Tane Mahuta

Hello everyone, I am part of the Tane Mahuta group. Our job is to improve our community and all the nature around us. So basically we have to look after our school and we also have to plan and brainstorm some ideas where we can improve that space and make it look like it was 2,00 years ago, which basically looks like a big forest. We also want to attract birds into our environment so our school feels more natural.

Last week we went around our school looking for empty areas and plus those empty areas had trash in it, today we cleaned those areas up and we just made our community a better place just by collecting rubbish in our community. My favourite area at school is the backyard of school because its filled with plums, Nashi Pears and a whole lot more fruits and vegetables.

My best idea to improve our school community is to plant trees and flowers to attract birds and other kinds of insects like butterflies and ladybugs. I thought this idea to myself that when we plant trees we should make bird feeders and bird houses so we can take care of the birds that need help.

Heres the photo of the whole group collecting rubbish around the School...

Monkey Boy-Novel Study

Today for reading we were given a list, a list filled with different activities to choose from, this was not just any reading activity task. It was a Novel Study task, so last week we went to our school library and choose a chapter book so we could do the "Novel Study".

Here's the screenshot of the activities we had to do for the Novel Study...

There are more activities than this photo, there are sixteen activities to choose from and we could do it from anyway. What I mean from anyway is that I don't have to do it in a row, I can do it by starting the bottom activity or the top activity. We have to finish at least one activity each time we have reading and make a blog post about our progress in our Novel study.

So the book I chose for my novel study is called Monkey Boy by Donovan Bixley, it's about a boy named Jimmy Grimholt, he leaves the family life and starts his journey on a boat named HMS Fury. He sails with his crew and on aboard with him was idlers, freaks and bullies.

He was always forced to eat disgusting food. His main job was to bring gunpowder to the cannon, he was known as the powder monkey. Anyways here's the link to the Monkey boy information if you want to read it.

Ok now the activity I finished today was the activity at the end of my screenshot and I finished it and also proud with it at the same time. I forgot to mention before that in the screenshot, you might have not realized that at the start of the activities it says Learn, Create, Share. Now, this is the main reason we are doing these kinds of activities, it's because we want to Learn something new, Create something new and we also want to Share our progress/work with you guys because we love it that way and we want to see your reaction to our work.

Here's the photo of the normal novel cover and the recreated novel cover...

Original Cover

BEFORE

My Recreated Cover

AFTER

Hope you guys enjoyed my blog post about my Novel Study and please comment about what you liked and what I need to improve to make my future post better. Thanks for reading my blog post and I hope you have a pleasant day. Bye and take care. 😄👍

Continuous Cricket

Continuous Cricket Rules

Written by:Ranit

Object	The object of cricket is to score more runs than your opponent.
Players	You need an even team to play continues cricket.
Equipment	You need a bat, a ball, two wicket sticks and a wicket.
Scoring	For the batting team they need to get at least 6 runs to win the game and as for the baller’s, they need to eliminate three people from the batting team to win.
Winning	Batting- Score six runs to win. Baller- Eliminate three people to win.
Rules	Baller-The ball has to be thrown underarm. Baller-Batters are out if they are caught or bowled out. Batter-The batter must attempt to hit the ball after one bounce and if it is successfully done, the batter must run to the other wicket and back. Baller- Once the batter is out by three wickets, players rotate positions until everyone has had a go at bowling, batting and fielding. Baller-The bowler can bowl whenever the ball is passed towards him/her. Batter-If the batter makes six hard hits and runs the batter wins and swaps with another teammate.

Resilience

Today our topic is Resilience but first we got in groups of three so it was me, Kaedun, and John. We made a video about Resilience and we are happy with it.

Hope you learned something from our video and what is Resilience like for you?

What is Learning???

Learning is a tool to help us learn new knowledge so that knowledge goes into our brain, everywhere you go, you learn lots of new stuff, even just by looking, feeling, touching, hearing and smelling. Learning is important to us so that when we grow up we grow up to be a good businessmen/women, to me learning is everywhere even when your cooking food like my dad the best chef👨‍🍳.

What do you think "Learning" is for you?

Maximum Ride (1)

Today I am going to tell about my book, my book is called the Maximum Ride, Manga. It is a Novel series book and I already read the first book so I am going to tell you about the first Maximum Ride book I finished reading. So first the author is an American author, James Patterson. James Brendan Patterson which is his full name was born on March 22, in 1947. He made lots of books and they are Alex Cross, NYPD Red, Private series, Maximum Ride series, Daniel X, Michael Bennett, Witch and Wizard, and Women's Murder Club. 

He made thrillers, non-fiction and romance types of novels, the illustrator is NaRee Lee which I could not find information about him/her. Now about the book I finished reading, The Maximum Ride, Manga 1. In this book, a fourteen-year-old girl called Max(Maximum Ride) with big wings is taking care of 3 teenagers and two little children which all of them can fly. Each of them has special powers and use them wisely and carefully and they also protect each other. They are being hunted by Erasers which are demon looking humans, they were human before and was transformed into a monster by a scientist called Jeb Batchelder so they could kill the humans with wings. But instead, the erasers kidnapped their little sister and used her in the lab for testing and later when the human winged family tried to save their little sister they fell right into Jeb's Trap and now they are all captured except one teenager and a child. What will happen in book number 2 of Maximum Ride, Manga. Find out soon and please comment if you are looking forward to this. Hope you like my post and have a great day.😄

Reflection of Cybersmart

This is our last session of doing cyber smart so today we have to make a blog post about cyber smart and reflect what we did from the start of term one to all the way to term 4. So on term one, we started doing keeping our private things to ourselves and not to share it with anyone. after moving to term 2, I knew so much more and what not to do and what to do in term 1 and those lessons were so helpful. My favourite thing in cyber smart this year is learning new things like how to keep our devices safe and how to keep ourselves safe online. Something I didn't enjoy was that sometimes it gets boring when we do our blogging and we get tired but at least we put a lot of effort into it. Something my Cybersmart teacher did well was explaining the lessons well which gets us on the right track and we do get confused sometimes but she gets us back on the track. Something she could have done better was...

I am actually not sure what she could have done better but she did well to teach us all of these things we did not know and now I feel safer just by learning all these things and I am proud of my cyber smart teacher and she did very well, anyways hope you like my post about cyber smart and have a great day.😄