Tuituhi

In Te Ngahere we have been doing writing. I learnt what timeless present tense, action verbs, cause and effect words, rhetorical questions, objective / reasoned tone, passive voice, and nominalisation are. I am blogging about this so I could get your feedback so I can fix what I need to.  Here is my writing . My class and I have been writing about the Paihia School pump track. We have written why it’s important to our community.

Swim Safe

In Te Ngahere a lady named Tracy came to our school to teach us about water safety. She told us the five rules to keep safe on the ocean, Rule one always wear a life jacket when your on boat. Rule two tell someone where you're going and what time you will be back so they know that you're safe. Rule three check the weather so you know the sea is safe. Rule four put your safety first that means if someone is in trouble don't just and save them so you don't get heart. The last rule is have a emergency beacon radio and a play a flare. What I learnt from Tracy was your life is worth everything.

Steam challenge

In Te Ngahere we did a Steam challenge. We were learning to make a free standing object out of two sheets of newspaper and tape that was 30 cm. It was a challenge to build the tallest newspaper tower. It was really frustrating to make the tower stand. I paired up in a group of three .Their names were Dayton and MIkaire. The tower didn't stand properly because the base was scrunched so Dayton tried to put his hand through the base so it could stand straight; we finally made it stand. The highest for our tower was 1m. We nearly won but we came 3rd. The people who came first were Zhynaliyah and Emma .Second place was Franky, Imogen and Mark. We lost but we still had fun.

Quality blog post

Recently in Te Ngahere we have been learning to writing a Quality Blog Posts. I learned what a quality blog post is. The important things in a post are a Title, Introduction, DLO, Reflection, and Sources. Your title is one of the most important parts of your blog post because it needs to be catchy and make the reader want to read your blog. Learning how to write a quality blog post was helpful because now I know what I should put in my blogs to make them better.  How do you bloggers think that I can improve my blogging?

Math

In Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. I am learning to do addition with carrying. If we get stuck or we need help we could either ask the teacher for help or we can ask our maths group. It was hard to use these techniques; it was really hard for ages. Then it got easier. From now I will be using these strategies for I need to do maths. My next challenge is to be doing adding three or four addends.

Beach clean

September 13th we went to Paihia beach to pick up rubbish. I learnt that people aren't thinking to put
their rubbish in the rubbish bin. That's by Alfresco's and we worked our way down to the old kayak shed.
We got into groups of five my group and I got into a group of four. We each got a glove and a bag to put
the rubbish in. There was lots of rubbish like cigarette butts, bottle tops, ropes, smashed bottles and
plastic. The rubbish was mostly found in between the rocks and by the trees. 

Oral Hygiene

In Te Ngahere two ladies named Ulrike and Chantelle came to teach us how to keep our teeth healthy.
I learnt that whenever you don’t brush your teeth at night you have no saliva in your mouth and I found
out why you always have saliva in your mouth is because you normally see food during the day so that is
how you have saliva in your mouth. Ulrike had a type of toothpaste that made your teeth go blue and
then once you rinse your mouth with water it would show different colors like baby blue, purple and
pink. This indicates how much plaque is on your teeth and how old it is. I learnt heaps about Oral
Hygiene. 

Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been learning the name of things in our class in maori. It was tricky for a while because it was hard to remember the names of objects. Then we were practising asking each other He aha tenei? That means what is this and then the other person ses He pene tena that means that is a pen now i'm going to start using the maori words.

Science Fair

August the 9th Te Ngahere is puting on a Science Fair at Paihia School. It had to be based on a real life problem. My group and I picked Water quality. It is about making our school water taste better. To do that we had to get juice like Apple, Lemon and Orange. we also had to use the school water. We had to buy plastic cups to pour the school water in. Then we had to add the juice in the water. We used syringes to put the juice into the cups. We tryd to make it taset like better water not juice. If you want to check out what we have created here it is.

