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Slip 'n' slides, pool, wheels,  games, and just relaxing under the shade of the some trees. 

Welcome back bloggers!

On Monday we had our last wheels day of 2017, and for me, my last wheels day of primary school! :(

We rotated around 3 main activities, and the first one I did, was the pool and slip 'n' slide! I came in mufti, and we went on the slide first, I whizzed dawn, and at the end I belly flopped onto the grass, It hurt, but it was worth it! Then in the pool, I splashed about and collected millions of rings from the bottom of the pool! (more like 20). 

For the second session we did games on the field!

We played capture the flag which was amazing, but by the time we got to T-ball I was legit melting like  ice-cream! Then at last we got to play and rest under the trees, I played chess and then I took a power nap! 

In the last block, I rode my scooter around the courts, and then my friend Jasmine pulled me around on the trolley boards (her blog link is at the bottom.) and all in all the day was super fun!

And of course here are some photos:

Me whizzing down the slip 'n' slide

Lily, Joyce, and me playing  Draughts
 

 Ashana and  Jasmine relaxing

Everybody having a good time 

Jasmines blog!

Ashanas blog!

Lilys blog!

Joyces blog!

Fun with the leaders

Welcome back bloggers!
Because we are approaching the end of the year, out teacher let us post about anything that we have enjoyed over the year, and 1 thing I have really liked was being a leader.

What is 'Being a leader'
Leadership is a fun and exiting programme that we do at Waikowhai Primary.
At the end of each year around 12 year five students get picked to become leaders the next year. A leader wears a bright orange tee-shirt with their name on the back, so people know who they are, and people know they are leaders.

What do Leaders do?
Well, they are given a group of 3, and a certain day, for example Friday.
Then every morning they on their certain day they take a class out to play games on the field, court or in the hall. In term 1 me and my partners (*Joyce and Jerry) took the juniors, which was my favourite because they always listened. In term 2 we took the middle school, and in term 3 and 4 we had a mix of everybody!

How do people know when Their class gets to go and play games with the leaders?
That's actually pretty simple. On our day (Friday) 3 minutes before the bell rang for morning tea, we would go and tell the class what game we would play, and where we would play it, so they could join in if they wanted to.

Here are some pictures of the awesome 2017 team:

A silly picture

A sensible picture

A picture of me

The names on out bright orange tee-shits!

I have really enjoyed being a leader this year. It was fun to play games with all the students.

I hope you like this post, and please leave a lovely comment for me!

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My Slideshow of fun!

Welcome back bloggers!
Recently we have been reflecting on out gala day that I have been telling you about.
We have made a slideshow full of fun photos and our thoughts! WE used the 5 thinking hats to prompt us along the way. Then we were able to add in images that relate to our thoughts, about the day.
Here is slideshow of gala day fun:



I enjoyed making this slideshow because it reminded me about how super amazing and thrilling the gala day was, without having to leave the class! We had to write at least 4 sentences, but I wrote around 8 for each slide because I had so many great memory's about the day.

I hope you like my work and please leave me a lovely comment!
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Amazing africa

Today in class we have been introduced to the learning system called 'Summer learning journey'.
They give you a whole lot of activities to do over the summer, so that you don't forget all your knowledge while you are partying and swimming.
I  am starting 1 of the activities today, and I will be telling you guys some facts about South Africa.

At the very edge of the country there is an amazing site.
2 beautiful seas mix together.
1 is the Atlantic ocean, the second biggest oceon in the whole world.
It covers 1/5 of the worlds surface! And the other is the Indian ocean, it is the warmest ocean in the whole world!
The national animal for South Africa is the springbok which is the logo for their  rugby team, and their national colours are mostly yellow and green. But sometimes black.
There is no national birthday for south Africa, but they have 14 other holidays.
The ethnic mix includes Black African, white, Asian and more!
Some native animals in south Africa include:
The African elephant (the largest living land mammal!)
The leopard (who have very distinctive black spots covering their blondish fur.)
The Buffalo (including the blue buffalo)
&
The lion (the second biggest feline in it's family.)
Some animals you also might find in south Africa is the humpback or brides whales.
Also sardines come in skoals of around millions searching for warmer waters. This is called the sardine run.

Here are some pictures:

The African Leapord

The 'sardine run'

The springboks rugby team

I hope you like my work, don't forget to check out the summer learning journey!

Please feel free to leave a comment!

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Blogger and sewer?

