My Archery Animation

Jordan Archery Animation from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

 Sorry for the hick up if you'd like to listen to the rest of the song then keep playing the movie. Otherwise enjoy the animation.

My Coke and Mentos Experiment animation

Jordan Ch ch changes from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

I Created my own Flappy Bird

Today in extension I was doing a bit of coding on the Hour of Code website. In one of the activities I tried to recreate Flappy bird but also made different versions. I hope you enjoy playing. Try Flappy Shark, Flappy Santa, Flappy Bird and Flappy Bird Hacked. If you're really insane you will also try Flappy Bird Impossible! I'd like to see you try.

My Final Visual Mihi

Hello everyone, this shall be my final Visual Mihi for PT England School. If you didn't know what a visual mihi is, it's a singular page with you in the middle and four of the things you value most in life. As shown on the top left corner is 'Family' written fancy. It means I value family. On the top right corner it shows that I value Christianity. Then on the bottom left corner it shows the Maori flag. I am part maori and am very proud of it. Then finally on the bottom right is the best food in the whole wide world... SUSHI! So I hope you enjoyed my Visual Mihi, I enjoyed making it. If you liked it then please comment below, thanks.

Changing States of Matter & Water Cycle

Jordan Changing States of Matter from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Geometry - angles and lines

Letter to New Zealand

Letter: Hello my dear friends and family of New Zealand who have been affected by the earthquake, I am very sorry to hear about the natural disaster that has hit most of your homes. I hope that you all know that our thoughts and prayers are with you. You should know that food supplies are on their way. I give my condolences to those who lost someone and I pray that whoever got injured will get better soon.

For those who didn’t know the earthquake was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake! It has so far been the third biggest earthquake recorded in New Zealand history. After the quake there were over eight hundred aftershocks, about 21 aftershocks every hour! There has been landslides, cracked and broken roads and sadly some people thought it cool to go looting at the same time as the earthquake hit. It says on the news that there is a possibility that there could be a Tsunami that might hit the top of the South Island in Kaikoura.

After the disaster there were still problems occurring, for example; aftershocks, looting and possibly Tsunami’s. Some families could have lost a family member. The aftershocks as you already know were over 800. Basically two earthquakes! The tsunami is likely to happen but we don’t know yet. Some adults who need to get to work can’t because of the uneven roads and most kids would have missed out on their NCEA tests because of the quake. Lots of schools and houses have been destroyed.

So to the people of Kaikoura I really am sorry to hear about what happened. I know how big the earthquake was not only by the news telling me it was a 7.8 earthquake but the night it hit it came all the way up to where I live and I felt a little quake in Auckland. So those who are leaving have a safe trip and for those who are staying be safe and I hope that your houses and businesses get fixed.

The Olympics Current Issues & Scandals

Jordan Exention Movie from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Simplifying Linear Expressions Algebra

Number Knowledge Presentation

Word Problems

Bedmas Algebra

Algebraic Equations

My favourite thing to do at Riverside Camp

In the first week of the holidays I went to a school camp for 8 - 13 year old students. It was run by our school principal, the leaders of the groups were college students. Our Riverside camp was held at Willow Park Christian Camp by the seaside. Back before I went along to Riverside camp it was held at Totara springs. But after a few years the money expenses of the bus down and up, then the staying there was too much for our school. But Willow Park on the other hand, only 30 minutes bus down and the cost staying at the camp was also cheaper. So now we go to Willow Park.

My favourite part about the camp was the beach games. Since we stayed across the road from the beach we’d normally go down for a swim, kayaking or beach games. The beach games themselves were alright, but when it started to rain things got a little more interesting. We all could see that the rain was coming and decided that it wouldn’t matter. So when the rain came we started doing more of water games than sandy beach games. Then after a while Mr Burt our school principal and organiser of the camp said, “You can all jump in the water for a swim!” and as he said that everyone dropped the gear they were holding and rushed into the water. The water felt warm because the rain was so cold. We stayed in the water for a while until we were told to pick up our gear, go back to the camp site, get warm, dry and ready for dinner.

Olympics maths

Sentence Types

Hiwi the Kiwi

Have you ever heard of Hiwi the Kiwi? Hiwi the Kiwi is a road show of two people. Mr and Mrs Minstrel. They go around New Zealand to schools and teach them about three things, how to keep the fish for the future, how to save our seabirds and Minstrel taught us about Water safety. In this story I  shall be explaining what Hiwi the Kiwi (Mr and Mrs Minstrel) taught us in the Pt England School hall.

The first lesson Mr and Mrs Minstrel told us about was keeping fish for the future. It means fishing the right size of fish. Especially when you are fishing on a boat. The size of the fish varies when the fish type changes. One tool that is very useful is a fish ruler. It helps to measure the fish and tells you the legal and illegal size of fish you’re allowed. But what was also interesting was Mr Minstrel also told us not to take the really big fish because they could maybe have some baby eggs inside of them. Then Mr Minstrel told us a story about a little girl who’s dad caught a prize snapper and she told her dad to put the snapper back in the water.

The second lesson was about Saving our Seabirds. Mr minstrel talked about when you go fishing you look for birds flying over the water. Because normally under the birds are lots and lots of fish. But, the problem Mr & Mrs Minstrel told us about was when we through out our lines we can sometimes catch a bird instead of a fish. What happens is the birds dive into the water then see the bait at the end of the hook, but they don’t know that there is a hook that holds the bait. So the bird bites the bait and gets it’s beak stuck on the hook. Then we think that it’s a fish and pull up the line. Even if we get the hook out from the bird's beak the bird might not be able to eat and then they get hungry and die. The other issue is when us humans drop rubbish, especially plastic things. For example a plastic lid was floating above the water and a bird was passing by. The bird might have thought it was a fish and gobbled it up. But that bird did not know that what he thought was a fish was actually plastic. The plastic inside the bird’s body did not digest. It stayed where it was and other food that tried to go down was stuck inside the bird’s body. So the bird got hungrier and hungrier then slowly died of hunger. So to stop this when we go fishing we should bring a water gun/blaster and shot the birds if they get too close to the fishing lines. The water will not kill them but scare them away from the lines.

And the last lesson was about water safety. About wearing a life jacket and making sure it fits. Mr Minstrel talked to Pt England about some people especially adults who would through their life jackets at the front of the boat and say, “I’ll leave that their and when I need it I will grab it.” but by that point in time you could have fallen off the boat. A story that Mr and Mrs Minstrel told us was about three men in their 20’s. They decided to go for a boat ride. They left their life jackets at the front of the boat and went zooming across the water. But what they didn’t know was that there was a broken log that sat just underneath the water so the three men couldn’t see it. When the three men drove over it they fell off. But by that time they couldn’t get their life jackets it was on a boat. The boat kept driving away with nothing on it except for the three life jackets that were left their. So the men had to swim a long way to get to shore. But it was to far away and they didn’t have life jackets to keep them afloat so the boys sadly ended up dieing!

So the overall lessons and messages that Mr and Mrs Minstrel were trying to tell us about were the following. First, looking after our kaimoana or in other words keeping fish for the future. Second, saving our seabirds which was about making sure our seabirds are safe and not endangered. And last but not least the third lesson was about water safety and always wearing a life jacket no matter what. The lessons that Mr and Mrs Minstrel told us were good and you people that are reading this should listen to what Mr and Mrs Minstrel said about our fish, seabirds and our lives. So now that you’ve read this nonfiction story you can put it into practice, good luck!

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