PCJB Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil

I just got back from the cinema watching Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil and thought that there was so much action, adventure and excitement that I decided to make a blog post about it.


Maleficent travels to a grand old castle to celebrate young Aurora's upcoming wedding to Prince Phillip. While there, she meets Aurora's future mother-in-law -- a conniving queen who hatches a devious plot to destroy the land's fairies. Hoping to stop her, Maleficent joins forces with a seasoned warrior and a group of outcasts to battle the queen and her powerful army.

Fabulous costumes, vibrant art direction, and the on-screen duelling of two Hollywood queens -- Jolie and Pfeiffer -- save this from being another uneven, unnecessary sequel.

With widespread death and destruction, this fairytale costume drama is by no means a child’s play. However, it has enough live-action magic to bring the big screen alive.

An improvement on the first film, in the end, and an encouraging rallying cry against fear and intolerance, but it’s still far too busy and baroque to match its leading lady’s elegance.

I really enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to be 8+. It is an action, adventure, PG, and most of all, exciting!

PCJB Manaiakalani Waiata

WALT: Sing the Manaiakalani waiata without the words or video
Lyrics: Kia tau te rangimarie Kia tatou katoa
Kia maimoa nga mana reo o tena
Kia mauri tau
Hihiritia te henengaro
Kia ako, Kia hanga Kia tohatoha
I roto i nga mai Katoa
Kia eke panuku Kia eke panuku Kia eke Tangaroa
(boys) tuturu whakamoa Kia tina (girls) tina
(all) Haumi e hui e
Taiki e
My Reflection: I quiet enjoy singing this song and know it off by heart. It's a little wordy but I like it!

PCJB The Town, The Park

WALT: Write a memoir inspired by James K Baxters "The Town"

The Town 

The town was usual enough; It had

A library, a park, a fountain, an ice-cream truck and

Pizza Hut, my favourite store

That we sometimes ate at. Me, myself and I

Did what nerds do - read books

In the quiet library, eat ice-cream and pizza while doing research, annoy my big brother

To help with my homework,  and code

For hours on Scratch, 

Doing nothing important.

The park 

The park was usual enough; It had

A swing, a slide, a small zip-line, a jungle-gym and 

fish n chips shop that we 

always ate at. Me, my sister and my dad

did what we do best - have a lovely picnic

on the grass, have races through the park, play tag until we tire ourselves out, 

play Pokemon Go! And eat the fish n chips that we brought,

Doing nothing important.

It was easy to make these two memoirs when I had an example of James K Baxter's memoir. A memoir is sort of like a poem but a little different.

PCJB Maths Quiz: Written Expanded Form

PCJB Peanut Butter Slice Baking

WALT: Work together as one to bake peanut butter slices.

My reflection: It was sort of hard to make the "dough" but patting it down was fairly easy.

PCJB Moment in Time: Film Festival

I was super excited to see all of the movies that went through to the film festival. I was nervous at the same time. There was red carpet, waiting for us to step on it at the front door of the cinema. Me and seven others from our class could go because we were the eight that made a movie that got in as well as Te Manga.

We won a couple of awards that day but it was Te Manga's movie that actually won it. They got tied in 2nd place for best film.

PCJB Pierced Ears

Today after school, me and my little sister Ruby went to the chemist with my mum and little brother Jaxon to get both our ears pierced. I had already had them done before so I wasn't scared. 
I had to get buds since I'm going to Intermediate next year. I got my birthstone gem. It's a Peridot. They are greenish stones that are quite cool!

PCJB Kauri Tree Life Cycle - Squak Squad

WALT: Explain the life cycle of the kauri tree and learn about it.



My Reflection: It was a little hard because I couldn't get the information I wanted and making the video was a pain. I had to go outside with cars and not pronouncing the words correctly. I learnt why the "ricker" is called a ricker.

PCJB Explaining Minecraft

This blocky game is rated as one of the most played games around the world! It is a game that is educational because it enhances creativity, problem-solving, self-direction, collaboration, and other life skills. In the classroom, Minecraft complements reading, writing, math, and even history learnings. This game has a loop from where it begins to where it ends and back again. Everything in the game is connected like a chain.