In class, over the past few week we have been creating Tote bags. It was super fun, and I made one with a giraffe on it. You might want to make your very own, so...
Here is how we made them:

What you will need:
Sewing machine
Fabric
Siccors
Strapping
pins
iron

Method:
1. First cut our 2 pieces of even fabric.
2. Pin them together-inside-out, but only pin three sides! Because you will need a top.
3.Sew the 3 pinned sides together, in a straight line.
4. Iron your bag, and then fold down the top of the bag, sew and repeat this step to make the hem, then iron again.
5. Cut out some strapping (twill tape) any lenghth you think will fit, and sew them onto the inside of the hem in a square. when sewing them on go back and forward a couple of times to make sure they a strong.
6. Sell or enjoy!

Some photos:

Me with my bag!

Messy class!

Next time I would not rush the screenprinting so much because 1 of my bags turned out messy because I rushed. I would also be more carful when I sew so I don't get a bleeding finger again!

Are you sustainable?

Welcome back bloggers,
Over the last couple of days, myself and *Amie have been creating a slideshow that will play in the hall on our big Gala day. If you would like to see my slideshow on the big screen, you can come to our gala day at Waikowhai Primary on the 25th of November, (it starts at 10am and goes to 3pm.) Anyway, my slideshow is about being sustainable, and thinking about what you do with your rubbish (especially plastic!) We talked about what happens to the rubbish, and who your rubbish affects. But we also gave some ways to cut down on your plastic and stop hurting the environment so much. We had some fun ideas that would hep you recycle, and be sustainable! 
Here it is:



I hope that after you have looked at this slideshow you are about to go away and do some great things, for the environment and for yourself! Looking after the environment is important to humans because we need to use it every day. The trees give us air, we build our houses on the nice green grass, The plants give us food, and so do the animals. If we keep on littering then we won't have any of these wonderful privileges!

More about the Gala day:
This slideshow all relates to the theme of our Gala day: being sustainable. All the students will be making reusable or recycled products, like some of us are making paper from environmentally friendly resources. Others are making tote bags to help cut down on the amount of plastic people are using. The Gala also celebrates different cultures, and there will be cultural food, and dances!

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment!
*Check out Amie's Blog here: http://wpsamiem.blogspot.co.nz/

inquiry work

Welcome back bloggers.

For the last couple of weeks in class, we have been making Models, slideshows, and presentations all about our inquiry topic. The topic  had  to  somehow relate to mountains.  People  did  topics  such as  snow monkeys, yeti’s, and how mountains are formed.  My topic was  mountain lions  also known as cougars. I made a backdrop with flaps to lift, and lots of  information.
 Here  is  my presentation:

The first thing that I had to do was Cut the paper out into the shape of a cave. Then I cut out some blue felt for the sky and stuck it all down. I added some grass and vines at the bottom, then I started to draw and colour the cougar and her cub.
when I had finished drawing them I stuck them on. I covered my cave in camo material to make it look cool, and then I cut out some of the shapes for the flaps. After gluing everything down, I printed out all the information and glued it all under the flaps. Then after adding some of the finishing touches, I was done!

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment

Des Hunt books, slideshows and more

Welcome back bloggers!
for the past couple of weeks I have been working on a slideshow about a book I am reading.
The book was called Sunken forest, and it was by Des Hunt.
He has published many amazing children's books including:
The Peco Incident
The Tooth
Cool Nukes
Or some shorter ones:
Frog Whistle Mine
Skink Gully
Crown park
You should really check out some of these books. He also has many others, to many to list.
Anyway, back to talking about my slideshow.
I had to do a whole lot of activities around the book, and topics in the book.
Here is the plot or stroyline, that I have summarised for you:

The book was very gripping, and I loved it. 
If you want to read to book like I did, here is a picture of it:

And her is a link to Des Hunt's website so that you can check him  out: Click
Thank you for reading, and feel free to leave a comment!!!

The wonderful world of science

Welcome back bloggers,
Today I saw a very exciting and funny science show. The show was called: The crazy world  of science. You might have seen them too,
because they travel from school to school performing for kids. 
The man doing all the experiments was called Richard, and the sound effects lady was called Robyn. There were lots of exciting parts of the show, but here are some facts about my 2 favourite bits (about water and bubbles). 

Why is water so interesting?
Water (or H20) (or dihydrogen oxide) is made up from loads and loads of little atoms. Atoms are very small particles of an element. 
Atoms join up to form things called molecules. A water molecule is made out of 3 atoms. 2 of them are Hydrogen atoms (H2), and the last atom is oxygen (0), put them together and you get H20 !

Why are bubbles so interesting?
Bubbles are made of 3 main parts: water, soap and air. This is 
why they are the thinnest thing that the human eye can see! When lots of bubbles join together it is called foam. Here's another fact:
bubbles are very rarely popped by gravity. Here are some of the reasons why bubbles do get popped:
Dryness
Evaporation
The sun
Air turbulence

Another thing that I really liked about the show was his magic tricks. 
The first one Richard did was get 3 metal rings. Then he made them connect together and pull apart without using his hands at all, it was super cool. The other one he did was when he kept randomly making red pom poms appear. They came out of his: 
Pockets, hands, and even his mouth!!!!

