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.
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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. 
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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.
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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.
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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.