Longest word in Maori...

15.6.20

Today for Te reo Maori I learnt how to enunciate some maori words. I also learnt the longest word in Maori which is:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupakaiwhenuakitanatahu

Today we also had to write the tauparapara we have been learning which is:

Ko Rongomatane, Ko rongotahuahua Te ara mana ake, Ko Rongotaketake, Te ara mana rite, Ko Rongomaarua, Te ara ahua ake, Te ara ahua ake, Ko Rongotaheke, Te ara matua, Maru mai ra... Taku Mana.

After morning tea we started Maths. In maths I finished off my Practice book assignments so I could continue on my Course book

After Lunch time we went to start Manaiakalani and learnt to make positive comments on peoples blogs

Getting closer

Today we were assigned for Reading to act like News Reporters and write a report on the Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary and what were our thoughts on it the criteria is:
READ this article about the Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary.
WATCH the video provided and take additional notes for your writing.
WRITE a news article about the Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary.
REMEMBER to answer the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN in the first 2 sentences, then add further information.
PUBLISH your written article on your BLOG!

What I found challenging was how to present my writing because Im not a news reporter. What I found fun was finding the information for the writing.

STEPWeb-It!

For the next wero challenge in my class we had to spend one full hour on steps to show we have done this we had to take a screenshot of when we jumped on to when we finished our hour of steps. In the past hour of doing steps I completed an entire assignment. What I like about my steps task is that it opens up words I can use in it but it also shows me how to spell the words correctly and the meaning. It also tests to see my understanding of the words being used in the sets. My favourite task I have t do in them is the spelling bit because then it tests to see if I can spell the words correctly. What tasks I dislike are the word grid task and the treasure hunt because it takes up a good amount of your memory to complete it. Another reason why I dislike it because they present the words in front of me around every 0.5 seconds which gets annoying when they give me around 10 words to remember. 

Math Maintenence

Today I was doing some math maintenance for my maths group Whanui. During this some of the questions we had to answer were in the categories: Multiply, Division, Fractions and percentages and Square roots/Factors 

What I found easy was the fractions converted to Percentages questions. What I found hard was the factors one just because I don't have much experience in Factors.

In this task I didn't do much working out with the questions the only question I did quite a bit of working out with was the factors one because I had to figure out the factors of the number 64 which the factors are 1,2,4,8,16,32,64.

11/5/20 - 12/5/20

11/5/20

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What I was doing yesterday - I started off my day with calling my teacher in the call we were talking about what we are doing for the next week or so. What I was looking forward to after the call finished is the fact that we get to a 'day in the life of me vlog' which I think will be interesting because we have to record what we do. What i'm not really looking forward to is the fact I have to record some of my conversation with my online friend and other real friends (I do have real friends by the way).After we finished the call I was really motivated to do some mathletics so I got more points and did more activities than I usually do in a day. Once I got bored of mathletics I decided to do some coding which wasn't assigned but I really enjoy doing that stuff to do some coding I went onto the website hour of code and did a minecraft coding game. I finished the coding game in around 20 minutes with it including codes like making your character build a mini house. After I decided I had enough of coding I went on to make lunch for me and my sister which I enjoy because it's one of the things I get to do without being disturbed with. I then went onto the sims 4 while eating lunch to do something I can enjoy in free time. Later my cousins came over and we went on to playing games.

12/5/20

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What I did today was go onto my class call today we did two kahoots the first ones topic was decades of dance the second ones topic was New Zealand cities. In the first kahoot I was awarded 1st place in the second kahoot I was awarded 3rd place. After we finished our kahoots we were catching up the people who weren't on yesterday once everyone was caught up Koka wendy asked if three of the people online could stay on to have a private conversation. After we fully finished I went on to do Mathletics and Money time.  Started task diary and hazard around home for Home Tech Badge for St John cadets.

4/5/20 - 5/5/20

4/5/20

So I started the day off with a call and being told we had to learn our Pepeha then heading onto steps and working on one of my assigned tasks which was called e-e words with words like: these, theme. Next I started working on Mathletics completing the fractions area and getting a better understanding of adding and subtracting fractions. Next I joined my class call and we started recapping what we talked about in the morning. And then my mother made me do my reading for my blog post.

