Habitats

Maloelei My names Milani and Welcome back to my blog.

This week for reading we have been looking into habitats. A habitat is like an environment or place that anything or anyone can be. We looked into habitats for different animals and plants. There are many habitats, like desserts, Marine, wetlands, grasslands, tropical and many more.

But for our group we looked into New Zealand’s habitats. Some examples were wetlands and swamps, but we researched Estuaries. Estuaries are when Salt water meets Fresh water, and that can make the water a different color.

We also found out that there are 4 different types: drowned river valley, bar-built, tectonic, and fjords. I wanted to learn more about a Fjord because 1. it seemed to stick out to me, and 2. I thought it was an interesting word. It turns out that a Fjord is tall and typically long and mostly found in narrow valleys with steep sides that are created by advancing glaciers.

This week we had quiet a lot of creates and tasks but my favorite is definitely my Key Vocab chart, I researched  the word, put it into a sentence and then put up a picture of it.

Here it is:

 

What other Habitats do you know about?

 

That’s all for now. THANK YOU!

 

 

 

What If?

Kia ora,My Name is Milani and this week in reading we red a book about a boy called Joe being anxious about a Birthday party he was going to.

In the first couple of pages it talked about how Joe was going to his first ever big birthday party and he already lost his invitation. Then it went on to him being scared and blue about what could happen at the party, while him and his mum walked down the street looking for the right house.

At the first house they saw a very old couple reading and a very sad looking dog with no food, then Joe asked, “what if there’s someone at the party I don’t know?”, And his mum replied “that’s fine its nice to meet new people. Then going towards the next house Joe asked “what if there’s A LOT of people there?” and mum answered “there might be…, is this the house?”, there was gigantic elephant. This concept went on for the rest of the book.

Until, they got to the last house, Joe said “When will you come and get me?”, his mum said ” in about a couple of hours”, “Joe argued with his mum about why she couldn’t come earlier to pick him up, but his mum was ensuring him that he would enjoy it and not want to come home.

Then as Joe turned around and started walking home he didn’t notice the door of the last house slowly opening, and then out came the birthday boy. Everyone was so excited to see him and he then felt a whiff of happiness and joy bounce into him as he entered in through the door.

Then Joe’s mum went home and started questioning herself about what might happen but when she went to pick him up after he was brighter than ever. And he had a GREAT time.

This is the create I made, it was about cause and effect and what I can relate to in the story.

What would you do if you had lost the invitation?

Hakaraia-Reading blog post

Hello welcome back to my blog, today I will be blogging about this weeks reading.

This week in reading we red a text about a Maori Leader called Hakaraia. This book was very interesting it had a lot of different subjects in it like building hospitals and schools, becoming a christian,a War and even his death.

In the beginning, we got a little summery of what had happens to the People of Waitaha, which was pretty sad and then under that was a paragraph about The Return, so basically this paragraph talked about Mahika (Hakaraia) coming back to Aotearoa and how he learn’t how to write at a mission school in North land and eventually converted to becoming a christian.

 

Then on the next page, it talked about The Tipuna of Waitaha iwi (the chief, Hei and his son) Arrived in Aotearoa and claimed land for his decedents, some of the land had  forests, soil and crops and many eels in some of the rivers they claimed.

Then the next pages of the book were about Hakaraia being a Preacher and a peacemaker and the Mission station,school and hospital he built, then it talked about the land that was Promised to his tribe (the Waitaha People)  since they had to flee inland to escape the warring tribes.

After that the next paragraph was Titled the new king, and this was when large areas of Maori land was getting sold off to European Settlers, often without consent of all owners,And there was other problems as well as Maori people dieing because of Pakeha diseases, like small pox and Measils. Then in 1860, A truce was eventually declared a truce, but then the government raised a big army. And by 1863, the country was at war!.

 

Then the last 4 pages of the Text talked about the War, the next page was Headed Battle at Pukehinahina, this part of the text was very meaningful, it was about the first attack and how Maori actually won against the attack and how all of them had red the bible and it said to Love your enemies, so they gave them Water.And there was over 100 wounded or dead soldiers on the British side.

