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.

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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.
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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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