Monday, 2 December 2019

Wednesday, 30 October 2019

my thoughts about this class - Horrible History

I think I get along with my group well and I could improve on the amount of work that I do and I could do this by focusing and paying attention.

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Mount Erebus

A great disaster struck in 1979 on 28 November when a plane carrying 257 people aborad crashed into a mountain called Erebus, it was a controlled flight and they were sun blinded and they could not see the mountain in the arctic and crashed there are no survivors. There were 237 passengers and 20 staff aboard. It was a McDonell Douglas dc- 10- 30.

https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/erebus-voices/

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

1972 the death

22 October 1972  James k. Baxter passed away. aged 42 he passed away in Auckland. he worked as a social worker amongst alcoholics and drug addicts. he died of coronary thrombosis considered to be a type of ischaemic heart disease. on 25 October he was buried on tribal land. 
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/death-of-poet-james-k-baxter-in-auckland

Monday, 21 October 2019

stolen medals

today in history, 21 of October 2001 stolen medals returned to national army museum. the 96 medals, victoria crosses, two gorge crosses and Albert cross had been stolen in the early morning of 2 December 2007. two businessmen offered a reward of 300,000 dollars for their return. a week earlier two people were jailed for burglary chargers, 11 years and six years.
Nikkita and Alissa


Thursday, 17 October 2019

1877 chief justice declares treaty worthless and nullity

today in history. he was chief of the Court until 1899. Wi Parata case was about land in Porirua it envolved the Ngāti Toa giving the land over to the Anglican church in the promise of a school. no school  ended up being built , the church deiced  later issue a Crown grant to the land.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/the-chief-justice-declares-that-the-treaty-of-waitangi-is-worthless-and-a-simple-nullity

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

jean batton; 1936

Jean Batton added two fuel tanks to her plane to be able to make long distances.
10 and a half hours after taking of she arrived in New Zealand, Auckland. she was one of the first women to do it with the company of a cat.

refrence:
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/jean-batten-reaches-auckland-after-epic-solo-flight

Friday, 27 September 2019

The mines afire

Image result for the mines afire
1. his bright eyes staring intensely
2. their dangerous soul-filling quickly
3. his loving heart dying suddenly
4. their curious minds draining slowly

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Gliders

Gliders
A glider is a light aircraft that does not run on an engine but rather the air.
How to make a glider





References


Works Cited

2, Joyplanes RC. “How to Make a Balsa Wood Glider.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 Mar. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tPq0sYlNs.

Friday, 2 August 2019

Tuesday, 30 July 2019

new years poem

Fireworks exploding like bombs
The dogs not that calm anymore.
The barking echos through the house.
The bad hungover parking tomorrow.


Nikki napping with a novel about nickles.
Fireworks frizzling and fuzzling
The noise is so loud I'm going to go deaf
The midnight countdown, too late I'm asleep.

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Monday, 17 June 2019

The magpies

  1. ‘The bracken made their bed’?
When they first arrived they didnt have bedding so they used bracken to make a mattress.
  1. ‘Tom’s hand was strong to the plough’?
He had a strong hand to do ploughing.
  1. ‘But all the beautiful crops soon went / to the mortgage man instead’?
The money that they earned from the crops went towards paying the morgage.
  1. ‘Old Tom’s gone light in the head’?
Old tom has porobly lost a few screws and is probly a bit loopy and might have a dieses like alzihumers.
  1. ‘The farm’s still there. Mortgage corporations / couldn’t give it away’?    They might have died and nobody wanted to buy the house.

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Haiku

  1. Stop
    your snivelling
    creek-bed:

    come rain hail
    and flood-water

    laugh again
  2. How is it an example of non-traditional haiku? It is not the correct amount of syllables
  3. What is it describing? A dried up creek that is yearning for rain.
  4. What is ‘Haiku’ by Hone Tuwhare about? How the creek is dried up and wants to have rain, hail and flood water to save it so it can laugh and be happy again.
  5. Do you get a picture in your head when reading the poem? If yes, describe the picture. The picture i get in my head is a large dried up river in a desert and rain and floods rushing in then greenery growing and growing happily.  
  6. Why do you think he describes the creek bed as ‘snivelling’? It is sad and the creek wants water to be happy.
The pine trees upon hills,
Gum trees that have history.
Fog painting at dawn.



Friday, 17 May 2019

Friday, 10 May 2019

Friday, 3 May 2019

Thursday, 7 March 2019

logo design

logo

team name: llama gang
team members: Catherine, Jade, Anikate, Angus, Angus and Nikkita
what is our logo?
our logo is a llama riding a motorbike and it is in the middle of nowhere and has mountains in the background and the llama has a dark blue bandanna like we do.