A little bit about Buddy Holly

Name: Charles Holley 

Date:1950s

Date Of Birth: 7 September 1936

Date Of Death: 3 February 1959

Gorna: Rock N Roll

Famous Songs: Maybe Baby, Rave On

Challenges: Not Being Able to play the violin as a kid 

Rainfall

Hey Everyone so I have been reading rainfall as you know. but I have just finished the book and I am going to tell you a bit about it but not spoil it because you might want to read it this is what the book looks like. I am going to put the activities that I did in so you have a slite idea about the book. So here they are 


Before Reading 

Question 1. 
What impression do you get from the front cover?  What can you infer about the book?

Answer: I get the impression that it is going to be about horses and a girl and her family 

Question 2.
Read the blurb on the back.  Does this interest you?  Why/Why not?
Answer: It does interest me because it is kind of looks like night vision because it has murdered in it. 

Question 3. 
Open the book to any page.  Read the page.  Did you find what you read funny, interesting or dull?  Why or why not?
Answer. I read page 16 and I found it interesting because one of the people will be getting arrested 

Question 4. 
Who is the author?  Do some research.  Where are they from?  Have they won awards?  Why might your teacher have chosen this author for you to read?
Answer: The author is Ella West. She is an  Australian author who won the LIANZA young author award in 2015 

Question 5.
Is this fiction or nonfiction?  What clues can you find to help you make your decision?
Answer: Non-fiction because a lot of things like murders and people playing basketball happens a lot 

Question 6.
I predict the book will be about……..
Answer: a girl needing to get to a basketball game but that girl has horses and murder ends up happening 
Chapters 1-3 

Question 7. 
Are there any animals or creatures in your text?  If yes, draw and describe them.  If not, could there have been?  Draw and describe them.
Answer: Yes there is one cat as far of in the story here is what I think it looks like

Question 8. 

Use your white hat and list information about the text. (Facts)

Answer:

The main girl Annie plays basketball 

Annie’s nabour Pete is getting arrested 

Annie loves to ride horses

Question 9.

What are some questions you have about the story so far?  What do you think the answers might be? 

Answer: 

Why does Annie like playing basketball?

Why did Pete blow his house up?

How old was Annie when she got blue her horse?

 I think the answers might:

Because it is a fun sport.

Because he thought he was under presser so he blew it up so he could get out faster,

Maybe like 6 or 7 

Chapters 4 to 8

Question 10.

design a bookmark featuring the title, author and a summary of the book.

Answer: The link https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1FyUwcw6vZs2YSeQ16XLoQS2TnrFIJt6kaQTDaQ28Cq4/edit

Question 11.

Make predictions about what could happen next in the book.  Why do you think these ideas might happen?

Answer: I think that Annie will get asked a lot of questions and asked what happened when the house blew up, I think that because Annie is Pete’s neighbor and she could have watched it happen 

Question 12.

Recount an experience of your own in relation to the book.

I am going to recount chapter 7 when her mum is taking down wallpaper

“Mum what are you doing,” my brothers and I asked in sync my mum    “ I am taking down the wallpaper so we can repaint it.” “okay” my brothers and I replied 

 

Chapters 9 to 12

Question 13.

Post two pieces of the work you’ve done so far on your learning blog. Make sure you create an introduction so readers know what you are sharing. 

Answer: Blog Posts

Question 14: Create a Wordsearch using important names and places from the book. Answer: Words Blue Beach Annie Pete Horse Mum Dad Question 15: Write a set of true/false questions about the book. Answer: 1. does Annie like horses? 2. Did Pete Blow up his house? 3. Has Annie met a mysterious boy?

4.  the mysterious boy has a Horse?

5. is Annie's horse's name Blue?

6. Is Annie 9?

7. Is Pete Annie’s brother?

Answers to the questions above 

True 

True 

True 

True 

True 

False 

False 

Question 16:

Create a poster/advertisement for the book, convincing others to read it.

Answer:

Question 17:

Give your book a ranking out of 5.  Explain why you gave it this ranking.  What could be improved if the book didn’t rank well?

Answer: I rate this book a 5 out of 5 because the book has a lot of interest to it 

Thank you for reading my blog post 😃

Make sure you read the rest of my blog posts that I post 

Goodbye

Maori work

Have you ever had a hangi because I know I have and it is really good.

This week for Maori we had to make an image of a hangi here is mine

Then we had to learn how to make a hangi if you want the steps they are below


After that, we had to watch a video about how to make a hangi and how to make them.


Thanks for reading my blog post 😉
make sure to come again
bye

Instrumental intentness

For Music, We had to research a bit about one singer and one band and make a DLO about it. Here it is↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓. We had to find out facts about them some of the things I found out surprised me a lot.

Tane Mahuta

For C.I.P today we had to plant a lot of plants and cleaning out the outdoor classroom. We had photos taken and I have them in the slide.

Science

My Investigation

Aim: To look at how I can prevent climate change in the future.

