Terrific Tips to help your learning athletics

 In Te ngahere we have been doing Athletics for 5 weeks. The first one we did was long jump it was easy the first four were easy but it got harder I didn't make it the last one. The next was high jump I hate high jump because you have to jump in a scissor jump and it hard to do. My favourite is sprints and relays because you to run to your teammate that you chose and you have to run to your teammate it was hard because when you a almost to your teammate you have to speed up to get them.

What Do You Know About The Weekends

 Kia ora, on the weekend I went possum hunting with my cousins and my uncle, but then we realised we had to go back home because we needed the quad to drive around on. After that we started to go hunting on the farm, the farm was so dark, then we heard a possum. After that we found it, then the possum was running away but my uncle shot the possum. I had to grab the possum, the possum was so fluffy but the possum was still moving in my hand so I got scared then I screamed loud, my uncle told me to be calm down because people are sleeping so I stopped screaming. We saw a rabbit looking at us my uncle told me and my cousins to leave it alone so we left it. Then we were getting tired so we went back home and went to bed. Have you been possum hunting before?

The Things You Need To Know About T-ball

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing T-ball with our cool coach Kacey. So there are two teams, a batting and a Fielding team our team won by one point the full score was 6-5. There are three bases and a home base. We were fielding first, we got two people out by catching the ball or going the ball to the base before the person got to the base. There can only be one person on base ,a base at a time. The other team got four home runs and one  of our team out. Our team got four home runs and two outs that is how we won. It was hard to catch the ball  because it would go the other way. Did you know that t-ball is becoming a bigger sport?

Mind Blowing facts about our T Ball.

 This term in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to play T Ball. The rules to T Ball are when you hit the ball you have to run even if you are already on a base. When there are no more chances to get anybody out the backstop shouts ball in and they get ready for the next batsman. Every time somebody makes it to home base then the batting team get one home run. After everyone on the batting team has a go at batting they switch over. When we played we batted first and got 7 points and when it was our teams time to bat I was the backstop. Robert was the backstop the whole entire game to get someone out because one of the people clipped the ball so I got it and put the ball on homebase before the runner did. In the end my team won the score was 11 to us and 7 to the other team. I really enjoyed the game because it was fun to play. Have you ever played T Ball  before?

Cool Cricket

 Today a man called Neil came in and taught us how to play Cricket. When we got out we had to start batting. After a bit of batting we had to play a game of Speed Cricket we were feilding first and I was the  backstop. I was the best player that played backstop in our team. Then when it was my teams turn to bat I was the first one up. We changed positions 6 times. The other team beat us by only one point.

Have you ever played speed cricket before?

Bay Of Islands College.

Last week the year 8 students of Te Ngahere had a choice to go to Bay Of Islands College for orientation day. I went to my cousins house so that we could walk down to the college. When we got there we had to all meet in the library. We got to met the principal and he showed us to our classes that we had. My three favourite classes art, wood work and P.E. I liked art because we got to paint our art work and we didn't get told what colours to paint it we could just do whatever. I also liked woodwork and P.E because when we were doing wood work we got to draw our own designs. In P.E we got split into groups and got put with year 13 students. They taught us skills about volleyball. We got taught how to hit the ball up properly and how to hit the ball up if it's close to the ground. Over all I had an amazing day and would love to go again. Have you ever been to Bay Of Islands College?  Bay Of Islands College.

Fantastic Cricket

  In Te Ngahere we did cricket with Neil our coach. At the start  we had to partner up with someone and practice hitting the ball and catching the ball. We all got in two teams, one team was bating  and the other team is out on the field to catch the ball the team bating have 3 bats if we catch the ball they are down 1 bat if all 3 bats get out we switch side. Our team won by one point. And our coach said we were the best team in northland.

Have you ever played cricket?

What a Blast art Is

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing art. We have been doing art for so long i’m still on my practice sheet because it so hard. You start off with a practice sheet to get good a outline. Then you blend the colours on the picture. After you have practised the picture you go on to you real sheet where you do same except the picture is bigger. It makes it even easier to do the outline even blending is easy because the shapes are bigger. 

Do you like doing art?

