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Play Minecraft Persuasive

Play Minecraft

People like and hate games left ‘n’ right, but this game is MUCH better than most of them except Halo obviously. Minecraft may have bad graphics because you can easily see the pixels BUT it is meant to be that way. So here are my 4 reasons to play minecraft.

Firstly, Minecraft has places to explore like the cavern layers where certain ores lay because ores won’t be on the surface just waiting to be mined. NO, they make it better so you use more effort to go and get them.

Secondly, Minecraft has interesting biomes and structures like the mushroom biome and the icicle biome and they are both rare. There are weird structures like pillager towers, villages, woodland mansions and more! This will help your imagination and creativity.

 

Thirdly, there is hidden treasure and broken pirate ships in the sea or on the beach and sometimes on land. You can find things in pirate ships like iron, gold, emeralds, treasure maps and more! For hidden treasure you find diamonds, gold, nautilus shells and all the stuff you can find in a pirate ship except for the treasure map. This helps your concentration.

 

 

Finally, there are epic bosses to fight like the Ender Dragon. You have to find a stronghold by getting an eye of ender (made by blaze powder in the nether and ender pearls from ender men) to lead you in the direction to it. There is also the wither made by 4 soul sand and 3 wither skulls all found in the Nether. It challenges your skills to beat other hard games.

concluding statement

You should play minecraft as it is the greatest game of all time for these reasons, THERE ARE STRONGHOLDS, PORTALS, MINESHAFTS AND A BUNCĦ OF ITEMS TO OBTAIN. THERE ARE only 2 bosses but THEY ARE HARD WITHOUT SHARPNESS OR SMITE. So go to your local warehouse and buy it NOW!

Toki Ponamu Film Festival review

The film review on the Toki Pounamu Film Festival
Today, our class traveled to the Regent Theatre to see the Toki Pounamu Film Festival. This is a festival where students made films and hoped there film was in the festival. There were 2 parts both having about 10 films. My favourite was the first one because it was the one with the most quality and it was quite funny. The seats at the theatre were those ones that make the cushion flip up. It was fun at the theatre and I liked it quite a bit beside the fact that I was in a pretty bad spot. The theatre was very large for a studio like this and some people even hid behind the curtains. The film was funny for the sounds and the costumes and they were well made. I rate a 8/10 for the great effort for this film and the film was a news report about a robber. They had music and slow motion along with captions.

kiwi texture

We have been learning to make a collage on Google Drawing. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make a NZ bird and put it into its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this?

problem solving term 3

My NZ minibeast report

We have been learning about Minibeasts in class as part of science. We have been creating information reports on a Minibeast of our choice. The Minibeast we chose had to live in Aoetearoa/NZ. Here is my writing. I worked with Benny for this topic.

Big Punch Animation

Today we were learning to do an animation on google slides. We had to use free to use images (I just used my own) and we had to change some of the code to make it work. We had to make the animation loop by changing the word false to true inside the code. In the code I also changed the moving part to make it go faster. Hope you enjoyed my animation.

Weta report - term 3

This piece of writing that we did for our minibeast topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an information report on this insect.

click here to see our success criteria

 

Textural Weta of Nz

What is a weta?

Weta are native insects to NZ.

Weta have an invertebrate and an exoskeleton. An invertebrate is an animal that has its skeleton on the outside which is called an exoskeleton and they don’t have a spine. Weta are also similar to crickets. They have 6 legs and 2 antennae. They have ears just below the front on their joint knees and they have a thorax and abdomen. Maori thought wetas were ugly so they called them a punga aka spirit of ugliness. There are five main types of wetas and 70 others. Although  weta might not look pretty, they are an important native insect.

Where do weta live?

Weta live in many different places (eg. a forest or swamp) not only that but also in rotten logs, the whenua (ground), in trees and sometimes your house. They have been around before the mokonui (dinosaurs) aka the triassic age. They mostly like wet environments like a rainforest. Only some species of animals live in rainforests.

What do weta eat?

Weta of course eat plants and weeds but surprisingly they also eat kāreti (carrots). Weta not only eat your kai (food), they also eat what it came from. Seeds. They can be omnivores, carnivores and herbivores. Carnivores for eating other insects, herbivores for eating plants or weeds, and omnivores for eating both.

What are wetas threats?

Weta have a lot of threats including tangata (us), they have birds as one, hedgehogs as another, porakas (frogs) as an additional etc. These animals weren’t the only threats through their whole life. Before us, they only had 2 threats, birds and tuatara. They are also dying out which is bad so here are some tips for protecting them. Look after them and their habitat (nohanga), don’t take them and move them somewhere far away from their original home and the main one of all, STOP SQUISHING THEM!

Where or how do weta breed?

Weta breed in grass places like the forest, your backyard, in trees or in a school field. They use a thing on their back to dig (ovipositor) into the ground and lay over 300 eggs. 4/10 only lay in aroaromahana kōrua matiti(spring and summer), 6/10 do it in autumn and no weta like doing it in winter. Weta eggs take 6-8 months aka half a year or 2 seasons to hatch which gives birds a massive advantage and a massive disadvantage. Advantage: weta don’t protect their egg. Disadvantage: they are in the ground and can’t reach them.

