SLJ Taster

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing some SLJ taster ( Summer Learning Journey).

We were doing some art and we had to get the information about what the art was and the name of the creation. The name of mine was Moon Massacre. 

Have you ever done SLJ taster before?

I can’t wait to have a go at the real Summer learning Journey.

Bye!!

Mind Blowing Breakout!

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere, last week we did some breakout activities. 

If you don’t know what Breakout is,  it’s when the teachers find these sites and we have to crack the code and we get an
online badge which I will show on this post.

You had to finish puzzles, test things that would give you hints and much more!

We had to finish the hints and if they don’t pop up red they are correct but if they do pop up red they are wrong.

My group consisted of Mark S, Dale, Darcy and myself.

I really enjoyed doing this because it made me think more and keep trying.

Have you ever done a breakout before?

Bye!!

2nd 100 Word Story

Kia ora Here we have still been dong 100 word writing. Here is my second 100 word story!

 Carlos had always been the best and strongest blacksmith in the village, he had always favoured doing his job.

He built his own cart to walk and grab all the metal for his creations, he built his own shack, oven even his own sledge hammer to mold metal into different shapes.

One night he forgot to lock the doors and some sneaky person snuck in and put out his fire and tried to steal his sledgehammer but his arms couldn’t handle the weight and screamed in pain “help help help” the hammer fell over and pinned him to the floor.

(We got out photo's from pobble!)

100 Word Stories

 

Kia ora this time the whole class have been doing 100 word stories here’s mine!

The red balloon gave hope, it filled her heart with happiness while she thought of her parents, trying to find her way home. The balloon slips out of her hand. She tries to grab it but she is somehow frozen in time; she tries to move but she can’t. She watches as her balloon floats with the wind. She looks away when it seems to be coming back to her. She reaches out to grab the balloon when she immediately wakes up and realises that she doesn’t know where her balloon had floated off to; it was just a dream.

Second one hundred word story!

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere I have finished my 2nd one hundred word story here it is!

“Dad why did we move here?”

“Because it was unsafe in town that's why!”

The family had moved to the forest because it was unsafe in town because thieves had stolen their treasures. They thought the forest was safer because thieves wouldn’t steal from them now, but they were wrong wolves growled at them, chased them, ate their food and broke their camp.

They built a fence around their camp so they could protect themselves from the wolves but that did nothing to the wolves. One night the wolves walked in and took the mother outside and no one knew.

 

Sharing My Knowledge On One Hundred Word Stories.

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere a bunch of expert bloggers have been doing 100 word stories for our blogging time.

And I was one of them, we got our pictures from pobble to create a story, my photo is one of some divers going to the bottom of the sea and find some concrete statues that looked like they were from Easter island.

I think I like doing this more than blogging because it is a challenge to get exactly one hundred not one hundred and one or ninety nine.

Have you ever done 100 word stories?

 

Story----> For hundreds of years they had been sleeping. 

Inside the coral forest while they sit waiting for someone to find them, slowly the divers approach, amazed as they look. They see the concrete faces and go to investigate, what they are? They had never ever seen anything as mysterious before.

What were they? How long had they been here for? Did anyone know?

The divers try to lift them off the sea floor but they are too heavy. They go back up when they hear a deep voice echoing through the waves, as they swim back up it seems to echo more and more until it eventually stops.

Bye!!

What do you think of my Mahi Toi?

 Kia ora bloggers in Te Ngahere we have been doing Mahi Toi.

I may have posted about this but I wanted to show/talk about my finished product,

The colours on mine are light blue, dark blue and purple as cool colours and my warm colours are red, orange and yellow. 

I really enjoyed doing this because it was fun and exciting with the colours that you choose to blend and if you can remember to blend all of the time which I kept forgetting to do. 

Have you ever done art like this before?

Bye!

Sharing My Knowledge On Cricket

 Kia ora bloggers in Te Ngahere today we learnt cricket.

I had never done cricket before so I was interested to see how to play, we practised doing some basic hits first.

Mark S and I were in a group, I was excited because my buddy gave me the first hit. After we had practised enough we went into a quick game of speed cricket. Speed cricket is when the game goes faster than normal but the tricky thing is if you didn't get to the wickets as a batter  in time you would miss and the ball would have a chance to hit the wickets. If the ball hits then your bat would be out, if you had one bat left and the ball hits the wicket you and your team would be out and it would be a swap over.

I really enjoyed this activity because I got an awesome catch and it was exciting seeing who could hit the furthest.

Have you ever played a game of speed cricket?

Amazing Athletics

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing amazing athletics.

The activities we have been doing are long jump, high jump, shot put, sprints/relays and discus.

