Summer Learning Journey Activity One

Hi guys, today is the first day of the Summer Learning Journey. We were asked to look through website that gave us facts about New Zealand and find our top three favourite. Here are my top three favourite facts.

• The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland but the capital is Wellington.
• 30% of the country is forest.
• To become a New Zealand citizen you have to swear an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth.

Christmas Mufti!

Kia Ora guys, I'm back. Last Friday we had a school Christmas mufti day. This meant that we could come to school, in a Christmas themed style. I wore a: Santa hat, red coloured shirt, a Christmas ribbon on top of my shirt, green shorts and face paint. We didn't do many Christmas themed activities but, we did Jump Jam in all our bright colours. If you came in mufti, this meant you had to bring a gold coin which would go towards the Christmas hampers. At the end of the year, the hampers will go to families in need. Hope you enjoy the pics!

Jump Jam

Practising for Year 6 Leaving Assembly

My Costume

Staff Photo

This day was really to see most people put effort into it and dress up. I can't wait for next year, to see what mufti days we'll have.

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Tristar Gymnastics

Hi guys, I'm back. This term we were lucky enough to do gymnastics. We started off by every week doing gymnastics in the hall, with either Coach Mo or Coach Misha. This helped us learn more about gymnastics and refresh on somethings. For the past two weeks we have had two sessions down at the Keith Hay Tristar. The first session we split into two different groups. Hauraki was first with Misha. With Misha we did a rotation of: jumping on the tramp, walking along the beam, forward roll on pole and jumping over obstacles. With Mo we played follow the leader that consisted of: Jumping on platform to platform, crawling along beams, jumping into the foam pit, jumping on the tramp and swinging across the mat. The second session I wasn't there but, my friends said it was the same as the first. Hope you enjoy the pics!

Walking along the beam

Jumping on the tramp

This was really fun doing gymnastics because it gave me more skill in athletics and it was great exercise.

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My Last Year At Waikowhai Primary School

Hi guys, I'm back. This has been my last year in primary school, and sadly it's coming to an end. I'm feeling a lot of mixed emotions right now, because I feel sad to leave this school but I also am excited to move onto intermediate. I'm looking forward to doing lots of cool new things like: Coding, Basketball and lots of different and exciting things. One thing I'm scared about is being punctual, because at intermediate the bell rings at 8:30 AM. I've had a lot of highlights at Waikowhai like: Production, Camp, Tiritiri Matangi and we are going to climb up Rangitoto. 

Hope you enjoy the pics!

Production

Tiritiri Matangi

Hobsonville Run

Summer Learning Journey - Japan

Hi guys, I'm back. We had to chose a country, the countries we chose were from six different continents. I chose Japan. The reason why I chose Japan was because I have never been there and, I heard that the cuisine there was really yum. Another reason was because there is a lot of cool cultural events. Here are some facts about Japan: The population of Japan is 127 million, Japan is made up of 6852 islands, Japan suffers approximately 1500 earthquakes a year, Japan has the highest expectancy in the world with 83.7 years and Japan's criminal courts have a 99% conviction rate.

Here is the link to the Summer Learning Journey
https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome
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Bigfoot Bicycle Training!

Hi Guys, I'm back. for two days we were learning and refreshing, on how to ride bikes. The first day we just learned about the safety of biking. The first thing we talked about was the type of clothing you wear, like: closed toed shoes, non baggy pants, t-shirt and you legally have to wear a helmet. Then we talked about the bike. One thing we checked up on, was the four point check. This meant to: check your brakes, air in your tyres, reflectors and your tyre lever. Then we actually got on our bikes. First we needed to fit into our helmets. Then we got onto our bikes and rode around the field. Afterwards, we rode around the court a couple times and then stopped for lunch. When lunch finished we got onto our bikes again, and did relays on the school field. Then we rode along the court and high-fived the instructors, while pedalling. Here are some photos.