                                          

A Basic Lesson On Cricket

On Wednesday in Te Ngahere we got the privilege to be given a lesson on the basics of cricket by an instructor whose name was Neil. First Neil taught us how we should hold our cricket bat which was to put both of your hands into a V shape then grip the handle of the bat.  He also taught us a cricket  stance which was to stand with your feet apart and one of your feet pointing to where you want your ball to go. After this we tried some drills which required us to get into pairs and practice batting the ball. Next we got to play a game of speed cricket. Speed cricket is just like normal cricket except it’s a lot faster. When we started cricket I was really hesitant to play because i’ve never even played cricket before but i’m grateful I tried because it ended up being a lot of fun. 

Would you consider yourself a cricket rookie or expert?

A Quick Guide To T-Shaped Literacy

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about t-shaped literacy.   For the first t-shape we were given various pictures and were tasked  to describe what feeling/mood we could feel when we looked at that picture. Along with doing that we needed to construct a small paragraph that related to what we thought could happen next. When we started our first t-shape I thought it was going to be extremely difficult because i’ve never tried any work related to mood/atmosphere but once I used what I already knew it was a lot easier. 

Do you have a book or song that puts you in a positive mood/atmosphere?

A Quick Guide To T-Shaped Literacy

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about t-shaped literacy.   For the first t-shape we were given various pictures and were tasked  to describe what feeling/mood we could feel when we looked at that picture. Along with doing that we needed to construct a small paragraph that related to what we thought could happen next. When we started our first t-shape I thought it was going to be extremely difficult because i’ve never tried any work related to mood/atmosphere but once I used what I already knew it was a lot easier. 

Do you have a book or song that puts you in a positive

mood/atmosphere?

A Quick Guide To T-Shaped Literacy

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about t-shaped literacy.   For the first t-shape we were given various pictures and were tasked  to describe what feeling/mood we could feel when we looked at that picture. Along with doing that we needed to construct a small paragraph that related to what we thought could happen next. When we started our first t-shape I thought it was going to be extremely difficult because i’ve never tried any work related to mood/atmosphere but once I used what I already knew it was a lot easier. 

Do you have a book or song that puts you in a positive mood/atmosphere?

Mind-Blowing Facts About Te Reo Maori weather report

 In Te Ngahere this week we have been learning to read and make a Te Reo Maori weather report. In class we had to make a script first to make sure that our Maori words were correct, after that we were allowed to then make an animation with the words that we put in our script then we show our learning with a screencastify over it. I enjoyed this because it was fun and easy to do. There was nothing I didn’t enjoy about it. The thing that I found hard was making sure that the maori words meant the same thing as the english words, so next time I will try harder. This is our script we made.

Do you like Te Reo Maori?

Tricky Tricky Algebra

 

Kia Ora, last week in Te Ngahere in Pangarau we were learning how to do algebra. At first I wasn't very comfortable with this type of math because I hadn't worked with it before. There were letters like N and B that was put in front of the equation. When we looked at these letters we thought that they meant something but they really didn’t. We learnt  how to do a trick but in maths: think of a number , multiply it but 2, take away 5 now half your answer. Many people mistake this type of algebra for magic. We also learnt how to use a number sequence and how to make sure that these would work together perfectly. 

What I did well is try to learn how to and not give up. What I could do better is co-opertate more. Have you ever learned algebra ?

Mahi Toi

This week in Te Ngahere we have been finishing our calendar artwork from last term. Every year we do Calendar Art to give to our family. We have been focusing on drawing continuous lines and shading. After we finished our practices art than we got a big piece of paper and had to trace out the outline. Once we trace out the outline we than get to colour it in using a fading technique. After we have done that we then have to outline the artwork in a black vivid to make the drawing stand out. One thing that I found hard about drawing the calendar art was having to draw a continuous line. Have you done Calendar Art before? 

Do You Know How to Use Weather Words?

This week in Te Ngahere we have been working on weather forecasts in Te Reo. We had to get into a group of 2-3 and come up with a script that was all in Te Reo Maori. The script had to include 6 place names and we had to come up with the weather forecast for those six places we chose. We also had to introduce ourselves. My group chose Paihia, Auckland, Whangarei, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown as our places. I found it hard to remember what the weather in Maori was but once I remembered it was easy.Have you ever made a weather forecast?

