Matariki

 Matariki is the Maori celebration New year for all New Zealanders. Matariki is the 7 stars that you will see right above the sun. Before they were stars, they were all sisters. Tupuanuku, Tupuarangi, Waiti, Waita, Waipunarangi, Ururangi and Matariki. Matariki is the oldest sister of them all, that's why we call it Matariki. On the other side, people say that there were 9 stars. The other 2 were Pohutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-rangi. This month, me and my class will be celebrating Matariki.

 Matariki is about the people who has passed and is now a celebration about it! Matariki heralds a time of remembrance, joy and peace. It is time for communities to come together and celebrate! 

You can celebrate Matariki if you would like or with your family. Anyone, even people who isn't Maori can join this celebration event. Hope you have a great holiday! 

Canterbury Floods

 Kia Ora whanau and today, Me and my buddy has been working on this slide about Canterbury Floods. As you can see, it is on our title. Here is the slide that we have been working on for 30 minutes. I have learnt that how some floods start and next time, I will figure out things like when did it all stop and did people lose any homes.

Standing up for our rights

 Discrimination- The act of treating some people unfairly because of prejudice.

Prejudice- An opinion formed without without knowing all the facts.

Stereotypes- A standerdised and oversimplified and inaccurate conception held in common by many people.

Protest- An objection or complaint, to express objections in a planned, organised way.

Social Messaging- Passing of a message/idea from person to person in a community.

The Polynesian Panthers:

What did the PPP want to do? To make the place a better place

List three groups of people they helped" 

1. children

2. prisoner

3.old people

Why did people call the raids "The dawn raids"? They did the protest outside the persons houses

Wood-tech term2

 Kia ora whanau and today, I will blogging about what I have created in wood-tech. Weeks ago, we have been working on creating our own blue-tooth speaker. It actually works and you should try it. It can be difficult, hard or easy but I think it was like difficult and easy at the same time. Now i get to listen to music, Yay!

You get to paint and customise your speaker once you finish putting the outside parts together. Some my friends helped me with the parts that I was stuck on. If you guys get stuck on anything, ask for help. My friends had the same thing so I wanted to help them too.

Step 1. Grab a 6 piece of wood and size them (that depends on how big you want you speaker to be).

Step 2. Drill the holes in the top left, top right, bottom right and bottom left.

Step 3. Once you have drilled the holes in, drill 1 little hole in the front middle and 1 big hole next to it.

Step 4. Next thing is to make big GIANT holes on the top and the bottom and the 2 big and small holes in between.

Step 5. Next part is to paint, spray paint or whatever you would like to style it and yea