Term 4 Week 9 Blog Post (Cultural Market)

Namaste everyone.

Do you enjoy markets? Do you like walking past stools smelling the delious smells and the tasty treats? Well today I will be telling you about my school's market day that happened on 4th December 2018. Let's get into it!

On the 16th October 2018, the teachers introuduced to us our PBL for the term. The burning question was: How can we successfully design, build, market and sell a product that meets the needs of our cultural diverse community? For the term we had to focus on that question while doing the steps to create something to sell on the market day.

A while after they had finished introuducing the PBL to us, they showed us a few videos on Shark Tanks. Shark Tank is a show where people from all across the world go to them to borrow money. They firstly have to persuade the Sharks on their idea and how much money they would like to borrow. Also why. The teachers showed us what a GOOD Shark Tank looks like and what a BAD Shark Tank looks like. They were both really funny. After watching the two Shark Tanks, the teachers said that we would have to do the Shark Tank to them. I was like AHHHHHHHHHHHH! This was going to be a very hard challenge indeed.

A few hours later when it was the end of the day, the teachers told us that we were going to have a shared lunch on the 18th October as part of the market. So tomorrow (Tuesday) we were going to find out what country we would be baking from. (Cooking if you must!) The next day when it was time for PBL we starting discussing what sort of foods we could bring. After that one by one we picked a piece of paper out of a box. Whatever country was on the piece of paper, was the type of food that you had to bring for the shared lunch.

Term 4 Week 8 Blog Post (Pool Day)

Tolafa Lava everyone,

Have you ever wondered why the warm swimming pools and slippery hydra slides are so fun? Well today I will be telling you about my school's pool day that happened on the 30th of Novemver 2018 and why it was so fun.
Lets get to it!

On Friday 30th November 2018, The Kaupeka hub and the Tumu hub went on a pool day to Waltham Pool. We went on a pool day to reward ourselves how great we have done this year and also for a end of year treat. When we arrived, we found a spot on the wet muddy grass and listened to the life guards instructions and rules. When that was finished, we got changed into our togs and rubbed sun screen all over our body that was open to the air when we were in the pool. When that was done, the teachers let us go into the pool, group by group. I was super excited! Me and my friends pushed each other in the pool (Well they did to me at least!) and then we started playing. We played with the water guns that we bought, Chased each other for tag and more. It was getting so much fun!

Later on me and my friends went back to the muddy grass to have something to eat as all the swimming had made us very tired. (We were definitely going to get a really good sleep that night!) When our food have settled, we went back in the pool until it was time for us to go on the hrdra slide. I was really excited for that!

When it was time for us to go on the Hydra slide, we were really excited. We climbed up the slippery wet stairs and then waited in line until it was our turn to go down. When it was our turn and the whistle blew, we pushed oursleves down the slide and off we went. It was so so so fun!

Later on around 2:00 they called us in to start packing up our stuff and to start getting changed. We headed to the changing rooms and got changed. After we had got changed, we started lining up in our homebases and waited until we were about to go on the bus back to school.

It had been a really fun day and can't wait for it to happen again next year!

Have you ever done something with your school before? If you have what did you do?

Term 4 Week 7 Blog Post (Share Memoir)

Bonjour everyone,

A few day's ago we got introduced to a Memoir. A Memoir is where you write about your favourite memory at your school and answer some questions. In our Memoir, we had questions to answer about our memory that we chose. They were... The event, The moment's that lead up to the moment, The shaping and impact on you, Your senses, Why it was a speical time for you, Any regrets about the moment, The advice you would give to other people and why it's your favourite memory. Then we had to write a few paragraphs about the whole moment.
I have wrote this Memoir on this topic because it was a really proud moment for me and also I had\have really enjoyed partocapting in the Digi Awards whether or not I win a prize.
Here is a google slide of my Memoir. Enjoy!!

Have you ever written a memoir before? What would your favourite moment at your primary school be?

Term 4 Pick a Piece (Week 5 Set blog)

Tolafa everyone,

Welcome back!
How are you all?

Today I will be writing about a piece of work that I am proud of.
Let's get to it!

