Term 3 Week 1 Mashup!

Hi readers!
This is my first blog post of term 3. I feel that the holidays definitely were not long enough but oh well, we are back at school. So this is what we have done since school started.

The first thing I'm showing you is something we did on Wednesday. We were learning a bit about money and were given the task to go shopping for a family of four. One person is gluten-free, one is dairy-free, one is vegan, and one is normal. I did this task with Jhana and we managed to spend just under $170.

Here is the shopping list.

The second thing I am showing you is from literacy. For a while now we have been learning about different movie genre is film noir. We had to make a plot for a film noir movie. Here is mine!

Film Noir plot

The Dead detective

The plot for this story is that the detective is losing his job and the boss says that he needs to solve a case and he can keep his jobs, but if he can't he will be fired. The case he was given was a murder, a man was murdered in a restaurant and its the detective's job to solve it. The detective starts struggling with the case so he hires a private investigator to investigate each of the suspects each day. The investigator finds out the boos were the murder so he looks for more evidence and finds out the boss was giving him wrong leads and wanted him to lose him jobs because he was becoming a better detective then him.

The detective is poor, he grew with a wealthy family and they all died my a murder, they never found the murder and the detective said that he would be a better detective and help as many people as he could, but he had to be adopted. The family he was adopted to was not wealthy, in fact, quite poor. So when he left home he was left with a couple dollars, but he pursued his dream to become a detective, which is where he is now and trying to stay with his job.

He tells his colleagues about the boss and nobody believes. HE goes to reach for the evidence and it’s gone. He freezes and realizes about his loss. He is determined to keep going and run to the boss's office for evidence and sees the boss there. The boss heard the whole story and fired him, he had no chance of returning and went home. As he is walking out of the office he hears four gunshots, he runs back inside to see all but the boss dead, the detective gets shot. End of story.

What do think? Have watched a movie with the theme film noir? Who does the shopping in your house? Do you have any allergy that affects your diet?

Until next time!

Southern lights

Hi readers

We have officially finished our work on Matariki (for now at least) and so now we are learning a bit about the southern lights, also known as the auroral australis. The name aurora comes from the Roman goddess of dawn or the Latin word for sunrise.

The lights generally happen in the auroral zone, which is near the north and south pole. Aurora is caused by the atoms in the high altitude in within our atmosphere and energetically charged particles. Auroras are associated with solar winds that flow past earth. The winds flow from the sun and contain plasma particles that get pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields. As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

Now that you know what southern lights are I can tell you about what we were doing today!

We were making the lights using paint. It kinda hard to explain so here is a picture of what we're making!

The steps are pretty simple, that's why we got it done in a day

Here is my result

You notice the rather large stars in the sky and those are the Matariki stars! The teachers decided to put both the things we have been learning about into one single artwork so the artwork involves both the lights and the stars!

After looking at some videos of the southern lights I think it would a really cool thing to see and an amazing experience. Have you seen the southern or northern lights before? Have you seen the Matariki stars before?

Until next time!