Hero Writing

 On Wednesday we started writing about our hero. The story could be real or fake. I choose to do a real story. The hero I choose to do was my Dad because the past week has been a bit sad for him. I thought this would be good to write about because my great Granddad is also dead and my Dad can't get over there because of covid. The story contains death in it. Here is the story.

It was the middle of the holidays. Everyone was going out to different places. The day was calm and people out walking their dogs. I was just sitting in my room on my chromebook watching youtube. Soon my Dad got a phone call from my Nana. I paused my video because I am a nosey kid. As soon as my Dad started talking I knew it was something bad. My Dad and Nana were talking for a long time. It has been about a half-hour since they called and I haven’t heard anything since then.  It has been about 1 hour since the call and my Dad called us down to the lounge. When we got down to the lounge my Dad started talking. He said, “Okay so Nana called me and uh said that the hospital called her about Nana(Great Nana) and uh she has passed.” I asked him if he knows what time she died. After a couple of minutes, he finally replied that she died at about 11:30 there time so 1:30 our time. Since they live in Australia they are behind us in time. My Nana was not there when she died because she was in Melbourne or Brisbane but she got there the next day.  Soon its night time and my family decided to come to my house and have a video call with our Nana. We even got to Rose, my auntie. The people that came were my uncle Aj, my other uncle Daniel, my auntie Christine and my big sister Katelyn with her baby Sienna. I wasn’t down there at the start but I was down there later. Everyone got a turn to talk to her. Since this has happened my Dad has been taking the week of work. My Father even got the kitten that our uncles place because it got dumped by its mother. 

The funeral is later next week. It is going to be live-streamed because we can’t get over there because of covid and quarantine. After the funeral, she is going to get cremated like our Granddad(Great Granddad) did.

Sour Gummy Bear

Today in science we are tasting sour gummy bears. 

Aim: To taste different lollies and determine if the colour of the lolly indicates their flavour and how much
the sour taste masks their flavour.

Hypothesis:

• I think that some flavours will be easy to identify.
  

Method:

1. Each person in the group will test two lollies

2. Each tester will be blindfolded.

3. Lolly will be placed on their tongue then chewed.

4. Once a flavour has been determined it will be recorded on the chart below using a scale of 1-5 to determine how easy it is to identify the lolly flavour. 1 being easy and 5 being hard. You will need to complete all 3 coloums on the chart

Chart:

Lolly flavour	Lolly Colour	Does this sour taste mask the flavour?	Rating (1-5)
Lemon	Yellow	Yes	1
Raspberry	Red	Yes	2
Blackcurrant	Purple?	Yes	3
Orange	Orange	No	1
Lime	Green	Not really	3

Class Rating Chart:

Flavour	1	2	3	4	5
Lemon	2	2	4	0	3
Raspberry	3	0	2	5	2
Blackcurrant	1	1	1	2	4
Orange	1	3	2	2	2
Lime	1	0	1	2	2

Summary:

Lemon: Lemon was easy to tell what the flavour was. The colour was yellow and I rate it a 1 because it is easy to tell.

Blackcurrant: Blackcurrant was a little easy to tell but I still got it wrong because it tasted the same as raspberry at the start. The colour was purple and I rate it a 3 because it was sort of easy to tell but not too easy.

How much does the sour taste mask the flavour of the lolly? I think that the sour on the lolly does mask the flavour.

Does chewing the lolly give you a better flavour? Yes chewing the lolly gives you a better flavour.

200 Word Challenge

 Today in wānanga we had to do the 200-word challenge if we are done our cultural kete reflect. I did 202 words. Here is the story and the photo

Each year we celebrate cultures/places. In the place, I live it happens in April. There is no exact day that it happens so we make it so that different things happen each day. On one day we have a big celebration in the city. It cost 10$ per person, for a family it cost 50$ 2 adults and 3 kids. It happens in each big city. People from different places in the world that are in the city bring the flag of where they are from to the celebration. Some people bring their sexuality flags or they bring flags they make. There will be people performing their culture. Most people will be doing songs and dance. Most people will be doing Pasifika because there are lots of people that are Pacific. There were also many lights around as well as it happens in different cities on different days and times at night. There will also be smoke and loud music and lots of cheering. There is a lot of people there so it will make the money to pay for the people to be there. Even if you are not there it will be on tv so you can watch it.

