At school we were singing Brooke Fraser’s song called Theres Something in the Water. Brooke Fraser is a new Zealand singer, Brooke Fraser grew up in Naenae, Lower Hutt and attended Dyer Street School, Naenae Intermediate School and Naenae College Brooke Fraser is Married to Scott Ligertwood,On 17 March 2008, she married Scott Ligertwood, in Sydney. They moved to Los Angeles in 2010. She continued to perform under her maiden name “Brooke Fraser” for her solo career until the release of her live album Seven in 2022 Brooke Fraser has at least 100 songs she has two daughters name Dylan and Rooney,Brooke Fraser was born in 15 December 1983 she is 42 years and Scott Ligertwood is the same age as Brooke Fraser too. her middle name is Gabrielle parents Bernie and Lynda Fraser, brothers Matthew and Shea, husband Scott Ligertwood, Bernie Fraser was a former rugby player, and Brooke has roots in Fijian, Portuguese, and Scottish heritage. She has two sisters who were born on September 18, 2015 and July 10, 2017. Brooke Fraser is a Famous New Zealand singer and song writer, she is christian even her whole family is christian.
In This Term me and my group, scarface claw Me, Maryam, Amaira ,Bianca we learned about Lynley Dodd. She is 84 years old and she lives in Rotorua she writes children’s books she illustrates her books she put pictures into it to make it more of fun/adventure she made so much books like, she has made 34 books Lynley Dodd has a special mind that makes children happy. As if they are on an adventure to make their minds daydreaming all about it, in her books she rhymes with every word she could think of and put it inside her book. Her book describes about how she thinks inside her head. She wrote so many books her first book was about “my cat likes to hide in boxes” Lynley Dodd loves her job as a writer and publishing her own books she has 2 daughter’s Ella and Julia is mentioned in a New Zealand Herald article from 2017.Lynley Dodd was married to Tony, who she met while teaching in Wellington; he passed away in 2014. Lynley Dodd ; she owned a Burmese cat named Suu Kyi, who inspired some of her stories, and she grew up surrounded by animals in her childhood. Suu Kyi was a diabetic cat requiring two injections a day and passed away in the years leading up to 2019.
1.) When was rugby introduced to New Zealand and by who?
A:Rugby was introduced to New Zealand in 1870 by Charles Monro.
2.)When did New Zealand play their first rugby game?A: it wasnt until 1893 when the All Blacks team was founded but they weren`t called the All Blacks until the year 1905 Before that they were called the New Zealand Moāri.
3.) When did New Zealand play their first international game?Did they win or lose? What was the score?A: They`re called the All Blacks because of their uniform were the “Blackest of the black”. Their Uniforms consisted of all black besides the sliver fern symbol that was on their uniforms.
4.)When was the New Zealand team called the All Blacks? Why are they known as the All Blacks? What were they originally called? A:The Teams first match was in 1884 but their first international match wasn`t until 1903 when they played against Australia in sydney.
5.) Name 3 of their best players. What are they known for A: Ardie savea, Beauden Barret, Scott Barret.
6.) Why do the All Blacks perform the haka before each match? What does it mean and what do they perform it for? A: Rugby became New Zealand national sport. They won the National Rugby world cup in 1987 which was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.The Haka Before their games, the All Blacks perform a traditional war dance called the Haka. The Haka was a fighting dance and war cry for their people so thats why they do it. They perform it with an extreme amount of intensity to intimidate the other teams. It lets the other team know they’re serious and are bringing their all
In week 8 we started learning about Sir Edmund Hilary:
This week in STEAM, we had a super cool activity where we became history detectives! 🕵️♀️🕵️♂️
In small groups, we were given a famous New Zealander to learn about. Some of us had Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest! Others learned about Jean Batten, the amazing pilot who flew all the way across the world 🌍✈️. Some of us even explored the life of Ernest Rutherford, the scientist who helped discover atoms! ⚛️
In my group we had…..We worked together to find important dates in their lives – like when they were born, when they did something amazing, and when they changed the world. We put all our facts in order to make a giant timeline on a big sheet of paper. It was like building a story of their life!
We turned our paper timelines into awesome digital timelines on Canva. We added pictures, and fun colours to make them pop! 💻🎨
We learned:
How to work as a team 🤝
How to research important facts 🔍
How to use digital tools like Canva 👩💻👨💻
It was fun learning about these brave and clever Kiwis. We think they would be proud of our timelines!
⭐”I didn’t know Jean Batten flew across the ocean by herself!” ⭐”We put Sir Ed climbing Everest in 1953 – that was our favourite part!” ⭐”Ernest Rutherford was super smart! I liked finding his science discoveries.”
We can’t wait to do more STEAM learning and share it with you next time! 💡✨
For our Minecraft world we had a kiwi bird,kowhai tree, sky tower and kauri tree.Me and Maryam couldn’t really finish it all because we started exploding some of the trees 🌲.We made a big black wall to be able to surprise each other Maryam and I started on a kiwi. For the kiwi bird I kind of struggled a bit.Because at first I made it on the ground but then I saw how Maryam wasn’t making hers 2D.So I copied and I made my bird to big and Maryam made hers look cute.So we used hers and for the trees I looked at Maryam’s trees and her kauri tree was big and her kowhai tree was small I don’t know why.Sadly we spent most of the time exploding trees for more land but it didn’t really work out great but I did the sky tower at the end for homework and it looks so so good 😊
Final Reflection
1. What NZ identity features did we include? Kōwhai and kauri trees the sky tower and the famous kiwi bird.
2. What did I learn about Aotearoa during this project?that their is a lot of native things that some people don’t know about.
3. What digital skills did I use?building and researching.
4. What would I do differently next time?by not spending most of the time talking, and staying on task.
5. How well did we work together?really good by having the equal amount of work and communicating really well with each other.
1. What could be some factors caused extreme weather?:When the storm or flood comes from the extreme weather then the sea, river, ocean or lake will rise and become an even taller then the water before and it would become a flood.
2. Could you related it to the water cycle?:The glacier would melt and come back down to the ocean then if the ocean has more water, the water would evaporate into the rain and then lots of rain would fall down and then it would restart the water cycle again.
Did you know that stars have a life cycle with birth and death?Smaller stars live longer since they burn their fuel more slowly. Massive stars have shorter life cycles because they run out of hydrogen much quicker than the smaller ones.The colour of a star indicates how hot it is.
The sun:
did you know that the sun can rotate at different speeds. The sun is pretty bright the temperature of the sun is 5,973 C to 15,000,000 C.degrees from the sun.Average orbital speed around the Milky Way:720,000km/h (200km/s) Star type:Yellow dwarf. Jupiter is the biggest.For scale,Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is about the size of Earth.Fifth From the sun Jupiter’s distance from the sun is 5.2 times the Earth-Sun distance, short and long. Jupiter’s day lasts only 10 Earth hours; it’s year is 12 Earth years.Nowhere to land, Big and light,many moons,Faint
(Here is my water poster!)
Jupiter is the biggest.For scale,Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is about the size of Earth.Fifth From the sun Jupiter’s distance from the sun is 5.2 times the Earth-Sun distance, short and long. Jupiter’s day lasts only 10 Earth hours; it’s year is 12 Earth years.Nowhere to land, Big and light,many moons,Faint