1. Complete the activity 'Ecological Handprint'.

2. Complete the activity 'Carbon Footprint'.

3. Write down your 10 changes to climate change below. Using ideas from the Ecological Handprint and Carbon Footprint list 10 changes that you can make to stop Climate change?

1.   Always turn off the lights when you leave the room 
2.   Volunteer more 
3.   Choose litter free lunch 
4. Walk more 
5.  Turn Off the lights more 
6.  Garden more 
7.  Drink tap water 
8.  Eat the food I grow 
9.   Shop a little less 
10.   Start composing more 

Tane Mahuta

Hey everyone today and last week we have been working outside for Tane Mahuta and I have been working on the outdoor classroom and the ground out of the other side where we are going to be making gardens. 

The first week I was working on the ground where we are going to put the garden and took the tarpaulins of the ground then this week I was working on the outdoor classroom. Today I was in the classroom and I had to lift a lot of things some were heavy some we not. Also, make sure t0 not hurt yourself with stinging nettle because it hurt really bad. 

Our final goal is to get the classroom done and have another garden outside the classroom.

Thank you for reading this blog post I will blog again when more things like this happen
Goodbye 👋

Blog Post 2 For reading Activity's

If you are wondering about the title and why it is like that it is because for an activity I have to post two activity's that I have done so far for the novel study so here is the second one

Make predictions about what could happen next in the book. 
Why do you think these ideas might happen?

Answer: I think that Annie will get asked a lot of questions and asked what happened
when the house blew up, I think that because Annie is Pete’s neighbor and she could
have watched it happen 

Thank you for reading this blog post 😃

Blog Post 1 For reading Activity's

If you are wondering about the title and why it is like that it is because for an activity I have to post two activity's that I have done so far for the novel study so here is the first one

design a bookmark featuring the title, author and a summary of the book.

Answer: The link https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1FyUwcw6vZs2YSeQ16X
LoQS2TnrFIJt6kaQTDaQ28Cq4/edit

Thank you for reading this blog post 😃
Please read my next post

Science

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1.  Cups (x4)
2.  Water
3.  Tinfoil 
4.  2 Sheets of white paper
5.  1 sheet purple paper 
6. Thermometer 
7. 1 large cup 
8. 1 heat lamp 

Steps

1. Place 1 cup full of tap water with a large cup over it on a white piece of paper 
2.  Place 1 cup full of tap water with no cup over it on a white piece of paper 
3.  Place 1 cup full of tap water with no cup over it on a purple piece of paper 
4. Place 1 cup full of tap water with no cup over it on a piece of tinfoil 
5. Get a heat lamp 
6. Leave it for a little bit 

Which surface conducts/attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 purple paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	12'c	12'c	12'c	12'c
45 minutes	16'c	14'c	22'c	24'c
65 minutes	20'c	19'c	20'c	20'c
75 minutes	18'c	19'c	22'c	26'c

Findings:

Conclusion: For our experiment, we had 4 different cups on a table with a heat lamp on it. The first cup was plain water on white paper the first time we tested it was 12'c then after lunch which was 45 minutes then we waited 65 minutes the 75 minutes so we could see the different heat each time 

Ella west coming to my school

Last week I got in touch with Ella west and she has decided to come to our school we are honestly so excited because we get to meet a real author at our school. the main thing that is making me so excited is that my group in reading made this happen I am so proud of our group it is honestly a honer being in this group. the photos up above is what I sent to Ella west and what she sent back. The first one is the one from me to her and then the one under it the darker colour is what she replied back to me. If you don't know who Ella west is here are a few books she wrote... Night Vision, Rain Fall, The thieves Trilogy, Real Life, Anywhere but here, Thieves:  A Novel.

Thank you for reading my blog post I will post more about her when she comes

Drama Week 6 Puberty

This week we had to learn about puberty. For learning about puberty we had to the boys and girls parts. Then we had to re-record our poems sadly our video wasn't on the folder but I can show you the poem we said and what we needed to use. 

• Volume
• Articulation
• Emphasis
• Pause
• Pace
• Tone
• Eye-contact
• Gesture
• Chorus- unison or cannon

        ⇵That is what we needed to use for our voices and this is our poem 

This week we had to learn about puberty. For learning about puberty we had to the boys and girls parts. Then we had to re-record our poems sadly our video wasn't on the folder but I can show you the poem we said and what we needed to use.

• Volume
  
  
• Articulation
  
  
• Emphasis
  
  
• Pause
  
  
• Pace
  
  
• Tone
  
  
• Eye-contact
  
  
• Gesture
  
  
• Chorus- unison or cannon
  
  

          ⇵ That is what we needed to use for our voices and this is our poem

Nici 

Funny, caring, silly, happy

Best friends with Kalea, Libby, Tehya, Megan, Matti and Tahnesha daughter of Danny(my dad) Vet (My Mum)sister of Zane, Rocky, Tyson Joey my dog

Singing, Giraffes, Freedom, Turtles,  

lonely, Sad, Upsetting

Losing someone, dying, the loss of an animal, spiders

Learning how to sing in front of millions, building confidence

Becoming a doctor, singing in front of millions

Hornby

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