Our trip to the museum

Today we went to the Rotorua museum and looked around at all the galleries.The first gallery was about Pukaki we learnt the maori word for treasure and when the  carving was made.The thing i liked about this gallery was the statue of Pukaki.
Gallery2
was about the Te Arawa people and the things that helped them get to Aotearoa.We also learnt about who the adeze (cutting tool) once belonged to.My favourite part was seeing the tool in person.
Gallery3 had lots of things that belonged to the maori ancestors they were fish hooks and a flute.
Gallery4 was about the Pataka the store house where they stored all the food.
Gallery5 was about the things that the Europeans bout over that the maoris had never seen before.
Gallery6 was all about the pink and white terraces and what there maori names are.The maori name for the pink terrace was Otukapuarangi and the maori name for the white terrace is Te Tarata.
Gallery7 was about the soldiers in the b group of the maori battalion that fought in world war 2.We also learnt about Miss new zealand which was Linda Ritchie.
Gallery8 had a carving of Te Rangitakaroro which was originally used as a gate way and in 2001 1 in 9 people were living overseas.
Some of the other rooms were the north wing which was about taking the cure and we did a sketch abot the boy and the dog.We also went in the atic and we went up the stairs to the viewing platform we we learnt that the water was once as high as Mount Ngongotaha.

My weekend

in the weekend i did nothing haha it was soo fun all i did was play with my puppies it was sooooo fun!um i went to shakaylas and kalebs house and keirian gave me some hair extensions

Today

Today Mrs Harvey is away and we have Whaea Piki we have done maths and blogging and we had asembly this morning .

Fitness

Today we had our 1k rin my time was 8:36

Cry of the Taniwha chap- 22

1. Describe what happened in this chapter.
2. Reflect on your literacy work this week. PMI - the good, the bad and the interesting...


1. Skulla and his gang persisted on getting the diamonds and made Matt start searching,he was convinced he hadnt found anything but he found a diamond in the end and Skulla couldnt take his eyes off of it.But bad news struck and Whakarewarewa exploded, covering Skulla in a clump of boiling mud. Jackson was hurt badly and looked frale,dead.




2. I think that I have done allright this week, i just need to remain focused so I can get my work done. Like I said i have to keep focus because i get distracted easily. I enjoy reading the book because it shows you what bullying and gangs are like and how theyre bad for you. ♥

Cry of the Taniwha chap-20 and 21

Chapter 20.

1.What did Matt and Eve find out?
There was a diamond inside the ponga.


2.Do you think they should go with Ana? Why/Why not?
No because she lead the boys into the gangs hands so she probably has some connection with them.

Chapter 21

3.What do you think is going happened?
 I think they will be able to make it out with out skulla on his back because I think theyre will be some sort of eruption,since the mud was bubbling heaps so they will keep the jewels and keep investigating.

Cry of the Taniwha chap-19

W.A.L.T: edit and proof read are work.

1.Why did they go to the musseum?
Matt wanted to hand over the sovereigns
and Eve had her papers to drop off.

2. What do you think might be special about the ponga? 
UM there might be something special inside it because Mat 
 gave it to eve as a present!

Cry of the Taniwha chap-18

W.A.L.T- edit and proof read our writing.

1.What does Eve do in this chapter?
She see's Zirk checking on her Matt and Jackson, he had been there most of the week. She found a bit of glass that had been half buried in dirt she picked it up and pretended it was the most precious diamond in the world and the Zirk came a bit closer with his binoculars right on them.She hid it again and then waited for him to come and look for it, only to find a bit of broken glass.

2.What is going to happen next?
I think that the geologists will block off the area that they had been in the day before,because something dangerous is going to happen,maybe the eruption.

My weekend!

This weekend was mothers day we went to tenpin bowling and we went out to lunch at the kabab shop.

Cry of the Taniwha chap-17

1. What is Gawks real name?
2. Where does he live?
3. Why did he give the items back?
4. Would you be woried if you were Matt?Why?Why not?

 1.The pervert known as gawk has a real name Cecil Hilton.
2. Cecil lives in an iron garage behind a neat house.
3.Cecil gave the items back because jackson threatend him about letting the wxk know where he lives.
4.I would be because if the gang is released from the court then they might come after him but he has the coins.

Cry of the taniwha-chap 16

WALT - Find the meaning of words. 1. Find the meaning of the following words: console / briefly / bombarded / edition / pendant 2. Find where each word is used during the chapter and give the page number and paragraph number. 3. Wow me with an amazing sentence for each word 

 

 1.  a.  console- A box that you put games in .
b.  briefly-for a short time.
c.  bombarded-attack with the news she had
d.  edition-a series of printings in a newspaper book etc.
e.  pendant- the main peice on jewlery or an ornament.

