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Thursday, 18 February 2021

Facts about Pounamu

 Fact 1. Greenstones are one of the most treasured items in Maori culture.



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Fact 2. Arahura river is the spiritual home to Greenstones. 



Fact 3. Some Greenstones are known to be light some are known to be heavy.



Fact 4. Greenstones are mostly found in the Southern Islands and the west coast of New Zealand 



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Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Draw your Taonga here:

 

Design Task:


Draw your own version of your Taonga.


  • Use the Shapes tool to create the larger parts of your drawing



  • Use the Lines, Curve and Scribble tools to add other shapes and designs.


You’ll find these tools on the top right of your screen. They look like this...






Writing about my taonga (treasure)


This slide is about my taonga but its in writing enjoy 

My Taonga


This is a google slide about My Taonga i hope you enjoy it 

Lost treasures quiz

 Lost Treasure

Instructions: 

Highlight the correct answer for each question.


Questions:


1. What is the name of the cousin that liked playing tricks?

a) Jack Sparrow b) Wai

c) Hoani d) David


2. Why did he ‘wake up paralysed’?

a) he got bitten by a spider.

b) He had been dancing all night

c) he was plastic-wrapped to the stretcher

d) he had no idea.


3.True or false:  When he was young, his cousin told him to eat the dead spider.

a)True b) False

 

4. How do you know if he ate/ didn’t eat the dead spider?

Answer: he did because he was convinced and he was very young  


5. What does comeuppance mean?

  1. A cup of tea b) Karmar

      c)   Punishment d) A ride at rainbows end

6.. Who told the story of Nanny’s teaspoon Collection?

  1. Hoani b) Wai

      c)  No one d) Aunty Pam


7. When did Nanny get her first teaspoon?

  1.  Eight years old b) Nine years old

       c)  ten years old d) eleven years old 


8. Why did Nan take the teaspoon?  

  1.  it was beautiful b) She needed it to make her coffee

      c) it had her name on it    d) it was expensive


9. What does wharekai mean?

a) Name of a street b) Kitchen

c) bedroom d) a suburb in NZ


10) What is something important to your whanau that is valuable and can’t be replaced?

→ Eachother 


Cool facts about GOLD

 Fact 1. Supernova nucleosynthesis was the thing that created gold 




Fact 2. Millions of years ago the gold fell from space into earth's core crust  



Fact 3. Each and every year gold is decreasing meaning every year gold is leasing and leasing  



Fact 4. Gold is used for money and it is also used to make jewellery 


Thursday, 11 February 2021

Extension 2021

 


This year i'm in Extension and on the first day we read 3 articles. The first one was about a south African family came to New Zealand except only the mum went because of Covid 19 and the other 2 are about the american cup and people bribing New Zealanders to let them in.