Amazing Athletics

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing amazing athletics.

The activities we have been doing are long jump, high jump, shot put, sprints/relays and discus.

The first day of athletics I was meant to be doing long jump but we had to play flies because the long jump pit hadn’t been built. 

I got into the last four people but got out because I missed the next step by a little bit.

I really enjoy doing athletics because i’m getting faster and better at the activities.

Here is the long jump success criteria 

Have you done athletics before?

Best Holidays ever

 On Saturday I stayed at my cousins house for the night and woke up at 4.00 o'clock in the morning. Then we got ready to go to Auckland, we got in the car at 5.00 a clock  . On the way to Auckland I slept till we got there when we got to Auckland we had McDonald's I had pancake’s and a hot chocolate after. We went in to rainbow’s end. Our first ride was the Spectre on the Specter you were 3D glasses and on the side of you seat you have lazer guns and shoot robots and get points if you kill a robot. We went on so many rides like gold rush, bump a cars, bump a boats and a lot more. After we had Burger King and Sam Woos. I enjoyed it because I got to go on all the rides and spend time with my aunty. Have you been on a roller

Fantastic Holidays

In the holiday’s I was at my cousin's house in Waipapa for a week. Then I went back home. I was at my friends house for half of the week. Next holiday’s I will be in Wariua with my family for the holiday’s to visit my little brother then we are going to see my dad and my papa. After that when we are there we will have a feed then go to the cemetery to visit my dad and papa. What I really liked was when I went  to Waipapa for a week because we went hunting to try survive for 4 days, It was fun.              

What did you do in the holiday?

My Holiday

Last week during the holidays I did a lot of things like, going to town, friends houses, beaches and out to dinner. During the holidays I had a lot of fun hanging out with my friends and catching up with my family. Me and my friend also blew up 300+ balloons and hung out in town we did a lot of stuff in town but we mainly hung out on the wharf and at the library. When we were at the library we usually just talk and listen to music.  What did you do in the holidays? 

Panui

This week in Te Ngahere we have been focusing on  how authors use words or phrases to create an emotional response. We had to choose an emotion, place, a way of walking, a colour, sound, smell, time of day and the weather. After we chose them we had to copy a paragraph and put the words we chose into the paragraph to make it make sense. I liked that we got to choose some of the words like the emotion and what time of day it was and things like that instead of having to just write what the teachers said. Have you ever done this before? 

The best Google music ever

 

 In Te ngahere we have been doing google music lab. In google music lad you make your own beats and music with different  we use the Rhythms and other like. I enjoy doing the google music lab because you can make different music and beats. It was hard because you had to put these dots on the lines to make the music or beats. Thank you for reading my blog. Have you ever did google music lad? chrome music lab

Unbelievable Art

 Today in Te Ngahere we have been doing art called calendar art. It is a faint design on a piece of paper and you can't see it properly It’s just a practice sheet. Once your design is good enough and we’ve done a lot of practise, the teacher gives us  a bigger piece of paper for our good copy and be used for our calendar. These are the rules for these lessons. Draw continuous lines, curves and rule straight lines. Next we select colours for effect and we blend the colours. The hardest bit for me was drawing the patterns. Have you drawn art with your teacher before?

Fast Track Your Knowledge On Measuring Perimeter And Area

For the last few weeks here in Te Ngahere we were separated into groups of 2-3 and we have been doing different tasks every week. This week my group got to try out “Measuring Window” and in this task we had to measure the perimeter and area of different sized windows and then try to figure out why the windows each cost the amount of money they did (they were in pounds). When doing this task I found it really easy and interesting because we got to see the difference in prices when buying windows.

Have you ever tried finding the perimeter and area of different shapes?

Here is our DLO to show how we worked out the problem.

Gail @ Paihia School

Fantastic Bottle Rockets

 Last week in Te ngahere we did the final launcher of owl rockets with Gustavo and Troy. My groups rocket want 19.7 we came 6th of 10 groups we were in second ones but got put down to 6th the furthest was 79.4 in went so far. 1th 2ht and 3th got a chocolate and the first to deploy your parachute got a chocolate or a lollipop.

