My Mum...

My Mum

This is my Mum and she works at Sisters of Mercy. She is a cool mum because she takes care of me and my mum is the best. My mum's name is Malayna she was in the News paper on Friday the 18 of June. The title was MUM GIVES BACK TO SISTERS OF MERCY...

which is TE WAIPUNA PUAWAI...

She's been on the news paper twice. She is cool because she takes me to KAPA HAKA at Tamaki College. My mum also takes me out to watch performances for Tamaki College which a awesome.

My mum is amazing and I'm happy to have her.

The Auckland Volcanic Field...

The Auckland Volcanic Field appeared 200-000-250-000 years ago. Onepoto Domain and pupuke are one of the first sites to erupt in the Auckland volcanic field. The volcanoes that are in the Auckland volcanic field have no magma chamber. The Auckland volcanic field is made up of 48 small basalt volcanoes.

The Auckland volcanic field has about 50 volcanoes, with an area of 360 square kilometres.

Some take the familiar shape of hills with large craters at the top, like Rangitoto and One Tree Hill.New Zealand sits where two slowly moving plates of the earth’s surface meet. Where one plate slips over the other, cracks can form and molten rock, or magma, from about 100 km below rises to the surface.

Every now and then, a bubble of magma pinches off from the "hot spot" and rises up through solid rock, like a bubble leaving the bottom of a pan of hot water.

Larger bubbles may go on to send liquid rock to the surface for years, building up rocky scoria cones like One Tree Hill.It is thought that Auckland’s volcanoes first began to appear between 60 000 and 140 000 years ago, starting with the eruptions of Albert Park and the Domain. The largest and most recent eruption was Rangitoto, about 600 years ago, which would have been witnessed by local Maori.

Even though the larger volcanoes like One Tree Hill and Rangitoto may have been created by successive eruptions over a period of centuries, it is unlikely that any of Auckland’s existing volcanoes will become active again

Mt Wellington..

Mt Wellington

Mt Wellington is the largest scoria cone in Auckland. It's also the second youngest because it had erupted before Rangitoto. Mt Wellington had erupted 9000 years ago. Mt Wellington has a Maori name which is Mangarei mountain of Reipae and English name Mt Wellington.

Mt Wellington has 3 vents in the crater. Mangarei is 135meters high. It was inhabited by Maori.

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Rangitoto...

Rangitoto is one of the youngest volcanoes because it had erupted last out of all the Auckland volcanoes. It erupted 600 years ago. Its the youngest but largest, Rangitoto had emerged from sea some believe that there had been a village of people on that Island before it became a volcano.

Rangitoto was named after a women who's name was Te Rangi totongia which was a beautiful name that's how they came up with Rangitoto. It had erupted 600 years ago which makes it the youngest volcano of all Auckland volcanoes.

People a sure that it had erupted twice. Rangitoto had been witnessed by Man when it had erupted. Scientist say it might be extinct and might not erupt again. Rangitoto had been a violent volcano when it erupted and the lava had spread though the sea.

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Matariki...

Matariki is coming soon and this week on Thursday we are going to celebrate it at our school. We are having it because its known that a lot of tribes had celebrated Matariki. Matariki is the Maori name for a small cluster of stars also known as the seven sisters.

Various Maori tribes celebrated Matariki at different times. Others celebrated after the full moon rose or at the beginning of the next new moon. The Maori New year is marked by the rise of Matariki and the sighting of the next new moon that's coming.

Ka puta Matariki ka rere Whanui.

Ko te tohu tena o te tau e!

Matariki re-appears, Whānui starts its flight. Being the sign of the new year!

I can't wait till Thursday for Matariki we are going to have a great time with our class.

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Auckland volcano...

Here's a quick movie of Rangitoto erupting.

Out of all the Auckland volcanoes Rangitoto is the youngest but largest. Rangitoto emerged from the sea. Its crater is 60 meters deep. It's also a scoria cone and it erupted around about 600 to 800 years ago.

Rangitoto was the only Auckland eruption to be witnessed by man, and was the most violent eruption. Scientist believe it erupted more then once.

Today it has become a popular terrace.

Kapa Haka at the Auckland Museum...

