Energize with Gina

Today around 12:10 all the year 6’s went to the whare for energize with Gina,
we were learning about which takeaways are more healthy. She showed us a
picture of a healthy heart & a unhealthy heart. We put all the healthy takeaways
under the healthy heart & all the unhealthy takeaways under the unhealthy heart.
Next we were going to play a game we had to walk up to the pictures, memorize them,
put the unhealthy takeaways underneath the unhealthy heart & put the healthy
takeaways under the healthy heart. Kaitlin’s group won first, everyone in our group
were wondering how they did it so fast. I really enjoyed doing energize with Gina.

IN PARIS!

Chapter 1 - On the plane

On Tuesday the 25th of June we got up at 5:00am & left at 6:00am, we had to leave at 6:00 because we had
to go to our uncles house so we could drop of our bags & put them in the car so he could drive us to the
airport. Once we had got to the airport we were really excited, first we had a little look around than checked
in our luggage. After that we boarded the plane & got ready for that 17 hour flight to Doha.
I wasn't expecting to get much food on the plane, but they loaded us about every hour or 2, I kept looking
at how long till we got there but I got board & started watching movies. There was an announcement from
the captain saying 5 minutes until we land, because it was a big plane I was expecting the landing to be really
rough but it was so smooth. Because our luggage was getting shipped straight to France we didn’t have to
re-check in our luggage, when we got of the plane it was 45 degrees celsius, the heat was instant. Once we
got on a little airport bus I was so relieved, it was boiling hot outside. Once we had finally got inside
the airport we waited 3 hours & got on the plane this `flight was only seven hours.

Chapter 2 - We are in Paris

Once we got to France I was so happy because altogether on both panes I only got 1-2 hours of sleep,
we arrived in France at 7:00am & we couldn't get into our apartment until 5:00pm, we didn’t hire a car so
instead we got a taxi on the way to our hotel there was so much street art we tried to get in at 2:00 but the
owner needed to clean up the hotel, he told us to come back at 3:00 so we went for a little walk & came
back at 2:30, went around the back & lay down on the grass. When it finally reach 3:00 we went inside &
expected it to be finished but Nope. We were all asleep but he still came back at 4:00 & finished cleaning
the hotel.

Chapter 3 - Going to the center of Paris

Next we were heading towards the center of Paris we got a bit confused because we hadn’t been on a train
yet, all the stops are in French & not many people spoke English, it was boiling hot. Than we went to this
really high ‘n’ shape, we climbed up millions of stairs & got to see the Eiffel tower. Then we went to get
some lunch at Mc donalds but I didn’t get my food, luckily when we told them they gave it to us & we also
went to heaps of cool shops. After that we headed back, we thought that we knew the way but we didn't,
so we had to get lost for 2 hours, it was terrible in that heat, it was like 43 degrees.

Chapter 4 - DISNEYLAND!

Once we had finally figured out where we were going & how to NOT get lost, because
DISNEYLAND was the last stop we had to wait a very long time because people kept getting off & on
the train. When we arrived at DISNEYLAND I was so excited, the first thing we were going to do was
go to the castle but then Ricardo wanted to got on this other thing, so we walked all over the place looking
for it but turns out it was really close to the castle, it said it was a 45 minute wait but once we were on the
ride it was all worth it, it was called Big Thunder Mountain. After That Had finished I wanted to go on
it 100 more times but his time it was a 60 minute wait. Next we went & got some hotdogs, they were so
good we went to the castle it was amazing, it had everything. Next we went on the Pirates of the Carribeen,
it was a 10 minute walk to the ride, a 10 minute wait & a 10 minute ride, it was really fun it was like a log
flume but with bigger boats & smoother drops, the pirates looked so realistic. Then we went on the merry
go round, for some reason it looked really fun & it was, then mum said that we could only go on one more
ride & we chose the spinning teacups, surprisingly they were so much fun you had to spin this thing in the
middle to make the teacup spin, the floor moved by itself.     