Are weta social?

No but most tree weta are, they are more hangu (passive) and social. The others are loners and probably aren’t carnivores or hunters at all. If they did want to contact other weta, they would use their legs to make a kita (chirping) sound. We aren’t the only ones that can communicate. We talk and communicate, weta chirp and communicate. They are also playful.

Insects and Minibeasts

At School we have been learning about mini beasts. Here is the reading work we have been doing.

Area and Perimeter

transformation

abandoned places

Our learning goals are to:
-Write a description, using powerful words and phrases
-include some Te Reo Māori
-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

Sorftco Nuclear Accident

In tekau ma iwa tekau ma whitu (1967), there was a nuclear power plant that had a nuclear melt down and 75% of the workers died and they couldn’t afford to rebuild. So they abandoned the place for eternity. And it’s still abandoned to this day! So I decided to go explore this so called Sorftco? “Is it Sorftco?” “Yeah” “Oh ok“

I went inside the powerplants area and started to go and explore this weird green world. It had kakariki green vines with maroon texture around itself. I went inside and it was a very crusty, rusty location. There was weird bits of green slop dripping down from the brown cracked wall with bits of ooze sitting on the wall. I went outside to go and visit the office and see what was left of it.
 It had strips of carpet hanging down the hideous wall and it smelled like rats and radiation. I looked in one of the dusty drawers and found a missile button and as It turns out, they had planned to bomb America (their own country). So I went outside to go and investigate the surroundings of this smelly place. There were canned beans, radiated water and bits of pākākā chestnut rusty metal everywhere...

fynn and benny whakoati raoanga Problem solving

Making a Paper Plane

Hi, today I researched how to make
a paper plane. I have made a presentation
of the instructions. When you have had a go,
let me know how your plane flew, and maybe
send me a photo. Smart Blogging.

scratch project- te reo maori

Task: Create an animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week - Korero o te Wiki.
WALT:
-use scratch to code for computational thinking
-learn how to create the basic coding on scratch
-say basic phrases in te reo maori

te reo maori phrases of the week

MY Art

in term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and class mate at karoro school. As the part of this we drew self portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see important.

Here is mine.

If I Had Wings poem

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky 
( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

Why Swimming is Important

my poem

Get NZ writing - poetry
over the past few weeks we have been part of the
get NZ writing poetry project. This project aimed to
get 96,000 poems written across NZ! We were sent
a tin with objects in it and we used one of
these objects to write poems. Here is my poem

Porwhiri Writing

PORWHIRI

Wero

Ceremonial challenge by hosts to visitors to check if they come in peace or war.
But now Its just for respect. The people that performed the wero are the wariors.

Karanga

Welcoming those that come to the marae performed by the women.
The welcoming theme is like a sad tune that goes on for 10 seconds.

Karanga

Welcoming those that come to the marae performed by the women.
The welcoming theme is like a sad tune that goes on for 10 seconds.

Whaikōrero

Speeches from the admin of the tribe. The men do the speeches.
In the speeches they welcome the guest and they pay respects to
the ancestor of the tribe. The speaker tells about what’s gonna happen
in the day.

Koha

Giving food or treasure like greenstone and gold and silver.
Donating money to help raise money for the marae. The koha is given
during the speeches.

Waiata

After the speech the waiata is sung (usually the women start it but the
women and men continue it and end it). This supports the speech.

Hongi

After the speech the visitors are invited to the hongi and to do the
hongi, you put you head and nose against another persons head
and nose. It’s a maori tradition and it’s a sign of peace and respect.

Kai

At the end of the porwhiri we have kai and in english it’s food.
We get all kinds of food: oranges, apples, banana, apricot, bread and
beef. VERY YUM, and usually we get cakes and cookies. Adults get
coffee and tea. (my brother gets coffee and he's 12!)

Kawa of Care

We have been learning to follow the kawa of care which tells us how to look after our devices and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. here is my work.

Here it is!

My Marae Writing

Wharenui

(1) A wharenui is a meetinghouse with carvings and its from Māori culture. A
wharenui represents an ancestor that has past away, and this was a very
special ancestor to the Māori culture.

(2) At the top of the wharenui is a carved head, in Māori language it’s koruru.
Inside the wharenui is a Māori carving which represents the heart of the
ancestor.  On the side of the wharenui is 2 arms and in Māori they are called
maihi. Along the bottom of the roof is the spine and again in Māori it is called
tāhuhu. Along the side of the roof are once again, the ribs and also in Māori its
heke.

The marae/wharenui is a place where people can stay for the day or for a sleep
and yet they are protected by the Māori people so they won’t die or get
kidnapped.

The wharenui is a place where homeless can go if their home was either
washed away or blown away or blown down by a tornado. The wharenui is a
place to remember about all the people that passed away. It is also a place to
have meetings for funerals or weddings.

By Fynn

Karoro School Values

For the begging of the year we have been learning about Karoro School values and some ways to demonstrate these.

Swim Safe Achievement Levels

We have been learning how to be safe when swimming and working on our swimming skills. Below is my swimming goal sheet and I have highlighted green parts  I have completed. By the end of the year my goal is to complete level 4.