How To Create a Calendar Art

 Today in Te Ngahere we have been doing art. We have been creating something called ‘Calendar Art’. It is really hard art because we have to follow the picture that is shaded out around 30%. It's a really fantastic art because you get to learn how to blend with colouring pencils. It is  really hard because when we draw the outline of the art it was really hard to see. 

Have you done Calendar art before?

If you want to create one here is a google slide

Last Day For Wonder Project

Today was our last day to do Wonder Project activities. We had our last launch, all the groups were watching, including the little kids. We all had turns launching our rockets, the furthest was Thea, Pharell, Ondreaus and more. They went about 79.1m. The prizes were chocolates and lollipops. Our rocket only went 27.6m, our second final launch was really good because we beat their group by 5m. It went 66.6m. Have you ever launched a rocket further than 60m?

What Do You Like About PE?

 Yesterday (Monday September 14) we had Ki O Rahi. It is a really fun game, if you don’t know what it is or you don’t know the rules, basically you have a ball and you go around avoiding the other team and touch the pool noodles. One touch means one point, if you are on the other team you have to stop the person from getting points. For the other team they have to pass the ball to their teammates that are close to them and they have to hit the bin in the middle to get points. I tried really hard to stop the team from getting points. Here is a google slide of the instructions if you want to play the game.

What Do You Know About Te Reo Maori?

This week we have been doing some Te Reo Maori. We have been learning to say the weather in Maori like rainbow, rain, sunshower, hurricane, tornado and more. We had to learn first before we could go off and make pairs with other people so test each other. After that, we finished learning the words in Maori. We then got to play a memory game. I tried my best to remember the cards it was  hard to remember where the cards were. Do you know what aniwaniwa means?

What Do You Know About Short Films?

 Over the past few weeks we had a film festival coming up. The film festival is where you film something like a movie, but it only had to be 2 - 3 minutes long. I don’t know much about the film festival but every film students make from every school is pretty fresh. My group is now up to filming. It took us 15 tries to get it all correct because I forgot some lines. It was pretty hard getting our movie done because there was a lot of screaming from other people. Have you ever created a short film before?

Here is my google slide of what we had to include in the movie

Wonder Project I’m Lovin’ It!

 Over the past few weeks we have been doing Wonder Project. Today is week 6 which means we get to build our rockets. We had to bring some 1.5 litre bottles so we could start building our rockets. We first had to watch a video that explains what we had to do. It went easy to hard because I had to put cardboard pieces with hot glue on the bottle which didn't make our rocket fly. Did you ever get to participate in the Wonder Project?

Here’s my wonder project

Sharing My Knowledge on Inferencing

 This week we have been doing some inferencing. For example if the author says that the character is crying then they would write down ‘He had tears running down his face’ That is called inferencing because the author shows us but doesn't tell us. We also had conference groups before covid-19 had started again. We had to do nine questions, it went easy to hard. It was really hard when I started doing inferencing. Have you ever tried inferencing while you were reading? 

Here is my Google Slide that has the inference texts.

How To Create A Short Film

 This week we have been doing some filming. We first started off by watching some films that other people had created. We also watched a short film that our classmates did. After we were done watching we had to look at the success criteria to see what we needed to do in order to film. It was really easy because I created a film before. I felt like a director after I finished my script. I tried really hard to finish my movie planning. Have you ever created a short film before?

Here is the link to my planning: 

Movie Planning

Sharing My Knowledge on Wonder Project

This week we had some visitors called Gustavo and Troy. They came to our school to teach us about the Wonder Project. Wonder Project is something to make kids get excited in the future about rockets. When they got to our school they introduced themselves to us and told us what they do. Troy's job was awesome because he got to create some buildings and houses. Gustavo was doing science, they both work for the wonder project too. They said that they would come to our school again and do some activities for us. Have you ever done the wonder project?

Movie Making I’m Lovin’ it

Today in Te Ngahere we have been making movies for the Film Festival that was coming up soon. We were making a plan for our movie before we could start doing our filming. Our plan had to include a rocket launching. The title for my story is Alien Apocalypse. We had to get some ideas that didn't include a nuclear launching because we didn't have anything that looked like one. It was fun writing something related to a rocket launching. It was really easy getting ideas because I had already done some planning before writing. Have you ever written a story related to something to do with a rocket?

What Do You Think About Cross Country

Today in Te Ngahere our class has been practising for Cross Country. Cross Country is hard for some people because we had to run for a long time. We were only allowed to do Cross Country Practise at 1:45 but we couldn’t do it everyday. After it was time our teacher told us to stop what we were doing and told us that people who started with J-Z would be able to go outside. The practise was not the same as  last year because we had to run around our field. This year we had to do 30 seconds of each warmup. We had to do squat Jumps, mountain climbers, burpees, 10 high knees 2 press ups and a russian twist. It was hard doing the russian twist. After that we got to play some games, every game was chosen by our teacher. Have you ever been to Cross Country?