Effects of livestock to waterways

 

Hey bloggers, this week we had to do yet another inquiry matrix task. I decided to take the task of making a slideshow about how farm animals such as cows affect the waterways. A waterway is a large body of water the flows, for example, a river or a stream, a lake or even the sea, they all are natural waterways and this is how they are getting polluted. A way that these waterways get polluted is when cows urinate the nitrogen seeps into the soil, then the nitrogen can create toxic algae and choke the water of its oxygen.

Did you know about waterway pollution before you saw this blog post? if so send a comment on how you found out and how you thought about it.

Seaside Minecraft City

 Hey bloggers, Last week the teachers made a rubric that had tasks that we needed to do, I chose to make a seaside Minecraft city. As you can see in this picture it took me a while, over a week to be exact. I made an aquifer near the beach so that they can reuse waste water for things like toilets and other stuff like that. Have you ever made a city in Minecraft?

The Ghosts of Gru's Rock

 Hey bloggers, this week has been a bit weird as we went into lockdown and had to do online school again. For literacy on Thursday, we were tasked with creating a one-page horror story. Then once we were done we had to make a promotional poster on our story. Have a read of my story and don't be shy to comment on how you thought about it. have you ever made a horror story?

The fish of the North island

 Hey bloggers, today Me and my friends were tasked to make a script for a video of Maui fishing up the north island. the video was muted so the narration couldn't be copied. Then we made a video on a really cool website called voki. have a look at our script

Content Characters And Ever Going Change

 Hey Bloggers,

For literacy with Mr Shaw, we are doing something called the SUPERHERO INITIATIVE.

the first project is to work on these questions and answer them, here is my work.

Magical Matariki art

 Hey bloggers, Fletcher here.

On the 2 July, we celebrated the Māori New Year, a time to consider the year ahead. The days are starting to lengthen and spring will soon be here, we just need to get through this cold winter first! 

Matariki and the Pleiades star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two; one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow-colored. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.

My kite has a Taniwha that is rainbow and the background is rainbow. I chose rainbow because it represents ururangi's kite.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

RIP Bob the EGG

 Hey bloggers, today is a sad day as bob the egg died in an egg drop challenge. After we got back from the tech Mrs Osborn surprised us with STEAM. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. Only 2 groups managed to not smash their egg in the entire class. Have you ever made a device to save an egg?