Aquarius Constellation

                                                           Aquarius Constellation

Aquarius is the 11th astrological sign in the Zodiac. The sign is an air sign, the sign is usually born in between February and January.

Vocabulary Study

 This study helped us understand words that helped us to get clues for a crossword puzzle and extended our vocabulary.

Vocabulary Study/Crossword

1. Write the meanings for these ‘Across’ words.

reorder -get another supply

hippo -  A animal

knead - squash up with your hands

profile - short biographical sketch

uncut - Not cut

townhouse -  House in town

fad -trend

potpourri - dried flowers that are scented

worried - concerned

mania - frenzy

dwarfed - made smaller

Find the meanings for these ‘Down’ words.

cradle - hold in arms

spirited - headstrong

trader - a merchant who sells things

endear - like

frumpy - fat and lumpy

monkfish - a sea fish 

outstrip - beat

yogi - a Hindu guy

wedded - married

cool - unruffled

arms - part of the body

The Lion & butterfly

 We have been studying fables and writing our own version of one of them. Then we made a ripped paper collage to illustrate our story. Hope you enjoy my fable.

A lion came upon a butterfly straying from the garden and didn't want to take the life of such a helpless

creature without a good excuse.

So the lion said, “You are the butterfly who insulted me last year.”

“I couldn’t have, for I wasn't even born then,” said the butterfly.

 Well said the lion,  “You eat from my jungle.” 

“That cannot be replied to by the butterfly,  for I have never yet tasted meat.” 

“You drink from my river, then!” continued the lion.

“I have not been eating anything but my mother’s nectar.” 

“Well,  anyhow,” said the lion, “I'm not going without my dinner!”

 and he sprang upon the butterfly and swallowed it without  another word!

100 word challenge

                                                              100 word challenge

We had to write 100 words about a pic of a cup stuck in something that looked like mud. This is mt 100 word story! 

Kia ora, I’m a cup. My name is Aliyah. I normally live on top of Aoraki, a magnificent mountain in Aotearoa. I love sitting on top of the mountain watching people trying to climb and sometimes walk through the bush below. Sometimes I get lonely without other cups to talk to and I dream of being filled with tea and or milky coffee. One day, I decided to slide down the mountain to see if anyone wanted a cuppa. Unfortunately, there was a massive avalanche which swept me down the mountain and I landed in a pile of coffee grains.

Making Water

Aim = To explode Hydrogen to malice water

Method =  Take a small text tube - add a small piece of magnesium metal - Then add Hydrochloride acid and put a boiling tube upside down over  the small test tube. 

- After 5 minutes keep the boiling tube upside down but put it over the burner flame 

- You should hear the Hydrogen explode & see water made. 

Reflection for P.E

For the last 12 weeks. We have been doing P.E. In P.E we have been doing weight, area, perimeter, heart rates and the Volume. So here is my work from the 12 weeks of doing P.E.

Hurumanu 1 TEST - EXPLORING OUR SITE

                                       Hurumanu 1 TEST - EXPLORING OUR SITE

So today we did on overview of the work we studied in this Hurumanu. We had to reflect on  how much learning we had done and if we met the success criteria. I think I did well overall and learnt new stuff. 

Hurumanu 1 - EXPLORING OUR SITE

(“WHO ARE WE?” on Yr 7/8 Hurumanu site )

1.   What does ‘Multimodal’ mean? 

A board full of activities to do .

2.   Find the 1st multimodal board we have studied and copy the 2 points found in the LEARN box.

3. I am learning to understand the importance of our history.

4. I am learning to use a multimodal taskboard.

5.   Choose 1 of the 6 photos you have studied and write 1 sentence to explain what is happening in the photo.

 Why do you think the photo was taken?

         So they can share it with the family.

6.   Scroll down to the ‘GOLD RUSH’ multimodal board and on the way.

1. Name the tourist town on the West Coast that recreates how life was like during the Gold Rush.  

Shantytown

2. Find the ‘LEVEL 2 Task Board’ with Gold Rush activities and complete the following:

WALT = Understand what NZ looked like during the Gold Rush

Success Criteria: i) 

                   Understand what the Gold Rush looked like in Aotearoa NZ

                     Understand how families felt during this time

Go to the ‘LEVEL 3 Task Board’ with Gold Rush activities and complete the following:

WALT = Understand our past immigrant community 

Success Criteria: 

• Understand how the Gold Rush happened & its impact

• Acknowledge the involvement of the Chinese in our NZ history

• Understand what discrimination is and how to identify it

5.   Find the Multimodal Board for PARIHAKA

1. List 3 things from the LEARN box that you were expected to learn

Discover some of the key protest events that have helped shape Aotearoa NZ’s society today.