5/5/20

Today I started with my call which we talked about doing our pepeha again for the people who were not online for yesterday's call. After we finished the call I decided to go outside for 10 minutes but then decided after 5 minutes it's time to go back inside.after returning inside I had to go onto my maths call with my maths group Whanui to do Prime work. I then started painting some plaster sculptures. Then I went on to our afternoon call and we talked about the same stuff as we did this morning.

Chapter review of Phantom of Terawhiti chapter 8:

In chapter 8 Jess and Zac were talking about the animal he saw and he told Jess that he thought the creature was an albino cheetah and he told her the cheetahs name is Tasha because that's what the russians in the last chapters were calling out. Jess asked if had the music box yet and then they decided to go biking back to the place and then the russians were there and got annoyed because they lied to them. Then the russians grabbed Zac and he told Jess to run Jess then jumped on the bike then biked away but then the russians started following her in their truck leaving Zac behind. Jess decided to lead them to the quicksand on the beach and then they drove onto it not knowing and then their wheels started sinking. The car then got stuck and the russians couldn't get out because of the quicksand.

30/4/20

Thursday 30th April:

This morning I started getting my vege brownie ready for Koka Wendy to collect along with other peoples. After I finished getting it ready I decided to go onto steps web to do some spelling for the day. While I was doing steps Koka wendy pulled up to my house with all her gear on and was dropping off items from a few weeks before and also to pick up my vege brownies! After finishing one of my assignments on steps it was morning tea and I called my cousin to talk because we had planned to call earlier but my schedule got in the way. After we finished the call I finished eating lunch then I went online to do mathletics since i couldn't go on money time. 

Phantom of Terawhiti Chapter review: chapter 6-7

In chapter 6 and 7:

Zac had heard a calling coming from nearby and then suddenly and two men came out of the bush they were short and round men and one of them were carrying a gun. One of the two men had asked zac what was he doing there because they were security guards zac explained to them that he lived on the farm so the two men allowed him to stay. Both of the men were russian and the one holding the gun decided to point it at Zac and asked if he had seen a music box that belonged to his leader the russian billionaire and then Zac asked why the man would need a music box made for kids. The russian man said that the billionaire liked the sound. Out of the blue Will and Jess pulled up behind Zac the man moved his gun to William. William then explained he did the fencing on the Terawhiti station. He then took Zac into his truck for them to go eat lunch by the ocean. When they were sitting Zac noticed Jess was sitting closer to him rather than her father. Later he went home and and Crawford was a bit annoyed and Zac asked him a question and Crawford yelled at him. Zac decided to head up to his room later Crawford said sorry.

29/4/20

Wednesday 29th 2020:

Today I was catching my blog up from last weeks assigned tasks. What I will do next time is not leave the tasks till last minute to finish them. I am also going to do some maths since its the one of the things my Mothers excellent at making me do.



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Word of the week:

Procrastinate

"Do not Procrastinate when you have been assigned things and just get it done"

By: ME

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Tuesday:
On Tuesday I continued editing my Tupaea writing adding more detail so it looked nicer, and was a better representation of my writing. While I was editing I also added in illustrations of Tupaea.
 











Wednesday & Thursday:
On Wednesday and Thursday we did Maths and PE. For Maths I did Mathletics and Moneytime. I enjoyed doing money time because at my old school we were doing money time on paper and not online. For PE I did Rowing Machine and Exercycle while catching a Netball.

Friday:
On Friday I was doing crafts for ANZAC day which was held on Saturday. Some of the crafts included making Lanterns with jars that had drawings of ANZAC soldiers on them. We also did poppys on transparent paper.

Monday

Monday continued book review of the phantom of Terawhiti:

Chapter 1:

Crawford and Zac were exploring the most boring place in NZ placed at the bottom of the North Island as Zac explains it. There they were finding more information for Crawfords book about Natural Disasters that have happened in the past in Aotearoa by heading to a wind farm.

Chapter 2:

Whilst at the wind farm they spot the wreck of the Anastasia yacht owned by the Russian Billionaire Mikhail Popanovs.

