Famous New Zealander from History

Who is the person's name?

*Dame Valerie Adams

When were they born/ when did they pass away?

*Shae was born on the 6th of october 1984 (age 32)

Where were they born/ did they live?

*Adams was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, to a Tongan mother (Lilika Ngauamo) and an English father (Sydney Adams) Nickname syd . Her father, who settled in New Zealand after service in the Royal Navy, had a total of 18 children with five women.

What are they famous for?

*Rio was Valerie's fourth Olympic Games winning the shot put silver medal. Valerie also took medals at Beijing in 2008 (all gold) and London in 2012 (all gold) and finishing seventh in her debut at Athens 2004.

Valerie has been the dominant women's shot putter in the world since 2006, only beaten twice in major world events. She also got 3 indoor world champion gold medals.

What are some of their accomplishments?

(the things that they have done)

*Rio was Valerie's fourth Olympic Games winning the shot put silver medal. Valerie also took medals at Beijing in 2008 (all gold) and London in 2012 (all gold) and finishing seventh in her debut at Athens 2004.

Valerie has been the dominant women's shot putter in the world since 2006, only beaten twice in major world events. She also got 3 indoor world champion gold medals. Dame valerie adams is the first woman to win 4 consecutive individual titles of the world track and field championships, achieving gold in (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013).

Dame valerie was named in the international association of athletics federation well female athlete of the year in (2014)

Why are they a good role model for kiwis?

*Because she can encourage people to push themselves as far as she did and as in doing that she got rewarded a lot of gold medals and now she is a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion, two-time Olympic and three-time Commonwealth champion.

World war 1

Create your own questions about World War One using the prompts in the table below:

Question	Answer
Who	Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, United States.
When	28th, July 1914 and ended on the 11th November 1918.
Where	It was started in Europe fought in Turkey, the Middle East and ended in Europe.
Why	*same as how*
What	Lots of people got killed for no random reason.
How	The war was caused because the archduke of austria/hungary was killed by a serbian nationalist which prepared major European military powers towards war.

Are there any other questions you have about world war one? Ask and answer them here.

How many people died during the ww1 ?

*37 Million people

King and Country ~ Comic strip

Kiwi Can

On friday the 25~8~17 I was in room 9 and we went to kiwi can to learn about self control. When we got to the room 11 door Miss toiya came out and welcomed us into the classroom.

When we went to the room where kiwi can people teach, we sat in a circle and Mr Numia, (Kiwi Can teacher) gave a greeting in a different language and we had to try and guess where the greeting comes from. Then we had our energiser and what you do to play the game is you have to have a ball and you have to spread your legs forming a triangle shape. What you have to do is roll the ball under someone’s legs to get them out and then you can move in and fill the gap where the person was. Then we were talking about what that game was helping us with involving self control and the same with our activity. In our activity we had to dance to music and when the music stops you have to sit quickly and fold your legs, the last person that sits down and doesn’t fold their legs they are out!

At the end of our lesson i felt happy because it was fun learning about all the things about self control and of course playing the games was fun!

Fantastic Fractions

We are learning to identify the relationship between equivalent fractions.

What is 1/6 of 36?=6

What is 5/11 of 22?=10

What is 4/13 of 26?=8

What is 4/8 the same as?=1 1/4

What is ⅖ the same as?=1 1/2

What is 10/30 the same as?=1 1/3

What is 25/50 the same as?=10/30

I have 2/16 of a cake at a birthday party. I am then given ⅝ of a cake. How much cake do I have altogether?= 7/24

I have 5/20 of a cake left over from the party. I cut the leftover cake into quarters. What fraction is each of these pieces?=1/5

⅕ + ⅗ =4/5

2/10 + 5/10 =7/10

15/10 - 7/10 =22/10

16/30 - 5/30 =21/10

⅕ + 2/20 =30/100

1/7 + ⅚ =41/42

4/9 + 5/13 = 57/27

9/13 + 9/24 =323/312

6/9 + 4/18 =138/162

5/8 + 6/14 =118/112

3/15 + 8/19 =177/285

5/6 + 1/7 =41/42

king and Country

We are learning to show an increasing understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.

How do you think Maori responded when asked to fight in the war?

* An old Maori warrior thought that they shouldn’t be involved in the war because in his words he said that they should let fight their own war and that it was the britishes war to fight.

