Chistopher Luxon new national party leader

                                   

Christopehr Luxon is the new national leader.

Christopher Luxon is a businessman, father and proud New Zealander with extensive experience at the highest levels of world wide corporate leadership. He was born in Christchurch and raised in  Auckland and atending local Botany schools including Cockle Bay Primary and Howick College. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Commerce Business Administration from the University of Canterbury and which he attended between 1989 and 1992. Upon graduating Mr Luxon had a successful 18 year career at Unilever and working in New Zealand and around the globe and  concluding his time with the company.

Maori flag history

 

                        The omicrom variant

 The lastest Covid-19 variant was identified on Nov. 25 by scientists in South Africa and has since been detected in more than 20 countries, including the U.S whcich reported its first case on Dec 1.

The coolest thing in nature

The coolest thing is natre is a elephant their the biggest land animal and their smart and strong and her are 10 cool facts about them. 

• They're the world's largest land animal.
• You can tell the two species apart by their ears.
• Their trunks have mad skills.
• Their tusks are actually teeth.
• They've got thick skin.
• Elephants are constantly eating.
• They communicate through vibrations.
• Calves can stand within 20 minutes of birth.

Vaccine pass NZ

You will be legally required to have your My Vaccine Pass to enter places that have vaccination requirements in place under the traffic light system. This may include hospitality places, events, gatherings, gyms and bars. You cannot be asked to provide your My Vaccine Pass to access basic needs services, such as supermarkets, public transport, and essential health care. 

NZ traffic light system

 

Due to covid NZ depending on if your whole city is Vaccinated your city will be in green which no city is

No city is but in canterbury we are in orange wich means. But in Canterbury we are in orange which

means its close to normal life for the vaccinated with more mask required and some capacity limits. For

places that don't use vaccine certificates contactless pickup only for hospitality, stricter gathering limits,

no gyms or hairdressers. 

What does the city sound like at night?

 What does the city sound like at night

As the sun slowly goes down slowly you can hear the cars rushing home and drifting and racing, the wind

blowing through all the trees and bushes. The wind gets louder and louder. You can also see people going

for runs and walks and you can also hear the faint noise of birds chirping in the big trees. I can also hear

my thoughts in my head like I'm speaking out loud. You can also hear rain hitting the ground, roof and

thunder and lightning striking the branches and crunching them.

Maths term 4

 This week we have been doing mths with compasses. With the compasses we have been doing shapes heres

mine.
 

Taonga Puoro - Putatara

This week we have been learning about taonga puoro and one of them is the putatara. Here is a video about how it's made. These instruments are coming back and were nearly lost due to the Tohunga Suppression Act, 1907. Which literally stopped all culture and traditions in Te Ao Maori. 

Taonga puoro

Today we've been learning about taonga puoro and we had to create a canva and heres mine.

Belonging Term 4

What is belonging to me? Belonging to me is a place where I feel safe like at home or at school with my friends. My first school was Linwood Avenue and it was completely different compared to this school. It was harder to learn things because the teachers weren’t  that experienced in teaching. But at the school I'm at now in Rawhiti it's a lot easier with the learning and everything in general at this school I feel connected to because of my learning and I have been here 3 years. I was in Ata Hapara but then I shifted to Tangaroa, but I still feel I belong there.

As a Maori I belong to many many places such as my marae, awa, maunga, waka and as a Maori this identifies me. When I visit my marae I feel warmth and belonging and you can feel the tupuna’s wairua. It's just like going home to my family.

The reason I feel where I belong is the feeling of being surrounded by whanau who know me and love me.

Taku mihi

Ko Aoraki toku maunga.

Ko Waiapu toku awa. 

Ko Takitemu toku waka. 

Ko Ngati Porou raua ko Nga Puhi toku iwi.

Ko Te Runanganui toku marae.

No Otautahi ahau.

Ko Ana toku mama.

Ko Ian toku papa.

Ko Alexus toku tuahine.

Ko Noah toku tuakana.

Ko Hawkins-Masiu toku ingoa whanau

Ka haere ahau ki te kura o Rawhiti.

Ko Nogo rawa ko Sharon rawa ko Andrew ratau ko Talei

Tekau ma tahi toku tau

Ko Aotea taku ingoa.

What happened on November 5 1881

 About 1600 troops invaded the western Taranaki settlement of Parihaka, which had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.

