Wacky Wednesday

Kia ora my name is Jayden and here at Paihia school we had a Wacky Wednesday I dressed up as a nerdy Jayden because that was my name Jayden so I decided to dress up as nerdy Jayden. It was a bit hard for me coming to school I just wanted to stay home but then I took three deep breaths and was brave. I got to school super shy and I peeked out seeing everyone dressed up WACKY I saw kids laughing and then I realized that it looked pretty fun so I joined with them and then I saw my friend Aaron and he was dressed up as Mario then I saw wigs dress and weird hats. I got in my class to put my bag down and one of my teachers came up to me and wanted to take a photo I went outside and started laughing having a great time then I realized the teachers were dressed up as there group color I was really enjoying it it was the best day. Have you ever had a Wacky Wednesday at your school?

Check Out This Great Wacky Wednesday Post

Kia ora bloggers every week we have something fun to do and this week we did Wacky Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon I went straight home  to find something to wear, I found a colourful wig, a green top and skirt and some black glasses. The top and skirt was too big for me but my nan sewed it up so it would fit me well. Then on Wednesday I went to school all dressed up and saw most of the school dressed up as well, they all looked so cool it made me so happy.  I saw my friends dressed up so I went and hung out with them and went around to have a look at all the classrooms.I think Nga Motu looked the best they had chairs flipped over, gum boots on the poles of the tables and even lots of things on the wall that don't belong there. My teachers dressed up as our house groups (Pohutukawa, Karaka, Kowhai and Rimu ) they all looked so pretty. My favourite part was seeing everyone dressed up. I think the people dressed up the best was Jade-R, Angela and Jaelyn-Marie, they were fairies. 

Have you done a Wacky Wednesday and dressed up? 

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My winning dots

 this is my winning dots in here this will tell you what te Ngahere done 

In Te Ngahere we have been learning winning dots and today I am going to tell you what te Ngahere has been learning. There is 2 classes and the kids from the classes gets a cricket ball to throw and see how far they can get it.Now when everyone from each class gets a turn we see where they threw it now they could throw it at 5 meters or maybe 7 meters or even 20 meters the next thing we had to do was to see where the balls landed and what meter they landed on. The next thing we had to do was we look at the worksheet and if you can see all those numbers you would want to write down how many of the same number you can see and write it on top of the number.

My life

 Hi my name is Manu ,I’m a new student at Paihia School. I live on the Extravaganza fair. I work for my Dad I make pancakes for him. My Brother works for the candy floss man. We all enjoy it its super fun. I travel around NZ in my blue truck all year and come back in winter. I’m happy that I have a School to go to erey day and I can’t wait to go back to  the fair.I can do a fire show using fire poi.  The Extravaganza fair stops every weekend at a new field. There are a lot of shops like a merry go round,  crystal shop and a coffee shop and much more. There are clam shops like massages and     tea reading. The Extravaganza starts at the bottom of Invercargill up to the top of the Bay of Island. The fair travails for 36 weeks. 

Have you ever traveled around New Zealand?           

The Fun Science Roadshow Science Exhibit

 On Monday 21st of June Te Ngahere went to a road show at Kawakawa, Bay of Islands College. When we first arrived at the Bay Of Islands School. We walked into their big fancy hall. Then we sat down on the cold floor so we could watch the first show. We sat on the ground for a few minutes before they started to talk. Then we walked around to different science exhibits and they had a lot of different activities to do. There were  Bay College students standing there, explaining all of  the tricky exhibits because we didn't know what to do. I  walked around to a toilet flush activity and it teaches you how to use a toilet. I walked over to another one and you had to try to balance a plastic ball on top of a pipe that blew air out. My favorite exhibit was the one that you had to create a shape out of light fluffy string. I created a circle and made another circle so I could tie them together. I made progress and it flew half way up to the roof. I learnt how light things will fly because it doesn’t  have that much weight on it unlike the balls that I tried. I tried to make them fly but they had too much weight on them.  Have you ever been to a science roadshow ?

Exploring A Room Of Science

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning science and we went to the science roadshow at the BAY OF ISLANDS COLLEGE and there were some things I learnt. So there was a bird quiz  that you had to find  out the sound of the bird which I didn't know? and so I came pass this sound so and I didn’t even know so I pick the kaka bird and it was right now I know what sound a kaka bird makes. It was my buddys turn now and he had no idea what it was so he just kept guessing and he picked the right answer and so the answer he got a kiwi we went to try another thing we found another thing which was a smelling fruit kinda thing so the point was rub your finger on the ball and smell it but the thing is I can’t smell so my buddy had a go because he could smell. So he did find out the smell the smell was a orange and that made me feel happy and good.

The Amazing great marble challenge

   

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a great marble challenge. We did this because we were using the scientific method. The purpose of this was to try and make the marble roll down the ramp and try and make the marble land on 1100mm. I really think me and my group did really well because we had such a creative good looking ramp. The materials we used were cardboard, hot glue, a marble so it could go down the ramp and a  paper towel roll. I really enjoyed trying to make a ramp because me and my group had so much faith in ourselves. This activity was really fun to do because me and my group sat there laughing most of  the time and we all put in an effort in to help our ramp. Have you ever done a marble challenge ?

