Summer Learning Journey, Rugby Superstars

Hey guys, sorry it’s been a while, I’ve just been a bit busy lately but I am finally here. Today I have chosen to do the activity one day three rugby superstars. For this activity we had to choose three superpowers and name why we would want them. I think if I had three superpowers they would be… 

1. Elastic because you can like stretch body parts and you could stretch your arms and body to act like a glider. What will I do with this power? I would use it say to help people over streams or gaps if there is no bridges. If there was a falling plane of helicopter I could make myself really tall and grow my hands big and catch the falling object of people. 
2. My second super power would be teleportation because you could teleport from place to place like if you want to go on holiday you could just teleport to where you want to go. What will I do with this power? Like the first one if any one or object was falling I could teleport it to the ground so it doesn't crash and I could just move objects from one place to the other.
3.  For my third power it would be force fields and shields. What will I do with this power? I would use this if like someone attacked me I could use a  shield to block things like punches and gun shoots. 

This was a cool activity and I’ll talk to you all soon.

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Don't lose it, Reuse it.

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we made bags out of old shirts with Anouk. Anouk is very passionate about reusing old things that we would just throw away. Last year she made beeswax wraps with us. We were learning to reuse old everyday items. Here's a D.L.O of how we made our shirt… 

The photos I used were all from pixabay and under the pixabay licence. If you think I could add something could you tell me in the comments. If we were to do this again

Alright,

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Teasing you with Teaser Week.

This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing the first week of the teaser week for the summer learning journey. What is the summer learning journey and what is teaser week you may ask, well the summer learning journey is a program to help you keep you writing and reading level where they are. It helps you from going down the summer slide witch is when you learn something one year but you forget and have to relearn it. The teaser week is just to give you an idea of what the program is like  (sort of like a practice). This year the summer learning journey theme is change makers, today one was artist and entertainers. 

There are three activities a day so I started with the first one which was about Lorde.(She's a singer). For this activity we had to research as much as we could and then make a profile for her. I think we were learning to research about a person/ object and find facts about it.  Here is what I created for lorde.

The second activity was about your roots/ like who you are and what you love. We had to create a pepeha about ourselves. This one was a bit more easy because we have already created our pepeha but here it is. 

I think we were learning to find out who we really were. I didn't get to doing task three but I just can’t wait until the program starts for real. When the program finishes and if you are one of the top bloggers you win a prize, so I really want to get that spot prize! 

Talk to you soon,

Bye. 

Having fun at the beach for bio blitz.

In Te Ngahere 20 lucky students were chosen to go to Waiora bay and talk to some scientist from Auckland museum. The Scientist where surveying the area to see what wildlife has changed from 250 years ago, the last people to survey this area was Daniel Sullivan and Joseph Banks. We were learning about the Birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, seaweeds and sea wildlife. I learnt a lot of things like when we were searching for insects I found a certain type of bee, it was called a masked bee. Also when Mikaire and Jahrell found a fish that they named Murray, I found out it was actually called a Olive rock fish. I really liked searching for creatures and seaweeds in the rock pools. I found a lot of cushion stars (starfish) a huge purple crab and a really cool shell. Have you ever been to a bio blitz before?

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I found this crab

Tempting Tangrams

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about geometry. There were four activities and we were split into groups,  my first activity was called tempting tangrams. We had to find the area of each of the shapes by comparing  them with a triangle that resembles 1 and to rearrange the shapes to make bigger shape. I really liked this activity and it felt good when I made the right shape. If I had to do something different the next time we did this I would help my team mate  some more because I sort of went off and started doing some myself. Here is a slide show of the shapes I made… 

If there’s anything you think I could add I would love to hear in the comments. 

See you later,

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Why Different Foods are Good for Us.

In Te Ngahere Whaea Gina came to our class to have a recap of what we've been learning
about during the last couple of weeks. We have been learning about all the different food groups
and why they are good for us. There were four groups; protein, dairy, grains and vegetables.
With this new learning I am going to try and have at least two of these food groups in my lunch
and for every day snacks.  I explain why they are good for us in my D.L.O. hope you enjoy. 

If there anything I need fix or what I could add to my D.L.O, I would love to know in the comments. 

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Super Cool Athletics day

Last Friday at Paihia School we had our inter school athletics day. We were learning to develop more complex movement sequences and strategies in a range of situations. My favourite activities is relays and 200 meter sprint. The only downside to it was I had a sore bruise on my leg and It was harder for me to run. I really enjoyed going to Bledisloe Domain for athletics and next time I will try and remember a water bottle.(I did drink some water though). I couldn't find any photos of our athletics day but it was still fun! Have you done athletics before?

