My Matariki DLO

 My Matariki DLO

Hi bloggers and we have been doing our Matariki DLO. Matariki is the seven sisters or the seven kites. A story was that Matariki was smashed by a jealous star called Mere.

Sausage sizzle

Hi bloggers and we have been going to the sausage sizzle at bunnings warehouse to help cook the sausages. We also had to fundraise money for the year 6 Mangawhai trip heads.

First we had to set up the sausages, bread and butter so that we could get ready to sell our sausages, it was 8 o clock I helped call out: "sausages get your sausages here". Finally 15 minutes later, our first customers came to buy our sausages, somehow, some people just gave us 20 dollars and didn't buy anything. We were very lucky that we already raised more than 100 dollars and that we only sold 5 sausages so far. Soon, we had sold about more than 100 sausages so far when it was only 9 o clock.

Maths Activities

 Maths Activities

Hi bloggers, and we have been doing maths activities, and we did times tables for our maths activities.

We did a times tables test which we had to finish in 5 minutes, I fininshed in 2 minutes 49 seconds. Also we had to do a maths worksheet about 4 digit times tables like 9525 X 6 and also decimal times tables, for example: 3.75 X 6. Our strageties was place value 350 X 4 = (300 X 4) + (50 X 4),  trebling and thirding 15 X 18 = 5 X 54, and tidy numbers 101 X 10 = 100 X 10 + 10 , I did it until there was only 1 minute till the lesson was over, after I finished my work, I did prototec basic facts in exactly 1 minute. 

S.T.E.M- Waikowhai student led toolkits.

 Student Led Toolkits at Waikowhai

Hi bloggers and today, we had our Student Led Toolkits but at our school, just all the people from our school. This time, we had to present our Toolkits and my partner was Jeremiah. Our Toolkits was Google Slide Animations.

We told them how to make a animation using Google slides, after we told them we said that it was sandpit time which meant that they had to make an animation, they had a 15 minute bomb timer, after the bomb exploded which meant that it was times up, they showed us our animation. After all the people's animation, we showed them our animations, Jeremiah showed them an among us animation with 1180 slides and was still not finished! I showed them a animation about a stickman running away from jail and distracting the guards and making them fall of the cliff and yelling, I made it with 23 slides but I used animating tools, it was funny.

Again for our second Toolkits it was all the same thing though this time we had to give them 20 minutes because a lot of people struggled at making it and we had to help them. Some people got a lot behind that we had to make it for them instead of doing it themselves. Finally when time was up, they showed us their animations they made and they casted up their animation on the television for all of us to see, some were pretty funny too. Unfortunately, we had no time to show them our animations and time was running out, anyway we had to go to our next Toolkits, I showed them the thank you for comming slide page for about a minute.

Finallly, I went to a different toolkit, it was called Musiclab experiments, which was basically some music experiments we had to do or create, it was very fun and really, you should try it, also at the bottom of the website is some squares and when you press them, they play some notes, you can even hold them for as long as you like, they tell you how Musiclab experiments was created, I tried some of the experiments and when I mean some of the experiments, I meant all of the experiments, I've used Musiclab experiments so I knew the URL of the website, anyway all the presenters came to see how we were going with our experiments, I did a good job making a very cool and nice beat that all the presenters stood next to me for a whole minute.

It was 1 o clock and finally everyone had to go back to their classes, a couple of people felt a little sad. I liked Toolkits, I might want to be a presenter since it was so fun presenting our Toolkits and doing someone elses Toolkits, I thought this was one of the best days at Student Led Toolkits because I liked presenting my own toolkits.

Ako Hiko student led toolkits 2021

 Student Led Toolkits

Hi bloggers and on 20/5/21, we went to the Ako Hiko Student Led Toolkits at Owairaka School.

First we went to learn how to use coding on Minecraft. At the last level of coding, we could make our own Minecraft coding game. I made a weird code that the cows followed me and then they went in my house, luckly I trapped them in my house and when it was night, the cows exploded, fzz... BOOM!, as it exploded, it dropped bricks of my house and destroyed, Ha Ha, very funny, although the house was destroyed.

Second we went to know how to use Webcam Toy which we could make our own photos that looked very weird because there were about 81 different selfies, I made my mouth very enormous. I made myself look like a dog with big cheeks and I even made my photo which I was on fire, also there was a photo with snow falling on me, I enjoyed using all of the different and weird template modes, it was fun.

Finally we went to know how to use Incredibox and basically, you need to give the men some clothings which are naked and also you can record your song as you can add some new skins on the men at the same time. You really should try it, it's so fun and especially, after you save your song you can play it in your drive or play it in your files and you can get the link of your song, geez.. Incredibox is so fun.

I had a lot of fun at Ako Hiko student led toolkits, it's fun, because you get to learn how to use new apps and sites.

Spark Arena

Spark Arena

Hi bloggers and we went to Spark Arena where it would have been a very expensive trip but we were very lucky to go for free!

First, we went to the Happy Place, and when I came there, "OH MY GOSH", I exclaimed. I saw a empty pool but with around 1000 balls in there. I jumped so high some of the guides had to pull me out, Even the teachers jumped in and almost couldn't get out of the balls. We also went inside the room with a lot of tiny bits of papers. I collected 150 of them and threw them around though 20 got stuck on me on the way, fun!. 

Next, we went inside the place called Sounds Fun and we got to play all of the instruments. I played the drums, at first I wasn't so good but at the end, I got all of the beats and it said: are you a machine? which mean't I got 100% of everything. I also went to play the drumpad as well and there were about a lot of colours and different beats, again I was about average but at the end, I also got very good.

Finally, we got to see the Van Gogh Experience, he drew some beautiful flowers, drew a whole landscape and he even drew a bedroom that looked very realistic. He is now a VERY famous artist from the impressionist movement. Wow, I thought and then we went inside the next room which was dark on the way there, later, we saw a slideshow of all the paintings. To say, these paintings were $150,000,000, will you believe it!. The paintings were also flimed on the ground as we sat on it, I felt like I was dreaming though I wasn't, at the end we were given a packed lunch with apple juice, and then went back on the bus back to school at half past twelve.

It was so fun going to Spark Arena especially the Happy Place, Sounds Fun and also especially the Van Gogh experience about his paintings.

Swimming at cameron pools

 Swimming at Cameron Pools

Hi bloggers, we have been swimming at Cameron Pools since week 1. We learn't how to swim freestyle and backstroke, I already knew how to swim. It is also important to know how to swim because we live in a small place near the cape of NZ and 100 people drown a year only by average.

We got inside the pool, it was cold. First, we had to kick on our front and back especially swimming on our sides, even though we had to swim the whole pool once, everybody could do that easily. Next, we had to do it without a board, and we had to swim in a streamline. However, back but they still managed to swim. Finally we could do freestyle and backstroke with our arms, I was OK on my backstroke but I could swim very fast on my freestyle, I actually swam so fast and I also took everybody infront of me. Soon the water was now warm so I stayed inside the water, after we swam, we got out of the pool and got changed as we went back on the bus, going back to our school.