Chapter 5 - Going on a boat cruise

The next day we went on a boat cruise, we had to go on 2 trains to get there, because we booked online
Scotties -phone wasn’t working so he sent it to mum but we couldn't zoom on mom's phone so I had to
take a photo of it but then I didn’t need to because they gave us tee tickets. After we had finally solved that
we got on the boat, we also brought a selfie stick so we used that a lot & mum bought a little Eiffel tower
& tiny key rings of the Eiffel tower. We also got to see the oldest building, it was 400 years old & the
Eiffel tower.

Chapter 6 - ???

The next day we got up & we organized things because we were leaving the next day, so we tested how
long it would take to get from our house to the airport so we knew what time to leave, it took about an
hour & a half (1 hour & 26 minutes to be specific.) Then we went back home.

Chapter 7 - getting on the plane to go to Scotland

The next day I woke up very excited to go to Scotland. When we got to the airport we had something to
eat, checked in our luggage & there was a 1 hour & 45 minute delay, so instead of arriving at 4:40 we
arrived at 5:30. Once our Taxi cme to pick us up, he took us to get our car that we hired but it wasn’t there.
We had to wait about 2 hours. Once we got our it looked very small, the boot was big but we still could
only fit 3 BIG suitcases in the boot, the rest had to go in the back with us.

PROJECT ISLAND SONG!

On Thursday twenty of the year fives & twenty of the year sixes participated in the Project Island Song to learn about why we should keep the island pest-free. Project Island Song is a place where kids can learn more about pest, planting trees & why they are important.

There are seven pest-free islands, we went to the biggest one, it’s called Urupukapuka island & we also went to Cable bay which was on the island. It was super fun because we got to plant trees, make rat traps & two of the groups got to make weta homes.

My favorite part was when we were near the end because we got to go for a little walk & we heard & saw heaps of different native birds, I think we were really lucky because we got to see a Saddleback.

PROJECT ISLAND SONG!

Marble run reflection

In Te Ngahere we have been making marble ramps, it took a long time because every
time we tested the marble ramp the marble either went further than 110cm or too far behind 110cm.

so every 10 times we rolled the marble we changed a variable, a variable is when

you change something & you get a different result. In week 3 on friday there was a

challenge to see whos marble went the closest to 110cm the winning team was Emma T,
Cheyenne & Missy & the people who built the ramp was Mikila & Isabella - Paige.

Then we had to make a marble run reflection & we had to answer about 6 questions then post it on our Blog
& Seesaw.

Bay Bush

A few weeks ago bay bush action came to our school & told us about how Possums, Stoats, Weasels, Rats,
Cats, Dogs & Ferrets affect our native wildlife. After it had finished we had to create something about it.
we could of done a song / rap, animation, acrostic poem or a play, Zara & I chose to do a play,
it was quite difficult because we were only allowed 2 people in our play but after we had
finished the script we realised how hard it would be with more than 2 people.
We had to change our script multiple times because first we were going to do a
Stoat eating a Kiwi egg but unfortunately it was too hard, then we tried to change
it to to a Dog eating a Kiwi egg but then realized that dogs eat Kiwis not their eggs,
so after we had finally perfected our script we made our play.

Marble run reflection

In Te Ngahere we have been making marble ramps,

it took a long time because every time we tested the marble

ramp the marble either went further than 110cm or too far behind 110cm.

so every 10 times we rolled the marble we changed a variable,

a variable is when you change something & you get a different result.

In week 3 on friday there was a challenge to see whos marble went

the closest to 110cm the winning team was Emma T, Cheyenne & Missy &

the people who built the ramp was Mikila & Isabella - Paige. Then we had

to make a marble run reflection & we had to answer about 6 questions

then post it on our Blog & Seesaw.

Our create part of Bay Bush

A few weeks ago bay bush action came to our school & told us about how Possums, Stoats, Weasels, Rats , Cats, Dogs & Ferrets affect our native wildlife. After it had finished we had to create something about it. we could of done a song / rap, animation, acrostic poem or a play, Zara & I chose to do a play, it was quite difficult because we were only allowed 2 people in our play but after we had finished the script we realised how hard it would be with more than 2 people. We had to change our script multiple times because first we were going to do a Stoat eating a Kiwi egg but unfortunately it was too hard, then we tried to change it to to a Dog eating a Kiwi egg but then realized that dogs eat Kiwis not their eggs, so after we had finally perfected our script we made our play.