Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Reflection Of A Day In November 1
The War To End All Wars.
Part 1: I was digging my trench compartment in no mans land during world war 1. We were facing German forces for a new technique of war called Trench Warfare. Trench warfare was long and bloody. We were told the trench warfare here might go on for the entire war. After hours we had set up our trenches. Same as the Germans. I heard we had a few weapons to help us labelled "Water Tanks". We did not know what they looked like but they were claimed to be powerful. We opened fire at each other. In minutes both sides lost many men. The violence was horrible. Then all the sudden "Water Tanks" rolled onto the battlefield. I knew they were the "water tanks" because they were still labelled "Water Tanks". The Commander said "The Water Tanks are called tanks more commonly because they are labelled water tanks so usually officers call them tanks". The Commander shouted "USE YOUR PLANKS TO MAKE BRIDGES FOR THE VEHICLES". So we did, the "Tanks" almost broke the bridges. The sight of the "Tanks" made the Germans fear us. But after a while they were all stuck in mud but still they could fire. The commander said to charge. We did as we were told. Then what was that a flash then in a instant blackness. When i wok up i was from the looks of it being transported to a P.O.W camp. To be continued.
Drama Reflection
What we did: We got into pairs then Sharon paired up the pairs. After that we decided our jobs, since I had no job I was the leader. In my team there is Duke, Hezekiah, Jasper and me, George.
Sharon gave us the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme. We decided what voices we would act out and I picked a sleepy person. We acted out voices for a nursery rhyme. Before the nursery rhyme we did a video on why we picked drama and our names.
What went well: Nothing better than ok.
What challenges did i face?: Nothing challenging.
What would I change for next time?: To make us work quicker on the videos. 2nd Time: On the 22nd day of the 11th month 2021 we did some more drama. First we did a book thingy to plan our thing. We did not get to the next step which was to film the show. The things we are going to do that we have planned is the pigs build the house then the wolf creeps up. We have not planned the last bit in the book thingy but we have thought of the end: The cauldron will melt the bricks so they fall in and water comes out putting the fire out and the wolf eats the pigs (We did 3 Little Pigs). Here is the video we did for three little pigs (im not inserting it yet):
Thursday, November 18, 2021
My Pool And Its Rules.
Rule 1: No running near the pool. Rule 2: No pooing in the pool. Rule 3: Look before you dive. Rule 4: No bombing
Monday, November 1, 2021
Friday, October 22, 2021
My Science Inquiry 2021
My Science Inquiry - Similar Planets
By George. W
This google slide Is What Me And Jamison Have been working on to collect our facts.
2) Are there other planets that we haven't discovered that we can live on?
WHAT I LEARNT!!!
- About Kepler 186F. It is in a different star system and might be habitable but it will probably be ages until a manned spacecraft reaches it.
- Mars has moons to be exact 2 moons of about 24 kilometres in diameter.
- NASA will land on Mars eventually. Possibly in the late 2030's or 2050's is what I remember hearing.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Island Survival
On Friday the 13th of March 1943 I was captaining a U.S submarine And a German bomber had made the sub immobile. I was knocked unconscious and next thing I knew I was washed up on an island with My ex officer Caleb and my crew officer Luca. But my most trusted regular crewman Jasper was M.I.A ( missing in action). Me and the others grabbed an emergency axe and chopped some tree's down. Then we cut off the sides of the trees and made wooden poles. Then we looked for some cloth in the sub for a thing to sleep in. We chopped the wood beams in half and tied the bits together with cloth we were not using for beds for the base of the beds. We also tied some logs to 4 close together trees for a roof. And I remembered I had a pistol on me so I went hunting for meat. We used the engine of the sub to cook the meat because the engine was on fire but we stood in the next room but we were still roasting. While scavenging the sub for supplies we found something great… The food and water room and nothing had gone. We grabbed all the food and water we could find. This could supply us for days said Caleb. Yeah said Luca. We then ate some food then we ate biscuits for dessert. Then we went to bed. At midnight some wolfs attacked us fortunately Luca had a rifle and i had a pistol so we killed and ate the wolfs but we ate them for breakfast in the morning. I said mmmmm this is delicious. We saw an RAF plane flying towards us from about 3-5 kilometres away. We quickly wrote on the beach with a stick HELP. Once the plane was 200 meters away we threw a grenade with the pin pulled out to show we were alive. Over the course of the next 2 weeks none of us saw an allied rescue plane so we thought the plane did not notice us. When we went back to camp and found... JASPER!!! he said hi to us and we