Amazing PAL Fun Day!

 Kia ora, before the school holidays we had a PAL fun day. PAL stands for Physical Activity Leader, the reason why its called Physical Activity Leader is because the teachers don’t lead it, only students at the school do. On PAL fun day me and my friend, Alana, were a leader of a game, it was called line tag. The rules of line tag is to stay on the lines and don’t touch the concrete and someone is in and they have to run along the line tagging people. 

What I enjoyed the most about PAL fun day was actually being a leader of line tag, and teaching kids a new game. The hardest part was explaining the instructions to the little kids because it was kind of confusing, so luckily I had a friend to help. If we did PAL fun day again I would maybe play a different game, and make it less boring. 

Have you ever done a PAL fun day before?

Amazing Scams And Phishing!

 Kia ora, this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning what to do when a pop up or a scam pops up on your chromebook. Whaea Chrissy and Whaea Becks (our teachers) had set us up a google slide presentation for us to work on. On the presentation we had a picture and it was either of a pop up or a email and we had to write if we thought it was legit or fake and the reasons why it’s legit or fake. How you can tell if its legit or fake is because you have to look at the lock in the corner. If it has a red line in it it’s not safe. If it has no line in it’s safe. Also if a pop up does come up on your screen and it says you need to download something DON’T click download because your teachers already download everything on your computer. The keep yourself safe all you need to do is email your teacher/teachers if anything unusual pops up, and make sure you don’t put personal information in dodgy sights and things.

Amazing 4 Shot Movies!

 Kia ora bloggers, this week in Te Ngahere we were making 4 shot movies. The 4 different shots we had to take was an establishing shot, long shot, medium shot and close up shots. An establishing shot is a shot from far away so all you can see is the sean from where your movie is placed and you can barely see the character. A long shot is a shot from where you can see the characters full body. A medium shot is a shot from where you can only see half the characters body and you can see what they’re holding, you can even see their facial expressions. Lastly a close up shot, a close up shot is a shot from which you can see what the character is holding. What I think my group did well was pretty much having the pictures exactly what they’re supposed to be like. What I think we could of done better next time is to add some music to the video to making it more interesting. What I think this will help me with in my proper movie is how to take better shots from better angles. 

Have you ever made a 4 shot movie before? 

Perfect Dot Plot Graph/DLO!

Kia ora bloggers, last week in Te Ngahere we were learning how to make dot plot graphs. I learnt that when making a dot plot graph you have to know how to explain what a dot plot graph is like explain what the dots show, when we were doing this we were allowed to look at a dot plot graph for an example and the dots on the dot plot graph represented how far each throw was. What confused me when I was making my DLO was how to explain my dot plot graph that I made, so I gathered all my hoe and watched a few example videos and then I knew how to explain my dot plot graph. What I think I could of done better in my DLO is to add some more pictures related to my dot plot graph. 

Have you ever done this before? 

The Amazing Marble Challenge Take 2!

 Kia ora bloggers, at the end of term 2 we had the Great Marble Challenge Take 2. We had to modify our ramp and test it again. We were doing this to see if we can improve on the last time we did it. We modified our ramp by putting the mark on where the marble should go on the ramp a little higher so it would go further. We improved a lot from our last ramp, just because we put the mark higher, so it would go further. What I think I did well this time was being specific in the instructions, because last time our instructions didn’t make any sense, but this time they worked really well. What I think I should improve next time is the ramp, because last time we had our ramp flipped over one way, so this time we flipped it a different way, to modify it even more. 

Have you ever made a marble ramp before?

This is a photo of my marble ramp. I think this is a really good marble ramp because of how it was created and presented. We needed cardboard, scissors, hot glue and a marble to make it. 

Amazing Science Fair Reflection!

