Gift Boxes by the Creators!

The reason why I don't have a poster to advertise my product was because I was in hospital, recovering from an sever asthma attack.  I recovered quick surprisingly and hope this doesn't happen again.  Anyways come along to Rangikura school, PREP market (13 December.)  There will be different items to choose from, and my group's one is gift boxes for Christmas since it's coming up. See you there!

Te Ao Maori

My Olympic sport slide...

My Book Review!

 

Apple & Rain

Title:   Apple and Rain                                                           

Author:   Sarah Crossan                                      

                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Illustrator:  None

Storyline:  There was a 3 year old girl called Apple.  One Christmas eve, her mum left to America to become an actress.  !0 years later, a taxi came to pick her up after school.  Surprise surprise the driver was her mum! They got along together, and Apple found out some relatives she never heard about.  There was a lot of drama between them though, and she keeps falling the love of her life. Read the book to find out more...

What I liked best:   I like the part when the mum threw a party, including her crushes invited! Something goes wrong… What I didn’t like:  When her long lost sister keeps treating her doll (Jenny) like a living human. Favourite character and why:  It would have to be Apple because I would want to be in her position with all the steamy drama. Would you recommend it?  Apple and Rain is a interesting book that I would recommend for people who LOVES drama like me.  I would only recommend it for young adults because something can go quiet wrong that younger audience might not want to know / understand. There might be big words that younger audience may not know,  but is still a really interesting book. Thanks for reading! If you have time to comment, feel free!

Olympic Artwork 2016!

Olympic Artwork 2016!

This term we (as in Room 10)  have been working hard on a piece of olympic artwork full of similes, metaphors, a maths tessellation, olympic vocabulary and our heads on our fav athlete!  

First of all, let’s talk about the similes and metaphors. Example of a simile: A bright flower petal fell from the tree and felt as light as a feather landing on our hand. Example of a metaphor: My pulse is a race car, drifting through the woods. The definition of an simile is a comparison between two things, using like or as.  A definition of a metaphor is a DIRECT comparison between two things without using as or like.  As you can tell, the similes and metaphors are the speech bubbles and the thinking clouds. Can you guess which one's which?  

Next I’m going to tell you about the tessellation.  If you are wondering what a tessellation is or means, It’s a repeating pattern without any overlapping and gaps. You can create this repeating pattern with either regular polygon or irregular polygons!  This tessellation was made up by myself and a few classmates that were kind enough to help me with the background.   If you look at the tessellation in portrait mode, it will look like a number 8! The shapes that I used to create this regular tessellation was a hexagon, a triangle and a square. I am proud of my tessellation!

Now,  let me explain why friendship, excellence and respect is on my piece of artwork. These are the 3 olympic values that athletes demonstrate at the olympics.  The rest of the vocabulary is  words that are related to the olympics such as gold, silver, bronze to represent the medals and 2016 Rio because the olympics were played in Rio, 2016!

Last but not least, the athlete I’m playing as is Sonny Bill William because he is my favourite olympian, even though he got injured during a rugby game.  This piece of artwork represents all different kinds of subjects we normally do at school - Maths and art for the tessellation, the vocabulary, the similes and metaphors were part of our writing.   

Now this lovely piece is hanging above our heads in Room 10!

Hong Kong STEM Challenge 2

                            

Materials that we used: 6 x long sticks 1 x  wooden square 2 x pipe cleaners 2 x straws 1 x 1m ruler 11 x plastic cubes 1 x bunch of popsicle sticks 4 x wooden small flat pieces

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base:

This challenge I thought that it was difficult because we only got to use one single cube to hold everything on top! We were all shaky, but we made it.

Challenge  #2 -  Build a structure as high as you can on a base.

This challenge I found was easy because we didn’t need to use one block as the base. The only worries that we had was that it kept on breaking, then we made it, but because we had a time limit the last 5 seconds we had, it got knocked over by Musharraf on accident.

Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it:

Challenge 3  was really hard because we had to make something stick out on the side so we tried to make a mini machine gun but the last five seconds that we had, it broke down because we were all shaky.

Names:  Maria, Musharraf, Matatia

Moment In Time Week 7

before we began today our teacher asked us to write a ‘Moment In Time’ piece using a picture of a boy in the water.  We planned as a class to make sure we had the 5 W’s and the 6 Senses.  

Be our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct.  Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader with more of an experience.

Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end.  We had so much fun working together!

If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.  

Boy Overboard!

