Check Out This Great Wacky Wednesday Post

 Kia ora bloggers every week we have something fun to do and this week we did Wacky Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon I went straight home  to find something to wear, I found a colourful wig, a green top and skirt and some black glasses. The top and skirt was too big for me but my nan sewed it up so it would fit me well. Then on Wednesday I went to school all dressed up and saw most of the school dressed up as well, they all looked so cool it made me so happy.  I saw my friends dressed up so I went and hung out with them and went around to have a look at all the classrooms.I think Nga Motu looked the best they had chairs flipped over, gum boots on the poles of the tables and even lots of things on the wall that don't belong there. My teachers dressed up as our house groups (Pohutukawa, Karaka, Kowhai and Rimu    ) they all looked so pretty. My favourite part was seeing everyone dressed up. I think the people dressed up the best was Jade-R, Angela and Jaelyn-Marie, they were fairies. 

Have you done a wacky wednesday and dressed up?

How To Attribute Images Properly

 Kia ora the last few weeks we have been doing Attributing Images. We had to learn how to make sure we are allowed to use all the images we use. During this experience I have learnt how to see if we are allowed to use the photos we want to use. I can see myself using this in the future by making sure I click on tools and then usage rights and make sure I choose creative commons licences so we are allowed to use the photos for example flowers. If you don’t use this technique you have to pay thousands of dollars if they sue you or pay  to use other peoples photos. What I think I need to work on is remember this every single time I go to use any pictures that I want to use. 

Do you know how to Attribute Images?

The Obstacle PAL Day

 Kia ora on the last day of school we did a PAL fun day which is where we have lots of small short games that all the other classes go around in a rotation in our house groups which are Pohutukawa, Rimu, Karaka and Kowhai. My two friends and I got to coach the obstacle course which we made up. We had skipping, hurdles, catching the balls, going through the tunnels and criss crossing to the end. The thing I enjoyed the most was watching everyone complete everything properly. The highlight of my day was being with my friends while teaching everyone what to. The challenges I had experienced was everyone doing some opposite things to what we had taught but we just let them do what they think they had to do. If we did this again I would probably pick a different game to teach. 

Have you ever done PAL (power activity leader) at your school?

Manaiakalani Cybersmart Challenge: Scams and Phishing.

Kia ora this week we did a Manaiakalani Cybersmart challenge: Scams and Phishing. We had a presentation with little emails and pop ups and we had to say if it is fake or legit and why we think that. There was one that said download free music and I could instantly tell that it was fake because in the top  left corner there was a padlock with a line through it which means it is not secure. It also had a log in with your Google account and you had to put your email address and your password. Sometimes  if you are lucky you just tap the account you would like to sign in with and it takes you straight in. I would also not do any of that because they can easily see your password to get in to your email address which is really dangerous. For my first time learning about this I found that if there sometimes can be a line through the padlock and I have never seen that before. I also learnt that there can be pop ups and I wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t do this.  

Are you part of  Manaiakalani Cybersmart challenges? 

Title: Fun Online Class

 Kia ora this week we got to pick what we wanted to blog about so I picked to write about how I like online learning.  Every morning apart from the weekends we go on a google meet to talk with the teachers and ask questions about our school learning I don’t really have any questions to ask because they make it quite clear to understand. We also have a google meet in the afternoon to talk about what we have done for the day but I always forget to go on it because I get up to other things like looking after my baby cousin. Our school work can be easy and challenging like the maths escape room was really challenging and also our work can be fun like the Daffodil Day creations and for that we had to make flowers and put them on our window sill because it was raining and we couldn’t put them on our mail box otherwise they would brake. 

Do you enjoy online learning? Do you like lockdown? 

Title: Skateboard Passion Project

 This week for distance learning we had to write down what we wanted to learn during lockdown and I chose to learn how to do tricks on my skateboard because I am quite good but can’t do any cool tricks like other skaters can. I also love to skate when I can because it might rain or I might of hurt myself. I was  learning how to jump on my board which is called a popcorn I thought it was really easy and got it after a few tries and now I am fixing up on my ollies. My two passions are skateboarding and dancing and I am really good at both. When I am doing my skateboard tricks I do them inside on the carpet so I can get used to them and get more confident to do it on concrete. 

