With Mrs Barrowman, we learned about the famous New Zealand author Margaret Mahy and her amazing books. Margaret Mahy wrote many stories for children and young adults, filled with adventure. Some of her most popular books include The Lion in the Meadow, The Great White Man-Eating Shark, and The Witch in the Cherry Tree. We learned that she loved writing about magic, family, and creativity, and her stories are loved all around the world. It was really fun reading and learning about her life and all the special books she created.
She won many awards like, the Carnegie Medal which she won twice, and is one of the highest awards for children’s books, and she also received the Hans Christian Andersen Award, known as the “Nobel Prize” for children’s authors. Margaret Mahy even became a Member of the Order of New Zealand for her work.
Margaret Mahy was born in March 21, 1936, in Whakatāne, New Zealand. She never got married, but she had two daughters named Bridget and Penny. Later in life, Margaret Mahy even got her first tattoo a small spiral Margaret Mahy passed away on July 23, 2012, but she is really an amazing author everyone Loved her.
Us Tūī 3 learned about the famous New Zealand band Six60. Six60 is a popular band that was formed in Dunedin in 2008 by a group of university friends. Their music mixes pop, rock, and reggae, and they are known for hit songs like Don’t Forget Your Roots and Vibes. Six60 has made history by selling out huge stadium concerts across New Zealand, including Eden Park in Auckland. They are proud to represent Aotearoa and often include Māori culture and language in their music. We really enjoyed learning about Six60 and how they became one of the biggest bands in New Zealand.
Then we got to create our own band project. We had to make groups of five and design our own instruments like guitars, bass guitars, pianos, and drums just like a real band. Each group needed to have one drummer, one guitarist, one bass guitarist, one vocalist and one pianist. I was in a group with Atharv, Ayan, Kavish, and Ayansh, I was the drummer, Kavish was the guitarist, Ayansh was the bass guitarist, Ayan was the vocalist Atharv was the pianist and I was the drummer. Together we called our band The Chosen Onez. It was really fun working together, building our instruments, and pretending to be a real music group just like Six60.
Later on during our work on our instruments, one of our classmate, Diyon decided to join our group, because he wasn’t at school when we decided our groups. Diyon said he wanted to be a drummer so now there were two drummers. After we finished making our instruments, Miss Mauga took pictures of us acting like a band and we used our instruments to pretend to play a song from the TV. And we were done everything.
My group and I created a timeline about the life and achievements of Famous New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, one of the most famous scientists for atomic physics. This project was a collaborative effort by my friends Ayan, Atharv, and Anoop.
Here is a timeline:
1871 Ernest Rutherford was born in Brightwater, near Nelson New Zealand
1890-1881 Started school In Foxhill primary school.
1882-1888 Moved to Havelock and went to Havelock primary.
1890-1894 Attended Canterbury College
1895-1898 Joined the Cavendish Labratory University
1898-1907 Moved to Montréal Canada.
1907-1919 Became a physics professor in Manchester University
1907-1914 Ernest Rutherford was knighted in 1914
1917 Split an atom during an experiment
1919-1937 discovered the neutron
1937 And finally Rutherford passed away and was buried next to Isaac Newton in Westminster.
I created this awesome poster all about the rules of rugby! It’s a fun and easy way to understand how the game is played, from scoring tries to tackling safely. Whether you’re new to rugby or already a fan, this poster will help you learn the basics and enjoy the game even more! There’s also a video below talking about the rules. This poster was created using the Canva app which is an easy app to make posters like this!
The All Blacks are New Zealand’s national rugby team — and they’re one of the best teams in the world! Here is some information about this rugby team.
Rugby was introduced to New Zealand by Charles Monro in 1870. he learned the game while studying at Christ’s College near London. Then when he returned to Nelson, New Zealand he introduced the game to a local football club (Nelson Football Club) and Nelson College.
The first official game of rugby in New Zealand was played on May 14, 1870, between the Nelson Football Club with Charles Monro playing for the club. The first International game for New Zealand was played in Canterbury, Wellington in 1879 where they unfortunately lost 6-8. Then Rugby became big both in New Zealand and around the world.
New Zealand then changed their name to All Blacks in 2012 as originally they were called the New Zealand Māori. They were nicknamed the All Blacks because of their all black uniform they wear to their matches.
The All Blacks had legends in their team and they were very dedicated and are professionals at the sport. Just like Colin Meads a legend that was very good and was very dedicated to the sport that he played with a broken arm. The world record for the most test appearances was held by All Blacks player Richie Mcaw holding the world record for 141 caps/appearances from 2015 to 2020 until Wales/The Dragons player Alun Wyn Jones beat Mcaw with a record of 171 appearances from today. And lastly Jonah Tali Lomu was the youngest player to score 10 Test tries and the first to score 12 in a year. At the 1995 tournament, he scored 8 tries, a record at the time, and was named Player of the Tournament. Even though he never won the rugby World Cup which the All Blacks ended up losing in the semi finals against England/The Red Roses, he was an exceptional player. Pictures of all these 3 players down below 👇
Before a match the All Blacks does something called a Haka and they do it to honour the Māori culture and prepare themselves mentally and physically. It also shows they are ready and serious about the match and are not messing around. Video of them doing the Haka down below 👇
Rugby is a very popular sport nowadays and well known especially the All Blacks. They are placed top 2 of the best rugby teams in the world under South Africa with NZ/the All Blacks ranked 92.06 and The Springboks/South Africa ranked 92.78
This Week I’ve been busy designing my characters items and backgrounds I’m going to be using in the the stop motion, using the sketches school app. I’m happy to share how my designs are coming together!
The Process
I have decided to add 1 character, some clouds, the sun, the sunset background, a normal grass with the sky background and other props that he character needs for the stop motion movie.
My Design Progress in Sketches School
So far I have done 2 Backgrounds and a character. My buddy for steam is focusing on the props.
Successes
I am really happy with everything we’ve done so far but the part about the part of the design I liked was draw the sunset and the character/man
Plants are very important to us. They give us food, medication, educational purposes, clothes, shelter oxygen and many other products for human benefit. Plants provide various sanctuaries for many animals. Plants also fight climate. And also prevent from lots of air pollution. Plants aren’t just little green stuff that grow on the ground, they’re more than that!
Fun Fact!: Plants actually talk to each other by emitting chemicals known as volatile organic compounds. That So Cool 😀
