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.