For this blog post that I am reading over\writing now, we are supposed to share a piece of "something" that we are proud of and why. Today I will be sharing my writing for the Elsie Writing comp. Here is the piece of writing that I am proud of.

Is this the end?

“Belle, Where’s the remote to turn the radio on?” my father asked.
I pointed to the rusty remote lying on the concrete floor ready to explode.

“Over there dad” I said. He gave me a smile and then turned on the radio.

“Hey dad. Can we go for a walk around the block?”

“Soon Belle. I’m just listening to the news. I will call you when.”
I nodded and climbed up the creaky stairs to my room.

Half an now later my dad still hasn’t come up to say were going.
I decided to go down and see what’s the hold up.
I opened my new blue door and thumped down the stairs.
When I arrived into the lounge my dad was gone! Where was he?
I decided to call out “Dad! Where are you?” No reply. I started to panic.
What do I do? I ran around the house looking in every corner hoping to find my dad.
Still nothing! That was it. I was going for a walk by myself no matter what.
I slipped my sneakers on and opened the door.
Then started racing down the driveway and out onto the footpath.
I stopped half way down the path to catch my breath.
I could feel my heart racing like a cheater and my head dizzy like a car.
Then started walking again.

An hour or so later I stopped at  shop to get a drink and something to eat.
Nelson was known for some awesome food and drink. Well that’s what I think!
I waited in line for about 10 minutes until I finally ordered. Then went to a table.

Later on when I was walking back home, someone came out of there house yelling” Earthquake!
Earthquake! There is going to be a earthquake! Do something…” I stopped in sudden.
Earthquake? If there was one where was my dad?
I started to panic again and ran up to the lady asking
“What time and where abouts  is there going to be an earthquake?”
The lady stared at me for a few minutes before replying back and saying”
There is going to be a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that is about to hit Nelson
in about a few minutes.”
I stopped and stared. Will I live? Where is dad?
I said thanks to the lady for the notice and ran as fast as I could to my house.
When I arrived at my home, I opened the door and looked for dad again.
He still wasn’t there. Where was he?
Then suddenly the ground started to shake like the earth was falling into pieces
and the house started to topple down on me. Is this the end?

This is why I am proud of this Writing piece:

I am proud of this piece of writing because I used a lot of describing words
and spent a lot of time on it. I also used great punctation and got great feedback from my friends.

Do you have a piece of Writing that you are proud of? Why?

Term 4 Stop Motion (Week 8 Free Choice)

Ciao Tutti,

Come Siamo Tu Tutti?
Oggi Io Volonta Essere Parlando Di Stop Movimento! Godere!

(English)

Hello Everyone,
How are you all?
Today I will be talking about Stop Motion! Enjoy!!

On Friday 9th November 2018, my homebase (Homebase 1) went to Cyber Smart with Mark. We learnt how to make a Stop Motion on our chromebook as well as how to put it on your blog. We got to have a go at making an animation by using Playdoh and Lego.

My animation was on how to make a cat!
Check it out below!


Have you ever made a Stop Motion video before? If you did what did you use?

Term 4 Zone Athletics (Week 6 Free Choice)

Hiha katoa,

Nau Mai hoki! I tena Ra in tenei Blog Tuhinga Ahau Ka Kia Korero E Pa Ana Ki Nga Rohe Mo Nga Toi.
Tena PukaPuka I Runga I A Tawhio Noa!

(English)

Hello everyone!,

Welcome back! Today in this Blog post, I will talking about Zones for Athletics.
Let's roll on round!

On Wednesday 7th November 2018, around 80 students across year 5- 8 went to Zones for Athletics. Those people that went to Athletics are the ones that came 1st or 2nd in my school's Atheltics on 25th October 2018. People from my school went for a varity of different things. Some of them were Discus, Sprints, Long Distance, Shot put, High Jump and Long Jump.
On the Wednesday Morning, the 80 students had to be at school by 8:15 as the bus was leaving at 8:30. It was pretty early for me! When we left we headed for Rawitit Domain. That is where the North Zone Athletics was going to be held. When we arrived we sat down in a group and then we waited for the Athletics to start. Before our event\s had started we would just be crusing, Playing around the trees, cheering on our school in events, relaxing and eating. It was going to be a fun day!

