Information Report - Matariki

Kuraia

WALT - Write an Information Report

Success Criteria

• Clearly explain what I am writing about
• Use factual language
• Summarise the information in my final paragraph
• Begin with classification, definition , general comment in my opening statement

Title : Matariki

Matariki is a cluster of stars known as pleiades. These stars represent the ancestors and as well as stories behind it . Matariki has been around for a very long time from when they used the stars to tell time. Even now we celebrate it with feeds and even light trails . Plus the population has been increasing every year. Matariki isn’t just all about feeds it’s about the start of a new Year from how the maori’s used to tell time.

Matariki stars is the eye of God . There is a story about the earth, wind and heavens . When the God of Earth and Heaven split apart, the God of wind was furious about this situation , so he tore out his eyes and through it into the sky as his lookout . This story is very similar to when a guy named Tawhiri Matea had just found out his parents Ranginui and Papatuanuku had split apart . He got so enraged , that he mangled out his eyes and threw it up into the sky. It is very similar to each other and this is what most people believe how the stars were made .

Why is Matariki during May/June rather the the first of january, if it stands for the Maori New Year.  It is known that maori’s didn’t exactly get the time of the year right. All they did was study the stars to find out time for them . But it was not so long after that new people had traveled to Aotearoa and studied the real time. But when the maori’s figured out time , it was around May and June when they had there New Year because that was the time when the 7 stars had risen as well as a new moon . Which seems like a new beginning.

Matariki was used for helping people find their way . Long ago, nothing like compasses and so on were invented so the maori’s had to use the 7 stars to voyage across sea . These stars were able to get them as far as Rarotonga to Aotearoa. But it wasn’t so easy to get through the day with rough sea. As it is said that Matariki only appears near dawn or at night, but it depends. So they would sometimes just use constellations which is like normal stars to get their way across sea, but they had more difficulties.  

Matariki is a very special event as it’s significance for a Maori New Year. The 7 stars has been through many history’s and many things it is essential for. As I said , Matariki is celebrated in many ways . But now , most people are just holding light trails and feeds. As well , in 2017 there will be 9 stars now . There is no reason in why and how there became 9 stars . But a Professor down in Waikato is a professional star researcher and has just discovered there will be more than 7 stars.  

Tercet Poem

Polygons - Matariki stars

Kuraia

In class today , my class had been doing an activity on making polygons from the matariki stars. As you can see I have made 12 polygons and it was a really fun activity. Although, it took time to do because I had to connect so many lines and there were plenty for me to do. From this activity I have learnt that any Irregular shapes that has the same sides as a normal shape, it will still be called the same. As an example, if there is an irregular shape that has 6 sides, it will be a hexagon. Anyways , it is a really interesting fact to have not known about and hopefully I would keep learning more new things from doing activities like this.

Anyways the shapes I made from these stars were

1.Pentagon

2. Heptagon

3. Polygon

4. Quadrilateral

5. Heptagon

6. Octagon

7. Hexagon

8. Pentagon

9. Hexagon

10. Hexagon

11. Pentagon

12. Quadrilateral

Reading Comprehension - Read Theory

Kuraia 16.06.2017

Today I have done a reading comprehension on Read theory. It was really easy because reading the text was pretty understanding . I was able to answer all the questions by looking back at the passage several times. But at the end I was able to answer all the questions correctly . During this reading lesson I learnt to read the text properly other wise I’d keep going back to the passage and that’s how I was able to get through the text after answering my second question.

