Matariki

Matariki the Maori new year is full of tradition Matariki is officially celebrated on 15 June 2018. Matariki is the Maori name for a group of seven stars known as the Pleiades star cluster.   
Twinkling in the winter sky just before dawn Traditionally, it was a time for remembering the dead, and celebrating new life.  In the 21st century, observing Matariki has become popular again. Heaven-bound kites, hot-air balloons and fireworks help mark the occasion.  
 
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Toondoo

Today for our cyber smart lesson we made a Toondoo about something that we did in the holidays. I went to my first ever basketball game, here is what i made. I had a great time.

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Kete

This is my groups kete work 

Writing

Keys:

WHO, WHAT , WHEN , WHERE, WHY

On the 25th of December, Christmas Day  we always travel to Kaikoura to see our family.
When we have travelled, most of our family meets up at our great Nana's house and
we spend Christmas together. Here is some more about it.

It was 6:00am in the morning, it was time to get up and and go out to the living room so I can wait
for the rest of my family. It’s like this every year. Once everyone has woken up or most of them,
we open our presents. It’s great fun and it is an exciting time as well. Once we have opened our
presents we have to get ready for a long trip to Kaikoura for the day. So, we get ready and grab a few
things to do on the way and we head off.

It was 7:15 and it was time to get on the road. It’s a long and boring ride,
but there are some great sites and attractions on the way. It is amazing too see how much it has
changed every year. The trip is long and slow, but in the end it is worth it because,
when we make it over the hill and we see the sea, it is a nice site and we know we are close.
Sometimes when we are driving along the coast line, we can see dolphins jumping out of the water
and doing dolphin things. Before we go and see our family, we go to the graveyard to see some of our
family's headstones.

Meeting up with the family is great. Seeing them every year and talking too them is fun.
We also sometimes play games and run around to stretch from the trip.
We also have family photos every year with our great Nana. We go family by family and it is a
nice photo for our nana to put on her fridge. Afterwards we go to where my dad is buried and to
the beach right next to it where he always went surfing. We sometimes grab some white rocks.
Hearing the crashing waves, horizon and the coastline is phenomenal.

Now it was time to head home and use some of the things we got and also time to relax.
Sometimes on the trip back home, we stop in cheviot or Amberly to get a refreshment for the
rest of the way. We are all excited when we get to the motorway going into Christchurch because,
that means we can finally get out of the car and relax. We get back to my Nana's house and
we use our new things and we have a nice relaxing rest of the day.

Spending time with family on Christmas is an amazing time and it is fun as well. For us it is kinda
rushed, but it is worth it. I enjoy Christmas day!

Reflection:

I think that I created an interesting piece of writing because I added some WoW words.

For next time I could spend more time on Planning before i start writing.

In my writing, I would like to improve on adding Capitals for place names and adding
commas more often.

Forensics Science

This term we have been working on Forensics Science and We have been doing activity's on that.  Last week we made hand prints made from plaster. We had lots of fun doing it and we learnt new things to.Forensics is what police use to find out who committed a crime. They can do this by, Fingerprints, Footprints, Fibre Analysis, Ink Testing, DNA.

There is something called the Locard Exchange principle. And his message was::  Every contact leaves a trace.

Reading

This Is a summery of my book!

In my story so far there have been quite a few events so i will tell
you a few of them. The book is Tom gates: YES! No. maybe…
by liz pichon. In the story so far Tom has been ok but his sister delia
has been stealing stuff off him. And at his school there has been a
bug going around and lots of people and one day the teacher had to
leave because he was sick aswell so the had to get the headmaster to
teach the class and for Tom it was surprising, it was fun.they also
have to do a business day at school and tom was in a group but he
was changed to a group with some of the weirder people in his class
because he wasn't listening. Tom has also been drawing some
pictures while in class and he has been making peoples names
into monsters. I think this is a great book and you should read it too!'

This is my Plot graph.

Reading

For this task I had to research something about my book that i didn't know. this is what i found out.

Liz Pichon Was born in London In 1963 and the tom gates series started being produced in 2014 and the book was called The brilliant wold of tom gates.