When it was time to go, we went back on the bus and headed back for school. I had competed in Discus and came 5th. I was very impressed!
It had been a very fun day and hopefully I will get to go next year.

Sorry their were no photo's taken from this event on the day!

Have you ever been to North Zone Athletics before?

Term 4 Touch (Week 4 Free Choice)

Hello vistors,

Welcome back!

Today I will be talking about touch.
Let's begin!!

So on every Wednesday after school, some of my school do touch. In touch we verse different age groups and different genders. It's a really fun game so I recommend you try and have a go. Here is how touch works and what it is.

Touch is a sport where you have 6 people on a field and you try and get a try. You have 6 touches before it's a hand over to the other team. Each half is 15 minutes. When the first 15 minutes is up, it's half time so you have a break and a quick team chat. Then you go back onto the field and play for another 15 minutes. When the game is over, the winner is who has the most points.

I started playing touch when I was year 5. I really enjoyed it and wanted to play the next year. (Year 6) Unforutanly I couldn't as I had dance. But in year 7 (What I am now) , I was able to play touch as well as do my dancing. It's so fun!

Touch is an awesome game and I would really advice you to have a go.

Have you ever played touch before?If you did, did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?

Term 4 Market Day!! (Week 2 Free Choice)

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back!

Today in this blog, I will be talking to you about Market day. Let's roll on round!

So on Tuesday 4th December 2018, the whole school is doing a Market day. Each hub has something specific that they need to include on the Market day. Our goal is to try and make money so it can go towards the Kaupeka's day out which will be happening the Thursday after the Market day. Let's get to the main point!

There are a few steps that we need to do before we can start creating and baking things for our Market day. The first step is to get in groups of 4. I'm in a group with Monique D,Samantha E and Beccy L. They are such cool people! Anyway the next step that we did was watched a video of Shark Tank. We watched a successful one and not a successful one. While watching the video, we had a look at the ways the people persuaded the sharks to go with their idea. They kept going until they got what they wanted.
When we have decided what we are going to do, we are going to persuade our teachers. They said they would be called the goverment and one of them the prime minster. When it's our turn, we have to persuade them what we want to do and how much money we would like to borrow from them. I feel very nervous but excited at the same time.
Our next step is to come up with our product that we will be selling on the Market day. The product has to be part of a culture. So we decided to go with Italy. Our idea is going to be a obstacle course and a food stool. Here is a bit about each of the ideas:

For the obstacle course you will choose your team of two and will play cops and robbers with a water gun. The winner will get a box of lollies and also will get to play in the second round where you will try and not get wet at all for a bigger prize.

For the food stool we will be selling to types of food. They are a slice of pizza and a bag\box of lollies. The prices for the food  are $2 and $2.50.

Have you ever done a market before? If you did, what did you sell?

Term 4 Shared Cultural Lunch! (Week 1 Set Blog )

Kia Ora Bloggers,

Today in this blog post, I will be talking to you about our Shared cultural lunch that happened on Thursday 18th October 2018!

Let's get to it!

Firstly here is our PBL driving question that we are focusing on for this term. It is:
How do we successfully design, build, market and sell a product that meets the needs of our cultural diversity?

Process:
So on Thursday 18th October 2018 me and my hub (Kaupeka) had a shared lunch. We had a shared lunch because this term for PBL we are doing a market and focussing on cultures from around the world.
On Monday (The 15th) we all picked out a small piece of paper from a box. On the piece of paper was a country. That country was what we had to focus on for the shared lunch. When we all had found out our country, the teachers asked us to bring in a food from that country. Their were so many that we each could of picked from but the ones that we picked were set and stone. When I turned the piece of paper over, guess what I got! Italy! I thought that this was going to be an easy country to find some food. After that we had to go round asking each other who had the same country as you. In my Italy group I had, Anabelle, Guy and Finn. We sat down and discussed what we were bringing. Me and Anabelle were making a shared dessert called Tartufo. Finn was bringing spaghetti and meatballs and Guy was bringing pizza. After that we searched up some recipes and then left for lunch.
On Tuesday (16th) when we had finished school, me and Anabelle went to my house to make the Tartufo. We tried to start at 3:30 as this whole recipe takes 5 hours frezzing time and around 40-50 minutes to make before freezing. When we had finished the first lot, Anabelle left and later on came back to my house to do the secondp part. Later on we dropped her off back at her house and then went home. The next morning, I had the job to put the Tartufo in mini cupcake\muffin holders and wrap them tightly in plastic. This was very fun. We left the Tartufo in the frezzer until Thursday morning.

