What type of government New Zealand has (I finished first)

There are three elements of the New Zealand system of government. The first one is the Legislature also known as Parliament. This is our house of representatives where all the MP's sit. The next element is the executive branch also known as the government. It runs the country. They also make decisions on what and how New Zealand spends their money. The final element is the judiciary, The courts. They are judges and courts. They interpret the law and make changes to it. These elements are very important to New Zealand because they all have a big impact to New Zealand and its future generation. For instance, Parliament makes all the laws, update old ones and give a voice to the people without and approve the government taxes and spending. The government is also very important to New Zealand because it basically runs the country. They make decisions on what New Zealand should spend their money on. They suggest new laws to Parliament, and decides on policies which get put into practice by government departments. Lastly, the judiciary is also very important because they explain the law in cases the come before the court by hearing and deciding cases. They sometimes review decisions made by the government. Overall, the three elements of the New Zealand Government is very important, they impact our everyday lives.

In New Zealand we have 7 political partys - National, Green, Labour, New Zealand 1st, Maori and ACT. At the moment our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is leader of the Labour Party.

What is Matariki?

Here is a piktochart that I made about Matariki. 

Stories about Matariki, The Seven Stars of Matariki by Toni Rolleston-Cummins

• What type of story is this?
• Who was it written for? {the audience}
• What is the main idea?
• What did you like about the story?
• Choose one story and explain how you would perform it on stage
• What would it look like on stage?

This story is a narrative, a made up story, its a story that is supposed to give children a

small understanding of what Matariki is. This story was written for children but has appealed to many adults.

Social Studies; Different forms of government; Monarchies

In Social studies we're learning about form of goverments and at the moment we're looking at royal families and dictatorship. We had to make a mindmap with 10 facts about The Royal family and   monarchs in general. 

We actually did it! Reflection of the Revolting children musical piece..

Revolting Children
What have I learnt?
This term in Drama, we have been learning a lot about musicals. I have learnt many new things about musicals. After being in the Lion King, I had a massive interest about musicals and I have since grown a passion about them as well. I have learnt that it takes more than just an actor and a song to make up a musical. There are many elements of musicals, not just the songs and the dancing. In some cases, many actors in musicals have years of ballet experience, some actors have had classes in facial expressions. The costume and set designers have many years of fashion and architecture experience.

What did I find challenging?
The thing that I found the most hard was getting my head around the choreography, I am not very good at dancing so I was a bit nervous about that part. But I managed to learn it and remember it for most of the performance.

What would I do differently if I did it again?
I would probably practice more of the choreography, I did okay but I think that I could learn it a bit more. I didn't practice enough for my liking. I did enjoy dancing though.

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed the chance to be a complete idiot! The whole song was about how we children are revolting. I enjoyed using my facial expressions in the musical performance. I love it when people use all their energy in their performance.

What am I wondering?
I am wondering how long it took for the actually Matilda cast to learn their dance and lyrics. There are many complicated dances and lyrics in the performance.

What was it like performing on the day?
I really enjoyed performing revolting children. I knew most of the moves. But there is a part where I forgot and just played the character as the really energetic one. I felt a bit sad that I wasn't one of the main people in this particular performance but I understand why I wasn't. But I tried my best to be the most energetic person on that stage. 

The time warp

What did I find challenging?
I found that it was hard to work with people that don't want to do anything. Most of the people in my class didn't look like they wanted to be there. I wasn't nervous at all, but that is because I feel the most comfortable on the stage.

What would I do differently if I did it again?
I would work with the class more on the dance moves and the expressions because no one except Jess and I looked like they wanted to be there.

What did I enjoy?
If i'm being honest, I enjoyed being recognised by other students the most. It's quite nice being known as the kid that knows the dance moves and as the kid that is energetic and fun.

What am I wondering?
I am wondering what our class piece would look like if we perfected it. I also am wondering low long it took others to learn the words as I already knew them.

What was it like performing on the day?
For me personally, I really enjoyed performing. I was centre stage and I love that. I love being on the stage, and putting myself out there. It was a bit sad that some of my class didn't show any enthusiasm at all, but at least Jess and I were there to show a lot of energy. If you can't tell, I'm the one in the front dancing.

The video of our performance isn't working on my chromebook at the moment. But as soon as it works, I will add to this post so stay tuned!

Chromatography is so fun woooo

In science, we have been learning about chromatography. If you didn't know, chromatography is separating colour pigments. For this experiment, we used permanent markers AKA vivids, on chromatography paper. We placed the paper with the colour in acetone. We used colours that we think are made of multiple colours.  I knew that green was made up of two colours, blue and yellow. As you can see in this photo, the green had started out with a bright green dot and then it faded into a nice teal colour. Then into a slight yellow tint that you can't exactly see on this photo. I think that this version of the experiment was successful. 

In another variation of the experiment, instead of using vivids in acetone, we used felt markers in mentholated spirits. As you can see, the colour is not as bright as the other experiment we did. The vivids were a bit darker than the felts. As you can see with the purple in this experiment, since it is made up of blue and red, the pigment fades into a slight hint of blue, this is because of the colours are separating. If we left the paper in the mentholated spirits, I think that the blue would continue then fade into another colour which would be red.  I like the other variation of the experiment, with the vivids.

Here are all of our results....

WAR IS POINTLESS, WHO WOULD"VE THOUGHT?

Today we have been planning our latest project for drama. Our performance is based off ANZAC day. We have been practising multiple skills like movement and silence by playing various drama games like sneak up on granny, freeze and focus and tequila. All of those games use different skills that you need for drama. We have started a slide that we have included all of our ideas and prop ideas. I am working with Molly and Jessica. Here is the link to our google slide. Link. This photo says "LEST WE FORGET" this is to commemorate all of the soldiers that fought in World War one. Personally, I think that war is pointless and nothing is going to come out of fighting and brutality.