Tane Mahuta and Kiwi Kaha

Today we had Tane Mahuta and Kiwi Kaha. My class had Kiwi Kaha first before other classes and it was awesome.

In Kiwi Kaha, we had to sit at five different tables (to be sorted into five different groups) and as a group, we had to do a quiz where one person runs up to the table and Andre checks the answer.  The group I was in (Me, Jamie, Jodecy, Mitchell and Keghan)came first! We didn't have time to do an energizer, but in the end, we got full points which means that we will be going to the Kiwi Kaha party at the end of the term!

In Kiwi Kaha, I enjoyed working with my group to do our best and, even though we got some wrong, we kept trying.

I had Tane Mahuta in the second half of period 2, period 3, and period 4. In period 2 and 3, I did some weeding around the plants that we have already planted and, I did some weeding in an area that we are about to plant, I also helped with getting some shrubs out of the ground in front of the outside classroom.

I enjoyed getting the shrubs out of the ground because I got my hands dirty and, it was challenging because it took muscles to shorten it first so we could dig it up.

Ella west visit

In Period one today, we headed to the auditorium because Ella West came to visit our school! Ella West is a very talented Author and Journalist who has written six books! Her first three books were a series, but her other three aren't. Ella told us that she wrote 40,000 words on Night Vision, but 50,000 on Rain Fall.

Her fourth book is called "Night Vision" and it's about a girl who has XP. XP is a disorder which basically affects kids genes where they can't go out into the sun. The girl in the story witnesses a car being put on fire (at night) in the middle of a forest, so she tries to stop the trees from catching on fire. It's really dangerous for the girl because she has XP, but she lives. The girl has Night vision goggles, so that's why the book is called "Night Vision". Her Fifth book is a translation of Night vision to Italian. The title in Italian means "The deceptive art of owl".

Her Sixth book is called "Rain Fall". It's about a girl named Annie, her missing neighbour and a mysterious boy riding a horse. Ella Didn't tell us much about the story in Rain fall, but she did tell us that the places in the book are real places, that she had to look up on google maps.

I'm hoping I can read Night Vision and Rain fall because they sound amazing and the stories sound awesome. I enjoyed listening about Night Vision more because there are real places in it and one fake place as well, so it's a variety.

Climate Change - Hurumanu

AIM: TO LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

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The Greenhouse Effect experiment

Materials:

1. 1 Plastic bottle,
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid,
3. 1 heat lamp,
4. 1 Thermometer,
5. 100 ml of water,
6. 1 rubber bung.

Procedure;

1. Get all of the ingredients ready.
2. Set up the lights, bottle, thermometer, and the bung. 
3. Add the baking soda mix along with 100ml of water.
4. Wait for 5 minutes and start recording the temperature.

Variables:

All water added to the bottles were from the classroom tap.

Findings: The Greenhouse Effect Data 

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18͑'c	18'c
5	20'c	24'c
10	21'c	26'c
15	22'c	26'c
20	No recording	No recording
25	No recording	No recording
30	No recording	No recording
35	No recording	No recording
40	22'c	33'c
45	No recording	No recording
50	No recording	No recording

Conclusion: The water bottles heat went up slower, and the CO2 bottles heat went up faster. Since the CO2 bottle heats up faster, I can conclude that CO2 causes climate change. 

Tane Mahuta Update

In Tane Mahuta today I helped move some metal from in front of the outside classroom, to a metal trailer. We were doing this because we are separating the scrap metal from everything else so we can sell it. I also helped put some junk in the skip bin so there is more space outside of the classroom. I helped take some sticks away from one pile, to put into another pile. We had to do this because they were there from pruning.  Everyone else had to either put fertilizer into the dirt so that they could plant them or move a lot of other stuff out of the front area of the outside classroom. 

Here is a photo of everyone who is in the Tane Mahuta C.I.P:

Stop Motion Hurumanu

In this Hurumanu we are learning how to, and making a stop motion. So far we have been in groups of four and we have been creating our storyboards for the stop motions we are going to create. I am in a group with Jamie, Jodecy, and Keghan. We have already done our story, the characters, half of our storyboard, and the setting. We are hoping to finish our storyboard very soon. In the Hurumanu we are focusing on Manaakitanga (Kindness). Our aspect of Manaakitanga in our stop motion movie is forgiveness and learning.

Maori

This term we have had Maori. This week we have been talking about what a hangi is and why walking over the hangi is bad. It's bad because our bodies are tapu (closest word in English is sacred) and the hangi is noa (Normal) so they say that if we step over the hangi then it makes the food inedible.

We had to make a google drawing of how to make a hangi. Here's the one I worked on with Jodecy:

We also talked about how some people on the Maori new year make a reverse hangi. You find the highest hill you can in your area and place rocks on the top to replace the hole. when the sun rises you have to get rid of the rocks on top and let the smoke rise.

My learning conference

We each had to make a slideshow, showing what we've been doing in our classes. We had to make a slide each about

• One of our latest blog posts
• Learning story from hurumanu
• Latest math work/the strategy we are using
• Our reading plus(/lexia) results
• Our spelling words/tasks
• About C.I.P and what we've been doing in that C.I.P
• Anything else we would like to add.

For me, the only thing I added extra was a slide explaining what we've been doing in technology. Here is my slideshow, I hope you enjoy it.