would you rather.

 Today we were working on would you rather statments, we all came up with some really good ones.

We had a mixture of creepy and yuck statments.

Heres mine.

Deep Sea!

                     under the wave of Kanagawa, Coloured by Duncan 
 

Under the wave of Kanagawa Made by (kanagawa oki nami ura)

  Today we're working on a colouring book. 

I picked darker coulers for the boat so it looked like it was old and rusty.

Ice Cream flavour challenge.

 Today the year 7 students in room 4 had to make a new ice cream flavour.

We used poster my wall to advertise our new flaviour.

Hayley and I have created ambrosia ice cream, we had to use to fresh element, so we are going to combine freash berries with chocolate. We are going to make our ice cream flavours tomorrow in food tech.

Here is our poster.

Athletics 2020

 

Wood work

Wood Work

For this last term the year 7s at Matawai school have being working in wood work.

Peter has been our wood work teacher, he has shared alot of tricks, tips, and knowlage with us.

For the last 9 weeks we have being making stools.

Some of the hardest parts were making sure that your measurements are perfect, and your cuts are straight. Today we completed our stools, and oiled the timber. I am going to use my stool for a mini book shelf in my room.

 By Duncan

Soundtrap music

For the last week I have being working on soundtrap music.

It was challenging at some times because I didn't know what sort of music to download and put on my Soundtrap. if you would like to visit this sight you can get it here https://www.soundtrap.com.
We had to get a picture that reprosented our work, mine was a crocadile that was eating it's prey.
Here is mine.

Zoo Writting

Zoo Writing

For the last week room 4 have being working on a persuasive text, it was about weather zoos should be banned or they should stay.We have to try to convince our audience.Here is my writing, I hope you agree?

I believe the idea of zoos being banned is preposterous. I strongly believe that zoos play a great part in the world, because they teach people about animals and how they live. I think that it would be cruel to not have zoos because say when the Australia bush fires struck, where would have all of the koalas gone. Plus all of the endangered animals would have become extinct.

A long time ago zoos didn’t take a lot of care for their animals, they just wanted money. Nowadays zoos try as hard as they possibly can to help the animals in their natural habitat. They also have vets onsite if there is an animal that gets sick. They also have facilities to care for sick animals.

Zoos must remain open so all people can learn about animals, and their habitat. If zoos weren’t here I don’t know what would replace them. I definitely believe zoos should stay open.
By Duncan

making pot plants

Robotics

Robotics

Today for tech we had our principle (Mr Knight) because our tech teacher was sick. 

Our focus was on team work, and we had to mix the groups up.

One challenge for me was to follow the instructions, E.G it took me about 20 minutes to make a really cool battle bot...But there was a problem, I forgot to put the motors and the gears in.

Our aim was to have a game of football, with the bots when we were finished. Sadly we didn't finish, but we will get a chance.

monkey sympathy

Today we were watching a chimp video and we had to write a recount. 

music

Today we were learning how to to make music without coppie write.

Next time I would change how many people I use for the song.

I am going to use this work for maby some backgroud music.

Have you ever made an Incredibox?

click here to see my link

painting

Fungi slow writing

Today we were learning slow writing, which is when you write to a set of instructions, for example you have to start your writing with a question or begin your sentence with a verb.

Have you ever had a go at slow writing?

We went for a fungi hunt around our school and took photos of the fungi so we could look at the variety we have growing around our school. We chose one photo to write about.

                                       

My Day With Mrs Allan!!

Mrs Allan!!

Mrs Allan!!  
Today we were learning how to do self learning.
Which is writing a list of things, from Mrs Allan's to do list to do list, and to accomplish them. We did some writing about Chinese and New Zealand gold miners.
my partner and I Iris didn't listen to they instructions and we wrote 4 paragraphs.
Next time I think that I will listen to they instructions.

We were learning how to do note taking, which is when you have a partner that reads and you take all of the key words and dates. 

Next week we are doing print making.

Have you ever done printmaking?

By Duncan

Today we were learning how to make animations...
Have you ever made an animation?
This is work in progress...next time we will get our audios working!

Best Bubble Moments

Best Bubble Moments.
For quite a wile New Zealand has being in lock down and these are all of my best moments...

Thursday Mrs Allan!!!!!!!

Trapped

Possums!!

Duncan's Homemade KFC

In lock down it can get pretty boring so our school teachers give us challenges to do.
This week for our tech challenge we had to make some sort of fast food.
I made HOMEMADE KFC!!
The only thing that was challenging was dodging the oil splatters.
The batter around the outside of the chicken breasts crusted up really well.
To be honest I think if I cooked it to much longer It wouldn't taste good, but it tasted pretty mutch like KFC.
Have you ever made your own KFC?
What are your honest thoughts of my homemade KFC?
Duncan

Trapped

MICE

Kia Ora this has been my project over the lock down.
We had about 8 mouse traps so I got 4 and my sister got four.
I set mine in our garage and these are my results.

Stalking Stags

Poppy

skull cap

Skull Cap Mount
This all started by Dad taking my sister and I out hunting,
and we shot a big 11 pointer stag.
The head wasn't really a record for our farm but I thought it would be cool to have a mount in my room. 

So, when we were cutting up the stag I decided to skin the stags head.Man I really thought that this was a privilege.
Firstly we boiled the head in a large pot, so there was no meat left on the head.
Then there was one last thing to do it was probably one of the hardest things, the shield.
We had  three options of wood, I choose plywood because it is really easy to work with and you don't have to do as much sanding.
Lastly I stained the wood with a rimu coloured stain.
Below is the head, which I have to mount on a shield.

By Duncan

Making a table in lock down.

Table
Since it is lock down I have decided to make a table with battens.
This is my first table that has worked out, I have tried about 3 times and this is the first that I am happy with.We have tested it, and I can sit and stand on the table without it breaking. This table is made out of old battens and new battens.

I use this table for storing all of my motocross gear on.
What are your thoughts on it?

Blog Post Graph

Today I was learning how to do statistics in our blog posts.

I enjoyed making it 3D.

My digital learning object shows that I am a stepping up as a blogger.

Have you ever made a bar graph?

Hayley has done 95 more posts than me.

My Pepeha

Today we were learning to use tour builder to make a pepeha.

Next time I will try and add some voice.

Have you ever made a pepeha?

Wasp Nests

Wasps!!
At school we were learning about wasps, so I decided to take it a step further.
We had 3 wasp nest that I found at home, so I dug them up.
There were hundreds of little wasps at the bottom of the hole, that had just hatched so they couldn't
fly.
I put them on a shovel and took them up to the house and froze them.
The next day I took them to school with me.
It had 5 compartments that were full of lava.
When we were planting in the school garden we discovered a wasp nest so we made wasp traps.
I created a set of instructions.
Do you have any wasp nest's at your school?  You could make a trap too!

About Me

Kia Orana, my name is Duncan and I am a year 7 student at Matawai school. I live on a farm with my mum and my dad, my sister. We have a dog that has an amputated leg, and 2 cats. We have a 2800 acre farm and we love to go hunting on it.

I passed all of my times tables and now I'm just getting familiar with hard maths. Dad is teaching me heaps of stuff on the farm, like Dagging and drenching.

This year I am looking forward to playing rugby for Ngatapa under 13,s team.also I play hockey for Matawai school, and cricket.I love writing about things that I have done recently.