2.
a.first paragraph chapter 16 page 116.
b.paragraph 5 page 116 chapter 16
c.116 paragraph 7 chapter 16
d.paragraph 2 chapter 16  page 117
e.page 117 paragraph 3 chapter 16

 

a. My brother  has a playstation console that he doenst let me touch.

b.Makyla only came to my house for a brief time because her mum was coming to get her.

c.I got bombarded by oceania because she was so excited because i said a song she wanted to do for the talent quest.

 d.I want to read the latest edition of 2012 horse of the year magazine.

e.The eye bulging diamond pendant sat in the safety of glass at the jewlers.

Fitness

This morning we had fitness we did a 1k run around the field and around the court then past puarenga and back down the field.My time was 4:45.

Basketball

YES we have basketball tonight cant wait.We are playing Rotorua intermediate and i hope we win even though Rangi said they are really hard.

Cry of the taniwha chap-5

W.A.L.T.justify answers using information from the text.

1.Why did Hone get angry?
Hone was extremely mad because Matt hadnt told Hone about the threats and bullying that the gang had said/done to him, and it was to late by the time Matt told him.

2. Predict whats going to happen next.
The gang will find Matt hiding in the car scrunching up to the seats, trying to remain unhidden. They tell him that he has ONE last chance to get them something good or he's dead meat. He has to find a way to get a metal detector and finds a time machine. He goes into the future and WA BAM skulla is a elaphant. Jackson has dropped out of the group but he still has to rob a car. then PEOW a huge monster truck comes along and runs the car over.

Cry of the Taniwha-chapter 14

W.A.L.T - Justify answers using information from text

1.Why had Matt not slept well?
Because of being told about Jackson having to do a robbery to be in WXK. Also he is scared about what might happen in the future.
(Chapter 14 paragraph 1. )

2.Why did Nan tell Matt that he was famous?
He was on the front page of the newspaper with a picture of him and the detector and  an article about the body and the gold.
(chapter 14 paragraph 2.)

3.What happened to Matt in the redwoods?
Matt was using his metal detector to find gold peices for the gang because otherwise he would get punched. He found 9 gold peices but he had to go to the toilet but GAWK stoel his metal detetctor and the gold and ran off.
(chapeter 14 paragraph 11.)

4.What did Eve find out?
Eve has assumed that the skeleton that was buried is Jack Boult because he went on a trip with the lady that had the diamond pendant but Jack didnt return with them.

Fitness

This morning we had fitness i ran 3 laps of the field in 10 mins.

Cry of the taniwha-chapter 13

Literacy- W.A.L.T:Justify answers using information from text.

1. How is Matt feeling about Juzza now?Matt now wants to help Juzza get out of trouble the boys are just using him.
2. Who is Gawk?Gawk is the name of the pervert spying on the lovers in the bush  he has odd, orange hair and a strange top.
3. What was Gawk doing?Gawk was interested in the two lovers in the bush he was spying at them.

My Weekend

Well....on the weekend i spent most of my time sitting in the hospital.My brother had a crash into his mate at the skate park.His mate was in hospital as well he had a swelled up eye like a tennis ball.My brother had concussion he got knocked out and couldn't really remember much.The doctor had to come in every half hour to see if he could remember were he was and were we lived.The second time he couldn't remember were we lived he said we lived in iles road. We had to stay there until 11oclock and we hadn't had any dinner i was sooo hungry.He had to have a scan to see if his brain was bleeding or if he needed surgery on his head. his head is bruised and his fingers are swollen.

Cry of the Taniwha chapter 11-12

W.A.L.T:Write informitive, interesting sentences.
Who are the following people?
a.)Louise Miller -Louise Miller is the loving mother of Mary Basham.Edward Basham is the husband of Mary Basham.He made the locket for Louise and placed a photo of her mother.
b.)Edward Basham-Edward Basham is the sweet,loving and rich husband of Mary Basham. He made the locket for louise with a picture of her mother.
c.)Mary Basham married Edward Basham. She has lots of expensive jewllery and keeps a diamond pendent under he rbed.
d.)Scott Murrey is the leader of WXK.He used to be a good sports player but after his dad left he joined the gang.
e.)Ian McMillian is a scientist that identified the skeleton that Matt found.
f.)Eve is the girl staying in the hotel.She helped Matt find out the research about Louise Miller.

Basketball

Last night was our first game of basketball we played Te Koutu .Our game was at the events centre we WON yeahhhh the score was 28-14 i cant wait until next wednesday so we can win again haha.