HEROES AND VILLAINS STORYYYY

 Kia Ora,

Today I will share with you the story that I have made about an old man getting kidnapped and a little boy saving him.

SLAM! Mark slammed the door shut as he wrapped the dog leash handle around his hand, his dog barked as the wind whispered into its ears. They walked from his house to the park across the road. The trees that are scattered around the park waved and welcomed them. They walked around the enormous park in circles. Mark pulled up his sleeves unaware that he had his diamond watch on, as they continued on walking people started staring at his wrist, concerned he looked at his wrist then he realized that his watch was exposed and that was the reason everybody was staring. 

A man with the sight of an eagle saw the watch just as soon as Mark was pulling down his sleeves. It was Houma, a leader of a group of thieves and kidnappers but no one knows that, he is mostly known as a leader of thugs in the neighborhood. 

Houma and his group of thugs ignorantly and slowly walked up to Mark bumping off people as they walked towards him. They circled around Mark with their hands in their pocket.” Ah, isn’t this a rare find” Houma exclaimed with a terrifying grin. 2 of Houmas’s underlings grabbed both of Mark's arms and they dragged him as they walked out of the park. Mark couldn’t do a single thing since there were over 10 people gathered around him, the people in the park were also afraid of Houma’s gang. 

After a few minutes of walking, they’ve arrived in an alleyway. Houma ordered his younger brother Hamidullah to put an end to Mark and steal his watch. Hamidullah pushed Mark against the wall while holding a knife against Mark's throat at the same time. Hamdullah tried to snatch the watch from Mark but the watch was hugging tightly onto Mark's wrist. Finally Hamidullah managed to successfully steal the watch from Mark.

After the watch was stolen Houma ordered Hamidullah to execute Mark on the spot. Out of nowhere a young kid who is about 14 years old appeared and punched Hamidullah right in the face knocking him out. It appears that Daniel came from the other side of the alleyway and sneaked his way to a rubbish bin close to Mark and Hamidullah and sneakily made his way into Hamidullah.” And what might a young kid be doing in a place like this, and interfering with my plans!” Houma yelled at Daniel. 

“I-um, I ac-I actually don’t know, I saw you take the old man at the park and my body instinctively moved and followed you all th-the way down here” Daniel answered back with fear in his eyes. “Quite the hero I see”, “Kill him”. Houmas gang charged at him with all kinds of weapons. Daniel took Mark's arm and tried to run at the other end of the alleyway. Daniel stopped. “You go on ahead sir, they are catching up with us” Daniel told Mark, Mark without hesitation ran with all his might, Daniel smiled at Mark and turned around to try and stop Houma from chasing Mark. 

Mark had asked for help and police were on their way in the alleyway with Daniel’s parents. While driving in the police car they’ve come upon 4 men and a young kid lying down on the road. The young kid was Daniel and 4 of Houmas men. Daniel’s parents hopped off the car and rushed their way to Daniel. Daniel was lying on the ground unconscious with all kinds of wounds and bruises all over his body but he was still breathing.

Daniel’s dad carried Daniel inside the police car. They drove to the nearest hospital but unfortunately for him he was announced dead on arrival. A few weeks have passed in Daniel’s death ceremony there was Mark. Mark walked up to Daniel’s parents and gave his diamond watch and said “ I’m sorry for your loss, but thank you” then he walked away.

Margaret Mahy THE NEW ZEALAND FAMOUS AUTHOR

 Kia Ora,

Today I will share you the things that I've learnt about Margaret Mahy when her first book was published and some of the achieve she has made.

Margaret Mahy was born in Whakatane in 1963 and was the eldest of five children. Her mother was a teacher and she was considered a slow learner and hated maths in every way. Margaret Mahy’s first published book was called “ Harry is Bad” she had this published when she was only a seven year old child. Margaret was brave enough to show it to her classmates to tell them that they could also write stories at such a young age.

Margaret went to a local high school where she was also acknowledged as a very talented swimmer. When she had completed her B.A ( Bachelor of Arts) in college and graduated in 1955. She went to train at the New Zealand library school as a librarian in 1956. Then one of her first books made her become known internationally.

Margaret Mahy was now known as a famous New Zealander known as an author of children’s and young adult books. She is also one of the world’s and most famous children’s authors. She had written more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories which was pretty impressive. Unfortunately for her she was diagnosed with cancer and sadly passed away at the age of 76 years old in 2012. But her books will stay forever and will be a remembrance of her works and all of the amazing  stuff she had done and made, and hope that she will not be forgotten.

GUT PUNCHER

 Kia Ora,

Today I will show you a game that me and my friends made. It is a very fun and easy game all you need is 2 person or more and a pillow. The game is called Gut Puncher, so how the game work is you need one person to have a pillow under their shirt and place it against their chest or stomach, and people will punch his stomach or the pillow on his stomach for fun and it is also a good stress reliever. But you can only do 3 punches per person so the person with the pillow won't get hurt as much... You can go on and try ITS FUN but also make sure you take turns on punching so they won't get hurt as much...

