Paige’s Blog

Botanic Gardens:

On Tuesday the 6th of August us Kāhu students went on a trip to the Botanic Gardens for our LAUNCH theme Kaitiakitanga had taken us about twenty minutes to get there and about twenty minutes back.

But once we had arrived to the Botanic Gardens we had to all do a roll call to make sure that everyone was her and that no one was missing after everyone was been marked then our teacher had split us into groups with 10 of less children and a parent helper.

There were about two activities to do the first one was a Scavenger hunt where you had to find flowers,plants,animals etc in alphabetical order and the second activity was where we had to find all the water sources for us to tell what was the plant called we had to scan it with this app called Seek by iNaturalist which identify plants and animals.

After we had all sort of finished with the our first activities then we had to meet up in front of the cafe/reception by 10:30 so that our teacher could tell us where we were going next and so that we could also have something to eat then at 12:00 we had to meet back there again so that we could head back to school in time for lunch and that was the end of it.

Tōtara Park:

On Tuesday the 30th of July us Kāhu students had went on a trip to the Tōtara park for our LAUNCH them Kaitiakitanga which means guardianship of the sky, the sea, and the land.after the second bell had went all the Kāhu’s had to meet up in the hall and our teachers had done our roll from there after everyone was check off then we had got split into groups in our home whānau.

So Kāhu one,two and four had went together and then Kāhu three,five and six went together after everyone was sorted and downloaded the seek app then we were ready to go.Once we arrived we had taken off into our whānau groups and then started our walk of Tōtara park.Around 10:30 we had started to head back for a lunch break and then we had started our second lap around Tōtara park,maybe just around lunch time we had headed back for school so that there was enough time to do some learning and that was the end of our trip.

Difference of Tōtara Park and Botanic gardens:

The difference about the Botanic Gardens and Tōtara Park is that there is heaps of big trees at Tōtara Park,and at the Botanic Gardens there were lots of small flowers growing and there we also lots of different plants from different places,Like there was a section of plants called the Africa Garden which had a lot of some African flowers/plants.

And at Tōtara park there was lots of native plants there and very popular plants to like lavender,Ferns,etc…

And Botanic Gardens had some water features there and some very catchy plants that look very colourful.But my favourite experience was probably the Tōtara park trip,Cause I loved how there were lots of native plants but botanic gardens was very nice as well.

 

Introduction

Do you know the terrific Peter Jackson? He is also known as a New Zealand film director and screenwriter,soon after he was knighted by sir Anand satyanand,the governor-general of New Zealand.Sir Peter Jackson had begun his career with the splatstick horror comedy bad taste in 1987.

Early life

Sir Peter Jackson was born in Pukerua bay,In New Zealand a small seaside town not far from the country’s capital city Wellington and was born on the 31st of October 1961.Peter had attended Kāpiti college which is located in Raumati beach New Zealand.Did you know that Peter Jackson’s parents were immigrants from England but sadly had both pasted away of old age they have both moved to New Zealand in 1951 and got married on the 9th of November 1953, yet Peter doesn’t have any sibling but he has children of his own Billy and Katie.

 His goals

One of Peter Jackson goals was to honour the original 1933 film but he has used today’s technology to being the story he loves to a whole new audience.At a young age Peter Jackson was inspired on being a director and had developed a love of films,As a child Peter would make short films with friends and attempt to remake King Kong using stop-motion models at the age of only nine

His achievements

Peter Jackson had received academy awards for the best director and for the best adapted screenplay.For the Lord of the Rings/the return of the king which he won a total of 11 Oscars including best picture In addition to monetary donation’s sir Peter jackosn’s contributes his expertise to activities such as the 48 hour film festival he has also chaired the 14-18 aviation heritage trust and was a member of the world war one centenary committee.Peter Jackson has also won other awards including three BAFTAS.

Interesting Facts

As a child Jackson was a keen film fan growing up on Ray Harryhausen films,As well as finding inspiration in the television series Thunderbirds and Monty python’s flying circus.Did you know that the highest profile kiwi billionaire is Peter Jackson with and estimate of $1.5b.Peter Jackson is away from directing he is a major shareholder in the woqrld-famous special effects companies.

Conclusion

To wind everything up,Peter Jackson is an amazing hard worker. His passion for screenwriting and directing movies will always be memorising.were glad that we have a very talented person directing us movies.

The End.

In a forest where no one knows

 a group of living mushrooms grow

One big two small

No matter their size they love

to make a small story time.

The wind blows the flowers grow

We keep moving as we go.

Boom! Our two small mushroom friends

are already in a show,

 it can’t be true

Cause none of them were blue.

So we painted them blue

 and left then a clue

 

“We are like the sky that is up up high”

In a forest where no one knows

 a group of living mushrooms grow

One big two small

No matter their size they love

to make a small story time.

The wind blows the flowers grow

We keep moving as we go.

Boom! Our two small mushroom friends

are already in a show,

 it can’t be true

 

Cause none of them were blue.

So we painted them blue

 and left then a clue

“We are like the sky that is up up high”

In week  five we had a task called Digital art in the middle block on Tuesday,The Task was that we had to go onto our google classroom and read the instructions on there then follow it but our teacher had to explain it to us on how to do it.

Then once our teacher had explained it to us we went on our sides and started to work.The first step was to choose a template of a girl or boy then afterwards we could start adding things to the template that would describe us.And if you had finished the assignment and done it step by step,Then we had to save it as a PDF and upload it to google classroom.

Thank You!

Talofa Lava,Malo e lelei my name is Paige Hakalo I am Samoan,Tongan and part Irish.I was born on  June the 25th 2012.

I’m the Second oldest out of  Three sisters.I’m about Eleven years old turning Twelve years old, I go to TGS Abut before I had came here I had went to Kelvin Road Papakura I was a year zero at my old school then when I came to TGS I was a year one at the time But right now I’m year seven.

Thank you for reading My all about me Blog 🙂

 

 

 

 

These last few days Has been really really fun in Kāhu, I’ve learnt so much stuff I didn’t know about but now I do.I’ve learnt how to write my own blogs and to start it.

we have Applied for Job applications in the Hapori and I have Applied for three jobs so if I do my get the other one then I have at least two more jobs to look at.

In week one we had to pair up in a group of three or two and I had paired up with two people Heaven-Leigh and Stefania they were very helpful with the work.

In week two we had to apply for tech rotations and give a reason why we want to be in this tech rotation.These first two week have been a blast so I hope it will continue.

 

 

 

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