 Hey bloggers, last week in Te Ngahere we were doing our science fair boards/experiments. I learnt what a controlled variable is, a controlled variable is a variable that you have to keep control of, like when we had to leave the stains on the fabric out for an hour we accidentally left it for an hour and twenty minutes, so that a variable we should of controlled. There is also another variable we should of controlled, the other variable is that when we put the pieces of fabric with the stains on into the washing machine we put them on top of each other so one of the stains got into the other pieces, so once again that is another variable we should of controlled. What I think was difficult was our method, because in our method we had to really explain how we did our science experiment, so I gathered all my hoe and wrote that method, and it ended up AMAZING. Aslo next time if we ever even do this again I would, make sure we controlled the variables and not put them on top of each other. The reason why I used my hoe was because, my hoe helps me to get things done and the best hoe I used was kaha (being strong.) 

Have you ever made a science reflection/project?

The Great Marble Challenge!

 Kia ora bloggers, last week in Te Ngahere we were making marble ramps. What my group did well was creating a ramp that rolled a marble almost 1.1m. What we could’ve done better is to make the angle higher so the marble would go closer to the point. Overall, we got 6 points. We think that we explained the instructions well because we got 6 points. If we had an opportunity to design a new ramp we would change the angle and make the instructions clearer. 

Have you ever made a marble ramp before? 

Amazing Science Roadshow!

 Kia ora bloggers, last week in Te Ngahere we went on this amazing trip to the Bay of Islands college for a Science Roadshow. I learnt that in science it’s not just about experimenting it’s about having a hypothesis to (a hypothesis is to guess something). My most favourite exhibit at the Science Roadshow was the different types of honey tasting because one it was delicious and the learning part was figuring out what makes some of the honeys taste different. When I went to the Science Roadshow it gave me some ideas for what I should do with my project, the ideas it gave me was that I should maybe have something like the honey tasting but instead of honey maybe I could do something else. I think the reason why we went to the Science Roadshow was to learn more about science, and obviously to give us some ideas for what to do with our project. 

Have you ever been to a science roadshow (also known as science fair)?

Incredible Scientific Method!

 Kia ora bloggers, last week in Te Ngahere we made a DLO about the steps of the scientific method. We were learning this because we made an infographic of the steps of the scientific method and because the science fair is coming up. From what I have learnt I will ask questions and test before I do something that I’m not sure of. What I think I did well was making the DLO, like putting pictures and explaining the steps properly so people understand. What I think I could of done better is maybe add a few more pictures. 

Have you learnt the scientific method before?

My Amazing Mosaic Art!

 Hi bloggers, this week in Te Ngahere we made these awesome mosaic arts on a Google drawing. We had to use a tool called polyline to create our mosaic of an animal, plant or even an anime character. The polyline helps to create a shape to go over the thing you have chosen to do. We were doing this to create QR codes to put around our school to explain about lots of different plants and animals and why me need them. I really enjoyed doing this mosaic art because it teaches you something new like how to use the tool and it is really fun. For my mosaic art I chose to do a giraffe and it turned out really good. 

Have you ever made a mosaic?

Amazing Pick a Path!

Last week in Te Ngahere I made a Pick a Path. We did this to share what we had learnt from when we went to Urupukapuka with the Project Island Song Team (go check that post). The things that I learnt is not to leave rubbish on a pest free island. This is bad because you could kill the wildlife like the beautiful birds that live there. What I think I did well was think of very good questions for the people to answer like; if you saw a rat on one of the pest free islands would you tell someone to get rid of it. What I could do better next time is explain why the person is correct and incorrect. 

Have you ever made a Pick a Path?

 

Trip To Urupukapuka!

 This week in Te Ngahere the year six’s went on a trip to Urupukapuka one of the 7 islands in Ipipiri. We went there with the Project Island Song team because, they were showing our class how they keep the pests away from the islands the pests they were talking about was, rats, stoats, possums and red ants. They try to get rid of the rats, stoats and possums by setting up traps around the island with food inside to trap them when they walk in. Also I learnt that the difference between manuka and kanuka it that manuka is mean and kanuka is kind. Here is some things that we saw and did on the trip:  Once we got to Urupukapuka Island we ate morning tea. After morning tea we walked up a steep hill to a pohutukawa tree. Then we walked back down the other side of the hill to where people have planted things and we planted a tree called a beach tree. Then we walked back up the hill then we came back and had lunch. After lunch we got into a group of three and made rat traps for our school.  Have you ever been to Urupukapuka?

