Tag: Term 1

BMF

Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to find fractions between fractions. We also learning how to place fractions on a number line, and fine the connection between fractions and decimals. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.

Finish it off properly (FIOP)

Task description: During the week my literacy and math class was finishing all of their work from term 1 off properly, !FINISH IT OFF PROPERLY (FLOP)! I enjoyed this task very much because I had already finishing everything for this term, and since their are only 2 days of school left. I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog. BBYYEEE ;P

Decimal Fractions


Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to find fractions between fractions. We are also learning how to place fractions on a number line, and see the connection between fractions and decimals. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.

Women’s Rights Protest

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Task description: This term year 7 & 8 extension group have been working on Scratch projects. The scratch projects had to be about a protest of our choice, but it had to have happened in NZ. I decided to base my Scratch project on the Women’s Rights Movement, also called Women’s Liberation Movement – If you don’t know what that is you can join me on a short journey to learn about the Women’s Right Movement.

At the beginning of the year, Mrs Burton, also known as our Extension Teacher, gave a choice to pick any protest we wanted to make a scratch project on. If you’ve seen the title, the protest I chose was ” The Women’s Right Movement.

The reason behind why I chose to do my project on this protest is because I think that people all over the world should know about the Women’s Rights protest. If it wasn’t for the Women’s Rights protest all the famous women in the world would not be who they are today, that’s why I am here to share with you what I have learned from this activity.

Mrs Burton thought it would be fun for us to learn a little about New Zealand history. Protests have happened in New Zealand for many, many years – And of course not all of them were successful but that’s okay because failure is success in progress.

After some research I have found that 46 protests have been held in New Zealand, and there could be more but I have only found 46. I would love to know if there are more, so if you know of some I may have missed, let me know.

Planning this was very hard especially knowing I had to show both viewpoints, but I worked hard to try and show that. I’m hoping you can see both sides of the protest, and if not, I would love feedback on how I can improve for next time. This Project is really fun because I got to create amazing drawings in Scratch, and share them with you.

Here is my Extension Project! I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog. And I love to hear some feedback from you guys. Ka Kite Ano, have a lovely day!

Land Wars

Land Wars: The New Zealand wars were a series of mid-19th-century battles between some iwi and government forces, which included British and colonial troops and their Māori allies, who were sometimes known as kūpapa.

Looking at the land wars, they changed the face of New Zealand in the 19th century. Tens of thousands of Māori may have died in the intertribal Musket Wars fought between the 1810s and the 1830s. Muskets reorganize intertribal warfare, decimating some tribes and drastically shifting the boundaries and margin of areas controlled by others. Thousands fled their traditional lands, complicating questions of ownership and opening large areas to potential Pākehā (European) settlement.

Between the 1840s and the 1870s British and colonial forces fought to open up the interior of the North Island for settlement in conflicts that became known collectively as the New Zealand Wars. Sovereignty was contested on the ground despite the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and Māori became less willing to sell land to the rapidly growing European population. Many Māori died defending their land; many other Māori allied themselves with the colonists for a variety of reasons, sometimes to settle old scores.

Most of the several thousand people killed during the New Zealand Wars were Māori, and the land of many of the survivors was subsequently confiscated.

Aftermath: Both sides of the New Zealand Wars suffered many casualties. After some research, although exact numbers are unknown, most historians agree that Māori lost more than 2,000 fighters. The combined British and colonial governments and their Māori allies most likely lost less than half that number. Although the main fighting was over in 1872, pockets of Māori resistance continued through the end of the 1800s.

After the passage of the New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863, the British and colonial governments confiscated more than 2.5 million acres, 1 million hectares of land from Māori tribes. Most of the land was taken in the north, including in Taranaki, Waikato, and South Auckland. Some of the land was eventually returned to Māori control. However, the damage to Māori society, culture, and economy lasted for decades.

The Landlady


Task description: This week during Reading, we are learning to identify Foreshadowing in a text, and connect my prior knowledge to help me make meaning when I infer. We had to correctly Identify where the author has used foreshadowing in a text, and explain how you worked out the hidden meaning of the text. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.

🔪🩸HELP🩸🔪

🔪🩸HELP🩸🔪

B . Weaver
June 20, 1942

Mrs . Katerina Petrova,
2010 Cinderella Road, Mangere Bridge, United states of america
New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dear Mrs Katerina

I am writing to express my concern for my living situation… I have been wanting to talk to you for a while now, but due to me needing to move on such short notice, I was able to let you know. I arrived in Bath a couple of hours ago. I spent my time searching for a place to stay. I came across a poster for accommodation called “Bed and Breakfast”.

It was awfully cheap, and of course I didn’t think twice before deciding to stay there. I was just looking for something affordable, and I had found it. One thing I wanted though, was it had to have good living conditions. I don’t understand why but I couldn’t stop thinking about the poster after I had seen it. Every part of my body told me not to go, yet I still had a gut feeling I should.

And as always I did the exact opposite of what I thought. I really am lost without you. Anyways, I made my way to the location of the accommodation, which is a boarding house that is in a large city located in Somerset, England. I had other choices and I think I made the wrong decision, I don’t think I’ll make it, by the time you get this letter who knows what she could do.

You’re probably really confused right now so I’ll explain how it happened. To start off I had choices for places to stay. I was deciding if I wanted to stay at the boarding house, but on the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boarding-house. There would be beer and darts in the evenings, and lots of people to talk to, and it would probably be a good bit cheaper, too. I have stayed a couple of nights in a pub once before and I had liked it.