Do you enjoy skateboarding? What is your favorite trick? 

Being In Amazing Queenstown In Lockdown.

 Kia ora last week we went to Queenstown for a holiday. We had to drive to Auckland then fly to Queenstown (I was scared). Once we got to Queenstown we checked into our apartment and got ready to go out  for dinner because we were hungry (we ended  up just getting dominos for dinner). The next day we met up with our friends and got to go to game over, ice skating and ice bumper boats. When we did ice skating I badly injured my knee and couldn’t walk on it (It still is quite sore). At about 6pm on Tuesday we got the announcement we will be going into lockdown until Friday the end of this week. We weren't really panicked because we didn’t want to go home just yet. That same night we went to Kmart to get some games so we wouldn’t get bored and I got a dairy to write what I get up to every single day in lockdown and I did.  But then on Thursday Jacinda said we had 48 hours to get to where we live so that same day we got the announcement we booked our flight again for 5.20pm. So then we started to pack up everything so we are all ready to leave (sadly) and we ended back up in Paihia at 11.45pm at night just in time. 

I Am Hope

  Kia ora this week we had two guys had come into Te Ngahere, their names were Tai and Trent. Tai and Trent were from I Am Hope which was pretty amazing to see them in real life because I have only heard about them on social media. Tai came to talk to us about mental health and a story about him when he was growing up. Trent is Tai’s bodyguard, he has to make sure Tai is safe and ok. My favorite part of the story was when he said he could be in a room with his dad but he would only have a conversation with him in his head. So Tai didn’t know how to communicate with people until he was 18 years old (WOW). The bit that stood out for me was the part where he said that his dad wasn’t really his real dad and his family had been lying to him his whole life. What I have learnt from this is that out there in the world who say they are ok on the outside but not in the inside. I also learnt that we all have inner critics in our heads (inner critic is a voice inside our heads that say bad things about people surrounding us.) 

Have you ever heard about I Am Hope? 

Have they ever came to your school before?

Check Out This Great Science Fair Reflection

 Kia ora these past few weeks we have been doing science fair. We had to choose our groups that we wanted to work with and I chose Poet and Azure. It was kind of hard to pick an experiment but we went with does the five second rule affect your health.  What I have learnt from doing this is all the different types of variables such as a controlled  variable which is something that you will be taking control of during your experiment. The Independent variable is the things you will be changing when doing the experiment and for ours we changed the food, the last variable is  the dependent variable and you got to say how your going to measure your experiment we measured the bacteria on the swabs. I also learnt about fair testing and what it means, is that all your tests are the same and fair. What we found difficult was our hypothesis and variables because Poet and I were in the pit and didn't know what to do but in the end we got it done. What I am going to do next time  we do science fair is choose a different group and a different experiment. The hoe that my group and I used were Tu Maia and Kaha (being strong and Resilience) because we were in the pit a lot and didn't give up even though we wanted to. 

Have you ever been in the pit when something is really hard?

Sharing my knowledge on Winning Dots

 Kia ora this week we started maths called winning dots. We had to gather room 1 data and room 2 data to make a dot plot graph. We also had to make a DLO to explain what we did and saying each true and false question from the worksheet. I was confused about what the word range meant but now I know that “a range of number” is when you take the highest number and lowest number to find the difference and I thought that the range meant how far you threw it. In my DLO I got mixed up on the true or false questions because it was hard to remember if it was true or false. Something I could of made better in my DLO and what I am going to do next time is showing the heading with each slide that I have done for example I can create a dot plot from data with a picture of my dot plot and room 1s dot plot picture.  Also show the true and false question with how I solved it. 

Have you ever done this activity before?

