Neat nets!

 Kia ora Bloggers! How are you? Recently in math, my teacher came up with a super fun challenge where we had to create packaging for chocolate. The teacher went around and gave us a small package of assorted chocolate. When we then opened it, I received mini Cadbury milk chocolate bars. Next, we had to design a net that could fit our chocolate inside it. Here's my net:

   

I then made it up and tied it up with a ribbon and this is what it looked like:

This challenge was super fun and I would love to do it again. Do you know what the shape I used is called? Have a brilliant day.

-Zoe-

Cool Ki O'rahi!

 Kia ora Bloggers!! I know this is the third post today but have more to share. As you hopefully know by now, I have been looking at NZ culture and this involved taking a look at an old kiwi game called Ki O'rahi! This game is super fun to play and I put together a slide show with my friend to show you how to play...

I hope you liked it. Tell me if there was anything to change and make sure you give the game a go!

See you later Bloggers!

-Zoe-

Helpful hangi poster!

 Hey Bloggers!! What are you up to? If you saw my previous post you will know that we have recently been looking at Maori culture and part of Maori culture is a hangi, a hangi is essentially a huge meal that cooked underground. Almost like a barbeque but underground. We had to make a poster describing how the hangi has changed. My poster is a little bit- messy so I will type out what it says here then put a picture of the poster underneath.

Traditional hangi

The traditional hangi consists of a large hole in the ground filled with red hot rocks that were heated earlier. On top of these rocks, you place baskets filled with food. Next, you cover them with wet sacks then cover the sacks with the earth. Overall this entire process can take 7-8 1/2 hours (Including cook time) This is a long time to wait for a meal.

Modern hangi

The modern hangi takes a lot less time to prepare and way less effort saving you time, plus you are guaranteed a good mvveal. Overall technology has improved the way we create hangi making it more efficient  

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What do you think of my poster? Have you ever eaten a hangi? 

Have a good day.

-Zoe-  

Past vs present

 Kia ora bloggers!! How are you all? I haven't posted in a while so I apologize for that. For inquiry this term we are looking at countries, so to start off the term we are taking a look at New Zealand's culture, heritage, and traditions. Maori culture includes things like ideas, customs, and behavior this includes things like waiatas, hangi, etc. Heritage is things like our marae and ferns and our traditions are things like Matariki and hakas.

For this task we were given 3 slides to fill in, writing things about Tā moko, Korowai, and Kapa haka. A Tā moko is a traditional Maori tattoo, a Korowai is a cloak and kapa haka is a war dance of sorts. We had to describe how the tools, the design, and the usage has changed over time. This slide shows all of these changed.     

Can you list at least one of each of the changes over time? Make sure you comment to give me feedback and tell me what you thought of the slide. 

Haere rā!!

-Zoe-

10 weeks to go!

 Hey Bloggers, The holidays are over and I'm honestly sad to be back at school ahem. In all seriousness though its good to see my friends again and its the last term so that includes fun things like formal and our surfing trip. ALSO HALLOWEEN. Anywho school, we have been doing scriptwriting and me and my friends are writing a western film, I promise to post it when it's finished but for now, have a sample:      

Um, obviously that's not all we've done but that's all I'm posting for now.

What's your favourite film genre? Have a brilliant day.

-Zoe- 

Video essay

 Kia ora Bloggers! How are you guys? It's finally the last day of term and I'm finally ready for the holidays,  I have just finished handing all my due essays and stuff in. One of which was video essay on a genre of film, I chose to use film noir and I had a lot of fun finding out what sort of things make up the genre. Heres my video essay. What kind of genres to you like?

    

Super Sign language!

 Hey Bloggers! How are you? Happy NZSL week!!!! In celebration of it, we have been using this super fun website called sign ninja were you can learn to speak NZSL, did you know that NZSL is one of NZ's national languages? We learnt a bunch of stuff like colours and family, I also learnt how to say my name and the alaphbet, heres my video of me saying my name. Do you know anything in NZSL?

-Zoe-