Kapa Haka

 Afew weeks back we did our Kapa Haka . Due to covid, unfortunately we couldn't do the festival, but luckily, one of our teachers partner is a videographer so he could film and post it on Youtube. 

"Kia mau!" The kaia shouted.

Click this link to access a video of our Kapa haka

The Green Team Play

 We Hopped off the squished bus and sat down. This is when the play was about to start. 

This morning we went to Ilminster to watch a play from the green team. It was about why you should NOT litter.

The first characters walked on to the stage . There was a kina, an older crayfish and two small crayfishes.

"Alright, time for bed " exclaimed the nanny crayfish. " One more story, pleaseeee " said one of the small crayfishes. " Fine. Which story should we do? The story about when I saved the world , or the story when I saved the world from aliens?" Nanny crayfish asked " Easy! The one when you saved the world from aliens." The small crayfish answered.

The nanny crayfish explained The whole Story and how her and the kina saved the world from "aliens"...

At the skatepark, four kids were eating food and leaving the rubbish on the ground without thinking. But soon, the aliens came and polluted as well. " Hey! You can't pollute in our world! " said one of the kids, forgetting that they were being hypocrites. " We've got to tell Nanny Kōura (the crayfish). She will know what to do!" Said one kid. And off they went looking for her.

"Nanny Kōura Nanny Kōura! Some Alien things are polluting! Do something!" cried the kids " I know what to do. 

She went to the skatepark. The aliens thought she was their leader because she was orange like them. "Which one of you polluted ?!" She asked . The aliens keeped on pointing at each other trying not to take the blame. " ENOUGH! Can you both clean up your mess ?" Nanny Kōura shouted. " Ok Master " The aliens replied. " And where are you guys going ? " Nanny asked the kids ."Home" they all said. "No you aren't. How about you clean up YOUR mess too before you leave?" Said Nanny Kōura. "But-" The kids tried to answer. " But you also have to clean up the rest of the skatepark." Nanny interrupted "FINEEEE" The kids said. That's what they did for the rest of the day.  

" Ok and that's the end of the story. Maybe tomorrow night I could tell you a new story for a change. Go to bed now" 

Speech 2021

 It is the start of term four and that means speeches. It was quite hard to choose my topic but luckily I settled on Valerie Adams because I really didn't like my original topic ideas. My first idea for a topic was "What Happens when E-cars are worn out?" but I didn't really like that topic because I want an E-car. That was only one of a million ideas I had but then I just decided to to it about an inspirational Olympian.

Click this link to see speech

Modality Words

 

High Modality words are good for Speeches and facts because they can

Make the audience strongly believe what you are saying. 

The word cloud above has some examples.

School is back!

 Last Wednesday we got back into alert level two, and we got a day off school on the first day, which was when I went to the hair dressers . But on Thursday we went back to school and so far it has been fine.

Thursday and Friday were really fun, because thursday was good because we did a kahoot and even though I didn't participate  they showed a video with all the answers for the daily riddles, which was quite fun to watch. Then I wish every Friday would be like last weeks one, because in the morning we played a long game of three ball soccer, we did another kahoot, we got a new shared book and we read it at the beach and then after that we played on the beach. On the beach we got to play several rounds of bullrush, we dug a huge hole, and my friend Keylaine made soft sand with me which is just wet sand and dry sand and then its really satisfying.

This week is kind of normal, because we got back into workshops, and our cross country (🏃)canceled because of lockdown and so we will do it tomorrow instead and I'm not too excited.

I have tons of good luck because on Saturday we are going to the South island of New Zealand and luckily lockdown ended on Wednesday so I think we will be able to go. I'm just gonna try not to keep my hopes up too high just in case...

Anyways I'm just so glad I can see my friends again and that lockdown is over! 

Spring has started

 Yesterday was the first day of spring and I am just so happy that we can finally have some sunny days coming our way !

As it being the second day of spring my peach tree has already started to bloom and the house is so sunny you don't need a light switch. I love spring because its not to hot and not to cold, perfect weather for skiing, The A and P show, halloween and more.

Just as well that the covid alert levels have just changed to level three yesterday so we can go swimming. 

I'm also really excited for camping to start, because we are allowed to roast marshmallows and there's GREAT spots for hide and seek!

In spring you don't have to bother about wearing so much layers, and we can wear skirts and summer dresses.

Spring is my favourite season in the whole year!

Lockdown Two

A week ago now was the first day of NZ lockdown 2021. I have just started online school, which hasn't been as boring as thought. 