I had never stayed in any boarding-houses, and, to be perfectly honest, I was a tiny bit frightened of them. The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living-room. After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, I decided that I would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up my mind. I turned to go.

And then a queer thing happened to me. I was in the act of stepping back and turning away from the window when all at once my eye was caught and held in the most peculiar manner by the small notice that was there. BED AND BREAKFAST, it said. BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST.

To be forthright with you, each word was like a large black eye staring at me through the glass, holding me, compelling me, forcing me to stay where I was and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing I knew, I was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell.

And I know what you’re thinking, “what the hell is wrong with me,” I know it might have been dumb decision, fine, it was dumb decision but I don’t know why but I had a feeling like I was meant to see that poster, like it was put there for me. I could feel it calling my name, I had grown attached to it in a weird, captivating and spellbinding way, I don’t understand why…

Now that you’re all caught up, we can move on. I still think, and believe, the landlady is a bit odd because she’s very forgetful. I would even refer to her as being slightly dotty, if I’m being honest. She’s also odd because she has a boarding house which has no guests. And I know what’s going through your head right now, and I don’t want to hear it.

Let’s just hope I’m still alive for you to lecture me. Also is it just me or is it freaking weird as hell that she charges very little for her rooms and even includes breakfast. So I’m just going to quickly recap what happened, okay so…

I told her I was on my way to The Bell and Dragon. But the notice in the window just happened to catch my eye. And she responded with “My dear boy, why don’t you come in out of the cold?” But before I did anything I asked “how much do you charge?” “Five and sixpence a night, including breakfast,” she said. And of course, as I said before it was fantastically cheap.

Another thing that has bothered me ever since I had my first cup was, she kept on oftering me tea, and of course I would have said no usually, I didn’t want to hurt the old bird’s feelings. And a weird and preternatural thing happened to me. She said we had something to talk about after I unpacked so this is when we were talking in the living room.

As she’s talking about the men, I describe the tea she’s giving me as tasting of bitter almonds. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and I didn’t care much for it. Until she kept asking, and later I remembered that most know that the taste of bitter almonds is a sign of poison, but I did not pay attention to this fact.

Before I just thought she was slightly dotty, but harmless. But after I figured out the tea really contains POTASSIUM CYANIDE, a poison. I know for a fact I’m going to be joining the other DEAD GUESTS, Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple who have never left the BOARDING HOUSE because she killed and stuffed them, like her other pets.

And you are 100% thinking… “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU” and I don’t know how to answer that, but I can do anything but run, she has my full name, and all my information, and of course my dumbass didn’t think twice before handing all of my information over. I’m so lost without you…

I wish I hadn’t left now, I miss everyone, I made so many mistakes in the couple hours I was in Bath, who knows what I will do in a week. I so dumb, please I need help, you’re my go to person. You’re the only person I trust to know what to do when I’m stuck. I’m the dumbest person in the world who signs papers before thinking about it… I really need your help.

When you are not around me, I feel that a part of my soul is missing from my existence. I miss you! Time flies when you are with me and on the other hand, time stops when you are not with me. I miss you so much. Love you tons. I miss you so much, my friend! Nobody can take the place of the love and care you have showered me with! Missing you and not being able to see you is the ugliest feeling ever. I will miss you until you are back.

I love you, and thanks for always being there for me whenever I needed it. You are present in every single one of my thoughts. I hope to see you pretty soon as I miss you way too much, dear. Missing you is just like breathing air, you can’t live without it. I hope you are doing well. Sending you warm wishes. I love you so much. Being away from you has made me think about you more than I used to. I hope you are doing great and miss me more than I do. Bye for now, I hope to hear from you soon…

Your truly, Billy Weaver
Love Billy ♡♡♡

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Task description: This week during Writing, we are learning to use foreshadowing in make tension. “Foreshadowing” is a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted. You can learn more about foreshadowing below. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.

Foreshadowing:

Many times authors will give you clues about what might happen next in a story. These clues are called foreshadowing. You need to watch for them as you’re reading because they can help you predict what events will be coming later on in the book.

For example, let’s look at the following passage:

‘The house was so old it looked like nobody had lived there for years. The boards on the side of the house were all cracked. The yard had waist-high, dried-up grass that looked like hay. Bits of it pushed through rotted boards on the porch. All it would take is one spark and the whole thing would go up in flames.‘

What do you predict might happen next? Notice that the author has mentioned dried-up grass, grass on the porch, the cracked boards on the house… and then he mentions flames. Do you think a fire might happen in this story? This is an example of foreshadowing; the clues the author has given you help you predict that the house will catch fire and burn down.

Sometimes you don’t know what the author was foreshadowing until something happens and then you realize that there were clues in the beginning of the story that hinted at what’s happening. Reading carefully can help you try to figure out if the author is giving you clues.

BMF


Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to find equivalent fractions. We are also learning to compare 1/2 and 1/3. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.

The Landlady – Comprehension questions


Task description: This week during Reading, we are learning to identify Foreshadowing in a text, and connect my prior knowledge to help me make meaning when I infer. We had to correctly Identify where the author has used foreshadowing in a text, and explain how you worked out the hidden meaning of the text. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.

Fabulous Fractions


Task description: This week during Maths, we are learning to find equivalent fractions. We are also learning to compare 1/2 and 1/3. After that I completed the task, and I posted it on our blog. I enjoyed this task very much, and I hope to do more like this soon. Hope you enjoyed. Please leave a comment; thank you for visiting my blog.