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Super cool Tessellations

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about tessellation. Tessellation is an art using only one shape multiple times. I was learning to tessellate a plane with a random irregular quadrilateral and to explain how I did that. The shapes do not overlap or there are no gaps between the shapes. We made some shapes and created our own tessellation, We printed them and coloured than in. Then we made some digital copies with a irregular quadrilateral shape. I really like making the shape and colouring it in. Here Is a D.L.O of how we made out tessellations, hope you enjoy…

If there were any mistakes in the D.LO could you tell me in the comments. 

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Guess The Time

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about having reasonable answers. To test this we were given a sheet with multiple clocks on it. The clocks had no minute hand so we had to come up with a reasonable answer.  We found out a way to work out the problems, we knew when the hour had was pointing at 12 it was 12 0’clock. When the hour had was pointing in between two numbers for example: Five and Six. We knew that if it was in between the numbers it must be half past, so we used the numbers and found out it must be half past five. If I had to do something different if we did this again I think maybe we could switch roles and see how that works because some people in the group they didn’t have a lot to do. My role was the recorder/reporter so I had to write down how we worked something out.

Duffy Theatre

Last Friday at Paihia School we had a Duffy show call Duffy theatre. We haven’t had this show before, we only had small shows were they talk about books. This show was like a play and it was really funny. The plot of the show was a girl wouldn't get off her games and her friend wanted to play but he go suck in the game and they had to work together to get out the game. I think he moral of the story is when you work together you can do anything. I really like the plot and the music playing at the right time. I wonder how long they practices for?

Talk to you soon.

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Awesome Movie

In Te Ngahere and Te Maunga we have been making movies. What I learnt was to collaborate with my group and share everyone's ideas and agree with an idea. We had to write scripts that tells us what's happening and who is talking. It had to be clear so if another group reads it they would understand. My group was going to do a movie about a bear hunt but ours was a bit too hard to act in our movie so we did an animation instead.  I think our movie came out great and I hope we can show it on movie night. I really enjoyed creating the movie and adding all the traps that go wrong. What I could do differently next time is try and see if I could do a bit more to our movie. 

I hope you enjoy my groups movie.

Stay Fit With P.E

At Paihia School Te Maunga and Te Ngahere  have been doing athletics. We were doing this because athletics day is coming up this term. We were learning to develop more complex movement sequences and strategies in a range of situations and demonstrate consistency and control of movement in a range of situations. There were five groups and five activities High jump, long jump, sprints, shot put and discus. My favourite activity was the sprints and relays because I really enjoy running. The hardest one for me was probably shot put and getting the throw right. 

I can’t wait for athletics day.

See you later.

Rugby World Cup

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the rugby world cup. We were learning about all the teams that were playing in the world cup. We had to find all the teams names, their country and their emblem(an emblem is like their logo). A few days later we got a new challenge from the teacher. We had 14 questions we had to answer about the Japanese rugby team, the questions the teacher used were from Kieran Read ( captain  of the all blacks). I really enjoyed answering and finding out facts about rugby because I don’t watch rugby matches so it was interesting for me. Do you like playing or watching rugby? Here’s a Link to the questions.

Tell me how you go. 

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What I learnt from Water Safety

In Te Ngahere Whaea Tracey, our swim safe teacher, came back to our school and talked to us about water safety. We were learning about how to get out of a rip and different ways to call for help if you are lost or need saving in the sea. Whaea Tracey showed us a few things that could help you if you’re lost in the ocean.

 She showed us about 4 different types of flares. One of them was called parachute flare and you open the cap and it will fly into the sky and a parachute will open so it stays up in the air for longer. It takes about 60 minutes to float back down to the sea. There was another flare called the orange cloud but the problem with this one is that it’s only visible at day because it's hard to see at night. When you open the cap you hold it up and an orange cloud will hover over you. There's was one that you also hold in your hand and it will set a flare inside it so you need to hold it but there are two problems with this flare. It will get very hot in you hand and it is NOT waterproof. 

  There were also emergency beacons that will send a message to the lifeguard saying where you are. One of them was a large one, that you put on the boat and one was a smaller one which was attached to your life jacket. She also talked about the five things to remember when you’re going on a boat: 

1. Tell someone where you're going, when you will be back, how many of you are going
2. Check the weather forecast and conditions at sea to make sure its fine.
3. Wear a lifejacket, not just have it near you. 
4. Put your safety first 
5. Have a device/radio that's waterproof

With this new knowledge I will make sure when I’m on a boat to make sure the person I’m with knows hot to use a flare and what the lifeguard number is on the radio.(I learnt it was 16)

I hope you learnt something and remember, stay safe.

