Levonah Extension piano animation

This was my extension project for term 4. I hope you enjoy.

Flight of the bumblebee

We had to listen to a song called Flight of the bumblebee and draw what you think is going to happen. This song reminds me of my brother getting stung by a wasp in the car. His name is Mitchell.

In this first picture it shows my car on the motorway. My family is on the way to kaitaia. In the second picture it shows my brother sitting in the car.

Right next to my brother is a wasp that looks like a bee. The wasp just stung my brother very hard so he is in pain. He is also crying very loudly because the wasp is still stinging him in his skin. 

Finally the wasp decided to stop stinging him and it went flying out the window. The song has a change in tempo and it sounds like a piano song. It also sounds like the cops are chasing a robber. 

That is what the song sounded like and reminded me of.

Earths natural resources

Waking up and I’ve just realised there’s no natural resources anywhere. What is a natural resource? A natural resource could be water, sun, oxygen, soil and food. Why is a natural resource important. Well it is  important because it keeps us alive.

Plants are important because they produce healthy food. The food that they can produce are vegetables and fruit. Also plants help us to breath. Water is important to us because it keeps us hydrated. Water can be found in rocks, lakes, soil and rivers. We depend on freshwater because we can’t drink saltwater.  

The sun helps plants to grow their vegetables and fruit. The sun is important to us because we orbit around the sun. When where closer to the sun it gets warmer and when where further away from it we get colder. It takes 1 year for us to orbit around the sun.

All the natural resources I have been talking about was plants, water and the sun. If we didn’t have these resources we wouldn’t be able to have food. We also wouldn’t be hydrated and we would be starving.

Problem solving Week 3

                                      This was my maths task for this week. I worked with Inga and Trinity.

Paideia Seminar

Last Term we had our Paideia Seminar. We had to get into pairs and then talk about a perspective. Me, Amelia, Pisirina and Jahzara were in a group.

We chose the perspective of schools. This is what we had to think about. Schools - what will schools do? How will the day be different to what it is now? Or will it? What will be the advantages/disadvantages of not coming to school? Will we have to come to a building called school in the future? What would we miss out on or gain?

When we got in the tusitala it was all set up with our names in front of our desk. Then we started. My group started the polite argument off first.

Myself and Amelia said being at school is more easier than getting home schooled or learning online. If you are home schooled you won’t be able to communicate with other people face to face and you won’t be able to play with your friends. If you don’t go to school you will also miss out on the really cool things happening and playing sport.

Then after talking and arguing politely Mrs Lagitupu told us what we had to talk about. She said “ this is what you have to speak about stop telling us to switch off our devices we are a digital tribe now. As soon as she finished talking I said well I mean sometimes you can go on your devices but you also should go play outside with other people. Also people are stuck on new games and youtube because they get there new trends from the internet.

At the end of the seminar we had to say one thing that we’ve learnt. My one thing I had learnt was that I can speak more. The one thing I can work on is preparing for the Seminar.

Winter Learning Journey day 7

Hi everyone it's Levonah and this is the Winter Learning Journey day 7. Let's begin.

Activity 1.
On the site it said to write 3 things you can do to stop pollution. Here are my 3 things.
1. You can recycle your rubbish.
2. You can at least pick up 5 pieces of rubbish everyday.
3. You can start growing flowers and it will increase your home and community.

Activity 2.

On the site it said to post a picture of yourself doing something you find relaxing.

Here is a picture of me watching movies on my I pad.

I hope you enjoyed my blog posts for the week and I can't wait for the next Winter or Summer Learning Journey.

Winter Learning Journey Day 6

Hi everyone it's Levonah here and this is the Winter Learning Journey day 6. Let's begin.

Activity 1. On the site it said to imagine that you were one of the 1st people to arrive at shag point and you've never been to New Zealand. I have to write a poem describing how I felt arriving at shag point.

My boat arrives and sticks to the sand, I stand up and I'm on the land.
I walk up with the others and see if I can give a hand, but I'm to scared so I run feared. I don't know where the others have gone but I see my brother with another.


Activity 2.

On the site it said to choose 3 things to do at Te papa museum for matariki. I have chosen star weave jam where you can learn how to make stars used from different materials. Number 2. Mata and the mysterious musical maunga and nga kai o matariki where you make traditional Maori cusine.

That was both of my activities. I hope you enjoyed it.

Winter Learning Journey day 5

Hi everyone It's Levonah and this is Winter Learning Journey day 5. Let's begin.

On the site it said to write about getting lost in the middle of a strange forest.

Activity 1.

I don't know where my group and curious kiwi has gone, I'm so scared and don't know what to do. Maybe I should shout out help. Maybe I should walk a little bit further so I can find my group.

 What should I do. Ok maybe I should just walk a little bit further. I've been walking for ages I'm never going to be found.

Oh there's a sign let me check what it says. It says this way back where you started the trail. Ok now I know where I'm going. There's the start where I started walking from but I don't see my group and curious kiwi.

Activity 2.

We have to write about a famous New Zealander.

The famous New Zealander I have picked is Stan Walker. Stan Walker was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. What is Stan Walker famous for well Stan Walker is famous for his singing and acting but mostly his singing.

Fact 1. Stan Walker is an Australian-New Zealand recording artist, actor and television personality.
Fact 2. Stan Walkers single black box was the highest selling single in New Zealand.

That was all for today. I hope you Enjoyed it.

Bonus activity day 4

Hi everyone it's Levonah and this is my bonus activity for day 4. Let's begin.

