- matariki poem

The sound of celebration and happiness radiated

delicious smells coated the air;

cultural food and fresh drinks are devoured;

stomachs full, with kai to spare

a legend is told, a quiet hum is heard;

distant relatives bond, singing and dancing

a priceless sky is seen, 400 light years away

the night of a new year

to those who remember their roots

by Danielle

- greenpeace perspective

What would happen if there was an oil spill in New Zealand?

This is a video made by Greenpeace New Zealand.

Greenpeace is a non-government organisation who campaign for environmental issues.

As you watch consider this:

• Are Greenpeace for or against oil drilling?

From what I have read, Greenpeace, are definitely against oil drilling. Just by looking at the pictures on the sight, I could tell straight away, that they thought oil drilling is wrong, and should be stopped.

• What is their point of view?

Greenpeace seem to be very passionate about this subject, the way they present the facts is quite a direct approach. I think that they are looking at this situation is why oil drilling is wrong, that oil drilling should stop it, to protest against it. They are looking at the cost, and the damage, and things like that. Greenpeace seem to be one sided, only looking at the bad facts.

• Is this realistic?

It depends what your definition for realistic is, personally, I feel that life has its pros and cons, and oil drilling seems to be a major con. But then again I would be a hypocrite to say that oil drilling is bad, since I use a car that runs of gas. Oil drilling is as real as it gets, so yeah, I guess it’s realistic.

• Do you agree? Why/why not?

If I look at oil drilling on the way it impacts on the environment, not too mention our country, I would have to say I disagree. But oil drilling is how we get petrol, and without petrol there would be no cars, no vehicles that run off of petrol, and frankly I can’t see this world without transportation's like cars, buses, boats. If oil drilling stops, the world as we know it, may change, good or for worse, I have no idea.

MARKING RUBRIC - Highlight the level YOU think you have achieved.

	Achieved - L2	Merit - l3	Proficient - l4
Ideas	Ideas are answered yes/no answers with little elaboration.	Ideas are answered in full sentences with clear explanations for the answer and reference to video	Ideas are answered in full sentences with clear explanations for the answer. Able to explain personal and greenpeace points of view with reference to video and  texts read in class

- resizing images

Today I learnt about resizing images, this is important so pictures will look nice, and presentable.

- temperature quiz

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/quiz/ma27temp-e1and2-quiz

Today I did a quiz about temperatures, I got 100% on each quiz. But I still have much to learn.

🌊 long bay trip

The wind rustled through the brush of the forest, blowing our hair, giving some, goose bumps. The faint sound of the ocean sung as we scanned the radiant view. A few shivered, while some blindly walked across the green, grassy surface of the ground of Long Bay.

I surveyed my surroundings before sitting down on the cold ground, others either sat on the provided picnic tables, or stood not wanting to sit. Quickly we were put into lines, before disappearing into the trees to do our activities.

Silence surrounded the area, only a few chirps from nearby birds, and mumbling from our group. Sarah quietly spoke to us about the lake-like part of the beach, that we stood before. She said to look for items that didn’t seem to ‘belong’ at the beach, we found a few pieces of rubbish. We then ventured to the rock pool, where water tackled the rock ledge and a sense of adventure surged everyone. We filled our treys with creatures, then talked about them.

After eating our packed lunches, we then trudged back down to the beach. With open eyes we searched for dead creatures, yeah, for some reason we had to find dead fish. I kinda forget why. We found a massive, translucent jelly fish. It looked similar to gigantic blob of jelly, but not as appetizing.

We then did a little quiz, with some active questions that had us laughing. Not soon after we began departing from the tree enclosed area back to the road. Finally after a fairly loud bus rise, we arrived back to school.

My favourite part of the day was when we were able to wander around the windy, rock pool. I learnt a lot about marine animals, and it was really fun.

💣 war, lives, and loss

war is the definition of conflict

it starts of in a disagreement

then ends with a lot of pain inflicted

but why couldn't we come to an agreement ?

before this tragedy

before people started losing their family

the soldiers who put down their lives

and probably left their wives

the blood of many shedded

as they fought and protected

and for those who are killed

all war means is peace

🏃 loopy people - reflection

Yesterday on Monday we -room 10 and I- had to finish our loopy people -which are miniature versions of ourselves made out of paper- but, I sadly just started. But no need to fret, after what seemed forever of trying not to talk, I actually finished. But I have no picture to prove this statement because me being me accidentally deleted it -and everything else in my folders-, sooooo you'll have to just believe me......

Reflection:
It was easy to glue the pieces together.
It was hard to measure the pieces of paper.