Poem - Flowers

Beautiful in spring

Rushing in the wind

Blinded by the colours
Chin up ButterCup

Making a necklace for your sister

Making them shiny with your pup

Convert in April

Candid in May

They sparkle in the sun

Beauty has begun

Creating Animated stories In DigiTech

In DigiTech we have been Learning about Coding.

The following are some of the tasks that we have completed in class:

• Context Brainstorm
• Needs and Opportunities Brainstorm
• Attributes Mindmap
• Conceptual Statement
• Specification
• Design Ideas - Backdrops, Sprites , Story Ideas

My Animated Story

I will create an animated story relating to 'the neighbourhood'.

Animated Story Example

What astronauts would need in space

Gear List

• Wet wipes
• Soap
• 1 pair of shoes for the treadmill
• 1 pair of shoes for the bike
• 1 pair of exercise shorts for every 3 days of exercise
• 1 T-shirt for every 3 days of exercise
• 1 work shirt for every 10 days
• 1 T-shirt for under the workshirt for every 10 days
• 1 pair work pants/shorts for every 10 days
• 1 pair underwear for every 2 days
• 1 pair socks for every 2 days
• 2 sweaters
• 2 pairs Russian overalls (optional)

Toi Toi reading with P.W.C

Today people from the P.W.C Toi Toi company came to Glenbrae School to inspire us to write or draw something that can be published in the Toi Toi books.

I was in a group of four and my volunteer, Emily a wonderful lady that had an amazing accent.

We read together some interesting, amazing stories and poems that were published by 9 - 14 year old students from all over the New Zealand. There were also some amazing and mind blowing art that students younger than me published. It inspired me to make my own story, poem or even drawing a picture. I learnt some new vocabulary words that I could use in my writing and the meanings. My favourite text was The Warrior's Last Man (46 - 51 pages). The fun thing that I liked about today was reading the stories and poems and gazing at the art pictures.

Reading Work (Group Blake)

Today with my group, we learnt about human hearing and animal hearing. I our ears we have something called the Cochlea. In between the lines of the Cochlea he have what's called Cilia (Hair Cells).

 Cilia's are are very delicate and fragile. they can be damaged by having headphones on full volume or from other loud sounds. As you grow older you start to loose your Hair Cells. To prevent this from happening, you should have your headphones to the volume of medium, or anything lower and if you are doing anything that involves loud sound, than you can wear ear muffs or use something else that will help!

Diagram on sound

By Tumanako Wilson and Newsam Pepe

SLJ Day 1, Week 1

Maui and the giant fish

Three facts about maui from the legend maui and the giant fish.

1. Maui's brothers thought that he was useless and weak

2. Maui proved his brothers wrong when he caught the most giant fish.

3. Maui's fish turned into the north island

I didn't know that Maui wasn't always a God and that he was seen as weak. 

My Holiday's

Going to the farm, Beach and going on the boat!

Last wednesday (during the holidays) I was in Kaitaia with my FAMILY.

I went  Up North with my two brothers. We went to one of my family member’s farm. While we were there, we played around the treehouse, on their land, had a tour around the farm, talked to the animals and captured a tiny lizard that wasn’t even half the size of my hand! We were there because it was my cousin’s 16th  birthday! Then we got ready to leave.

When we got to the beach my family members brought the boat into the water and got the biscuit ready (something that gets dragged by a boat) for the three people to jumped on. While 4 people and I got on to the boat. We were watching them have fun, going up and down and watching them fall off. My cousin’s and I wanted to get on the biscuit but it had deflated while the other three were on it. When we got off the boat and started swimming, my 6 year old cousin went on with his mum along with all the adults. After everyone was finished having fun, we all had something to eat then went home.

My highlight of that day was going on the boat and having a lot of fun with my family and my low light was that my dad couldn’t come because he had to work and that we weren’t able to go on the biscuit which was a big disappointment. But at least i had FUN!

I recommend this story for people 8 and over because they might even want to go on a biscuit one day!

1 photo

As you can this lady is very depressed,

sad and might even be lonely. It

looks like she might be wondering what

Would happen in her future life.

She rests her head in the palm of

her hand.

My Future House

This is my dream house that could be built (for ME). The year sixes had to build a futuristic house for Glenn Innes.

My house is different for the houses that you see today, because my house is made metal, bricks and other, so it can protect you from tsunami's earthquakes and other's. If you compare this house to the houses today, this house would be very different from the way that it is designed. The architectures would have more ideas, and different ideas, about what a house should look like.

