Advent

Oscar! The Siberian Husky

Sometime in December (In the Year 2014) 9 - 12 Siberian Husky's puppies had been born into the world by their mother Dakota.

The date now was 28th February 2015 the day we bring our Siberian Husky to our home, My Mum, Dad and I had already met him 2 weeks before. His name was Tiny at the time and he was the biggest and most relaxed puppy out of the litter. We were allowed to rename him so our family decided on the name Oscar.

Due to work my Mum couldn't come with us so my Dad, Brother (Erastus) and I embarked on our our little drive up north to retrieve the new member of our family. On arrival to our destination we made a bit more space in the van, then went to knock on the door. Pop opened the door and there was the one who breed the dogs and walking behind her on his stubby, short legs and ears pricked up was Oscar.

We said hello to the breeder and patted Oscar. My Dad signed several forms, we were also given a week's supply of food. Our next destination with our New Member of Our Family was the Animates pet shop because it was a pet shop we were allowed to bring our puppy. The first thing we did was go to the beds. He took ages to find his favourite bed he slept in almost every single one until he made his decision. He chose a waterproof,soft,blue,white and orange bed. We knew he wanted it because he sat on twice.

As we went to the food bowls section a little black labrador puppy walked in with its owner. They said hello to each other and wouldn't stop playing with the dog so my dad picked him up and took him to the bowl section. We picked up two clay bowls one for food and one for water. Next we asked a specialist at the shop what kind of puppy biscuits was best for a Siberian Husky they gave us a 15 kg bag. We payed for it and went home.

We took him for a walk around our house he was excited. His tail was wagging at max speed. We let him of his lead but he went straight to his bed. My mum came home and said hello then Oscar came inside with us. After playing with him we gave him dinner and then we all went to sleep.

The Long Wining Road

Using google draw we found an image of a windy road put what we wanted to achieve in our future. There will be road blocks, times when I have to stop and think and times when I go off my track. But God will always be there to get me back to our windy road and continue our Journey.

Mythological Creatures - The Minotaur

Today we conducted research that related to a book we were reading about a mythological or unidentified creature that could be true or false, like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot,a Hydra,Cerberus(the three headed dog), the Kraken and other monsters/creatures alike. I had chosen to make a presentation about the Minotaur.

Electronic Graphs

Today I Constructed a bar graph using a google spread sheet. Firstly I entered my data in the first two columns. I then highlighted the information and chose the graph. We then entered the Title and another small heading on the left.

Triangle Angles Investigation

This morning in maths we investigated the angles of triangles angles of triangles.

Firstly we had drawn an equilateral triangle onto a piece of paper, from their we then cut the triangle out and and tore the three corners of the triangle. We put the three corners next to each other on an imaginary straight line. We know that a straight line is 180 degrees. We then repeated what we had already done except we used an isosceles angle.

Te Reo In Everyday Life

Walt: To use Te Reo In Our Everyday Lives

The Holy Spirit - Te Wairua Tapu In Scripture

Persuasive Reading Analysis - Best Advertisement

Persuasive Reading Analysis: Best Advertisement Ever

We are learning to identify the strategies used by the writers to persuade their viewer audience .

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	I believe the purpose of the advertisement is to make the audience think about the small or big things they can do to make another person's life happier or change the world around them.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	No
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	Six actors support the the message being given to the audience in this clip. Every day the main character visits these people/animals. The audience sees that through the man's generosity, kindness and compassion the lives of those he visits had changed in a good way.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	Yes	The advert makes the audience feel many emotions in different parts of the advert. The music that is played throughout the clip enhances the ad and it brings out the audience's emotions more.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	The clip shows facts that their are poor people living on the streets that you can help.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause	Yes	The audience is given a sense of urgency by the actions of the man who does all the good things for the people. It makes you want to be like him and help the people in the community.
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;  this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations.

Reading Is Important - Speech

Brainstorm
Reading Helps You learn You learn new words that you can use to improve your own work/exams. For future jobs you need to know how to read You don’t learn to read you read to learn

Knowing how to read is the one of the most extremely important things to know in the whole entire world. How do you think world leaders like Barack Obama, Martin Luther King etc, became famous people. They had to know how to read to know how to to do there jobs properly. If I didn’t know how to read I would not be able to write this persuasive writing to convince you that reading is important.

Reason one of why reading is important, reading helps you gain knowledge and knowledge is very important in today's world (knowledge about weather, traffic etc.). You learn a variety of words that can expand your vocabulary which will help improve your grades in english and other subjects. It will also help improve your own personal job/work whether it be an author, journalist, businessman or newspaper writer.

My second reason why, is because you can experience different things/emotions, for example if you're reading an action book and it starts getting really interesting (fighting, explosions,)  you feel thrilled and possibly (if it is extremely interesting) you start to feel the adrenaline that the characters are feeling. If you're reading a story about love (romeo and juliet etc.) you feel sadness and other emotions alike. There are also comedy books that can be quite amusing. When you read comedy stories they make you laugh and cheer you up.

My third reason is looking at theft, documents and contracts. If you sign a contract for a dodgy person without reading and understanding what you are reading, you could be signing away your life or life’s money away. Then you would not have enough money to pay bills, mortgage,debts and in the worst case scenarios you might end up living on the streets.

No matter what situation you're in, language you speak, hieroglyphics your decoding or music notes your learning/teaching you will still have to know how read (unless you're Illiterate). You can also gain wisdom (from the Bible etc.) that you can pass down to generation to generation. Therefore reading is one of the most extremely important things in the world second to maths.

