Arbor Day & Environmental Day

Arbor day is a day of the week during the month of the year. On 5 June 2020 is arbor day, some people like to do different things, some people don't even do anything for this day. Some of the things that you could do for this day are:

• Plant a tree ~ plant it where you will always remember. 
• Do some gardening 
• Read a book about tree's
• Volunteer at a local planting organization 

These things can be everyday things to do, but when doing them on Arbor Day it makes it you feel more special, you are giving back to the environment. 

Us as a School like to do many things for the environment in school grounds and round the community, some of the things we do are: 

• Created a school garden along the back of the school fence, 
• Pick up rubbish around the community, and inside of our school. 

And many other things. 

Yesterday Mark had some more plants we could plant out the back. The year 9's in my class helped get all the plants and helped take them to where they were going to be planted. 

Photography Shots

LO: Define the language of film using visual & sound techniques.

Our task do was to create a fun way to share our photography shots and meanings. I created a slideshow with an explanation and an image showing each photography shot used in the film. 

My wonderings of this activity are how they use all these different angles and combined them into a film, and all math in well together. 

Sustainability - Hurumanu 1

For Hururmanu 1, we are looking at sustainability. our task was to match the words with the correct meaning and highlight them with the colours below.  

Green - Improving environmental sustainability. 

Orange - Balanced no better no worse. 

Red - Getting worse. 

Here was the finished activity - 

LO: Define the language of film using visual & sound techniques.

Our task do was to create a fun way to share our photography shots and meanings. I created a slideshow with an explanation and an image showing each photography shot used in the film. 

My wonderings of this activity are how they use all these different angles and combined them into a film, and all math in well together. 

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Samoan Language Week - Art

In class, we were researching about Samoan Language week and some of the Key areas around Samoa. Something I chose to research about Samoan art, and the meanings behind them. 

Something that interested me about this topic is their art always has a meaning behind is. Something I saw something in many bits of art is Pasifika art was commonly used. 

 Traditional art represents traditional values and traditional habits, which shape the identity of each individual living in Western Samoa and therefore play an important role in the artwork people create.

The art between New Zealand is that Samon art has more patterns in It and New Zealand has is more outdoors with nature. 

5 Strengths

During form time we have been figuring out what strengths we have, for this activity, we had to create a poster about our 5 strengths. for my 5 strengths I picked Bravery, Creativity, Honesty,  Humour, and Zest.

Wooden Art - 3D Name

During the lockdown period, we had some long wood leftover from doing up our backyard bark area. We wanted to do something with it so it was out of the way, so I created a wooden 3D name board. This took me 4 days to Draw, Cut, File, Sand, and polish the wood.

The equipment I used was:

• File
• Sander 
• Clamp 
• Drill
• Woodcutter/band saw 

This was my end result - 

I'm currently in the progress of creating one of our class and also creating letters for my brother's birthday! 

Home Economics

One of my tasks for cooking/Home Economics was to bake something to share on our blog. For this task, I made a banana cake. It was really easy to make as my auntie gave me the recipe she uses.

125g butter, softened

¾ cup of white sugar

2 eggs

2 cups mashed ripe bananas

1 teaspoon of baking Soda

2 tablespoon of hot milk

2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1.Preheat the oven to 180ºC. 

2.Butter the inside of the cake tin.

3.Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

5. Add the mashed banana and mix well.

6. Stir the baking soda into the hot milk

7. Add to creamed mixture. 8. Sift the dry ingredients together and fold through the creamed mixture.

9. Scoop the mixture into the prepared tin, level the top.

10. Bake for about 50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

11. Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool. 

12. When cold ice with chocolate Icing

Chocolate icing.

1 1/2 cups of icing sugar

1 Tablespoon of cocoa powder 

50g soften butter

2 Tablespoon hot water.

Method.

1. Combine icing sugar and cocoa powder. 

2. Add softened butter  

3. Pour some of the hot water over. 

4. Mix together with a knife or spatula, adding more water as required to achieve a smooth, spreadable consistency.

5. Add grated chocolate or coconut