Crazy laws Speech!

 Crazy laws speech

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. For Hurumanu 2 we have been doing some speeches. We got a couple of periods to research about what we are going to talk about in our speeches. I have decided to research about crazy laws because I know that a lot of people don't know much about crazy laws, and I don't know much about them myself. I couldn't find any crazy laws in New Zealand so I have done crazy laws from around the world. One of the craziest laws that have learned about is that women in Saudi Arabia aren't allowed to drive but we will talk more about that in the video.

Character Strengths!

 Last term in wananga we learned about our character strengths.

 What are character strengths? Character strengths are things that you are good at doing. For example, my first strength was gratitude, gratitude is, You appreciate the things you have which is being grateful and also you love food and your family. So I have some questions here that I have to answer about my character strengths.

What are your top 5 Strengths?

1.  Gratitude - Appreciate the things that you have and you love food and family.
2.  Honesty - You say what you think and you are true to your values. People see you as someone they can trust.; 
3.  Kindness -  You care about others, you go through life thinking about others and you look out for them and not just about yourself.
4.  Creativity - Your inspried by others but you like coming up with your own ideas. You like thinking outside of the box and your not afraid to experiment and try new things. 
5.  Hope - Your likely to be a positive person, even if things aren't great. You believe that you are going to improve and others to.

Did you expect these strengths why, why not?

I'm going, to be honest but I didn't really know what to expect becasue I don't really know much about my strengths because, I don't  pay much attention to my strengths that I have. 

 

Drama Games!

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog, Hope you all had a great Holiday. For today in Drama, we played a couple of games called charades, 7 up, and copy the leader. These games need a lot of teamwork and you also need to listen carefully, and the purpose of this blog is to tell you guys what are the rules and the connections that we need to play these games.

Charades:

For charades, one person at a time had to do and actions that their card said to do, and then the rest of the group has to work as a team to guess what the person is acting out.

1. In this game, the person who is acting has to do a lot of actions and body moving 

7 up:

7 up is similar to tequila so for this game you need to get in a circle and one person starts off and they say one and then the next person say and then you keep on going until you get to 7. When you are up to 7, that person has to say 7 up and also put one hand over there heads, You can also switch directions by just pointing the other way. 

1. In this game, there is a lot of handwork 
2. You also need to listen carefully otherwise if you are to slow you are out

Copy the leader:

Last but not least we played copy the leader. Copy the leader is, when in a circle you pick one person to do random actions, then you pick another person to go outside and then come back in once you pick a person to do random actions. The person who came back from outside needs to find out who is the person changing the actions in the circle.

1. In this game, you need to look very carefully to see who is the person in the circle that is changing the actions.

Hi, guys so I am adding on to this blog post I am going to share my Monologue that I am going to be doing for Drama.

This is my Monologue - Character goldilocks

I am Not a Thief. 

Why does everyone think That I am just because I went into a family bears house?

 I only went in there to explore not to steal or do anything bad but everyone thinks that I am a thief.

 I try to be a generous and kind person, I mean like I did break the baby's chair but it wasn’t my fault that it was unstable.

I got really hungry when I was going for a walk so I smelt the delicious porridge so I decided to go in that direction and then I ended up eating the porridge. I know I was being a little bit greedy and ate all the porridge. But THEY should be grateful because I thought that the porridge was yummy.

  

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Hurmanu 1 work/ NZ wars

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. Today for Hurumanu 1 we were watching one of the Aotearoa history shows, and after we watch the video we had to give a summary of the video. In this video, there was a lot of information and I suggest if you guys have spare time you should go and watch it because it has a lot of facts information.

Summary! 

Today we were watching the Aotearoa history show the Nz wars episode 6 part 2.  In 1862 someone said that they saw a version of an angel saying that the Maori should own the land.  At this time the Maori people thought that the government of the British people were spying on them and they were ready to fight. The British government sent over military soldiers to Nz to guard so the Maori couldn't get in. 

In 1846 the M killed 7 of the soldiers from British. The British people thought that the Moari hated all of them because the Moari killed the missionaries and so they just used that as an excuse. in 1865 there were bloody battles, 300 to 400 Pamela got sent to the Chatham Islands. The British military had found out about the Maori tactics. Tekote had been sent to the Chatham Islands and had started another religion.

There was a new leader for Paimarie fighting genius and his name was Te Toku but the thing is he didn’t want to fight but he had to. One of the people killed was a famous person. some of the British thought they could exterminate the Maori. The British were offering a bounty if they killed a certain person. 120 Paimarie were killed in the war and their bodies were left on the rocks to rot in the hot summer. By 1872 the Nz wars were basically over, Nearly 300 thousand people died and 200 thousand were Maori. 

In 1863 the land was illegally confiscated from Maori. Scared hills were quarried and Most northlands were turned into pakeha land. It wasn’t about the land that they were fighting about it was the fact that the land had so much spirit.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post. I hope you learnt something about the Nz wars. Leave a comment if you know any other information about the NZ wars. Have a good day

Matariki!

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. For the past two weeks in Maori, we have been learning about Matariki and the task that we had to do is find information about Matariki and then put it in our own words, we also had to write what does Matariki is to us.

Matariki

Matariki only comes out once a year And the best time to see it is in the morning from 1am to 3am. There are about 500 stars in the Matariki cluster, but only six or seven are visible without a telescope. 
Matariki has Nine stars.  Matariki, Tupuārangi, Waipuna-ā-Rangi, Waitī, Tupuānuku, Ururangi, Waitā, Pōhutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-Rangi. Ururangi is the youngest star in the Matariki cluster.  
Matariki is a time to harvest food and Matariki also signals the Maori new years.

2000

The first modern-day Matariki celebrations took place in Hawkes Bay in the early 2000s. Around 500 people took part in that first festival but by 2003 numbers had risen to 15,000. Matariki has continued to play an important role in the life of modern-day Maori and New Zealanders.

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Mahinga Kai!

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. For today's blog, I am going to be sharing the tasks that I have been doing for reading. For reading the book I have been reading is called Mahinga kai. The book is mainly about two Ngai Tahu men that are determined to keep the tradition, And its also about where they get their food from. 

If I was to rate this book I would rate it A 9/10, because I love it how two men are still trying to keep the tradition going, and also I like how they all take care of each other and share their kai with there whanau and friends.   

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Biltong results!

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. So a couple of days ago I made a blog post about me make biltong and I said that I would make another blog post about the results of the Biltong. So I have a 
slideshow to show you that I made with the results on the biltong. Sorry I hadn't taken a picture of what the biltong looked like.

Here is the slideshow!



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