The wonder that I did was called " Who was the Black Samurai" and it was the 2689th wonder. First I read the story and then did the activities.

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Maraia - Fractions Pretest Trem 3

 Fractions Pretest Term 3 

Today in TWP 4  we did Math and for math we had to do a Pretest for fractions. This test was like a refresher to make sure we remember what we did and to know fractions. The pertest had some questions that we did yesterday and some were changed around. 

The things I found hard or question that I found hard was question 9 on slide 5 because the denominator for the answers were not 6.                                                                                                                          The thing or questions I found easiest was a the question on slide 3

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Maraia - My End of Term 2 Reflection Sheet

My End of Term 2 Reflection Sheet

(`It is the second to last day of the term) Today in class we did our "End Of Term Reflection" sheet. An End Of Term Reflection for us if a google drawing with questions like what we liked about this term and things we wanted to improved and what we wanted our teacher to improve. 

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Maraia - Best Cities Current Events Term 2 2021

 Best Cities

WALT: Analyse media with an open eye but critical eye to inform out own opinions.

Today in class I did my 4th Current Events activity This article talked about two countries New Zealand and America. They talked about how wellington became the capital. I learnt that we had the best liveable city last year      

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Recall Questions 

The main person or group of people in this article is.The key event in this article is people taking the title capital from New Zealand and moving it to Wellington. This event took place in Auckland, New Zealand. This event took place on the 9th of June 2021.

Thinking Questions 

One of the company’s widely read surveys is called the Global Liveability Ranking. Every year the make a list of the best cities. The 2021 liveability rankings were published on 9th June, and Auckland in New Zealand was at the top of the list. Second place is Osaka, in Japan. The article said that New Zealand has two main Islands, and they are know by there Maori names Te Ika-a-Maui North Island and Te Waipounamu South Islands

This Took place in Auckland New Zealand. Auckland is named after Lord Auckland and is often called the city of sails. 

Glossary

Prestigious - Inspiring respect and admiring. 

Compiled - A process by making information collected from other sources. 

Pedestal - Based on a support on which statue, pillar or post that ascends. 

Independence - A fact or condition of being independent. 

Ambassador - A permit agent or messenger. 

Infrastructure - The basic physical and organisational structures and facilities.

 

Maraia - Green Ghana Current Events Term 2 2021

 Green Ghana 

Today in Literacy, we did another Current Events activity. This activity was called Green Ghana, Ghana is a place in Africa. We had to read the article and then answer some questions about the article. After we finished answering our questions, we had to do a little glossary. After we did the glossary we had to do the activity. This activity was fun the page would give us a sentence with one of the words missing and we had to find the missing word in the article and then we had t put it into there square and one of the squares in the line was orange. After we put all the words in, all the letters in the orange square from top to bottom formed a word and that was our answer.  The word I got was "Advantages."   

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 The Main person or group of people in the Green Ghana is Mr. Akufo-Addo The key event in this article is when Mr Akufo-Addo has promised to regulate the small-scale gold mining and timber industry. This event took place in Ghana, Africa  This event took place on the 17th June 2021 

Mr Akufo-Addo has promised to regulate the small-scale gold mining and timber industry. Once one area of land is exhausted, the miners move onto another. Few plants grow on the disturbed, or previously mined, land. Its soil can be easily. A land of lowland hills, Ghana has grasslands and rain forests. The country’s Lake Volta is the world’s largest reservoir, or man made lake. The dam that created the lake was completed in 1965. It has a large hydroelectric power plant. This produce electric power for most of the country.

This Article took place in Ghana. Ghana means warrior king, It can also get pretty hot, reaching about 30°C, or 86°F, on most days. Ghana thrives in the world of cocoa production.

Glossary

Jubilee - a special anniversary of an event

Haphazard - lacking any obvious principle of organisation.

Maraia - Current Events See Through Wings Term 2 2021

  See Through Wings 

WALT : Analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions

Today in class we did our Current Events activity and for this Current Events Activity is about See  through wings. We had to read the whole article then answer the recall questions and do our glossary, a glossary is a list of words that you don't know the meaning to but then you you find out the meaning and write the 4 . After we do all that that we came move onto the activities.  For the activity that page will give us answers and we have to find the answers in the article. Like if the page says "I am the word scientists use to describe animals that live in colonies" then we have to look and find the answer in the article and the answer was Eusocial. 

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The main group of people in this article “See Through Wings” is a group of researchers from an American university wanting to find out what made the wings of certain butterflies. The key Event in this article is finding out what the wings of different butterflies are made of. This Event took place in South America. This event took place on the 1st July 2021

Some words I learnt about

Exceptions - a person or thing that is excluded from a general statement.

Membrane - a thin sheet of tissue or layer of cells acting as a boundary, lining

Repel - drive or force an attack or attacker back or away.

Metamorphosis.- in an insect or amphibian.

Proboscis, - the nose of a mammal

This article was about a group of researchers from an american university wanting to find out more about different species of butterflies and moths but they choose the glasswinged butterfly. It then said Butterflies start out as A larva, or caterpillar, hatches from it and ater, the caterpillar forms a cocoon, then it breaks out of the cocoon and becomes a butterfly or moth. Many people can’t tell moths and butterflies apart, but there are a lot of different thins about them. Like this most butterflies are active during the daytime and majority of moths fly at night time. If you touch a butterfly or moth wing, you will see tiny dust particles on your fingers. These are the scales that cover their wings.  Not all lot of insects have scales on there wings. The scales repel water. The glasswing butterfly lives in Colombia, in South America, and the Central American countries of Mexico and Panama. The butterflies also migrate and you might also see them in the southern parts of the USA. The parts of their wings between the veins look like glass.

It took place in Mexico.  It is the third largest country in Latin America. It is also one of the chief economic and political forces in Latin America It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean

Maraia - Current Events Term 2 - Eusocial Plants

Eusocial Plants

WALT : Analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions

Today in class we did our Current Events activity and for this Current Events Activity is about Eusocial Plants. We had to read the whole article then answer the recall questions and do our glossary. After we do 

all that that we came move onto the activities.  For the activity that page will give us answers and we have to find the answers in the article. Like if the page says "I am the word scientists use to describe animals that live in colonies" then we have to look and find the answer in the article and the answer was Eusocial. 

Eusocial means  a species of animals or insects.

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In this article “Eusocial Plants” The main person or group of people are researchers from a New Zealand University researching Eusocial Plants. The Key event in this new article is about plants and animals. This article is based in Lord Howe Island between New Zealand and Australia in the Tasman Sea. This event took place on the 7th June 2021

        

Here are some new words I learnt I learnt about.

Staghorn - A stag's horn used as a handle for a knife or for ornamental purposes.

Epiphyte - A plant that grows on another plant

Sterile - Not being able to produce children or they are young.

Deflected -  To change the direction you are going in 

Lord Howe Island

 A ‘colony’ of Staghorn ferns growing on a cedar tree (Ian Hutton