A Moment In Time Writing

In Ruma Tahi, we were learning how to put only one thing into our writing and give lots of details. I found this quite hard because I kept wanting to write the whole story.

A Moment In Time

I could hear the plane firing up as we were walking to the plane. I could feel the hot carbon dioxide hitting me as I was stepping in the plane I was having second thoughts about this. I could feel the plane pulling me back on the set as the plane was lifting. Before I knew it we were 13,000 feet in the air I was feeling the tremendous amount of air coming through the door as he opened me and the person strapped to me jumped out first and did a flip. When we were free falling we were travelling 200km an hour you could only hear the gashing air going past your ears. At five thousand ft he pulled the parachute and he tried to show me were Mt Taranaki is and the North Island but it was to cloudy that day to see. When we were gliding down he showed me were the runway was were we took of in the plane we were coming down fast it was amazing to see the places that were there we come down for the landing and it was smooth.

Summer Learning Journey Week Two Day Three, Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week Two Day Three
Learning Intention: On your blog, tell us whether you are a night owl or an early riser. Then, tell us about the rest of your family. Are they the same as you? .

Kia Ora , ko Jack toku ingoa ( Hi my name is Jack). I am the youngest boy sibling out of four. I am a night owl as well as my older brother Jayden and my dad Graeme. We are night owls because mostly every night us three are up unitl like 1:30 to 2:00 each night to morning in the garage helping my dad. If you read my posts you are probably sick of me writing that I help my dad fix motorbikes and car a lot but it is true that's what us boys do.
One thing, although my dad is a night owl he is also a early riser because he wakes often every morning around 5:30am and goes to his work.

My older sister Jennae is a night owl as well. Jennae is a night owl because she is always up until 11:00pm doing her school work like this the Summer Learning Journey(by the way, she is so obsessed with), and she likes to read at night as well. Jennae can wake up some mornings early but mostly around 10:30am so she is still a night owl.
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My second older sister Kayla and my mother (Glenda) are both early risers. These two are both early risers because my sister and mother go to the same work place and wake up every morning around 7:00am and leave around 9:15am to go to work.

So as you can tell we are all different in our own ways but these can somethings change as well to the opposite.


Activity 2 Week Two Day Three Learning Intention:For this activity, please choose a favourite food and find a recipe for it.

On your blog, share a list of the ingredients that you need to make this food. You must type out the list of ingredients yourself (and not simply copy and paste it from a website) to earn full points.

Butter Chicken

Ingredients:

-6 tablespoons of butter
-2lbs of chicken breasts, cut into chunks
-1 yellow onion, diced
-3 garlic cloves, minced
-1 tablespoon of garam masala
-1 tablespoon of fresh grated ginger
-1 tablespoon of chili powder
-1 teaspoon of ground cumin
-1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
-1 1/2 cups of tomato sauce
- 2 cups of cream
-Salt and pepper
-lime and cilantro
-naan and rice for serving

Recipe

1) To start off your butter chicken recipe you need to add your two tablespoons of butter into a large
skillet pan over medium-high heat and let it melt. Then put your chicken into a pan and then brown each side of your chicken. Don't do altogether work in batches if you like and then set a side.

2) Next melt another two tablespoons of butter and in a pan at medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook until it begins to soften(2-3 minutes). Then add the garlic, garam masala, ginger, chili powder, cumin and your cayenne pepper. Then stir to combine and then cook around 40-50 second and then add your tomato sauce.

3) Thirdly bring the mixture to a simmer and let is cook for five minutes before adding your cream. next bring the mixture back to a simmer again, add the browned chicken and let simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Keep the heat low at this stage not a boil.

4) Stir the remaining two tablespoons of butter and then sprinkle some salt and pepper for the taste.

5) Serve butter chicken with the lime and cilantro along with the rice and naan.

Activity 3 Week Two Day Three
Learning Intention: Let’s imagine that the average adult can lift 25 kg and the average child can lift 15 kg. How many adults and children will it take to move the giant squid into its new room at Te Papa? [Note: There is more than one right answer to this question.]

On your blog, tell us how you will solve this maths problem. You can write your answer in words, use a Sketchpad image or post a video explaining how you would figure it out. Be sure to give us your final answer. .

To figure out how much adults you will need to lift the 500 kg squid you can figure it out by going 500 divided by 25 and get the answer 20 or you can go 20x 25 equals 500. So you will need 20 adults to lift a 500 kg squid. Next to figure out how much children you need to lift a 500kg squid you can go 15 multiply what would be 500 which equals 33.3333333 or you can go 500 divided by 15 which equals 33.3333333 as well.

Summer Learning Journey Week Two Day Two, Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week Two Day Two, Weaving
Learning Intention: On your blog, tell us whether or not you would like to try flax weaving. Does it interest you? Why or why not?

I would want to try flax weaving because it would be a new skill I have learnt and looks challenging but I like challenges. I am not really interested in flax weaving because I have other interests like helping my dad in the shed fix things such as cars and motorbikes.

Activity 2 Week Two Day Two, Strong Person Learning Intention: For this activity you are asked to think of someone who is very tough and strong. They can be someone who you know personally or they can be a character that you have read about in a book, seen in a movie, or on a television show. On your blog, tell us about this person. Who are they? Why are they, in your opinion, so strong and tough? This person I think that is so strong and tough is my dad. I think my dad is so strong because all his life he has been lifting heavy things like car engines, car transmissions, motorbikes and pushing cars etc. I think my dad is so tough because when my dad gets cut open by something at his work, he doesn't even notice he had hurt himself until I told him for an example there was a deep cut on his finger.