I had loads of fun at the show and I really want to see it again, so until them I guess I could try some stuff by myself at home!
Before I go, here are some photos and videos: 

Mixing and magic

After show work

Bubble work

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment!

Happy camper!

Welcome back bloggers!

Last week Myself and the rest of the Year 5 and 6's went on our big school camp!

We went up to Mt Ruapehu for some skiing/snowboarding fun!

I learnt how to snowboard and really enjoyed going down all the snow covered slopes, and back up on the chairlift! I got to stay in a room  with my friend Abby. (See down below for her blog!)

It was so much fun that I decided to make a slideshow about all my experiences. Here it is:

What were the challenges?
At camp Learning to snowboard was really tricky. 
I  had to learn how to turn at the right time, how to stop
and how to go faster. While learning I had quite a few
Bumps and scrapes from falling over. It was still super 
Fun though!

What was fun?
I loved going up on the chairlifts, and getting a little ride. I 
also liked going on the magic carpet. (A magic carpet is like 
a conveyor belt for humans!) Another thing that was really
fun was riding on the toboggans!

What was the benefit?
The biggest benefit from camp was learning how to snowboard.
It was a good EOTC (education outside the classroom), and I learnt some new skills! I can't wait to go back there another time so that I can practise my skills!

Abby's blog: wpsAbbym.blogspot.co.nz
I hope you like my work and feel free to comment

Architect or blogger?

Welcome back bloggers

In class we have been doing geometry. 

Tinker-cad is a good website to use when using shapes and measuring , which is what we had been doing.  

We decided to design a playground because that is something that the juniors are running short of. 

Here is my screen-castify about my design: 

What is tinker-cad?

This is a website where you can design

3D buildings and places (like playgrounds). 

I would recommend it for your geometry!

I found this work quite challenging, because we had to place everything in a very specific place and do lots of calculating so our playgrounds look real. I still really liked the challenge though.

Feel free to comment!

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How to speak animal

Hi blogging world!
Recently I have been looking at how animals communicate. I read a story about this topic and decided to make a response on the story. I enjoyed reading the story because it had lots of interesting facts about animals. Trying to think about things that I didn't like from  the story was quite challenging because The info that I found out was very cool. Here is my response:

Personal Response

Directions

During or after reading record your personal thoughts and questions under each heading.

Headings		Personal Response
	QUESTION	How do dogs learn what humans are saying? Can cats understand humans? What is the animal that can understand most of human language
	WAS SURPRISED ABOUT	That spiked iguanas could understand a paradise flycatchers warning call for danger in the jurrasic times   Bees communicate by ‘dancing’ to tell others where the nectar is  Different species can understand eachother
	LIKED	That animals can learn tricks via communication like jumping or playing dead     How animals mark their territory by leaving their smell in the area That deers communicate and tell other deers when their is danger to protect eachother
	DIDN’T LIKE	Birds might attack if you get to close to their nest   A bee will communicate by stinging when angry or hurt  That humans can’t understand what animals are saying
	WHAT DO WE NEED TO   CHANGE.	We need to spend more time in nature so that we can understand animals better   We need to listen to our animals more because they might be giving us an important message  We should spend more time with our pets becasue that tels them that we love them
	MADE ME THINK ABOUT	What animals might be saying   The sounds animals make  Why do some animals not make a sound like a rabbit
	DIDN’T UNDERSTAND

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment!

Ako Hiko Tool-kits

Welcome back bloggers!

I have just been to the Ako Hiko Tool-kits!

I had so, so much fun! I went to 1 session called incredibox, and presented a slideshow about Making a quiz on a website called Kahoot, for another session.

What are student led tool-kits?
This is a big meeting, hosted by one of the schools in the Ako Hiko cluster.
6-24 students are chosen from each school to come and watch other children present about a tool on their Chromebooks. Some kids are chosen to present their own presentations. 
There are also some challenge's that you do on the day. This year there was a coding challenge and a problem solving challenge.  

What do you do in the challenges?
2-4 students are chosen per school to do each challenge. I was picked from our school to participate in a problem solving challenge!
We had to build a structure that was more than 10 cm tall and it had to hold a cup with 100 grams in it. 
Our structure came second place, and was 20 cm Tall, and we got the award for the most creative.

At The tool-kit sessions I had to present a slideshow. 

