Tawa @ Ngatea Primary School

This week I did my six mangahigh medals and did my read theory and my word of the weeks and I finished our silhouette.

Plus: I have done most of my work this week. Plus: I have completed a milestone and almost finished another one. Minus: I don't know

The main character was Tana who was dark skin dark hair, dark eyes and a medium sized height and size and wore a big coat and had big heavy boots. He was fearless and didn't mind a challenge. He was interested in frogs because he thought they were extinct.

Vocab Buster W.A.L.T- Identify words you are unsure of in the text and create your own meaning based on clues in the text. Choose 2 words from your comic to investigate: Word 1:Monitor Definition in my own words: A device that is electric and can sense different objects. And Dictionary Definition: a device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of something. Other words with similar meaning ( Synonyms ): Scanner, Detector. Use in a sentence : : I had a baby monitor so I could listen to the beach. Word 2: Sludge Definition in my own words: When you stand in mud it makes a sludge like sound. And Dictionary Definition: thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process. Other words with similar meaning ( Synonyms ): Mud, Muck. Use in a sentence: As I was running at cross country the mud was like a sludge texture.

Summariser W.A.L.T-Summarise the main parts of the text using detail and including key words. Your job is to prepare a brief summary about your comic. Summary: Tana tries to get some valuable things from the mutts and he had to cross a wooden plank for a bridge he found a tool box to sell to buy some food for him and then he found frogs which were apparently extinct but he found some and he couldn’t save them and bring them back with him so he went to leave and the wood plank bridge was gone and the mutts captured him and took the stuff off him and asked him if he was hiding anything and he said no s and the mutts knew he was lying so them tied him to a car for a consequence.   Key Points from the comic: 1.Frogs 2.The Mutts 3.Money

Maori Proverb Find a Maori Proverb and explain how or why it connects to the comic you are reading. Proverb: Ehara taku toa, he takitahi, he toa takitini How it connects to your comic: Tane’s teacher helped him so it wasn’t a individual job.

Comic Questions Answer these questions about your comic, giving as much detail as possible. What is the message in your story? Don’t take a bad risk that will make your situation worse. What was your favourite part in the story and why?When he doesn't spill the beans and the frogs stay alive. How did you feel about the ending to your story and why?It was boring because it just finished and we didn’t know what happened to him. Why do you think people write comics?Because they are short so you don’t have to write much and you already know what the story line is. If you could change one thing about your comic what would it be and why? Make it longer and a better ending because it didn’t really get enough information out to make it a good story.

This week I have done all the main things and this is the last thing I really need to do and I have just started on my comic book and have done one of the tasks for it.

Yesterday day we had athletics and it was really hot and I didn't wear sun screen and through our the day I forgot to put it on. Our first thing was high jump which was my favourite but it took too long so we had to do it later. Then we had the races which I don't really like and I didn't really like anything else but when we finished high jump I came second and Valentino came first. We jumped the same height but he got it on his first go.

It was hard to get all the work finished this week because I had my IE and the creation was hard and every time I tested it I had to remake it and I made it three times. I finished read theory and then on Thursday we rode the go kart because we haven't rid it in ages.

Trick or treat give me something sweet to eat, not your feet not some wheat not some stinky pinky meat. Don’t say “hun I got nun but I have hot cross bun” Homemade By Tawa and Hamish

This week I haven't had much time to do anything because of labour weekend and calf club. But yesterday I did all the fun activities.

This week I have been doing some stuff for my IE creation and my presentation, I have done both of my blog posts and not yet to do my read theory. We did two sessions of PE this week for athletics.

My sister is almost 2 and she has brown eyes with and dark hair, she has tan skin and she can talk heaps and count to ten in two different languages. She has a nap at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon and by far her favourite show is The Wiggles and she went to see then in Hamilton. Her favourite food is rice and Chinese food. This is my little sister I spent most of my time in the holidays with her, I stayed with her for most of the time during the holidays.

My three favourite experiences of the term was PE Listening to music because I was in Tuakana Reading War Horse  This term I've learned heaps of things about clean water because I've been doing it for my IE. Something I would change is to have more PE. My goal for next term is to do all of my milestones.

I made my own pet fish and his name is Magulbob and he has that name from when he was swimming in the ocean and he went up to the surface and a lighting bolt almost hit him and he said some crazy stuff around his friends with his Aussie accent and he said magulbob in stead of lighting bolt.

