It was a blast looking through all of the old blog posts I made throughout 2023 which was my last year attending to ODS. (Owairaka District School.) I hope everyone at Owai has a great time there just like I did.
2023 was probably one of my favourite years, I hope you have a good time attending ODS and thank you ODS for giving me so much fun throughout the 6 years of attending there.
(Also if you didn’t know I’m the older brother to Daniel Renata and Angel Renata-Taratu.)
Kia Ora, this is my final blog post for the year and possibly forever. Thank you all for the comments and advice over the year. It’s been a fun time posting blogs and replying to comments, all the advice you all have given me has made me better at alot of things. Blog you later, Andrew.
Here is our film:
The only part I liked was the establishment shot and I didn’t really like the rest of the film, I wish I could make a better film in the future so I can experience what the winners experienced. I think i’ll stick to animations for now but I hope in the future I will be able to make really good films.
Blog you later, Andrew.
Fakaalofa atu, my name is Andrew and I’m from room 16 or the pod.
The six things that I would bring to survive are:
Binoculars, Clothes, Backpack filled with water bottles, A machete, A solar phone, and a solar powered car.
I would probably die in a few days but what things would you bring if you got stuck in this situation, there is no limit to how much you can bring and what you can bring.
Mutolu kia.
Kia ora bloggers, my name is Andrew and I am from the pod.
The animal I would choose to be is a butterfly because I would get the ability to fly and I would have 5 or more colour receptor cones. Another reason is that I would be able to explore the world much more easily. A big downside is that only 1 or 2 eggs grow up to be an adult.
What is your favourite animal and why…
Malo e lelei, today the whole of kauri made beeswax wraps.
We had a few visitors that helped us with the beeswax wraps, one of the visitors was called Sean and he came from the Auckland Council.
The other people were the ASG or the Aotearoa Sustainability Group, one of the members of ASG taught us how to make beeswax wraps.
If you want to make one you need beeswax, any two pieces of cloth, an iron and a caregiver/parent.
First you should turn on your iron just to get it ready and make sure you have an adult with you.
After that you have to evenly spread 36 beeswax blocks on top of the cloth.
Then you put the second layer of cloth on top of the 36 blocks.
The next step is to use the iron to burn the beeswax blocks and once you feel all the beeswax go flat then you have to hang it up and wait for it to dry and get cool.
Something that I learnt was that a single block of beeswax takes one whole life of a bee.
I really enjoyed making the wrap which was really fun, when the beeswax was melting it was satisfying feeling the beeswax get flatter and flatter.
Have you ever made a beeswax wrap before? and if so how consistently do you use it.
Today we are mixing three animals into one.
The three animals that I would mix are a humming bird, a leopard and a goat.
The special abilities that the animal would have is that it would be able to fly, run really fast and it would be able to ram people really far.
What is your favourite animal and what animal would you mix it with?
I’m Andrew from the pod.
This week we have been doing science which was all about fireworks and how they work.
I’ll be talking all about the first experiment we did which was making a lava lamp.
<– Lava Lamp Experiment
How we did this was that we put a tiny bit of water (liquid) on the bottom of a lot of oil (liquid) and we put 10 drops of food colouring inside the test tube. After this we put a fizzy tablet (solid) and when we put it in the bubbles went into the oil and it went slow when it hit the surface it stayed there for a bit while bubbling.
Thank you for reading this blog post, Have you ever done a science experiment like this? if so what was the science experiment. Blog you later
Kia Ora I am Andrew, today we are looking at a novel ponder.
If this happened I would tell my parents the lotto numbers and the date that Lotto will be on.
I would specifically choose the Lotto with the biggest money prize like one with 23 million dollars.
Blog you later.
Kia ora I’m Andrew from the Pod and a piece of advice i would give to a younger me is to wake up much earlier so im early for school and another is to not lend my charger to my siblings because it nearly broke one time but I was lucky because they noticed and fixed the problem. If you could go into the past, what time would you go to?