said hi back. We invited him to stay at our camp and he said yes. We all were happy to be back together. We did the same thing for accommodation for Jasper as we did for us. We also did some more tree chopping and made the walls for our shelter. But we still had a hole where the door would go. The next day we tied some wood together with flax and tied 2 metal plates to the wood and made these wood walls like railing coming off the wall edges at the doorway then rested the hatch in the doorway. Our first door we were very proud of ourselves. But the next day we ran out of food and could not find any pigs or wolfs. But while me and Luca went hunting we found a metal hatch and found something horrifying... Dead corpses covered in bullet holes. we found a long strong stick and pushed the people out of the way with it. At the end of the bunker room we opened an vault door and found tons and tons of GOLD BARS AND FOOD AND WATER. When we went back we found jasper with a REALLY cute monkey. He said i got an monkey look at him. I said he was cute. We heard an droning noise and an explosion. We went to look for the noise but just as we left camp we heard our beds ruffling. We went back and found an German. Caleb said look who we have here. I asked the German life or death. He answered life. Luca said you have brought shame upon Germany you are now our prisoner. We found the German not very tough. After a few weeks he told me in privacy his name, James. After a few more weeks i grew to like the German. But on Thursday the 27th of April 1943 we had 1 radio and we heard that an battle had started near us. We all prayed someone would get us off this place. We climbed up the mountain and saw the battle raging on. We saw some Japanese soldiers in 1 landing craft about 10 kilometres away from us. We hurried into the sub found some cloth and turned it into 6 untied empty sandbags. We all grabbed our primitive spades and started shoveling sand into the sandbags once we got them to the calculated landing site. By the time they got there we were just ready. Me and Luca held them off while the others got sharp stones, flax and a stick and made knifes in case. The Japanese were getting closer when Luca was shot. I heard the others and shouted in their direction GIMME A KNIFE AND MAKE A BANDAGE FOR LUCA HES SHOT the reply was OK SIR. We were shouting because of the gunfire by the time the battle ended i was shot like Luca but i was aided second because Luca was already unconscious. After the aiding we searched the Japanese landing crafts. In total we found enough food for 5 people and it would last 2 weeks, An LMG which was handy in case more Japanese came. During the battle a ship rescued us and we were glad to leave. The end.
Monday, September 20, 2021
Friday, September 17, 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Thursday, September 9, 2021
The Edible World
This is my marshmallow earth. The crust which is made up of tectonic plates this is chocolate & I cracked the chocolate when it was dry to make the tectonic plates. Then I made the mantle which is the marshmallow and the mantle is the hottest part of the earth. Also there was the outer core which was an m&m shell. Finally the inner core was made of an m&ms chocolate.
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Thursday, August 5, 2021
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Maths Term 3 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Reflection Term 2 2021
My Favorite: Making the models because i like making models and it was a good challenge.
My Second Favorite: The end of term 2 because i could have a 2 week break and play my favorite game.
My Biggest Challenge: The bridal path because uphill was steep and tiring while downhill was hard for me to stop myself from falling.
Friday, July 9, 2021
My argument
It was bad for the Europeans to come to NZ because:
Diseases:
Wars
Treaty of waitangi trick
The Actual Thing
Diseases: When Europeans first arrived in New Zealand Māori had no immunity against many of the virulent diseases they brought with them. Some of the worst diseases, such as yellow fever, cholera, malaria and typhus, never arrived. Smallpox and plague were quickly contained on the rare occasions they were identified.
NZ wars: Many Taranaki Māori opposed land sales, and fighting began in 1860 over a disputed land purchase at Waitara. The British army and Pākehā settlers fought local Māori until March 1861. In 1865 there were battles in South Taranaki, and Major-General Trevor Chute led troops around Mt Taranaki, destroying Māori villages.
Treaty of waitangi trick: In the English text, Māori leaders gave the Queen 'all the rights and powers of sovereignty' over their land. In the Māori text, Māori leaders gave the Queen 'te kawanatanga katoa' or the complete government over their land. The word 'sovereignty' had no direct translation in Māori.
Term 2 Reflection
Thursday, July 8, 2021
School lunches
I do like some school lunches and dont particularly think some other school lunches are good but the sad thing is lots of people dont even want to try them. EVEN MORE THAN HALF THE CLASS IN FACT! I know some people who have just had a school lunch once and then they have never eaten another just 1 lunch not 1 of each.
