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Maritime Museum Trip Recount

Yesterday, the senior syndicate went to maritime museum. Luckily, we got the chance to go on a waka! We wore life jackets to ensure our safety just in case someone fell off. They told us a bit about the waka, like how it had been all around the earth and I think it had 6 other twins but in different places in the world. 

When we got off the waka, we took off our life jackets and gave them to the next class (Room 13) Next, we went back inside and learnt some interesting stuff about New Zealand history. They also taught us parts of the waka and how it was assembled . After that, we watched a short clip on how New Zealand was found and we got to learn how they tied their wakas. 

Lastly, we got to explore the museum! We had received a page of things we needed to find. It was very fun, there were facts everywhere and we could interact with some stuff. The group I was in almost found everything just 1 thing we couldn't find. After, we had lunch and said thank you for allowing the senior syndicate to come to maritime museum. 

English To Shakespearean

 

My morning recount into Shakespearean! You can use this link if you would like to use it!

Kowhai Ngutukākā Pattern

Hello everyone! Sorry for not blog posting a lot but yesterday we did kowhaiwhai patterns and the one i did was Kowhai Ngutukākā. The red represents warmth, blood and life. White means purity, promise for future awakening. Also, black means the earth. There are some other patterns such as Koriri, Rauru, Koru. 

Recorder Instrument!

Hey readers! Sadly, I’m not at school today because we weren’t sure and the schoolApps was taking forever to load. In this blog post it’s just about my sister playing the recorder and she says she wants to do the clarinet the next time! She didn’t want me to take a video of her because she was embarrassed. She says she knows jingle bells but I’m not sure about that.... Anyways here’s some photos!

“This Is Just To Say”

Recently, Mr Niks put up a thing called "This is just to say did this". We did a parody from person called William Carlos Williams who was the original or a did parody of something else. It was about he was naughty or someone else, I couldn't recall a time when I was naughty so I made it up! Thanks for reading!

Origami Flowers!🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷

Today, I've made some origami flowers! I just used white paper and I've done it before but that was ages ago. I gave 2 flowers to Danait & Hannah because they are my best friends 😄. Would you rather the 4 small flowers or the big flower? Write it down in the comments!

Origami Northern White Rhinos!

Here are some origami rhinos! If you like to make one, search up " origami rhino " and click the first one. The large ones are 20 cm x 20 cm but the baby one, i'm not sure. I'm making them for my presentation for the art exhibition. Sadly, they won't be in it, i've made 2 white rhinos but i'm not sure they should be actual ones. I gotta keep trying!

Films

1. Stone-fields, Hub 8, Lego Masters

2. Stone-fields, Hub 7, IDAC

3. Glen Brae, Room 9, Try Not To React

Millennium Trip

“ Brmm brmm”, the bus goes, as Room 9 and some other students were heading to

AUT Millennium…

22nd Tuesday, some students were getting ready, the roll was called and we all

separated into 4 groups splitting into 2 buses. Aut Millennium was located at

North Shore which was past the city and past the Harbor Bridge. On the way there,

the views were wonderful but it took ages to get there.

Once we reached the Millennium, everyone had a little morning tea snack.

Inside we stepped, passing through, we stopped near the toilets. In my group,

which was group 4, our activities were going to be kayaking, water safety,

team building + exercise & rock climbing. The other groups did that except in a

different order. Group 1 & 2 went outside to do team building

+ exercise & rock climbing while group 3 & 4  did kayaking, water safety.

For group 3 & 4 they got in their togs and sat down on a chair waiting for instructions

from the instructors. The instructors taught us how to put life jackets on and how to

tighten it. When you are in deep water, not really near land or in a boat, you should

have a life jacket on. We walked the opposite side and stood quietly. The instructors

told us the water was really deep but it was okay because we had life jackets.

“ Splash! “, the water goes when someone goes in the water. It felt like I was about to

drown but relieved that I had my life jacket on. We doggy paddled around a little just to

see if it was okay also I couldn’t even touch the floor! We climbed out of the water,

shivering going back to the seats. One of the instructors took Group 3 to water safety

while our group did kayaking.

The other instructor told us to go in the kayak one by one while he pushed the

kayak we were in, into the water. When we were in the water we had to flip the

kayak over as well as ourselves. We also had to bring the kayak out of the pool

and tip all the water out. Next, the instructor gave us oars to paddle the kayak with.

He told us how to use it in the water and to hold it straight when walking on land

so you don’t hit anyone.

He moved each kayak into the water while we tested the kayak. We went backwards

and forwards but on our first try we absolutely didn’t really do it properly.

The instructor taught us how to stop, was by putting the oar in the water also

it turned when you do that.

After, it was water safety, the other instructor told us if there were more people

we would survive longer. If our hair was dry we would also stay alive longer.

She taught us how you can stay warm and how to stay alive. When we finished

that we split into two groups and went onto a mini boat. We had to tip backwards

gently into the water trying not to hit anyone. A person had to go on back,

trying to lift a person up and that person would work together to lift other

people while the rest who just been lifted up would weigh the boat.

After we changed, it was time for lunch! We met back with group 1 & 2 and

everyone looked hungry. Two ladies came in talking about healthy food and

what you should eat every day. There was lots of food there and most of them

were gone afterwards! When we went out of the door they gave us bags that told

us about healthy.

When we all had changed group 3 & 4 went into the gym area.

Group 3 rock climbing so that means group 4 had to do team building

+ exercise. We ran outside to the track and it was humongous!