Math DLO

In Te Ngahere April the 2nd we made our math DLO’s it had what I need to learn in math. I have been learning  about doubling and halving. I will show you how it works. 5x8 so you double the 5 which equals 10 and halve the 8 that equals 4 so 10x8= and the answer for 10x8 is 80 to. I enjoyed working with my group and I need to improve completing my work faster.

Scientific method

In Te Ngahere We were learning about the scientific method so we can use it when we do our science fair projects.We had to ask a question, research something.  Make a hypothesis, Experiment and test your experement, Analysing information and Presenting it when it is all done. I learnt what a method is and what a hypothesis, a hypothesis is when you guess the anser to your question  here is my presentation bye.     

Stella preasent

On Thursday May 30th Stella and Natalie they came into the Whare to show us about stoats, rat’s, cat's and possums. They also showed us were stoats, rats, kiwis, cats and possums lived. They didn't always stay in this country we brang the pests to NZ and now we have to kill them we don’t do it for fun we do it to make the kiwi’s a better home. Not the kiwi also the native animals and trees. I learned what is native and what isn't native.   

Walk to Waitangi Treaty

Monday we were learning to use virtual reality. We learnt how to make trees on tinkercad and birds on paint 3d . Whaea kerry Whaea Monaka visited us at Paihia school. We were going to finish our identity project we first made trees on tinkercad. Because Te Ngahere means the bush so we made up a forest of different trees. Whaea Monka made a pinecone tree for a example  Whaea Monka made a pine tree. When we completed that task we made what might be in the Ngahere. Like birds, insects, trees, and rivers on paint 3d to make the insects and birds.I enjoyed having fun with my friends teachers and the people that took us around the place. Here are some videos about what we created

Author visit

On June the 20th a author came to Paihia School her name was Adell. She wrote books based on true stories of her. There are also parts of some of her books that aren't real. They are still cool books she loved to write book’s she’s been writing books for at least 15 year’s or so. She write this book that I like it was a future book like the movie back to the future. The book was could the Time Keeper what a book always has is a theme the characters what they are saying and what they are doing. I enjoyed listening to her read and I learnt what a book need’s in it.

Disco

On June the 12th we had a disco at Paihia School in the whare. We had to pay two dollars to go in the whare. There were face painting, limbo, food, lolly’s and we could take a photo outside with our friends and family. I had so much fun with my friend’s and my family I went to do all of those things at the disco here is a photo of me and my friend. On both of these photos I am on the left bye come check my blog later. 

Reading script

In Te Ngahere June 12th 2019  we have been doing a script for reading. A script is when you write  the stuff that character is doing and saying then when we finished doing our script we had to move on to getting our theme ready. We could pick these characters Thomas Kendall, Kupe, the

Maori war, immigrats and the refugee I picked the refugees trying to travel to New Zealand and how hard it is to get a job money and a house. My W.A.L.T. was to understand  I enjoyed creating the google slide by myself because finding the staff was fun and what I added.

Cricket skills

Every week on Tuesday we learnt new skills about Cricket we learnt how to catch, throw, and hit the ball with the Cricket bat. After we learnt how to do all that staff we played a game could speed Cricket. We had three Cricket bats and then we had something like cones and if you miss the ball and if it hits the cones then you lose a bat.  I learnt how to play speed Cricket.

Bay Bush Action

On Thursday May 30th Stella and Natalie they came at Whare to show as about stouts, rat’s cat's and possums. They also showed as were stouts, rat’s kiwi cat's and possums lived it’s like when you go to sleep and you woke up in a different country. The three thing’s you need if it was you a friend a house and food. we are the ones who brang   

Help the native

Waitange Treaty

16 july Thursday and Friday we went to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. We went to the  room at the top bilding and we met Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika they showed us lots of cool activities. Like paint 3D, Virtual Reality, Green screen, Stop moiton, Tinkercan, and Coding Robot’s.