Think about the date and about New Zealand’s history. How would Maori feel about fighting for the British Empire so soon after being colonised by Britain?

* I think that they would want to fight alongside the british..

Why did Rongo and Tipu want to join up?

* Rongo wanted to attack the british before they could attack the Maori.

Why did their parents have different views about whether they should?

*Because their father’s iwi supports the government and that would be good for him but

For Tipu, is it just a choice between staying with his mother or having an adventure?

* Having an adventure

Has the news from Gallipoli made his choice more complex?

* No because Big George has just died.

Why should he stay with his mother? What is his duty to her?

* Because he needs to help her with the land.

Why does the death of Big George make him want to be with his brother even more?

* I think it's because he might not want the same thing that happened to George happen to his brother Rongo.

What does the image of paddling home together in a waka mean to you? Why is this an effective metaphor?  Think of the whakatauki “He waka eke noa” (we are all in this together)

* I think it means that they are family.

What does it tell you about the brothers and their values?  Are they on their way home?

*I think they might be on their way home but i also think that they won't because they might want to fight for more wars and go adventuring.

Procedural Writing

How to make scones

Scones are an English type of bread which are very popular and they have been eaten for hundreds of years. The British upper class take their scones very seriously and follow rules about how to eat them. This recipe makes 6 small or 4 large scones.

Ingredients

1 cup flour

1/2 cup butter

1 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk

Instructions

1. Put the flour, salt and the butter into a large mixing bowl.

2. Rub the flour and the butter in between your fingers so it is the texture of breadcrumbs.

3. Make a well in the middle of your mixture. Pour the milk slowly into the well.

4. Mix the ingredients with a fork so the mixture becomes dough.

5. Knead the dough on a tray that has flour sprinkled on it.

6. Cut out equal pieces and put them on a baking tray.

5. Put the baking tray in the oven at 200 degrees celsius for 20 minutes.

6. Now you can eat them.

Fractions with Mn'M's

Today for maths we were using Mn'M's do to fractions for Maths.
We were learning to find fractions of a set.

There are 4/15 of green, 1/15 of yellow, 3/15 of red, 2/15 of orange and 5/15 of blue.

This fraction is 3/5 of 15 witch is nine.

Half of 16 is 8

Grease lighting play

Grease by Auckland Girls Grammar School

Grease is about a group of teenagers who go to Rydell High School. There are two students, Danny and Sandy who like each other and they are in different social groups. Danny is in the T-birds and the girl group was called the Pink Ladies. Sandy was a nerd so they were in different categories.

My favourite part was the fight between Riz and Kinickey because it was funny. My favourite song was Grease Lightning.  It was really` fun to see the singing and dancing .

I would recommend the play to students in year 6, 7, 8 and at high school. These students would be old enough to understand. The play is set at high school.

If people wanted to see the play I would tell them that it has some adult parts in it and they hould be old enough to go. The play was funny and it was interesting.

Star rating out of five: 4

Maths Home learning 2

Ashley starts with 64 marbles.She buys 49 More.How many marbles does  Ashley end with?
Ans:113

Kelly has 56 oranges.Stephanie has 27 oranges.If Stephanie gives all of her oranges to Kelly,how many oranges will Kelly have?

Ans:83

Joseph has 86 marbles. Julia has 42 marbles. If Julia gives all of her marbles to Joseph, how many marbles will Joseph have?

Ans:128

Harry starts with 84 bottle caps. 19 are eaten by a hippopotamus. How many bottle caps does Harry end with?

Ans:65

Mary starts with 53 crayons. She gives 18 to Cynthia. How many crayons does Mary end with?

Ans:35

There are 87 stickers in a box. Douglas takes 9 stickers. How many are left?

Ans:78

Each bag of lollies cost $3.00. How much do 25 bags cost?

Ans:75

Each child has 8 cards. If there are 7 children, how many cards are there in total?

Ans:7

Kevin went to the store 8 times last month. He buys 14 apples each time he goes to the store. How many apples did Kevin buy last month?

Ans:112

Annie has 450 Skittles in little lolly bags. If the are 30 bags, how many Skittles must go in each bag?

Ans:14

There are 30 students in the class and 270 apples. If the apples are divided equally among the students, how many does each student get?

