Movie Making

In Te Ngahere we have been making movies We had to be in groups of 3
but since I wasn’t here I was in a group of 4 with AJ, Ataahua and Mark Because we weren't finished our movie on the last day of term 3 we had to
film some of our movie at AJ’s house. We couldn’t film the whole thing because
one person from our group wasn’t there. Then in the first week of term 4 we
started to film again. Once we got it finished we put it into an IMOVIE and
deleted all the videos but we forgot to save it so we had to redo some of it.
We only had to redo some of our movie because the part we filmed at AJ’s
house was saved on her chromebook. So the next day we filmed again and
this time we made sure it was saved before we deleted all the videos.

Have you made a movie before?

PE / Atheletics (Long Jump) With Mrs Pou

On Friday the 25th of October we did Athletics. There are 5 groups,
I am in group 3. Our group did long jump with Mrs Pou because the
fence was still being made we couldn't do long jump so instead we
played 1 game but before we played the game we had to practice
the long jump technique, it was a 1 - foot take off and  2 - foot landing, we did that for about 5 - 10 minutes.

After we had finally finished that we got to play the game, there were a whole
bunch of rulers with a medium sized gap between each of them but we were
only allowed to put 1 foot in each gap and every time someone touched a
ruler it would get taken out and the person would be out. Once everyone was
out we played one more round but this time if we touched a ruler it would be
taken out but we would still get 1 more turn.

Have you ever done long jump before?

What I learnt from Swim safe with Tracy!

On Thursday Tracy came in to talk about swim safe. One thing I learnt
that riptides pull you in from the sides. I also learnt that some flare guns
heat up and if you don’t know how to use them they can end up blowing up.
Another thing I learnt is that the flare guns that heat up aren’t waterproof
so the only way to put them out is dunking them in the water. I learnt a lot
from Tracy and really enjoyed her coming. Next time if I get bored I will still
listen instead of just sitting there. Next time I go on a boat I will make sure
that we have flare guns and someone of the boat knows how to use them.
Do you have a boat? If so, do you wear a life jacket while you are on it? Bye

Newspaper towers

On the first day of term 4 we made newspaper towers, our goal was to make a freestanding tower only using 30 cm of tape & 2 sheets of newspaper ( we weren't allowed to use scissors). Our idea was to roll up the newspaper and tape it together, at first we tried to roll it up thin but it didn’t work because the base was too small which made it harder to stand. Then we made the base a bit wider and the top a bit smaller. The hardest part was getting the tape to stick to the newspaper because the base was wider than the top. What we did well was listen to everybody's ideas and try them to see if they worked and if they didn’t we would try the other person's idea. Have you ever made any sort of tower using random objects? If so why not blog about it. Bye!