Bridle Path
Why We Went: To feel how hard it was for the Europeans to come to Christchurch over the port hills.
What We Did: We walked up it, obviously and checked out 2 bunkers from world war 2. At the top me and a few others acted like we were defending the hill form Japanese soldiers.
How I Felt: Really tired walking up the hill because it was steep. Once we were having morning tea the wind was annoying me because it was blowing my bag away.
How Hard I Think It Was For The Europeans: probably really hard because they were cooped up on the ship for 3 months. We had fancy sneakers and just had to carry water and food while they had not as strong shoes and had to carry all the belongings they had.
What The Hardest Bit Was For Me: The walk uphill because It was 65 degrees not in heat.
How I Felt When I Reached The Top: really successful and resilient.
I am the boy on the right who has their face hiddenTuesday, July 6, 2021
My Term 2 2021 Inquiry
What we made: Me and jasper made an gold mining model which did turn out very good looking. Jasper had to make the slab hut at his house. We had an tree stump with an axe in it, 3 logs in an pile, trees, goats, beer bottles, a musket and an house.
How we made it: We used play mobile and small tree prunings. We used a little help from Jakob. The most funny things we had were 4 beer jugs.
What we did well: Considering me and Jasper are best friends we worked quite well and we wrote a decent speech. I think overall the general construction of the mining model went really well.
What to work on:Maybe speed we did have only 1 week to actually write the speech and build. But just try to work a tiny bit faster.
Monday, June 28, 2021
Jean batten
Jean Batten
The tresure hunt
18.2.2021 Tawhirimateas treasure hunt 1) I enjoyed looking for the words beacause it was good fun 2) i did not like how sonny kept leaving the group to see his friends because we sometimes thought he was going to the next place so we followed him
3) The egg challenge was sort of hard because we had to decipher the words.
New Boots
Explain why Charlie was so annoyed with Jason the whole time? He had to carry Jasons stuff, he was bragging tons how he helped Charlie and he snored.
Do you agree or disagree that Charlie should have been annoyed with Jason? Explain why or why not. Yes because Jason said ten times good thing i had that duct tape and he had to carry the gas stove and the gas which those together are heavy and were things that were Jasons
My Paper Mosaic
This is my mosaic it looks like an transformer but its a... SPARTAN! i searched it up on google first i did the sketch. Then i glued the card on.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Ferrymead things i learnt.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
My Turtle
This is the turtle that i made. The thing on his face is a gas mask to protect him from MUSTARD gas ( it can make your guts dissolve). It also has an grenade an super grenade an anti brainwash device and an nuclear bomb.
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Creating Dampa and butter The Pioneer Way
RECIPE FOR DAMPA:
- 3 cups self raising flour
- pinch of salt
- 80 g butter chilled and cubed
- 185 ml water.
How The Damper Tasted
BUTTER RECIPE
- 1 cup heavy cream 38% fat content
- cold water
Mixer Instructions
- Pour cream into the bowl of a stand mixer using the whisk attachment, or use a mixing bowl and hand mixer. Begin beating the cream on a low speed, and gradually increase the speed as the mixture thickens.
- After several minutes, whipped cream will form. Continue mixing. The whipped cream will start to yellow. After several minutes more the fat solids will separate from the liquids and you'll see clumps of butter fat quickly form, leaving the sloshing liquid buttermilk in the bottom of the bowl.
Mason Jar Instructions
- Pour heavy cream into the mason jar, filling it half-way full. Do not overfill past the half-way mark. Screw the lid on tightly so there are no leaks.
- Shake mason jar for approximately 5-7 minutes. After a few minutes, whipped cream will form. Keep shaking until you hear that a lump has formed inside, and shake an additional 30-60 seconds after that. You should clearly see that the fat solids have separated from the liquids. The amount of time it takes will depend on how vigorously you are able to shake the jar.
Rinsing, Flavoring, and Storing
- Strain the fat solids from the buttermilk using a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth. You can reserve the buttermilk and save it for later use in recipes.
- Pour cold water over the butter. Discard water and repeat rinsing 2 times more. Shape into a ball or any other shape (you can purchase butter molds for interesting designs).
- At this point you have butter. You can add in things like salt, honey, and herbs to create flavored butters, or serve in its pure form as is.
