Thomas Kendall Animation

In Te Ngahere we have been doing animations about Thomas Kendall and refugees. Our animations were about the people who arrived to New Zealand. I made a Thomas Kendall animation and  it took a lot of slides to put in the characters and the sets. I had to do my animation by myself because my group had to do other stuff. It took me a lot of slides, i had a headache from doing it. It took me about 1 - 2 hours of fixing it, I had made a lot of mistakes so i had to go back and test what it would look like. After testing it I was proud of my animation. I had to find a house but i couldn’t find one. It took me about 5 minutes to find it. My animation had about 1000 - 1020 slides. I learnt that Thomas Kendall was from England and was Christian and he really liked to teach people about god. I hope you enjoyed my blog post!!

Disco Party!!

On Wednesday we had a disco at our school, some year 1 - 4’s had to go at 5:00 - 6:15. We had to pay $2 to get in the disco. When it was the year 5 - 8’s turn everyone was excited, there was so many kids running to the whare. There was nachos, american hot dogs, drinks and lollies. I had fun chasing my friends. When the song Old Time Road came on everyone started to sing, I started to sing as well. I bought nachos and got a face paint. There was also a Blacklight, when you get a facepaint and stand in front of a blacklight the paint will glow in the dark. There wasn’t any glow sticks or glow in the dark stuff you had to buy them from the $2 Store. There was so many songs from the 2013 - 2015. They played Gangnam Style and Silento (Watch me Nae Nae) So many people were playing limbo, hide n seek, dance battles and even tag. I got a face paint that was a koro, the colour was green. There was a disco ball and so many colourful lights. I wish we had a whole school party on the field and the whare it would be like a school party.

Scientific Method

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the scientific method. The scientific method is what scientists do when they’re trying to find things out. We got to choose if we wanted to present it on canva, easl.ly or a google drawing. This is the order of the method: ask questions, research, test hypothesis, test it, test results and then present the conclusion. I think I did well explaining the order. I also learnt new stuff such as what a hypothesis is, a Hypothesis is a guess for example if someone is trying to ask you a question you guess the answer to see what it might be. I hope you enjoyed my blog post about the Scientific Method!

Math DLO

In Te Ngahere we have been doing some decimals. Decimals are fractions of whole numbers and are separated with a dot, like 5.3 or 2.9. The teacher had to cut a sleeve that was a whole. We used the sleeve to help us solve 0.8 + 0.5. I got 13 blocks and then placed it in the sleeve. We already knew that the 10 was in the sleeve and the spares were on the top. We counted how much spares there were. Then we had to write the problem in our math books and then write the answer. We had a lot of problems to solve. After 5 minutes of working them out, we had to show the teacher before going to lunch. Thank you for reading my blog post. Bye.

The Author

On Thursday we had a author come to our school. Her name was Adell. There were two authors that came to our school. I didn't know the other authors name. The juniors went to our class and the rest of the seniors went to the whare. She told us a lots of stories when she was little. She told a story when her brother jumped out a window in class to get a cricket ball. Then teachers caught him, later on they saw a house with a long driveway and the curtains were closed. They thought it was the witch's house, because there were scary decorations around the house. They dared each other to touch the rusty garage door but no one was going to do it. The books that she wrote was true. There was a book that she wrote about milking a cow. It takes one year to publish a book. She visits a school three times a week. She told us if we did anything exciting we could write a book about it. She also talked about aliens, bigfoot and the mysterious dinosaur in the water. People believed that it was real but the person who took the photo made a wooden dinosaur and then took a picture to make it look real. She showed us the website where we could read the books. When she finished talking we took a photo with her.

Toku Whanau

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Toku Whanau. Toku Whanau is when you put your uncle, grandma, grandpa, siblings and your parents.
It was really good, I didn't put my uncles name because they didn't have a english name that I could put in my Toku Whanau.
I didn't know my grandpa or grandma’s name so i didn't put their name in.
I put my sisters name and my brothers name, the teachers had to check our Toku Whanau before we could write a script or record it.
I had a few mistakes on my Toku Whanau so I had to fix it. After I wrote my script I had to get a buddy that wasn’t my friend.
I had to get someone that was already finished their Toku Whanau.
We wrote our name on the whiteboard so the teachers know where we were doing our Toku Whanau.
It was really fun doing the Toku Whanau.

Bay Bush Action came to our school to teach us about the predators that eat our kiwi, like stoats, wild Cats, Possums and even weasels. They put traps far away from houses so no dogs or cats go in the traps. They also told us that if we ever play around with a trap it will snap your arm off. They told us that people bring pests from houses and from other countries. They told us that some rats aren’t from New Zealand  they came from Indonesia. People brang too many rabbits to the forest, some people in the helicopter had to shoot the rest of the rabbits because there was too many of them. After they finished talking we had to go back to class and do some Create. We got a choice to pick a Song, Rap, diary, Animation and even a play. I made a diary about a abandoned cat.

Here is the diary:

Day 1.

I’m with my family and everything is really comfy, I love playIng wIth the kids they always pet me and feed me and always make me warm. We always went to the playground to have some fun, I lIked beIng walked because stayIng home was boring. We always had yummy stuff together, I always loved my famIly. It was nearly night tIme so we had dinner, I had a HUGE! Fish for dInner It was really yum. I was waitIng for it while my famIly puts the bone away. After 10 minutes of eating I was almost full It was bedtime so I went to the lounge and started to close my eyes. I was not gettIng comfortable so I had to go sleep wIth the kids. After 30 mInutes of sleepIng I heard noIses I tried to ignore it because it was probably the rain I then went back to sleep.

Day 2.

I woke up and I banged my head on a box, I was really confused about why I was In a box. I open the box and I see darkness, I was really scared I hop out the box and everythIng felt weird. Later on I was really starving I went to explore to see If any food was around, Later I saw a fish I really wanted it but I had nothIng to cook it. I was gettIng really cold, I had no where to go. I cried for help but no one was around. I then trIed to look for some friends to play wIth but there was no one around. I had tears comIng down and I really missed my famIly. I was alone and bored wanted some love I wanted food. I try to go In my box but I already had muddy feets on my paws. I go to a river and push my box on the edge of the river and then try to dry my feets. I go to sleep but everythIng was really cold so I try to get a warm spot.

Day  3.

I wake up and everythIng was wet, I hop out of my box and then I sunk Into the mud, I try to get out and my face went on the to the rIver. I was all wet I try to dry myself but I was too weak. I was really hungry and thIrsty I go to drInk water from the rIver but It was really yucky I rolled over because I was really Itchy. I missed my famIly super bad!! I tried to go In the water but I dIdn't want to get wet. It was nearly tIme for bed I was really scared to move. I heard weird noIses I ran back to my box and It was soft and wet I tried to sleep but I was muddy

Day 4.

I woke up and my box was gone, I looked around to see where it was. I went to the river and my box was floating on the water. I sat down wIth tears comIng down, I smelt somethIng good so I went to go look for It. It was a fish that jumped out of the rIver, I really wanted to eat It because I was hungry the last 2 days. I lIcked the fIsh and It was yuck I trIed to rIp the skIn off and eat the meat raw. It was really yucky I went to go look for somethIng else. I saw a kIwI I sneakily walk to the kiwi and jump on the kIwI to eat It. It was REALLY yum I went to a river close by and drank agaIn. It was really yucky I went to go to sleep and It raIned I was really really cold. Tears came runnIng down my eyes lIke I was lookIng at onIon.