Through The Window.

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to find and measure perimeter and area in 2 dimensional shapes. Here is a screencastify to show my work. I found it hard at first because I didn't know how to find the perimeter and area but once I got taught how to it was really easy. Do you know how to find perimeter and area?             

Fun P.E Drills

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning a game called Ki o rahi. My teacher Whaea Shanna takes half of the class out for a game, Then the other half is taking out the next day. How to play ki o rahi is simple first you get in a team. Then one person in your team that goes and stand by this cone as the player is running then you have to rip the tag off the other person that is not in your team. Two people have to be in the middle to guard the post because if the ball hits the post then that team gets a point.Have you played Ki o rahi before?

Behind the Scenes

  In Te Ngahere we have been making movies for the film festival. The movies had to be three minutes long. Our movie was about the end of the world. Something I enjoyed was being able to make the movie with my friends. Something I could do better next time is not to muck around. Something I would change about our movie would be what our movie was about. I had a great time and I wish I could film another movie. If you want to watch our movie here it is. Have you made movies before?

Here is my movie

Fantastic bottle rockets

 In Te Ngahere we have been building rockets for the last 7 to 8 weeks with  gustav and Troy they help us make the rockets . to make a bottle rocket you need a 1.5 liter bottle, glue gun,tape and a craft knife. To make your rocket go further you put so fins and glue them or tape them. My group got 18.1 metres. The highest was group 67.2. I hope you enjoy my blog post.

Check Out These Great Pe Drills

In Te- Ngahere we have been doing some Pe drills.

In the Pe drills you have to pass the ball

to the other person.

I really enjoyed it because then I can practice

passing the ball and throwing the ball.

You have to but on some ripper tags as well so then

it is hard for you to get a touchdown.

It was hard because it was raining and the ball was

a small ball. Have you done some great Pe Drills?   

Math DLO that will blow your mind!

For the past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning to do equivalent  fractions. We had to solve a sheet called fraction frenzy, I found these questions really fun to do but some of them were quite challenging. After we had solved the sheet we had to redo the first two questions on a piece of paper in a pair or group, I chose to be in a pair with my friend, Fern. We started by cutting out all of the fractions and glueing them in the correct places on an A3 paper. After that we could either make a math DLO together and screencastify it individually OR we could make it separately and screencastify it individually. I chose to do it by myself and screencastify by myself. We were doing this to share our learning and show that we actually know how to do the math.

Do you enjoy learning math?

Autumn@Paihia School

Movie Making pt2

 Magical Movie Making Vol 2

Kia ora people this is an update on my movie-making.

My group and I are getting to the film bit of our movie it is going to be really really awesome when we finish it. We have had a big impact from our Kaiako/Teacher Whaea Ronnie she has helped us so much we can't thank her enough I also feel more confident to do this movie making now because it is really easy to film and I know what we are doing. Now we are up to filming our rap. Have you done Movie making before?

I Can help You Keep Your Chromebook Safe

 

In Te Ngahere for the past 2 weeks we have been learning about kawa of care. Kawa of care is about how to look after your chromebook and the things you need to know about it. The thing that I use to struggle with is keeping my chromebook in my case and remembering to charge at home. I think I have overcome this problem by always remembering what to do. Here is a slide I have made to show people how to look after their chromebook.

Do you like keeping your chromebook safe?

Isaiah S @ Paihia School

When I Moved Schools

I am Zac I am eleven years old and I am going to be telling you about myself and how I felt about moving schools.

I felt really nervous about moving to Paihia school but it’s good so far. I haven’t changed my mind about Whangarei Primary being the best school. I have Shay, Robert, Brooklyn, Mark and Warren as friends. They are nice and funny they make school a good time they are like my friends at Whangarei Primary.  I really like both schools. If you moved school would you find it hard to make friends?

Terrific T-Shaped

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing T-Shaped about stories that show not tell and that's called inference. This is an example, Tom clenched his fists in frustration, The author is showing his is angry.

I really enjoyed doing this activity because I love doing T-Shaped I found it easy to do most of the answers.