In a bright sunny morning, Jack was surfing on the big sparkling waves. Suddenly a big wave came crashing towards him.  SPLASH went the crashing water over Jack as the salty water went up his nostrils, as he tried to catch his breath. “AHHHHH!!!” screamed the little boy as he started to sink deep down in the sea.  

As Jack was suffocating to get to the surface, water started rushing down his throat as he tried to swim towards his surfboard, as the water was as cold as ice. Suddenly he saw a gang of humongous sharks circling around him. The closer the sharks came to him, the more terrified he became. His heartbeat pounded as fast as lightning striking every second. He glanced at the creatures, as he grabbed his surfboard trying to surf away. “HELP! HELP!” Jack screamed as his teeth chattered, and his body was numb.

As the sharks came closer, one of them lunged towards him, biting Jack in the ribs. He could hear the crunchiness of the bones snapping, breaking into little pieces. The blood splatted into the creature’s face, as it poured down his hip, into the water.  The gang of sharks circled him like a dosing its tail, as Jack laid on his back looking up into the bright blue sky. “I don’t want to die this way…” Thought Jack to himself as he saw a group of paranis coming towards him.  He saw the creatures teaming up for their next chunk of meat.  His rib started stinging from the salty water, as he wasn’t ready for round 2…  

Written by Samia, Kisayah, Maria and Benjamin.

Kisayah:

I think that we all done well because we worked as a team by helping each other with our sentences.  What I think I done well was I helped my team with their punctuation.

Maria:

I think that we all did well because we all worked as a team, and helped each other with our punctuation, similes and many more. What I did well in my group is being open with my ideas and my knowledge to make our piece of writing more interesting.  

Benjamin:

What I did well was sharing ideas with my group and putting all the ideas and making it a great moment in time.  What I think I should work on is making the moment in time more interesting for the reader.  

Samia:

I think we all did well because we all shared our ideas and made a  really good moment in time.  Also I think we worked well as a team and we checked our punctuations and we made sure it made sense.  I also think we helped each other to make the moment in time a good writing so people can look at it and maybe they can comment.

Writing: Moment In Time......

The worst nightmare EVER

As Chris and I glanced at the flowers, they were as lovely as a rainbow reflecting on water.  We felt as cheeky as a kid stealing a lollipop from a dairy as we skipped towards the river. A bright flower petal fell from a tree and felt as light as a feather landing on our hand. As the sun shine goes across my face, the river shimmered like a chandelier sparkling in the moonlight. “Wanna go for a swim?” asked Chris. “Sure!” replied Alex as we both take of our shirts. As we cannonbolt into the fresh water, the water came at me as fast as a shooting gun shooting every breath we take. “WOO-HOO!!!” screamed Chris as Alex remembered that it’s a school day.  “Um, Chris...” mumbled Alex. “What?” questioned his mate. “ HURRY!!” as he hopped out full of speed. “IT’S A SCHOOL DAY!!” “AHHHHH!!!!!!!!” roared Chris.

Alex’s heartbeat pounded as fast as lightning striking every second. I grabbed my shirt and quickly putted it on while both of us stayed speechless. As they ran over the the delightful flowers, through the tall apple trees, Alex and Chris spotted their parents setting up a humongous tent. “OH MY GOD…” said Alex as they stood there stunned and in dead silence. Thump thump THUMP went Chris’s heartbeat while the sweat came down Alex’s face. “I just remembered that my parents were going camping with your parents!!” exclaimed Chris as the mother catches their eyes glaring at her…. “RUNNNN!!!” screamed Alex as they ran as fast as the Flash running through the woods.

“WAIT!!!” yelled a mysterious voice as Chris loses his balance and face plants his way into a spiky rose bush. “Chris??” wondered Alex as he stopped running for his life. “I need to go…”whispered the boy to himself. “I can’t help you…” as he thought to himself while he spots their parents catching up. “AHHHHHH!!!” screamed Alex as he turns around and….  BAMMM went his head into a tall apple tree. “AHHHHHHHH!!” screamed Alex again as he woke up from his worst nightmare ever. “ OH WON’T YOU JUST SHUSH PLEASE!!!” yelled Chris with a face looking like a burning fire ball.

Tessellation

Tessellation

Definition of tessellation: Tessellation is a group of polygons closely fitted together in a repeated pattern without any gaps or overlapping. Here is an example:

Regular Pentagon	Irregular pentagon
(Salzman, L., (1990).  Cool Tessellations.  Creative activities that make math and science fun for kids!  P6-7)

Vocabulary / glossary
Vertice:	When 2 or more straight lines meet to create a corner.
Angle:	The amount of turn between 2 straight lines that have a common end point.
Irregular polygon:	An irregular polygon is a shape with unequal sides such as a rectangle, quadrilateral and many more.
Regular polygon:	A regular polygon has equal sides and is the same length such as a square, a triangle and a pentagon.