Kapa Haka

On Sunday our KAPA HAKA group performed at the Auckland museum. We were all excited and some of us were scared as well. When we were dressed in our KAPA HAKA uniforms we got ready and put our bags in Miss Tele'a's room soon we went in the staff room and had a chat. Soon went in to the hall way and practised for a while then thought of going outside instead. Finally we saw the bus and jumped in with our awesome uniforms. Some girls were scared but decided to shake the nerves away.

Once we got there, the girls that were scared, got even more scared but it turn out fine just before we walked in to the Museum. Just then we went up stairs to a room where we could put on our piupiu so we could perform in them by showing people what piupiu's are for by swinging our hips more often and get the hang of it by not being ashamed of ourselves. Just then we all went outside the room and waited for the elevator to come down so we could go and perform.

After it came down only a few people hopped on the elevator then we went up to the top of the building- finally we walked out of the elevator that's when we saw that the whole room was surrounded with glass windows. Then the rest of our group came up out of the elevator so we lined up and had a quiet practise.

We then walked down the middle of everyone and got up on the stage - that's when we got in our lines and put our hands on our hips. Heaps of people were taking photos, it was like we were famous. Just then we started and Feki had lead the song by going Karanga mai ra toruwha. Mrs Tele'a was videoing and most of us were going really hard to earn our place in kapahaka.

After that performance we did another action song which was Taku Reo Rangatira that is my favourite one. Mrs Tele'a got a close up on my face doing a Pukana. Our girls had done awesome Pukana, we all looked like true Maori.

After all of us doing our actions we went back to the elevator and went back to the room where we had put our piupiu on. We went in and took our piupiu off and tided up. Then we had some pizza and drinks. We all had a AMAZING time.
Later on we went back in to the room where we were preforming for group and sat on the ground to wait for it to finish. Soon we came back to school and went into the staff room and got everything of ours in Miss Tele'a's room before going home.

The next day we watched the news the cool thing was we were on it and here's a video of us doing some cool as Pukana.

Volcano Report

Information Report

What is a Volcano?

A volcano is a landforms that results from magma (molten rock within the earth) erupting at surface. It is a Mountain that has all of the Magma inside and spews out when the mantle raises though the crust of the earth.

What are Volcanoes?

Volcanoes a mountains. But unlike most mountains in the world, formed from folding continental plates.

How are They formed?

They are formed when the magma from within the earths upper mantle raise to the surface of the crater in the volcano and erupts with the magma turning into lava.

How does an eruption occur?

When two tectonic plates collide at a convergent boundary, the less buoyant plate is subducted. Flux melting occurs as the subduction plate is heated.

There a different types of volcanoes?

There a four different types of volcanoes. A volcano categorized both by formation and appearance.

KAPA HAKA On wednesday

On Wednesday our KAPA HAKA group, were practicing in the hall and decide that we should Preform outside by the staff room so we could be able to understand how it fells preforming at the Auckland Museum.

When we walked outside in our lines, the front row went first and we all lined up in our rows. Soon we stared a song which was Wairoa tapu. Soon there was a crowed of people watching us, we sort of tried not to laugh but we still got on with it and tried very hard to work for it.

Finally we had sang the action song which was Taku reo Rangatira, thats when a lot of people started to come around and watch us do our Pokana. I was not ashamed at all, I had enjoyed it and got on with it. Any way Ms T said if your shy, look at the Exit sign but we were outside so I looked at the tree.

Just then we got told to finish off the rest of lunch time.

I have preformed before and I know how it fells. I had preformed at my old school in front of adults and thousands of kids, It had been a awesome time and I had enjoyed.

My Portrait

This is my Portrait of ME.

Remembering my cousin Jacqui.

Excited about our RUGBY tournament.

Inspired to play for the sports academy for T.C.

Nothing is better then RUGBY.

As cute as a bulldog.

I had a picture drawn of a Koru that represents my culture and a Kiwi that is one of my favorite birds. I think my Portrait turned out better then I thought. It looks great but I need to work on a bit more detail on my portrait.

I think my Picture of MEE drawing the other side is really good and I'm sure that I need to put more shading in it. But this has turned out awesome.