Amazing Smart Relationships!

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Smart Relationships. We had to watch a Youtube video on how to stay safe online. Then we had to make 2 google presentations on how to stay safe ourselves. We were learning to do this because it is super important to know how to stay safe, just in case anything bad happens like you get kidnapped. In the future to stay safe from now on I will change my profile on all the apps I have because on one of the apps I have, it has a picture of me in front of my car with the number plate showing. This is bad because you never know someone could be tracking your car. I find this scary because it makes me feel like I am being tracked down because of my number plate (but now it has been changed).

Have you ever taken a picture of you in front of your car?

My Incredible Narrative!

 This week in Te Ngahere we made a Narrative about a story called WIng. It is a video on youtube and we had to rewrite a scene of it and add lots of detail. Here is my Narrative:

The sky was murky and unable to see. A petrified creature ran into the forest with only one wing to spare. When he was home he dashed upstairs to make a new wing. The petrified creature made his new wing and shot out of a large grey catapult. He was spinning round and round in the murky sky where the stars were glistening brightly. Until bang, he dropped on the barky forest floor; his wooden wing shattered as he was flying in the sky. He was unconscious but when his dark brown eyes opened, there were four awful-looking creatures. They had a beak as sharp as a shark's tooth, wings as sharp as a machete. Then a moment later there was a young fearless girl who was playing a mournful sound on a flute as her fingers moved mildly across the flute, she was trying to save the petrified creature's life. The machete-winged creatures didn't like the sound of the mournful flute playing so they rushed into the deep dark wood following the girl and then grabbed her and tugged on her wing until the wing hacked off of the fearless girl. The fearless girl was hurt and was dirty and covered in mud and bark, the petrified creature walked over to the girl and covered up her wound from the wing. They could hear the machete-winged creatures in the deep dark forest ahead, the gorgeous girl and the boy held hands, and with one wing each, they flew into the murky sky. The machete-winged creatures walked to where the girl and the boy flew off and they snapped the girl’s wooden flute into smithereens. Have you ever written anything with this much detail?   

My Amazing Ngahere Report!

 This week in Te Ngahere we finally finished our Ngahere report. How we made our Ngahere report was we made a google doc and wrote facts about silver ferns then we put a source going to where we found the information. We did this because we were basically making a script to help people know what a silver fern is. We are going to put a sign on a tree like one of those covid traser things and they would scan it and it would go to a video about silver ferns. What I did well was reading the teachers feedback and trying to fix it. Next time I could fix the feedback a little faster. 

Have you ever written a report? 

My Holiday in Tutukaka!

On the holidays I went on holiday with my 2 brothers, mum and dad. We went to a place called Tutukaka and we stayed in a motel called The Pacific Rendezvous. It had a Spa a hot tub and a pool it even had a tennis court and a gaming room and two private beaches. Most of the time we spent was in the hot tub and the pool but the pool was freezing cold. One of the times we went to one of the private beaches and snorkeled all day it was super clear. We saw lots of piper, kina and mullet. Have you ever been snorkeling before?  

The Amazing Bush Walk!

A few weeks ago in Te Ngahere we went for a bush walk. We started from a bridge then we crossed the bridge until we reached a muddy track and it made my shoes really muddy. We walked and walked up a steep hill it was really tiring. We saw lots of streams and cliffs on the way eventually we saw another bridge with a stream under it. We sat down and watched the stream and we saw tiny baby fish, and huge beetles. 

After half an hour we walked back this time it was way less tiring. I fell over once of twice, but that was ok. When we got over the bridge I saw a huge scary spider I think it was a white tail. Then we sat on a hill and took a picture of the hole class. Have you ever been on a bush walk?

The Phenomenal Episode!