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Super Cool Steam Challenge

In Te Ngahere for the first day back at school we did a STEAM Challenge. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. We were learning to create a freestanding object with limited materials. This STEAM challenge was ‘Who can build the tallest newspaper tower?’ We only had two pieces of newspaper, 30 centimetres of tape and we could not use scissors to cut the paper and tape. What I found hard was ripping the paper and trying not to rip it the wrong way. . Also we had to use small pieces of tape because we only had a little bit.  What I think worked well was creating a tower with a wide base for stability. What I think I did well was was talking with my group and helping them if they needed it. What I could maybe do differently next time is think of a different design, maybe a skinny design with a wide bottom. When we measured our towers my group’s tower was 1 meter and nine centimetres. The winning group was Emma and Zhynaliyah‘s with a height of  one meter and eighteen centimetres. I can’t wait for the next STEAM challenge. Have you ever done a STEAM challenge before? 

Talk to you soon.

Bye.

How To Create a Quality Blog Post

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about what makes a quality blog post.  There were 6 things that go into making a quality blog post. You need a catchy title to draw the reader in to read your post. A intro that talks about what the post is about, the D.L.O to show what you have been learning. You will also need a reflection talking about what you did well or what you could do different next time. You need a source and that's where you found the photos if you used any and the last one is ending with a question, asking what you could do better or asking for the readers opinion. With this new knowledge I will try and add all of these into my future posts. If you want you can use these steps in your posts and blow the teacher away. 

See you all later.

Bye.

Dentist

In Te Ngahere our dentist came in and she talked about dental hygiene. She comes in every year to check our teeth and tells us what we need to do to our teeth and the best thing of all is that it’s free! We were learning about what we can do to protect our teeth. I learnt that spit actually protects our teeth but there are also other people that don’t have a proper spit making thing in their mouths so they have lost the natural protection. I also learnt about some stuff called plaque and the longer it’s on your teeth it can turn as hard as stone so brush well and long. We made D.L.Os to show what we learnt and what we can do for our teeth.

Beach Clean Up

Hello, Last week in Te Ngahere we walked down to the beach and cleaned it. I think it is good that we clean our beaches because the wind would push the rubbish in the water if we didn’t put it in the bin. Also it’s good because the fish won’t eat it or sea life. We were in groups and it was a challenge who could get the most rubbish but at the same time I was thinking, isn’t it good to have only a little in you bag cause that shows how clean our beaches are.  So we all cleaned the beach one side to the other, in the sand and wedged between rocks and at the end we took a photo and we all said”Keep New Zealand Beautiful”. The most common pieces of rubbish was probably cigaret butts and bottle caps.  I think if we put the rubbish into bags there will be about 3 full bags and a half, not to bad. I hope people will start helping and putting their rubbish in the bin properly.

Duffy Books

Yesterday at Paihia School we had a Duffy Assembly. Paihia School is a duffy school and that means Duffy sends lists of books and we can choose some we want, but the assembly is when someone comes in  and talks about reading and stories of them as a child and why they liked reading. This time it was Rebecca Brothers and she was talking a bit about her life. Rebecca was a retired Olympic swimmer and after that she became a police officer.   I learnt that Rebecca brothers used to get up at 4.45 am in the morning and in the water at 5.00am before school even started, WOW. After a while back at class we were given our books and read them for a bit. I was lucky and I got the books that I really wanted which are Tom Gates and Diary of a Minecraft Enderman.  I really enjoyed getting my books and I can’t wait to read them all at home. 

See you later.

Bye.

Running at Waikare

At Paihia school the winners of cross country went to the next race in Waikare. The winners all left in the morning and we all did our best. The ages were kind of mixed around, I can’t remember how it went but it was something like 6 year olds then 12 year olds to 5 year olds, it was very confusing. At Waikare after a while it was hammering down with rain and tents were about to fly away but by the time It was my race the sun was out and it was nice blue sky. It was so cold and I was wrapped up in all my jumpers but as the sun came out it was fine. I don’t know what place I came in my race but I was near the middle of the back. I saw lots of my friends at Waikare and I even raced against  them, it was so much fun. I really enjoyed running with all my friends and was glad it was sunny for my race. There was a part in the race and it’s a huge hill and some people go down to fast and face plant into the ground or fall over. I walked slowly down the hill and I think that was the best technique. It was to rainy so We couldn't get any good photos.