My favourite part about volley ball was the games and we played one each time we went, then on the last day we had a tournament to find the the winning team and we won 4/7 games. I was good at setting, digging and serving, in my team was Brooke, Ryan, Mishca, Hayley, Josh M, Samantha, Caitlyn and Me. From the start I learnt how to do all the skills pretty fast and I got really good at them during the end. I got the most outstanding boy award out of our team. My coaches were Cora-lee, Aiden and Zoe they were really good helpers.

This week I've done one Mangahigh task and I have one more blog post to complete. I've done my word of the week yesterday at art and my design was Puhoro, I have done one read theory task so I just need to do one more. We had volley ball on Tuesday and we have one session today at the college, we played a game against another team and we won by heaps so our team must be pretty good. I finished all my summarising on my IE so i'm ahead of time and the learning power I used the most this week was Being me, I didn't sit to all my friends at every block.

I was on kiwi kids news and I saw a title saying Call to change New Zealand national bird and the photo was another bird. A seabird conservation group are saying that our national bird should a bird that can actually fly to replace our kiwi. Apparently the kiwi doesn't represent the adventurous travellers New Zealanders are. Having a seabird apparently is more representative of who we are and stuff like that, but I think it’s dumb because we been called kiwis since world war 1 and that’s 100 years ago so it's going to take a long time getting used to. My opinion: I don’t want to be called a Rako or a Buller's shearwater. If it changes I won’t call myself a Rako. We should have a vote like the what we did with the New Zealand flag.

I think that we should do more paperwork because at college we do a lot of writing with pens and my handwriting is not very good. It is necessary because lots of tests and homework at college you need to be good at writing and spelling.Computers fix your spelling mistakes so how can you get better and the more we don’t do paperwork the worse we get at handwriting. Another example is if you have an elder grandparent or something like that you want to send them a letter need to write nicely so they can read it and they probably won’t have a computer or phone to get an email or a text message.   I think that I should do some sort of handwriting everyday because that will help me get better at handwriting, I think that it would make you draw better as well, my hands aren't that steady so it doesn't help. We need more handwriting because it might affect others in the future, we might have no handwriting by then or we might and if we do I don’t think that many people wil...

This week I was showing connecting when the Moana Nui kids came into our class and we had to do work with them and do some fun activities.  I done everything this week but not my Mangahigh because I didn't get any tasks for some reasons and I did 3 blog posts and I done two of my IE questions.

Yesterday the Moana Nui kids to our class for the day because there teachers went to a school visit I think, and we did some fun activities with them and some of the work they need to do everyday. The first thing we did was create a avatar for them and me and jonty had Desmond and he made his avatar then when we finished Desmond had to do some writing and we just helped him a little bit with his spelling and some punctuation. After morning tea we did reading with their reading groups then we had to do maths and we played a little game where I was holding cards that had maths problems on them then out of Micheal and Desmond the first one to answer it got the point and Desmond won only just by 4 points. Then we had to create a superhero online or offline and we did ours online. After that we went into the hall with everyone and did some jump jam and it was quite fu  but at the same time it was quite tiring. After lunch we had to use the superhero we made and do a character des...

He is wearing a black under layer and white accessories and armor, with the rolly on his wrist. He has a light skin tone and has blue eye protectors with black hair. His name it Prince Wigglebutt and his special power is to wiggle his butt really fast, and at all of his birthday partys he has a butt wiggle contest and he is the undefeated champion and won everytime, and if a villain is doing something bad he scares them away but wiggling his butt really fast. If he has a fight he uses his big muscles in his butt to knock them out real quick, he once got a contract to fight in the UWBC (Ultimate Butt Wiggling Championship) and he accepted it and became the world champion within months.

This week its been a bit of a rush because of cross country and left school early on Monday but I've done all my blog posts, mangahigh, read theory and I'm just about finished Word of the week I just have one more word to do and

Yesterday was cross country and we changed the track because it was a quite muddy and wet and we were the last race so we had to wait for a while then we were about to start our race Mr Fraser said we could dive it the water but only on person did because we didn't wan't the water to slow us down. Then we started and and Callum were passing each other the whole race and then when we got o the creek he slide in front of me and I slipped and fell on him then when we got to the edge I jumped in and climbed the wall Callum couldn't quite make it but he did then passed me up the hill then the last 50 metres and started sprinting, I passed him again I got seventh. Then after because we were quite dirty some of us boys went into the creek to wash of.