Volume

For the past week in maths we are learning what volume is and doing work sheets about it. Last week we had to do the volume in the classroom, cupboard, ball bin and gym, I didn't get all the measurements in one day but I got them all. The 3 means so you know that it is volume, and if you don't put the 3 there you got your work wrong. Volume is a type of maths measurement, at first you might think its hard but its not when you get going on it. Volume: if you fill up a cup of water it is ml. In volume you use Kl(Kiloliter), Ml(Milliliter), L(liter) or M(Meter), Cm(Centimeter) and Mm(Millimeter). Here is my maths work.

Figurative Language

Today I have to describe what a simile and metaphor is to you. Here is one simile and metaphor from PaperBoy. Metaphor: “Mrs. Worthington and her red hair. That was the dessert of my thinking” (p. 156). Simile: “[Mr. Spiro] sounded official like he was calling a baseball game on the radio”

(p. 30). What is a simile?: A simile is a repranse with like or as, here is a example: The dog was running as fast as a cheater. You can us similes and metaphors in writing. What is a metaphor?: A metaphor is a figure of speech in which word or a phrase is applied to an object or action. Here is a example of a metaphor: Her heart is gold. The activity said we had write a metaphor that best describes Little Man’s relationship with Mam and write a simile that describes Little Man’s communication with TV boy. Here is the simile and metaphor.

Simile: Both don't talk alot like a turtle very quite.

Metaphor: Little Man and Mam are very strong together.

PE: Weight

Today I had to do all of this. We had to choose between 20-40. I choose 25. Here is some of the work I did today

Activity	Weight	Repeats
SuperMan	25	20x
Push Ups	25	10x
Plank	25	15x
Burpees	25	13x
Skips	25	80x
Sit Ups	25	10x

My Number is 25. 

Active Listening

Today my teacher made us do something different form what we normally do. She said "That we had to do a DLO about PB4L and the school expected behaviors". I did mine about active listening because I have done lots of stuff about active listening. Here is the schools expected behaviors and my poster of active listening.

Paper Boy - Novel Study

Today I read chapters 10-12. I wish I could read more but we have to do it at different times. Sadly Mam was still busted up. Here is some events that were in the story. Little Man's parents went on a business trip. Little Man sneaks into Ara T's shed to try and find his yellow handed knife but instead he found his old big chrome headlight from his old schwinn. Mam had a choir on. Little Man and Mam went to the zoo. The dialogue is write different from normal books. When Little Man speaks it says  s-s-s-s Yes Ma'am s-s-s-s But only a s-s-s-s little one. When other people speak it says, have you flown in it, no speech marks or nothing. The speech parts from page 17 when Little Man is talking to Mrs Worthington.

Paper Boy Question

Yesterday I finished reading chapter 9. When we finished chapters 7 - 9 you had to go onto the next slide and there was questions. In chapter 9 Mrs Worthington was drunk and didn't give the money for the news paper. Mam had a fight with someone but didn't tell Little Man so Little Man was sad. Here is the questions and answers.

Q: What is the conflict between Ara T and Little Man? How will it be resolved?

A: The conflict between Ara T and Little Man is that Ara T is not giveing Little Man his yellow handed knife back. Ara T is trying to get Little Man to say knife but he cant say that because the k is to hard for him to say. I think that Little Man will come out and say that Ara T is not giving his knife back.

Q: Why do you think Little Man likes Mr Spiro so much?

A: I think Little Man likes Mr Spiro because he is always there for him and lets Little Man ask him questions that he is scared to ask his parent them. Mr Spiro lets Little Man talk and doesn't interrupt Little Man.

Q: Research what a speech pathologist does. Explain what their job is and how they help people.

A: A speech pathologist is sort of like a speech therapist. They help with speech sounds, language(aphasia), social communication, voice, fluency, cognitive-communication, feeding and swallowing. You can find speech pathologist at private practices, physicians' offices, hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, rehabilitation centers, long-term and residential health care facilities.

Q: Who is Mam? What is her role in the family?

A: Mam is a like a caregiver for Little Man. She helps the family out with dinner and work. Mam is always nice to Little Man but she keeps secrets from Little Man.