The first day of athletics I was meant to be doing long jump but we had to play flies because the long jump pit hadn’t been built. 

I got into the last four people but got out because I missed the next step by a little bit.

I really enjoy doing athletics because i’m getting faster and better at the activities.

Have you done athletics before?\

Fun At The Farm

 Kia ora bloggers in the two weeks off school my family went to the Farm.

You’re probably wondering where and what the farm is, it is this massive farm with motorbikes and horses that you can pay to ride them, plus a shop where you can buy drinks and homemade bliss balls. It is located out the back road of Russell if you ever want to go.

When we arrived there, my sister and mum went to see the horses while dad and I went on the motorbikes.

I never knew how to ride a motorbike before so this was my first time doing it, so I used a little bike. The simplest part was learning to sit close to the front and not to far back. My instructor said that I was a really quick learner and we could come anytime.

Have you ever been to the Farm?

Writing You Will Absolutely Love.

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been writing a thank you letter to Wonder Project for helping us over eight weeks.The success criteria was to have correct layout, paragraphs and it has to be personalised.

The names of the people were Troy and Gustavo. We started in week two until week eight and we started with doing safety activities until we were ready to start building the rocket in week four. My group consisted of Mark S, Calais, Vaughan and myself.

My favourite part was launching the rocket and making changes to them. 

In the end my group got one of furthest launches which was 66.6 meters away into the distance.

Have you done the Wonder Project?

Sharing My Knowledge On Mahi Toi

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing some Mahi Toi ( Art).

I had no idea what on earth we were doing until the teachers explained it so we knew what to do.

Before we started we had to practise the basic skills which were: Drawing straight lines, continuous lines, curved lines & using our elbow to move instead of using our wrist to move.

My favourite part so far is drawing over the pattern because it’s also the trickiest because the lines are quite faded. 

Have you done calendar art before?

Well bye!!

Some Te Reo I Absolutely Love

 Kia ora bloggers in Te Ngahere we have been doing some Te Reo Maori  to practise for our weather report.

I’m in a group with Mark S, it’s been fun because I was terrible at Te Reo but now I feel more confident in telling people the names of the weather in te reo.

It was  fun to learn all of the words in maori when we played Ika which is go fish in maori. If you got the picture you had to say what the word in maori was before you picked up the next card and if it was correct you had to say the word. 

Are you good at Te Reo?

PE I’m Loving It!

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been practising PE drills for Ki-O-Rahi.

My favourite activity was when someone would be standing in the middle of two sticks and someone was behind them, then the one in front of the person would throw the ball to the person at the back, then they would throw it back to the person in front and once the person catches the ball they would run up and try to jump and hit the sticks between them before they block it.

I really enjoyed doing this activity because it was fun and quite easy to get the hang of the activity.

Have you done a similar activity?

Exploring Explanation Writing

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we are going to be doing some Explanation Writing.

If you don’t know what explanation writing is it’s when you are writing to explain about a topic. First you have to plan what you are going to write about.

We started planning about how pressure makes bottle rockets launch.

Before we get into that we need to explain what it sounds like.

title, identifying statement, explain sequence and summary statement.

In our planning we can’t keep putting down lots of ideas we have to keep it brief.

Have you ever done Explanation Writing?

Here's my plan so far

Finding Fractions

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. I’m in group three at maths time, we have been finding equivalent fractions.

If you don’t know what equivalent fractions are they can be doubled and mean the same as another fraction.

For example: ½  is the same as 2/4 

because they both are equal and they are the same as a half. 

OR you can add the numbers up which will make it the same. Now do you understand?

I found equivalent fractions hard because I didn’t really understand equivalent fractions at first and now I understand what equivalent fractions are. 

Here's Our D.L.O

Are you good at finding equivalent fractions.

Sharing My Knowledge On Rocket T-Shaped

 Kia ora Bloggers in Te Ngahere we have been doing some rocket t-shaped.

In rocket T-Shaped we have 4 stories to read and answer all these questions: What was the aim goal, what was the design process, what variables did they change and explain the relevance of Newton's Law of motion.(If you don’t know what Newton's Law is here it is Newton's law).

I found it hard in the beginning because I didn’t know what Newton's Law Of Motion was then I got the hang of it.

Have you ever done Rocket T-Shaped?

Here’s ours!

T-Shaped I’m Lovin It

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing some rocket T-Shape to help with the Wonder Project.

With rocket T-Shaped we have stories about schools who have done experiments about rockets and have different ways of launching them. We are learning to inference.

If you don’t know what that is it is when the author shows not tell, for example: Jack clenched hi knuckles in fury, Jack was angry.

