Figurative Language task

 Today at school we had to do a Figurative Language task. I learnt that a hyperbole is a exaggerated statement. A idiom is a well-know phrase has a different meaning that is said or written. 

Here is the link to it Figurative Language

 

I Tupi Aku Au Tenei Tau 2020

I Tupu Aku Au I Tenei Tau 2020

This year i right a number of reflections here is the link to them :)

Today in cyber smart

 Today in Cybersmart we worked on a practice activity for the summer learning journey. We had to color a picture we had chosen from a rage of images. My one i chose was Women combing her hair made by Goyo Hashiguchi  in 1920. I chose these colors to make its look colorful and cool.

   

Fake Media

 Today in cyber smart with Mark we had to find out what fake and real media is. We had to figure out what are fake sites are real are not by checking  the URL and if the stories are real. Then we had to make fake media mine was that a dinosaur heed was coming to eat our world and we have to fun for you lives.

Book Club - Dawn Raid

                                                                             Book Club

In Ata Hapara all most of the year 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8's have started book clubs. We have to to read a cretin amount of page and then fill out our discussion ticket. Then met with out groups to talk about what we have read. The jobs the jobs are illustrator they have to draw and picture of the groups favorite bit. The Editor they have to find out the definition of the worlds in the book that group have collected  The Publicist finds out what the favorite part was. The translator finds outs what all figurative language means . My groups book is Dawn Raid my favorite part so far was when the dad said one kid - one brain, two kids - half a brain, three kids no brain. So we have to Friday to finish.

  

Jelly Park poster

 Today in cyber smart we learnt how to  make a media product for one of the end of year events happening.                 We learnt to use some gimmicks is a good way to get people to come to what you are advertising like, bored of school come and hang out at the pool and more like that.  Because for the year 7 and 8 fun day we are going to Jelly Park for the day to celebrate the year 8's   (on Friday 4th December).   

  

Monster under the bed.

This is a story about a boy named kageyama 

At the age of 7 he was at 6.5 feet. Younger kids had rumors that he had been held back 5 years

and that he beat up his grandma but it wasn’t true and here is his story told by him.

My name is Kageyama. The fact is that there is a monster under my bed. I just know it.

It’s a cold winter night then I hear hissing kageyama over and over very quietly so only I can hear.

It has fingertips as long as sticks it’s hands with massive brown warts,

his hand size of baseballs, arms as small as twigs, legs with dirt and blood all over

and his t-shirts had rips and holes on it. I tried to scream but nothing came out.

He was even more intimidating than I thought with his blood shot eyes and millions of strands of hair.

‘’Dinner time ‘’ it gurgles ‘’please don’t eat me I plead ‘’ sorry mate but I haven't eaten in 4 minutes’’ he replies

then he swolls me down in one gulp i'm not dead I say to myself as

I swirl down threw his body I stop swirling. I think I'm going to be sick as I cry myself to sleep.

I wake up to the smell of dead rats and mice. I try to embarrass myself.

I'm not normally someone to judge something but it was just really

gross and disgusting and just just I threw up again. Then I wake up sweating

oh it was just a “dream’’ I say over and over then

my dad comes rushing in “what wrong’’ he asks “nothing” dad I say

“I love you dad” I say “I love you too son” I says.

The End 

 

Today

 Today

Today we had maurakau for the last time we did some fun games as some people finished there bone carving after break we did math in Tangaroa  it was hard again then we had kapa haka and now we are doing this.

The best part of today was play doge poi in maurakaua.

I promise tomorrow I will get straight into my work a tec.   

Area of a triangle

 

Today I learnt how to find the area of a triangle,the formula to find the area of a triangle is half the base multiplied by the height ( 1/2 B x H )at the top is my example,

How to find the area of a square/rectangle

 How to find the area of a square/rectangle 

22m

            A=l x w                               18m

               =18x22

               =  396 sq m                                

First you have to do is times the length by the width so here is an example.

                                                                    

 

Adrenalin Forest

 Adrenalin Forest

Last week about 20 people from Ata hapara and Tangaroa went to Adrenalin Forest. We when in the vans at about 11am when we got there Gio was there he had a hair cut so his dad took him there the guy told us to go put our bags over by the tables and to get our harness on.

First he took us though out the safety and how to clip on the things so we could't fall down we started with level 1 it was super easy it only took about 10 minutes it was just getting used to all the clipping the zip lines where already my favourite things on the courses but there heaps off different thing like wires to walk on ropes then most off us skipped to level 3 it was a lot harder and it had less zip lines the hardest parts of level 3 was these ropes where you had to have your legs all the way separated and then another hard one was these moving logs.

Then 7 off us went to level 5 on that level was a lot longer and had heaps of zip lines at first I thought I wasn't going to finish behind me was Ezra and Kahukura and they went back than to the ground in front of me was Gio, Ashur, mailli and Alexa but when Ashur got stuck I caught up to him and then we caught up to the others because mailli was going super slow trying  get off the last zip line so Gio was calling her a grandma when a got down I was super happy it was super fun there.

 

Today

 Today

Whaea Willie makes us read silently for 15 minutes every day. It has take a while for everyone to settle down but now now actually, really like it. Today I learnt that kowhai trees are simi-evergreen. Tomorrow I wil make sure I go straight into my reading contract.   

Maths-Volume

Today for maths in Tangaroa we were doing volume (cubic measurement). The formula for volume is

V = l x w x h.

Gio and I just looked like we didn't know anything but now we are starting to get it. 

The first problem was 10m x 6m x 8.5m = 510 m3.

