Michael Jackson

About Micheal Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Entitled to being the "King of Pop", he is well known worldwide as an inspiration to many as being a cultural singer and person he also had a very open personal life, But there were some stories that not many people knew like his father Joe Jackson was a very strict father He didn't allow any of the kids to have many friends and he often whipped the children if they didn’t listen. He wanted them to stay out of trouble and live a successful life and lucky for Michael and Many of his siblings  grew up to be very successful. Michael is also known for his hard work, music, dance, and fashion, along with his appearance in the Jackson 5.I personally don’t have a favourite Michael Jackson song as I personally don’t really like him as a singer.What do you think made Michael so popular in the 90's?Lots of people ask how did Michael Jackson die but I think the real question is why did he die?Why do you think Michael changed his skin from dark to light?

• He had two pet llamas on his ranch called Lola and Louis

• The album Thriller was number one on the Billboard Chart for 37 weeks.

• He was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana

• He was the best selling artist in the United States for 2009, the year of his death

• He was best known for his album thriller that was released in 1982 

• He died on the 25th of June 2009 

• He has three kids 2 boys and a girl there names are Michael (named after him), Paris and Prince 

• Jackson's father forced him to play music

Kuta and Kiekie

Yesterday in our class (Nga here Kahikatea) we were lucky enough to be able to spend a whole day at Lake Ianthe.To get there it took us about an hour and a half by car.

 The first thing we did was say a karakia just to thank the atua for giving us life!Once saying the karakia the boys got right into the water and started grabbing the Kuta but they made sure to grab it from the bottom/roots so that they didn’t snap. They tried to get the longer one’s as Matua Joe told them that the longer they are the better!

Once grabbed what we needed we started to collect Kiekie, to get the kiekie one of us had to go into the bush but not to far, once Morgan got far enough in to get the good pieces by good pieces I mean he started to get the ones that were high up as they got more sunlight then the ones that were closer to the ground!Morgan also tired to get the darker ones as they are better for weaving.After getting the kiekie we started to strip of the pieces we didn’t need, so by that I mean the part that we needed from the leaves  where the white bits we had to strip everything other than the white bits.

We are going to dry out all the plant life that we collected yesterday to do some weaving and learn the background about Kuta and Kiekie so we can have more knowledge about the plants and papatuanuku!

 

Chicken run

 Today in Maths i worked with Autumn on a area and perimeter task.First we had to get a string that is 12 meters long and we had to find different ways to help Henry (The person who the task was designed for) as he was making a chicken run.The task was to find a way to get the biggest use out of the 12 meters me and Autumn found three different ways we could use all the sting to help Henry but the biggest area we got was nine we did 3 by 3 by 3 by 3, after ding this Mrs Syeb got me and Autumn to make a drawing for  the shapes to show our working!