Matariki

Kia Ora, bloggers. Today I wold like to share when we celebrated Matariki. It was yesterday the 23 of July. We did the activities and we went in a rotation. There were 3 activities. The first one I did was to recreate a Matariki story (or make up our own story) with playdough and animating it with stop motion. We could either use playdough or draw our characters in the story. I worked with Jeremiah, Brayden, and Marcus. We made our own story but it didn't turn out good. We did this until morning tea, which was 11:00 - 11:30. After morning tea it was time for our 2nd activity - strip making. We had to make strips of Maori patterns with Maori colors (red, white, and black). Then we put them onto a kite frame to make a kite. I didn't really like it because it was boring just coloring in patterns. We did this until lunch which was 1:00 - 1:50. After lunch it was time for the 3rd and final (and my favorite) activity - cooking. First we washed our hands.We all divided into groups of 4 (but my group had 5 people). My group had Jeremiah, Brittany, Brayden, and Marcus. First we got a bowl and put self - raising flour in it. Then we mixed the flour and put water on it. Everyone had a turn mixing it. Then we put the dough out of the bowl and split it into 4 groups. After that we rolled the dough and after THAT we cut it into six pieces. Then we put it in the fryer to make it fried bread. After that took them out (carefully) we put toppings on top (I did golden syrup). And then we ate them. I really liked that last activity. Here are some photos.

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Cross Country 2020

Kia ora, bloggers. Today, I would like to share Cross Country. Cross Country is an day that happens every year. On that day we do activities plus a run which is the most tiring of all the activities. Everybody had a group according to their year group. The first thing we do on the day is that we go to all our groups. For example I am a Year 5 so I go with all of the year 5's. Then we all go to the first activity. Every year group has a different activity. The year 5's first activity was a resting activity. That wasn't fair because we hadn't really needed to do anything before that. We could play on the playground or wecould play games. Me and my friends built a giant jenga tower using blocks and it was taller that each of us. Then we broke it down and we played with throwing rings. You throw the rings onto the pole to get points. Then the handbell rang and that meant it was time to move on to the next activity. The second activity was tennis. I normally like playing tennis, but, I didn't like playing tennis today because it was sooooooo crowded that you couldn't hit the ball anyways. After that we were doing hand ball. I hated it sooooooo much that I didn't play. The next activity was a blindfold challenge. We had to go in pairs and one of us had to wear a blindfold. The person who doesn't have the blindfold has to guide the person with the blindfold to pick up the bean bag toys. The person with the blindfold has to obviously have to do what the person without the blindfold says. And I am bad at doing both of those so I didn't do it. Then we were cheering for the other group running. It is probably what you would expect. Then we did the run. We had to run a loooooooooong trail 2 times. I came last because I bumped my head VERY VERY  hardly into someones head and that slwed me down. If you want pictures, I have pictures.

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Chicken Sunday Personal Response

Kia ora, bloggers. Today I would like to share my personal response to the story Chicken Sunday. Every student in the syndicate had to do a personal response on the book Chicken Sunday. First we read the story Chicken Sunday (of course). Then we did the personal response. We had to write three things  that we were surprised about, that we liked, that we didn't like, what we would change, what it made us think about, and what we didn't understand about the story. Here is the link to the personal response. It was interesting to read this book. 

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Reading Tumbles

Since Week 3 of Term 2 we have been doing our reading different from what we did in Term 1. We have been able to choose our activity from a reading tumble which updates every week. There were 8 activities to choose from. Before we needed to do a specific activity. When we started going to school it changed from 8 to 6. Last week it changed from 6 to 4 (1 activity every day except for Fridays). Also last week we started going to our reading classes      rather than staying in our normal classes. Also last week we put the work on a slideshow. This we learnt about racism and we read texts like The proudest blue. The slide show is under this text. I only have to do this for 2 more weeks (Week 11 and Week 12 (and there is a Week 11 and 12  because we missed 2 weeks of Term 1) and then it is the school holidays. I like doing the reading choice board. Thanks for looking at my blog! 

                  

My Creative Writing

Kia ora, bloggers . Since Friday of Week 7 of Term 2, the seniors (including me) all did their own creative writing document. We had 6 pictures to choose from a slide and we could only pick 1. The picture I chose is this interesting picture on this blog post. After we chose a picture, we all wrote on a separate document, and the writing is supposed to be about the picture you chose. Here is the link to the doc.

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My Lockdown Diary

Since Week 1 of Term 2 (while we were still in lockdown) the seniors have been working on their own slideshow called My Lockdown Diary. I was a record of things that happened during lockdown . We did this slideshow so we can look at it years later and know what it was like in lockdown. Here is my diary.

My Getting To Know Me

Kia Ora, bloggers. Welcome to the first blog post of the year! In class today my teacher wanted us to post about our getting to know you form, since we had such a big holiday and we forgot all our friends. So we did a getting to know you form to know each other better. We had to do our family background, things I like, my friends, things I am good at, things I don't like, what is important me and my family and things I want people to know about me. I have finished mine so here is a link to my getting to know you form.I hope you get to know me better. Have a nice day/night! Blog ya later!