First Encounters Popplet!!

For the past few weeks we have been doing a timeline about the first encounters. We had to get all the information first and put it on a slide to make sure the information was correct then put it on a Popplet. It was different, like the site we used was different to what we usually use. It was pretty easy getting the information we needed, also having the help of some friends when me and my group got stuck ( Me, Miria and Jacque. ) Our group is very thankful for having the help, and we are happy to have it done.

Matariki Day!

On Thursday last week we had a Matariki whanau day, which is Matariki day but with whanau from home coming to school and us showing them our learning in class. It was a big massive and busy day. We had to get a project done before morning tea which was quite hard, because some of us were doing screencastify and we had to do it in the class in front of everyone, so then we decided to do it during morning tea but that was also hard as well because we had to wait for our friends to film. It was a fun and cherish moment while filming them because we had our little laughs in between each moment they accidentally made a mistake. After morning tea though our whole school had to go across the road to thank the family members of some students who had came, we had thunk them with a kapa haka performance ( kapa haka performances. ) The order of the performances were junior syndicate, middle syndicate, senior syndicate, Te Mana Tamiriki then Te Rau Po Manawa O Kawakawa. Each syndicate/roopou had performed around 3 waiata. After the performances it was time to head back over across the road and eat the hangis that Nga Rau Rangatira and Nga Rau Puawai had prepared and made. Then after lunch we just played sports which was really fun!! : )

Tuna & Takakau

Last week throughout the first three days ( Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ) we had tuna and takakau coming in. It was a competition, for both the tuna and takakau, the tuna was to see who weighed the most whose was the longest and whose was the widest and the takakau was to see whose was the better taste, texture and better looking because you could decorate it. If you bought in a tuna it had to be a short fin tuna, then it'll get measured and weighed. It was definitely a fun week doing all that. It was fun getting to taste the takakau and getting to look at how big some of the tuna were. 

I'm sorry for having a non interesting blog post and being a bit slack. I couldn't exactly think of much but I hope you get a little sum of what I was saying : ) *Also sorry again for not getting in any photos.

Maromaku Day!

Last week some of us students had the opportunity to go to Maromaku, Maromaku Day is a day where a couple of schools get together from around the Bay of Islands and play some sports. The sports that are played at Maromaku is Netball and Rugby. I played in the Netball team, the first team we played was Moerewa school which I was excited for because I knew a lot of people that was in that team. Our first game we had won, our second game we had won again; by 19 points, our third game we had won which was a nice and light game. In our fourth game we had won again, luckily myself and the GS ( Miria ) was getting our goals in. Our fifth game we had won and it was a really fun game. The fifth game was pretty much semi finals but not, cause they had said it wasn't semi finals yet the fifth game was to see who'd be playing in the finals to place for first and second. Then we had made it in to finals and preparing ourselves to play against Taumarere. The time was ticking, it was getting closer and closer, and everyone in our Netball team could not wait. It then got to the time everyone had got themselves into their positions and mentally and physically prepared themselves for the game. We were all yelling to get the ball, intercept, defend and do as much as they could. The timer had stopped everybody went to go ask the score takers what the score was, but the main question was "Did we win?" the score takers answers was yes and our team were so proud and thankful for making it and winning. There was me, Jacque, Miria, Ocean, Dakota, Payton, Tunisia, Flo,  and we had all had good games. 

The BubZ !!

This week I wrote about the Bubz game, it was a good game they played and they had won as well!! : )

Last week on Friday night  me and my sisters went to Whangarei to go watch the Bubz netball game. Me and one of my sisters had just finished kickboxing training so we had to have quick showers so that we didn't have our driver ( my sisters friend ) waiting for us. While we were having showers my sisters friend was driving to Moerewa from Kerikeri but we still had quick ones just in case she had left earlier. She pulled into the driveway around 7:40 came inside and there we all were just patiently waiting, so then we got the car seat out of the car for my nephew to come as well then put it into my sisters friends car, then we all jumped in to the car and made our way to Whangarei. As we started making our way out of the driveway my nephew started crying, so then we had to make a quick stop to buy him a water and some other snacks. After buying him a couple of snacks and a water he  had cooled down and had fallen to sleep. After a while we had arrived to the stadium where they were playing, but we had just arrived before there game so we were watching the other game for about 10 minutes. After that 10 minutes our eyes were wide opened and ready to watch the Bubz play. While I was watching I was thinking WOW! this is what I have to put into my game when I'm playing, do proper passes, communicate, feeding, and getting in front to not loose the ball. As I was thinking I was like you know what I'll do all that tomorrow in my game I can achieve that. The Bubz had WONNNNN there game we were all so happy for the Bubz the score was around 53-42. Everybody was super happy : )

