All rise for the Maui tribe!!

 Pa Pa and more Pa

This week everything was about Pa. Maths , Writing and reading was all about Pa. For Maths we had to make a Pa. If you don't know what a Pa is, it is basically just a village on a hill which the Maori used to stay. They had trenches and hangi.  Heres mine,

For writing we had to write about our Pa.

The Pa is placed on a mountain to gaze upon the land and assure that no intruders should attack. The Pa additionally includes fortification meaning the Pa is fortified by sticks and logs forming a barricade for preservation towards the Maui Tribe. The chief of the Maui Tribe is Kingi Maui, Every Maui is different. They all have their certain colour that represents their family. They can even mix colours! None of the Maui’s have a gender. Meaning that they can mix and match! The Maui tribe are a very innovative tribe; they have fabricated many escape routes such as the water slides.  

And for reading we had  to pretend to be a real estate agent and sell a pa in 2021 heres mine.

How much have you learned about Pa?

What would you call your Pa?

First blog of the YEAR!!

 Hello Gentelman and Ladies. 

Yes that is right I am a year 8 this year. It is my last year of my Primary school. This is Week 5 by the time I posted this. For Writing our goal understand the purposes for writing and how to achieve those purposes. We had to do a explaintion story. Mine is about why the Poi and Rakau are so important. Here it is. 

Why is Poi and Rakau so important to the Maori culture?

The Poi was used by some of the first Maori people to land on New Zeland. It was used by the Men and the Woman but for different reasons for each of them. For the men, it was required for battles. As for the Woman it was used as a dance as they could do it all with rhythm. But both genders used it for fixing the flexibility and strength in their hands. Most Maori songs that the first comers wrote all used Poi as an object for it to look good. The Poi’s are made out of flax, rope or what the Maoris called it Kii. They put some rocks and stones in the kii and tied it up using flax. Then the Boys would go out and fight with it by swinging it around. That’s why the Poi is so important. It's because The Maoris used it in a bunch of different ways that meant different things. Rakau otherwise known as Taiaha didn’t have the same vibe as the Poi did. It was mainly traded for Musketts. But before that it was used for close combat as it was sharp and it was heavy. It was between 1.5 meters and 1.8 meters. It had two major things that made Taiaha. Number 1 is obviously being wood. That’s why Taiaha was made alot by the Maori because you could make heaps of it. The next part of a Taiaha is a whale bone. This was the side where you hit your opponents or animals. Like the Poi, Taiaha is so important because of how many different things you can do with it. 

  

What year are you this year?

Last week of Artemis Fowl

 Hi,

This week for reading we have to finish the book we are reading meaning that this week was the last week of it. For this weeks create task we had to do some synthesizing. Synthesizing basically means something is similar to someone else. Here is mine with 3 of the charaters in the story. 

Do you think you would read this book?

Reading W8 Artemis Fowl

 K heres what you need to know, 

For the last couple weeks I have been reading a book about Artemis Fowl we have been doing tasks every week I will give you all of them soon but for now I will give you this weeks. We had to say what the main bit of the stroy is here is mine. 

Would you want to be the bad or good guy in a story?

Angels

This week for Maths,

We were learning about angels. At first I really wasn't good at them. We had to make predictions and I said a negative number. But by the end I think that I was really good at it. For the create task we had to make a DLO about everyday obejects that  have angels here is mine. 

Can you think of any more 

Infographic about good health and wellbeing.

Hi,

This week for writing we were writing infographics about 1-4 goals with the global goals. I chose Good health and wellbeing because I already knew alot about it. I made my infographic on piktochart it is about bad facts and also how you can have good health. I hope you enjoy. 

Have you ever done a infographic?

I made the TEAM!

 Yes you read that right,

I made the Canta Math team for my year. Also my friend Max Martin and Archie did aswell. The competiton is cancelled by I still made it. It is very sad that it is not on but I just have to deal with that. I hope next year that it will be on and that I make the team again. 

Do you make your Cantamath team?