Each game mode that you use is different. It also represents what kind of gamer you are. For example, Creative mode allows you to have every single block in Minecraft. All the blocks show up in your inventory. This means that you like to be in control over your world and build a lot. Survival mode however, is the opposite. You have nothing in your inventory to start with until you get mining and you like to play the game properly to get achievements and coins to get different things in the store.

There are different bosses in the game that takes a long time to come in contact with, that includes entering different dimensions with portals. To spawn a Wither, you need four soul sand in a “T” shape and three wither skulls that you can find in the Nether. Put the skulls on top and wait for the wither to charge and destroy. A Wither is a skeleton-type boss with three heads. It shoots wither skulls that explode and gives you the wither effect when you get too close so be careful! The wither effect makes your hearts turn black while it takes them away. It lasts for 10-15 seconds.

The Ender Dragon. This creature can’t be spawned but found in The End (The End portal can be found in dungeons using Eye of ender’s). This beast shoots purple fireballs and dragons breath along with an incredible dive that does a decent amount of damage. Take out the end crystals to stop it from healing. When killed, the Ender Dragon lays an egg and then an animation for its death goes right above you then explodes and drops 3-10 levels worth of XP.

There are quite a few different tools that do different things to help you out. Use the right tool for the right reason or the durability will drain faster and you might not get the block you want! (The durability is the green bar at the bottom of your Hot-bar) Here is a few of them, Pickaxe: Allows you to mine ores and get cobblestone from caves. Hoe: Allows you to make farms for crops near water. Don’t jump on the farm or it will turn to dirt again. Axe: Let’s you mine tree logs a lot faster.

The main idea of this game is to survive and do whatever you want (although defeating those bosses sounds like fun!). I like to do both, creative and survival (even though you don’t get achievements for adding cheats on), how about you?

PCJB A-Z Alphabet Brainstorm: Keep Your Cats Inside

WALT: Find quality words that start with a letter in the alphabet.
My reflection: It was most likely easy because of the keyboard shortcut "ctrl+F". I made some of the letters blank because there were no words in the text beginning with those letters so sadly, I didn't finish the whole thing like I wanted to.

PCJB Alphabet A-Z Brainstorm

WALT: find words in stories from A-Z.
It was both easy and hard because I really wanted to complete the whole thing but the story had no X or Z. I had fun making this since I plan my words first for some reason.

PCJB Rounding and Compensating; close to 100 - Follow up Activity

WALT: Round and Compensate Close to 100 using number lines and without number lines.
It was kind of hard to compensate after I rounded because I forgot to undo what I had done.

PCJB On the Trail of a Taniwha - Vocab

WALT: Expand our knowledge in vocab and explain what words mean in our own words. This was pretty easy to do considering I had the book with me to do this. My favourite word was Extinct.

PCJB Speech: Teaching is an Easy Job but I Disagree

Introduction
Teaching “isn’t” an easy job. Why? I'll tell you!

Why
Because sometimes it gets overwhelming. In fact, it gets so overwhelming you just want to scream your so frustrated. Less sleep can cause horrible things like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, just to name a few. So be sure to get the sleep your body deserves.

What happens

There is way too much work to be done in such little time and no, you don’t get as much sleep as you really think so your body slowly tires. Probably because some kids don’t listen or do their homework so their poor teacher has extra work. And plus, you can’t spend as much time with your family as you hoped. Hey! Family matters but so does education. Family time shrinks incredibly fast so make the most of it! And even though happiness is a great reward, a day off or two is probably a better one. Even though kids get their education they need and pass on, forgetting things becomes a problem.

The bad side
You worry about the little things more often than the important ones. You also spend more than you receive for stationary, books and plenty more where that came from. The more your teacher teaches you the less he/she can teach you and following on the same subject, it takes longer to learn new things that you think so if your teacher is out of ideas, it can take longer to learn more to teach. That might be the end of my bad side of the speech but my good side however...

The good side
Pupils live their lives happily and you get huge rates of happy smiles and even better, you can also become a favorite! Also, you get goodies. YUM! Children learn quicker with teachers around and you get paid for it at the same time. You share your knowledge with students and they share theirs. More books are even made because of teachers! You can also get awards from teaching depending on how well you teach.

