Blog Profile

On Monday we started our Blog Profile. We did heaps of things and we had to write a lot about ourselves. We had to write a whole lot of different things like all the things that we knew about us. If your wondering what a Blog Profile is it’s when there’s a lot of information about you on your blog.   So you have to write stuff like your family, your pepeha and a lot more as well.

T Shaped Empathy

At the start of the week we have been doing T shaped Empathy. We had been learning about empathy. Empathy means being nice to other people and being kind and helping people. Say like someone was being mean to your friend and you went to stand up for them and help them. If you don’t know what we do in T shaped, it’s when you have a variety of books to read, and we have to answer questions about the story We have to do the same thing for each of the books. We were in our reading groups, my group is Breeze, Jade.O and Mark.O. 

Turbo Touch

On Friday, week one we learnt how to play Turbo Touch with Whaea Shanna. That is our newest teacher for this year, until Whaea Becks gets back from her holiday. We got ourselves into groups of five or six. We had to play against a different  group. (There was big groups and small groups.) First we had to learn all the rules and then we watched a video to see the different kinds of strategies that we could do. The rules of the game is that you have to hold the ball for two seconds or  you have to be two meters away. If you get a penalty, you have to do two passes before you can get a touch. You can pass the ball forwards, backwards and you can also go sideways but you can’t kick the ball. Another rule is that you have to touch someone with both of your hands and then they have to stop and hand it over to another person in your group. After you have gotten touched two times (it could be the same person or not) you have to hand it over to the other group. You have to tap the ball to start a game and if someone has touched you with two hands.  When you drop the ball on the grass they have to hand it over (only if that group has drop it twice in arrow otherwise you get to tap the ball and passes it to someone in your group) My group was Imogen, Jade O, Jade R, jorjah, Autumn and Grace. I loved learning how to play Turbo Touch and I bet everyone else did as well. 

Pepeha

 I did activite 2 and we had to do our pepeha. It was fun.

Recycle

Hi my name is Yazmin I’m a Year Five from Paihia School, Te Maunga. For the past few weeks we have been doing stuff about Refuse, Reuse, Recycle, Reduce. It was fun and I learnt a lot. We had to make a sign (different from the real one) and we had to choose one of these things Refuse, Reuse, Recycle, Reduce, I chose Reuse  and you will be able to see the sign that I made. Recycling is when you recycle something plastic and people turn it into something else. Reusing is when something is plastic and you can make it into something else.

Makerspace - Electricity

Hi my name is Yazmin I’m a year 5 in Te Maunga from Paihia School. In the first block of school we did a makerspace.  The makerspace was about electricity. We done all sorts of experiments and nearly all of them worked. We were in groups I was with Ayanda, Brisa, Fern, Akira, Ricky - May and Shivarm. We done an active and that was with a lemon, 10sens, nails, LED and alligator clips.

First we got the lemon and cut a little line on every one of the lemon (there were 4 lemons) and we put the ten sent coin in the lemon. The next step was to put a nail right in line of the coin and stuck it in so they didn’t touch. After that we put an alligator clip on each of those coins that we just put in the lemon. The second to last step was to join the alligator clips with the nails and it had to be in a circle. The last step was to connect the LED to two of those clips and then it should make the LED (light bulb) turn on.

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.