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?

Our Experience With The Wonder Project & Our Launches!

 For the past nine weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning, making, launching and modifying bottle rockets.

Our design process:

First we had to get all of our materials then we started building our bottle rockets, the first thing we did was cut one of the bottles from the top of the label then glued it on to the bottom of the other bottle. After a while we figured out that we were not meant to glue it on, we were meant to tape it on so we could untape it when the parachute goes in. After that we cut out our fins and glued them on, we then did our stability test and launched our bottle rocket. 

We have now launched our bottle rocket five or six times. Our most recent launch was our best, it went 28.14 meters!  The best rocket that has been launched went 79.4 meters, can you believe that! We also made a parachute but ours sadly didn’t open when we launched our rocket  because it was to tight.

The hardest part about this was taking off the bottle lid after we realised we weren’t meant to glue it on. The easiest part about this was pulling the lever when it was time to launch.

Have you ever made a bottle rocket before?

Check out This Great Mahi Toi

 This week in Te Ngahere we started some art called Mahi Toi. We stated by tracing over four intricate designs (all the same) on a practice sheet, I did two in pencil and two in vivid. I have just started to practice blending on one of my practices which is looking really good so far! The teachers told us a blending tip; you start dark then go light but what they said to make it dark was to color it in lightly over and over so you don’t get stripes! Once we are confident blending and tracing we can start a real copy on an A4 piece of paper. My favorite part about doing this art is the blending because there are so many different shade of one color. The hard part about this was making sure my lines were not bumpy; they had to be smooth.  Here is an image of my practise sheet.

What kind of art does your class do?

Weather In Te Reo Maori

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning more Te Reo Maori, we are learning to understand and use familiar words about the weather. We started by reading a book about the weather in Te Reo, then we learnt what some weather conditions are in Te Reo Maori, such as: cloudy, rainy, sunny,etc After we had memorised the weather conditions we played memory with them (Which turned out to be really fun). Then we played go fish but we had to ask for what card we wanted speaking in Te Reo and if we wanted to go off subject we would have to do it in Te Reo. since we are still doing this when we are done ,we are going to make a weather forecast  in Te Reo Maori and present it to the class. I really enjoy learning the weather in Te Reo. 

Can you speak Fluent Te Reo Maori?  

PE Drills, I'm Loving It!

 

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we went out to the field to do some PE (Physical Education) drills for

 Ki O'Rahi. We started off by playing a small game; I really enjoyed playing it because it wasn’t the type of game where two people have the ball the whole time and don’t share, Everyone got a turn. What I found hard about this was figuring out where to go to next because I went from the line, to the back, to the person you threw the ball to. After that we played a short game of rippa rugby; this time basically two people had the ball Nearly the whole time and it wasn’t very fair on the rest of the team!

Do you know how to play Ki O’ Rahi?

Some T-Shaped I Absolutely LOVE

 For Panui (Reading) in Te Ngahere we do T-Shaped. We did this one to help us find show and not tell in a text.  The first thing we had to do was read the texts and answer some questions that we have to find show not tell for. After we had written all of our answers there was one last question at the bottom asking: which text created the most powerful images and feelings, explain why. The hard part about this was the last part because at the start I didn’t really understand what to do. The text I found the easiest was The Battle because it had an equal amount of both show and tell, it also had great vocabulary compared to the other two texts. 

What does your class do for reading?