Teaching facts
Teachers aren't just gossiping on the teacher's lounge, during an average school day, teachers are spending almost 5 hours on instruction in class and providing tutoring or extra academic support and approximately 36 minutes on student supervision and discipline. Since 2009, Scholastic and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been publishing Primary Sources. It is a survey taken by thousands of American teachers on issues central to public education in the country today.

Some tips
It is easier to teach when you convince your students that it is magical or something great is going to happen if you do this and that. It helps children to use their imaginations more often. Little kids like to be amazed by how magical the world is and that encourages them to write bigger stories, make cooler things and even pretend they are super. It is also easier to teach when you pretend something bad is going to happen. For example, children like to eat their shirts. To prevent that, (and a teacher at my school told children this) say ”if you chew your shirt, it will make bubbles inside your tummy and you will float away”. Some kids believe it but it’s a great way to stop kids from chewing their shirts when their parents just brought it.

Conclusion
Do you want to become a teacher? If you're a teacher, high five yourself for a good job because you survived the costs for teaching and my speech. Thank you for listening.

PCJB Gills Terrible Travel

On May 22 2019, an Australian mountaineer, Gillian Lee “tried” to climb Everest, his 4th attempt. He thought that using an oxygen tank was cheating, so Gillian bravely ditched it. Gill saw the human traffic jam on the easier route so he took the steep Tibet route on the north side of the mountain.

At a height of 7600m, Gill started to cough constantly. It wasn’t long before he had purple lips and passed out. His sherpas quickly recognized the problem and descended down the mountain. Further down the treacherous slope, they reached his tent. The sherpas put Gill in a sleeping bag with lots of hot water bottles. They tied the sleeping bag to Gillian Lee and made a sled. Part way down they met a group of Chinese rope fixers who helped them. As the went on, the soft snow disappeared and rocky terrain was waiting for them. But the Yak Man was nearby to help get Gill across.

It was a painful ride on the yak. They finally reached Base Camp where a helicopter took him to a nearby hospital. When his mother found out, she was furious. She told Gill that he was selfish by putting others in danger. His mother was a lot angrier than sad and worried.

-By Paige

PCJB Our Te Kauru Assembly: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Our assembly was based on a book written by Jon Scieszka (she-shka). My part was the third little pig who was smart but rude-ish. If you want to see our assembly, visit the site with this link down below...
https://pstekauru.blogspot.com/2019/06/term-2-assembly-true-story-of-three.html

PCJB Eye Dropper Art P2

Before

After

PCJB Te Reo Caption Cartoon Strip

WALT: Ask, answer and translate questions to extend our knowledge in Maori.
I had fun making the strip although what was important was getting the Reo correct and clear so you can read it.

PCJB Eye Dropper Art

Before

After

PCJB - Leadership

WALT: Identify what qualities make me a great leader.

PCJB: Quality Blog Comments

WALT: Create quality blog comments. These are the similarities you'll need to make a quality blog comment down below.

It was fairly easy to make this post because of the comments I did and these have been stuck in my head for a while.

Isabele Thank You Letter Whatuwhiwhi snorkling

Dear Isabel,

On Behalf of our school, I would like to say thank you for teaching Te Manga and Te Kauru (my class) about how to snorkel and the EMR program you run so smoothly. We all enjoyed Experiencing Marine Reserves even though we weren't at one.

The BEST part about going to Whatuwhiwhi was snorkelling and playing in the sand. On the beach, I saw HEAPS of cool stuff. The coolest object that caught my eye, was the Crab and Snapper skeletons that washed up on the beach. They looked SOO cool.

In the water, the seaweed touched me during all the movement. I screamed thinking a weird fish nibbled me only to see that I was overreacting about nothing. A little bit later, I dived down as deep as I could considering my wet suit was full of air and saw a really fast but long fish ZOOM out of the murky seaweed. Jasmine and I thought it was a Piper but I wasn’t too sure since I didn’t get a very good glimpse of the rocketing fish. I saw my first snapper and a lot of spotties and common triplefins and 1 Kina or Sea Urchin.