Ans:9

There are 4900 oranges in Shirley's orange collection. If the oranges are organised into 70 groups, how big is each group?

Ans:700

Maths Home learning 1

Ashley starts with 12 marbles.She buys 25 More.How many marbles does  Ashley end with?
Ans:37

Kelly has 21 oranges.Stephanie has 27 oranges.If Stephanie gives all of her oranges to Kelly,how many oranges will Kelly have?

Ans:48

Joseph has 25 marbles. Julia has 28 marbles. If Julia gives all of her marbles to Joseph, how many marbles will Joseph have?

Ans:53

Harry starts with 30 bottle caps. 15 are eaten by a hippopotamus. How many bottle caps does Harry end with?

Ans:15

Mary starts with 53 crayons. She gives 12 to Cynthia. How many crayons does Mary end with?

Ans:41

There are 27 stickers in a box. Douglas takes 9 stickers. How many are left?

Ans:18

Each bag of lollies costs $3.00. How much do 25 bags cost?

Ans:75

Each child has 8 cards. If there are 22 children, how many cards are there in total?

Ans:176

8x 22=176

Kevin went to the store 8 times last month. He buys 8 apples each time he goes to the store. How many apples did Kevin buy last month?

Ans:72

Annie has 45 Skittles in little lolly bags. If the are 5 bags, how many Skittles must go in each bag?

Ans:225

There are 3 children and 27 apples. If the apples are divided equally among the children, how many does each child get?

Ans:9

There are 49 oranges in Shirley's orange collection. If the oranges are organised into 7 groups, how big is each group?

Ans:434

Piano

Today i was practising on my piano that my dad bought me for my birthday. I was practising because i go to a place where people teach how to play a piano and how to read music notes.

This is the page i'm practising on and i am also trying to learn the song Für Elise.

This song was made by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Harry Potter

Yesterday i read about Harry and his friends who went into the forbidden forest. They were going there because they were in detention for sneaking out of bed in the middle of night.

They were looking for something that killed a unicorn. In their adventure they met three centaurs Ronan, Bane and Firenze. They find the thing that killed the unicorn, but they did not catch it and what ever it was still remains a mystery....

To be continued........

Te Reo

The New Zealand Wars

This week my reading group learnt about the New Zealand wars. Check out what I have learned:

                The New Zealand Wars

We are learning to justify our answers to comprehension questions using the text

Question	My Answer	Page number (where I found the information from)
What was the war fought over?	Who owned the land
How long did the war go on for?	27 years
Why did HŌne Heke Pōkai cut down the flagpole?	Because he was protesting the capital city being moved
Did the pakeha find it easy to fight in the northern war?	No because they underestimated the maori
What belief did Governor Grey have?	Governor grey thought that they were better than maori
What was the King Movement (Kingitanga)?	They decided to let the Maori king protect their land.
What are Pa?	A pā is a defensive structure consisting of trenches, earth walls, and wooden palisades.
What was the British version of Pa?	British used forts or trenches
What happened in the Waikato war?	George grey was preparing for the largest military operation of the New Zealand Wars. Grey was determined to kill the Maori king.
What happened at the end of the wars?	In the end the british won the war and did end up winning their land.

Treaty of Waitangi

1.What is the treaty of waitangi?

A treaty is an agreement between two or more groups of people. The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty that was signed on the 6th February 1840 in Waitangi, New Zealand. The treaty was between the British government and more than 500 Maori chiefs.

Why did New Zealand need a treaty?

The whalers and the traders who came to New Zealand could do anything they liked because there was no laws. They were breaking laws in their own countries. So the Maori wanted the treaty so that they could control the whalers and traders. They also wanted the protection of the British against the other European countries. The British wanted a treaty so they could control the land sales and to have sovereignty or authority over the country.

Was the treaty fair?

The treaty was not fair because the maori and europeans had different opinions about what was in the treaty. There was an English version and a te reo maori version. Most of the chiefs signed the maori version as that was their language. The treaties were different in each of the languages so they were agreeing to different things.

Is the treaty still important today?

The treaty is still important today because if it wasn’t here some of us might not even be alive. There could have been more wars between the maori and pakeha. People might not be speaking te reo maori because the treaty said that te reo is a treasure and should be used. The treaty protects the partnership between the maori and the pakeha and our bicultural nation.