I really did not not want a lockdown to happen now, because last week was my birthday and we were about to go for a family trip to Rotorua, but covid interrupted us again. When I say again I'm saying that this has happened before. The lockdown last year made us postpone our trip to Europe, to see our family. 

Otherwise lockdown two has been going great, we have had the task from school to create a video of us running to make a cross country video, (because cross country got canceled too) which so far would be quite a laugh. Every day for school, we do one subject a day, which means we have to day two calls. On Mondays we do a whole class call, to ask for any help for the week, Monday also has workshop calls and a question time at the end of the day. So Monday has three calls a day, but every other day has a workshop call and a sharing time. You can only have one workshop call because in our class your in one group for every subject. No matter what, we have to do question time at 2pm everyday. 

Hoping that if your in Lockdown, your safe, your having fun, and that this global virus will end soon.

Quickwrites

Every week we have to do two quickwrites. But in my opinion I really like the quickwrite I did last week. I hope you can agree with me.

Confusion

It started out, just like any normal day. Got out of bed same time, same breakfast, ect. But today at school I saw one of the staff knock on the door. I was in  the middle of a workshop when she said; "Can Dune be excused from class?"

I walked out of the class clueless. When I arrived at the office, and for some reason I saw my parents."Why are you here?I swear I heard you say you had work. Both of you. You even said you'd pick me up late!" Dad replied to me saying; "Well some plans changed a bit." 

They thanked Margot before we started walking to the car. I noticed Perle sitting in the car and that the luggedes were in the boot .I went into the car confused ...

The end

I let my friends see and tons of them were sitting there wondering "Whats gonna come next?" Next week I might share to you part two.

Hockey 2021

 

Hockey

This year for sports, I am playing hockey again. Last year, I played soccer but I got a little bit bored, even though we didn't loose one round. 

At times I get sick of hockey, because you have your stick down most of the game and your back starts to hurt. At least each game is only 30 minutes long. Also its good because its not a Saturday sport, so its not as busy as soccer and netball.

Tonight's game is the last game until next year. I might get a bit bored without much sports because then all I'll have to do after school is trampolining. I'm still gonna do it next year. I really recommend hockey.

In a game of hockey, there is a goal keeper who stops the other team from scoring, then on the left and the right of the goal, we have defenders, who make sure the ball doesn't even get close to the goal. Then, we have the mid field, who passes the ball to one of the three strikers and they are the one's who score.

Term Three Inquiry

Term Three Inquiry

As it being the first week of term three, we have a new inquiry. Last term our inquiry was Korara (Fairy penguin).

This term we have three different subjects for our inquiry. The first subject is the Olympics. 

For the start of this subject we have gotten given booklets from Kiwi Kids news, that have all kinds of questions and facts about the Olympics. Some parts are about the ancient Olympics and in some parts you have to write all you know about a kiwi athlete. We have three weeks to complete the booklet.

This week I have to get a task that one of my workshops gave me, which is to write a report about Japan who is hosting the Olympics this year. I am including the flag, the capital, the president ect.

The second subject is about New Zealander Jean Batten. She is the first woman to fly a plane across the south atlantic. We will be doing research about until the last few weeks of this term when we will have a whole day of school showing what we found out about her.

The last inquiry subject we're doing is all about enviro, where we will probably be heading over to Hamanatua stream. Last year we tried to weed all the fennel there, and there was so much that it was way to hard. Some more fennel grew over the holidays, and so the council decided to take it all out. For parts of this term we might be taking out extra fennel, and planting more plants.

We will also be having an action day, we are going to Mangaone Station to plant the wetland and we will be walking up a hill and planting the 200 trees we won last term.  

The name of our inquiry subjects all up will be called Going for Gold. I'm really excited for this busy term.

T2 Strand

Strand-Math

 

One of my favourite subjects at school is strand because it's very different and it's really fun!

When the term started, we were doing the nets of a 3D shape and for a few weeks we were creating a wall full of the cuboids , cubes and triangular prisms ect. I liked it because we could learn and see if we needed more parts. We all enjoyed strand.

Once we had put all the shapes on the wall, we started to learn about reading a calendar. I liked this because it helps us with seeing when an event is, but I have a feeling it was a bit too easy.

This week and last week we started to learn about patterns. we used beads and paint and tried to make questions out of the patterns. and the end we were allowed to connect each end to make a bracelet.  I never wear mine, but I have to say, it was really fun to make. It was also fun to figure out questions, and answer them.   

I think you should try strand too. It's a fun experience.