Reference:
Definition of tessellation	https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/tessellation.html
Vocabulary / glossary	Vertice:  https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/vertices-faces-edges.html Angle:  https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/angle.html

Manu tukutuku

Every year the Māori people in new zealand celebrates Matariki. Matariki is a group of 7 stars that shine bright in late may and early june just before dawn. It is a maori new year that can be celebrated  in MANY different ways. For a example, you can do kite making (Manu tukutuku), Storytelling, weaving (with flax) kapa haka and many more ways to celebrate. But for now, let’s talk about our kite making. We are doing this because today ( on the Thursday 23rd of may) my school is holding up a celebration at our school hall. Nearly every class has made something to celebrate this event.

Since we are making kites, we had to gather all the materials to make it. First, we went out of the school, crossed the road safely and went up the hill we did cross country. We found some toetoe hanging around on the side, but before we took some of it, we had to do a Karakia. A karakia is a prey that Maori people say before they eat, when your day starts and when you take something from natural plants. This is basically showing Tikanga. Tikanga is all about respect to different types of cultures and why we do what we do. For an example, if I walked into your house with my shoes still on, you might be expecting me to take of my shoes because it might be disrespectful to other cultures. After we said a nice Karakia Miss Hills cut the fluffy toetoe like she was giving a haircut to them. We came back to our classroom and gathered the different coloured wool that Miss Hills brought for the weaving part, harakeke and toi toi we just collected. Now let’s get started!

To start of, we had to cut the toe toe in three equal parts to make the base of the manu (kite), So we had to use our mathematical knowledge to work it out. First, we measured the long thick toi toi, up to where me and Kaleb (my buddy) wanted to cut it. Me and him found out that the toi toi measured up to 1 cm so we knew that we had to work in decimals because 1 cm divided by 3 is impossible. First, we both knew that 1 cm = 100 metres so we worked with that. Since we have to cut it in three equal parts, me and Kaleb put the 100 metres down to 99 to make it WAY easier. We both got a pen and paper out and wrote down 99 divided by 3 = 33 because 33 x 3 = 99. Now we still have that 1 metre left of to do. We put that metre down to .9 and split that into three, and gave us .3! So now we know that we have to split it in 33.3 equal parts. That .1 we still had left over, we didn’t care about that because it’s only a tiny little as gap that I am pretty sure no one will care about. After that boring part I did not enjoy, we rapped some wool around the top to keep everything together, got long straps of Harakeke and started to work our way up weaving.  After that fun mission was accomplished, we wanted it to keep it nice and tight to fly one day, so we decided to put hot glue blobs at the back of the manus incase. The easiest part that I found simple was working with a teammate I was opened with and comfortable sharing my ideas with. The hardest part I found a little difficult was the mathematical knowledge we had to use was a little confusing at first but got use to it when my buddy explained it over and over again. What I think I need to work on is to be more confident whenever I’m being recorded and to have a loud voice. Now the Manu’s are ready for the Matariki celebration!

NZ opera T1

education@nzopera.co.nz

Jax’s Fish and Chips shop.

Purpose: Thank you note!

Dear Jax,

I just want to say a BIG huge thank you for perfoming at our school because I found that entertaining and wonderful.

My favourite part was when Nemo and Adina FINALLY got together because that made me smile. But I have to say that when the salesman and Nemo did there EPIC handshake was hilarious!

I would LOVE you and the crew to come back to do some more lovely singing and performing! I’m pretty sure the whole school will love to see and hear your lovely faces and your beautiful voices again.

Yours sincerely

Maria

Rangikura school

Maria @ rangikura

My new Duffy books for Term 1 :)

These books are the ones that I got from the Duffy box. Before we opened the box full of excitement, we had to go to a assembly with a special guest. But for now, lets talk about my books. Enjoy!

I'm going to start of with the first one called, Do you dare? The author is H.Becker and is a book full of would you rather's. ( That takes it WAY too far) I personally think that it is one of the hilarious books I have ever read, that it even has a zombie escape plan! I rate this 10/10. Please read this book if you can find it in any libraries in your school, or even a public library! Its a great book so check it out.