Do you like doing T-Shaped?

Movie Making

This week in Te Ngahere we have been working on movie making. We all had to get into groups, in my group is Nevaeh, Jorjah, Anyah, Mihi and Tizara we all had to come up with an idea for the movie. Our movie is called Lora the Maori Explorer. We all have different roles in the group Mihi and Nevaeh are the directors and editors, Jorjah, Tizara, Anyah and I are the actors. The movie has to last between 2-3 minutes. I found it hard to write the script because it was hard to come up with the ideas for the movie. I enjoyed acting in the movie because it was really fun. Have you ever had to make a movie?

Film

Wonder Project

KIA Ora Bloggers last Wednesday we had two rocket scientists that came to Paihia school there names are Gustavo and Troy they told us what they did and what jobs they do. Gustavo job is to make fruit and learn about new fruit. Troy's  job was to make cool new machines. Gustavo and Troy come in every Wednesday the first time we didn't do much they just introduced them-self and what the do for a living . It is so cool to learn about rockets and what they do. OK bloggers I hope you guys like my blog. Learning about rocket is cool because I like learning about what they do. Have you ever did the wonder project?.

Movie Making

This week in Te Ngahere we have started our planning for our movie. First we had to get into a group. In my group is Autumn, Gail, Imogen and I . We are working on our script which to me is the one of the hardest thing because you have to make sure the conversations are flowing and also make sure the acting is on point. The hardest thing would be the filming because you have to find the different types of shots and also where you’re gonna shoot every scene from. Gail is the filmer and the director and the rest of us are actors. The fun part is probably the acting, because if you don’t do good enough you won’t pull it off and it would look really bad.    

Have you ever made a mini movie?    

Movie Making brief 

Stunning basic facts

Stunning Basic Facts

In Te Ngahere as you know from my previous post we have been doing basic facts so I just wanted to update you. I am now on Division and I have a very long long way to go but hopefully I learn them all by the end of the year.  I also felt really good finishing it because I knew all of them. Do you know your division?

Kia Ora Bloggers last Wednesday we had two rocket scientists that came to Paihia school there names are Gustavo and Troy they told us what they did and what jobs they do. Gustavo jobs is to make fruit and learnt about new fruit Troy job was to make cool new machines. Gustavo and Troy come in every Wednesday the first time we didn't do much they just introduced themself and what the do for a living . It is so cool to learnt about rocket and what they do. Ok bloggers I hope you guys like my blog.

Mosaic Art

Imogen @ Paihia School

This week for art we have been making mosaic art on our chromebook. First we opened a google drawing and filed it in other. After that we needed to find a picture that we wanted to make a mosaic out of. Then we used a polyline tool to make different shapes over the top of the photo, then color the shapes to match the color on the photo. At first making all of the shapes was hard because the polyline tool was challenging to use. The shapes also  had to be quite big for the polyline tool to work. After I found out how to use the polyline is was really easy. Matching the color was also rather easy. Have you ever made a mosaic on a chromebook or computer?

Vaughan@Paihia School

Kia ora Bloggers. Last Friday I went roller skating with my friends and broke my arm. I fell backwards and landed on my left arm. I had to go to hospital and get X-rays and have a cast put on. It took a very long time but I had my best friend with me when I did it and he wanted to come to hospital with me. We didn't get home until midnight. Here is my X-ray.

Playing Maori Memory

Kia ora bloggers my name is Brooklyn today I will be posting about Te Reo Maori. Yesterday we played a Maori game of memory, we got a two pieces of paper with Maori words and pictures. The words had to match the pictures. When we finished cutting out all of the words and pictures we played a game of memory so when played a match

Rugby League

Mihipeka@Paihia School
In Te Ngahere we have been learning to identify angles. There are different type of angles called acute, obtuse, straight, reflex and a full rotation. To find an acute angle it is always less than 90 degrees and greater than 0 degrees. To find an obtuse angle it is always greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees. I did well at identifying the angles but I need to work on measuring these angles. Have you ever had to identify angles before?
Here is my DLO

