Master-Chef

 This is our finished product for Master-chef
We got 2nd over all with 29/30
My buddy is Anna (on the right).

The drink is a mixed berry smoothie and the food was 3 Corn fritters with avocado an bacon in-between with egg on the side.

Burger Heaven

Matariki Explanation Writing

MATARIKI

Matariki is the Māori name for a bunch of stars known as the Pleiades. Traditionally for Māori when it appeared just before dawn in late May or early June, it signalled the start of the Māori New Year. In the early 2000s the Māori Language Commission, the Ministry of Education and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, became involved in the revival of Matariki Celebrations. Different tribes celebrated Matariki at different times.  For some it was when Matariki rose in May/June. For others it was celebrated at the first new moon, or full moon, following the rising of Matariki. In the 21st century it is the new moon following the rising of Matariki that signals the New Year

Matariki is celebrated with education, remembrance and the planting of new trees and crops which signals new beginnings. Matariki was the chosen time for new harvests, and ceremonial offerings to the land-based god (Rongo).Here is a map to find the Matariki at night

Traditionally, depending on the visibility of Matariki, the coming season's crop was thought to be determined. The brighter the stars indicated the warmer the season would be and thus the more crops produced. It was also seen as an important time for family to gather and reflect on the past and the future. Traditionally, Matariki was a time to remember those who had died in the last year. But it was also a happy event – crops had been harvested and seafood and birds had been collected. With plenty of food in the storehouses, Matariki was a time for singing, dancing and feasting. Matariki, or Māori New Year celebrations were once popular, but stopped in the 1940s. In 2000, they were revived. Only a few people took part at first, but in just a few years thousands were celebrating the ‘New Zealand Thanksgiving’. A special feature of Matariki celebrations is the flying of kites – according to ancient custom they flutter close to the stars

So matariki is  New Zealand's own unique  thanks-giving that more and more people are celebrating. Come-on why don’t you celebrate it with us?

Sites I used

http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/matariki

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=How+to+find+Matariki(the+Pleiades)&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QWiQVd7lM6K_mwWDyYKIAQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=633

Movers and Shakers homework

This is my movers and shakers homework

Uniforms Need to Be Banned From Schools

Uniforms Need to Be Banned From Schools

Uniforms Need to Be Banned From Schools

The reasons for this is:

• It costs to much
• It can affect self-image
• and it is totally impractical

If surveyed, I am sure, most students will agree with this. I KNOW that after reading this, you will change your mind.

Self-Image is an important thing for teenagers to feel good about themselves.

Most teenagers would like to be seen as an individual and having a uniform takes that ability away from them and the feeling like you are unique and not  the same as you fellow students.

If you are a shy person and you are trying to work on your self confidence you may want to express your uniqueness in the way that you dress.

COST, the market monopoly is the reason that uniform prices are so ridiculously high (that is when the product is sold in only one place and the retailer can put the prices really high, because there no-one to compete with).

Some parents may only be able to afford to have one set of clothes for their child. Then there is a risk that  the one set could get lost or stolen and the child can't go to school, due to strict uniform policies.

School uniforms are TOTALLY Impractical

Girls that have to wear skirts in winter, ” WHAT ” and some girls would never wear skirts or dresses in their normal life, if they had a choice.  People say that having one uniform saves you washing, but if you have only one school uniform to wear, and that gets dirty then you will have to wash it every day. Winter months are often bitterly cold and girls wearing skirts doesn't help to keep them warm. Long pants will be so much more practical!!

Yes it can bullying about clothes and can be helpful to identify the students but isn't about what the students think as well and the uniform can start bullying as said in the start of this argument.  

                                                                                                                                                                 

To conclude, a school uniform is totally impractical, expensive and can be damaging to a child’s self image and confidence. I want to urge schools to think again about the need for uniforms and the negative impact that this may have on the students.
You want the best for the students don’t you ?     

ANZAC- Reading

Dawn service

This is a story of someone's Great-Grandpa

that we had to recreate. We go clues from the poem. I put myself in the shows the writer

My mum told me about my great-Grandpa was one of the flyers in the war. Grandpa didn't have a laugh he had a wheeze like croke, when he rarely found something funny he would give out an exasperated wheeze that sounded like wheels and pulleys turning in his chest,you had to pat him firmly on his brown jumper that he loved to where so that he wouldn't choke, he had little bits of hair like small white feathers sticking out of the top of his head.

In the war my Grandpa loved to read letters that he got from home. he would wait eagerly for the mail cart to arrive

When grandpa was nineteen he had a little note log book and that he would write in with a soft pencil. In his book he wrote that he a really nervous about flying.

“UM” he hated the word “UM”once he made her mom's brother write it out and then bury it in the garden.

Why I never knew how My Grandfather felt about the war.

I never meet my  Grandpa because he died before I was even born.

Writing-Scooting in Schools Should be Band

In our writing we did some guided writing (when the planing is done for you).We had to do it about about scooting in schools.

Scooting is dangerous to other children and your self and do you really want that? If you do then i am here to change your mind and if you don’t well then still listen.

Just think if half  the kids in the school scooter then there will be lines and dead bits on the field from scooting on it plus there will be no space to walk or even to move.