Now lets end of with a popular story, Frankenstein. This story is about a scientist, who creates a incredible, evil creature. One day, his project was finished and was trapped in a cage. I have know idea why, but he has UNLEASHED the terrible monster. Victor Frankenstein has basically let his creature escape not knowing, that he can't control this thing. I think this book is for 10+ because there might be things little kids don't want to hear. I'll rate this 9/10 cause I personally LOVE dramatic horror movies so this is perfect for me! The author is Mary Shelley and make sure to look out for her other books because there is more.

Thank you for reading my wonderful book review and I hoped you enjoyed. Bye!

My whanaungatanga Term 1

Welcome to my artwork. This piece tells a whole story. Today you will find out what Manaakitanga and Whanaungatanga means to me and why my pepeha is important. I am proud of myself making this because it took me nearly 9 weeks. Enjoy!

Let’s start of with Manaakitanga. Manaakitanga means to show perseverance, kindness from one person to another, being respectful to each other and the environment and using your manners all the time e.t.c Whanaungatanga means a sense of belonging to a group such as our loving family.  We can feel we belong, loved and especially safe with our whanau. These things make me smile.

Now let’s move on to my pepeha. It includes what school I go to, who my principal is, what teacher I have, what class room number my class uses, where I was born, what last name I use, what my name is and how old I am in maori. This is important to me because it tells who I am and what my whanau stands for.

The drawing of my face was made with the help of my teacher Miss hills. First we had to take a lovely picture of ourselves.Then Miss Hills printed it out in black and white so it will give a cool illusion of colour. After that, we had to cut our face out in the center, stuck it on a white piece of paper and started sketching the other side of our face.  As soon as that was finished, all of us would colour it in with pastels.  Then my class, including me, dyed it with the choice of any colour. We let it dry over night and that’s how it came out!

My identity tells a whole story. It represents me and my family and how you see me as a person. This was supposed to tell a story but in art. It includes the symbol of Tokelau (toke turtle), the Tokelau flag because that is my culture.  It has a white and red coloured cross because that’s the other symbol for Tokelau.  The New Zealand flag represents where I was born in and where I live now.   My first name and last name is there so they know what my name and last name is because that is who I am.  6 Tokelau flowers that represent how many members are in my family and also the Tokelau flower is just a beautiful flower to draw. Last but not least, my piece of art that has 6 korus represent all of us staying together as one and that we all show Manaakitanga to one and another.


I hope you enjoyed! Please leave a nice comment for more awesome work like this. Thank you!

How to weave a 3D box

     How to weave a 3D box

Things you will need: Paper, scissors, tape, pen/pencil and a ruler that rules up to 30 cm.

(Gather all the equipment to get started.)

Step one: Get your paper, ruler and and pen and rule 30 cm long and 1 cm wide and make sure it is nice and straight.  Repeat this until you have 10 nice thin lines.

Step 2: Now, cut them out carefully with your scissors.

Step 3: Eventually you will have 10 strips of paper.  Now place 5 strips about 2 cm away from each other on a flat table. (laying horizontal)

Step 4: As soon as that is over, get 1 of your other remaining strips and start weaving it (under, over, under and so on) starting at the bottom is best. At the end of doing it, it should look like a chess board game.

Step 5: Repeat step 4 with the remaining 4 strips of thin paper.  When you have did one in the pattern of over, under, over under, star a new one that goes in the pattern of under over under over or else this project will not work.  WATCH OUT! This is a very fragile and easy is very breakable.

Step 6: To make this look like a ACTUAL 3D box, pull all the strips in place to make a square in the middle and it will look like you have spend a LONG time making this! TIP: to pull them all together, pull one at the time to the middle. You can try pulling side to side, up or down to help you create the weaved square in the center. Leave the hanging strips alone because we will be doing something with it later.

Step 7: Carefully, pull it nice and tight all together (like I said, IT’S VERY FRAGILE!) Now, grab your tape and stick the square. ( Maybe you should get a hand to do this step to make it easier.) Only stick the top of the square but not anywhere else!

Step 8: After that, grab some more paper,  your ruler and your pen/pencil and rule a 24cm long and 1cm wide strips. Make 4 of these.

Step 9: Take 1 at the time, and fold them into 4s. Now, grab one strip of paper and weave it through one side. (Remember, you have to go under, over, under, over and so on. Repeat this step to make this project. (keep it nice and tight)

Step 10: Stick everything nice and tight, and fold it up to look like a box without a roof. If there is any bits hanging up, stick it down carefully so it doesn't look messy.

Now you are done! Feel free to try this with other colours to give an illusion! This is a good gift for anyone. This is a easy thing to make when you are bored. enjoy!