Learning

Riding on the court

High fiving teachers

Pasifika Peter Pan

Hi guys, I'm back. Last week we had our school production. We had three shows that were on Wednesday night, Thursday night and a Friday matinee. This was outstanding and gave us experience on stage. This week we have been reflecting on it, by making six thinking hats. The six thinking hats are information, positive, negative, feelings, creativity and reflection. 

Hope you enjoy!

Production was amazing, because I had been in production before but I was never in the main cast. I thought that this work was quite easy, but was challenging with the blue hat.

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Athletics Day!

Hi guys, I'm back. On Friday 2nd of November. Waikowhai Primary School, had an Athletics day. This day was filled with different athletics. The events I was great at was Sprints, 400m and High Jump. We have athletics day annually in November each year. At the end of the day we traditionally have house relays. This is when all the houses (Ruru, Kea, Tui and Pukeko) Then we are put into age groups and run. 

Hope You Enjoy!

Long Jump

House Relays

House Relays

High Jump

Watching Sprints

Athletics Day was a great day were we learnt loads of skills in Athletics. Now people that did well are competing in zones in two weeks.
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Ako Hiko Film Festival!

Hi guys, I'm back. Last term we made movies for the first annual Ako Hiko film festival. Leading up to this we looked at different shot like close up, wide shot, medium shot and dynamic shots. Another thing we did for a warm up exercise, and made knock-knock jokes. My one was about lettuce. After that we made our script. My group had Ben, Toby, Alex and me in it. Our movie had to be something about change. When we wrote our script we agreed that it would be about someone, that could change objects. I was supposed to be the main character, but I was away for one of the days so Ben was changed to it. Hope You Enjoy!

Here are some shots that we used in the film.

Medium Shot

Close Up

Up Shot

Over the Shoulder

I really liked making these films, because it gave us experience in film making and helped us work in teams. I think me and my group did really well and I like our film.

Production Rehearsals

Hi guys, I'm back. Last term we started doing rehearsals for our production. Our production this year is called Pasifika Peter Pan. It's the story of Peter Pan with a pacific twist. In our production, instead of being a part of the Lost Boys, I'm a part of the Lost Tamariki. Rehearsals stretch from 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM. One thing that I like about rehearsals, is that my group get to ride scooters on stage. Another thing I like is watching the rehearsal, especially when my friends are on. I'm feeling really confident right now about the production, because we still have three weeks to go and are pretty much there.

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Nettiquette

Hi Guys, I'm back.  In Cybersmart we worked on a slideshow about the dos and don'ts on the Internet. It also talked about Formal and Informal writing. After we finished we made a digital learning object (DLO) on one do on the internet. I chose how to greet people.
Hope You Enjoy!

Greeting people on the Internet is very important, it also matters about if it's formal or informal.
This work was quite easy but really fun!
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Waikowhai Intermidiate, This Is Me

Hi guys, I'm back. Yesterday the Y5/6s drove on a bus to Waikowhai Intermediate to see theri production called 'This Is Me'. This poem was about diversity, culture and being yourself.  We were going to walk, but the intermediate insisted we go by bus which was lucky because it was raining. The Intermediate paid for the bus as well. When we got back we had to fill in a deBono six thinking hats DLO.
Hope You Enjoy!

This is Me was a great show and I recommend watching it.

Here is the link to their website https://www.wai-int.school.nz/ 

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Mudrun

Hi Guys, I'm back. Last week on Tuesday Ms Sands and parents took 22 students from Waikowhai Primary School to the annual Mud Run. The Mud Run is a run that is full of mud and obstacles. It was my first time going this year but I heard it was a lot muddier this year than last. I would definitely go next year because Waikowhai Intermediate was there as well. The run was held in Hellensville so it was quite a long ride.

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The Mud Run was quite a tough and challenging run, it was really muddy and I am looking forward to next year! 

