Beach Cookout

In teams we will

• Design a menu suitable for cooking on a campfire
• Keep within a $5 budget
• Share the jobs and food provision fairly between team members
• Bring along all equipment we need to cook with/on/in
• Work cooperatively to cook our meal

Today room 1 and 8 went to the beach for a beach cookout. We had teachers
and parents helping us. The kids in my group were Nathaniel, Summer and Charlie.
Our parent was my dad, Tim. Mrs Truman was floating around looking at different fires.

When we got down to the beach we had to make a fire in the spots we had chosen.
We used tinder (tiny sticks like gorse.) After putting the tinder we had to put kindling
on the tinder. We had to arrange the kindling in a teepee shape. After that we had to
arrange bigger sticks around the kindling. In the end you end up with a medium teepee shape.

We went and cooked the food and made the fires at Karoro beach. Karoro beach is on the
West Coast of New Zealand by the Tasman sea. Next to the beach is Watson Stream/Creek.

We went down to the beach at eleven in the morning on the 3rd of April. It was a Wednesday
of term 1. We went down in Autumn because you are allowed to light fires then without a
permit. Mrs Kemp had a permit anyway but of course we didn't need it.

We went down to the beach for a number of reasons.
One of the reasons was because we wanted to do it for
 the William Pike Challenge. One of the other reasons was because we wanted
to learn new skills like lighting a fire and building a safe fire. I reckon the most
important reason was so we could have fun though. I definitely thought it was really fun!

Our team didn't really have team roles. I think we all contributed evenly.
For our food we made Taty Fry for our main and pancakes for dessert. We
were the only team to make pancakes from scratch. I really liked the taste of both foods!

We didn't use too many ingredients. Everybody only spent five dollars because
that was the maximum amount of money you could use. The most challenging
thing for me was not being able to adjust the temperature! The part that I most
enjoyed was cooking the food a different way to usual!

Noho Marae

NOHO MARAE

A few weeks ago room 1 and 8 went the the Arahura Marae.
We had a few parents come with us. The parents and teachers
that stayed the night were, Matt, Mrs Kemp and Mrs Glue and
Kelly. Other parents and Teachers like, Clark, Steph, Phae, Alana
and Miss Ireland came as well. We are very lucky that they came
because we would not have been able to go if they had not come.

When we arrived at the Marae we got welcomed on with the
Powhiri. Once the Powhiri was over we took our shoes off
and went into the Marae for the speeches.
When the speeches were over we went into the wharae kai
(dining room) for some morning tea, we had some savory
pies and some red velvet cake. Next we went back into the
wharenui (meeting house) to share our mihi’s which took a
long time. After  we had shared our mihi’s we went down to the
arahura river to try and find some Greenstone. While we were
down there 2-5 people found some greenstone. We also went
down to the beach to make sculptures of things from the story
pountini and waitaiki. I was in a group with Dakota, Sasha and
Rebekah we made a small waka (boat) that all of us could just fit
in. Once we had judged the sculptures we walked back to the
Marae and had some afternoon tea.

Later in the evening we had dinner which was chicken
with salad and potatoes and bread. For dessert we
had more red velvet cake and pavlova. When we finished
dinner and desert we went outside and did some activities.
I did weaving for  45 minutes and then I played Ki-O-Rahi for
another 45 minutes. While we were playing Ki-O-Rahi it got
really dark so we couldn’t see the ball so we went inside for the
last 5 minutes. Then we went and sat outside around the fire
and had s'mores while we were having s'mores we sung some
waiata (songs) like Pukanakana and Karoro e. Then we went to
bed at 10pm. The next day we got up and had breakfast at 8am.
Then we packed up and left to go and do the  Mananui Tramline
walk. That took two hours, along the way we had a checklist with
some plants that we had to find. Then once we finished the walk
we went back to school just in time for lunch.

We went to Arahura Marae on the West Coast of New Zealand.
Arahura Marae is very close to the Arahura river.
The people that are the tangata whenua of the marae own
the river. The Arahura Marae is close to the Tasman sea as well.

We went to the Marae on Wednesday the fifth of March 2019
staying overnight. The season was Autumn.  