ON THE RUN

This part was when the Narrorater told us about how Hakaraia knew that the British wouldn’t give up attacking after they’re defeat and would eventually come back with another hit. So he called his Te Arawa whanau to support, and they did so by building a new Pa called Te ranga. before the Pa was finished, the British attacked and this time they killed over five hundred defenders! and most of them realated to Hakaraia. But fourtunetly Hakaraia, his son and a few other survivors escaped into the Kaimai Ranges overlooking Tauranga. Then in May 1865,as a punishment the British government confiscated large areas of Waitaha land.But Hakaraia and his small group of survivors would never surrender,and now another time the British sent a large force of troops to hunt down Hakaraia, but yet again he escaped and moved to a farther island.

 

Then the last Paraghraph was about how they lived until 1870 when the British sent two diffrent forces of soliders to do the job.These soliders finnaly tracked down Hakaraia and his mate Te Kooti and some other followers.Then the finnal attack was describe to be like”a mob of horses racing”.Te Kooti escaped, but Hakaraia was sadly killed.

 

FORGOTTEN & REMEMBERED

Hakaraia was celebrated for his peacemaking and Christian community,Hakaraia was also once the Maori leader of the Bay of Plenty.But years later after his pass his name was barely mentioned.Now, Hakaraia is being remembered as a principled man who turned to war only because he thought peace was no longer possible.And 150 years later, a carved image of Hakaraia sits on the site of the battle to mark the anniversary.

 

Then after ALL OF THAT we did a create and a follow up task.

Here they are:

 

And here’s my follow up questions:

what would you ask Hakaraia if he was still alive?

Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Kia ora, Welcome to my blog about Te Tiriti O Waitangi, The Treaty of Waitangi.

This week in reading we learn’t about The Treaty of Waitangi. It was alot of fun leaning about some of New Zealands greatist History.

The First thing we did was make a KWL, aka Know, wonder and learned. Fun Fact, I acctualy knew quiet a bit about the Treaty because of my old school. Anyway, here it is.


Then after that we had to read the text about it, and let me tell you if you ever read it, you will have a lot of different emotions on it. a cool fact I read in the beginning of the text was that Maori had New Zealand to themselves for over 500 years! I also found out the Treaty was written in one night by a man and his son.

Then we did a create about the key figures and what they did. I actually learn’t some really good things from this text, like how this guy called James Busby made the Treaty of Waitangi. Anyway, here it is.

After that we did a fun create, where we had to get into a group of three and make a script for a fake news channel for Te Tiriti O Waitangi,And we had to ask questions and stuff.Then of course I chose Lopeta and Freya for it. And it went so well, we finished it withing 20 mins.

Here it is:

What would you do if you had to sing the Treaty?, sing it or refuse to.

 

World of Wonders

Bola vanaka,

The last 2 weeks for PBL we have been learning about the 5 different elements if you have seen my world of rocks blog then that’s where you can get to know more on what I’m talking about. But anyway instead of focusing on one element we got to create something that could represent all the element for example making a paper mashay world or a poster or what I did a map. This creation I made is a map and its named world of wonders. In this map I have Frenzy forest, Rising River, crystal camp,Freedom farm,Skull sculpture and Plated peaks. Frenzy forest is about Meditation and Mindfulness and it’s basically a place where you can hike and chill. Rising river is a place where you could go fishing with your mates or watch all the different creatures swim or even go swimming.Crystal camp a place where you can play and have loads of fun with your friends and family and then next to that is Freedom farm somewhere you can grow things like flowers or food. Skull sculpture is a dark and dim place filled with boulders and volcanos. Then finally Plated peaks a place where mountains tower over the people and basically the watchers of the island.

This is the Map I made:

If you were to make a Map what would it include and what would the name be?

Me Me and Me

Malo e le lei

This week in reading we read a book called Me Me and Me (Nina is Me), it was a story about a girl and her new phone. In the start Nina was talking about how much she really wanted a phone, not only so she could stay in contact with her family/friends but also check out the cool apps that everyone was talking about at school, Nina says she was getting so fed up over the years because of all of her friends telling her about the newest phone someones got or the newest and extraordinary app coming out on them. And ever since that started she had been asking her parents for a phone.

And every time she asked her parents would come up with all types of quotes like “there’s a difference between things you want and things you need”.Then after a while her parents finally agreed for her to have a phone BUT… Nina had to pay for it, at first she thought it was a joke but then realized they were serious so she started to hustle and did all the chores she could to get the money and eventually she got enough for one and after a lonnggggg time of waiting she got a phone and she actually didn’t care much about what was in or on it.

