Martian code mission

For the past couple weeks in Hur 3 science we have been trying to find a system to communicate across a long distance. After doing  some research me and my buddy ( Mikayla ) found a system that we thought would work, Morse code using light. For this we first wrote down the whole alphabet in Morse code then we did it with a flashlight. Mikayla sent the message and I received it (well I tried to). It didn't actually work. We think the reason why was it was it was to light and we didn't have practice. we could have done it while it was darker or we had more practice. 

The NZ Gold Rush

Today in Hur1 we have been looking at the NZ gold rush, here are some facts I learnt about it.

1. Gold is valuable because it is rare and attractive.

2. Gold is found as small flecks in the veins of hard quartz rocks.

3. alluvial gold is found in rocks that have been worn down to sand.

4. if you asked and gold miner where the gold was they would say, "where it be there it be".

5. in NZ gold was mainly found in, Otago, Marlborough, Southland, The west coast, Golden bay and in the Coromandel Peninsula.

6. 4 properties to describe gold are Inert, shiny, Heavy and  Malleable.

7. The first Europian to find gold in NZ was Charles Ring from Tasmania in Driving creek in 1852.

I learnt a lot from his bu he main thing I learnt was people really liked gold and would use it to get out of poverty.

Parihaka facts

For the past few weeks in Hur 5, we have been making DLO's ( digital learning objects ) about Parihaka.

I made mine with a friend of mine called Reuben. We made an animation in which I hope you like it.

Freeze frame

Today in Hur 2 drama we made 6 different freeze frames for 6 main points in the story "Bok Choy"
The six points that I thought were the most important were.

1. Going fishing to get away from the fight between the two mums
2. Falling into the river 
3. waking up in Arsum's house and getting offered  the rice
4. Mum coming in and being very grateful
5. Thinking about why Arsum worshipped the portraits 
6. The two mums arguing again but standing up for Arsum and his "Bok Choy"

Hur 2 (Drama)

This week in drama we have been doing a bunch of different things but in this blog I am going to be explaining 3 of them (Iceberg, role on the wall and recount). Iceberg is something were you draw a triangle or Iceberg shape and put a line through it horizontally (Across). above the line you write things that you can tell from the story like this example.

Role on the wall is a way of figuring out what the character is really feeling. the way you do this is you draw a person shape and on the outside of the shape you write things you can figure out from just reading the story like for example. The main character might be the class clown but behind might have a horrible life.

Final art display

This term in Hur 4 we have we have been slowly creating a final art display. On our art display we have our three art pieces, the three pieces were our weaving, our Tapa art and our collage. We also put our . The part of my art display that I am most proud of is my Tapa art Because it took the most effort and it was fun to make. Something that challenged me during this art/writing hurumanu was figuring out where to put my pieces of art and poetry on my black piece of paper. My favourite style of poetry is a style of poetry called limerick. I enjoyed creating my poems and artwork and I hope I can do a different types of poetry and art again soon.

PE : Weight

My number is 21

Activity	Weight	Repeats
Supermans	21	20
Push-ups	21	10
Planks	21	12
skipping	21	90
burpys	21	20
sit ups	21	10