This experience worked because we had so many adults
helping us. For making the sand boat we used sand, grass
and rocks. We had a wonderful cook making the meals for us.
She must have been working so hard! When we went looking
for greenstone a man from the marae came with us and showed
us what the greenstone looked like. He was really helpful.
He knows what greenstone looks like because he has seen
it so many times in his life and he has probably been taught
how to recognise it.

• By Mackenzie & Dakota.

Onomatopoeia Poem

Hiking

I can feel wind

whistling through native fern trees.

making my skin

crack and freeze.

I can hear piwakawaka.

chirping loudly to each other.

My words,

Float and silently smother.

I smell oxygen.

Crisp, fresh.

My grin,

Feels like a lonely whisper.

A river

crashing by smooth boulders

makes my liver

Feel like a scared soldier.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is famous for fighting for anti apartheid and segregation.
He lived in South Africa. He was in jail on Robben Island for 27 years.

What is Apartheid And Segregation And Why Is
Nelson Mandela Against It?

Nelson Mandela is famous for fighting against apartheid and segregation.
He did not like apartheid because it was really unfair to the race that was
forced to do different thing to the other people. Apartheid is when different
black people have different things to use than white people. For example white
children were allowed to go to any school but black children had to go to a
specific school. I think that this is really unfair because people should have
the same chance in life.

Where was Nelson Mandela Born And Raised?

Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo in Umtata on the 18
of July 1918.  

His father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa was a chief. His mother Noqaphi
Nosekeni was the third of Mphakanyiswa wives. They had nine daughters and
fours son’s. Nelson Mandela went to school at a local missionary school.
A teacher named him Nelson as a practice of giving South African children
English names. In 1939 Nelson Mandela attended the elite university of
Fort Hare which was the only university at the time to take in South African blacks.

Why Was Nelson Mandela In Prison?

Nelson Mandela was arrested and put in Robben Island Prison, Pollsmoor
Prison and Victor Verster Island Prison throughout his 27 years in prison.
He was in prison because he boycotted against He helped to start the Artists
Against Apartheid in the UK to campaign and help enforce the cultural boycott.
While Nelson Mandela was in prison he still fought against apartheid and segregation
and he secretly joined a banned south African communists group called

S.A.C.P. Pollsmoor Prison is located in a cape town suburb of a place called
Tokai in South Africa.

A Recap On Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is someone people look up to. He helped the world start
to solve apartheid and segregation. His childhood was ok because he was
born in a royal family. I think that it is sad that he was sent to prison
because he could have done so much more to help people in those 27
years. Nelson Mandela started of as quite an agressive protester but
when he came out of jail he decided to be a peaceful protester.

We think that Nelson Mandela was an amazing person and that what he did was right. We are anti apartheid as well.

Maths DLO

The Pancake Taniwha

          Te Panikeke Taniwha

                 THE PANCAKE TANIWHA

Kauri was tekau ma rua (12) years old in taniwha years.
He was a majestic taniwha. One day he saw a rocky tātahi (beach)
when he was slowly wandering through the cobalt sea.
His deep, dark-pink scales were mysteriously shining in the morning
sunlight. It was only the rua (two) tuarua (second) piece of land he
had ever seen!

He excitedly hikoi (walked) to the beach and tried to breath
out a deep breath of air but all that came out of his mouth
were flat rocks. They were grey, wavy and smooth.
He soon figured out that if he slowly breathed on the same spot,
the flat rocks would layer; like pancakes. He spent a few days hikoi
on the rocks; making the flat grey layers.
They are now called the pancake rocks at Punakaiki.
They looked like grey, mouldy pancakes but just tasted
like normal rocks! Kauri got very tired and fell asleep in a
panikeke rock cave that be had made….

Kauri woke up 128 years later and saw platforms and people
 casually strolling over the panikeke rocks. The people were
wearing soft clothing in neon and kanapa (bright) colors.
He was extremely surprised but he didn’t really mind.

Kauri loved a child called Jess. He had lots of fun taking her
on rides on his back every day. One day he took her even further out.
Jess’s 12 year old smile grinned as they leave the rough beach.
They went kilometres out in the moana. Jess’s long, dark wavy
hairlooked as though it was waving to the seagulls as it whipped
around her face in the wind! Kauri and Jess then sat together on
a rocky ledge; that was almost out of the sparkly water.

