My Alright Holidays

For the past two weeks this is what's been happening... I went to one of my Mums friends house Laura, and she invited some of her other friends, they talked and talked about some things, probably mum life because they’re all mums. I didn’t really enjoy it because I had to look after all the little kids, the hardest one to look after was my baby sister Sage because she kept running down the driveway and everywhere else around the house. A couple days later we went to this place called Lily Pond, it’s a place where we can swim and if you’re a really confident swimmer you can jump off the rocks. I think it’s really fun to jump off the rocks because to me it keeps me warm so I can stay in the water longer. We went there a couple times in the holidays. Another day in the holidays I was allowed to invite a friend over for a sleepover so I asked my friend Ayanda and she said yes!!! My sister Kova went to go and stay with her friend Molly. It was really fun because the day Ayanda was leaving Molly came over to stay the night at our house. We went to Lily Pond with them before Ayanda left. My family from my Dad’s side came to the Lily Pond as well, so that made it even more fun this is also my favourite part of my holidays.

What was your favourite part of the holidays?

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 Incredible Te Reo Māori

This term in Te Ngahere we have been  learning how to read in Te Reo Māori. We are learning to use the correct pronunciation of Te Reo Māori by reading a  pukapuka (book) in Te Reo Māori called Ngā Mahi Pārekareka Kei Te Marae (Fun At The Marae ). After we learn how to read it by ourselves without any help we go and read it to the younger tamariki (children). We will also read the english version after the Te Reo Māori version.  We are doing this so we can learn more Te Reo Māori and learn how to speak Te Reo Māori. Do you know any Te Reo Māori words? Here is a LINK and photo of the title to the pukapuka (book).

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?

The Incredible ANZAC DAY

This week we have been working with what people on the war have done for us and help us live a normal happy live. They all went to world war/wars to protect us. My person was Owen Herbert Mead and he fought for the NZ army. He fought in world war one and world war two. He died in 1942 when he was 50 years old. He worked really hard for us to have a life with no wars our fighting between the countries so we could explore the world and look at the different country around us. We thank them for everything they did and how hard they worked. Although some of them died they still live with us. Do you think they worked hard too?

Using Your Kaha

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing stuff for our four hoe. We were in groups of four and I was with Fern, Ayanda & Akira, sadly we weren’t able to finish because Akira left back to her home country and that’s Australia. We were doing a Imovie but as I said we couldn’t finish. We had to write a script and then we practiced it all the time. We filmed some of it and it’s still not done. It was still really fun to do but it was really sad that we couldn’t finish it. We learnt a lot about Kaha. Kaha is when you don’t be a bully and be nice and showing heaps of different things. Then we made the movie for it but I don’t think we're going to finish it.