When thursday morning arrived, I out all the Tartufo's in a big container and took them to school ready for the shared cultural lunch.

When it was time to get all our food out, me and Anabelle had a look at our Tartufo's. They were starting to melt! AHHHH! We quickly picked the ones that weren't melted and then went back upstairs.

Shared Cultural  Lunch:

Around 1:30 on Thursday 18th October 2018, we started eating the food that we bought for the shared cultural  lunch. We firstly did savories, then sweet. When everyone had got some food from the savories section, the teachers let us go for seconds as their was food still left. Later on it was time for the sweet section. This was my favourite. Like I said before, when everyone had some food, we got to have seconds. Even better!

When that was all finished we sat down and wrote a blog post about today. (That's what I am writing about now!:))  This had been such an awesome experience and can't wait for another one!

My Opinion and what I learnt:

My opinion on this was aweseome. Why? Well it was so cool to experience food from different cultures and to taste different foods that I had never tasted before. Also the way on how we had to find a food\meal to create. Eg: Research..

What I learnt:
In this shared Culture lunch, I learnt what foods came from which country, how many meals\food can come from other countries and the taste of the foods that we their on the day. This was such a challenge but a fun one too. I can't wait for the teachers to do something like this again soon.

Have you ever done a shared cultural lunch before? If you have what country did you do? What food did you make?

Farewell!

Hello Everyone!

Welcome back to my blog!

Today will be my last blog for the term as we have school hoildays which is sort of exciting.
Let's get to it!

Firstly I want to say 2 (Two) farewells to two people in my hub who have now left.
Our first one is to Mrs Cummings.

Mrs Cummings: She is a lovely teacher. She helps us with maths, science stuff and a whole lot more! She's got a awesome postive mindset and I'm sure she will go far in life. Mrs Cummings is going to the Life Ed van. She will be going round in a van to different schools where she will teach primary aged students about your body, leadership and more. It's an awesome opportunity that she has got offered and I'm am so glad that she is happy with a job that she will love!
Have a great time with Harold Mrs Cummings. The Kaupeka hub will miss you lots!
We hope to see you again soon! ( It could be in the Harold van!)

Our second and final one is to my friend Evelyn.

Evelyn: Evelyn has come from Australia for a few terms. She arrived around term 3\ term 4 last year.(2017) She is an awesome person to have as a friend and I will miss her lots. She has had some tough times this year with breaking her foot (AHH) and finding out that she was leaving to go back to Australia at the end of the year. A few weeks before the end of term she told me and a few other friends that her dad had got a job back in Australia so they were leaving at the end of term 3. Me and a few others were so guttered but happy for her. Evelyn is a kind, caring, happy and heartful person. She is  always their when you need a helping hand. For the 100th time (Just kidding) I will miss you heaps!
Have a safe trip back to Australia Evelyn and the Kaupeka hub will miss you lots!
We hope to see you again soon!!

My second thing to say is to everyone who is on holiday right now to have a safe hoilday and that you are happy and ready to go back to school very soon!

See you guys very soon!! (Few weeks!)

1 stroke, 2 stroke...

Welcome back!

I hope you have enjoyed reading the past few blogs that I have published. Feel free to write a comment on one of my posts and to give me some feedback. Anyway back to today's blog. In today's blog, I will be talking about swimming\swimming lessons.
Enjoy!

During week 7 &8 the whole entire school are going to Graham condon to do swimming. We will be doing this each day! (I'm sure this will be very tiring.) Anyway, my school have done this over the last couple of years, so we are pretty much use to it. The Kaupeka hub will be going with the kakano hub. (Year 1 and 2). Now let's get to the main part of this blog!!

