Biography

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today, I am going to tell you about who I am doing for the biography, I hope you enjoy.

About 2 or 3 weeks ago we had to do a biography on people who are great, such as: Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein or Bill Gates. We had to explain on how they are great and how they inspire us.

For my bio I did Muhammad Ali, I explained his: Life accomplishments, what he achieved in his life, his birth, his career, etc, etc. I also had to do a conclusion/recap over his entire life. This is what I got for the conclusion: Muhammad was a great professional boxer, a great inspire to many people to be like him, won a lot of competitions, won MANY of his fights, and devoting his life to humanitarian aid.

Ali developed Parkinson’s disease due to the injuries he sustained throughout his career.

Muhammad Ali is great for many things.

One of them is because his boxing career consists over:

56 wins, including 37 as knockouts.

He lost only 5 times!

He won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in a major upset at age 22 in 1964.

Cassius went to Islam, he later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

Ali converted to the Nation of Islam in 1965.

Ali refused to be drafted into the military, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War.

I really hoped you enjoyed my Blogpost, I will be seeing you next time, PEACE!!

Story

So In gonna make a story about how i have bad grammar, I hope you enjoy!

Meny yars ago dere wus a pursin nam deelen dis dood had a familee (Luckee) now he met a frand kooled Ariel Kreeakay, and anuther frand kooled Glan. Now wen deelen wen hom he saw a dog and den he ate it. Now dere wus dis dood kooled Joey an he wus a bum, he had no frands. He wen up tu deelen an sed: "can I be ur frand?" an deelen turnd aroun an sed "na b ur werd an u hav no frands" den Joey turnd aroun an sed: "Wow u r so meen" deelen
an den walked awai.

I hoped you guys enjoyed my free choice lol.

Swimming Lessons

Hi my name is Neru and I'm here to tell you about my swimming lessons. Everyday we go to swimming lessons at Q E 2. There are three lengths (One means go once, two means, go twice and three means go three times) I go for one length swimming lesson because I'm not that good of a swimmer.

My home base are the first ones to go to Q E 2 so its pretty cool. We all have buddy's and my buddy's name is Charlie. When getting changed, we've got to make sure our buddy's are nice and ready. (Charlie is normally ready before me)

We normally work on: Freestyle, survival backstroke, Breaststroke, backstroke, etc, etc.
I would say i'm pretty decent. I'm normally good at: backstroke and survival backstroke (also a bit of freestyle)

When we are nearly finish the swimming lesson, we usually have little fun. We do: floating mushrooms, races, dolphin dives (We also sometimes do that at the start) back-flips and front-flips and the wiggle worm.

After that we get changed, line up and wait for others to get ready, then leave.
Swimming lesson are really fun, and can help if you are in the sea or in a deep pool, it helps you practice so you don't drown, and helps if you are trying to save someone.

I hope you guys enjoyed, reading about what I do for swimming, and what I'm good at. Thank you for reading! Bye!

Market day

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?

First we learned what STEAM stood for.
S for Science
T for Technology
E for Engineering
A for the Arts
and M for Maths
Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.
Then; make a table that was able to balance M n Ms for the team. We were much better at the second challenge because we worked more as a team and got things done much quicker.

In Literacy we learned to write up science experiments and to write a technology report using the design process of ASK, IMAGINE, PLAN, CREATE, IMPROVE and SHARE.

Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.
How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.

My team made this… OUR AMAZING STRESS BALLS!

Reflection

My highlight from this PBL was… working as a team, always being on work, personally I think that we did a decent job! Actually a WONDERFUL JOB! At the end we were working as hard as we could, and as fast as we could. On market day we did a great job on selling ALL of our project. And in the end, it was really fun seeing a lot of things that people made, and seeing how much they accomplished.

Next time I would change how much we made. Cause in the end, people still wanted some. It was pretty said how we said no to all of them. I would keep the poster the same… just because it was a lot of work (It wasn’t that much work)

What PROJECT did you make?

Project Based Learning (PBL)

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about cultural stories and the big question was;
what is my culture?

What is the significance in the 21st Century of our Cultural stories?

First we brainstormed what culture is and came up with lots of ideas. Culture is Family stories, where
you are from and holidays that you celebrate

Then we thought about our own culture and talked to our parents about our traditions and heritage.
I wrote a post about my family and things we like to do.

In Literacy we read and discussed myths and legends from around the world then we concentrated on
Maori legends. I read that battle of the mountains, Maui and the fire God, and how Maui caught the
Giant fish. I have written my own legend called/I retold the legend of "Joo u no spek engrish" in my own words.

Then made a performance about the story Battle of the Mountains. Some students wrote the script,
some students took on the job of making all the artwork, some worked hard on organising the music
and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with dance and drama.

Photo:

Reflection:

For our production I contributed by acting as the mountain called “Tongariro” I am a mountain
who fights Taraniki, Putuaki and Tauhara for the love of Pihanga.
But in the end Tongariro the mighty champion finally won through.
There are also lots of music and actions through out the play.

I think the show might impact on others by making my family really proud of me. Also people will
remember what happened in the story "The battle of the mountains" and how it was made.

What I learned about working with others was always try your best, work your hardest and
encourage others.

Craig's creative writing workshop

Hi guys. Welcome back to another blog post, and today we are going to talk about creative writing. Stop sit back, relax, and enjoy the post.

creative writing was about how to be creative to what you are going to publish (Author and other things) like do you know what you are actually writing about, make sure it makes sense. Like the little things. We were writing about the things we need to know like, "Writing comes first. Not inspiration" and got rhyme words.

We also got to hear one of his best selling songs, "Wonky donkey" and his other ones, like "My daddy ate an apple" And "The scariest thing in the garden"

Anyway's, that is the end my post and I hoped you all enjoyed!!

"I was walking down the road and then I saw a donkey- wait! Hey you guys can go now!" "Hmm hm, hm, hm"

Battle of the mountains quiz

Battle of the mountains

Recently in my Reading Workshops I have been learning to ask good quality questions. I have created a quiz using google docs to use with the Maori legend called Battle of the Mountains that we have been reading.

What is the female mountain called?

What is the female mountain partner called?

What are the kids called?

What is the main enemy called?

What is a Piki Kaiarero?

Answers:

#1 Pihanga

#2 Tongariro

#3 Ruapehu,Ngauruhoe

#4 Taranaki

#5 A beautiful white flower.

Did YOU get all the answers right?