My Diary Entry

Diary Entry

In my class for reading, we have been reading a book called Captain Cook. For my create activity I was told to write a diary entry as captain cook or one of his crew members. Here is my diary entry…

“Dear Diary, I am on a crew ship with my crew members. It has been 4 years, yes I said 4 years and finally we have found land. I am so happy because I think that we have just discovered a new island. We got of the boat and had a little tour around the island. It had heaps of trees, fruit, vegetables, landscapes and heaps more. I think I am going to name this island hmmm “The Cook Islands”. Now that's a good name, Bye Diary”

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The 1300's - Asia and Africa

The 1300's - Asia and Africa

In our class we have been learning about the 1300’s. A friend and I have been looking at the main events that has happened in Asia. Here are some mains events…

• The Great wall of china was formed/built/reconstructed
• Japan Invades Korea
• Famine in Russia kills 2 million
• Earthquake in Shanghai, China kills approximately 830,000
• China's Population reaches 295 million
• Civil War erupts japan causing the country to split
• Forbidden city constructed/formed in Beijing

I was also very interested in the main events in Africa, so here are some main events…

• Zimbabwe is constructed/formed
• African slaves begin being transported across the Atlantic
• Morocco invades Mali
• Freetown founded on west African coast
• Rosetta Stone discovered
• Ghana Empire reaches height of power

Here are some sites if you wanna learn more about Asia and Africa’s Timeline or History.

Africa Asia

House Tabloids

House Tabloids

Last Week, Glenbrae School participated in house tabloids.

First all of the classes went to the courts and split into house groups. Then all of the house groups split into two groups. For example Rata 1 and Rata 2. The house groups are Rata, Kowhai, Kauri and Nikau. The teachers sent all of the house groups to different activities. I am in kowhai so we first went to where Mrs. Adcock was. We had to put the hula hoop around our legs and run to the cone and run back.

All of our kowhai members were so happy because we WON. Unfortunately we only got to play once so we went to the next activity. Next we went  to Mr Nath which is when you have to hold on to your partner's hand and zig zag around the cones. The activity was very fun and easy to play. Yes yes we did win. Again everyone was so happy that we won. It was time for us to go to our 3rd and last activity.

So our last activity was with Mrs Ripata. So all we had to do was get into a circle, hold each other's hand and try to get the hula hoop around without dropping the hula hooping our using our hands. That was very fun because we played as a team and also was working together really well. We were versing Nikau and it was a tie. There team played very well and we were both happy.

All of the house groups went back to the courts so that we could announce 1st place and 2nd place. 2nd place was kowhai (My House) and 1st place was was Kauri. At the end I think that all of the houses played really really well and had good sportsmanship.

Carving

Carving at Tech

The years 7's have been going to tech every Friday at Tamaki College. Our teacher Matua Bret has taught us how to draw a Wheku and also known as a carved head piece. Here is a photo of the drawing that was taught to us by our Teacher Matua Bret

  

The City of Pompeii

Today room 8 had to create "The City Of Pompeii". Each group was set with different parts of the "The City Of Pompeii". We created pools, architectures and one group made a volcano because Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Once everyone finished we went outside and combined all of our creations. After that we erupted the volcano. The eruption wasn't that big and luckily it didn't destroy our lovely creations.

Learning Maori Colours

Learning Maori Colours

Today in Te Reo Maori we learnt all of the Maori colours. My friend and I have created  a google drawing showing our favourite object and what the colour is in Maori.