Friday 31 May 2019

Comic Strip On Scratch

In Room Eight we have to learn how to use scratch. I have used scratch before and I have made several projects but I made one based on the comic strips I have been doing. This is a link to a video I have screen recorded of my scratch work.



Friday 24 May 2019

This Is Us

Identity, sensitivity, and respect. We are learning to Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.

Wednesday 15 May 2019

The Mana Show Review

The Mana Show Review
On Friday the 10th, Bernard MangakaHia came to karoro school for a dance show and to tell us about his culture
and his history. What he did was showed us some dances around the world. What I think he did the show for is to
show that you can do what you want if you believe in yourself.


What Bernard first did was talk to us about Polynesia. Bernard turned on some music and sang a song about a
Indian chief  telling his son to believe and climb his way up to his goal. As he was singing that song he did the
song in sign language as well. Once he finished he said to us that the culture Indian had a lot of dances and he
showed us the hula hoop one. He said that it  took him 10 years to the dance with seven of the hula hoops. Now
he is up to 20 hoops and some of the American-Indians can do up to 30-40. The things that he made with the
hoops was Butterfly, Eagle, Cactus, Snake and a Flower. Then he asked someone from the audience to come up
and try the hula hoops out.


After that, Bernards Dad is from New Zealand so he showed us the Haka but he sang Humpty Dumpty.
After the haka he said that mostly everyday when he was yougner he watches his mum to the poi and he self
taught himself  to do the poi by watching his mum do the poi. What the maori have on their faces are moko.
Moko are a type of tattoo that tell stories. The woman have tattoos on their bottom lip and their chin.
The male have the tattoos on one side of their head and their chin. Bernard showed us the example of
the tattoos on his face with a pencil.


After all of that, Bernard  told us about his family and history. He told us that his Father is from New Zealand
and his mother is from Africa. Bernard said that he has 3 sons and that they were born in Australia Melbourne.
The oldest is a Ballerina for the Australian Ballet Company. He audition For two Companies but he made it into
both, he chose They Australian Company. The second child is a basketball player and when he was younger he
wished to go to New York and now that he is older, he is now in New York. The third Child was a hip hop person.
Bernard said that he came up to him and said that he wanted to do hip hop down in the streets of Melbourne, that’s
what he did. He went down with his youngest son and he started doing hip hop. By the end of the day he said that
His son made up to 100 dollars that day, then Bernard said that he wanted to do this every Friday and Saturday.
By the end of the year he made up to 7,000 dollars! He did a hip hop dance that his children told him to do and
what he should wear, he wore a funky looking hat, hawaiian T-shirt and baggy shorts. He did hip hop while
telling a story with his actions.

Friday 10 May 2019

Kea Patrol Persuasive Writing


Kea Patrol

I strongly believe that we should keep road patrol for these reasons. Kea patrol gives older people to be helpful and good role models. Sometimes kids have trouble crossing the road and the State Highway 6  gets really dangerous and busy after school at 3pm.

Firstly, I strongly believe that we should have kea patrol because some kids like the juniors have trouble crossing the road so the need a mature person to help them cross the road.  If the little kids see a older person from this school cross the road by themselves they might follow in your footsteps and might trip and hurt themselves. Something terrible might happen.

Secondly, You all should know that sometimes the Main South Road gets really busy and dangerous. The State Highway 6 is the only way in and out of Greymouth so it’s really busy. We should have Kea patrol so the vehicles know when to stop. If we didn’t children could trip and cars might not of seen them like trucks because they are so high up. There has been a few car accidents on State Highway 6 so people need to be aware.

Finally, I believe that kea patrol gives the older kids to have a chance at being a role model and to  make sure kids cross the State Highway 6 properly and not being silly. If we didn’t have kea patrol the little kids can put themselves in danger. The seniors  are taking up their afternoon time to help people cross the road when they haven’t been asked.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that we should keep road patrol because on the State Highway 6 because the main south road gets really busy and dangerous so we need someone to help. The little kids sometimes need help crossing the road and that older kids have a chance at being helpful and being a good role model. Kea patrol  keeps people secure.

Kupu hou O te Wiki/ Word of the week

Learning Intentions:
We are learning to represent a Te Reo message through visual language. 

Sucess Citera: 
Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of each week. 



Kupu hou O te Wiki/ Word of the week

Learning Intentions:
We are learning to represent a Te Reo message through visual language. 

Sucess Citera: 
Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of each week.