Activity 3 Week Two Day Two, Stranger Than Fiction

Learning Intention: On your blog, list three similarities and three differences between the two plants that you chose. To earn five extra bonus points, post a picture of both plants on your blog.

The two plants I chose are the Rafflesia Arnoldii and the Corpse Flower.

Similarities

1) The corpse flower and the rafflesia arnoldii are both a type of flower.

2) Both of these flower look similar by the both being the same shape and colour.

3) The corpse flower produces the smell of a decomposing animal and the rafflesia arnoldii flower produces not a very nice irritating smell. So they both produce smells that are horrible.

Differences

1) A difference between the two flowers is that the corpse flower grows to stand at 8.2 feet tall and the rafflesia Arnoldii flower grows to a size of three feet.

2) A second difference between the two flowers is that the Corpse flower only blooms every 40 years and the rafflesia arnoldii  flower blooms every nine months and lasts for a week.

3) A third difference between the two flowers is that the rafflesia arnoldii  flower grows in the forest and the corpse flower grows in a wet and humid rain forest.

 

Corpse Flower

Rafflesia Arnoldii Flower

                                               


 

Summer Learning Journey Week One Day Three Activity 1, 2 and 3

Activity 1 Week One Day Three, Deerman
Learning Intention: On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.

Roar! A huge half deer half man appears in the deep dark green forest. The deermans antlers sharp as a dagger, hanging with blood infested guts. If you dare to stare directly in its deep blood red eyes, watch out! The deerman starts to grow and grow into this huge giant deer. The deermann lifts its top lip and grows sharply with deep fierce. It bows its head and stares straight at its prey, then scuffs the ground with his huge hoof and charges antlers first into its unlucky victim.

The deerman stinks horribly of rotten flesh. Its fur grows only one direction but feels so rough.

An evil, dark, vicious roar summons the prey to stay put, giving the deer a snack.#

Activity 2 Week One Day Three ,Doc Ranger Learning intention: On your blog list three pros (good things) and three cons (bad things) about working as a DOC ranger. At the bottom of your post, tell us whether you would like to be a DOC Ranger or not.

Good Things Being A DOC Ranger

-The first good thing about being a DOC is that they help animals in the environment such as the Weka, Kereru, Tui, Black Robin etc. They help these animals survive and help keep more of them.

- Another good thing about being a DOC ranger is that even though the 1080 does kill our farm animals etc it does still help our native animals being killed from pests.

-The last good thing about being a DOC Ranger is that this job can lead you to many other like being a zoo person, vet, local animal care etc.

Bad Things Being A Doc Ranger

- A bad thing about being a DOC ranger it they want 1080. This is a type of poison that kills pests such as the stoat, rats, weasels and cats as well. 1080 still helps our native animals such as the Great Spotted Kiwi from getting killed by pests. 1080 does not only kill our pests it can kills our pet cats, dogs, horses, cows, sheep, goats etc.

-Another bad thing about being a DOC ranger is how much money they are getting paid an hour. I researched and found that DOC rangers only get paid from $15 to $16 an hour. This is a really low pay rate being it said the minimum pay rate is from $16.50 upwards.

- Lastly, a bad thing being a DOC ranger is if you are in the bush helping animals, trees or setting up 1080, or setting up traps you could be hunted. Movement in the bush attracts deer and you could get killed. You can even get shot by a hunter because they may think you are a deer as well.

Personal Comment: When I am older I wouldn't want to work as a DOC ranger because I am not interested in helping animals. I am more interested in mechanics like fixing cars, motorbikes etc.

Activity 3 Week One Day Three, WWF Learning Intention: To learn more about their amazing work, click on one of the two video links below.

Clip #1: Freshwater Seals

Clip #2: Tigers

Once you have watched the video, go to your blog and, using full sentences, tell us:
1) The name of the animal the WWF is working to save.
2) What the WWF is doing to help the animal.

3) What, if any, success they have had protecting the animal.

The name of the animal the WWF is working to save is called the Saimaa Ringed Seal. What the WWF is doing to help the Saimaa Ringed Seal is they are building huge snowbanks for the seals to give birth in, instead on the open ice close to predators. There has been success with them trying to protect the animal, there were only 120 of the Saimaa Ringed Seals left before the WWF team decided to help them and ever since they started to help them and few years later there was over 300 left which definitely increased the population a lot.

Summer Learning Journey Week One Day Two, Activity 1, 2 and 3

Activity 1 Week One Day Two, Giant among us 
Learning Intention: On your blog, tell us whether you would like to go and visit Tāne Mahuta one day. Be sure to tell us why you do (or do not) want to visit this endemic tree.

Yes I would want to visit the Tāne Mahuta Tree. I would want to visit this tree because it is the largest tree in New Zealand. It would also be every cool to see it before it dies.


Activity 2 Week One Day Two, (Ferns) Learning Intention: On your blog list three sports teams that have the word ‘fern’ in their title. Beside each team’s name, post a picture of their uniform. Then, at the bottom of your blog post tell us which of the three uniforms you like best and why.

Football Ferns



Kiwi Ferns

Silver Ferns

The sports team uniform I like the best is the Silver Ferns. I like the Silver Ferns uniform the best because they not only have their netball positions on their uniform but they have a grey fern going up the left side of their uniform.

Activity 3 Week One Day Two, Cactus Problem

Learning Intention: On your blog, tell us how to solve this maths problem. You can write your answer in words, use a Sketchpad image, or post a video explaining how you would figure it out. Be sure to give us your final answer in millilitres (ml).

My Working

To figure out how much water you need to give your cactus you could go 3 x 365 which equals 1095. If it was a leap year you would figure it out by going 3 x 366 which equals 1098 ml of water needed.