Way finding Navigation

 Kia Ora bloggers! 

Today I will be talking about what way finding navigation. What is way finding navigation? It is what our ancestors used to find New Zealand! They used stars, planets, floating debris, moon, sun, birds and waves. Here is some writing I did about our navigators.

The navigators were really impressive because they could use the stars at night to find their way home. They also found ways to navigate in the day and in the night when it was cloudy.

Navigators also followed the birds and waves to find land. 

Did you know that Captain Cook wasn't the founder of New Zealand. Did you know that Captain Cook did not discover New Zealand first? And he didn't do it by himself. A man named Tupaia helped him with the navigation and that's how he got there.

You know, you could be a navigator too. You can find Matariki all through out the year except for June and July, you can't see Matariki in June or July because it is under the horizon( the line where the sky meets the earth). You can find Matariki if you look in the night sky and look to the west you might see it. You can also very easily find it at about 6:50 am in the morning. When the sun is about to rise you will see it near the sun. And you know you've found it when you see this.

In this activity I found that remembering all the useful information was a bit hard. I enjoyed it though, it was a very fun experience.

Zoo trip!

 Kia Ora Bloggers, 

Today I wrote a recount on my exciting day at the zoo! I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you, if you have any feedback or tips please leave a comment. 

Yesterday room six, nine and eight went to the zoo! We split up into groups so it would be easier to cover the whole zoo. I was in Ms V’s group with Marcus, Pita, Lanisi, Salote and Mina. Before we went to the zoo we watched a quick video about the rules of the zoo. Some of the rules were; No scooters, whistles, dogs and balloons. After that video we got into the bus and headed to the zoo.

When we arrived at the zoo we sat down in a big meeting area. A lady named Lizzy came in and told us what time we had to be back and the time of the spider monkey show. Then we headed off into the zoo. For some reason we didn’t go into our groups, instead we stayed together as a class. The first animal we saw was the asian small-clawed otter. It was so cute! But it ran away into its hide because people were shouting. Then we saw the ring-tailed lemurs, they were all bunched up on one branch. It was really funny when one of them looked at me because it looked like it was rolling its eyes.

 After that we headed to the pride lands to start our tour. A man named PJ showed us around. First thing I saw was a giraffe (did you know that they are the tallest animals on earth?). There were about four giraffe’s, next we saw the zebra’s eating from haynets. After that we saw the rhinos, it was super funny because we didn't see much of the rhinos. We only saw them poop, I saw something big and brown and I pointed it out and said it was rhino poop but then it jumped up and flew away. It was a duck! 

Then we went to the empty lion enclosure. It was empty so we asked why, sadly the lions that had been in there had passed away from old age (they were sixteen!). But PJ said that they will be getting some lion cubs soon. After that we got to touch some giraffe poop and some giraffe skin! Then we went to see the meerkats. At first we couldn't see them but when we went into the tunnels we saw them standing up and digging holes. Then lots of people came into the tunnels and I got squished.

After that we went to see the cheetahs. I could only see one of the cheetahs, her name was quartz. The best part of the cheetahs was when quartz rolled on her back and rolled around.

Then we moved on to the baboons. They made us all laugh because they had pink bums, we also saw them picking fleas off each other.

After that we split up and then at one pm we all met up at the spider monkey show. We watched them feed the monkeys whilst we ate lunch. 

NZ SL

 Kia Ora bloggers, 

This week is New Zealand Sign Language or NZSL. Today Papa Jarrod (our te reo teacher) taught us how to spell out our names in sign language and he also showed us how to sign family and Aotearoa. Here is a little video of me doing it. I really enjoyed doing this because it was fun to see other people signing their names. I found it a bit challenging to remember how to do each letter but in the end I figured it out.

 

 If you want to learn some sign language of your own here is the alphabet.

Blog you later!

My book!

Kia Ora bloggers! During lockdown I started making a

 book and today I finished it. This book is called " yeah, this is me " and the book is all about.....me! So here it is.

Yeah, this is me

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

I really enjoyed adding images and changing the background and font. I found that it was a bit hard to figure out all the controlls but with a little help it worked out fine. Would I do it again? Of coruse! I hope you liked this book,if you have any questions or tips please leave a comment! Have a nice day bloggers.

Kick Start

Kia Ora bloggers, 

Today I will be showing you one of my summer learning journey teasers. Most of you already know what the summer learning journey is, but if you don't know what it is its basically a wide range of activities for you to do in the summer holidays and you can get points. This is not a real activity, this is a teaser which means I don't get points. 

For this teaser activity called "kick start". I had to choose a picture to colour in from the Art Colouring Book. The picture that I chose to colour in was of a series of disordered watermelons, I know it sounds a bit weird but once you see the artwork you will understand what I mean. Here it is!

Original picture:

My replica:

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post! If you have any questions don't be afraid to comment and I will make sure to reply. Blog you later! 

Tabloid Sports Reflection!

 Hello bloggers,

Today I will be telling you about Tuffery Class's Tabloids. So we were split up into 7 groups of 3 or 4, in these groups we had to choose a activity to teach Room 8 and 6 (the other senior class's). It was so fun to teach the class's our game but it was a bit hard to keep everything under control(now I know what my teacher feels like). SO I will be sharing my reflection drawing.

Here is a picture of us leading the activity

I hope you liked it! If you have any questions please leave a comment and I will make sure to reply! See you later guys.

Writing Sample T4 2020

 Hello bloggers, 

 Today I will be sharing my Writing Sample of T4 2020

Please have a look at my slides and I'd love to hear some feedback!