Mihipeka @Paihia School
In Te Ngahere we have been learning to draw poupou. Poupou is something that is put up in peoples maraes or houses. Usually poupou represents someone or something. When we started drawing our poupou art we needed a pencil, paper, pastels and a ruler to make it smooth. Before we got to our good copy which was on an A3 piece of paper. When we sketched our Poupou art we had to practise designs on a seperate piece of paper then sketched those onto our Poupou. We also had to outline our drawing in vivid. lastly we had to practise our blending skills then we had to put that on our poupou art. This art is really cool and fun. I did good job at focusing on my art and not social talking. I could work on a bolder body and more patterns. Have you ever tried Poupou art before?
Here is my good copy

Angles and Fractions

Angles and Fractions

Hello I'm Ruby and today I will be telling you about what I learnt of angles and fractions.

Did you know that a reflex angle is bigger than 180 degrees or that a right angle is exactly 90 degrees.

I'm going to give you a quiz can you guess what the angle 41 is called well if you guessed acute you are correct! Let’s do another one! Ok what is the angle 164 degrees? If you guessed a right angle that is incorrect. The right answer is an obtuse angle!

As I was learning about these angles and how to identify them it made it easier to recognize them. I find it better to start with the hard ones, because then when you get to the easy ones you realise that they aren't that hard.

Do you like your maths?

GingerBread Men

Hello im Ruby, and today I’m sharing My brilliant maths eye’s on gingerbread. Maths eyes are when you use your eyes and notice a thing that involves maths. you don’t even notice that you use them. So the ability of having maths eyes are that you can see geometric shapes. Today I was using maths eyes without even noticing! I realised that they all have different cuts! I noticed that they all had different angels cuts. All of them had all different colours of buttons. They all had an accessory eg. Hats/ hair/ shoes ect. I basically looked very closely at the picture of gingerbread men and noticed alot of unfamiliar angled cuts. How many gingerbread men are there if you have 12 buttons?

How many heads are there ?

WALT: identify the maths in things we do on a daily basis using our maths eyes.

This week we learnt about maths eyes and with this
specific task we used them to find the maths in an
image of gingerbread people then this is what we
found. The things I noticed on the gingerbread people
we're all these gingerbread people have 2 m&m’s used
as buttons, each gingerbread person has melted
chocolate as a hat and shoes, each gingerbread
person is lined in an array or 4x3 or 3x4, there are
48 limbs, 12 hats and 24 shoes all together and they
have positive and negative energy between the
gingerbread people which makes a cup.The hardest
part about this task for me was just trying to write
down everything we saw on time at a standard. The
easy thing about what we did was everything we notice
could count so it was easy to spot maths related things
in the image.

Did you know how often you use your maths eyes?

Trickshot challenge

For the last few days here in Te Ngahere we got to try a trickshot challenge. In our trickshot challenge we got a ping pong, a cup and a piece of cardboard our goal was to try get the ball land in the cup using our success criteria. Our success criteria was that the ball must bounce off a surface, you must use the piece of cardboard and the routine of the trickshot must be at least 3 seconds long lastly it must land in the cup. In my group we had chosen the climbing war on park to use . For our trick shot at first we used the cardboard as a flat surface but quickly realised the ball was not rolling so we made the cardboard into a steep surface causing the ball to flow easier.

Would you ever consider trying a trickshot challenge?

Australia Day

Here is Autumn's poster advertising the National Day of her country.

Mother's Day cards

Kia ora Bloggers. In Te Ngahere, we have been making Mother's Day cards . In Tynker where we could draw and write what we would want to put on a card or we draw it and write it in real life. For Mother's Day I have made my mum a card and might buy her a bag of chocolates.  I really like to show mum how much I love her.
What have you done to Mother's Day this year?

Mothers day Flower

Today we had to make something for mother's day. I did a flower online with her face for the centre of the flower. I hope you like my art! Maybe you should try and make one? Thank you for looking at my art! The petals where a bit big and wonky maybe I could get it better next time. It was really fun!!

Kia ora on friday Te Ngahere had a digital assembly. I thought it was like a normal assembly at school. It was unique because the teachers handed out more certificates than usual. I was surprised when they said my name because I didn’t expect to get one. This is my certificate. 
Kai @ Paihia School