My favourite story is Blast Off because they used alka-seltzer tablets and water to blast across the finish line.

I really enjoy doing T-Shaped because i'm getting more confident in doing it.

Have you ever done T-Shaped?

Terrific T-Shaped

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing T-Shaped about stories that show not tell and that's called inference. This is an example, Tom clenched his fists in frustration, The author is showing his is angry.

I really enjoyed doing this activity because I love doing T-Shaped I found it easy to do most of the answers.

Do you like doing T-Shaped?

Magnificent Movies.

Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been preparing to make a short movie for a festival.

First we would have to make a script (The movie has to go for 5 or more minutes)

In my group it is Zac, Shay, Mikaire and myself. We are doing ours about Nut (Me) and Noah 

It was easy to think of an idea. It will be hard to film the places. The waffle parlour will be the hardest bit to film. Here is our script so far.

(Mikaire) escape prison and are on the run when two police men come after them. 

The police are Greg (Zac) and Jeff (Shay).

This is some of the script we have done.

“Breakfast everyone” Says Greg

“What, Cold baked beans.” They say.

“How’d ya guess.”

“We have cold baked beans everyday” Says Nut

“Can we have Waffles for a  treat” Says Noah.

Have you ever done a short movie?

Wonderful writing

Kia ora, lately in Te Ngahere we have been doing some Wonderful Writing.

We have been planning  a rocket launching for our narrative writing. We are doing the writing for the wonder project-rocket challenge.  My writing is about a family and a zombie apocalypse. The apocalypse is happening and they are the richest people in New Zealand, so the prime minister asks if they would like to come to outer space while the outbreak is happening  and when they come back down it is all normal! I found it easy to come up with ideas, but it was hard to not write about one whole story sentence.

I really enjoyed doing this type of writing again.

Have you ever written about a rocket launching?

Te Reo.

Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been learning to read in Te reo maori and pronounce the words properly.

Since most of us didn’t know how to pronounce the words we sounded them out or Whaea Chrissy told us how to say them.This is the story we have been reading. We cut some photos and the meaning for them so we could play memory and different games.

I liked doing this activity because my maori pronunciation was not that good now I feel like I am more confident at maori language.

  Are you good at pronouncing maori?

Tik-Tok

Kia Ora Bloggers!

Last week in Te Ngahere we did a Tik-Tok dance at assembly. A couple
of days before the assembly we practised the dance in the classroom.

The practising was the best bit because it was hilarious trying to get
the right move at the right time.

Once the day came we were nervous and didn't want to do it that
much but we succeed really well, here it is.

I liked doing the dance I would do one again.

Have you ever done a tik tok?

3D Trick Art

Kia ora when I was on holiday I went to a 3D trick art place in Rotorua.
It is meant to trick you with what is in front of you look like it is
actually there.

 First we were meant to go to the luge but the rest of my family
except for me said “Warren hurry up” and I was all ready. So when
we went to the luge there were no car parks so we went to the trick
art place.

When we got there it was amazing the photos on the wall were
different to normal paintings. You had to stand on these triangles to
get the good photos so it looks like it is real.

It was amazing I would definitely go there again.

Have you ever been there?     

Oddie

Kia ora on Tuesday when we got home from school at my house there
was this bag on the floor, I didn't know if it was mine so I left it there
for my mum.

After when I was on my iPad she said “ Warren have a look in this bag it’s for you” so I got up to had a
look, guess what? It was a oddie.

Warren what is a oddie you may ask well that's what I tell you.

An oddie is an oversized blanket hoodie thing. I got an avocado one
and Grace got a unicorn one.

I love mine to piece’s it is so FLUFFY .

Have you ever heard of a oddie?

Scavenger Hunt

Kia Ora yesterday in Te Ngahere we did a scavenger hunt outside around the whole school.

My group was Mark’O, Mikaire, Calais and I. We had an idea of how to try to get it done nice and quick so we cut the piece of paper in half and when we could go finding the stuff me and Mark’O went and Mikarie and Calais went in separate directions. 

Mark’O and I had to find 3 different types of leaves, something brown, The highest point in the school and more objects.As soon as we thought we were finished we ran to the front of the school and asked if we finished, but we had a non smooth object and we had to go onto the field and we got one and ran back. We ended up coming 5th and I really enjoyed doing it. Have you ever done a scavenger hunt?  

Kia Ora in Te Ngahere we did a trick-shot and we had to get a ping pong ball into a cup but we had to include cardboard and a bounce. My group was Dale,Mikaire,Calais,Mark’S and me. 

We started on the playground because we thought that we had a really good chance of getting it into the cup. 

It took us ages but we got it in after a while and we did not get it in until the next day when we changed spots.