Like I said it was about Kahoot. I did it in front of a classroom of kids. If you would like to see it, 

Here it is:

I had loads of ultra cool experiences at the tool-kits! The thing that I found most fun was when I got to do a Kahoot quiz with the classroom of kids that I was teaching. The thing that I found most challenging was getting everybody signed into the website (kahoot) because we had lots of troubles, but we managed to get through everything! I learnt, that there is that you can get bonus's on incredibox. I learnt this when I went to my first session. Before I presented I was feeling kind of nervous, but now I feel proud of myself!
Here are some photos as well:

At the problem solving challenge

Doing some work on my chrome book

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Jonty and Choc

Welcome back bloggers,
Last term in class, I was reading a book called Jonty and Choc, by Vince Ford. The book is about 2 boys who are best friends, and then they start Intermediate. At Intermediate Choc finds a mysterious lump that interferes with their friendship. Find out more in my book review: 

I found this work fun because I got to work on a range of different activities over a week. The trickiest activity was  doing a 'Y' chart about a minor character in the story. I found this challenging because I did not know that much about the minor character. I had to assume things about the character and get clues from little details in the story. The easiest activity was the plot because all I had to do was retell the start, middle and end of the story!
I hope you like my work, and feel free to comment!
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How to screen-print

Welcome back bloggers 
Over the last term we have been trying to find ways that we can help our world, and recycle. We came up with the idea to create tote bags instead of using loads of plastic bags. The first thing we did (after some research) was have a go at screen printing onto a fabric called calico. Then, as some of our literacy we wrote procedural writing about how to screen print. Here is my work:


For this writing we had to write from our own experience at screen-printing, and I found it quite fun. The most challenging bit was remembering all the things we needed to use, to put in the materials list. The easiest bit about this work was writing the steps because I knew how to screen-print and all I had to do was write down my experience in step by step instructions.
I hope you like my work, and feel free to comment!
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Halving and doubling

 Welcome back bloggers! 
A couple of days ago in class we were thinking about what would make multiplication questions easier when we were working them out. We came up with the strategy of halving and doubling, this is my presentation to show my work:

I found some of the questions kind of tricky but I managed to complete them! My favourite part of this work was when we got to write our own word problem, maybe you could try and solve it (without looking at the answer on the bottom of the page!)
I hope you like my work, feel free to comment!

My new blog profile

Welcome back bloggers,

This week in class we were wondering what people thought about us when they visited our blog. 
We decided to make a thing-link, to tell people a bit about ourselfs when they came onto our blogs.
This is my work:


I found this work easy because I got to write lots of stuff about myself, (what I like, what I dislike etc). I found this work challenging because I had trouble putting some of my Documents  in. I think this activity was fun and creative and I hope you guys like it!

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Recycling And Rubbish

In class we have been thinking about Rubbish and Recycling. We read a book about this and then decided to make an info-graphic. An info-graphic is like a poster with bits of information, pictures, shapes and colour. We thought about things like, Where our rubbish goes, and what we can make out of recycled things. This is my 

info-graphic:

I found this work quite fun because I got to add lots of images. I used a background with only 1 plain colour so my work would be easier to read.  I have learnt, that over 100,000 sea mammals are killed by plastic every year! I think humans need to think more about what we do with our rubbish because it can be harmful to our environment.

I hope you like my work, and feel free to comment!

new class!

Hi bloggers, A week ago we moved into our new learning area called Te Waka Ako. That means The canoe of learning. After a couple of days we made a drawing using the six thinking hats to show what we thought about the space. Here is my learning:

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This work was quite easy because I was sharing my opinion. I hope you like my work and feel free to comment 
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This is a photo from the opening of the building. 

skateboarding fun!!!

Welcome back blogging world!

a couple of days ago in class we were told to write in any style about our first skateboarding class. I wrote and acrostic poem made up of the words 'skateboarding fun.'

Starting  on the gear,

Knee pads

And elbow pads next,

Then  wristbands last.

Excellent!  Skateboarding time,

Blue, pink, orange boards.

Okay, let's go, position your foot!

And now let's push along the court.

Reaching the finishing line,  we  are

Done. Gear  away

Into the boxes.

Now, boards in formation.

Gosh, that went fast

Filled with pride, I went to class,

Unfortunately the lesson is over...

Now, I can’t wait to go back!

The thing that I found most easy while writing this poem was the letter 'S' at the beginning. The 'S' was easy because the word 'start' begins with 'S' and 'S' is also the first letter of 'skateboarding'. The bit I found most tricky was doing the letter 'U' because not many 'U' words relate to skateboarding.

I hope you like my work, and feel free to comment!
you could talk about shortening sentences into phrases and loosing the little words or the words that tell us something versus suggesting something. Poetry is like song lyrics and need to flow like miusic in a way