Every design in the house would be different from the ones we have in our's today. They wouldn't have analogue clocks anymore, just digital. Everything could have buttons, like when you go to the kitchen you could press a button and then it could change to the living room. 

Police dogs

Today 26.9.17 we went to go and see the police men and their dog Kase.

Kase is a lovely dog and very smart. His owner (Collin & grant) the police men, told us a lot about Kase like: he weighs 39kg, run's 65km an hour, he was brought up in a school for police dogs for ten week's in Mount Wellington and he is a German Shepard, he is six and half years old.

Then they showed us some of Kase's tricks to us. They put sleeves on so when he is released  Grant starts running and Kase runs after him and bites the sleeves.

When Kase was a puppy they taught him how to track.
How they taught him is:
They squashed the grass and put food ion the squashed grass so if he goes of the grass he knows he will not get food, and that is how they teach dogs to track.

Blessing houses

Today the year sixes in my class went to Fenchurch and Taniwha street with Mrs Raj. We went there because we to do blessing of the houses. 

The Kaumatua did the karakia and blessed the house. When we went to the houses the family, that is going to live there and move in tomorrow, were crying of happiness. there was a camera that was streaming on Maori television.

We were very fortunate to into these homes and one the very first people. this was a very good experience for us to see.

Explanation Writing

W.A.L.T follow the structure of an explanation

Introduction: Food is something we eat every single day to give us energy, protein and strength.

Paragraph 1

If you do not watch what we are eating it can lead to obesity. Obesity is a person that is fat, or you could say overweight. Obesity can give you diseases like strokes, heart problems, diabetes, makes unable to do physical activities, nerve damage.

Paragraph 2

It can also change your mood. For example, my teacher was eating healthy all her life because her parents wanted that best for her and her siblings. So when she got her own house she thought of eating sugary and junk food for dinner and lunch for a month. She told us that she started notice a change in her she was gaining weight couldn’t do anything physical and her mood was changing. She was starting to get more depressed and skin even started to look different.

Paragraph 3

If you are eating junk food or something that is bad for you it can also affects your teeth. Germs are first on your teeth then you are eating junk food that equals to acid and when that acid hits your teeth it becomes decay which lead’s to holes in your teeth and it can turn to the colour black and green and that is why you also need to brush your teeth and watch what you are eating.

DLO Architect

Brushing your teeth

Intro: What is brushing our teeth

To begin with brushing your teeth, grab your toothbrush and your toothpaste put them both in your mouth and brush the outsides, front of your teeth, the inside and your tongue. You should be brushing your teeth twice a day, once in the morning straight after breakfast and again after dinner.

The real reason why you have to brush your teeth is to prevent cavities you need to get rid of plaque and bacteria covering your teeth. To remove all of that the best way to treat it is to brush your teeth and to floss at least once a day. Sugar is bad for your teeth because it makes decay. And the results of decay makes holes in your teeth. In our teeth fall out which means that you have to go to that dentists.

Why you need to brush your teeth is because, when you are eating the germs go on your teeth, then when you eat sugary food it equals to acid, and when that acid goes onto your teeth is becomes decay.

Bastion Point

This week my reading group have learnt about Bastion Point. For many years there was an argument between the Government and Ngāti Whātua about who owned the land. This is my DLO about what I learned.

Questions and Answers

What is Bastion Point?

Bastion Point is a section of land that the iwi, Ngati whatua, gave to the government.

Why did the British and Maori have different ideas about who owned the land?

The british wanted to buy land so that they could settle in New Zealand but they were actually buying more land than what existed in New Zealand.

Why did Ngati Whatua let the government use the land at Bastion Point?

Because the iwi (Ngati whatua) were happy to share their land with british but they did not have the same idea about the ownership.

Who burnt down the marae at Bastion Point?

The government burnt down the Bastion Point along with the houses near it. This happened in 1952 because (in the government's words) he explained that they did that because they were preparing for Queen Elizabeth’s (II) visit.

What does the word profit mean?

It means that when the government sold the gifted land he was earning money.

Do you think the police or the protesters were doing the right thing? Why?

I think the protesters were doing the right thing because they could have encouraged the government to give the land back to the Maori

What is your opinion about this issue?

My opinion is that the government should have just kept to their deal and given the land back to the Maori, but then I probably wouldn’t be here or even have or known my family especially my father, my Non, (grandma) my siblings and the rest of my family. So at a time i am also thankful that it happened.

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!