Volume

Kuraia                   Volume of a cuboid        

WALT: find the volume of a cuboid

1. Length = 10 Centimeter

Breath = 5 cm

Height = 5 cm

Volume L x B x H

= 10 x 5 x 5

= 250 cubic centimeters

2. Length = 2 meters

Breath = 1 meter

Height = 3 meters

Volume L x B x H

= 2 x 1 x 3

= 6 cubic meters

3. Length = 7 Centimeters

Breath = 5 Centimeters

Height = 3 Centimeters

Volume L x B x H

= 7 x 5 x 3

= 106 Cubic centimeters

4. Length = 10 Centimeters

Breath = 4 Centimeters

Height = 20 Centimeters

Volume L x B x H

= 10 x 4 x 20

= 800 cubic Centimeter

5. Length = 5 Centimeter

Breath = 3 Centimeter

Height = 10 Centimeter

Volume L x B x H

= 5 x 3 x 10

= 150 Cubic Centimeters

6. Length = 8 Centimeter

Breath = 3 Centimeter

Height = 5 Centimeter

Volume = 8 x 3 x 5

= 120 cubic Centimeter   

7. Length = 12 Centimeter

Breath = 10 Centimeter

Height = 5 Centimeter

Volume L x B x H

= 12 x 10 x 5

= 600 Cubic centimeter

8. Length = 15 Meter

Breath = 10 Meter

Height = 5 Meter

Volume = 15 x 10 x 5

= 750 Meters

Units of Weight

Kuraia

Units of  Weight

How many Milligrams in one Centigram ? 10 Milligrams

How many Centigrams in one Decigram ? 10 Centigrams

How many Decigrams is a Gram ? 10 Decigrams

How many Grams in a Dekagram ? 10 Grams

How many Dekagram in a Hectogram ? 10 Decagrams

How many Hectogram in a kilogram ? 10 Hectograms

Different types of weights

Milligrams

Centigrams

Decigram

Gram

Decagram

Hectogram

Kilogram

Narrative Writing - The old Rail Track

Kuraia 30.05.2017

WALT - Write a Narrative writing

Success Criteria

• It must be a made up story
• I will use show not tell
• I will use strong adjectives
• I will use interesting vocabulary
• I will use Figurative language to make my story sound more better
• I will edit my punctuation correctly
• I will organize my paragraphs in the right place
• I must have a solution and a problem

Title : Old Rail track

It was a sudden day of clouds intercepting between the sun’s bright glimmer. I was cautious,watching all the animals getting ready to hibernate for a long season of Winter. In low tones, I moped myself just to get one touch of a deer. It had already started hibernating, I was just making sure I wouldn’t be already on the floor as I took a touch.

Pouncing on to me, I was precisely unable to get up, I felt the cold flowing above my skin as I tried rolling myself back home . I was nervous not knowing where to go but I was confident on where I was heading.I ended up in a straight platform of grass. It was a longer distance that I remember walking from my house to the forest. I felt like I was going towards the wrong way, but I went with my instincts and kept going.  

      

As it started to get bumpy, I knew I was heading into trouble. I felt a rough type of wood stamping along my back as I knew I was on a old rail track. I tried moving along, but the rails kept pushing me back onto my starting point. I felt the rush of adrenaline pushing sweat through my face. I thought to myself, it’s only an old rail track, so there wouldn’t be any trains coming through. But then I thought again that constructors would have busted it down if it was in no need. Thinking of trains had made me hear a sound of a train's whistle. I knew I was hallucinating, but as the sound got nearer and lounder. I startled with fear, pushing my way through the rails.

My fifth try and I could barely even get over the rails. The train was getting closer and closer but as I heard a sound of roars,  which I knew belonged to a pack of lions. I was horribly scared knowing I would die one way or the other. I tried my hardest and as the lions appeared in my sight, with their jaws ready to gobble me up. The train suddenly came which scared them off, pushing me towards the grass and off the track, well I mean tracks that look old but are still in use.

I waited for an hour to rest my legs and arms and shifted myself towards a tree to help me get up. I walked liked there was a stick in my leg with tears strolling down my face. As I appeared home, there they were. My parents struggling to find out where I was. They helped me in getting inside, curing me with an ice pack on my bruised leg and arm and a nice cup of Hot chocolate in my hands, ready to be down in my stomach.