Waitangi Day

Today we did a 45 minute inquiry about he treaty of Waitangi, this is what I learnt.

The reason why these people are holding the banner is because the crown stole the peoples land and the crown had to give it back. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on the 6th of February 1840. The treaty was signed by 240 chiefs and 13 of them were woman. Te Tiriti o Waitangi was commemorated in the year of 1934 and wasn't celebrated until the year of 1974. The treaty was witnessed by Mike Busby, Henry Williams, Richard Taylor, John Mason, Samuel Ironside and James Stuart Freeman. In total there was nine copies of the treaty and signed by multiple tribes. In schools this is an important to teach to kids so that they know their history.

My Story

This is my story that I wrote in class.

I am Lady Jane Grey

All life on this Earth starts out all the same, with the signal of a new baby born. I gave this signal in the year of 1537. My name is Jane and here is my story.

I will start from the year of 1547. The date is 31st of January and the King is dead. Wait, my cousin Edward would be proclaimed king. That is weird. It’s quite funny how young children can become King or Queen. My parents want me to marry Edward. You would have thought that it would be my choice, but no I have no choice.Edward is the rightful heir of the king. When my cousin becomes king he will be called King Edward VI. Imagine if I did marry him. I would become royal! On the 20th of February 1547 Edward is crowned king.

Two years has past since Edward’s crowning and new has got around that Thomas Seymour has been executed. I didn’t even know that he had been tried or imprisoned. The name most people knew him by was Lord Sudley. It is now the 10th of June and a new book is coming out in churches. It’s a Catholic book of course. I can’t wait. It is Thomas Cranmer's book so it should be good. The new book hopefully is better than the old one. My parents take my sisters and I to church. During this year so far there has been riots breaking out all over England! No ones knows who's causing it. It is now the 14th of October and they have finally found the person causing the riots. I can’t believe Edward Seymour would do such a thing.

My father Henry Grey has a new title. So does two other men. My father became the Duke of Suffolk, John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Lord President became the Duke of Northumberland. It’s cool that my father became the Duke because now we get to move to Suffolk place. Somerset has been accused of plotting a murder and he is to be executed.

I can’t believe it. I am forced to marry Guilford Dudley, the youngest son of the Duke  of Northumberland. I don’t even get a say in who I marry! That is unfair. This is such a sad day. Edward has died at the age of 16. He got really sick and could not get better. I am glad I am not Queen. I just found out today that I am going to be Queen! Apparently Edward disinherited his sister and named me his successor. I am trying to capture mary but have failed and now am going to be put into prison.Why did I try?

I can’t believe it my father in law has been executed! I feel so sorry for Guilford, I wonder why he was executed. Mary is now queen and is restoring the catholicism in England. I didn’t even know that she had to! Now mine and my husbands fate has been sealed. We were tried for treason and now we are condemned to death. All I did was try to capture Mary and this is what I get out of it? Oh well at least I am here with my husband Guildford.

I kinda knew my life would end like this anyway.

Thomas Wyatt does not like Mary. Here is the reason, he started a rebellion to throw Mary off of the throne but failed and now is stuck in prison like me. Guess who else is in prison, my father! Apparently he took part in the rebellion. My time has nearly come. My death like all the others, decapitation. My father’s life will end the same.

Homework Term 3 week 1-2

For our homework this fortnight we had to do 5 things fro our family to help with out being asked. I did multiple things but cannot for the life of me remember the first two. For my challenge I did the washing twice and stacked and unstacked the dishwasher. For the washing I helped folding it and folded a different load. Then I put the the clothes away.

Sleeping in a box

When the 40 hour famine came around I slept in a box. At first I wasn't nervous but by the end of it I was tired and I never want to do it again.  The box was small and uncomfortable. At the start I was using a blanket as a pillow but it started to give me a headache so I found a pillow and used it. The second night was better than the first one and I actually got some sleep. It was the worst experience that I have ever had and I never want to do it again.

The death run!

On June the 25th Tauranga Intermediate did the cross country. The run is 3 km long! At first I was last then I started to pass people. I came 27th out of about 250 kids. I thought that I was going to come about 100th. At the start of the race I was getting nervous but by the end I was tired and hating the run even more. The starter was Mr Scholes. 

Parents nights of #3

On Sunday the 16th of June I made my mum and step-dad dinner. First I made the muffins so that they cooked then the potato bake and the schnitzel and last the prawn cocktail. I started the dinner at 4 pm and finished at 6 pm. Here is the link to the menu. Here is also a link to the pictures of the food.
My favourite part of the meal was the dessert. Here are the ratings out of 10.

Ratings out of 10

Entree

Mums:
Nathan:

Main

Mums:
Nathan:

Dessert:

Mum:
Nathan:

My amazing artwork

For one of my homework challenges I made a piece of artwork out of recycled materials. The materials I used were wood, paper, 2 colours of spray paint and balsa wood triangles. This piece of artwork took me a couple of days and it was annoying glueing on the paper.