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?

Learning to Pronounce Te Reo Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been creating a Te Reo DLO. We were learning how to pronounce Maori words properly. I had to record myself saying the Maori alphabet, greetings and place names. I learnt that Waihopai means Invercargill in Maori. I think I did quite good when I was recording the Maori alphabet because it was easier to pronounce to words. I need to work on place names in the future because I can't say the word without something telling me the word first.

What does your classroom learn for Te Reo Maori? 

The Most Fantastic Work Ever

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about smart surfing. Smart surfing is where you have a sentence: (for example) Where do Green geckos live? You would highlight the keywords in that sentence. You would find the key words in the sentence (green geckos live) and search the web for it. Then we had to research those key words and link the information we found. I learnt that if you use keywords you get the right information you need, because when you research lots of words, Google gives you any search created with those words included. Have you ever just used keywords to research? If so did you get the information you needed?

The Best Work I Have Ever Done

In Te Ngahere we have been doing something called Coastal Seas. We had to watch a documentary about Coastal Seas by David Attenborough. I learnt that seagrass captures carbon dioxide. While we were watching the video we had to write down over ten facts about Coastal Seas and what lives in them, like coral, seagrass, mangroves, sharks, dolphins and other marine life. After that, we had to add pictures to our facts.  Have you ever watched a David Attenborough video? If so which one did you watch?

The Fantastic Walk to Greens

In Te Ngahere we walked to Greens. We walked to Greens because it was Shivam’s Birthday. (Shivam is a student in our class.) We went there because Shivam’s parents own Greens. We loved that so much. My friends and I loved it because the people at Greens were so nice because they served almost 60 kids in our class. We loved the food we ate. On our plates we had butter chicken in two places, two bits of naan bread, a big pile of rice and a clear space that was for other food if we didn’t get butter chicken. We acknowledged Shivam by giving him a card. The card was made by Angela and Jade.R but some of the class signed it. (Angela and Jade.R are two students in our class.) At the end there was a surprise. We got easter eggs. Some people got pineapple lump chocolate and some got fredo chocolate. They came in trolley filled with boxes of eggs, we thought it was so nice of them. We said thank You by singing waiata. Have you ever been to greens?