Swim Safe

This Tuesday we had a visitor named Whaea Tracey. She came to talk to us about swim safe. She told us 5 things before going on a boat, 1 check the weather, 2 take a waterproof phone, 3 take radio and go on channel 16 to listen to it just in case you get lost, 4 wear a life jacket, 5 tell someone when you will be back.

Beeswax

Yesterday my class and I made beeswax wraps. My friends Boombe, Keekee and I went first. We got given this little sheet, then we were allowed to draw on it with vivid and felt. Once we finished drawing on them, we went over to our whare kai because that is where the beeswax was. We had to dip our wrap (the thing we drew on) and move it around in the beeswax. 5 seconds later, we took it out and let beeswax wrap drip on a piece of cardboard so it could dry. Once we were finished, we went over to our class and grabbed three people to go over to the whare kai so they can do their ones. The reason why we made the beeswax wrap was to replace plastic wrapping.

Ukulele

For the past few weeks we have been learning how to play ukulele. The year 6’s would go before the year 7 and 8’s. We have learnt like about three songs. One of the songs we have learnt was (Three little birds from Bob Marley) and (the lion sleeps tonight) they are really easy songs to play. I learnt the song the lion sleeps tonight in one day,  ukulele lessons is easy to learn.

Duffy Day

On Tuesday we had our ever first Duffy assembly at Paihia School. A character named Zinkie introduced herself to Paihia School, she told us how to do some moves for self defence. She told us that we have to dance to the fighting moves. Also she was looking for someone, so she can give out her 1 million dollar signature. After doing our dancing we sat down and crossed our legs and meditated. We had to imagine that we were on her planet. At the end of our assembly Te Awa, Te Moana, Te Tahuna, Te Maunga and our class had to find one person (or two) that had been really good in class to get two books in front of the whole school. I was one of the people that got a Duffy book.

Playing Ukulele

For the past few weeks we have been learning how to play ukulele. The year 6’s would go before the year 7 and 8’s. We have learnt like about three songs. One of the songs we have learnt was (Three little birds from Bob Marley) and (the lion sleeps tonight) they are really easy songs to play. I learnt the song the lion sleeps tonight in one day,  ukulele lessons is easy to learn

Healthy Eating

  Everyday drinks,

Why: because it does not have sugar like the other ones.

Once a month drinks

Why: because there is lots of sugar in the bottle. If you keep drinking these drinks you can get

rotten teeth.  

Sometimes drinks,

Why: because the powerade has 10 teaspoons of sugar and the choc milk can be healthy for you but there is  choc flavor in the bottle.

On Monday we had Whaea Gina come to Paihia School to teach us about healthy eating and drinking.
She had three cards on the floor, there was this green card that means everyday, an orange card means
sometimes and the red card that means once a month.
There was this container that had a lot of drinks like, v, coke, mother, raro, water, powerade, choc milk, E2,
milk and juice.
Whaea Gina would ask some of us some questions and if we get it right we would have to put the right
drink where it belongs.

My Quiz

For the past few weeks in Te ngahere we have been learning the kupu for kai. We have been doing a quiz so we write something in maori and put a picture in so they can have a clue, once we were finished we have to put the correct answer in so it can be fun to play.

Maromaku Sports day.

Sport day in Maromaku

On Friday the 29th of June we went to Maromaku to play sports. I played rugby with a whole lot of people. Waikare School needed abou
t 4 people from our school to be in their term for the day because they did not have enough people.

The first school we played against was Pakaraka. We had a game playing against them and even though they won,
I really enjoyed playing against Pakaraka.

The second game we had was a challenge because I think that we were coming a tie but they won. We did not care if we lost we just cared
if we had fun.

The third game we played was really cool because we won. That was our first game we won on that day.

But the sad thing was that two people got hurt so they could not play. A girl named Alexi hurt her leg so she could not play for the last game.
That was sad, and then a boy named Lesane was getting a try then this boy came and tackled him and he landed on his shoulder.
Everyone was running to him
because he was crying. My uncle Pep had to take him to Kawakawa hospital.

Bay Bush Action

Two weeks ago we had visitors named Stella and Brad they came to Paihia School and talked to the year 6, 7 and 8’s about the Bay Bush Action. They talked to us about how they set up traps for the pests in the ngahere. Lot’s of pests has been eating our native birds and their eggs. Then they took all of us down to our school field and set up some traps. One day later we went down and had a look to see if we caught anything, we did we caught a big rat and then we  got rid of it.

Food Chain

Last Term in Te Ngahere we made animations about Food Chains. We had a choice to work with someone or we work by our self.  We had to finish them in about one or two weeks. Then once everyone was finished our whole class got an hour of watching other people's animations also we had some popcorn while we were watching. It was interesting and fun.

Vanya Metaphors Poem.

In Te Ngahere  we have been learning how to use metaphors in our writing, also we made a poem about ourselves using metaphors. I did well at fixing some of the metaphors. I really enjoyed learning how to use metaphors I thought that it would be hard to use metaphors but when I had a go at metaphors I knew how to do it. Our Walt was to use language features appropriately showing a developing understanding of effect, this is my first draft.


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