Understand the consequences of possible choices and the effects they can have.

I am a citizen of the world. I can make a meaningful difference. I seek social justice.

2.   Copy the Success Criteria for work you had to CREATE (see box) have reread to check information.

3. My layout is clear and easy to read.

4. My spelling and punctuation are correct.

5. My information and ideas help my audience to understand the learning.

 Find the EXTRA MAHI box and write 3 facts about Non-violent protest

       parihaka leaders used non-violent protest and they were punished. Gandhi, Martin              Luther King and other people in history have done the same and had the same result. It is a powerful way of standing up to powerful people. 

 

  6.   Go to the World War 1 Multimodal Board and copy the 1st LO that you find in the LEARN box

    I am learning to explain how World War 1 helped to shape our identity as New Zealanders

7.Scroll down to ‘Women's Suffrage’.

i) Name the NZ woman whose face is on the $10 note: Viola Desmond

ii) Which country was 1st in the world to get the vote for women? 

New Zealand.

8.   Go to the Christchurch/Otautahi Multimodal Board and find the 

SCAFFOLDING TEXT BOX, click on the audio book, “Quake, Rattle and Roll” and listen to the story. 

NOW, REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING THIS TERM - YOUR DON’T HAVE TO WRITE ANYTHING, JUST THINK ABOUT NEW STUFF YOU HAVE LEARNT AND HOW WELL YOU HAVE PRESENTED YOUR WORK, EITHER IN YOUR HURUMANU 1 FOLDER OR ON YOUR BLOG.

Parihaka

Today we did a DLO about Parihaka

Parihaka

                                           Today we did a acrostic poem about Parihaka.                                            

   Parihaka Poem

(3 words for each letter, beginning with the same letter)

Pakeha, Passive and Protest

Against, aim and aggressive 

Ripapa Island,resistance and Religious

Invasion, inhumane, Inhabited

Hateful, History and Humanity

Armed, angry, and awful

Killed and killing

Army, awful and Atrocities.

DRAW IMAGES to illustrate your poem in this rectangle

Gold poem

 Gold poem

Today we had to fill in the lines to this work and now we have an amazing poem.

Gold is Valuable.

Gold was Found.

Gold can shine

Gold feels like a stone

Gold looks smooth

Gold buys jewellery

Gold makes money

Gold  often attracts thieves

Gold comes to people who seek it

Gold always brings wealth

Gold brings happiness  

Gold gives joy

Gold has a ling history

Gold will make you rich.

Gold provides security

Acrostic Poem

Gold

Often

Looks

Desirable

Rich

Users

Seek

Hoards

 

Gold Rush

 Gold Rush/Gold Poem

                     Today for the gold rush thing we done a poetry of gold, a DLO and a wordfind.

                     

Goldminer

Goldminer

We looked at a photo of an old gold miner sitting outside his stone and mud house. The roof was covered in strawso in the picture I saw.

The house, the fence, the window , the old man , the young girl, a barrel, a sack and a bucket.

The Otago Gold Rush (often called the Central Otago Gold Rush) was a gold rush that occurred during the 1860s in Central Otago, New Zealand. ... Only a few years later, most of the smaller new settlements were deserted, and gold extraction became a more long-term, industrialised-mechanical process.

3. Draw (or copy and paste)  and label an image you’ve found during your research.

Resting heart rate

Resting heart rate 

A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute. Generally, a lower heart rate at rest implies more efficient heart function and better cardiovascular fitness. For example, a well-trained athlete might have a normal resting heart rate closer to 40 beats per minute.Children 3 to 4 years old: 80 to 120 beats per minute. Children 5 to 6 years old: 75 to 115 beats per minute. Children 7 to 9 years old: 70 to 110 beats per minute. Children 10 years and older, and adults (including seniors): 60 to 100 beats per minute. 

Why Study History?

Hurumanu 1 Blog Post   - Why Study History?

