In Paihia school we did Wacky Wednesday, Wacky Wednesday is a day everyone dresses up in something funny, crazy and do their hair if they want to. My favourite part of Wacky Wednesday was seeing everyone costumes. I think that the whole school is dressed the best because we all look wacky. Alana sprayed her hair with blue and yellow and put her clothes inside out anika died her hair red and blue. Have you guys ever done Wacky Wednesday? What did you dress up in?
In Te Ngahere we have been making marble ramps. We did this activity because we were trying to use the scientific method. Something I learnt was how to measure properly. I think I did really well with making the instructions. Something my group didn’t do well was communicate. When we finished making the ramp and instructions we got to do the competition it was really fun, first we had to put our instruction in a box then we had to put our names in a box. The teacher picked a name out of the box then she picked the instructions out of the other box, the people whose name got pulled out had to test the peoples ramp that that got pulled out. What points do you think they got?
In Te Ngahere the year 6’s went on a trip to Urupukapuka Island with Project Island Song. We went to Urupukapuka with Project Island Song to help with bring back all the birds and insects. When we got to the warf me and Logan got tags that said biosecurite, when they gave us the tags they took us and gave us brushes we got told to stand on the brushes when the other year 6’s came they brushed their feet and then we had to pat there bags to see if they had any pests. When we were on the bout we did a little bit of work but it was fun work we had to figure out where north, south, east and west was then we found out witch track we were following. We saw lots of bird Anika’s mum saw blue penguins. When we where at Urupukapuka we had morning tea and then got to then we got split into two groups first I made rat traps they were really fun, then we did planting I planted a beach tree. Have you ever been to Urupukapuka Island before?
In Te Ngahere we have been doing EPro8 challenges while the year 7&8’s were at tech. I learnt about 2 types of energy one is kinetic energy and the other one is potential energy. kinetic energy is when something doesn’t stay still it moves potential energy is when something stays still. We had to make a device that could shoot something at least 3 metres high before hitting the ground. We do EPro8 challenges because it makes people collaborate and work together. My group worked good together this went well because we communicated and listened to each other's ideas instead of getting angry. Next time instead of voting for the best idea we could combine all the ideas together. We also need to work on reading the success criteria properly. Do you read the instructions everytime?
In Te Ngahere we did a test about if we can follow directions, Whaea Becks said that we were doing a reading test, she gave everyone a piece of paper with the test on it and told everyone not to flip it over until she said. We had 4 minutes to do the test. The point of the test was to see if we could follow instructions. The first instruction was read everything carefully. I thought that I could read the instructions while doing them all carefully. When I got to the 23rd instruction it said now that you have read all the instructions only do instruction 1 and 2 and then draw on the back of your paper. I felt annoyed because I didn’t read the first instruction properly, instead I started doing all of the questions. If this was a Success Criteria we would all fail. In the future I will know read things carefully. Do you think that you could do this test?
In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to pronounce the alphabet, place names and greetings in Maori. We had to make 3 screencastify about the alphabet, place names and greetings in Maori. I think that I did really well with the learning the alphabet in Maori but in the future I will practice place names and greetings more. Have you ever learnt the maori alphabet before?
In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Smart Surfing. Smart Surfing is when you have a question but you only use the keywords in your sentence on Google. First we watched a video that told us what Google does when you type something up on Google. I learnt that when you type a question on Google like “how fast does a Cheetah run?”, you could say “Cheetah running speed” because those are the keywords. When you type “how fast does a Cheetah run”, the Spiders in Google look at every page that have the words how, fast, does and run. That is why you only type the keywords so you have things that actually relate to what you are looking for. In the future I will now only type the keywords up on Google.
In Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. We all have groups, my group is the green group. My group did word problems, we could do it whatever way we wanted or what was best for us. I did equal auditions, we had a sheet that had the problems on it and I used equal auditions to solve the problems. I have been learning equal auditions, I found out that equal auditions is easy to do. Do you think that equal auditions are easy?
In Te Ngahere we went to Greens for lunch because it was Shivams birthday and his parents own greens. When we went to Greens we got butter chicken, the butter chicken tasted delicious, then we got Coke or Sprite. After we ate Angela & Jade gave Shivam a card that said happy birthday and we all signed it. We all got a big surprise at the end it was a chocolate egg. Before we left we sang a song for his whānau. What would you have done if you were there?
In Te Ngahere we have been doing task master. We did a task master that we had to collaborate in. there are two runners and one drawer the drawer can’t leave the table, the picture is outside so that the drawer couldn’t see it.
The first one we did didn’t work well because we couldn’t touch the paper and people keep yelling at you, when we were half way in it we started to understand what they were trying to say but it was still hard, the challenging part was when you couldn’t get the drawer to understand you.
The second time we did it was still a little bit hard, but we changed how was the drawer to someone how understood more but we should have changed how we collaborated, things worked better when we started to understand properly, things didn’t work well when people were yelling at me, the challenging part was when people didn’t understand what they were saying. Have you played taskmaster?
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This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs I learnt A food web works for all types of animals. We have to write what is different about the food web I made and the teachers food web. My food web doesn’t have colored arrows, it also doesn't have 6 arrows pointing to the stoat, mine only has 9 arrows and the other food web has 23. The arrows point the way they do, so the red arrows show you what the kiwis energy transfers to the stoat, the blue arrows shows that the invertebrates energy transfers to the tui and the green arrows shows that the kerrerus energy transfers to the possum. Why they are different colors are so it is easier to see where they point like red arrows point to what the stoats eat. It was hard because you had to show where the arrows went. What do you know about a food web?
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In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the famous pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. It was hard to get all the facts because you had to choose the right ones. Did you know that Roy lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York.