Founded in the mid-1860s, Parihaka was soon attracting dispossessed and disillusioned Māori from around the country. They were impressed by the kaupapa of its main leaders, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi, both of the Taranaki and Te Āti Awa iwi.

When in May 1879 the colonial government moved to occupy fertile land on the Waimate Plains that had been declared confiscated in the 1860s, Te Whiti and Tohu developed tactics of non-violent resistance.

Pearl Harbour 7 December 1941

 Pearl Harbor was attacked on, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that started the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.

USA then declared war on Japan and now the USA had entered World War 2.

Battle of Passchendaele-New Zealand's blackest day

New Zealand's blackest day in World War 1 was when they lost over 5,000 NZ lives at the Battle of Passchendaele. 

The Third Battle of Ypres (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele ), was a campaign of the First World War fought by the Allies against the German Empire.

Armistice Day 11 Nov 1918

 What is Armistice Day and why is it important?

Armistice Day is on 11 November and is also known as Remembrance Day. It marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, back in 1918. Nowadays, people remember those who were lost in the war by holding a two-minute silence and by wearing a red poppy.

A & P Show

A & P   stands for Agricultural & Pastoral  meaning caring for land and animals 

What was it?

Where was it held?

Why was it?

What is the Canterbury Anniversary Day?

 Canterbury Anniversary Day is a public holiday held public holiday held annually on November 15, in New Zealand's Canterbury Region of the South Island.

It celabrates the founding of the Canterbury Region and the arrival of the Four Ships(Charlotte Jane, Randolph, Sir George Seymour, Cressy) in 1850 and events are held across it, but majority of the celebrations take place in Christchurch.

It was celebrated on the 16 Dec but changed to November due to it being too close to Christmas.

Maths

In maths we are finding quantities of a fraction.

1/4 of 24 =6.   24 divided by 4.

We are learning how to change a decimal into a fraction.

42.53 = 4253/100

We have learnt how to change decimal percent and vice versa.

1.72 =172% and then 155% =1.55

We are learning to add/subtract mixed fractions.

Te Ara Tuhura T4 2021 Writing PromptM

 Aotea

There’s a lot of pollution in the modern day world and some people are trying to lower that pollution rate and one of the main reasons right now is facemasks. 

Due to covid-19 fask masks have become essential for shops and other places but most people use the one time use masks not the reusable ones which are 100% better for the environment and there are so many other things that are polluting our world like cars. 

Cars cause 27% of the air pollution which is really bad and that's why people have created electric cars because they are better for the environment and a lot cheaper.

Te wiki o te reo Maori

    

This week is korero Maori and to celebrate it  on Tuesday Tangaroa and Haumiatiketike at 12:00 

yelled kia kaha korero Maori to celebrate the week

Maths Term 3 Wk 3

For maths this week we have been doing angles in Nogo's math group but it was pretty easy but I found some difficulties. After that we did these angel games and you had to guess the angles. You can play it here

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Literacy Week 3

                  Today on this list of words we had to choose 10 and write a sentence with them and their synonym

 

1. Excellent work                                                                  Excellent - Magnificent

2. Do you have any Dictionaries?                                        Dictionaries - Glossary

3. That was awkward                                                           Awkward - Amateurish

4. Stop trying to bargain with me                                          Brgaining - Trading                                     

5. Are you available this Sunday                                          Available - Accessible

6. My stomach hurts                                                            Stomach -Tummy                                       

7. I’ve got huge muscles                                                      Muscles - Flesh

8. My mum said it's a definite yes                                       Definite - Bold 

9. My dad has a yacht                                                         Yacht - Sailboat 

10. Look it’s lightning                                                              Lightning - Bolt

Gold Medal Speech

                                  My Gold Medal Award Speech

                       Because the Olympics have been on today in class we had to write a speech               to thank all our supporters.

 

A huge thanks to all my fans and supporters, everyone for coming today. I never thought it would make it this far. I thought it was unachievable for me to win a gold medal even to get into the Olympics but I  guess you never know until you try. People have been doubting me for years and to go where you want to go or to get what we want to get you need to put hard work in and when I finally made it into the Olympics I wasn't going to waste my chance. It's amazing for the two others who won silver, bronze but not so fortunate for the others because the rest of the people did not win any medals. I also want to say thankyou to my mum and dad, my brother and sister and all the rest of my family to help me get in the position that I'm in now without them in my life  I would never ever be in this position. This Olympics turned out really good for me. I won a gold medal and now  I'm gonna take it home to NZ Along with the other NZ gold medal winners. To the rest of people did not win any medals. Better luck next time.