We moved onto a set of steps and I went in and got some more cardboard and i found 2 the same size so we made a downwards ramp with a bump so it jumps and into the cup. When we asked for one of the teachers to come video it, the ball did not want to go into the cup and we got a video of it going off the rim onto the ground. Most of the things that didn’t go to plan was that we all had different ideas so we did not know which one to use. What did go right was that we had the right angle but the wind would get in the way and blow the ball away from the cup.

                      Well even though we didn’t get it in it was really funny having all the idea’s. 

                                                     Have you ever done a tricky trick-shot?

Gastly Gingerbread.

We are learning to identify maths in the world around us with our maths eye’s. Yesterday we tried to see what we could identify with our math’s eyes. So we had to see what we saw with a photo of gingerbread men. I saw quite a lot of stuff that I thought I wouldn't have been able to see! Some of them had crooked buttons some had weird hairdos, some had stripes of chocolate but all of them had chocolate shoes. What made me work hard today was because I was kind-of looking forward to coming to school today. Have you got good maths eye’s?

Terrific Tennis

Kia ora at 1:00 pm till 2:00pm My mum (Tracey),Grace (My Sister) and me went to play tennis at the local tennis court!

 So we got our racquets and headed down at 12:58 and we started as soon as we got there…. But we hadn’t played in ages so we were doing hits out to the side and over the fence.

SO I went out to the brick wall and tried hitting as close to the crack which is in the middle. After that Grace said “I want a go” so her and I swapped over and I did it with my mum and we did about 10 tops hits to each other.

When our time was up we started hitting it against the wall and I went and tried to find one of our balls I thought I found it but it was neon green ball that wasn’t ours I think someone dropped it by accident.

Blog you later! 

Marvellous Monday

Kia ora on Monday mum Grace and I went to “Whangarei” to get Mum’s seat belt fixed I was excited because I finally got to go out of Russell (I was kinda getting sick of here!)

We left at 9:35 to catch the ferry over to Opua and then to Kawakawa
once we got there we had to go find somewhere to sit and have lunch
so we went and tried but one of us didn’t want to cross the road
because we did not know we were allowed to! so we listened to them
but they wanted to listen to us now. So we sat and had lunch and
played
some games until we got a message that we had to go get our car. 

On the way back we were driving and we thought we would have
gone
past a checkpoint but we didn’t for some reason?

Well that was kinda fun? I was just happy to get out of Russell

Choc Chip-Cookies

Kia ora yesterday my mum and I made choc chip cookies and extra dough.

Before we started I had to wash my hands really really good and then make the dough(I had never made the dough before!). I had to multiply the recipe by 4x so we had some extra dough left over so I could make some more later.

After a while of mixing with my hands I got a vomit texture so I kept mixing until I got a doughy feel and add the choc-chips into the mixture!

Once I put them in the oven we started to wonder what it would look and taste like.

But man did they taste good I thought I was in heaven they had crispy type rims and nice soft inside and enough choc chips.

Next time I may put a flavor inside the mixture. Have you ever made mouth watering cookies?

Kea Airlines

Kia Ora in Te Ngahere today we did S.L.J(Summer learning Journey) day 3 where we had to buy our airline tickets, BUT first we had to create a logo. So As soon as I was allowed on I went straight to looking for native N.Z birds. first I was going to do a Kiwi with a parachute but then i remembered that A Kiwi can’t fly and it would look like it was going to crash with the parachute! so I changed to Kea Airline. I thought it would be an amazing idea because nobody else would do a kea, so I got to work. 

After I finished my design It was just a kea standing still so I did some changing, and it looked like it was flying. 

 One day in the future hopefully there is a airline called ‘Kea Airlines’ 

Have you ever been on an Aeroplane.

Cold Canada OR is It?

Kia Ora In Te Ngahere we have been doing this thing called S.L.J (Summer Learning Journey).

We had to pick some place out of these Virtual Holidays to explore Canada, Mexico, Chile, England, Germany, South Africa, Qatar, Japan, Malaysia, and Australia. 

I picked Canada. In the winter at  around 6:00 Pm at night it gets to about 2*C and at midnight night it gets to about-35 °C !  And in the Summer it gets up to 35*C! Wow that's an amazing fact.

Something interesting is that they speak french As-Well As English! And the population Is  37,742,154! Wow that's 32,919,921 more than N.Z!! Their Favourite Sport is Ice Hockey, lacrosse, gridiron football, soccer, basketball, curling and baseball, with ice hockey and lacrosse being the official winter and summer sports. 

I Can’t Wait till i’m Older to go to Canada (maybe!) Because my dad has told me all about the hunting 

Well blog you Later!!