Day Out

Day Out 2019

A few weeks ago I got told that I got picked for the Year 8 girl to go to a day out with other year 8 students from around the Grey District. Levi and I got picked as the 2 from Grey Main. |

We started the day with a visit to the Grey Mouth Polytech for breakfast, we had Ambrosia, sandwich, fruit and a cupcake. It was sooooo good! We also got a tour of the kitchen and garden. Then we got into 2 groups and went in vans and drove to Search and Rescue, where we got a tour of the helicopter and split into teams and did a challenge. They couldn't pick a winner so we all won! Then we went to the fire station and got tour of the inside and 2 trucks, got to set out a small fire and then my favourite activity climbing a 3 story building. It was so much fun, the view was amazing. Then we got pizza for lunch along with fizzy/water. We were even aloud to take back to school/home a pizza if there were left overs!

Overall I had a really good day! I am so grateful that I got picked to do these awesome activities.
Did you get picked from your school?

Wearable Arts 2019

Wearable Arts 2019

This term we have our Wearable Arts. Wearable Arts is a activity our school does every 2 years for the seniors. (Year 7&8). We have this entire term to work on our costume. In the end of Week 10 we have the presentation of everyone's costumes, the person who is wearing the costume has to walk the cat walk in front of the audience (Public, Friends and Family). You get to pick the music you have when walking the cat walk. Once you have walked the cat walk and get the front stage the other 2 in your group talk about the costume you've made. Once everyone has walked the cat walk in there costumes you get marked on how well you did, if your Wearable Arts Booklet is up to date and how well you worked together and of course how amazing your costume looks!

I am very excited to see what our costume looks like at the end of the term as we have been and are working very hard to get it looking amazing. I am so proud of ALL of our efforts so far and think we're going to pull this off!

Anzac Biscuits

Anzac 2019

For the last week of the term we are  focusing on ANZAC. For one of the activities we had to write the ingredients and the recipe for Anzac biscuits. I had a lot of fun making these ANZAC biscuits, they smelt AMAZING! When I made my biscuits I had Mia, Iris and Bailee in my group. Stay tuned for some more blog posts on ANZAC!

Te Reo lesson with Whae Katie

Te Reo lesson with Whae Katie

On Tuesday the 5 of June, Totara 2 had a te reo lesson with Whae Katie! For this activity at this lesson we had to pick a word in maori for example pukapuka which is book if you didn't know, and we had to change one of the letters for an image of a book! You don't do all the letters you just do 1 or 2 to make it look nice!

Most of mine you can tell what the word is because the image is giving it away, but I still think it looks really cool and would really like to do another one another day! Maybe next time if we had a little more time I would like to change the font and colours of the writing so it looks more attractive and people want to look at it!

Topic Reflection W7T3

This week with MADELINE we found a slide in our drives called "Media Construction" and your name.

Our task from MADELINE was to find a photo that we could share on Social Medias and One we couldn't share on Social Medias. Then we had to create a word cloud for each of them with words relating to the picture for example for the image you can't share on Social Medias could be Unprotective, Unkind because the person who could be in the photo could want it to be a private photo and for a photo that could be shared could be Comitted, Dedicated or chirpy!

Topic Reflection W9 T3

Topic- For topic we had to buddy up and choose an explorer. I buddied up with Kyra and we chose John Cabot! While we were reading the information about John Cabot we noticed that the 2 websites we were using had a different amount of sons in then we thought that it was strange because one said 11 sons and the other said 3 sons so we searched it up and it said 3 sons. 

Topic Reflection T3 W7

Topic- For writing we had to buddy up with a person and I chose Ruby we had to highlight what was postive in green, any problems they had in red, time periods in blue and why they explored in yellow. Here is mine and Rubys!

Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration (also called the Age of Discovery) began in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world. They discovered new routes to India, much of the Far East, and the Americas. The Age of Exploration took place at the same time as the Renaissance.

Why explore?

Outfitting an expedition could be expensive and risky. Many ships never returned. So why did the Europeans want to explore? The simple answer is money. Although, some individual explorers wanted to gain fame or experience adventure, the main purpose of an expedition was to make money.

How did expeditions make money?

Expeditions made money primarily by discovering new trade routes for their nations. When the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453, many existing trade routes to India and China were shut down. These trade routes were very valuable as they brought in expensive products such as spices and silk. New expeditions tried to discover oceangoing routes to India and the Far East. Some expeditions became rich by discovering gold and silver, such as the expeditions of the Spanish to the Americas. They also found new land where colonies could be established and crops such as sugar, cotton, and tobacco could be grown.

Henry the Navigator

The Age of Exploration began in the nation of Portugal under the leadership of Henry the Navigator. Henry sent out ships to map and explore the west coast of Africa. They went further south than any previous European expedition and mapped much of  western Africa for the Portuguese. In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa and into the Indian Ocean.

Christopher Columbus

Soon the Spanish wanted to find a trade route to the Far East. Explorer Christopher Columbus thought that he could sail west, across the Atlantic Ocean, to China. He could not get the Portuguese to fund his expedition, so he went to the Spanish. Spanish monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand agreed to pay for Columbus' trip. In 1492 Columbus discovered the New World of the Americas.

Portugal and Spain

Portugal and Spain became the early leaders in the Age of Exploration. Through the Treaty of Tordesillas the two countries agreed to divide up the New World. Spain got most of the Americas while Portugal got Brazil, India, and Asia. Spain sent over conquistadors to explore the Americas and to conquer the peoples there. Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. They made Spain rich with the gold and silver they found in the Americas. Portugal sent out Vasco da Gama who found a trade route around the southern tip of Africa and to India. They also explored much of the Far East and were the first Europeans to establish a trading colony in China at Macau.

Colonies

Other countries such as Great Britain and the Netherlands established colonies in the New World. Eventually Great Britain would overtake all of the European nations in terms of the size of their world wide empire including the thirteen colonies in the Americas that later became the United States.

Geography

The Age of Exploration was one of the most important times in the history of world geography. A large portion of the unknown world was mapped during this short period. Also, many advances were made in navigation and mapping which helped future explorers and travelers.

Interesting Facts about the Age of Exploration

• During the Age of Exploration Europeans referred to the entire area of Southeast Asia and India as the "East Indies".
• The first expedition to circle the globe was led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Unfortunately, Magellan was killed during the expedition and did not complete the voyage.
• Some areas of the world were not fully mapped or discovered until well after the Age of Exploration including Eastern Australia, the interior of Africa, the Arctic, and the Antarctic.
• Many explorers such as Captain James Cook and Sir Francis Drake searched for a Northwest Passage to East Asia, but it wasn't until 1906 that explorer Roald Amundsen completed the journey.