MY HOBBIES

 Kia Ora,

Today I will share and show you one of my hobbies and what I do when I am at home. My favourite sport is basketball here is a shot video of me getting a hoop. I first missed my shot but got it in on the second shot.

The other 2 things that I do when I am at home is either play video games or watch anime. 

MY ACHIEVABLE GOAL FOR SETTING TERM 4

 Kia Ora today I will be showing you what my goal settings are for this term. On my goal setting will be my goals of course and they are the goals I will try to achieve by the end of this term. My goal setting also includes what my greatest achievement I was proud of last term. 

HERE IS MY GOAL SETTING:

 Year 8 Wānanga Goal Setting

Name: Miguel		Class:  Tz	Term: 4	Year:2020
Greatest achievement from last term:
My greatest achievement from last term would be playing on a basketball team and playing basketball with other schools.
Subjects taken this term:
Hurumanu:
1	Hurumanu 4 - Art and writing
2	Hurumanu 3 - Science and writing
3	Hurumanu 6 - Maths and health
Technology: Sewing
Language: Maori
Other:
Academic Goals
Short term (this term):
1	Trying my best at every subjects by studying more at school and at home
2	Speaking English a little bit better by speaking English at home and speaking in class more
Non-academic goal (can be out of school):
I am going to spend 15 minutes everyday after school practicing shooting and dribbling with my basketball to improve my skills
What are my learning strengths (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)		What are my learning work ons (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)
I am a curious learner I take responsibility for my own actions		Sharing my ideas I can reflect on my learning
How will I achieve this?
Speaking up more
End of term reflection

What do you think? What about you, what is one goal you have for this term? 

PEE BEEEEEP TEST

Malo e lelei,

Today I will be telling you more about what I have been doing in PE for this term. The main activities we have been doing in PE are measuring stuff like finding the length and width of a court we've been measuring a lot of stuff since this is a combination of Maths and PE. The other main thing we've been doing is the beep test, at the start of PE we did the beep test to see what level we are on. When we had the result of our beep test the next thing we did was try to improve and beat our level that we were on. We did 12 exercise circuit to improve our legs and try to beat our level. The 12 circuit exercise is where you have 12 exercises and you gotta do all of them inside 30seconds. 

AND TODAY IS OUR FINAL DAY OF PE AND WE ARE GOING TO DO THE BEEP TEST AGAIN AND SEE IF WE'VE IMPROVED.

SOLAR OVENS

Malo e lelei,

Today I will be telling you about a solar oven that my team and I made in science. To make the solar oven we had a few materials and this materials are tin foil, cardboard, some tape and if you want you can use a few skewers to stick the materials onto each other. Firstly we had to make a shape using the cardboard then after that we had to cover it with tinfoil using tape. Then we went outside because it was sunny and it was a perfect weather to test our solar oven. We put marshmallows and used a magnifying glass to burn it. Some solar oven worked and some didn't

TONGA LANGUAGE WEEK SLIDE

 Kia Ora,

Today I will be showing you a slideshow I made with stuff connected to Tonga like a few common words to use their national anthem and one of the famous islands in Tonga. I made this because this week is Tongan language week and I wanted to do a slide about Tonga even if it doesn't have a lot of stuff in it.

P.E CLASSSSSS!!! LETSS GOO

Kia Ora,

Today I will tell you most of the thing I've been doing for the past few weeks on PE. First of all we've done a beep test to see what level we are on and we will be trying to improve them in the future. The beep test is where you run from an end to the other but you only run when you hear a beep. If you don't get to the other end in time you will be out. 

 Once we've done the beep test the next day we tried improving for the future so we will have more stamina and speed to stay longer on the court and try to beat the level we were once on. To improve our stamina and speed we did a few exercises, we have done push ups, burpees, sit ups, squats and other 8 exercises. For each one we had to them for 30 seconds and try to get as many as we can inside 30 seconds. Since its pe and maths we've done few maths activities like find the perimeter of the gym.

THIS IS ONE OF THE RECORD OF ONE OF THE ACTIVITES I'VE MADE:

Activity	Weight	Number	Total
Pull ups
Plank
Superman	40	1min 2sec
Burpees	40	10
Skips	40	102
Push ups	40	20
Sit ups	40	30

What about you have you done the beep test? AND KNOW HOW HARD IT IS?

WW1 IN HORNBY HIGH SCHOOL

 Kia Ora.

Today I will share a little bit of information I've learnt about women in WW1. I will also tell you about the DLO I made using kahoot, making this kahoot was pretty easy I just had to ask a question and put wrong answers. HERE IS A SOURCE I'VE USED TO LEARN ABOUT WOMEN IN WW1 https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-women-in-the-first-world-war

NZ WOMEN IN WW1

During WW1 women have been doing a lot of jobs. Since over 6million men enlisted to go and fight overseas women had to fill in those jobs. Some women even worked to make bombs! Women were already working at their old jobs so after the men left they had to do even more jobs. Women in WW1 also bravely worked in dangerous working conditions, some of the dangerous jobs they did was working with TNT’s that could explode and expose poison. 