Again thank you for taking us on this amazing trip. I learnt a lot of cool facts like don’t scream and ever overreact about nothing.

Sincerely yours,

Paige.

Quality Scentences

WALT: Write quality sentences using QV, elaboration and more.
I had fun learning how to make quality sentences because I like learning!

PCJB Anzac Map

WALT: create a map of where the soldiers travelled in WW1. It was a little hard to make this map because I had to go back and forth, getting information from different sites on where they actually went.

PCJB: My ANZAC Poster

WALT: Answer questions and learn about ANZAC Day.

It was hard to answer the questions because I could not find the right answer. It also was hard to get this onto my blog because my device went wonky so I had to restart it so it could work.

Strategies for Times Tables

WALT find and explain easy strategies for hard multiplication.

Mathsbuddy Tutorial

WALT explain how maths buddy works. It was hard making this video because there was no quiet spot to record.

Our Beach Education Day

My class, Te Kauru, went to Ahipara to learn about how to save people in the dangerous waters. First, we sat down so the Life Guards could teach us about water safety as we did with Rhonda. We learnt about water safety in the water and out of water safety. Then, they showed us the stuff they used in and out of the water equipment. My favourite was the paddle boat. After that, we played some games on the beach and had races (safe races but fun races). When we went into the water, I had SO MUCH FUN! I was sad we had to go back to school afterwards.

Animation: Marine Reserves

WALT Experience Marine Reserves (EMR). We have looked at this topic for almost all term. Sit back, Relax and Enjoy my Animation.

If the link doesn't work for the map, click this link here instead...

Report Writing: Bottlenose Dolphins

WALT write reports using quality vocab and elaboration. Sit back relax and enjoy my report writing!

Wait and See!

The Hare and the Hawk: Part 2

PCJB Maths Slide

WALT: Explain how Place Value works.

PCJB: Town Pools

Today, Te Kauru (my class) and Te Puawai went on a trip. We travelled by bus which took a little while but we eventually arrived at the town pools. The one gleaming pool in all of them was the extremely deep, 2-metre deep pool with a diving board, my favourite! As we had to go change, I couldn’t stop thinking about it until Ruby (my sister) scared me. In fact, she scared all the girls in the changing room. We all laughed. The teachers and the lifeguard put us in groups. First, my group had to do a relay swimming race, one of the things I’m bad at. I went twice but as I was about to go onto my miserable third, the change to the deep pool saved me. I did flips, bombs and even belly flops (only once (super painful)). When we had to go into the normal pool but I kept on going at the deep pool. It was so much fun. 2 mins later, I and my sister Ruby tried to go to the bottom but we only got half way before we burst with air. I quickly grabbed Ruby by her arm and rushed up, gulping air as we re-surfaced to the top. We only had a few hrs before we had to go back to school so I had some lunch, went on the bus and slept as it drove us home.

All About Me Tree

This is my All About Me Tree. You might know my first All About Me as paragraphs but this time it's different...

Rhib riding: A moment in time.

Rhib riding: A moment in time.
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The first thing that caught my eye was the rhib boats on each side of the navy ship. When it was my turn I was ready with my life jacket on and courage. ZOOM! We went as soon as we hit the water. I saw playful dolphins swimming, creating bubbles as they dived. People behind me screamed and yet I could hear them over the BOOMING motor. The calm waves hitting the boat rocked us a little. The smell was as salty as the sea and so was the taste. Bloch. The wind was cruising through my hair as if it were worms swarming through. The sea water splashing in the small boat covered me and the handlebars that I need to hold on to. Slippery enough for me to think to myself, “Don’t let go or you will fly of like a plane without wings, diving into the ocean floor.” I held on tightly with my legs and my hands, screaming as the boat lifted off the ocean’s surface. But wow, was the view breathtaking. I was disappointed because I wanted another go but sadly, I wasn’t allowed to.
By Paige.

Swim safe with Rhonda

Mushroom Float
If someone throws you in the water and you don’t know which way is up or down. Make sure you have air to spare and that way you will go back to the surface without having to move. Huddle up to yourself making sure that your heel is touching your behind and that you hold your legs to your chest with your hands in order to keep warm.
Paige