New Zealand Kiwifruit Exports

This week in Social Studies we have been learning about New Zealand exports to other countries around the world. One of the tasks we had to complete was to create a google map to show where a food or other good was exported to around the world from New Zealand. I choose Kiwifruit i used google maps to pin down the laces around the world where kiwifruits were exported to, from New Zealand.

Weaving digital futures

Yesterday Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika from the Waitangi Treaty Grounds Education  centre and also Tara from wellington came to our social studies class. They brought all of their gear like ipads and surface tablets.

We instead of finishing the projects we had started at Waitangi, we all collaborated on a class project. we used the digital devices to create a pou  on sculptGL. We also had to use paint3D to decorate our pepeha.

Some people in our class built a whare and other decorations like trees and plants and Whaea Monika put in their virtual reality programme. We also

Netiquette

This week in social studies we have been learning about netiquette, digital etiquette and how to use when you are online. I hope you learn something from this.

Waitangi Trip - Weaving digital futures

Yesterday on Thursday our form class, 9M went to Waitangi Treaty Grounds education centre. They held a workshop about weaving digital futures.

When we got their two women called Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monica introduced themselves. They showed us to the computer room which had ipads with different apps open on them. Our class got split into two groups the first group went for a walk around the treaty grounds and the other group(me) stayed in the class room and we spend a few minutes on each station. 

There was sculpt GL- a program that allowed you to shape and mould different shaped pieces of clay. Paint 3D-which was pretty much like a normal painting program. Tinkercad was like a building program. But like you could'not actually build stuff because you could not put a shape on top of one another. All of these programs were done on ipads. Then there was green screen were you stood in front of a green curtain and you could choose a background and then take a video. There was these robots that you could code to do things like move forward and turn around. Then there was virtual reality. You put on these huge google type things and you had two controllers a switch and a trigger controller so you could choose a option on this menu thing and then point the trigger controller and stars or embers came out of the top like a wand. Last but not least and definitely my favourite was the stop motion animation. There was a camera set up and a manikin and lego and plastercine that you could make your video with.

When group 1 came back from their walk we swapped over and we went for a walk. We took a different route from the first group and we went up to James Busby house and we were allowed to go inside and look at all the rooms. It was actually a really big house.After than we all went back to the classroom and had lunch. Soon after that we went back to school.

It was a really fun and enjoyable day and maybe we could use some of these apps to show our work into future.

Migration

Kia Ora Koutou,
This term we have been learning about migration. We have done a lot of work on tjis so that we really understand about migration and why people choose or are forced to migrate to another country.

We learnt about the early settlers of Aotearoa and how the British colonised New Zealand.

We learnt about the causes and effects of people migrating to another country:

• Population increase
• Increased housing prices
• Less opportunities for housing and jobs.

We learnt about what what happens when people migrate from a country.

• More houses available and made cheaper 
• less doctors(poor medical services)
• less teachers(poor education)
• Less jobs available
• Population decrease

Poetry

This term in English, we have been learning about poetry. First we watched a video called: What makes a poem a poem?. This was about the different aspects of peotry and how it has evolved throuought the years. Most poetry uses imagry adn sound devices such a metaphors, similies, personificvation, alliteration, onapatapeoria.

A Metaphor is directly comparing two thngs. an example of a metaphor is . . . He was

Similies are different because the use th ewords; 'like' and 'As' to compare two things. An example of a similie is . . .  The wind wistled through the trees.

Longitude and Latitude

In Social Studies we have been learning  about longitude and latitude. Latitude is the imaginary horizontal line that encircle the globe, going east to west and vice versa. Longitude are the article meridians the run from north to south, south to north. Longitude and latitude are measured in degrees. To be more exact you can also refine them into minutes, seconds and milliseconds.

Pink Shirt Day/Anti-Bullying

Last Friday we had pink shirt day and some people in my class wore pink shirts. I did. It Is a reminder to EVERYONE that NOBODY should be bullied for ANYTHING.

Peace Poster

About Me

Kia Ora, my name is Astin and I go to Bay of Islands College.This year I am a year 9.my class is 9M which is year nine Miro house.I am New Zealand Maori. Me and my sister have three horses called Stella, Magic and Ebony. We also have a gray cat called Katrina, four goats called Emral, Margo, Betsy and Congo.Plus Violet, Hermione and Cleo (patra) my calf club calves. At one point we also had a black and white hen named Hene Brown.

I am good at Reading, Maths and Drawing.I really like doing P.E Art, Music, Reading, Writing, Math and Woodwork.I have found that I don't like using chromebooks as much as my classmates.My goals for this year is to learn a lot especially in maths because I want to be a Engineer and an architect when I am older.

This year I am looking forward to taking lots of learning opportunities and learning as much as I can.

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