Swimming Term 1

Hi Guys I'm back. This term we've done all of swimming and we're not done but I wanted to tell you guys all about it. We have been swimming at two different places, the School Pool and Cameron Pools. At Cameron we have been doing some lessons and on Tuesday next week were having a test. In the school pool Ms Sands has be giving lessons and on Mondays it's free lunchtime swimming. Hope You Enjoy The Pics!

Streamline

Safely Getting Up

Side Breathing

Diving

Swimming had been really fun this term but I'm a little worried about the test.

My favourite place out of the two that we swim at is probably Cameron Pools.

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Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Hi Guys I'm back from the holidays, hope you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We read a book about the Treaty of Waitangi called Te Tiriti o Waitangi. After we read the book we had to answer questions about it. Enjoy!

My Work  

This work was pretty easy and fun, I will be blogging all lot more when we get back into the grove of learning.

I learnt a lot about the Treaty of Waitangi and the most interesting fact was that the Maori version of the treaty was not the same as the English.

I think the Treaty is very important because it helped New Zealand grow in population and I don't know if New Zealand would be same.

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Wheels Day 2017!

Hi Guys. On Monday we had Wheels Day! Wheels Day is a day where you bring your wheels like scooters, bikes and even RC cars. I brought my BMX bike and rode it around school. I also shared it with Alex and Noah. Also on the day we got swim in the  pool and also go on the 

Slip n' Slide which went super fast. We played some games as well like Capture The Flag, T-Ball and Vortex. Hope you Enjoy the Pics!

Year Six's

Me Waiting

SPLASH!

Angry Face!

Wheels day was a really fun day with lots of excitement. My favourite part of the day was riding my bike and going super fast on the slip n' slide.

Athletics Zones 2017!

Hi Guys, I'm back. About two weeks ago we went to Athletics Zones. We were chosen when we had Athletics Day. In Athletics Zones I did 75m Sprint which I made it to the finals and came sixth. I did 400m run as well were I didn't do to good in but at the end we had relays which I was in and we came second. Overall Waikowhai came tied 3rd on the day.

Hope you Enjoy The Pics!

Gala Six Thinking Hats Slideshow

Hi Guys, I'm back. One week ago we had our gala day that Iv'e been talking about. It went splendid and even people from outside of the school came. At the gala day there was activities such as Wet The Teacher, Grab The Crab, Coin Toss, Slip n' Slide, and many other amazing things. After that on Monday we started making a six thinking hats slideshow. If you don't what the hats are, they have a red hat a green hat a black hat a white hat and a yellow hat.

Hope you Enjoy!

The Gala was a really fun thing to do and we raised around 13,00 dollars for it.

One thing I wish didn't happen is that all my tote bags except for my reserved one. but everything else went to plan. 

Summer Blogging Programe

Hi guys this is just a practise for a summer blogging programme we are doing. This one is in the past so there will be different ones. We are doing this to in the summer to keep our minds active. Every day for 4 weeks there will be activities we will do and we will get points for them. The Top 3 people with the most points will get prizes.

• Kiwis have invented a lot more stuff than you think like Sir Ernest Rutherford (New Zealander) split the atom
• A person went around the world illegally jumping off things like, the Harbour bridge, Eiffel Tower and lots of other stuff with a harness to invent the bungy jump.
• Bruce Mclaren ( New Zealander) invented the Mclaren racecar as well, where he showed off in a race. 

I think this going to be a very cool thing because it will keep our brains active and also my blog will have lots more things on our blogs.

Hauraki's Gala Preparation

This year Waikowhai Primary School is having a Gala Day on November 25th. We are fundraising for the Junior playground. Each class had to make something for the day. Hauraki is making tote bags for the day to raise awareness to people on plastic bags, Manukau is making Recycled Paper and Waitemata is making soap. This was really cool because it taught me how to sew which is a very good skill. It also taught me a lot about how much damage plastic bags do to our environment. 

The first step to making a tote bag is getting your fabric then you have to cut and measure the right size. Next you have to pin the sides and then the bottom. After, you have to sew from the top, down one side, across the bottom, and up the other side, but do not sew the top of the bag together. Then fold the top down and sew a hem, fold it down again and sew another hem. Then cut handles that are about 70cm long and place them inside the top of your bag. On each end of the handles sew a square to hold the handles securely.

Some of our Tote Bags

Ben Sewing

Me sewing

Model 1.0

Model 2.0

The Mess

My first bag was not as good as my 2nd and 3rd bag.

 My favourite bag was my 3rd the one with the pasifika flowers and the blue back.
This was one of the most fun things we have done all year. It was almost as fun as camp.

The most challenging thing about this was that the sewing machines always in some way would stop working.

This has changed my thinking a lot about plastic bags and I hope it did for you too.

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