This year I have done 186 quality blogs. So far in December I have done 17 blogs, in November 26, October = 3. September = 36, August = 21, July = 6, June = 17, May = 18, April - 7, March- 21, February-14.
In 2020 I had done 152 blogs, I was a year 6. In 2019 I had done 27 as a year 5. And as a year 4 in 2018 I did 12.
Wednesday is the last day of the year, on Wednesday it is only a half day. On Monday we have blogging, cleaning and the last assembly of the year. For the rest of the week we just have cleaning.
I'm looking forward to next year but also not because it'll be very different to this year. I am really looking forward to the holidays but I feel like they took forever to come.
Today is the pool party for Tangaroa. We were supposed to go to Jellie Park but because of covid and vaccine passes we couldn't. So we have to do it at school. We get Ice blocks on Friday too. I think that the pool afternoon will be fun.
I'm looking forward to having Christmas, I'm having my first Xmas after the 25th because then I'm having it with my step-brothers. I am also looking forward to after Xmas because my baby cousin's due date is January 1st but she could come before.
For literacy I have completed all the activities I've had to do. I've done all 6 tasks. All 3 MPRs, the news summary, 2 art projects although I've done more. Everything I've had to do is all done. The work was set for over 2 weeks but I've completed it in 1 week. Nobody else has done everything. It is a great achievement for me.
What would the front of your house look like for Christmas?
Not too OTT.
Lots of colour changing lights in the pool, top of the roof…
Link to website: SPCA link
This is my literacy project. The SPCA takes in lots of helpless animals, and needs everybody's help.
Holiday:
Maea, Greta, Tara, Brooke, Breanna and I are going on holiday to HOKIANGA, NORTHLAND! We are going to go on the giant sand dunes, eat at opononi beach takeaways, and so much more. We are staying at The Heads Hokianga, near the pier with a pool.
The plan is to:
(It takes 19 hrs 40min to get there and back, we go on ferry, and drive. Starts a day before Day 1.)
Day 1: arrive at hotel at 1.00pm. Stay at hotel for the rest of the day.
Day 2: pakia hill lookout picnic.
Day 4: waiotemarama falls, whole day trip 10.00am - 5.30pm
Day 5: Hangout at hotel, in pool, go to the beach, play in gaming room.
Day 6: beach day.
Day 7: Packing and leaving at 10.00am.
Day 8: Arrive home.
Here is a map:
This is our accommodation: The Heads Hokianga
These are the costs: accommodation - $255.5 each for 1 week. Lunch - $58 for lunch.
Sand dunes - $102 for sand dunes all of us. Food - $178.60
We are leaving on Sunday 12th, December 2021, coming back on Sunday 19th December.
One person will have to spend around $300.50.
My stuff summarising.
1.12.21 Stories
Summary 1.
Student kills 3 people, wounds 6 at a US high school
A fifteen year old male had a handgun on him, he killed 3 students and injured 6 people including a teacher at a Michigan high school. Later the police arrived and took the boy into custody. It is unknown how the gun got into the school premises.
Summary 2.
Emergency nurse and mother of three dies of Covid-19 in Australia
An emergency nurse, mother of 3 died today in Australia from covid-19 in the workplace.
Union suspects this is the first death of a Victorian hospital worker. She had worked there for 15 years, she was doubled vaxxed, but around 3000 staff members have had covid-19 during work in Victoria hospital. Although the deaths of the workers are rare.
Summary 3.
Olympic gold medalist Emma Twigg and wife Charlotte expecting first child
Emma and Charlotte are expecting a boy, Emma and Charlotte have been married since January 2020. Lisa Carrington, David Nyika, Tim Seifert, Sophie Pascoe and Luuka Jones have all given the couple well wishes.
Tapa Cloth MPR
Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a bark cloth made in the islands of the pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga and Samoa, but as far afield as Java, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Hawaii. Tapa cloth is used in both functional and ceremonial purposes. The cloth has played important roles in weddings, funerals and events associated with royalty. The painted patterns feature mostly geometricized plants and fish. Special designs are sometimes used to commemorate important events.
The making of the Tapa is quite involved. In Tonga, hiapo is the name given to the paper-mulberry tree. They are often grown in a corner of plantations. They are cut and then the bark is stripped away from the leftover wood. The bark consists of 2 layers. The outer bark is discarded by being scraped or stripped away from the inner bark. The inner bark is dried in the sun and then soaked.