Science Term 3

 This term we have been doing science mine is about space. Here it is 

Toroi recipe

Here's a cool Māori recipe to try. This is called toroi. Toroi is a dish mainly made of muscles.  

Mussel Toroi

Mussel Toroi

Ingredients:

• 1 dozen green lip mussels

• 1 large punch of Pūhā

• 1 clove of Garlic

• 1 chilli

• 2 litres of water

• 3 tablespoons of Salt

Method:

• Wash and clean mussels place into large pot with water and boil

• Add salt when mussels just start to open then remove mussels from the pot and leave to the side to cool down.

  • Strain water from the pot into another pot to remove grit and shell fragments.

  • Clean Pūhā and then rub leaves together to remove bitterness

  • Then place into the pot while the water is boiling for 1 minute then remove

  • Chop up Pūhā then remove mussels from the shell and chop into quarters

  • Remove seed from the red chillies and chop finely also chop up garlic cloves

  • Place all of the ingredients except water in to a large bowl and mix together with your hands.

  • Place ingredients into a glass preserving jar with a knife poke around the bottle to release bubbles then seal.

  • This should last in your cupboard for up to a year once opened store in your fridge and use within 4 days.

  
  
  
  

My inquiry term 2

 This term we have had to do a inquiry about anythng we want and I have done mine about my grnadparents. The most mind blowing thing I found out was that he traveled in a waka.

Te Reo Maori

Yesterday for te reo maori we played bingo. The bingo was around the Matariki stars and the stuff around that because Matariki is near. Matariki starts on the 19th of June and finishes on the 11th of July.  Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades. It rises in midwinter and for many Māori, it heralds the start of a new year. Matariki literally means the eyes of god. Some of the things that were in the bingo were Wai-ti, Piripi, Mara, they were some of the stuff that were on the paper. But instead of filling out three to win we had to fill out the whole thing.

Te reo

 This week for maori we have been learning greetings and farewells eg Tēnā koutou, Tēnā korua, Tēnā koe  Haere rā, Enoho ra. Those are some of the things we have been learing. Today we learnt how to say where were going in uture tense eg kei te haere au ki te - kainga -kura -toa. 

Matariki/The seven sisters

 Matariki is the maori new year it only happens once a year. In 2022 the goverment's making it a public holiday. Matariki is about celabrating the 9 sisters Matariki is a good time  to adventure out of town and get away from everything and all the drama in the world right now. Even Maori though there was only 7 stars but people reseach further into it and they found out there was 9 but there could even be hundreds of thousands more. Matariki is a good time for to adventure out of town and get away from everything and all the drama in the world right now.

Tricks by numbers

 Here are some of my favorite math tricks. Add the number to itself {in other words double it}. Example 4  times 9: doublwe 9 is 18 double 18 is 36 that one is pretty simple heres another. Cut it in half 10 times Example 5 times 6 cut 6 in half to get 3 then times 10 for 30 or times 10 then cut in half. Example 5 times 9 :  9 times 10 is 90 the cut it in half for 45 also the last digit goes 5, 0, 5, 0  ... like this 5, 10, 15, 20 .

Division grid

Today in nogos maths we were doing basic facts I got 98/100 here it is Division grid. For next time I wanna work pn the two I got wrong.

Chatham Islands

For reading we have been reading about the Chatham Island and The Moriori. The Chatham islands are 800 kms east of Christchurch and 700 km's south east of Wellington and Bounty island is directly south of the Chatham islands . The native people of Chatham islands are Moriori. Moriori originated from Maori settlers from the New Zealand mainland around AD 1500. 

On the Chatham Islands there a 3 islands. They are Rekohu and Wharekauri but there are many small islands on chatham islands but there the main ones 

My Creation story

This term with Talei for Te ao Maori we have been learning about Myths. A myth is a stroy that explains how something came to be. Myths characters are gods, demigods and animals. We looked at the Maori creation story and recreated it. The people in my group were Lincoln, Bailey, Lukas here's our 

Who were Moriori's ?

