Homework Term 1, Week 10

Karakia:

Link

Prototec Maths:

Student Led Conferences:

Q. How did it go?

A. It was a very great conference and I enjoyed the bits where I took charge.

Q. What was it like doing it in class?

A. It is good because you can showcase your work and show your parents around the class.

Q. What did they like about the process?

A. (Mum): "I found it interesting to see where James was performing in regards to the national standards. It was a great to share with him his excellent progress and to have confirmation from Mrs Mills that he is doing well!"

Q. What did you like?

A. I liked how it wasn't all lead by the teacher se we had a sense of responsibility about the conference.

Q. What would you/they like to do differently next time?

A. (Mum) "Make a time later in the day so James' dad could be present also. It is a very quick meeting, a longer time would be great."

Khan Academy:

SumoPaint:

Maths Negative Numbers Video

Homework Week 8

Protec Maths:

Battle of Gate Pa Crossword:

Order Of Operations Video:

Art Technology - Week 5 & Homework - Week 5 - 6

Tech:

My Basic Drawing

Today, we started out technology sessions and I was put into the Art group (Yay!)
Starting off, we arrived and were given our sheets. Our task was to draw what we saw in front of us.
As you can tell by the picture above, I never thought it was good enough so I kept restarting.
Anyways, I managed to get it finished, during which, everyone else was about to start their print making.
It got to the end of the session and I was amazed at what I actually made from ink, a piece of polystyrene and a drawing.

Wednesday 5th March - Wood Carving

Today, the goal was to make a wood carving and print it onto paper. The carving had to have something to do with the battle of Gate Pa. Mine was a front-on view of the Mission house at The Elms, which turned out to be pretty difficult to carve. We all knew that this wouldn't be finished today, so looks like we will do it tomorrow!

Thursday 6th March - Cont.

Carrying on from yesterday, we continued with our wood carving prints. This was very nerve racking as I didn't know how this would turn out! Other that that, I was ready. The carving took a while (Or should I say "I took a while" as usual), longer than I thought. I finished the carving and made my first print for the day. Finally!! So that was the last of that for the day!

Friday 7th March

So it's the last day of technology and we are back to printing. Everything is going well until I manage to load too much ink onto my print and that got a bit messy, but oh well! I finished my piece (which I wasn't too proud of) and carried on to my creative piece (which also wasn't that great). Overall, tech was awesome and I had a great time. By the way, I scored a 4P (Level 4 Proficient) which made me happy!

Homework!

Protec Maths:

-SumoPaint (It went horribly wrong!)

Whare Writing

The whare is a special place, usualy based on an ancestor. The top bar of the whare represents the backbone of the ancestor and the beams the stray off of the main beam represent the ribs. Most whare’s, if not all face north, towards where the sun rises. Matua Grant explained the a whare is a place of peace, not war and that is why we have to take our shoes off before we enter.

There is a statue outside of the three iwis

These represent Ngati ranginui (Top), Ngati pukenga (Middle) and Ngai te rangi (Bottom). These all came from a tribe and ended up here. There is also a rope intwined between all of them which has all of the

Valentine's Day

St Valentines was a Roman priest who was secretly organising weddings for soldiers. He was jailed then sentenced to death by the King on February 14th AD 270. We exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers, with our special valentines. A special valentine is someone that you love.

American spend up to 3.6 billion dollars on Valentines gift each year. 50 million roses are sold each year on Valentines Day. 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentines day are men and 27% are women.15% of the US women send themselves flowers on Valentines day. Eros is the greek god of love and his roman form is Cupid.

Waitangi Day

Why are people carrying this banner?

In 1840, the treaty of Waitangi was created between the British crown (and government) and 540 Maori Chiefs. The treaty was about keeping peace between the British and the Maori. During which, the british stole the land off them and fought for the rest of it. TBC