Sugar Drinks

Today in Te Ngahere Gina from energise has returned and  this time we have been learning about sugar in drinks. I learnt that Coca Cola has 10 teaspoons of sugar and also learnt powerade has lots of salt and you should only have it after a marathon or lots of hours exercising.  There were other drinks like water, milk, flavored water, V, Powerade and lots of others. We had three sections for different things, The first section was for drinks to have a lot of, the second section was for drinks to have sometimes, the third section was for drinks you should have rarely. I really enjoyed her visit and she gave out prizes to the people who won the game in her last visit. From the visit I will make sure to have less sugar drinks and only have powerade after lots of hours of exercising. (I don’t usually have it any way). We made D.L.O.s to show what we learnt.

Cross Country.

On Friday at Paihia School we had our annual school Cross Country. We were all excited about it, we left after playtime so we did some learning before we left. When we arrived I had some food and  a slice of cake. It was a while until my race so I just played around and cheered the other kids on. The races were in age and gender so the 5 year old boys went first and then the five year old girls etc. When it was my race we all lined up at the starting line and 3, 2, 1 go! We all ran around the field and up the hill, on the field I was changing from second and third but I ended up staying at 3rd. It was really tiring going up the hill but when we turned down the hill it was great. I finished in 3rd place and I was so hot as soon as I finished I bought a ice block to cool me down. I really enjoyed running and since I got 3rd I am going to the next race and I can’t wait. 

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Class Room Objects In Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to say classroom items in Te Reo Maori. We practices saying them for a couple of days and we played bingo to help. We also created short animations to help us. We had to say “He aha tenei,” while holding an item in your hand, He aha tenei means what is this. Then the second person will point at the object and say “He _____ Tena”, He ____Tena means That is a______ something. We had to make 10 examples of different items and then screencastify it. What I could do better next time is practice replying and asking the question because I get mixed up with He aha Tena and He aha tenei. I really enjoyed making the animation because we all just found out how to get rid of the background and  that helped a lot. Here is a link to the website to take away the background, Link. Here is my animation, hope you like it. 

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Hoop Glider

In Te Ngahere we have been learning more about the scientific method by doing a new steam challenge. We had to create a hoop glider and then a modified hoop glider. We tested both of them to see what worked the best. If you know the scientific method you should know to start with a question. My groups question was, will wings make our hoop glider fly farther, We also created a method of how we would test our experiment. In the end when we tested both of our gliders we graphed the data and the glider that went the furthest was the modified glider. I really enjoyed making the rockets and testing them with my group. What I could do better next time is try adding bigger wings. 

Blog you later. 

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Healthy Eating

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we were learning about healthy and unhealthy eating with Gina from energize. We looked at what a healthy heart and a unhealthy heart looks like. Also we had to divide the healthy foods into one group and the unhealthy foods into another. After that we played a game, we were put into groups and we had to sort out the foods into healthy and unhealthy the fastest. I really enjoyed playing the game and learning about healthy and unhealthy foods. Did you know butter chicken was in the bad section because of it creamy base and has some sugar in it. 

Blog you later.

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Science Fair

Last week on Friday Te Ngahere  finished our science fair investigations and presented them to the school. (My group did our project on what is the best rat bait.) When we were standing at our board and the judges got closer I felt really nervous. When they did get to our board  we all talked about stuff like what worked the best and why we did this. When they finished they said it was very well done witch made me feel a lot less nervous. At the end of the day we had to go to assembly and there was a part in it to give awards to the winners of the science fair.  I was so excited to hear the winners, I didn’t get in the top three but I still felt great that I tried. On Monday the whole class also got a participation award. I can’t wait for the next science fair. 

Blog you later.

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Lamborghini Miura

Today in Te Ngahere we had to choose an article from a website and write a few sentences about it. I found an article about a  Lamborghini Miura found in a barn in the middle of the woods in Germany. It was quite interesting and I didn’t even know what  a Lamborghini Miura even was. I really enjoyed writing and reading about the article and I can’t wait to do another next week. Here Is my writing about it. 

In an old barn in the middle of the black forest in Germany an unbelievable item was found, In the old barn sat a Lamborghini Miura. It was first purchased in 1971. It was owned for 3 years by an  advertising executive before being sold to an amateur racing driver named Hans-Peter Weber. Weber kept the car until his death in 2015 and put a fair few miles on it in that time.

Science Investigation

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to carry out a scientific investigation using the scientific process. In my group our investigation was what bait best attracts rats because in the winter there is lots of rats finding places to stay, by places I mean our homes. What I found challenging was the time we had because we were racing time trying to get everything finished. I really enjoyed it when we finished our board in time for presenting. 

See you later.

Bye.