The people who became moriori arrived on the islands around 1400 AD. They had no contact with other people for about 400 years and developed their own distinct culture. They were hunter gatherers with strong religious beliefs  and outlawed war and killing. In 1790 an english ship the chatham was blown off course and landed on the main island. Later europeans sealers, settlers and whalers arrived. In 1835 two maori groups, Ngaiti Tama and Ngaiti Mutunga invaded the chatam islands.

                                                 

          

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Te Tahi Draft 2

 🍃How to think of a good inquiry question🍃

1. Think of one area of the topic you are interested e.g

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2. Think of a question and use as many of these as you can… who, when, where, what, which, how and why

Example 1 - Van

Where in the philippines did my grandparents come from, when did they move to NZ, why did they move her, what did they do to make a living how much did it cost to move here, what was it like when they first moved here

Example 2 - Mr redmond what did

What did the migration wakas look like, what did they make, how do you sail them, where did they store stuff, where did the crew sleep, how did they work out where to  go, what were their strengths and weaknesses.... 

             When did my grandparents move here?

             Were they single or married? If so, where did they meet and how ?  When my grandparents met 

             They were both single and my grandad was a lot older than my grandma but they got married in

NZ 

              

 

             Why did they come to NZ? They came to live a better life and meet new people and new

friends   

             What did my grandparents grow up with? Growing up for  my grandad was hard but easier than 

             Other people because he was in the royal line 

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             Where did they come from? Tonga but the island in Tonga they came from was Vanuatu

 

             How did they get here? They sailed here in waka.

             What language did they speak? Tongan and a little Samoan 

Pink shirt day

Today is pink shirt day. Pink shirt day is a when you wear pink to stop bullying all around NZ. Pink shirt day began in 2007 in Canada when two students took a stand against homophobic bullying after a new year 10 students were harassed and threatend for wearing pink. These students bought dozens of pink shirts and distributed them to their classmates to wear the next day. The word go out online and hundreads of students showed up in pink some from head-to-toe to stand together against bullying. It has been celabrated in NZ since 2009 

Runnning the length of NZ

This term in literacy we have been learning how to write storys with similes and metaphor. I wrote a story on wednesday and here it is .The freezing cold wind is blowing through my lungs. Running and  running when is it ever going to end? I've already ran 10000 KM. Is it never ending? My heart is pounding in my chest fear all around while hearing the screeches from my friends. I'm scared, I feel fear, I feel my heart booming in my chest over and over again. The freezing conditions put you off even more than anything else. The  birds up above crying for help slip, slop’ slap the sounds of your feet hitting the ground. I heard footsteps coming up from behind  so I ran as fast as I could and I was running as fast as a cheetah. I could hear the wind whispering to me your going to fast.

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Maths

 Yesterday for maths we did these things that we had use google slides to calculate the mean and average for these question on google slides

                       

Te ao maori

 Last week with Mr readman we were looking for ti kouka recipes for our google slide that was about how the classes got their names and it was for Rongo-ma-tane and we watched a video about ti kouka and a man was cooking it. It looked very interesting and we learnt about the place where it grows how it grows and how to plant it. We also learnt hoow to cook ti kouka and Mr readman said we would cook it aswell and here is my one      

                                                                                

Te Tahi Draft 1

 

           Simile                            Metaphor                          Ono                           Personification

The salt water was as cold as a freezer .	The cry of the seagull overhead.	Over and over again the waves kept crashing over.	The wind whispered in my ear.
The foam was as bubbly as a spa.	The crunch of my feet on my sand.	The driftwood crashing against the rocks.	The sunlight flashed  down on me like a ray of light.
A wave from the ocean rose up like an arm reaching for the shore.	The shadows hiding under the dark clouds.	The thunder of the  waves frightened me	The seagull danced across the sky

Today we went to the beach and the wind was really strong so strong that it whispered in my ear. A few minutes later I went towards the salt water and the smell was getting stronger and eventually I got further in the water and the water was as freezing as a freezer and I could stand it so I hopped out and enjoyed the scenery while walking on the sand. The crunch of the sand on my feet was really nice with the sunlight flashing down on me like a ray of light. Later I got tired so I started walking back and I heard a really loud sound so I turned around and I saw a wave from the ocean rise up like an arm reaching for the shore and after the wave there were heaps of driftwood crashing against the rocks. But after that wave hell became real over and over again the waves kept  crashing over the thunder of the waves frightened me so much that I 

Ran back to my car and all you could see was the seagulls dancing in a circle across the sky above my car. The clouds were closing in and the shadows were hiding under them then the

This is my first draft I am lerning to use similes metaphors onomatopeioas and personification

Technology

Today at tech we did plastics and we were making jigsaw puzzles and key chains the jigsaw puzzle was really easy and fast to make  we just had to draw lines with a marker on the thin wood then cut it with the cutting machine after that the key chain for me was really hard I couldn't do it but I perservered and completed the task after I got the hang of it I was amazed how easy it was then after that we had to pack up and get ready for intervil.