Studying history is important because it's important to learn about the past and mistakes that were made. Three Historic events I am familiar with in Aotearoa  are Treaty of Waitangi, Matariki and Musket wars. More recent events that have happened in our country are Mosque shootings, Covid - 19 and Earthquakes.

We are listening to chapters from Gavin Bishop’s book ‘Piano Rock’.
He says he values his heritage because his mum’s dad was Tainui, from Waikato.

' It’s enormously important and it’s been a source of inspiration and ideas,
thinking about what life must have been like for my grandfather and his siblings.'

Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Hello people, So last week  we did a DLO of Te Tiriti O Waitangi so here is mine........

The Treaty

                                         The Treaty 

The Treaty was neglected early on after signing. It got water damage, rats gnawed it and it almost burnt in a fire.

The Maori population in the 1830s was reduced to 70-80000 because of disease and wars brought about by the British settlers. The main settlement was Russell and the missionaries and Rangitira didn't like the rough sailors who were always partying and fighting. They abused young Maori women and were often drunk.

Edward Gibbon Wakefield wanted to buy cheap land from Maori and sell to rich Englishmen, then bring out workers from the UK.

The united tribes of NZ was set up to keep the French out of governing NZ. A man called Hobson came to help the Maori get a fair deal and agree to signing the Treaty.

Tino Rangitiratanga refers to authority of the chiefs, but in the English translation, this was given to the crown (Queen). 

Potatoe war

The first European to arrive in Aotearoa in 1642 was Abel Tasman.  He named the land Neuveau Zelandia. The next explorer that arrived in  Aotearoa in 1769 was James Cook. Tu Paia was the first navigator to help the explorers. The explorers brought diseases with them and also pigs, rats and potatoes. Muskets were guns that they fought with. The musket wars ended in 1840. Maori  outnumbered Pakeha 40 to 1.

Tangata Whenua

      Tangata Whenua 

       This was our first lesson in Hurumanu 1 studying 'Where I came from' and our ancestors.

Tangata Whenua questions:

Use the questions below to help guide your note-taking. You need to identify the key points from the video and write your own notes. You can rewatch the video if you need to.

Your notes will be used to help you write a summary of the video.

1. Where did the Māori people arrive from? East asia

2. How did they arrive in NZ? In a waka

3. What did they bring to NZ? Kai ,rats , dogs and seafood and even  some traditional kai 

4. How did they get food? Huntedthe moa

5. Write 3 sentences about the Moriori people

They lived on the Chatham Islands

They were passive people

They were Maori

6. How did they prove that Māori and Moriori descended from the same people? They compared skeletons and dna.

7. Explain how the Moa came to be extinct because rats ate there eggs , and they only layed one egg a year

8. Why did Māori choose to settle in the places they did? Because it was warm and they could grow food there, and also catch food there like fish and there was a lot of water.

9. In your word bank, write the meaning of whānau means family , hapū means a group of iwi  and iwi means where they lived.. The indigenous people.
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Adverbs

                                           Adverbs 

Adverbs give the reader more detail about actions. For example.

Yesterday I walked slowly to the green dairy. 

The ugly bird sang a lovely song.

The  cheerfully singer was very good.

Interview with Mark The Martian

List 5 questions you would like to ask Mark….record his answers, then write a 

News Report based on his answers. Use the handout to help you remember the plot.

Questions and answers.

1. What is a sol? Martian solar day

2. How did you get a wound? Struck by debris

3. What did you take to get the pathfinder probe? He took the Rover

4. What did you try to grow on mars? Potatoes

5.  What country helped in your rescue?   China        

News Report:

e.g. Well known tennis player, Tony Rutene, landed in the wrong town for his latest tennis tournament. He was stuck there with no transport, no money, no food and no communications. His teammates had no idea where he was and after a week gave him up for dead because he was unable to access  a phone or computer given that everyone in the town was in lockdown. Noone travelled out of their bubble and it was only by chance that a helicopter flew over and saw Tony’s message in a vacant plot. ‘HELP!’ The pilot landed  on the plot and at a safe distance was able to sort Tony out and fly him back home to his relieved family and teammates.

Write your draft news report here:

Space mission biologist Mark Watney landed accidentally on Mars after a storm. He had no food or no contact with NASA to get him off Mars. Luckily Mindy Park, a NASA satellite planner saw movement on Mars and figured he was alive. He was rescued with the help of a Chinese space administration team and he got safely back to Earth.