The amazing great marble challenge

 

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a great marble challenge. We did this because we were using the scientific method. The purpose of this was to try and make the marble roll down the ramp and try and make the marble land on 1100mm. I really think me and my group did really well because we had such a creative good looking ramp. The materials we used were cardboard, hot glue, a marble so it could go down the ramp and a  paper towel roll. I really enjoyed trying to make a ramp because me and my group had so much faith in ourselves. This activity was really fun to do because me and my group sat there laughing most of  the time and we all put in an effort in to help our ramp. Have you ever done a marble challenge ?

The amazing great marble challenge

 

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a great marble challenge. We did this because we were using the scientific method. The purpose of this was to try and make the marble roll down the ramp and try and make the marble land on 1100mm. I really think me and my group did really well because we had such a creative good looking ramp. The materials we used were cardboard, hot glue, a marble so it could go down the ramp and a  paper towel roll. I really enjoyed trying to make a ramp because me and my group had so much faith in ourselves. This activity was really fun to do because me and my group sat there laughing most of  the time and we all put in an effort in to help our ramp. Have you ever done a marble challenge ?

The Great Marble Challenge

 Hello my name is Manu from Paihia School I am a year six and we have been doing The Great Marble Challenge were we get cardboard and make a ramp out of It. Then we had to make it so that it would go exactly 1100 mm also known as 1.1 meters. The people in my group is Indy and Jaydin. On testing day another group was testing our ramp and they got 0 points with our ramp. At the end of the day it was our turn we got Jade‘s ramp and we got a lot of points. A couple of days later we did a reflection with our group.

Have you ever done The Great Marble Challenge before?

The Amazing Scientific Method!

I have been doing The Scientific Method in an infographic on my chromebook. We were doing this for our science fair. It was fun because we got to write the steps and put photos on top that explain them. 

You had to come up with a question, gather data and research,  try guess the answer, test your guess, analyze your data, adapt your guess, Present a conclusion and retest.

I think I could do it better next time maybe by explaining the sentence better. I think I did well on the photos. This could help me in the future for the science fair.

Have you ever done a Infographic before?

Bay Of Islands College Road Show

Hi my name is George, this week in Te Ngahere we went to the Bay Of Islands Collage  for a science roadshow. We learnt alot about science and gases an example is: oxygen makes up 21% of the air we breathe 78% is hydrogen and that one percent is the other gases like carbon dioxide, neon and argon these make 1% of the air we breathe. We also looked at some science fair stands my favourite stand was a machine with pipes that had a ball on it and the ball would float and when you turned the pipes the ball would not fall over it would stay in the air.

Have you learned about science before?

My Lifestyle on the road

 Hello, my name is Tane, I am a new kid at Paihia School.

Since I have only been at this school for a couple of weeks I have not caught up on a few things, so I’m going to write about my lifestyle on the road instead. I live on the Extravaganza fair with my sister and parents, I make candy floss for a living and my sister makes pancakes for my dad. My mother does reiki and woodwork. Each day at 3pm we have a fireshow, I have a diablo, which looks a bit like a yoyo not on a string. I am not yet on fire with my diablo because it takes at least three years to get used to the weight of the steel, I will be able to do it this season. We only do all of this every Saturday to Sunday though, the rest of the week we are traveling to the next place to trade.

Have you ever traveled NZ?

Science T-shaped

In Te Ngahere we have been doing science T-shaped. That is when we got seven stories, we had to write about what the question was, what the hypothesis was, what information did they gather, how they tested their hypothesis, and why they did this.

I think that this was a good way of learning about scientific methods.

Have you learnt about the scientific method?

 

A Step By Step Guide To Making A Digital Mosaic Art

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to create digital mosaic using Google Drawings. A mosaic is a picture that is put together with small shapes. We got to choose anything we wanted to create a mosaic picture of(eg: our idol, animals etc). Once we chose a picture we had to insert it into google drawings. Using the polyline tool on google drawings we made little shapes to try and recreate the thing  we chose. 

I chose a character called Itachi from Naruto to recreate. The purpose of making these mosaics was so we could create QR codes to be displayed on our wall. These QR codes will contain the Screencastify we made for our Ngahere projects.

The difficult part for me was trying to make the shapes I made align with his face. The easiest  part was creating shapes for his hair. 

Have you ever created a digital mosaic before? 

Hi my name is Manu ,I’m a new student at Paihia School. I live on the Extravaganza fair. I work for my Dad I make pancakes for him. My Brother works for the candy floss man. We all enjoy it its super fun. I travel around NZ in my blue truck all year and come back in winter. I’m happy that I have a School to go to erey day and I can’t wait to go back to  the fair.I can do a fire show using fire poi.  The Extravaganza fair stops every weekend at a new field. There are a lot of shops like a merry go round,  crystal shop and a coffee shop and much more. There are clam shops like massages and        tea reading. The Extravaganza starts at the bottom of Invercargill up to the top of the Bay of Island. The fair travails for 36 weeks. 