Sunken Forest

Hi Guys, I'm back. Last term Des Hunt came to our school. Des Hunt is a New Zealand author, that is quite well renowned. He has wrote lots of cool books and Hauraki were reading Sunken Forest. Sunken Forest is a book about a boy called Matt going to Lake Waikaremoana and lots of problems occur. After we read the book we had to make a slideshow and complete the activities on it.

Hope You Enjoy!

This work was quite easy and was also challenging at times. I really enjoyed this and hope you did too.

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Matariki Artwork

Hi, Guys today we are making Maori art pieces for Matariki.

Ponamu are Maori Charms they are made of green stone/jade. These are given as gift. Last Term we made these out of clay we had a knife, toothpick, and of course the clay. 

Here are the pics!

One of the other rotations we did was in Waitemata. In Waitemata we had to make feathers representing us and then they put onto paper and altogether and made a cloak. The feather that represented me had the American colours on it to represent where I'm born and also had some cool pasifika patterns on the feather.

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The final rotation we had was making kites first you had to make a triangle with wooden sticks, then you had to double knot round each end. After that you had to make seven strips of cardboard all getting progressively smaller. Once finished that you would then place your strips on the triangle and tie them on then you were finished.

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Technology Rotation

Geo-Boards

Hi Guys, I'm back. Three weeks ago we started a technology rotation. The rotation in Hauraki which was the first one I did, were making geo-boards! The first step to making a geo-board is cutting a 12 centimetre long wooden board. The next step was with a marker, to evenly make 5 rows of 5. Then with a hammer we had to stamp nails into the board. The last and most fun step was making patterns with elastic bands.
Enjoy!

This was really fun and challenging it also was good using hammers because this taught us how to use some of these tools well.

Technology Challenge

For this you had to get in a group of 4 then you had to create a bridge that could go far off the table and still be above it. My group had Ben, Toby and Alex in it. At first we talked about was we were going to make. We decided to make a drawbridge. The materials that we used were 3 yellow papers, 2 meter long ductape, string, Popsicle sticks and straws.
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 This work really got my mind focused and was really challenging. At the end I think ours was 22 CM off the table.

Circuits

This was the one thing I didn't do because I was away, but from what Iv'e heard it sounded really fun. Here's a brief explanation of this. You were given a lithium and told about it's positive and negative with the battery. Then you were given  an LED and if you put them together the LED will light up.

Here Are Some Pics!

 

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Interland Cybersmart Game

Hi Guys I'm back. Today in cybersmart we had to make a DLO about the game Interland. Interland is a game created by google to teach people what to do on the internet. I made a slideshow about the game, the two things that we had to have in our DLO were the message of the game and what we learnt. Hope You Enjoy!

This was quite easy to make but it took some time to find pictures for some reason. 

If you guys would like to check this game out for yourself here it is.

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en/interland

Remember To Be Internet Awesome!

My Painting

Hi guys I'm back, for the past week we have been drawing and painting NZ Native Birds. I choose the Piwakawaka also know as a Fantail. The Materials that we used where Water Strength Cartilage Paper, Chromacryl Paint (I used Blue, Green, Brown and Black.) 

Here are the different steps to making one of these paintings

1. Draw up your bird.

2. Get some paint and colour of your choice.

3. Then paint the background.

4. Once dried do a second coat of your background.

5.  Then paint your bird in and when dried paint a second coat of your bird.

6. When that has dried flex your bird out by painting dots of white or something on it.

One thing that I like about my painting is probably my background and it looks even better now Iv'e done the second coat.
I don't really like how my painting is organised because its a little bit messy.

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Matariki

Hi Guys 👋
 I'm back. Around a week ago we started reading about Matariki, if you don't know what Matariki is there is information in the drawing. The story was about Taranaki not being able to see Matariki that well because of their angle on the earth. Instead they look for another star called Puanga/ Rigel which is a very bright star. Once we had finished reading this I had a lot more understanding of Matariki, because when I first looked on Matariki I only knew it was a cluster of seven stars and was the Maori new year.
Hope You Enjoy!