RoCkEt ChAlLeNgE !!

These last couple of weeks ( 7 weeks ) we have been learning, designing, and "building" our own rockets. It has been a really fun experiment with Matua Troy, we have learnt a lot about water rockets. Last week when we had our lesson with Matua Troy, it was probably my favourite one so far out of all of them and I cannot wait for the next lessons coming up with Matua Troy. We had seen that our rocket will fly pretty good and straight because we were testing it out with lite things, such as spinning  the rocket by tying a piece of string and spinning it around with the string. It was a success and me and my partner was definitely proud of it. The only dumb thing is that there was only 2 of us at school out of 4 because the other 2 were sick. But it was definitely a success with the work we ad done and we were proud.

                                            

                                                                

James Cook - Information Report

James Cook

James Cook was a well known man, he was known for a couple of things such as being a British
explorer, navigator and a cartographer. He was born in the late 1720’s, on November the 7th 1728.
In the late 18th century, James Cook was the first European to define the outline of New Zealand.
Thanks to Captain Cook, with his very detailed charts, his gentlemen passengers, and scientific
and artistic documentation, accurate knowledge of New Zealand was available in Europe for the
first time since the 1770s.

Family/Childhood:

November the 7th 1728 was the first breath of his life, born in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England. James went to  Postgate School and grew up in Great Ayton. In his teenage years as he was growing up he was farming alongside his father until the age of 18, when he got offered an apprenticeship by a Quaker ship owner near the seaside village near Whitby, England. James and his wife...Elizabeth Batts Cook, had quite a bit of children of their own named…. Nathaniel Cook, Hugh Cook, James Cook, George Cook, Elizabeth Cook, which they are well known because of their father Captain Cook. His parents…. Grace Pace Cook, and James Cook also had a large amount of children named John Cook, Mary Cook, Christiana Cook, William Cook, Margaret Cook, Jane Cook including Captain Cook himself.

Ship:

Captain Cook had several amount of different ships named HMS Endeavour, HMS Resolution, HMS Resolution, HMS Adventure, HM Bark Endeavour Replica, HMS Discovery, HMS Grenville and RR5 James Cook. Captain Cook’s most famous ship was the HMS Endeavour, the one he travelled across the world and found different countries and islands such as New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Captain Cook had only made one voyage on his HMS Endeavour ship, but then he made his second and third with his HMS Resolution.

First Encounter:

Captain Cook landed one of his ships at Poverty Bay, a couple of days later he had drawn a map
of New Zealand and also wrote about his first encounter with the maori. Which wasn't a good idea
after all, especially with 8 maori injured and 2 of them dead. When Captain Cook had left, nobody
went to New Zealand for a very long time because he had told people they were strong and fierce
men. The next time he arrived in New Zealand he got along with them much better than he did
the first time he’d been there.

February the 14th 1779 age 51 the day of Captain Cook’s last breath, missed by many such as his family members like his wife kids and siblings. Stabbed to death by Hawaiians after returning back to Hawaii. Hawaiians thought that if they’d kill him and eat his brains and body parts that they’d be able to be like Captain Cook. The Hawaiian’s cooked Captain Cook to enable his bones being easier to receive.

Written by: Roxy

These last couple of weeks I have been working on this piece of writing about James Cook. I thought that James Cook was a really good man until I found out today that he had done some really bad things such as leaving the Indians overseas where he had taken them. James Cook had done good things as well, but he had done some bad things at the same time and hid them away. Anyways I hope you enjoy my writing and find out some good facts about James Cook : )