If half the kids in the school bring there will be no space for other things like Basketball, netball and other sports. Most small kids can’t control their scooter or if they're going to fast then they might knock over other small children. The brake on the scooter isn't very effective and slows gradually not immediately.

Scooting if exiting and you can do all sort of tricks like grinding, Spinning and Over-head but to intermediate students it doesn't seem “COOL” to wear the proper safety gear (knee pad, elbow pads .etc.) and if year 2 or 3’s see the year 7 or 8’s do all the complicated moves that takes years and years  of practice and precision and try and do the trick then its most likely for something to go wrong.

I know that I have changed your mind so STOP scooting in schools NOW and all will be well

Never Again

Inspired by Dulce Et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen 1893-1918
In writing we did a story of the war this is mine

Never Again

My buddy's are speaking in wheezy breaths of agony.Mud up to our knees slithering into our boots and into your infected cuts
Trudging carefully back to the safety of the hospital and bass camp. With the fire and fury in the distance
Jet and Arrow my buddies on either side of me, looking like an owls in the day-time. I had lost my boots in the fight and the cuts were oozing with blood and pus. The gas shells were falling behind us but we didn't care.
Hold hands i Yelled holding my breath while the gas steadily rose from the canister,  so that we don’t lose each-other.
“Arrow” i Asked in an muffled tone Will help me I can't breathe we Arrow had slipped out of my hand as we fumbled for his mask me and Jet fumble in the green mist
suddenly Arrow appears we watch helpless and in shock.
Can you imagine carrying you best friend in a wagon that you found on the side of the road  while he is  screaming in agony, Arrow was a sickly green color and was physically shrinking.
Can you imagine Arrow yelling  and the wagon bumps in the pot-holes seeing him spewing blood and mucus from his lungs that were withering from the gas
you should never have to see what I saw, while Arrow was dying i thought of what he said on the way here “War the only reason I came was because it will be glorious to dye for my country” and I thought how wrong he was

Inquiry:ANZAC

 In inquiry we did some questions on ANZAC these are some of my answers

NZ joined the war to support what country?	Britain
Mustafa Kemal was the coder of this country?	Turkey
Many kiwis and Aussies were stationed here at the start of 1915?	Egypt
NZ fought?	Germany
Who bombed pearl harbor?	Japan
NZ had a famous indigenous battalion for what?	There Bravery

        

          

          

                    

The Car Ride

The purpose of this writing is to show how I can shape my text for audience. In this poem I have tried to slow the pace of my writing. By carefully selecting line breaks and choosing words that show how bored I really was.

The car ride

Fields on all sides

Staring blankly at passing lines

Feeling like life has stopped moving.

Talking to your reflection on the window

Ignoring the sound of country music next to me.

My parents talking about finances.

Thinking of the place you're going.

Thinking if its going to be boring or not  

Arriving and thinking wow that was a boring ride.

Year 8 Camp

Year 8 camp a lot was fun we did lots of things like swimming, rafting, sliding, hiding, flying but my Favourite was the wall climbing.
It was terrifying  because I a afraid of heights but I loved  the adrenalin rush that it gave me.

Here is a picture of me doing the wall climbing:

My Favorit Pace to Swim

The Tire Swing Camp

The tire swing hung invitingly above the water.

There is a splendid hot spa that is like a steam bath. A TV room were you can watch movies in full H.D. You can also find that they have cabins as well as camping ground that you can sleep in.

Next to the river there is slippers on a old fairy tree that hangs lazily over the stream, the slippers looked like alligator feet, it is to keep little kids out of the water because the water is deep and people kayak down the river.

But my favourite thing that I like about the camp is the memories. How my cousins and I always went there, and how it was close to home so if we forgot something we could just go and get it, but the funniest thing is that my sister and I thought that it was far from home.

The Bug Man

1. How the hole insect race affects the world
2. The kingfisher poo comes straight out and the ants clean it up
3. A ⅓ of our diet is affected by bees
4. scorpions glow in UV torch
5. To attract the Ulysses butterfly that lives 40 feet up in the air to the ground is to put the color blue on the ground and they come down to investigate it.
6. Sloth's are so slow because they can only eat 1 leaf of the Cecropia so they slow down to preserve energy
7. Kiwis have a big range on bugs they can eat

Its like that-Wrting

Its like that

Hot water beach

Deep pools, giant boulders, Lazy men, hot steam,

The fragrance of salt, Relaxed breathing of holidays.

The joy of life, laughter of naive children,

steep cliffs, sand barriers, broken spades,

the echoing sound of the waves.

endless possibilities to do with sand,

Fancy loges with heating Great coffee,

Its what its like

We are like that-Writing

We are like that

Creative, fun and loving

kind, helping and smart

We are like that

sporty, initiative and crazy

persistent, resourceful and the D.I.Y type

We are like that

  cultural, passionate and loud

strong, self less and Social

We are like that

I am from- Writing

I am from

Small family outing and

long hikes in the bush

I am from cold nights in bed

and roasting marshmallows by the fire

I am from friday night movies

and cuddling up to dad

I am from the roaring of lions and the

stamping of hooves on the land

I am from the light of dawn through the 

window over the kalahari desert