Our teacher also tells us this from time to time, you don’t learn to read you read to learn.

Te Wairua Tapu - Blabberize/Podcast

We are learning to Explain how the Holy Spirit prepared Jesus for his ministry through his experience in the desert. 

Post Test

Assessment task: Year 7 Holy Spirit Strand

The Holy Spirit in the the old testament was called the Spirit of God.	True
The coming of the Holy Spirit in Pentecost was an Important event in the Old Testament.	False
Jesus prepared for his Ministry by retreating to the Desert for forty days.	True
The Prophets told the people how God wanted them to live.	True
The Holy Spirit was recognised as the Breath of Life on the Old Testament	False
Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit when he started School.	False
The Trinity means the relationship between God, Jesus and Mary.	False
John the Baptist Baptised Jesus at the Church of Saint John.	False
The Apostles and Other Disciples were empowered by the Gift of the Holy Spirit.	True

What did the Holy Spirit Enable the Apostles to do in and after the Pentecost event ?

How could the Power - Mana of the Holy Spirit be Seen in Jesus?

What was the Mission God had given to Jesus?

At his Baptism Jesus	Inspired the Judges, Kings and Prophets
Jesus was prepared by his Ministry by	The Holy spirit is imaged in the Old Testament as
The Breath of God is one way	empowered by the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God	accepted what God had sent him to do on Earth
After Pentecost the Apostles were	his Baptism, his prayer and his time in the Desert.

Exploring Antarctica

As Part of the Immersion stage of our Inquiry.  We are developing knowledge and understanding about Antarctica.

My Term 3 Buddy Blogger

Hello this my new buddy blogger for term 3 this year. Her name is Estherose. Today she drew pictures on Sumo Paint. These are the pictures she drew. She drew shapes, lines and I helped her draw a flower.

 

Best Advertisement Ever - Winner Of Best Ad 2014

We are learning to identify the strategies used by the writers to persuade their viewer audience. 

I believe the purpose of the advertisement is to make the audience think about the small or big things they can do to make another person's life happier or change the world around them.Six actors support the the message being given to the audience in this clip. Ever day the main character visits these people/animals. The audience sees that through the man's generosity, kindness and compassion the lives of those he visits had changed in a good way.The advert makes the audience feel many emotions in different parts of the advert. The music that is played throughout the clip enhances the ad and it brings out the audience's emotions more.The clip shows facts that their are poor people living on the streets that you can help.The audience is given a sense of urgency by the actions of the man who does all the good things for the people. It makes you want to be like him and help the people in the community.

Traditional Prayers

This week we have been looking at Traditional prayers linked with our Catholic Faith.  While I know most of the ones listed, I am going to work on memorising the others before the end of this term.

These are the traditional prayers :

• Our Father (Tick)
• Hail Mary    (Tick)
• Glory Be     (Tick)
• Rosary  (Half of it)
• Apostles Creed (Half of it)
• Nicene Creed (Half of it)
• The Comforter ?

Different Forms of Prayer:

• Scripture
• Meditation
• Tradition
• Liturgical Dance
• Waiata

Hey Little Ant

Reading Analysis : Hey Little Ant

We are Learning to identify ethos, logos, pathos

The clip starts with a single perspective  that ants are worthless and should be squashed.The Actor portraying the boy several reasons as to why he should squash ants.

These Include:

• they steal human food
• they make a mess
• they're dirty
• his friend squash ants too
• his mum says they're dirty

The actor portraying the ant speaks of several reasons why they should not squash ants

These include :

• they only need a little bit of food for their colony
• they need to feed the queen, baby ants,
• the ant talks about how he would feel if they swapped places e.g Would you want to be squashed if you were an ant

Cadbury Chocolate - Don't Get Caught

Persuasive Reading Analysis: Don’t Get Caught

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The Ad very cleverly grabs the audience straight away with a key phrase “ Don't Get Caught ”. The phrase is then repeated throughout the advertisement to maintain the  connection with the audience.
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	Yes	The ad uses the big name cadbury which is known worldwide for their chocolate.
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	Yes	With the phrase “this little angel has a secret love, don’t get caught”, the audience thinks that the girl in the clip is innocent and is a sweet angel.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	No
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or  facts to support the argument	Yes	The advertisement then tells the audience using facts about the eggs and what in it, talking about the double coat chocolate and the irresistible cream coming inside of it.
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency  for the cause		When the they say the eggs are irresistible it gives the audience a sense of urgency to go and buy an egg and it also makes the audience think that because it is so irresistible it might be finished before they get to a shop, so it makes them move faster.
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;  this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations.

LI: We are learning to write an advertisement critique using ethos, pathos and logos

The Ad very cleverly grabs the audience straight away with a key phrase “ Don't Get Caught ”. The phrase is then repeated throughout the advertisement to maintain the  connection with the audience.

The ad mentions the big name cadbury which is known worldwide for their irresistible chocolate.

With the phrase “this little angel has a secret love, don’t get caught”, the audience thinks that the girl in the clip is innocent and is a sweet angel.    

The advertisement then tells the audience using facts about the eggs and what in it, talking about the double coat chocolate and the irresistible cream coming inside of it.

When the they say the eggs are irresistible it gives the audience a sense of urgency to go and buy an egg and it also makes the audience think that because it is so irresistible it might be finished before they get to a shop, so it motivates them to move faster.