Check Out This Amazing Te Reo Maori!

 For the past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been working on a weather report in Te Reo Maori. I did a blog post about learning weather in Te Reo Maori  afew weeks ago. Now Mahana and I have finally moved on to our DLO, we had a choice to make our DLO into a powtoon, animation or green screen; Mahana an I chose to do an animation. It didn’t matter what we had chosen, but it had to have a map of New Zealand  with all of the locations written in Te Reo Maori. Once we had finally finished making our animation we did a screencastify, linked it to the ‘Hand In Sheet’ and marked it red and now it’s green!

Have you ever had to do a screencastify in Te Reo Maori?

Here it is!

Cricket, I'm loving It

 This morning half of Te Ngahere went out to the field to practise  cricket with someone named Neal whilst the other half stayed inside to do Te Reo; I was in the first group to go out. Once we got out there we sat on the side of the year three playground. Then Neal taught us the basic cricket skills; how to hold a bat and how to hit a ball, then we had to pair up with someone; I was with Imogen. Next we had to pick a number out of one and two (In our pairs) Imogen chose number one and I chose number two. Number one was the person who had to hit the ball to their pair and number two was the one who had to retrieve the ball. We practised that for about ten minutes then moved on to ‘Speed Cricket’, then we had to get into our pairs again and pick a number out of one and two; Imogen chose one, and I chose two. Number two were the people batting and number ones were the fielders. Once it was my turn to bat I thought I would completely suck at it but turns out I’m not that bad (I hit the ball every time); we swapped over about six times before we had to go back to class. I actually really enjoyed cricket even though I thought I wouldn’t, I really hope that we can do it again some time this term. I’m  really happy because now I know how to properly hold a cricket bat and how to properly hit the ball. How to properly hold the bat: you have to make a V using your thumb and index finger and point the center of the V towards the middle of the bat.

Do you enjoy playing cricket?

Incredible Algebra

   Two days ago  in Te Ngahere during math we were learning to show how simple number puzzles work by writing sets of instructions using  algebraic symbols. Whaea Chrissy taught us to turn letters into numbers, she said it doesn’t matter what the letter is because it will still mean the same thing. Example: N=5 if I had changed it to P=5 it would still mean the same thing. Then she told us to pick a number but don’t tell her;  I chose 7. The first thing she told us to do was write N=(Our Number) then we had to double it, plus 10, minus 6, plus 8, then half it. Then whatever your answer was equaled 6 more than your original number. We also did this with a whole bunch of different strategies which are shown in the picture below.  Overall  I found this math really enjoyable and interesting. One of the reasons I really enjoyed it was because we got to try lots of really interesting different strategies.

What sort of math does your class do?

How I Spent The Last Few Days Of My Holidays

 On Friday the 9th of October our Mum told us that we could both invite one friend to come over and do some really cool stuff! My first choice was my old friend Zara but unfortunately she was busy so instead I invited Kaitlin, my brother invited his friend Jamie! The first thing we did was grab our togs and go straight to the Kawakawa swimming pools; but we didn’t realize that Jamie didn't want to  get fully submerged under water so Kaitlin and I told him to not put his head under but he just sat on the side. After about one and a half  hours of swimming we decided to get out of the pool, we then drove to Kerikeri and got pizza for lunch; Kaitlin bought a pizza along with a cookie pizza which we ate about ⅔’s of, then I bought Kaitlin and I a Coke. While we were waiting for the pizzas Jamie went to New World and bought a raspberry tea and six of the same flavor lollipops. When he got back Kaitlin and I just looked at him and asked “Why?” he didn't answer. After we had eaten our food we went to the  skating rink. Once we got there we put our socks on and started skating (I was really bad because I hadn’t done it in like four years, but I got better!) Then I bought Kaitlin and I a lemonade. Then we got into the car and finished the cookie pizza! Once we got home Mum said that Jamie could stay the night so obviously I asked if Kaitlin could stay the night, she said yes! So we made all of the beds; Ricardo slept on his bed, I slept on my bed; Jamie slept on a mattress in Ricardos room and Kaitlin slept on the couch. After that Ricardo stayed for a playdate at Jamie's house  which turned into a sleepover. Overall I really, really enjoyed the holidays!

What did you do during the holidays?

All Nighter Attempt With Zara

 During the first week of the school holidays Zara and I were texting and discussed a sleepover, we then asked our parents and planned out the whole thing over Facetime. She was going to bring the: Cheetos, KitKats and Sour lollies; I was going to bring the Popcorn, Maltesers and Oreos. Once we had picked her up we went straight to the Kawakawa swimming pools, got changed and went for a two hour swim. Once we got out of the pool we got dressed, went home and set up our snacks for the movie. We were going to do an all nighter and stay up 30 hours + to watch a series called ‘Zoo’ but three  episodes in and Zara  decided that she didn’t like it; so we were looking for a movie to watch for about 15 minutes. Finally we found a movie I wasn't that keen on watching but we still did; we watched ‘Killer Queens’ (AKA The Babysitter P2). My opinion on the movie was that when the person died there was way too much blood ( more than the human body holds); it was kind of funny though! After that it was about 6:00 pm so we went for a walk up our road. Then we watched some Youtube but dinner was ready, we had fried rice. After we had dinner we stayed up until about 12:45 watching Youtube in my room because we put a TV at the end of my bed! The next morning we woke up with Oreos and Cheetos everywhere so we cleaned it up  and watched more Youtube for about an  hour, while eating leftover Maltesers and Popcorn. Altogether we stayed up about 20 hours!

Have you ever tried to pull an all nighter before?