Chapter 3:

They were heading down to the wreak to see if there were any survivors that needed help at the wreak. Zac decided to salvaging for items in the wreak and then Zac found a silver dog bowl with gold lettering Tasha printed onto it. Then Will and Jess appear later in chapter 3.

Chapter 4:

They are at the homestead Crawfords working on his book. While Zac was looking up more information on the russian billionaire. the news reporters interviewed and showed footage of the wreak and there were 5 sailors onboard and were rescued but no mention of a animal. Zac started researching the billionaires Animals. He also found out the billionaire was fascinated by wolves so he suspected the animal was a wolf not a dog that was onboard. There was also was a legend that a dog went wild on the farm a while ago and it was named after that the Terawhiti ghost.

Chapter 5:

Zac continued searching for the 'supposed' animal off the Anastasia and decided to go looking in a cave near by the ship wreak. When he walked in the cave he heard a loud roar and started backing up and fell onto his back. Out from the shadows came a male seal came over and scared him outside of the cave. Once he got out he went for lunch and settled down in a valley and heard rustling in a nearby bush. He thought he found Tasha so he went closer to the bush and started calling Tasha's name. A spotted white body sprinted out of the bush and up the hill and Zac followed the body when he got up there he spotted a pistol lying next to a box of ammo on a truck on the north side of the hill.

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My Week 1 of Term 2 was pretty standard I mainly did Maths, Reading, Writing, PE along with Arts and Baking. For Maths I was doing Mathletics and started my moneytime account, which was fun for me and my mother. For Reading I continued reading the book my teacher gave me, as well as doing chapter reviews on my blog, and sharing what happened in the story to my parents. For Writing I was editing my Tupaea piece of writing to make it more detailed, so it looks like it was actually published and so it can go on the wall. PE I was doing cardio workouts and going on my exercycle and the rowing machine. My least favourite exercise was planking and what I enjoyed was the Dumbell exercise.  For Art I was drawing Anime characters, sketching and colouring shown at the bottom. Baking we made red velvet cupcakes.

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Hello my names Nikita I have been on Quarantine for the past 4 weeks and I am one of the many people in the world that's in Quarantine... The positives of Quarantine are Not being late to anything not needing to get on the bus in the morning and spending more time with family. Not being late to anything is a huge relief to me because of all the afterschool activities I use to do now all I need to worry about is being on time for online school and being ready for Online St John since that's one of my afterschool activities I am doing. Not getting on the bus in mornings because I don't need to wake up at 6:30 am and leaving to my friends at 7:30 in the morning. And spending more time with my family is fun because I actually am spending more time with my Mother/My Homeschool teacher!

The downs are doing School work inside my house because it has been a weird experience, in the mornings I use to dread going to school and for me my house was like the only place I got to rest from all the school work throughout the day but now all I want to do is leave my new prison cell and go to school I am going insane! And just like many other kids I had a fun social life where I would hang out with my friends at school but now, i've just been having calls coming through 24/7 so I hardly get a break anymore! All i'm doing nowadays is wake up, Get ready, Do school, Finish school, Have some free time, Bed and then repeat.

So Quarantine is fun but there is some downsides I am looking forward to school restarting but am also happy I get to spend more time with my family at home.

Term One at Gisint

My Highlights of Term 1 @ Gis Int

My highlights from term one 2020 consist of Camp, Getting year 7 Student of the week and making new friends. Going to Camp was fun because it was my second school camp ever and I got to jump off the wharf, climb up cooks cove and watch the sunrise and going biscuiting in the river also sharing a tent with my friends. Getting Student of the week was exciting moment for me because it showed me how hard I worked so far in the year. Making new friends was also really fun because I met people from other schools rather than sticking with kids from my old school.

Chapter Review

Phantom of Terawhiti by : Des Hunt

Today I did my chapter review on the book Phantom of Terawhiti by Des Hunt. Including questions like How much I read, The characters, What important events, When and where it happened. What I enjoyed was Reading the book. What I think ill do next time is read a bit more so then I can write more on to the pages. anyway I would 10/10 rate this for someone else to read so far!