NED

On Thursday at Paihia School a lady named Nicole came to our school with her friend named Ned. We were learning about mindset and how to set our minds. Nicole was like a magician and she was incredible using a yo-yo. The show was about mindset and never giving up. Neds name stands for Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best! Ned was on a journey to find his own mindset so he went on a mission around the world. (Not literally). Some of his messages were let go of I know so you can learn and grow and you can’t do it YET. I really enjoyed the show and the yo-yo tricks were amazing. We created a DLO. Here is mine.

Author Visit

At Paihia School a author named Katarina came to talk to us. Katarina talked about some books that she has written. She also had a big fluffy octopus that liked the Beatles. She sang some songs and Mrs Pou went up on stage and did the octopus dance, some other kids joined in. We had lots of laughs and giggles. At the end Katarina took a group of kids that really liked writing and did a workshop about writing, I wasn’t there so I don’t know what exactly they did. I really enjoyed it when we all jumped up and did the octopus dance. What I could do better next time is find out more about her to ask some questions.

P.E Running

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about statistics. We have been practicing cross country and timing ourselves by running around the field. Every day we  ran around the school 2 times and then wrote down the times on a spreadsheet and turned it into a graph. We were writing these down to use it for our data. We had to find a good graph to use, we ended up using the line graph. When we have been using line graphs in the past and usually we want the line to go up but for our running we want the line to go down. My running times are going great I've been getting faster every time we run. What I could do better is try and just outrun the pain of a stitch to get through it and get to the finish faster. I really enjoy  running and racing and telling my parents I was even faster than before. These are my running times… 6m.16s, 5m.27c, 5m.17s, 5,.15s. 

See you later.

Bye.

Days

Paper Rockets

In Te Ngahere we have been doing more work around the scientific method. To do more work around it we created paper rockets. The process is the same as the scientific method. First we thought of a question about rockets. Jack and I chose, does it matter if a rocket has more that 4 fins. We made a normal rocket first so we could compare the rockets. We tested them and gathered the data and put the data into graphs. Then when we have tested the first rocket we had to make a new rocket about the question. We added more fins, The rocket had six fins and it went further than the first rocket. I can’t wait to do more of the scientific method. Blog you later!

Maths D.L.O

In Te Ngahere we have been learning some different strategies for adding decimals, we had to create a D.L.O to show what we learnt. D.L.O stands for Digital Learning object. Some of the strategies were Number line, whole numbers and Equal addition. I really enjoyed learning theses strategies with Mr Lindsay and him showing us other ways to add decimals together. What I could do better next time is add more examples of the strategies so the reader will not get confused with only one quick  example of the strategies. Here is my maths D.L.O. 

Infographic.

In Te Ngahere we were learning about the scientific method. We read a text about the scientific method and how it works. The method is 6 different steps. First you had to ask yourself a question or someone else, it’s good to have the question about a real life problem. After that you research your question and then make a hypothesis (a hypothesis is like a guess) of what you think will be the answer. Then you test the question by conducting an experiment, for example the question was what colour absorbs the most heat, you could get some cardboard boxes and paint them a different colour and put them in the same place under the sun and see what box is the hottest. After that you go over your research and then present.  After we read this text we made an infographic.  

 What I enjoyed was learning about the science method and creating the infographic. I can’t wait to do more of this science. Here is my infographic.

Toku Whanau

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about our family in maori. Family, in maori is whanau. We have created DLO’s to show our learning. We had to say the whole thing in maori which is not easy for some people but we managed. Then we had to screencastify it, (screencastify is like a feature  on our chromebook that records your screen and what we are saying). I learnt about family members that I did not know about  before. We had to learn sentences about our family in te reo for our D.L.O. What I could do better next time is find some better images that relate to my family.

Coding

In Te Ngahere we have been doing coding, Mr Lindsey was talking to us about different shapes and we had to make them on code.org. We were learning about geometry. I made a Hexagonal cube, it was not that hard. Mr Lindsey showed us a really easy way to make it. What I really enjoyed was finding out what angle to turn to create the Hexagonal cube. The angle I used was 60 and 100. What I could do better next time is see if I could find a different angle and see if that would work. If you want to do some coding as well just search up (Code.org)  Here is what I created.

Stella Visit

Last week a lady named Stella came to our school and talked to us about the pests of our native bush. She also talked about kiwis and how they are going extinct. Some of the different pests were cats. dogs, rats, stoats, ferrets, and more. I learnt that there was a bird that went extinct before I was even born and I had never heard about it, Its was called a Huia. What I really enjoyed was learning about different birds and why the possum came to New Zealand.  (Fun Fact: People brought them here for their fur, there fur was really soft and they used it for fashion designs.) What I could do better next time is I could ask if there were any other birds that went extinct. Read my next post to see what we created...