Written Monday 3rd September 2018:

Today we started swimming lessons for the first time this year. This will continue for 2 weeks!  My teacher (Miss Lover) is taking me and a few other groups to swimming for the next two weeks. We started off with pairing up with a one or two kakano buddies that we are responsible for, for the next two weeks. I got paired up with a girl named Nieve and a girl named Tayla. They are very cool! Anyway, after getting paired up, we went on the bus to swimming. (Graham Condon.) When we arrivied, we went into our gender's changing rooms and then got into our togs. After that we split up into year 7&8's and 1&2's for swimming. Our group got to swimming a bit earlier so we got to watch the other groups swim. When it was our time to swim, we went in the pool one by one and started swimming freestyle to the other end. At the end, one of the instructors told us what lane to go in. That is where we would be swimming for the next two weeks!. I got put into lane 7 which is not to hard but not to easy. I liked that very much! When that was all sorted, our instructors told us what we had to do. Me and my group did a bit of freestyle, breathstroke and backstroke. That was really fun!

When it was time to get out, we said thankyou and bye bye to our instructors and then went to get dressed! The first day of swimming was so fun and can't wait to do it again tomorrow and the rest of the 2 weeks!

So that is all about swimming and what the first day of swimming was like. I will post an update on swimming sometime this week about swim saftey and even swimming in our PJ'S!!

Update on Swim Saftey:
Hello again! So Yesterday (Wednesday) we had our first lesson of swim saftey. We got to expereince some thing to do in case of an emergency when we are at sea. Firstly we put on life jackets. We got told on how to put them on. One tip I found very useful is if your fingers can fit down the strap, it's to loose so you tighten it. You keep tightening it until you can't fit your fingers down the strap.
Next one by one we jumped into the pool and swam freestyledown to the other end. Another useful tip when jumping out of something when your in sea is to cover your mouth with one of your hands and then squeeze you nose with that same hand. This helps because if you didn't do this, you will get such a firght when jumping into the cold sea and that can effect your lungs, where as if you cover your mouth and squeeze your nose, you are all safe and don't have to worry about getting a fright when jumping into the sea\pool.
After that we did our suviral backstroke. When we got to the other end, we did a river swim down to the other end.
Later on we got into a line on each side. (Obviously the boys made one line and the girls made th eother line.) Anyway we had a race to see who would get to the other end first. You might think this was easy but actually it wasn't. It wasn't because we had to hold the lifejacket next to each other's armpits. It was okay but very hard!
When we had finished the race, we got into a hudle and then listened to the instructors. They told us who won. Guess what!?
The girls won! YAY!!
Later on we threw our life jackets into the water and then jumped into the pool. We had to try and put our life jackets on in the water. It was very hard indeed!
When that was done, we finally did our last thing before we hoped out of the pool and went to get changed. We all sat down on the side of the pool with our legs tucked up ready to do dominos. When we were in the pool we swam to the lane rope and then back to get out.
I really truly loved this day and can't wait for tomorrow where we get to experince what we need to do on a boat! An update about that will come soon!

Update on swim saftey-boat!
Hello again! Today (Thursday) we got to experince what it would be like on a boat and what to do in a emergency. Let's get to it!
Firstly we jumped into the pool and then had to tred water for 3 mins. It was very tiring! Next we grabbed one of the life jackets that was in the water and then put that on.
After that we had to try and get on the boat. Not all of us could fit on so if you couldn't you had to hudle with everyone else that was in the water and stay close to the boat so you don't drift away.
When we had finished that, we listened on what to do if the boat flips over. Their were three options. The first one was to get on top of the boat, the second one was to go under the boat until it was safe and the third one was to try and flip the boat back to it's normal side. Most small boats you should be able to flip over back to it's normal side but other boats (big boats) you can't so you will have to have another plan ready for action.
Later on we lined up in a line and went under the boat to see what it looked like. We got taught what to hold and what to do when under the boat. Be aware it's easy to breath underneath the boat as it's got breathing holes!
After that we went to the next rotation which was learning about what is in the saftey pack and what to do. Firstly we sat down and lisetned about the saftey pack and what's in and what the use of it is. Some of the things in the saftey pack are: Funnel, radio and rope. (Those are just some of the things in the saftey pack. Their were more!) After the talk we got into pairs and used a rope that saves people from the water. Firstly you tie the rope around your hand and then fill the bucket of water. When that's done, you throw the bucket to your pair that is in the water. Then the person with the rope pulls the person back up and then you switch. I loved this day. It was so cool to experince what to do in a emergency when you are out at sea. I can't wait to do this again soon!
I will post an update on us swimming in our PJ's soon!

