Wild Book Covers & Blurbs

Kia ora everyone,

One of my reading tasks was to create a book cover and blurb for a book on Canva. I did mine on a book called "Wild Animus" by Rich Shapero. The blurb doesn't exactly give too much info on the book and is meant to make you have a lot of questions after reading it, sort of like the book itself. You don't exactly know what's going on until you read more.

I also apologize for the blurriness, I didn't really know how to avoid that when saving the image.

Have you ever read the book?

Aurora Rising: Reading for 30 minutes

Hey bloggers,
For my reading for the next few days I'm going to read a sci-fi fiction book called Aurora Rising. I started reading it yesterday, and it's a book about a terrible team of space aliens that find a girl (called Aurora) frozen in a capsule. The get her out of that goop for her only to realize she is now 200 years in the future (300 years from the present though). They end up trying to take Aurora to her "Home planet" only to find the the "Space government" has said that it has never been inhabited in the first place. Is this girl just going insane after being trapped in space ice or are the government hiding something? I honestly don't know.

So far I'm around a quarter way there (out of 480 pages). And I will post about it once I've finished reading it!

Retro Puzzle Peices

Kia ora everyone,
Today I went onto a site called Jigsawplanet.com and did a 32 piece puzzle called "Retro Dreams". It took me around 5 minutes. It was surprisingly quite relaxing compared to other tasks I've been set.

Have you done anything like this online before?

7 worlds, 1 Planet - David Attenborough

While I was watching Sir David Attenboroughs documentary "7 worlds, 1 planet" one scene really hit me.

It showed the Albatross, a bird I had heard of, but never really looked into. They are great, beautiful birds that live on the tall ledges of rocky mountains that sit over the sea. The episode was mainly about how they are affected by climate change, especially their chicks. 

You see, Albatross can't detect which chick is theirs by smell, sight, or calls. The only way they can tell which chick is theirs is if it's in their nest. If it's to the side of it, and not on the nest, then the parents don't realize it's theirs.

Climate change is rising the sea levels, and wind levels, this means while both of the chicks parents are gone to fetch food for a good few days, the weak chick has to stay in it's nest while the wind rages. Obviously almost all chicks blow out and don't survive, and even if they do, they have to climb back up onto the nest or they while starve or freeze.

Remember The Titans - Movie Review

Kia ora everyone,

For one of our reading activities we were tasked to do a movie or book review, since I have only just started writing my film Essay on the movie Remember the titans, I think it'd be fitting and good practice for me to do my movie review on it.

Have you watched Remember the titans? (It's an amazing movie !)

Lest we forget- Let's not forget

Although there are a few rough things going around, around all of us, and the world is full of uncertainties, ANZAC day is still coming up soon and it seems as if due to the corona virus, almost everyone HAS forgotten. 

I drew this piece and added green dots around it, showing that even though Covid 19 is the news headline, we still have time to remember and think about the other things happening around us.

In Isolation Week #1

Kia ora everyone,

Because of the new virus going around almost everyone is at home, and it can get boring, so I've put together a small list of a few things I've done and will be doing to keep myself busy (as it's only the first day) as well as some ideas of what you could do:

• School work. This comes number one on the list, do your work! Although these weeks in isolation might feel like a holiday, they're not.
• Art! I love to draw and paint and even if you don't feel like you're good at it, it's always still fun to have a go at!
• Sports. Even if you aren't a sport person, you could still have fun playing a catch game against your family members, the more competitive the more fun!!
• What do you normally do in the weekends? Who's to say that you can't see your friends? Face time them! If you play sports in the weekends then you could easily just play a game in the backyard with your family?
• Something I've played today was called math play ground (mathplayground.com). It only goes up to 6th grade but it's still heaps of fun. My favorite game on it was a game called Otter rush. You can verse all your friends in a race, and even better, the characters are adorable otters!

Perfectly terrible Pepeha

Kia ora everyone,

This term we have been doing our Pepehas. Mines a bit plain, but, you know.

My Iwi is from the tribe up in Taupo, where are your family from?

Learning To Count To 10 In Samoan: Scratch Edition

For our Samoan language studies we had to create a simple scratch program in under 10 minutes teaching you how to count from 1-10 in Samoan. Just write in the English numeral and it'll come up with the answer!

Counting To 10 In Samoan

For our Samoan Language studies today we have been learning to count to 10 in Samoan.

The Samoan language is very similar to Moari so this wasn't too hard.

Here is my animation explaining how to count in Samoan:

Pictures To Binary

Kia Ora everyone,

For coding this term we have been learning binary, We were challenged to make a picture in a 14 X 10 Grid, then translate it into binary, here's mine:

0000000000

0001110000

0010001000

0100000100

1000000010                           

1001001010

1001001010                            

1000000010

1000000010                          

1000000010

1000000010                         

1000000010

0101010100                             

0010101000

Can you figure out what it is?

My Sestina | Nz Writing

This is my Sestina for writing. We will be sending these to a school in Hamilton. We are looking forward to seeing theirs.

A sestina is a 6 words 6 sentence poem. Mine is a bit odd and doesn't make sense, but anyway:

-Crazy pack of puppies sprint past.

-Buying hundreds worth in expensive shoes.

-With my annoying sister and cousin.

-Someone hands us a million dollars.

-My parents gave me 1000 dollars.

 -Bananas are actually disgusting without quarantine.