But how it felt and like all the math mathematical things about it, that was until she met someone called Me Me. Me Me had texted her the same day she had brought the phone and Nina found it very odd that this person called Me Me had the same ID number as Nina, but she didn’t think much about it and thought it was probably a glitch or something, a couple weeks go by and Me Me and Nina’s friendship got really well and it almost like they were the missing piece of each other, they talked about EVERYTHING like their problems,what they did at school or in the weekend and they even played mini games together while they were on call, in Nina’s mind this was probably the best friends ship she had ever been in.

Until One day she put her phone on silent because of all the texts and ringtones constantly going of and it got so bad that even when she did shut it down she thought she was still hearing the sounds of her phone going off. Finally when she checked on it she found that Me Me was really made at her for just ignoring her like that and that night Nina had a nightmare that Me Me came out of her phone and put Nina inside it and then Me Me said “Now your Me Me, and Im you”, Nina woke up with her heart racing and then she found her phone, and video-called Me Me. Me Me answered immediately, as if she’d been waiting. As soon as Nina saw her, she blurted, “You’re not me. You’re nothing like me!”
Me Me smirked. “Wrong,” she said. “I’m a part of you. I’m the part of you that only thinks about me, me, me… Nina shouted “stop it!” but Me Me just kept saying me,me,me and repeatedly getting faster every time, until the sound turned into shrill, metallic static. Without hesitation Nina grabbed her scissors and took the sim card out and proceeded to cut it. After that she knew that she would probably wouldn’t be trusted with a phone again, but she didn’t care now she finally got her freedom.

Here’s the create I made:

Today I hope you have learned to not always trust everyone you meet online and in the real world to and I also hope that you stay away from things you know you shouldn’t be on.

If you were in a similar situation like this,what would you do?

✨ World of Rocks ✨

For the next couple of weeks our hub is going to be learning about the earths system, which our water,air,soil,rocks and different types of life forms. For my class we red an article about rocks and all the different types of them. I thought that it was really cool and interesting how rocks are involved in so many ways for the earth and how many different ones there is.

Some things I learn’t about rocks were that Igneous rock comes from molten magma, space rocks land on earth and Rocks are made of minerals.

Our reading create was really fun to make because we got to talk about rocks and teach some people more about them. Our learning goals for this task were to make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions, using more sophisticated texts.

Some things I learn’t about rocks were that Igneous rock comes from molten magma, space rocks land on earth and Rocks are made of minerals. And Tianah helped me answer my five questions on the side.

Here is the create I made:

Here’s a question for ya, out of these rocks which one do you think is the coolest?

Future fantasies

Hey, today I will be blogging about what I did for writing this week.

In writing we did something similar to last weeks reading, it was where we have 6 choices of different reading structures or texts to learn and read about but this week it was to learn and write about, and it was actually really fun because one of the choices was where you could write a letter to your future self, and ask questions about what was going on in the future. For example you could ask questions like, are you still into.. or is there anything bad that happens to us like a broken arm or leg etc.There were other choices like writing a story using the sow not tell strategist or writing a descriptive 100 word text to explain a spooky house and there was even a choice where you could create a twitter post, obviously it was fake but it was really cool.The goals for writing this week, were to make sure it flowed, write in structured and well developed paragraphs that flow well from one text to the next.

 

This is the letter I wrote:

Here’s a question for you, if you ever decide to write a letter to your future self what questions would you ask?

History of the HAKA

This week in reading our class decided to mix it up and do something different. Instead of doing the normal boring stuff we do every week we did things where there were six different types of texts that we could learn more about, for example there where texts that were about good and bad things, history that went way way back in the olden days and even some scary things , although some looked or sounded tougher than others it was really cool that we could learn some of the things that happens in the texts and mainly just all about it. But one of the choices really caught my attention and I thought I could take a better look into it more and find out more interesting facts and history about it. And that text i choose to read was Haka, if you don’t know what it is i suggest you read the text to, it basically tells you all about it and how it got so big in the Maori culture or you could research about it and its history. I learned some really cool things when reading the texts and some of those things were like when it started, what some of the Haka’s meant, why it blew up, what it meant and it even talked about one that was created for the All Blacks. After reading the texts, watching some videos and researching me and my best friend Lopeta made a Q/A poster.

 

This is it:

here’s a question for you. If you could make a haka, what would it be about?