The Extremely Fun Wonder Project

For the past couple of weeks in Te Ngahere there's been two people coming in to explain what the Wonder Project is. Their names are Troy and Gustavo, Gustavo is an pomology and Troy is an rainwater engineer. The Wonder Project is when you learn about rockets and you also launch rockets in the process. We have been learning the safety rules of launching a rocket and what you’re supposed to do when you launch a rocket. One of the safety rules is that when you launch you don’t run, you walk, another one is that you have to be wearing your vest, eye protection and a helmet. The rocket is going to be made by two 1.5 liter bottles, cardboard and some decorations so it’s different from the others and you don’t get mixed up with the the other people Have you ever launched a water rocket before?

Our Amazing Matariki Week

This week at Paihia School it’s Matariki week. We usually spend this time together as a school but we’re just doing it in our own classes and doing different things. The Matariki activity we have already done is to answer some quiz questions. We had to answer them from the story. The next activity we are doing after this is to color in some feathers and we have to write our dreams and our goals for the future on the back. How do you celebrate Matariki?

Our Amazing Trick Shot

This week we have been doing a ping pong trick shot. The success criteria for the trick shot is that you have to get in the cup, it must take three seconds, there has to be a piece of cardboard, it also has to have at least one bounce and it had  to be filmed to be checked. I did mine at home a bit early because I didn’t go to school the first day.I did it with my friend group when I got back to school because I had to help them. They did theirs really well and it was really fun to help them. I thought it was really creative and really cool. I used a cardboard box and I cut a hole in the middle of the box and it had to get in and before that it bounced and then landed. The things that worked was the hole in the box and I thought it  was a really good idea. The things that didn’t work was nothing because I think everything went well.

 Have you tried to do this trick shot before?

Mine and my Sisters Amazing Volcano study

For the past two weeks my sister and I have been doing a volcano study. We were learning about volcanoes than we thought that we should do a volcano study so we did, we shared it to each other and one of our teachers to check it and they liked it but we’re still not finished but we still wanted to show everyone. We still have heaps of other volcanos to study in New Zealand. Have you ever wanted to study volcanos?

Whole School Virtual Assembly

Last week we had a whole school assembly. It was with all the classes from Paihia School. There was over 50 families there. I got a certificate but not any old certificate the Principal certificate for doing a subject that isn't my favourite but still going on ( it’s art). It was a really fun afternoon and I really, really want to do it again. Have you ever had a Principal certificate before?

My Incredible Certificates

Last week my class (Te Ngahere) had a virtual assemble, on Friday. This week we're doing a same type of one put with the other senior class called Te Maunga. Last week I got two certificates. The first one was a blogging one and that’s what I’m doing now and the other on was for art. I didn’t think I was going to get one for art because I’m not a big fan of art.  There was a couple people there and there was certificates for everything and I’m pretty sure everyone in my class got one and even more then 3 and that’s super cool. What type of certificates you would get?

Raranga Matihiko

On Wednesday the 19th of February the year 6’s went to Waitangi for the whole day. We did heaps of different things like go to the new museum and using Ipads .  Ipads that are a type of a Ipad with a keyboard that you can take on and off the Ipad and it also comes with a pen that can only work on the one Ipad thing that you have, they were also touch screen. The museum was super cool. We saw so much people that were related to us that fought in the world war one and two and that was so cool to see.  It was really fun looking at all the maori people that fought for Aotearoa (New Zealand if you didn’t know). We learnt heaps of things and we all wished we could learn more things about all those people who died fighting for us. There wasn’t enough  ipad services for us so I just used a chromebook so I don’t really know how they work that well. If you don’t know what the museum was about is about the Maori Battalion and it’s about maoris that fought for New Zealand. We all wished that we could go back and look at heaps more things and learn even more, I might be going again with some of my family. We learnt things on scratch and it was fun as well. We did heaps things and I really enjoyed it.

Nature

Hi, my name is Yazmin and I’m a Year 5 at Paihia School. Since last term we have been making films for the film festival. Mine didn’t go through to the film festival but my friend Ayanda’s did. I was happy for her. We tried hard though. I was with Tiana, Azure, Shivarm, Mahuna and River. It was fun.

The First Christmas

I am learning how to write a animation.

Christmas Inquiry

I worked with my Friend Zaapharj.