On the site it said to write about if you think fishing should be banned from farewell spit.

I think fishing should be banned from farewell spit because when the hectors dolphins get stuck they won't know what to do. The hectors dolphins will also be scared and try to call for help from the other dolphins but there to small so the fisherman will just keep catching them.

That was my writing about if fisherman should fish at farewell spit.

I hope you enjoyed it. 

Winter Learning Journey day 4

Hi everyone. It's Levonah here and this is the Winter Learning Journey day 4 so let's begin.

On the site it said to describe what the locals did to help the whales at farewell spit.


The locals had to keep the whales wet so they kept pouring buckets of water on each of the whales, they also had to stay away from the whales tail. Also the locals had to keep the whales blow hole clear and cover them. This is not the first time this has happened at farewell spit.

In 2012 a pod of pilot whales were found and in 2014 another pod of 50 pilot whales were found. This year in January there were 656 whales found at farewell spit.

Activity 2.

On the site it said to write a summary about the whale rider movie.

The movie is about a girl named Paikea. Her twin brother died at birth but Paikea just made it and with her help of her grandma and uncle she wants to own her birthright.

I give the trailer a 4 out of 5.

That was all my writing for today. I hope you enjoyed it.

Bonus activity 2

Hi everyone this is my bonus activity for day 2. Let's begin.

I had to interview someone from my family and ask them what is there top 5 favourite things to do outdoors. I chose my dad. Here are his 5 favourite things to do outdoors.

#1. Watch me and my sister play sports.

#2. He loves going fishing.

#3. Going places for a weekend.

#4. Travelling

#5. Building

That was the 5 favourite things my dad loves doing outdoors.

I hope you enjoy.

Day 3 Winter Learning Journey

Hi everyone. It's Levonah again and this is Winter Learning Journey day 3. So let's get started.

On the site it said I have to write about a New Zealand native bird. I picked a Tuatara. Here are some facts about it.

Fact 1: All the species that were alive around 60 million years ago were extinct expect for tuatara.

Fact 2: The tuatara is a nocturnal animal and lives on 30 small islands off the cost of New Zealand.

Fact 3: The tuatara is carnivorous. Carnivorous means that in order for the tuatara to  survive it eats other animals like spiders, insects, beetles also birds eggs they eat many more but this is just some animals that they eat.

Fact 4: Did you know where the name tuatara comes from. Well tuatara came from Maori peaks on the back.

Fact 5: The tuatara has 3 eyes. The tuataras 3rd eye is at the top of it's head and it is called a parietal eye.

Activity 2
On the site it said we had to write 3 reasons why you don't want or want predators here in NZ. Here are my 3 reasons.

Reason 1. I don't want predators in NZ because they might scare all our native birds away.

Reason 2. Because they might damage trees and places.

Reason 3. They might eat our native birds and if they do then we won't have anymore to see and we might forget about them.

That was my blog post for today. I hope you enjoyed it. Bye.

Holiday writing

Today I was not at my house because I was with my nana, aunty Rochelle and my brother Mitchell. Last night I was watching the All blacks vs Lions game. The score was 15 all but before that I was at the Matariki light trail.

It was so cool I saw Brooklyn, Tehilla, Mamare and Heather there. I waited until 9:00pm to see the fireworks. Everybody counted down from 10 and then we saw all the fireworks.

The fireworks were so loud and bright so they played we know the way and wairua. It was so fun. After the fireworks I went back to my house and it was 10:30pm.

My nana decided to come over and she asked me if I wanted to go to her house so I did. My aunties and uncles were all working at the game. Me, my nana and my brother went to go pick up my aunty Rochelle from the game and by the time we got to my nana's house it was already midnight.

When I woke up it was 6:30am and we were getting ready to go to the doctors. We left my nana’s house at 8:00am and by the time we got to the doctors a lot of people were waiting because there was only one doctor.

So we had to come back later.

We were starving so we went to eat at Hollywood cafe for breakfast. After all that food we went to church, church took 2 hours and when we left it was 1:30pm. My nana dropped me off home but my brother is still with her.

Day 2-Winter learning journey

Hi everyone. It's Levonah again and this is day 2 of the Winter learning journey. Lets begin.

Activity 1:

I loved Rangitoto Island. It was a beautiful place but It was a long hike to the top of the Island. As I was hiking I saw different kinds of birds everywhere.  

It took me around 2 hours to walk to the top of Rangitoto Island. When I got to the top I saw a majestic view. The whole island was so beautiful.

Activity 2:

Questions for Laura Dekker:

#1 What age did you first start sailing at ?

#2 When you were sailing did your boat ever fall down ?

#3 Did you have any trouble on the boat ?

#4 When you had no food how did you survive ?

#5 How many days did it take you to sail around the world ?

Holidays

Today was a great start to the holidays, even though it was a really wet morning but it started to get sunny. Today Me and my family went to henderson for my mums appointment. Except for my brother Mitchell because he is at my nana's house.

We arrived at my mums appointment and I didn’t know what it was for but her appointment took one hour. After that one hour we were driving in the car and my younger sister Leonora said “mum can we go to burger king” and my mum said “ oh but why” she said” because I want to get the churros deluxe” so guess what my mum said “ ok we can go and get your churros. Myself and my sister madi said “oh mum why does she get churros she's always spoiled ” my mum said “ we are all getting some”.

We just ordered the food at burger king so while we were waiting me and my sisters were playing hand games. Finally our food arrived because we were starving so my dad and mum had their burgers and we had our churros. It was so yummy.After that we came home and just watched movies.