The Rāwhiti School Te Karoro Karoro

                            Te Karoro Karoro

Te Karoro Karoro means the Seaguls chatter and that was the name for the Rāwhiti school production. This production contained all of the studios doing a song or a play. My favorite studio was Tāne Māhuta they did a play of the New Brighton Zoo which was really cool!

I was the narrator and I was so nervous and my hands were swetting alot! I was reading through the whole prodution and it was really fun. Charlie was the seagul and it was very funny to watch! I was very proud of us and what we acomplished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Forest

 

Deep in the ancient forest the leaves crackel as I step on the cold, muddy ground. I’m looking around the area and all I see are trees. “I miss my mum” I think in my head, “Why am I here?” This all started as a nice slow hike turned to a rain storm. Being in the rainforests in Brazil is cool and living by them is even cooler but when it gets dangerous its never fun, well I mean that there is never a dull day where I am from. I had been walking for about 45 minutes but that felt like forever. I wonder where my mum is did she go home, is she looking for me or is she lost aswell?

“Oh is that a river?” I said aloud alerting an animal of some sort I could hear a trail of steps leading towards me slowly then the speed increases. At this point I’m running and then I have to cross the river…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sound and Viberations

Sound and Viberations

All About The Ear

Sound is created by viberations, viberations travel through air particals in sound waves. You can compare sound waves to dominos falling one by one. Air particles are all around us but they are way to small to see. These are important because without them how will you hear if the sound just stayes where it is. The further you are the longer it will take for others to hear the sound and they will be quieter because the viberations have to travel further.

How Sound Moves

Sound moves by particles into your ear the outer ear funnels to your ear drum. That moves to your 3 bones called anvil, hammer and stirrup, they funnel the sound to the cochlear that travels through the nerve to the brain. That signgls the brain that you’re hearing things.

We put a tuning fork into water with dye so it is easier to see the sound ripples and sound waves. Some of the sound waves were so strong that the water splashed. We also made a harmonica and we could see the viberations with the rubber band moving.

 

Holes Summary Chapter 1-7

Stanley’s family had a curse that you were always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some shoes dropped of an overpass and he brought them home, before he got home the police asked him why he was running and the shoes were from a baseball player. The shoes were worth five-thousand-dollars! The judge found him guilty and he had a choice from Jail or Camp Green Lake. He was poor so he never had been to a camp, he chose Camp Green Lake.

When Stanley arived after a nine hour bus drive with no air con in the blazing sun. He was introduced to the Warden and he had a gun just for lizards! He also met the tent leader Mr Pendanski and Squid/Alan, Armpit/Theodore and ZigZag/Ricky.

You can run away if you want to but you are most likely not to survive, without water in the heat like that would be so hard! You work like a dog from day to night digging holes. The Warden thinks that digging and digging makes bad boys and girls good!

My Speech

                          Ngahuia te Awekotuku

For inquiry we have learnt about the past so I decided to make a speech about one person that has changed it  to make a more accepting world.

 

The word’s “Gay” and “Lesbian” are things that are normalised in this world but they were not always that way. 

 

People were made fun of, those words were considered wrong and people used them as mean names. Even now-a-day people still use them to make other people feel bad and I think that nobody should be shamed for who they are. Ngahuia te Awekotuku started the first Gay Liberation in New Zealand. That means she made a group for Gay and Lesbian rights and for them to be treated properly, you’d have to be pretty brave to do that as it was against the law.

 

Apart of inquiry we have been learning about the past. I was disgusted to find out that people had thought of women at a lower scale. I was researching about women that have shaped Aotearoa and Ngahuia te Awekotuku really stood out to me. I chose Ngahuia because of what she has done for the world. Doing these things were illegal but she still fought hard and still wanted everybody to be treated right no matter who they love. 

 

Ngahuia grew up in a ferociously feminist family in Rotorua, she went to Rotorua Primary School. Her original name was Ngahuia Lofftly that changed to te Awekotuku when she graduated from Auckland University with a MA (Master Arts) of School of Maori and Pacific Development, she must have worked really hard!

 

Her big forms of activism started in 1960 she wrote the first openly homosexual book from New Zealand, it’s called Tahuri, this book is about two girls growing up together they found out that they were lesbian. In the 1960’s this was considered an outrage. That is amazing for an average person to write such a shaping book. 

        

A group of girls including her thought that their posters were not gaining much attention, so they decided to create a fake funeral to get some people to notice. They talked about how all women want to be treated the same and that we have not moved forward since 1893 when we got the right to vote. They thought right and lots of News stations saw, many people thought twice on New Zealand’s choices.

 

I believe that Ngahuia te Awekotuku changed New Zealand for the better, she is a very big inspiration to me because she showed resilience like when people shot her down she built back up, when people sent her homophobic letters she built back up and even when people threaten her she built back up. I am truly thankful for her and her mindset. Ngahuia shaped New Zealand.

How to pronounce her name

Nga-hu-i-a  te  A-we-ko-tu-ku