This week in Te Ngahere we watched an episode of Our Planet. It was about coastal seas. It was phenomenal.  When we were watching it we had to write down facts about what we heard about sharks otter dolphins ect. I put down 26 facts. After the episode we had to make a presentation about our facts from the coastal seas. The narrator of the coastal seas was David Attenborough. 

Here are some of my facts about sharks: When sharks open their mouths they let all the little fish called wrasse eat the bacteria off the sharks teeth this is a  mutualism relationship, because the reward for the sharks is to have a good night feast and the reward for the wrasse is the food of the sharks teeth. 

Here are some more facts about sea otters: Otters fur keeps them warm from cold waters, sea otters have the most dense fur out of all sea creatures, otters' favourite food is sea urchins for example Kina. 

Have you ever seen a shark?

The Delicious Lunch At Greens!

Yesterday as a class we went to a restaurant for lunch called Greens, because it was Shivam's birthday. We ate butter chicken for lunch and it was delightful.  

When I ate the butter chicken I felt like I was in a dream, that's why i’m going back there one day! As it was Shivam’s birthday we gave him a card it was Angela’s and Jade’s idea and he was happy. Once we had finished eating we had a big surprise. In the distance I saw a shopping cart full of easter eggs, Shivam and his family came round and gave us each one and I got a pineapple lump one. That was nice to. We said thank you to his family by singing some songs.  

Have you ever been to a restaurant for lunch with your class?

Fantastic Strategies!

In Te Ngahere this week we have been learning about which strategies are the best for subtracting. We found out that place value is not a good strategy, but we think equal addition is a good strategy and so is number line. So in this blog I am going to be showing you why equal addition is a good strategy for me.

So when I have been learning about equal addition I know it is a good strategy because if you had 263 - 189 you could add 11 to 189 which would be 200, then you would have to add 11 to 263 as well to make it equal so that would make 274 so 274 - 200 which is easy so it equals 74. Have you ever done equal additions.?  Here is a video to show you what I mean.

 

Comparing Amazing drawings!

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to work together nicely with our learning groups. So for our activity we had to get a piece of paper and get a few colors then go outside one by one looking at a picture with loads of doodles on. The winner is the group whose most accurate and what made it really hard was how the drawer couldn’t go outside to look at the picture. There was one drawer and 2 people who went outside to look at the paper, and then when they came back in they had to tell the drawer what to draw. 

In our 1st attempt what worked well was how Azure explained it really well to Tyler. What didn’t work well was how the person went outside and couldn’t touch the paper so that made it hard for the drawer to tell what the runner is saing for them to draw and where to draw it.

In our 2nd attempt what we changed was our group and we changed who was the

drawer and who was the person who went outside. What worked well this time was

Dezray did really well being the drawer and me and Azure were better at being the

person who goes outside. What didn’t work well was once again not being able to

touch the paper. 

Comparing amazing food webs!

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the New Zealand native bush food web we had to make a google drawing about it so here is my finished task and the teachers finished task. 

 My food web is different to the teachers one  because they have put a lot of arrows meaning that all the animals have at least 1-2 things to eat meaning my one has barely any so that means all the animals have barely anything to eat. Another difference is the colored arrows on theirs meaning I colored them for fun but their one is saying that they have a color per each animal. And the last difference is when the triangle bit at the end of the arrow is pointing to the possum the possum is going to eat the animal at the other end of it and same goes to the rest of the animals/plants. Have you ever made a food web?

  

The Ultra Amazing Ecosystem!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the ecosystem. For our activity we had to make a google doc and fill out three columns. The first column said what I know (prior knowledge). The second one said what I discovered (new information) And the last one said my new understandings (synthesis). 

I know what a decomposer is and I know what carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide is air and a example of a decomposer is fungi. I discovered that an ecosystem is made up of animals, plants and bacteria as well as the physical and chemical environment they live in. My new understandings about the ecosystem is if there was no decomposer,  consumer or a producer in the ecosystem then it wouldn’t work at all.