Kauri looked in to Jess’s happy blue eyes and told her that he
thinks he will die in the next half year. Glassy, clear tears swiftly
rolled down Jess’s olive brown face and disappeared in the water.
She replied that she was so sad and was going to spend as much time
as she could with him. As it turns out; that was not to be true…

One day Kauri was calmly waiting for Jess and she does not come.
He didn’t know where she was so he waits a bit longer. As he waited
he could feel his strength slowly dripping out of him…... He could feel
he didn’t have much longer left to live. Kauri was now a bit āwangawanga
(worried) about Jess. Suddenly he heard a pehu (loud) voice!
He heard Jess’s name being called out. Kauri knew that it was
Jess’s mum. Jess’s mum thought that Jess liked to spend time
by herself at the  rough, beach every day but really she spent
it with Kauri.

Kauri was now really āwangawanga (worried) about Jess.
He thought that maybe she had been kidnapped.
\He decided that there was nothing that he could do
so he slowly swam along the shore away from the panikeke
rocks. He expeditiously swam for about tekau ma wha (14)
minutes before he stopped. He could hear a faint ”Kauri
Kauri I’m here….” He  quickly turned towards the sound but
all he could see was a deep ravine….

He suddenly heard a loud crack and then an “Owwwww!” He
knows that the scream was Jess. A man popped out of the
deep ravine. His thick dirty tousled hair was nothing like you
have seen before. It looked like a rotten piece of meat out
of a washing machine. Kauri quickly hid because the man looked
extremely dangerous. The man carried on along the shore into
the punakaiki township.

Kauri goes into the ravine quickly and quietly.
He saw Jess sitting in a cave in the ravine. As he goes into the cave,
slimy green water drips onto his scales and into his skin underneath.
He moved towards Jess but he could feel him self tiring fast.

As he got closer to Jess, he could see that her leg
was broken. It was sticking out at the wrong angle
and there was blood everywhere. He slowly walked
towards Jess. He asks what happened to her leg.
Jess cried in pain as she tells him that she was telling
the man that her taniwha will save her. He broke her leg
shortly after that.

Kauri quickly got a thick, dark green fern and wrapped
it around Jess’s bleeding broken leg. He softly tells her
to hop on his back. She does that. She found it very hard
to hop on Kauri’s back because of her leg. Kauri quickly
walked back to the cerulean sea and rapidly swam towards
the township.

Kauri had a problem. How could he get Jess to
a hospital without a human seeing him? Jess
told him to take her to the walkway tonight
and put her on the walkway. She tells Kauri
that she will tell someone to take her to her mum.

It was night and the twinkling water was
brightly shimmering in the spooky moonlight.
Kauri gently placed Jess on the walkway, at
about seven in the morning. People would start
to walk along it soon. Kauri started to feel very
very sleepy. He knew that these would be his last
moments with Jess. As he died, he told Jess that
he would always be with her, in the panikeke (pancake) rocks.

By Dakota

Race Relations Day

What is the difference between a rule and a strategy?

What is the difference between a rule and a strategy?

A rule in maths is something that has to happen and is the only way to do it. A strategy is a way to work something out. There are lots of strategies you can use when working with numbers.

Example                                           

Rules:

When doing a algorithm work from the lowest number to the highest.

When multiplying a number by ten you just add a zero to that number. Or move the decimal point one space to the right.

When doing place value and multiplying by ten just move the decimal to the left.

Example

Strategies:

Use an algorithm.

                                      

Double when multiplying by two. For example 4 multiplied by two is the the same as 4 plus 4.

Use BO(E)DMAS ( brackets of (exponents) division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.)

Treaty of Waitangi

In the past few weeks we have been working on the treaty of Waitangi. We haven't done a full topic on it because we have covered it so much other years.

My Mihi 2019

Here is my mihi. I hope you enjoy.

Kia ora koutou katoa

Ko Kapukatamaumahaka tōku maunga

Ko Owheo tōku awa

No Ōtepoti ahau

Ko Peter Denny rāua ko Auckland ōku waka

Ko Ngati Pākehā tōku iwi

Ko Robins tōku ingoa whanau

Ko Phae tōku māmā

Ko Tim tōku pāpā

Ko Dakota tōku ingoa

Ko Indi raua ko Aalia ōku teina

Kei te kura o karoro te marae

Tēnā koutou katoa