My learning week three

Little Blue Kоrоrā 

This term our inquiry is the Little blue Kororā; The smallest penguin in the world. 

Last week we had the task to create a slide which included the life cycle of the Little blue. We had the choice to do a slide for each period of life, or just create a quick, life cycle like this: 

But, I chose to take the long way.

Enviro Action day T2 W5

 Enviro Action day

Wednesday was one of my best days of the week. It was another Enviro action day. But this time,  for some reason, it was better than normal action days because instead of sitting on the mat the whole day (and also getting so tired you can't concentrate) we went to the BEACH. Even better, we didn't have the whole school with us so it wasn't so busy. 

Why did we go to the beach? Well, we went to the beach in groups. My group had Amber, Bridie and of course, me. We were picking up rubbish to help the environment.  You know what was great? There wasn't even much GROSS plastic. You know what was even better? There wasn't even much plastic at all. Unfortunately, there was still some waste and mostly glass. That's a bad thing because it's probably the most dangerous.

When we arrived back at school we counted how much waste we had found. That's when I realized how well we went. Our group found 204 pieces of glass. Although I was tired, I was still excited! We could win ( I also forgot to tell you that we could win a prize if you found more waste than everyone else)!

At the end of the day I was SO TIRED. We didn't win, turns out some people found way more waste than us, but I was happy with what we found.  At least our beach is cleaner than it was before.

Solving problems with your chromebooks

This week is the first week of the term. Every term we have something new to learn on the class hub and this term we have Digi digging. Digi digging is all about learning digital curriculum .We get a new subject every week and this week we had a Kawa of care poster to make. We had to have a buddy and the choice to use Canva, google slides and google docs. My buddy was Esther and we used Canva .I bet you can tell that the writing above is our poster. It sure is. And I hope you can or have learned a thing or two about it.

14 Smooth grooves

14 Smooth Grooves

"Any suggestions for the week well the year sixes are gone?"

That's when it all started. We had thought of making smoothies.

When we reached week seven, this Monday, the moment the year sixes 

left, we all rushed into the classroom to choose smoothie buddies. I was with Aria. 

As you probably know, my name is Dune...

We wanted to make a sweet smoothie, so we called our smoothie The sweet DNA. .

Do you get it? D'n'A?

The other groups were called Berry Breeze, Purple Sunrise, Fruit Punch and Paradise 

Fruit smoothie.

Tuesday was our organizing day. The day we made our recipes, drew pictures of what we

 predicted it would look like and agreed what we were gonna bring for our smoothies from home.

Wednesday was our action day, the day we made our drinks. 

First we gathered all our ingredients and materials and put them on a plate like this;

Then we headed to the room in the middle of the class and filmed a video.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14wQm0u3U6Df6jX4_ffwMLrJNIEAL3wGM/view

Do you like it? 

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Back To School 2021

 Back To School 2021

By Dune

As School starts in 2021 we have already done quite a lot.

We did a walk your pepeha week, which we still haven't finished, we still need to go to our Marae. We are going to get that done today, but luckily we don't have to walk all the way there because it's in town. 

Here in New Zealand most people or schools have there own pepeha. A Pepeha includes a Marae, ( a cultural house ) A maunga, ( A hill or mountain ) and an awa ( a river ).

Here are some photos of what we did-

22. 02. 2021

We also have done some art.

 We wrote 2021 in chunky numbers and then inside of the numbers we drew what we predicted the year would look like. We also drew stuff about ourselves, what we like and what we do. This is what it looks like-

At the very start of the term we also coloured in a mandala and wrote our goals on it. We also drew our family and friends. Photo-

  

In writing we have been doing persuasive writing

For math, we have done IXL math or khan academy.

Thats how our year has gone so far. Later on in the year I can share more of my learning.

Fridays Earthquake

 Fridays Earthquake

Mum wakes me up and says; "Get out of bed Dune, there's an earthquake!" I can't believe I sleeped though that. We headed up the hill as fast as we could...

On Friday very early in the morning, there was a strong earthquake that nearly lead us into a tsunami. I was too panicky to go to school, because where I learn, its right next to the beach.

... When we felt safe, we drove back home and fell back to sleep.

It was quite a boring day. We spent most of our time watching the news to see what we could do, and heard that a small tsunami hit Tokomaru bay. Here is an image to prove it:

We then, went up the hill again and watched over the ocean to see if we were safe...

About an hour later all the warnings were canceled and we could go back to the beach. I didn't feel scared anymore, I felt relieved.