The hardest part of the learning was looking through all of the text to find the answers. And it was hard to actually make the ecosystem drawing.

 Have you ever learnt about the ecosystem? 

Sharing My Knowledge On Mutualism!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Mutualism. Our activity was to create a google drawing showing a mutualism. In my drawing I put in what I learnt about Mutualism and what I know.

I learnt that Mutualism is were birds and trees help each other. Firstly a bird eats of fruit and berrys of the tree then once it has swallowed the seed the seed coat comes of then when it poops out the seed the seed berries itself underground  then after a few weeks/days it grows into a tree, that information is how  birds help trees and trees help birds trees help birds by giving them food to eat. 

There is another way of the trees helping the birds it that birds makes their habitats in trees. It isn’t just birds and trees there is so many more ways like when big fishes open their mouths and all the little fishes come and eat of the bacteria of the big fishes teeth and the reward for the little fish is the food from the teeth.

Stunning Measurement DLO!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about measurement. I learnt how to measure it in the appropriate places which is always keep it on a flat surface so it doesn’t break, always start from the zero or else it will get confusing and last of all make sure it is strate at all times. 

Then I learnt how to convert between mm and cm, 1 cm is 10 times bigger than 1 mm, 1 cm = 10 mm, 

3 cm = 30 , 5 cm = 50 mm and 1 m is 100 times bigger than 1 cm, 1 m = 100 cm

1m + 50 cm = 1.5m. And last of all I learnt how to estimate measuring accurately. 

I know two of my steps are 1 metre but if you stretch your legs out it is a metre two. For example if you were measuring a long mirror lay it down on the ground and then use two steps to measure it. 

The hardest part was to convert between mm and cm. Have you ever measured two of your steps before? I will embed my DLO.

The Worst Situation I've Ever Been In!

Last week in the Bay of Islands there was a Tsunami alert. It was so scary, first our class had to walk  up to higher ground lots of people were crying. After we were on higher ground I started to cry too I felt scared  and anxious because I was thinking that my parents were not safe and I was angry because I didn’t want to spend my whole day on a hill.

A few minutes  later of sitting on the hill I was allowed to call my parents and I asked them if they were safe and they said they  were  safe that made me feel so much better.  A few of my friends were gone because their parents took them to a better place. So that made me super bored and we were there for over 3 hours literally doing nothing all that I was doing was picking leaves of a tree and throwing them on the ground feeling bored. Below us were some rocks in the water and the tide was coming in so fast and eventually it was like the rocks weren't even there! We were doing a little quiz thing with Gina and the rest of Te Ngahere which was fun my parents finally came to pick me up and that made me a little happier. Then my parents took me up to high ground and after an hour or so me and my younger brother and my parents, took me to Kerikeri to pick up my older brother from high school. On the way back from Kerikeri we saw mini Tsunamis in the water then we drove home super fast luckily it wasn’t raining. 

Have you ever been in a Tsunami?

Some Work I Absolutely Love!

This week in Te Ngahere, we have been learning the rules of the Kawa of Care. We had to make an animation or a DLO about the Kawa of Care. Once we had completed it,  we had to screencastify it.  Here are some tips on how to follow the Kawa of Care. Do not eat or drink when using your chromebook. Never leave it on the ground. Protect your password and keep it completely secret. Bring it back to school every day, charged and ready to use.

The hardest part of the learning was to screencastify it because all my friends who I did it with didn’t know how and it was hard to figure out the voices we were going to use.

 Have you ever made an animation?

Mind Blowing Facts About Roy LIchtenstein!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and his famous pop art.

We had to find facts of Roy Lichtenstein and make pop art like he did. I found out these facts about him: Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York 1923. He died on 29 of September 1997. He loved two special things comics and science, he put them both together and made up something called pop art. Roy Lichtenstein was criticized for using very basic colors. Roy Lichtenstein is a very famous artist. The hardest part of the learning was finding the facts. Have you ever made a comic?

Here is my DLO