This week I attempted all of my mangahigh tasks but I couldn't get one of them because it was a bit hard. I've finished my Language Milestone now I just need a little bit of practice to know my letter better. On Tuesday I finished both of my word of the weeks. Something bad week was that I didn't do my read theory but I still have some time to finish.

This week I finally caught up on my blog post and now I am three posts ahead and I've done all my mangahigh task and I've attempted one of them 5 times and I still can't get it because it is too hard. I did all my word of the week on Monday and I did heaps of read theory for this week and I think I'm at 250kp but I was trying to get to 500kp because that was my goal

They went extinct about 12,000 years ago. They were alive for 42 million years until the last ice age and humanity started evolving and the sabers couldn’t find enough prey because they had competition. I would have never known but they have a surprisingly weak jaw. The saber tooth tiger's canines  (teeth) were almost a foot long. Smilodon wasn’t the only saber tooth tiger. The Saber tooth tigers may have lived in packs because scientists looked at the fossils and said most of them died from old age so they must of had some protection from other sabers. The saber tooth had an unusually stocky build. Lots of Smilodon fossils were found at the La Brea Tar Pits. There were more than one species of Saber tooth tigers. They apparently ate our ancestors.

Tawa Napping, Rapping, that’s all I want to do when I’m in my racecar, i’m overlapping you, do you have a problem mate stop tapping on my car, i’m so damn rich I'm chilling in my spa. You're playing a guitar busking on the street,  i’m watching, but smoking my cigar, mate do you think i’m joking, i’m laughing at you so hard I think might be choking. I working so hard to create a free state but it’s really hard to locate just wait… have you been on a date or even been over to the united states.                                         Johnny Yeah ay, lil johnny. Yo my name is johnny witch Rhymes with bonnie, some people think that I’m shorty well then they are probably right Hamish and Tawa are my homies, ah, yeah My dog is named holly I call her bolly because she is a border colli...

Do you think the choice Bess makes (to warn the Highwayman by taking her own life) is stupid or inspiring? I think that th is was stupid because she killed herself for him but he ended up dying anyway but even though they get to see each other as ghosts that's just weird. If you made a movie of this, who would you cast as the highwayman? How about Bess? I think Tom Hardy would be the highwayman because he is in movies and he acts as bad people sometimes and other movies he's good. Bella Thorne because I’ve seen her in some good movies and she has red hair and that's what I think Bess would look like. Have you ever admired a criminal? Do you think it's OK to make robbers into heroes? I don’t think so because he stole from other people and the only way to get respect would be giving all the things he stole back and an apology. Why do you think people tell ghost stories? Is the ghost story in this poem meant to make us scared? Happy? Sad? Probably happy because...

Musket an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored and fired from the shoulder. A soldier armed with a musket was known as a musketeer and over centuries they improved more and more the ammunition is called a minie ball but it’s not a ball. As the time passed they brought out guns with multiple rounds of and more power and easier to use the musket died out. Highwayman man, typically on horseback, who held up travellers at gunpoint in order to rob them. Ostler a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn. Galleon a sailing ship in use (especially by Spain) from the 15th to the 18th centuries, originally as a warship, later for trade. Galleons were typically square-rigged and had three or more decks and masts. Moor a member of a NW African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15t...

I think that we should do more paperwork because at college we do a lot of writing with pens and my handwriting is not very good. It is necessary because lots of tests and homework at college you need to be good at writing and spelling computers fix your spelling mistakes so how can you get better and the more we don’t do paperwork the worse we get at handwriting. Another example is if you have an elder grandparent or something like that you want to send them a letter need to write nicely so they can read it and they probably won’t have a computer or phone to get an email or a text message.   I think that I should do some sort of handwriting everyday because  that might help me get better at handwriting, I think that it would make you draw better as well, my hands aren't that steady so it doesn't help.

My aunty came over for the weekend and we went to the hot pools in Miranda for two hours or so and had some lunch there. After dinner we got to make some custard and have peaches with them and then I stayed up with my cousin who is 7 I think and we played some games on my xbox. Then the next day when I got up my Aunty made me pancakes and I had lemon and sugar with them then later that day we went to the skatepark and were there for a bit, then the rest of the day we just chilled and watched tv