My Akomanga Kaihanga Blog

My Akomanga Kaihanga project that I am doing is the rain garden. The rain garden is not going very well because we haven’t had time to really go out into the rain garden. However in our last social studies class I got to ask a lot of questions about my project and now I have a better understanding of my project. So far in my project I have only been in the rain gardens once but I have been talking to people about the rain gardens and have learned some new things. I am excited to go into the rain garden and clean it up for my next step in my project.

Summer Learning Journey – December 6 Activity 1

For this activity I chose the song Cover Me In Sunshine by Pink. I decided to draw a globe because in the song one of the lines says “Tell me that the world’s been spinning” so I drew a world spinning. It was quite hard to try and draw this because it is still image.

Store owner dies of stab wounds after robbery in Auckland new article

LI: Summarise the text.

Sc: Identify the key words and ideas to write a summary. 

Store owner dies of stab wounds after robbery in Auckland. 

A store owner has been unfortunately stabbed in a robbery at an Auckland dairy. Police have launched a manhunt for the culprit. They were called at 8.05pm after an offender entered the store armed with a knife. The worker suffered critical injuries. They were transported to hospital but tragically passed away soon after. The criminal not only stabbed the worker but stole the cash register. 

More than a dozen police officers remained at the scene after 9.30pm. Many people were shocked that something like this happened.

Last Technology Class

Today in technology there was nothing for me to do because I had finished the week before. Mr Grandy, the hard materials teacher, asked if Hanady and I could help him file and sand his pendants, because some had stolen his display ones. By the time the class was over we both had finished filing and were on our third sandpaper. That was a lot faster than the last time I was doing this.  The shape that he asked me to do was a seahorse and it was quite difficult to hold.

Technology

Today in technology I finished everything in my workbook. I finished my box and I finished my pendant. To finish my box I had to pick out a fabric. I chose a purple coloured one. It was a very soft fabric. When I glued it on  I had to wait half an hour for it to dry. after it had fully dried, the teacher drilled a hole into the wood and put the screw in the hole. Then for the last step I stained the wood. Next week is the last week of technology, so I am glad I finished.

Technology

Today in technology I finished my worksheet and finished my pendant. The teacher  then polished my pendant with a buffer for a good finish.  After I polish with the brasso to make it shiny and hung my pendant on a string with a parrot clip. For the final step me and Hanady started making our boxes. We didn’t get to finish because we ran out of time but I hope that next time we can finish. The easiest part of the day was finishing my work book.

Technology

Last week in technology I finished the last two sandpapers, but I forgot to sand the edges.  So this week I had to finish sanding the edges. After that I started sanding the pendant when it was wet. If you are finished sanding it dry you have to sand it when it is wet. to sand it wet you have to make a puddle on your sandpaper and sand as you normally would. When I started sanding it wet I found that it was a lot smoother than sanding it when it is dry. When you sand it wet it is easier because the water washes the little shavings off it.

Technology

Today in technology I started sanding with a different sandpaper. This new sand paper was more fine and definitely faster than the other one. While I was waiting for the teacher to come and check if I could move on to the next sandpaper I finished my worksheet. On my worksheet I had to write about why I chose to make my pendant for this person and why I chose that design. We also had to write the process it will take and how long it will take.