Awesome Experience At Bay College Science Roadshow

 Kia ora this week we started science. We even got to go to Bay of Islands College Science Roadshow to have an awesome  experience of what we might do for our science fair. We had to watch 2 shows, one at the beginning when we first arrive and one at the end before we leave. The first show was about the different gases such as: carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen. From the first show I learnt that if you squeeze orange skin it can pop a balloon. I also learnt that gases take up more room than liquids. My favorite exhibit was when you picked something that shows how long it takes to burn off energy when you have food/snacks. That was my favorite exhibit because it was very interesting and fun to learn about those type of things. For fair testing I learnt that when you move something or don’t give clear instructions it can do bad for your experiment. Moving something different every time if called a variable. 

Have you been to a science roadshow before? 

Challenging Great Marble Challenge

What we did: 

Kia ora last week we did a great marble challenge. We had to build a ramp that

will be appropriate for a marble to go down. Once we built our ramp we had to

test it and modify if we needed to. The most challenging part of this was getting

the marble to stop at 1100mm because we kept getting on one side or the other

instead of right on 1100 mm, but we did get a few times though. The  easiest part

of this was building the ramp and the hardest part was getting it to to stop at exactly

1100 mm. 

Competition:

For the competition we had two containers with the group that will be testing and

the other container had the ramp that the testers would use. We also had a sheet of

brown paper with the points on it, there were 1 point, 2, 3 and 5 was the highest and

5 was exactly 1100mm. At the end we announced the winners and they got there

prizes. In 4th place was Tiiria, Mikaila and Ana, in 3rd place was Wairua and

Marlon, 2nd place was Jaelyn-Marie and Kahsius and lucky first in 1st place

was Dale and Dezray.

Have you ever done this before? 

Terrific Tips To Help You With Science

 Kia ora last week we started science and to do since we had to follow the scientific method. We were learning to do this because we have a science fair coming up and to learn how to make an infographic. We made a google drawing explaining all of the steps to do science correctly. In future I could probably use this when I go to university. I think I did well by putting all the sentences into my own words, but I think if we do this next time I am possibly going to add more detail to make it sound more interesting.

Do you like science??

Challenging Mosaic Art

 Kia ora this week we started this thing called Mosaic art. We were learning to do this because soon we are going to have QR codes showing the animal we were researching about and they will be on pictures. I learnt how to make a animal using shapes and polyline to create an awesome affect. I think I did well by making my shapes look like the animal. I chose a Red Pandas because pandas are my favorite animal. We first got to pick a animal or anime character and then put it on a google drawing and by using polyline make a small triangle with  the colours of  the animal. Next time I am going to take my time to really get an idea of my animal. 

Have you ever made Mosaic art?

A Fun Day Out Of School

 Kia ora last week the year six’s went with  Project Island Song to Otehei Bay. We were learning how Project Island Song keeps pest away. 

We had to be at school at around  8.20am and be down at the wharf at 8.30am. When we got down to the wharf we met some members of Project Island Song. Some of us had jobs; there were health and safety which meant they had to say everyone's name before they hopped on the boat and give everyone a squirt of hand sanitizer. Next was biosecurity and there job was to have a shoe brush to clean your shoe and to pat your bag down to make sure there were no weed seeds, ants and pests in our bag. There were also construction so they had to bring the parts of the rats traps on and off the boat because we were  making rat traps later on. The last job was planting and they had to bring the plants on and off the boat and carry the gardening gloves. 

When we were on the boat we had a little karkia and the captain went over the safety rules before we headed out to the islands. We got a floating classroom booklet with lots of things to do in it. Some of us got to go on the bow of the boat for a little bit and then we swapped with the other people. Our first stop was Motorua where we heard the bird song it was amazing. On the way to the island we saw lots of birds and got to tick them off in our book.  When we got to the island we had some morning tea, after morning tea we got split into groups my group was called super seeds, because we were doing planting first. We walked up big hills and then got into groups of three and planted our plants, then we walked back. When we got back we had lunch and made our rat traps.

 This was really fun because I learnt lots of things, it was hard planting the plants but in the future I will know how to plant  plants. 

 

Have you ever been to Urupukapuka island before? 

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?