2018 School Year Reflection

                       2018 School Year Reflection

This year has been a great year for me. We did lots of fun activities and learning this year!

Here are some of my highlights from this amazing year!

-Athletics

-Science activities

-Passion Play

-Cross-Country

-Speeches

-Basic facts (every Friday)

-Camp

-Production.

This year was a great year and next year I will be a year 7!

Being a year 7 will require me to step up and be a role-model. I will also be changing the colour of my shirt to white instead of green which I currently am!

Highlights From Our Senior camp!

               Highlights From Our Senior Camp!

This year we went on a "Senior Camp" with the year 5's, 6's, 7's and 8's. We stayed at Rarawa Campground up near the top of the North Island.

It was SUPER FUN!!!

We did all sorts of wacky and interesting thing in our camping experience and I would love to go there again

Here are 8 of my highlight's from this year's camp!:

  >The thrill of the CRAZY storm in the middle           of the night.

  >Going to Te Paki Sand Dunes And Zooming

    down them on a boogie board. 

  >Walking down to the Lighthouse at Cape                 Reinga and coming 2nd in the race back up.

  >Having a crazy disco party at 9:30 PM.

  > Doing activities with my friends Barnabas,             Markayla, Nevaeh and Ryan in the secret                 amazing race challenge that we did.

  >Kayaking down the estuary at Rarawa with            Koby and Alex.

  >Watching all of the funny acts in the skit that          we  did.

  >Playing games on the beach in our house                groups.

< This is where we stayed for our camp. We set up tents for the children and adults. Our teachers slept in              caravans.

Surf's Up !🏄

                                      Surf's Up!

At my school the year 6 through to year 8 students went surfing at Ahipara. We were being taught how to surf by the O'Neil Surf Club.

The instructors names were Keehan, Mark and Jack. It was funny because coincidentally, Mark looked a lot like Thor! There were 2 groups. My group got to surf after the other group went surfing so while the first group went surfing my group played beach games. When it was our turn to surf I got off to a rocky start but after a while I got used to it. I wiped out SO MANY TIMES! It was really fun!

What is Advent?

                                  What Is Advent?

Advent is a season Portrayed in many Christian churches, awaiting the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.

It starts on the 2nd of December every year and ends on the 24th of December. 

The word "Advent" is derived from the Latin word "Adventus" meaning "coming".

Some symbols of Advent are candles and a wreath.

There are 3 purple candles and 1 pink candle as well as an Advent wreath. The pink candle represents joy and the other 3 purple candles represent love, peace and hope.
One candle is lit every Sunday and sometimes a white candle is lit on Christmas day.

     

Knot Tying!

                                     Knot Tying

In my class we have been learning about knots ! The reason why we are learning about knots is for life/survival skills.

We are about to go on camp so we will be able to practice those knots just in case there is a real emergency that knots are needed for.

I learnt how to tie a Figure 8 Knot, Noose Knot and an overhand knot.

The Figure 8 Knot is a simple stopper knot.======================

The Noose Knot is used for catching / snaring small animals.============

The overhand knot is also a simple stopper, very similar to the Figure 8 Knot.======================

This activity was so fun!

Google Doc Ninja Challenge

                     Google Doc Ninja Challenge

Today in class we did the "Google Doc Ninja Challenge". I earned the Google Belt today. To do the Google Doc Challenge our class had to complete tasks that had to do with typing, layouts, fonts, colours and more! I found this challenge very fun and some of it was a little tricky! We have done the Google Doc Ninja Challenge because our buddy blog class at Matawai school, Room 4, did some blog posts about it and we thought we would give it a go with our Manaia Kalani Facilitator helping us along the way.We had 1 hour to complete the challenge. This is a picture of me completing the challenge! I am proud of achieving this award.

I learnt all about shortcuts and things that will help me with my google document work! Have you done"The Google Doc Ninja Challenge"?

All Saints Day

                              All Saints Day

On the 1st of November we celebrated All Saints Day.

All Saints Day is a day where we can celebrate our favourite saints. We had the choice to dress up as them or come to school in our school uniform. When we got to school we got given a little name-tag saying: (what our Saints names are) or if you didn't dress up it said: Saint in training.

I did not dress up as anyone.

We had five people that dressed up as: Saint Mary, Saint Lucia, Saint George, Saint John The Baptist and Saint Anastasia.

What is your favourite saint?

PCS Athletics

                                  PCS Athletics!

At school we have done athletics. We'd been training every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I am going to the "ZONES" for every sport.

I am in for track (aka sprints), High jump, long jump, discus and shot put.

Personally I like athletics. I came 1st in high jump and shot put, 2nd in sprints, long jump and discus.

I am proud of getting 1st in high jump and shot put.

What is your favourite sport?

