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?