HOW THE BUTTER TASTED
Monday, May 31, 2021
Ferrymead Heritage Park
- Scrubbing the deck
- silverware polishing
- ironing
- putting thatch on the roof
- and cleaning clothes with soap and water.
- Blacksmith
- white smith
- printer
- brick layer
- sheep farmer
- miller
- painter.
- horseshoe= blacksmith
- measuring cup= whitesmith
- newspaper= printer
- brick= brick layer
- sheep skin= sheep farmer
- flour= miller
- paintbrush= painter.
My favorite part was on a wagon, We acted like it was NORMANDY!!! (the most famous D-day landing) and i got hit and blown up :D.
We also did packing the trunk and we looked at these objects and decided if we needed them on the voyage or they went to the storage
- drill
- candle
- candle mould
- pot
- a thing that when you spun it around so say on 1 side there was a bird cage and on the other a bird it
would look like the bird is in the bird cage - we made candles out of animal fat and fat from roasts
- the hardest one is french knitting and i cant even explain it just search it up in google or ask serie
- we also did regular knitting.
Monday, May 24, 2021
1940 (Battle Of Britan) early access
Day 1: On the 10th of July 1940 Me and some other pilots were at the battle of Britain. Caleb (the gunner) and Jasper were piloting a Avengers Bomber called Pretty lady. Sebastian and Dylan Were in a B29 but i did not get the name. Me and Luca were in a B25. Of course there were still other gunners apart from Caleb but i i am not naming them. We could see about 900 German Luftwaffe flying right at us. We thought the Luftwaffe pilots were dumb... We were wrong. day 2: I woke up to a siren I had heard it before it was a air raid siren. I got into my B25 with Luca. We saw a explosion we were lucky it was not us. While we were getting into the B25 we could hear AA shells dropping and clinking on the ground, bombs making whooshing noises in the air and most terrifying of all... TANKS armored vehicles with heavy guns. I guessed that the land invasion had begun. I told everyone to hurry up or they would die. Then everyone was pushing to the aircraft some pilots stayed and maned the anti tank guns. Then... BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a bomb that was being loaded into a plane had been shot. Right after that i heard engines starting then finally All the crew of my plane was in we instantly started the engines and took off. Day 3: My plane was not doing great the top gunner was dead my left cheek and tail gunners were wounded. A bullet had also just missed me but the hole was not big enough to make us freeze and to add to the problems chart we were low on fuel and a propeller was down. Luckily Only one other propeller was hit the 2 others were at full power. We saw Jasper and Caleb's plane fall out of the sky and hit the ground then a explosion. The bombs had been detonated all i could see was wiring, metal and blood. Im sorry to interrupt but i can show the aircraft we were piloting. these are the aircraft:
Me and Luca's plane Dylan and Seb's plane Jasper and Caleb's plane.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
What some words mean
Monday, May 17, 2021
Monday, May 10, 2021
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Monday, May 3, 2021
Newspaper Report From The School Holidays.
Best Of It: Calebs birthday :).
What I Would Like To Change: Make Calebs birthday longer
Friday, April 16, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
What i learnt at school 2 (not finished)
History of war: The night witches
The night witches were an all women bomber regiment. They were Russian pilots. Here is a story:
The Germans were camping behind the western front. Their tents were lined up in rows. The winter snow crunched under a German guards boots. All the sudden he saw a dark flying object went past. He did not hear a engine sound. All he could hear was a lady laughing. He lost his footing. Die nacht hexen. He said under his breath Die nacht hexen. Then... BOOM!!! A Night witch had drooped a bomb.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
What i learnt on The 31st march 2021
On Wednesday 31st of march 2021 we did PE. We played some soccer... Well kinda Because there were 2 goals and 1 person per team. 1 person was a goalie and the other tried to kick the ball into a goal. Before we could do that we had to pass the ball to each other across the width of the field twice. We could not dribble the balls. We had to pass slightly in front of the other person. We took turns kicking and being goalie. There were 2 goals so we did not have to wait to long to be goalie. There was about 10 pairs.
My field trip.
On Monday the 29 march we went on a field trip to the art gallery,museum and the orchestra. At the museum we first went inside an artificial cave. there we saw a spider as large as my hand. then we looked at a moa skeleton we think it was a giant moa they were the biggest moas that ever lived. We than looked at some boats and moari models. We also looked at some creatures.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
My pixel art
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
My Portrait