My First Day In Tangaroa

 My first day in Tangaroa I was a bit nervous because I didn't know what to expect this year in Tangaroa. Tangaroa seems really fun and full of opportunities. In Tangaroa you can learn much more than a main stream school like how to grow plants and drama. What I think about Tangaroa so far its a cool class and has heaps of really nice students and kaiako in Tangaroa. 

Maths

 

Histogram

Today we were learing and creating histograms and here is mine. Histograms are a type of graph that shows information 

Litaracy

This term for litaracy we have been doing similes and metaphors. These are some exapmples.

The monkey ran as fast as a lion. Her eyes were diamonds This is my work Metaphor & Similes.

Inquiry 1 - Seven Sisters

This term in Tangaroa we have been thinking about our inquiry question. Mr Redmon has been teaching us about the 7 sisters. The 7 sisters are Who, When, Why, How, What, Which, Where and we use them to narrow our focus question.

This is my first attempt at a focus question.

1.Where did my grandparents come from?

Fitness

This term us year 7's & 8's have been doing a fitness program and everyday we do it. We can choose

from an advanced group and just a normal group. Yesterday for the advanced group we had a 600 metre

run on the basketball court. We had to go up and down 4 times it was pretty hard but I persevered and

after we finished I was really happy because it was exhausting and fun at the same time. But on Monday

we did a game called follow the leader for 3 minutes and basically every time the teacher calls out a certain

person they have to run to the front and the person at the front goes to the back and it was just about as

exhausting as the 600 meter run but after that my throat was completely dry and I needed a drink of water

so I did then we finished.   

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Simile and Metaphor Story_AM

This term we have been learing about similes and metaphor here is my writing it has 2 similes and 1 metaphor and the hilighted writing is my similes and metaphors. 

Wednesday 5th may 2021 at Rawhiti kura and it was as hot as africa like the sun was beaming down on me. After that I walked inside and it was like a storm hit because it was so much cooler .After that it was break and I went back outside and to play basketball with my friends. We were playing knockout and i won the first round then my friend Sid  won the second by the time the second round finished break was over and it was lunchtime and i had a yum lunch so I was excited to eat it . After lunch it was maths and I was happy because maths is my favorite subject.

Term 2 blogs

These will be my goals for this term.

I need to write better paragraphs.

i need to use similes more.  

I need to work harder in fitness.

I need to write neater. 

I need to focus on my work more. 

I want to learn more languages. 

Swiming Sports

The bell rang and I went to class and  Mr Redmond took us to the school swimming pool and we waited for our turn so we waited the first and second block and the third block it was my turn and I stepped up to the podium and Nigiel said on your marks get set go and then he clapped the blocks and  I jumped of and I started swimming as fast as I could. Ruebin and I were really really close and at the end he just bet me. So Ruebin came 1st I came 2nd and Riley came 3rd and to go to zones was 1st and 2nd so ruebin and I went to zones. After the race I was really happy because it was my first time but also nervous because I didn't know what would happen

Strong Paragraphs

 In the weekend my brother and I were bored cause we were at my dad’s league game at Aranui, it was Shirley Hawks VS Aranui Eagles when the game started it was very fast and we couldn’t keep up because the pace of the game went from end to end and side to side. I think everyone was keen  because it was the first game of the season. When they started playing they weren’t as fast as usual. Shirley started with the ball and the hits and tackles sounded like BANG and  SMACK the game started to get boring so  we decide to go to the Aranui Library.  When we were there I went on the Ps4 and he went on the computers.  After that we went to my taua’s whare and to go get some kai. When the game finished my dad’s team won and the score was 54-16 they celebrated and had a hangi, which you could smell all the way to Eastgate Mall. Yummy. By the time the hangi was ready I was really hungry. My dad and I ate like hungry wolves, then  we went home and  watched Netflix.