My book review

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The invention of Hugo Cabret is about a boy named Hugo who lives with his uncle in a clock. One day his uncle leaves and never comes back. This is about how he copes to live by himself for many years.

I liked the way the author kept the book interesting and it was easy to picture it in your head. The author made it seem so real that it felt like you were in that setting. Especially when Hugo and his friend were looking out of the biggest clock in the station to reveal the beautiful city of love (Paris).

I recommend this book to people who love to read long books and to people who love a good challenge when they read.  

Donkey Google Presentation on adaptation

I learnt about donkeys with my partner Amy and we made a Google Presentation on it.

The early Polynesians

How the early Polynesians adapted to their new country

Food:  When the Polynesians came they ate some food that they brought with them but they needed to find more, they had to find some similar foods.

The Polynesians couldn’t grow all the things they had before because the cooler climate stopped them from growing. So they learnt how to grow some foods such as kumara and gourds underground.

Fishing and Hunting: The Polynesians wanted to get some meat so they started to think, then they got it. They started to get to work, they made a noose. It was a rope that they would tie around the moa’s neck and it would strangle it and then it would die. So then they would have plenty of meat and flesh and protein that it would last them about a day because they only took off the legs ( the nice juicy parts ) and ate that. Then they would leave the rest to rot on the ground. They killed heaps of moas a day,  but they left the bones and the skeletons for their dogs to bite on.

By: Kaydence

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty & the Beast

Have you ever seen the fairy-tale Beauty and the Beast live theatre? Well on Friday the 9th of May, Christ the King Catholic school went to the Vodafone Event Centre to watch the Sancta Maria College perform the Disney version of “Beauty and the Beast”.

The back story was that there was a prince who was selfish, cruel and mean. One night an old woman came with a magical rose to his door and asked him for shelter, but he was so self-centred that he refused. Suddenly she started to melt into a beautiful girl and the rose had transformed him into a hideous beast. He tried to take it back but he couldn’t. Years later he fell in love with a beautiful girl named belle and tries to win her heart in order to break the curse before all the petals on the magic rose fall off, but she also has to love him back before its too late.

The actors were Beauty(Belle): Olivia Brown, Beast:Roman Bennett, Gaston:Elijay Florendo, Lumier:Matthew Laguda, Cogsworth:Connor Farrell, Mrs Potts:Keelin Weekly, Babette:Tayla Sloan and Chip:Aidan van Heerden. All their acting was very convincing. They could have had more props to make it feel like you were actually in the place.  

Nunuku's Law

Nunuku’s Law

Long ago, there was heaps of fighting among the tribes of Rekohu. The leader called Nunuku made a law to finish the war and killing. All the other high authorities of Rekohu agreed to this.So if two people started to fight, they were permitted to hit each other, but if either one of them drew each other’s blood, their argument had to stop immediately.

In 1835, Rekohu was invaded by the two tribes of New Zealand, the high authorities of Rekohu gathered together to make a decision on what they should do (about the invasion. After a long talk, the high authorities decided that they could not disobey Nunuku’s sacred and ancient law of peace. They made a decision to not fight against the invaders but to divide their land with the intruders. Over 200 Moriori men, women and children were killed. Many others became slaves or died in captivity.

All the people who died, their names are carved on the pou at Kopinga Marae to honor their memory and their legacy of peace.

Heat explanation

Heat explanation by kaydence1n9sh on GoAnimate
This is my heat explanation, which I made using Go Animate.

My study on heat energy