We did some exercises to warm everyone up then we ran, jogged,

skipped and went sideways on part of the track. Soon after, we had a relay

doing random things such as riding a pretend pony, running and other things.

We went back inside and had a drink of water, getting reading for team building.

We pretended we were little itty bitty dust trying to go past a huge cup of hot chocolate.

We used 5 “ marshmallows “ trying to get to the other side. The conclusion was to piggy

bank on each other.

When that was done, we did rock climbing split into a group of 3. There was a choice of

11 rock climbs. I did 2 of the rock climbs through. Everyone met outside and got ready

for a photo then went back on the bus. I hope I get to do it again!

Bunchems!

Today, my mum got my sis something called " Bunche-ms ". When you squish them together they stay like that, unless you take it apart. There were accessories such as, a star, a crown and many more. We followed the instructions and made a bird and a tiger.

  

Skateland

Yesterday, I went to skate land with my cousins and my family. The entry cost $12.00. There were two types of skates. Roller skates: It was the skates that had wheels on the outside and one in front. In-line skates : four wheels straight underneath. I wore the roller skates first, I went around slowly around the rink, taking my time. I got the hang of it but it was hard to push so I changed my shoes in the in-line skates. There was racing for all ages and activities. I fell down a lot too. We probably stayed for an hour then we went back. I'd probably go back! 

Who Can Make It The Longest?

Today in room 9, we used the candy wrappers and tried to rip it gently making it the longest.

Rules:
You can only use 1 candy wrapper
No using scissors - ( only your hands to rip )
No taping

The person with the shortest was T.j, he had 1.3cm. The person with the longest is Ocean, she had 79cm. I came third, I had 63 or 64cm but my original is 61cm.

Puzzles

Hi everyone reading this blog post! Yesterday, I did puzzles with my sister and dad. It was a transformer puzzle, jungle book puzzle. Last but not least a spider man puzzle...

Sadly, we did not finish the spider-man puzzle. It was really complicated. Really complicated. Some puzzles were in the wrong place and some were missing but that was yesterday. 

Here some photos!

                                   
                                               Photo Credit to my I-pad

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day everyone!

Something Nice For You....

Today, we made a mini poster thing that you could take off. It is good to be kind and share it to all! You can take one off to brighten up your day! Our class - Room 9 is going to put it all around our school! 

Botany Garden

24/8/19 which was yesterday. It all begin 

when my dad said ''The flowers at Botany Garden is bloomed''. So I went to Botany garden with my family, it was a bit long to

 get there but it was kinda worth it. When we reached there most places were closed or under construction. There was a place called Potter's children Garden. There was an egg, i'll show you a picture!

 From the beginning, as you know it my dad said the flowers bloomed. We went to this place which had lots of trees but guess what? None of them were bloomed! They didn't even have any leaves on them! Okay, except some had lots of leaves, like a tree with pink leaves. Sadly, I don't have any pictures of it.

We took lots of photos, mostly, I felt sad for my sister because she was in the most and she didn't want to be in them as well for me I didn't want to.

We also went to a duck pond. We only watched them a bit and then we left. 

Well, after that, we went to KFC and bought some and ate it at home. 

Here are some extra flower photos I took:

There is way more but my blog post is going to be really long.

( These photos were taken by my iPad )

Science Exhibition!

Today after morning tea, the classes were getting ready for the science exhibition, all the classes were going to move around each class. We all did it to show what science is and what we have been learning previously. The order we went: Our class then room 10, 11, 12, 13, 4, 1, 2, 6, 5, 7 & 8! My favorite part in all is: a board game in room 10, it was about liquid, gas & solid. Sadly, no one took a photo of it, I think so these are some other pictures from other classes.

Play dough by Room 8                                                                Bio-mimicry by Room 5
                                                                                                         

Kiwi Can!

Today Room 9 went to Kiwi Can, we have them every Thursday a bit before morning tea. Our theme is Integrity and our topic is Reliability and they both are important values. Our energizer was 1 2 3 Jump, when Mr Matt - ( One of our Kiwi Can teachers ) says 1 2 3 jump we had to jump and if you were last you were out. Also he would trick you, like 1 2 3 jump-er you have to listen carefully before you jump. Then we talked about what is reliability and things you have to reliable at school & home. Lastly, our activity was called " Mines ", Miss Tuia - ( The other Kiwi Can teacher ) placed cones and lots of other things on the ground. They were " mines ", the girls and boy were split to the other side of the room and we would have 1 leader in the front and the rest closing their eyes looking up. The leader will help you get across to the other side without touching the pretend mines. Unfortunately, no one won but it was fun to play. After, we did the points Respect, Participation, Teamwork, Encouragement & Positive Attitude it had to be out of 5 points each thing but we got 23 points.

Motat!

Motat

In the middles, we were about to go to the Museum Of Transport And Technology! I haven't been to motat in ages!

Firstly, we went on different buses but when we were on it, it was fun but really noisy. Finally, we arrived and the instructor told us what we had to do and when. Together, Room 9 went to the tram station and when the tram came, we went on. While we were sitting we looked out the window and there were geese walking nearby. There were also cars on the road passing through while the tram was loudly moving. 

Then it went reverse it was going backwards but there were two sides which you could control. Finally, we got back where we were before and took a few pictures. After, we went to explore exhibitions and then finally, came to lunch. We explored a little bit more and then said thank you and left!

It was a memorable experience, I hope I could go again soon!