The bark is then made thinner by being beaten on a wooden tutua anvil using wooden mallets called ike. The continuous sound of beating the bark can be heard throughout Tongan villages.
When the strips are thin enough, several strips are taken together and beaten together into a large sheet. Eventually, there are two layers of strips in a perpendicular direction. A knife or sharp shell is used to trim the edges.
It is common to see the women of a village working together on a huge sheet of tapa. Large Tapa sheets can be around 3 meters wide and 15, or 30, even 60 meters long. The 15-meter pieces are called launima (meaning: five-sheet, because the sheet is 5 squares), and the 30-meter pieces are called lautefuhi.
Next, the Tapa cloth is painted using earthly colours such as reds, browns, and black.
Traditionally men received moko on their faces, buttocks and thighs. Māori face tattoos are the ultimate expression of Māori identity. Māori believe the head is the most sacred part of the body, so facial tattoos have special significance.
Women usually wore moko on their lips and chins, or sometimes on the throat.
Moko was sometimes applied to other parts of the body, including the forehead, neck, back, stomach and calves.
Many of the designs are universal. In particular, the spirals that swirl across the nose, cheek and lower jaw. The lines of a moko accentuate the lines of the face so emphasise the expressions.
The main lines in a Māori tattoo are called manawa, which is the Māori word for heart. These lines represent your life journey.
Common tattoo designs can include the koru, which literally represents an unfurling silver fern, and symbolically represents a new life or the unfolding of someone's life path. When used in Māori tattoos, the koru usually stands for a loved one or family member.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the complex designs of tā moko were literally carved into the skin. A rake-like instrument, usually made of teeth or bone, was used to break the skin; then a flat-edged blade was used to tap in the dye, creating a tattoo with a scarred, chiselled appearance. The pigment used was soot obtained from burning kahikatea, or white pine, sometimes mixed with kauri gum or soot from the oily koromiko (hebe) shrub.
Traditional tā moko artists used a chisel to scar and mark the skin.
The modern tool of tā moko is the tattoo machine, although some tā moko artists alternate between traditional and modern methods. While the needle is faster and more precise, hand tools bring the ritual more in line with how it was done traditionally.
This is my Aboriginal Art MPR.
Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art can be understood as the carvings, paintings, and depictions of nature created by Aboriginal people. These are a group of Indigenous peoples who are native to Australia. They're a vast community of Native peoples who have lived in Australia for the past 50,000 years - the oldest living culture in the world.
Aboriginal people are known to have a strong relationship to the natural landscape, including deserts, coasts, valleys, and grasslands. They often use Australian animals as inspiration in their art and folklore. They also hold a strong value in natural materials, including ochre: a soft rock that contains clay.
Ochre was one of the first pigments to be used by humankind. It was ground up into a fine red-coloured powder and mixed with water to create one of the world’s first paints. They also used charcoal and clay.
For centuries and still today, Aboriginal people used ochre for a number of purposes. They painted it on their Body and faces and also for medicine, trade, and art. Rock carvings and body painting have been practised by Indigenous peoples in Australia for at least 30,000 years.
Their art and paintings mostly represent the Dreamtime, aka the creation stories and spiritual beliefs of Aboriginal people. The earliest type of Aboriginal art was symbols and patterns, made only in natural colours, often with dots and swirls. As there is no written language in their culture, the symbols are incredibly important.
For my art project I have done quite a few activities, NZ Entertainment, What's your style, Free your mind - digital art, Music playlist, Portrait.
They belong to me because:
NZ Entertainment - it belongs to me because I have most of the stuff in the 2000's.
What's your style - I recently made a wreath and in pixelart I drew a wreath, so it belongs to me.
Free your mind - digital art - belongs to me because the animals are my previous and recent pets.
Music playlist - it belongs because it's my mum's favourite songs from when she was my age.
Portrait - The portrait belongs to me because it's of my dog, and my dog belongs to me.
My previous goal was to get faster - about seven minutes. The time I got this time was 6.35 minutes. Last time my accuracy was 100/100 this time I got 98/100. But my time was quicker so that was what I wanted.
I think blooket is helping us get faster with the maths work, but we should keep doing the tests because in blooket I just skim the words.
