Fun Pick A Path

 Kia ora this week in Te Ngahere we moved into our classroom again and if we weren't helping we had to catch up on work we needed to finish. I was up to date so I got to be creative and pick something that I wanted to do. I made a pick a path which is where you have a question and yes or no to  see if you get the question right. First I made a google slide and named it Charlize - pick a path. After that I started to think of my questions and add them in with the yes or no slides. For the yes and no slides I just added a emoji that related to the yes and no and crosses or  ticks.  Once I added the extra details I was done but I only did 5 questions because I didn’t want to spent for ever doing it. I think it was really easy, but hard when I didn’t know what questions to add but I just thought of a subject that we recently did and that was smart relationships. For when I do it next time I am probably going to add more slides and different emojis. 

Have you ever made a pick a path? 

Fun PE Rotation

 Kia ora this week in Te Ngahere we did our PE rotation. We got in our house groups I am in pohutukawa we do it with another class called Te Maunga. We do 4 different activities for the 4 house groups and we rotate every Monday and Thursday. Today my group did touch I really liked it because I had lots of fun and knew what I had to do. The first thing that we did was run to the end of the field and back to get us warmed up and all ready. The next thing that we did was learn how to pass correctly so we got into three even teams lined up with each other and ran with the ball to get in front and pass in a diagonal line to your buddies. We then did defending so there were 2 people opposite the 3 groups and the 3 teams had to pass to each other to get a try  but the two people had to try and get the people before they got a goal. We did the same again but with 3 defenders and 2 tries  this time. It was pretty fun. Lucky last we played a game of touch it was really difficult because I didn’t quite understand what to do but I still participated. I quite liked Touch because it was challenging and fun at the same time, it was hard to get a try when there were defenders and in future I am going to learn how to get a try. 

Do you play touch?

Challenging Epro8

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we did another Epro8 challenge, it was called stem bridges. We got to choose our groups that we wanted to work with my group was Tiiria, Logan and Cahlay. We first watched a video about three different types of bridges suspension, cable stayed and truss. Truss is used with triangles, suspension is made with a big cable connected to big poles and cable stayed bridge is made with 2 big poles on each side with cables reaching into the middle and on the other side with one cable reaching out to keep it from falling. Next we got our supplies to make the bridges, we got ice block crafting sticks, thin little pole stick things, rubber bands and string we got to be creative and do what we think that bridge looks like. We then got to pick which bridge we wanted to do my group decided with truss bridge for our first one. Our other bridge was the suspension one. I think my group did well at all doing something on the bridge, but in future I think we can all do better at communicating with each other. 

Have you ever made any type of bridge?

Fantastic Mothers Day

 On Sunday the 9th of May it was Mothers Day. My Nan and I went to the shop (countdown) to get my mum a mothers day gift. I bought her a bottle of wine (pinot gris) and I made her a card with a glass of wine and it said it’s your time to wine. I gave it to her on Monday because she had to work on Sunday, we had to stay up at my nans house. I gave it to her she loved it, she read the card and thought about it and then she got the joke and laughed. I also bought my dad something even though it was mothers day. I bought him a waterproof speaker to put in the shower because he likes listening to music in the shower. I also buy my mum something even though it’s Fathers Day.  

How was your mothers day?

Amazing Fractions Fun

 Last week in Te Ngahere we did a pizza problem. We were learning how to use a range of strategies to solve problems using fractions. We had to figure out how many seats were in the restaurant. Our fraction was ¾ so first we drew our restaurant and split it into 4 because we knew that the bottom number of a fraction is how many you split it into. Next we coloured in 3 because three quarters of the seats were taken then we were left with ¼ which equaled 6 so we did 6+6+6+6=24, and our answer was 24 so there were 24 seats in the whole restaurant. 

Are you good at fractions? 

Fun EPro8 Challenge

This week in Te Ngahere we did an Epro8 challenge. Epro8 is lots of hard and challenging maths to help you communicate with new people. One of the challenges we did this week was castle siege. We had to get into groups of three or four that didn’t include your social friends. My group was Cahaly, Amber, Mikaria and I. We had to build a catapult that shoots out a ping pong ball that can fly at least 3 meters before touching the ground. We got 30 rubber bands, 30 bamboo sticks, 1 ping pong ball, 1 electrical tape, 1 roll of string, 2 a4 pieces of paper, 1 a3 piece of paper and 1 pair of scissors. We learnt about two types of energy. Kinetic and potential. Kinetic energy is where the energy gets let out and moves and potential energy is where stays stored somewhere. What we found challenging was trying to get catapult to stay up by itself. My group did well at all asking questions, In the future  I am  going to work on discussing with my group and to make a plan before doing anything.   I think my group was really good at communicating because we all got a little turn.

Have you made a catapult before?

Easy and Hard Task Master

 In Te Ngahere we were learning how to follow directions. We got a sheet of paper with a whole lot of directions on it that we had to follow. We were doing this to see if we can follow directions. The first question was read everything carefully before doing anything. I read question 1 and thought it meant to read the sentence carefully before you draw or write anything, but it actually meant read all twenty three questions before doing anything. I got up to question twenty and then the teacher stopped us to come on to the floor to go through a few questions together. We read question 1 and 23 with the teacher and we read sentence 23 it said now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentence one and two! Then draw quietly on the back of this paper while you wait for everyone else to finish. It was funny because everyone said I AM THE LEADER IN FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. I felt good when I got the piece of paper and felt good, but when I read sentence 23 I was like I can’t read things carefully. We were all like wow we don’t know how to read it carefully. In the future I am going to make sure I read things carefully.

Do you always read things CAREFULLY?