Recount

WEEKEND RECOUNT

Schloop! as the wet, slimy green stuff hit me. In the weekend Tim, Konrad, and I went to the falls. Also Gerry and her family were already there. “Ready?” I asked Konrad as we were getting ready to run and dive in.

“Hard,” he replied.

Firstly, Konrad and I dived straight in. POOF! POOF! POOF! Konrad and I were bombing one after another. “Show us a whippy, eh Konnie!”

“YOOO” Konrad jumped, the girls and I were in total silence waiting for him to hit the water. And then SPLASH!.

Konrad and I headed up to the top to get some slimy stuff to shoot the girls.

Then, splat, as the girls blind shot us. “You lot are gonna get smoked now” I yelled.

“Hahahahahahah” the girls wouldn’t stop laughing.

“Let the game begin” I yelled.

After a while Konrad and I had got a bunch of slime and headed towards the falls again. Then suddenly SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT. As Konrad  and I got ambushed. Gerry, Sylvah and even Letisha were just hammering us with the slime.

So then Konrad and I shot off back towards the top, still remaining calm. “Come! We’ll make a big stack then go down and smoke them!”

“OK,” Konrad replied in excitement.

Getting, nearer and nearer to having a huge pile Konrad and I started getting pumped up.

“Ready Es?” Konrad asked me.

“Born ready bara” I replied, thrilled to go kick some butt.

“Please I surrender” I heard Konrad say to the girls. So I dashed out with some slime, chasing Letisha out of the falls and almost on to the road. Then I heard her trying to surrender. But no, not this time. “I’m not falling for your tricks” I said to Letisha, throwing my slime all over her.

  

Finally I heard Nana Balu yell out to the girls “Come on. Let’s go.”

“Yes” I mumbled under my breath.  

Gloss Test

WALT: Use a variety of strategies to solve mental maths problems.

SC: Design a gloss test based on the original to show your understanding of the strategies.

My Narrative

WALT: change a recount into a narrative by changing from 1st to 3rd person

Falls.

“Yessss!!” Shaun whispered to himself, as he was allowed to go for a swim with the boys. Roger, Greg, Jarryd, Jonathan and Shaun were at the Tautoro Falls. Roger did a bomb off the rock at the Tautoro falls. Kapoooooooooof! The water went high as. Shaun jumped out into the cool water from off the rock PIPOOOOOOOF! Shaun’s whippy went huge.

It was Sunday. They had all walked all the way from Kaikohe. All that they could smell was fresh water. All that they could hear was the water dropping into the water at the bottom of the waterfall.

As Shaun again jumped into the water and performed a whippy it had started to rain, then out came Greg. Greg said “I’ll do a backflip aye” so he jumped and performed a backflip bomb into the water.

Then they all decided to do a bomb chain. They stood in a row and waited to go one by one, Shaun first, then Greg, then Jarryd and then Roger. “Far out! That was humongous, eh Roger” said Jonathan.

Then they were all doing their bombs. Kaboom! Shaun and Roger did a bomb at the same time. Greg did a mean as Whippy and it went high as.

“Ghee that was dumb” Greg said to Shaun.

“Bro your all cake I’ll smash you!” Shaun replied angrily.

“Kean!” Greg replied. So then they started having a fight and Shaun punched Greg into the water.

“Bro stop it you idiots!” Jarryd yelled at those boys.  

“Ok then” they replied at the same time.

“Jynx” Hahahahahaha they both smiled and laughed at each other.

At the end of the day they all had fun doing bombs and Shaun can’t wait to go to the falls with his boys again, because it is a  a lot of fun.

Art Survey

Arts Survey

Describe your ability as an artist. What do you like about Art?

What I don’t like about art

I can’t draw to save my life.  I tend to rely on Google drawing and Google images to create art posters etc.  I do like building and creating things with my hands though, like when we had to use plasticine for our animations.

Describe your ability as an actor/ presenter. What do you like about acting/ presenting?

What I like about Acting/Presenting

I’m a pretty confident actor.  I enjoy expressing myself and I’m not afraid of being in front of a camera.  I actually think it would be pretty cool to be an actor as a career. We’ve had to do short films/skits this year for te reo. It was cool and I really enjoyed it.  

Describe your ability as a dancer. What do you like about dance?

I don’t like to dance because I can’t dance…..BUT I’m going to  start dancing because I hate not being able to do something. I think I’m going to give hip hop a go.  I’ve chosen to be in the dance group for our end of year performance so I plan on watching youtube videos and dance films to get some ideas.  I like that it’s another way of expressing yourself.  

Describe your ability as a singer/ musician. What doe you like about music/ singing

I don’t like singing too because I know that I can’t sing.  I feel like I sound flat.  I only like singing in Kapa Haka because they’re Māori songs and usually we just keep the same low note, nothing too high.  Plus, it’s a part of my Māori culture.

Animation Advert

This is a photo of mine and Te Ari Jack's Planning Sheet

On my planning sheet I have 4 scenes full of what I'm going to create in my animation. 

Scene 1 - The police are trying to shoot the bank robber.

Scene 2- A little kid walks in the way.

Scene 3 - Police shoot the little boy and the robber runs away.

Scene 4 - The robber does some drifts in his car and crashes into the bank and dies.

Creating the advert.

WALT: create a 30 second advert.

SC

1. Create a 300 photo shot  advert.
2. I or 2 close-up shots on your character - portrait or close-up on facial shot
3. Audience must know what you are advertising. Image and slogan must be provided.
4. Movements of character or characters must be fluid, slower, more body movements shown.
5. Add Title at the beginning and credits at the end. Don’t forget the music that reflects your mood for your advert.

My Reflection

The things that went well are: Videoing, planning, team work, building our characters, what we were advertising, creating our scene, following all the success criteria.

The learning that took place are: Learning how to video, make animations, using Plasticine, working as a team, using Stop Motion App.

I'm proud of: How it turned out for our first animation, How good it was, Mine and Te Ari's teamwork, Our movements were good so it made it look better.

I will improve on: Keeping my hands out of the way, making sure you can't see people in the background, Better looking characters, being faster to finish.

Toku Mihi

WALT: Present our mihi and pepeha confidently

Poll shows no threat to current flag

Title	Date	Summary
Poll shows no threat to current flag	21/10/15	None of the alternative national flags are likely to pose a challenge to the existing flag in upcoming referenda, a new poll shows. They’re voting for the best flag out of five and the one with the least votes will be eliminated.Prime Minister John Key said this afternoon that changing the flag was always going to be a difficult task. I think the flag should not be changed because the soldiers died under that flag and over half of NZ don’t want to change it. In fact 3 consecutive polls have shown that most New Zealanders don’t want the flag to change. In all three polls nearly three quarters did not support a flag change.