Hope you like my DLO. I named all the stars so they're in the right place.
I thought this work was quite easy but it was sometimes hard to think of new information
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My Flood House

WALT: Combine my prior knowledge with new learning to say what I think. Last week we had to listen to a story about Samoa and their coastal properties. Then after we had to design a flood proof house. In my house I have sea walls to protect my house if the water floods, and pillars stuck in the ground to give elevation to the house. If you would like to check out the website that I used here it is. 
Click Here!

This work was quite interesting and fun. One of the reasons on why it was fun is that we used Tinkercad, which we hadn't used in quite a while. Next time I would probably design a bigger house and maybe put a gate.

Tiritiri Matangi Trip

Last Week we went to Tiritiri Matangi Bird Sanctuary. This Island is a pest free island with lots of birds, mainly native birds. Before we got there we had to get to school at 7:30 AM! Then we were put into groups. My group had Ben, Alex, Abby and Shabeera. Our parent was Dustine (Lavinia's Dad) and he named our team the Blazers. Then we caught the ferry and the ferry took around one hour and thirty minutes. When we got to Tiritiri we got put with a volunteer that guided us through the island. On the walk we saw lots of Kereru  and Tui. We also saw quite a lot of Bellbirds. When we got to the lighthouse we had lunch and then we went on a scavenger hunt. When that was done we walked down to the beach to catch the ferry before we got back on the bus and drove back to Waikowhai Primary School. If you would like to check out the island yourself here is the website

 http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/
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On the Ferry

Scavenger Hunt

Oat The Goat

Hi guys, a couple of days ago we read a pick a path story called Oat The Goat on our chromebooks. Oat the Goat is a story about a goat that wants to climb to the top of the  mountain and on the way he finds lots of friends that he makes because they're being bullied and made fun of, so he asks if they are okay. They help him to climb to the top of the mountain and eventually the bullies come to realise that kindness wins in the end and help them on their journey too. Once we finished reading this book we made a six thinking hats google drawing. The six thinking hats are Information, Good Things, Negative Things, Feelings, What was Creative and What should you do now. Enjoy!

Our Emotions Using Word Art!

Emoji Word Art

Hi Guys Yesterday we started making an A-Z doc of our emotions. After we did that we were shown this really cool app called Tagul. Tagul is an app that allows you to jumble up a bunch of words and put them into shapes, you don't just have to use emojis you can use other objects as well. Most of the letters and emotions I didn't have to look up, but some of them like Z and X I had to because I couldn't think of anything for those letters. If you would like to check out Tagul here is the link www.tagul.com

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Des Hunt Visit!

Today Des Hunt came to visit our school. If you don't know who Des Hunt is, He is famous writer from New Zealand. He's written books like Sunken Forest, Skink Gully and Cool Nukes plus a lot more. When he came he presented to the Middle School and the Seniors. Before he started writing he did chemistry which was really cool. When the show finished, it was Morning Tea but after that a group of children including me walked to the Kowhai Room to have a writing session.
Enjoy The Pics!

Des Hunt

Hauraki Installation Work

At the start of Term Two, about one week ago we started planning Installation Art for the 2018 WPS Art Show. Our Installation art is going to be around Soft Plastic. We are going to construct a house around 2 meters high, it's going to be made out of wood and see threw plastic so people can see the whole schools plastic. Yesterday Me, JD and Abigail presented this slideshow to Kaiwhare.
Enjoy!

This work was quite easy but was a little bit hard for other teams presenting because some people had the juniors and a lot of them don't even know what soft plastic means. I can't wait to start collecting and dumping the rubbish into the house when it's finished.

Maori Calendar For April

Hi guys, I'm back. Near the start of April we made a Maori Calendar for April/ Paenga Whawha in Maori. This gave me a lot better understanding of Maori Days and Numbers. Hope You Enjoy!

This was pretty easy once we got to know the words and letters. 

I hope we do this again this year and maybe even make a whole year calendar.

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