Fantastic Birthday

On Tuesday the 25th of May it was my birthday. I turned 10 years old and was allowed to stay home from school because 2 of my sisters were here and my niece. We opened presents and I got an Iphone 8+ from my sister Stella. My sister Stella’s boyfriend gave me a Pandora bracelet and a cat charm to put on it. I got lots of fun and amazing things. After I opened presents at my house I walked over to my Nanny and Pa`s house and opened presents from them. I got more fun and amazing things. I saw a giant rolled up present and I wanted to open that one. It was a times table sheet. I told her that I was on division but she said “you can hang it on your wall and every night before you go to sleep do one of these times tables.” I liked the sound of that. 

My uncle gave me a weird squishy that had fake bones in it and he sent a card that didn't arrive on my birthday. At about lunchtime we went to the park and played cheat and gang up. Then we went home and we played rubrics race. After that we played a game called spot it. We had lots of fun but then I asked Stella what time it was. She said it was 5:15, we had to get ready because we were going out for dinner. We went to a really nice restaurant called JFC. (Just fish and chips.) My Nanny and Pa came and we had a lovely dinner. When we went home it was 7:15. We all enjoyed this day and I hope next year will be the same. What did you do for your last birthday?

Fantastic EPro 8

In Te Ngahere we have been doing EPro 8 challenges. We had to split into groups of 4. My group was Jaelyn - Marie, Shivam and Mikaira. We had to build a bridge that could hold a toy car going across it. We started making a Cable Stayed bridge but then we looked at a Truss bridge. The truss bridge looked much easier because it was basically just triangles. I learnt about 3 different bridges. Truss, Suspension and Cable Stayed.  I think my group did really well because we all worked together and made quite a good bridge. None of us felt left out because we all did our part. First we all made triangles and then we all helped to put them together. Also me and Shivam sorted all of the sticks into color piles. My groups truss bridge was different to the picture of a truss bridge because ours was wonkey, the triangles were different because ours were the same size on each side and the pictures triangles were the same on both sides but the bottom triangle was a bit bigger and it wobbled a lot. Have you ever made a bridge before? If so what type did you make?

The Amazing Cyber Smart 7

In Te Ngahere we have been doing the Cyber Smart 7 Challenge.  We were learning how to use Google drawings more confidently.  In the future this should help me if I do this again because if I do a DLO and I need to draw a picture I know how. I made a fish, jellyfish, seaweed and coral. We had to make a fish or anything out of shapes. We could of made anything but I chose a fish because it didn't look very hard. I really enjoyed making this and I hope my class does this again this year. When we did this I felt so good and then I got stuck on what else to make. I think I made a pretty good fish because I like it. I think I could've added more but I couldn't think of anything I could draw that involved the sea. 

Has your class ever done the Cybersmart 7 Challenge?

The Fantastic Mothers day.

On Sunday the 9th of May it was Mothers day. My mum, Nan, Pa and I had a great day. In the morning I gave my mum her mothers day presents. She really liked them. Also I gave her 2 scratchies and she won on both. After that I went down stairs and watched a tv series. Once it was 7 o’clock in the morning I went to my Nanny’s house and gave her, her presents.

My mum made dinner and I made desert. Mum made a delicious roast lamb and potato and I made ice cream with chocolate broken in it. We did this for Nanny for Mothers day. I really enjoyed this day. I think I did well with desert because everybody liked it. 

What did you do for Mothers Day?

The Hard and Amazing EPro8

In Te Ngahere we have been making catapults. We had to make a catapult that could launch a ping pong ball at least 3 meters before hitting the ground. Our teacher gave us 30 bamboo sticks, 30 rubber bands, 1 ping pong ball, scissors, string, tape, 2 A4 pieces of paper and 1 A3 piece of paper. I learnt how to make a catapult out of bamboo sticks, rubberbands, paper and tape. Before we started the EPro8 we watched a video telling us what energy we used. I found out that potential energy is when the energy is stored somewhere and kinetic energy is when energy is released. For example in rubber bands there is potential energy and when you stretch it and let it go it makes kinetic energy. In my group it was challenging because one member was helping me and the other was sometimes playing with rubber bands. I think my group did really well because we made a working catapult that traveled through the air and hit the ground at about 4.9 meters. I think my group and I could work on communicating better. Have you ever made a catapult? 

The Hard and Easy Taskmaster

In Te Ngahere we did a taskmaster. It was called can you follow directions. (Apparently I can’t.) We had to follow 23 directions to test us. We were doing this to see if we follow instructions but apparently we read a small bit and think I know what I am doing instead of reading all of it. Our teachers were trying to teach us to read things carefully.  I learnt that I don’t always read things carefully. First off Whaea Becks gave us a piece of paper that had a set of instructions on it. We had to grab a pencil and put it on our desk. Our teacher put a timer on for 4 minutes. After four minutes was up our teacher gave us 30 more seconds and then an extra couple of minutes. (here is what we did on the paper.)  The first question was read everything carefully before doing anything. I read question 1 and I thought that it meant to read the question carefully before doing it, but it meant to read all of the questions first and then follow them. On question 23 it said now that you have read everything carefully. Do only sentence 1 and 2. Then quietly draw on the back. Once I got to there I new I did this test wrong. I felt so good about how far I got till I read the last question then  I knew I failed. From now on I am going to read things carefully. Do you always read things carefully?