Far North Wonders

                          Far North Wonders

Up in the Far North we have many things to see and do like beautiful scenery, glorious beaches and more! In our inquiry this year we have been learning about NZ history, our local history and this term we are looking at geography of NZ because we are reading a book called 'Cuz' that is set in NZ.   
In the Far North you can grab an ice cream (the biggest ever! 4 scoops with a lolly on top) from Te Kao and chillax on the warm sand of the many beaches around the Far North.

You could have a drive through the Mangamuka Gorge and have a look at the beautiful bush.

Do you like sand? Well if so you should check out the Te Paki Sand Dunes! Whether you just wanna chill or have a thrill, you can do both!

There are many amazing things to do in the Far North. There are many more incredible places in New Zealand! We are lucky to live in such a special country.

In our class we have been learning about Fiords and Sounds. Not the sounds you hear, the Sounds in Geography.  They are stunning parts of NZ.

Beeswax wraps!!

                          Beeswax Wraps!!

In class We have made Beeswax wraps. They are  fabric coated in melted beeswax. We could also draw our design of choice on the fabric before coating them in beeswax. We did this so we could help the environment. We are helping the environment by not using plastic or toxic materials for wrapping our lunch. The plastic in our lunch boxes will most ,likely blow away into the ocean. From there many animals like birds and sea life will eat them. If they do they will be very sick but if our beeswax wraps somehow end up in the ocean that can be eaten and the animals wont get sick. We are also trying to replace plastic with our wraps so there will be no more pollution around the world!

What is your favourite Lunch-Box food?

Term 3 Reflection

                         Term 3 Reflection

This term was so fun! I think some of my classmates can agree! I have made many great memories with my friends and it is just about to start fresh with a new term!

My favourite thing to do was NZ and local history!

If you look back at some of my older posts you will see what we did. It was really fun doing NZ History this term because I got to learn about who discovered NZ, what the early people of NZ did and so on...

Local history was also really fun because I got to learn about what happened in The Far North. 

In term 4 I am really looking forward to going to our school camp. Ever since about half way through term 3 we have been fund-raising for our school camp by selling soup every Tuesday and Thursday. Every Tuesday we are selling Pumpkin soup and every Thursday we are selling Tomato soup.

In the early days of term 3 I found Writing really challenging. I slowly found it easier for me to write good stories because I persevered through it and I also had some great friends helping me along the way.

And and all Term 3 was a great term!

  

My Animation!!

                                     !Animation!

In class we learnt how to make an animation with Mrs Davan.
It was really easy! All you had to do was put in your background,find a character(make sure the character is png),
duplicate your slide and then move it just a tiny bit each time. Then you got yourself an animation!
I hope you enjoy mine:
Do you like animation?
 If so what is your favourite animated show?

Ice Skating!

                             Ice Skating

In our class we went on a trip down to Te Ahu center in Kaitaia to go ICE SKATING!! Coincidentally it was daffodil day. When we arrived at Te Ahu Center we had to take our shoes off before we put on our Ice skates.I *tried* to walk over to the place where we were going to skate because the skates we had on were very hard to walk with.I could barely walk to the ice rink.It wasn't really ice it was just plastic but it was still fun. The ground was so slippery! Here is a photo of us skating.

Did you go ice skating and if you did was it fun?

Newspaper Article Writing

                               Newspaper Article Writing


       Today my class learnt how to write a *Newspaper Article*

A good Newspaper Article needs a good introduction with when, what, who and where in it.It also requires that you don't talk about yourself .Don't use things like I, us, we and me. Newspaper Articles contain facts and things that actually happened without using big fluffy adjective like AMAZING, EXCITING, INCREDIBLE, BLISTERING and so on.
Our class wrote a Newspaper Article about Little Red Robin Hood (a play that came to our school). We used things that OTHER people said like this:

A Child in room two stated that "the play was super funny".
Quotation marks look like this --> "
What is your favourite type of writing?

       

Words of the week!

                                Words of the week.

This week we have a new task to complete with our work. It is called Word of the day.With word of the day we are given 5 words for each day of the week.These word are very complex. We have to find the meaning in a dictionary,write if it is an adjective or verb etc, write a synonym for that word ad use that word in a sentence. The words are Petite,Tenacious,Abundant,Roam and Trinket.

What is your favourite word.

Extreme Cross Country!

                     Extreme Cross Country

As I was running up the steep,steep hill I knew it wasn't going to be easy.I could smell the cow poop lingering around the track. I could not escape the yuck odor. I could hear the mud squishing beneath my feet."Finally I'm at the top" I said to my self. Then I looked down and realized it was not over yet.

I wondered if I could make it to the central zones. I stood at the top of the hill feeling accomplished as the cool breeze blew past my face.Just then I realized that people 

were watching me,cheering for me and that gave me the boost to power through and eventually finish the race!