Did you enjoy reading this?

THE GROUCH

 Kia Ora,

Today I will show you a paragraph I made about my role, for the paragraph that I wrote I am being a grouch here it is:

My Role: I am being a grouch. 30 years old and don’t know

my parents. The play is set in my old mossy house.

 I just sit outside my old house drinking my cup of coffee. I hate all these people who are enjoying this warm weather, and I hate it when they keep saying this is fine weather!  (3 days later) Ahhh, finally the crummy weather and what a beautiful sight it is when people are moaning about this cold and rainy weather. THIS IS MY CUP OF MUD. Hey you! What do you think you’re singing!? Stop it! Stop singing that song rain rain go away. This is what you call a fine day! Now scram! Ah yes a crying child's face what a beautiful sight it is.

PARIHAKA HISTORY OMGGG

 Kia Ora,

Today I will talk about and share a few information I've learnt about the invasion of Parihaka. The invasion of Parihaka started in 5th of November 1881 about 1600 troops invaded. When the troops came the Maori people didn't attack or anything instead they made 500 loaves of bread to share with the soldiers arrived. 

AND I WILL ALSO SHARE MY KAHOOT LINK 

https://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=e8ddd80d-ac44-432c-86c2-71aa6a587e94

KINDNESS POSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 Kia Ora,

Today we had to make a rap, song, poem or a poster about kindness I did the poster because it was the most easiest thing to make. I will show you a cringy poster I made about kindness.

HERE IT IS:

ANOTHA ACROSTIC POEMM

 Magnificent

Independent

Gorgeous

Ultra careful

Energetic 

Legendary

SELF INTRODUCTION IN JAPANESEEEEEEE ARIGATOU FOR READDING

 Kia Ora,

Today I will show you my self introduction in Japanese.

Hajimemashite ohayou gozaimasu. Boku no namae wa migeru desu.

Juu san sai desu. Kuraisutochaachi ni sunde imasu.

Denwa bangou wa zerokyuu zero hachi no ni go ichi no san nana hachi go desu

My phone number is 0908-251-378 (FAKE NuMbEr don't even try mate)

Firipin kara kimashita. Shumi wa supootsu desu

OMY ITS QUESTIONS YOWWWW

Kia Ora,

Today I will be answering a few questions asked by my teacher, here are the questions:

1. What is a Solar System? What is the Milky Way an example of? The solar system is the sun and the planets that orbit the sun. The milky way is the galaxy that contains our solar system.

2. What is a Star? Describe a Nebula. Stars are ball of gasses they are mostly helium and hydrogen. The nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

3. How do stars die? Stars will die when they have burned all of its hydrogen fuel then it expands to become a red giant. After puffing its outer layers the start will collapse and die.

4. Is there an up or down in space? Apparently there is no up or down in space.

5. How can stars be used to Navigate? Stars can be used to navigate by looking for the Polaris, the North Star to go North. Use Polaris to find your latitude in the Norther Hemisphere. Then seek help from Orion to find south and now you just follow the stars for direction

GOLD MINING GOLD RUSH LESH GOW

Kia Ora,

Today I will show you some of the discoveries I've learned from gold mining.

This are the things I've learned from articles and the main book that we have read. 

First Gold Rush

Gabriel Read was the first who had found gold near the Tuapeka River; he gained fame and provincial government bonuses when he found gold. Thousands of diggers as well as other people like business people and entertainers went all the way to Gabriels Gully hoping to find gold and instantly get rich.

Chinese Miners

In 1866 there were less than 200 Chinese miners in Otago, but by April 1868 the Chinese population had rapidly increased to 1270. BY 1881 the Chinese population reached its peak with just under 5000 miners. 

Otago

Otago’s first gold rush was in 1861, after Gabriel Read found gold in what would be called Gabriels Gully. Thousands of diggers, later including men from China, went there to make their fortune.

Here is a really good article about Chinese miners how they helped build New Zealand and how discrimination drove them away. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2102620/how-chinese-gold-miners-helped-build-new-zealand-and-how-discrimination

WHY WE SHOULD LEARN HISTORYYYYYY!!!!!!!

Kia Ora,

Today I will be telling you and will be showing you a video about history. This video is made by my friend I.

MAH AMAZING GOAL SETTTING

Kia Ora,

Today I will share my goal setting document for this term. My goal setting document contains my greatest achievement from last term which was getting to play basketball and getting to a basketball team. My goal setting also includes the subjects I have for this term like reading/social study, maths/PE, writing/science and reading/ drama I also have a language class it is a Japanese class and for our technology this term my class will be doing wood tech for wood we are planning to make a Bluetooth speaker which is really exciting.

My two academic goals for this term are getting a little bit more better at maths and learning to speak English more accurately. For my whole year  academic goals is working hard and trying my best at every subject. And my non-academic goal is practising to play basketball so I can play better when I will verse other teams.

HERE IS THE REST OF THE GRADUATE PROFILE THAT I MADE: