Abstract Art

This art was inspired by Wassily Kandinsky. The  abstract art style was about expressionism.

The Chief of Te urewera: Tama's Revenge

The Chief of Te urewera: Tama’s Revenge  

walt: Create a Maori myth (narrative)

walt: write an impactful introduction to our Maori myth.

Stomp, Stomp! Every step was as loud as the step of an enormous elephant. In the bright island of Te urewera lived a chief named Manaaki. The island had the softest sand and the most crystallized water. He was extremely loving and never gave up on anything. His eyes were as deep as the ocean blue. The only person that disliked him was Tama. Who knows what Manaaki had done to make Tama hate him.

One day Chief Manaaki questioned Tama “what do you want from me?” his reply was, “ Nothing! I don’t want anything from you, you mean big head!.” Tama was full of hatred boiling like a hot cauldron inside. Manaaki asked him “Is my head really that big?” while feeling his head. “OMG! just leave!” Tama shouted.

Three days later Tama was absolutely fed up, so he decided to kill Chief Manaaki. Later in the night Manaaki fell asleep. That was when Tama got thirsty for revenge. He got his patu and snuck out where Manaaki was sleeping. Clang! Tama stopped and realised that he had knocked something over, the feeling of fear spread across his face whilst looking over at Manaaki’s face. What he didn’t know was when Manaaki hears something loud he knows when someone is around and starts pretending to sleep. Tama had his patu over his head, suddenly Manaaki woke up and ran to get his patu. Tama and Manaaki started battling throughout the night.

Tama and Manaaki fought, pillow shreds floating everywhere as the patu’s flew all over the place shredding and smashing Manaaki’s belongings until they exhausted themselves. Manaaki popped the question to Tama “Why are you so mad at me? What have I done to make you so upset?” Tama began to explain, “Well, remember centuries ago we had competed in many activities, and in all those activities you won? I thought we were friends, you didn’t know how much I wanted those trophies!”

“Oh so this is what its all about!” Sighed the chief relieved to finally understand, “I still want to be friends with you. I’m really sorry Tama and to make it up to you I want to give you one of my trophies” Manaaki replied while handing the trophy over to Tama. Tama cried with excitement “Thank you so much and it’s alright and I would love to be your friend as well!” tears falling down his face as he grinned from one ear to the next.

A few months later, Tama and Manaaki were the best of friends and they worked on everything together. A Few days later they had just won their first  battle against other people from another island. From there, Tama and Manaaki promised each other they would stick together no matter what.

Speed Way Maths

walt: Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers

In this game you will have to add and subtract 2 fractions. At first it was easy but then I had to add and subtract till its simplest form. Thats when I got confused but I got it. My accuracy was 71% because I missed some of the questions. This game is very fun to play. I hope next time I could get 100%.

Be Kind

Walt: Be kind in class

Python Takes Action

Walt: write a combined story.

Pythons Taking Action

African pythons are known to be poisonous and very deadly, they also can have rapid speed on their prey. African pythons obviously live in Africa near the river side where most animals live. The python will eat any animal that it finds. They have scales as much as a fish, they also are really long. African pythons slither fast but quietly because they do not want their prey to notice them.

When python's search for its prey they go to the river as that is where all animals go to drink water. As the python soon reached the water it saw a hippo in the water and hippos are the most deadliest animals. Slithering out of the water it camouflages itself to hide away from the hippo. The python camouflaged the whole night waiting patiently for the hippo to go away.

As the night goes by, the hippo falls asleep. Thats when the python takes action. As midday comes by, it got ready for his ambush. When the springbok was in place it  waited for the correct timing and exploded out of the water for its jaw open wide. Squeezing the springbok and coiling around it the python soon swallowed it whole.

Pythons don’t need to eat for another whole year because the springboks are really huge. The more the pythons eat the longer they can survive without food. As soon as the year goes by the pythons start to hunt for food again. Pythons can also stay underwater for 15 minutes, if they need to breathe they will only put their nostrils out of the water.

Refllections: I think it was really easy working with others, because after combining our paragraphs we changed some sentences to make it work. I think we should write combined stories more often.

Fizzing and Foaming

This was my art for our fizzing and foaming experiment.

Problem Solving W11

Walt: Solve problems using ratio and proportion.

I had to solve this problem with ratios, multiplication and division. At first it was hard but once my teacher explained how to do it, it became easier. I got the problem correct because I knew my multiplication and division facts. Next time I want to learn more about algebra.