The second problem was harder because we had add on's V = l x w x h =  10m x 6m x 8.5m  = 510 m3 and then we had to do cost of concrete to fill is $4 per cubic metre so it was 510m3 x $4 =$2040 then we had to add our totals from labour cost to get the overall total costs.

Estimating

Estimating up to 100 metres                        Name:Caspian 

	Estimate	Actual distance	Difference between Estimate and Actual distance
Cone A	100 m	97 m	3 m
Cone B (yellow)	125 m	101 m	24 m
Cone C (bike)	175 m	110m	65 m

What I found out about my estimation process?

I was wrong and I got worse and worse as I went along but I started off good then it  went down hill. On the first one I was 3 meters away then on the second I was 24 meters away  and then on the last 65 meters. Then  when we were measuring the squares outside the first one was 5 meters  I not near it and then we did 10 meters I was pretty close now I knew how far  5 meters was then we did 6 meter I got that one right.   Now I know that a rugby field  is 100 meters so hopefully next time I'll do better.

In maths today

Our foot measurements compared to a 1 meter ruler
I found that it was 3 1/2  feet altogether for 1 meter
most of the class was around 4

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the process when the water in the leaves

goes through the roots and then combines with carbon

dioxide from the air to make sugar for the plant to grow.

Photosynthesis begins with the sun because without the

sun plants and food would not be able to grow. Water is

also essential to plants because it is made up of hydrogen

and oxygen. When the water falls off the leaves it goes into

the ground then the roots absorb the water and then

hydrogen makes energy for the plants (sugar) that

is photosynthesis.

Plants can grow all over the world, there are more than

300,000 types of plants in the world. Plants have features

that help them live in all different places in the world but

all plants rely on the sun, rain and food (Photosynthesis) to

keep them alive. Roots are super important to plants if

they didn’t have roots they would just blow away the

roots grow from nutrients from the soil not only do they

keep the plants from blowing away they also hold the ground in place and to keep the earth healthy.  Roots are so strong that if they grow sideways they can become a bridge that could hold up to 50 people but it takes 10-15 years for this to happen.

Photosynthesis helps plants but it also helps people. Plants use the hydrogen in the water and release oxygen and if they didn’t we wouldn’t be able to breathe and we would die. Plants also take out carbon dioxide of the air which also helps make the air cleaner. 

Where would we be without Photosynthesis?

By Caspian 

My Holiday

This was my holiday there is a video and writing go check it out

He aha te wa?

We learnt this with whaea Jasmine a few days a go and this is the the time in te reo maori there are 5 questions and answers.

My animation in Maori

Moon Phases

      Moon Phases 

Today we learnt about the phases of the the moon.Then we researched the Maori kupu and and this is my creation. My favorite is oturu the full moon because on a night  that is't cloudy it looks really close and bright 

Russell Westbrook

This is a slide about my favorite NBA player Russell Westbrook. I hope you like it because it took me quite a bit of time and leave a comment if you have something i should change or what you like.

By Caspian Clearwater

John minto

Rugby Ball and John Minto

John Minto is a New Zealand  activist who wanted to put a stop to racism. During the  1981 springbok he led protests to stop the springbok tour because South Africa at  the time were was governed the rule of Apartheid which kept white and black people separate, and black marginalised.

 They had a one race (white) rugby team and would only face one race teams so the All Blacks made it that only NZ European players could play for the All Blacks that tour. 

It made a lot of  New Zealanders very annoyed from all different races. They tried as hard as they could to stop the tour. John Minto formed H.A.R.T, Halt All Racist Tours, a group of people trying to stop all racist sports tours. The tour was not cancelled so at the start of the 2 tour hundreds of people ran on the field. John Minto was one of the people a lot of rugby fans threw stuff at John. The game was canceled as the police tried to take them off the field; later the group of All Black fans chased John and attacked him. His wife bought him a blue bicycle helmet to keep him safe! 

Although they disrupted games the protests were not able to stop the tour.

However it was a success in highlighting the issue of racism to the world. Apartheid was a law until in south Africa the early 1990s.

MARVELOUS MIHI

Ko Caspian toku ingoa ko tenei toku mihi

CAMP

The year 7&8 of rawhiti school went to Spencer park for camp we walked or bike there I walked. me ,turoa and henare ran away from our group because they where to slow when we got there we saw the bikers arriving we could have walk over there but instead we sat down on a bench and ate and ate food.
I had pasta and salad for dinner it was OK.It was fun sleeping in the the tent i share with turoa it was freezing cold. The funnest part was predator it was a game where you had six lives on a price of paper and you ran around or hide, the adults try to tag you if they did you had to rip one of them of and give it to them.i did surfing for my active it was fun i caught some nice waves, when I was walking  out of the water a wake picket it up and i skimmed my head i was lucky.When we got back they told us that the walkers got a ride in the vans we had to wait for about an hour then we when we where in the vans when back to school so that was camp it was OK.

DON'T HAVE FOOD OR DRINK BY YOUR COMPUTER!

this is a stop motion a about Chromebook safety I made.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kR15iadLNoSg1qAKrsAMZHQqxXtko1potjh4rbpa9No/edit#slide=id.g80e1ce246e_0_302

beep test

THE BEEP TEST

For the past 2 weeks the tuakana have been working on our taha tinana. I have completed the beep test once ever one has done it twice a part from me because I was surfing one time. I achieved level six one during my first one. my goal for this week is level 7. for the wall sit my rerecorded for the wall sit is 10 minutes. 

Stop Motion

Stop Motion

On Monday the 10 mark came in and we learnt some new new shortcuts from him like control d which duplicates stuff and that was useful for helping use stop motion