Delicious Bread + Butter

                Delicious Bread + Butter
                         Term 3 Wk 6
In Kakapo class we made bread and butter.We were split into groups where we had to find a table.Our group decided on who was going to do what.We all had to do something to contribute to our bread.
We needed:
Oil,
Yeast,
Sugar, (tiny bit)
Flour
& Warm water.
I learnt that yeast is a micro organism,(Microbe) that feeds on sugar.It eats sugar and then it creates a gas called carbon dioxide.
The carbon dioxide gets trapped in the bread mixture and creates little pockets of air making the bread light and airy.
We did not leave the yeast for long enough to rise so our bread was pretty dense and doughy.Then we had to make butter.We used salt and heavy cream to create butter.We put the ingredients in a plastic bag and started mixing the ingredients together outside.We mixed it outside because it was cold, and it would help turn the ingredients into yummy butter!
Have you ever made homemade bread or butter?

Museum Trip

In our class we went on a trip to our local museum.
When we got there we had to get into groups of four. Our group name was "The Kiwi Kids". In our group there was me (Blake), Tiana , Poppy and Caleb. The museum curator (museum guide) was called Whina. She was very nice . She handed a piece of paper to all of the groups. The piece of paper had a scavenger hunt on it. The groups (including our group) had to look around the museum for the things on the piece of paper. All and all it was very fun!

On that day I learnt that "Coins" Was a very popular butter making company back in the day. I also learnt that Jean Francois Marie De Surville had 3 anchors but he had to cut off 2 of them to get away from the stormy weather and one of those 3 anchors are still out there!

This is what the anchor at our local museum looks like:

Sandra Siberzweig

In my class we have been focusing on an artist Called Sandra Siberzweig. We have been making art inspired by her.In her artwork she used a lot of abstract shapes and colours. She mainly used primary colours like blue,red and  yellow.Her art style is like this  image down here.

     She used colours that stood out so we did too.
     We made self Portraits in this sort of style.
     We also incorporated it into our learning              contracts.
     Who is your favorite artist?

Maths Work!-Angles

                                          Angles

This week in class we have been learning    about ANGLES. We have been learning about right angles, parallel lines and perpendicular lines.I learnt that parallel lines never meet.
This is an example of parallel lines:   <-- The rails are side by side and they never meet!


A perpendicular line looks like this:       -------------------------->

The lines are not going in the same direction!

Term 2 Reflection!

                     Term 2 Reflection!!!!

Term 2 was a good term.

We had lots of great learning like NZ History. With Manaiakalani we learnt how to be cyber smart, what you need to do to make a quality blog post and HOW to make a  blog post.

We have done a lot of things with whaea Donna.

She teaches us all about blogs and being cyber smart!

In term 3 I would really like to work on animal research. Last term in term 1 we did that and it was really fun and interesting.

I am looking forward to term 3!!!

What do you want to learn next term?

Des Hunt

Last week Des Hunt came to our school.If you dint know who he is he is a great author .
He has written 30 books.
His first book was the last Tuatara which was rejected 7 times before it was finally published.
He is currently writing the book: Red Edge.
His dogs name is Puku and him and Puku go walking along the beach sometimes ...  
He is a great Author!
What Is Your Favourite Des Hunt Book?
    

Suzanne Aubert

In class we have been researching about a woman called Suzanne Aubert.

She was a very special lady because she devoted her life to helping others.
She was born on the 19th of June, 1834.
Her name is pronounced [Suzanne Orbear] It is French.

We wrote a biography (research about someone else's life) about her. We put a  draft into our literacy book and then we published it into our Religious Education book. This is what she looked like:

Nancy Wake

In class we have been learning about Nancy Wake.
She was a NZ hero . This is what she did...
She cycled around collecting information. She rode For about 71 hours collecting information.
She helped stop the war and pronounced D-Day.
She was one of the greatest spies in War history.Any History for that matter!!
She looked like this - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ->
Unfortunately she died on the 7th of August 2011 a the age of 98.
She is definitely a war Hero!!!!
What would you like to know about  Nancy Wake??

Clay Art

                                Clay art

                            Term 2 Wk 5

In week five of term two we made Kiwi designs out of air drying clay.We had to do something to do with new Zealand or our whanau (family).I did a jandal because whenever me and my family go  camping we go to a beach called "Houhora Bay" and we always get sand in our jandals. In class we learned that you need to put all of the clay into one thing or  it will crumble and break,you need to make it thick and strong or it will crumble like a cookie.
It was pretty fun in general and i really liked it.
What design would you make??

NZ History Learning

W.A.L.T research NZ history.... 

In our class we are learning about NZ[New Zealand]history and the events that happened in the past.We have been learning about what it was like in the war,how to write a letter from the people in the wars point of view and we researched things about the timelines from 1200s to 2000s. Me and my group researched the 1600s. We found out that Abel Tasman first sighted New Zealand on the 13 of December , 1642.

What would you like to learn about New Zealand history?