Update on swimming in our PJ's!
Hello guys!
So in this section I am talking about swimming again expet in our PJ's.
So before I start the tiny little blurb I want to say that I'm not swimming for this day as I have a cold.
So I will be getting one of my friends to talk about this day! Let's get to it!
Samantha's blurb about swimming in PJ's:



Down below is some photos of me and other people swimming!

 This is a photo of my group! Don't know where I am!?!?

                                            Me Swimming!

                                             Getting ready to do another length of freestyle!

                                                    Me Swimming again!!

Have you been swimming before with your school? Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?
                                             

Production (Week 8)

Talofa Lava everyone!

Today in this blog post, I will be talking to you about a production that the whole school will be particapating in. 

Let's get to it!

On Thursday 27th September 2018, the year  7&8 hub will be performing a production to the whole school and to parents as well.  Our princapl thought that it would be a great idea to learn something new and to try it out and see what will happen. 

Each hub have been set a theme for the dance. The Kaupeka's is the God. We have been put into groups that are based around God. The names of the groups are, Papa, Rangi, Tane, Rongo, Tawhiri, Tangaroa, Tu and Haumia. I'm in Tangaroa which is awesome! The teachers have made up dance scenes that each group does. In our groups we have to make an intro and another dance as well. Before we move on to our second dance, one of our teachers has to approve it before we move on. We are on our second which is great! Anyway let's get to the main part of this blog.

After this talk, I will be listing our songs that we are dancning too and what we are wearing. Let's get to it!

Here are the links to the songs that we are dancing too. 

Song 1: 

Song 2: 

In my group (Tangaroa) we have been set a animal that relates to sea. Their are Dolphins, Crabs, Turtles, Sharks, Waves and Fishies. Here is the list of the people in my group and what they are doing.

Waves - Penny and Hamish

Fishies - Tiana and Malia    

Turtles - Xavier and Reuben J

Dolphins - Tamera & Hannah

Crab - Hamish

Sharks - Josh and Sam

Before I get into what we are wearing, these are just ideas, they aren't set costumes.  

For the waves Penny might wear a blue dress with blue makeup.
Hamish might wear a blue t-shirt with blue shorts\pants.

For the fishes, we haven't decided on that just yet.

For the turtles, Reuben and Xavier might wear a green t-shirt and green shorts\pants.

For the dolphins, we haven't decided on that just yet.

For the crabs, Hamish will be dancing but will be wearing the same costume as the waves.

Finally for the sharks, we have decided on that just yet.

Here is a review from the production!:

My opinion\review on this terms production was... Incredible. It was so thought out and everything went to plan. I had a great time bring on stage and having some fun during the perofmances. I really hope that we get to do something like this again soon!

See you later!!

Have you ever done a production before? What did you do? Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not? 

How To Be Like A Blog Post Ninga!

Hello Bloggers,

Welcome to this blog Post where I will be giving some advice on how to make an awesome quality blog post that will grab people's attention and make them want to read more.
Enjoy!

On Friday 17th of August and Friday 24th of August, half of my hub (Kaupeka) had Cybersmart with Mark. (Our amazing Cybersmart teacher!!) We were learning about how to create an awesome quality blog post to catch people's attention and make them want to read the specifc post. We had a look at some people's blogs that we thought stood out the most and that fitted into this topic really well. We also had a look at a slideshow that gave examples of how to make a quality blog post. (Which is down below!)
Later on we watched a video (from a year 4) that showed us her blog post and what things to include in a blog post that make it good quality. We also got asked to make a blog post on our blog that showed people how to make a quality blog post. Down below is a slideshow of what we did today and a google drawing created by me on how to make a quality blog post.  Feel free to make a copy of the slideshow and try it out yourself!

Have you ever make an awesome quality blog post? What were the challenges? Why was it fun?