Bok Choy

The name of the story is Bok Choy and the author is Paul Mason. This story is about a chinaman who no one likes, but in the end people realize how kind he is.

Ah Sum delivers vegetables around for people to buy. The only person that buys from him is Mother. William and Jacob talk about Ah Sum behind his back and saying that they don’t like the “chinese cabbages”. When Jacob goes fishing in the river he slips. He is knocked out cold. When he wakes up he is in Ah Sum’s little cottage. After that Jacob is really nice to Ah Sum and he even tries some bok choy.

Mrs. Bishop is my character that I have chosen.

Her point of view hasn't changed over the story. She hasn't changed because she is just a mean woman who only cares for herself. She doesn’t like Ah Sum and she doesn't like chinamen either. She thinks they are weird people who don’t deserve to live. She said ‘well look what the cat dragged in.’ and mother said ‘he was rescued by the vegetable man, would you believe.’ and Mrs. Bishop said was he indeed? You'll be wanting to watch out, the chinaman will be after something.’. Mrs. Bishop also said that ‘he’d probably sell his own mother for a ha’penny, given the chance.’

The big message is that don’t be mean to other people that are a different culture and don’t think that they are much different from you. Be kind and carry on. I know this because in this story people are mean to Ah Sum because he is a different culture. Mother is the only one that is nice to him and in the end Jacob is too.

I like this story and I agree that you can’t be mean just because someone is a different culture. I think that Jacob did the right thing by liking him in the end. I think that people need to be nicer. Just because they are a different culture doesn’t mean you can be rude.

Math

 For math today we made a pictograph which is a graph with pictures.

Here is my graph:

Art

What I think about my art:

I like my art, it's not the best artwork I have ever made but I still like it. Out of 10 I would rate it a 7.

I could have done a bit more detail but I chose to keep it simple. My favorite part of my art is the way I

made the bandana. I made this before I became bald. I added some colour to the second picture.

What Tara thinks about my art:

Tara likes my artwork, she rates it a 9/10 which is much higher than what I rated it. Tara reckons that I

could add some shading in some areas if I made it a bit more detailed. Her favorite part is my hair

because it is a memory of when I had hair.

The water cycle

Why does it rain?

It has to rain so that the plants can grow and so we can have the water cycle.

The water cycle is very important because it recycles the water on our planet. Earth is limited for water and so if there was no rain, there would be no water cycle, and so there would be no recycled water left on earth.

The water cycle has 4 stages to it. The precipitation, the collection, the evaporation,and then condensation. The water cycle is when the clouds decide that the water in them is too heavy and it either rains, hails, sleet or snow. Then some of the water gathers together. After it collects together it evaporates into the sky and collects together again in a cloud. When the wind changes it moves the cloud of water, then it rains all over again.

Overall I think that rain is a very important part of the water cycle and a very important part of our lives. Rain will always be important to us. We need to teach people to save water because we can’t afford to waste water.

Happy new years in different countries

Math graphs

24th March 2021

For math today we learnt how to use google sheets to make graphs.

Here is my graph:

Art

 For art I decided to use google drawing because I am not the best drawer. I have used web cam to take my picture and then I will put it on google drawing.

Here is my picture that I took on web cam.

Shave for a cure

Hi My name is Charlotte J. I am a year 7 student at Rawhiti School. I have decided do this crazy thing for an amazing cause and shave off my hair to raise money for the Leukaemia and Blood Cancer Foundation. I know a family that is affected and I would like to help in some way. My aim is to raise $750 by the end of March. I plan on shaving my hair on the 30st March at school if I can reach my target. I would love your support.

I want to help find more effective treatments to save lives and make sure people with cancer get the support they need to get through.

Did you know that seven people will discover they have blood cancer today? That’s a scary statistic.

So, I need your help!

Please sponsor me for this great cause.

 

Link to my shave for a cure page

Garden to table

This is my first year of garden to table because when I was in Tane-Mahuta we couldn't go to garden to table. On my first session of garden to table all we did was weeding, but it was still really fun. In garden to table I think you get to learn some basic skills that everyone needs to learn. Learning to plant a seed and make it turn into a plant is an important skill to learn. One session we even made apple crumble and something with potatoes. We also have collected some flax seeds, some sort of lily seeds, and the helicopter seeds. We than planted some of the seeds. Overall I think that the garden to table group is really important. We should keep up the good work and plant more plants.

Anyone can join the garden to table group, even you!