Lino cutting

In The Festival Of Arts I have been doing lino cutting its been really fun I have been tort so much and its been fun

Readers theatre

What I am learning : I am learning to build my confidence to read in front of people.

How am I going towards achieving this learning: By involving my self in the main play.

What do I need to do to be a strong performer in reading theatre: I need to focus and not move round.

Writing Goal

My goal in writing is to get to 4P or 5B.

I have chosen this because so I can be at the standard or above the standard.

To achieve this goal next time I will need to work on punctuation.

Festival of the arts kete

In the festival of the arts i have been doing lino carving its been good and her is some pictures of what i have been doing.

Maori World Timeline

What am I learning about: I have been learning how the earth was created in the maori world. 

How this work shows my learning: This shows my learning because I have made a timeline of how the earth was created.

thinglink time line about the barracks Quail Island

Im the Leper story

In 1906 I, WIll Vallane admitted to Christchurch hospital that i was diagnosed with a disease called Leprosy, it was a disease that would affect your skin and nerves of the cooler region of the body- particularly the nose, throat, voice-box, fingers, and toes. It had even affected my eyesight and so it had been failing so sight was more of a blur to me.I was so contagious even people from a range of 2 meters from me could become infected. They immediately isolated me and moved me to quail island so I could no longer harm or affect anyone else.

I had been put in a large hospital and had difficulty trying to get comfortable in such a large open space just for myself. In 1907 the department of health constructed me a hut so I could be able to live the rest of my years being at least in a comfortable surrounding. Let's not forget, leprosy is incurable so until the government had something better to do with me i would stay isolated on this island.

The doctor would visit me once a month and relatives would visit me occasionally or every now and then. I had a caretaker on the island, Mr. Thomas. He would come to my house to feed me since i was not capable of doing it myself due to my eyesight. Although he was not allowed near me he would put my food down in a spot and back away so I could walk myself over to go get it, i wasn't able to do much but he would turn music on the gramophone for me. It would keep me settled during the day. He would as well hand me books to well, read, more like look at, i would ask for illustrated books because i love seeing the blurs of color on the page.

I got weaker by the day, and i knew myself i was slowly dying, and i was going to die alone. I had a gate around my cabin so no one could come in too close to me, and i couldn’t get out. I wish i could be able to walk around the island for the rest of my days and enjoy the water and sunny view. I wish i could’ve done a lot more than knowing that my life will end with nothing exciting to celebrate my life.

Mother Nature Crisis

Nature is our guardian.
Nature affects us and we affect nature.

We all need water, we all need flowers, its the same with ice, rain forests, and soil.

Nature doesn't need us, we need nature, the oceans have covered the earth once, they Can cover it again. Ice is what kept our earth cool, but once our planet is overheated, there's nothing we can do. Trees make us breathe, but once all the trees are gone, we are not smart enough to make our own oxygen. Flowers look innocent, so we pick them off, but without them, we don't have food, do we? The soil is treated like nothing, once our soil is gone, it will stop many sources on our earth.
If we don't take care of nature, nature wont take care of us.

What is kaitiakitanga/sustainability/Rahui Tapu

Kaitiakitanga- Guardianship and protection of the Island so possums and rabbits stop killing the plants on Quail Island. All the pests that are not on Quail Island should never be there because they just eat away the plants

Sustainability-For fishing you need a licence so if you catch to big or to many you could lose your licence

Rahui tapu- if someone died on a beach they do rahui tapu to let the spirit leave the beach it a traditional place when the person has died.