Have you ever traveled around New Zealand?             

The Delicious Apple Sponge

On the 1st of june the year seven and eights went to technology at Morewa school. The year sevens had cooking class and the year eights had woodwork. I was in cooking class. My teacher's name was whaea Dot and she is a nice teacher.  We made apple sponge. The  first step we did was peel the apples and use a core thing so you can get all the seeds and stuff out of the middle of the core cut them up and  put the in a pot to cook.  Then we stopped for morning tea time. We went to play for a bit then we went back to cooking class and we got a block of butter melted half of it then mixed it. The we added some sugar so we could cream the butter and sugar along with some eggs. We mixed it all together then we added the dry ingredients that were flour and baking powder. We combined the dry ingredients with the wet one so we mixed it all up. Well we were mixing the combined ingredients together whaea Dot said “who wants chocolate chips” we all shouted yes please!. So we all added chocolate chips. We got our dish to put our cooked apples and halved them with our buddy. So we put our cooked apples at the bottom and put our sponge mixture at the top. We cooked it for  20-25 minutes. Have you ever made apple sponge before ?

TECH

Hi my name is George from Paihia School and yesterday we went to technology and Mr E taught us 3D drawings. We then had to make a waka, It was my first time doing tech but it was fun. I almost finished but then we had to go so hopefully next time we go I can finish It.

How to Keep Safe Online

 In Te Ngahere we are learning to keep safe on social media. We watched a video about a girl putting up photos in the front of her house. On the poster that she put in the front of the it had a photo of her, her email address, her age and her name.  Her name was Becky. There were people walking past her house. There were old people and then suddenly there was an old man that had came across it.  The old man had seen her email address. Then they started talking. Then Becky  didn't know who this old man was.  The man lied about his age and said he was 13 but he wasn’t. The old man asked Becky what she liked to do and she said “I like to go and  skate at the park”. So one day the  old man went to the park were Becky and her friends were skating.  She had found out  the man was lying so she learnt to not put private posts and stuff online and not to talk to strangers.

Would you talk to anyone you don’t know ?                            

Cyber Smart Learning

 Kia ora Bloggers, In Te Ngahere everyone has been doing Cyber Smart. We have been learning this to keep ourselves safe and to be smart online. In the future I will prevent random people from trying to message me or contact me on any social media. I use to talk to lots of people on online games but since I watched this video I stopped talking to some people on my games because you never know what might happen or who it might be. I only talk to people that I know in real life. My group made a DLO for people to understand whats happening.

The Tasty Pizza

 On Tuesday the year sevens and eights went to Moerewa school to do technology. The year sevens had cooking and the year eights had woodwork. I was in cooking class with all of the year sevens and we made pizza. For the bread base we had yeast and warm water and sugar so the yeast could rise in the warming draw.  we prepared the  toppings  and they were tomato, onions, mushrooms, garlic, capsacum, bacon, cheese, oregano. Then we let the yeast and stuff in the warming draw for a few minutes. Well we were waiting we got all the dry ingredients that  were flour, milk powder to make it soft and  a pinch of salt. Then the yeast and stuff was ready so we pulled it out of the warming draw and we combined the dry ingredients and mixed it. Then we needed the dough and put  it back in the bowl to rise. We let it sit then we rolled it out and put the toppings on and put it in the oven. Then we rinsed all our dishes and put them to the side and wiped our unites down. We cooked it for 20 minutes. It was delicious. Have you ever made pizza?

Smart Relationships

Kia ora everyone, in Te Ngahere this week we have been learning about Smart Relationships/being smart online. The reason we are doing this to help us be smart on the internet and also be careful with what we write and what we post. From watching the video that the teacher gave us about being safe online we have learnt to never give out personal information like your email address, phone number etc because then random people can know where you live and how to contact you which isn’t safe. The video that we watched was 8 minutes long. We all really enjoyed doing this activity because it was really fun and it now we are all going to be very careful online with what we post or text people. After we did this activity we started to make a DLO so that we could give people advice to be safe online. The thing that was most different for us would be making the DLO because we all have to make it fun and exciting and not boring and making you want to sleep. Do you always be safe when you are online?

Slow Start To Tech

In Te Ngahere the year 7 and 8’s went to tech and I am a year 8. I was in hard material class with Mr E. In the morning Mr E was explaining the rules of the power tools and hand tools (actually it took awhile, it was a bit of a slow start) after that Mr E told us the instructions of the techroom. Then he made us fill out a safety rules form then it was morning tea. We got something to eat and played touch for a bit then came back inside. Then after morning tea he gave us a strip of wood and we had to make a waka with the wood he had given us. So far we have only measured and drawn the outline of the waka. I think I managed pretty well for listening to all the instructions because Mr E took awhile to explain all of the instructions and I'm normally not that patient. 

Have you ever made a wooden waka before?       

Slow Start To Tech

 My Writing: In Te Ngahere the year 7 and 8’s went to tech and I am a year 8, I was in hard material class with Mr E. In the morning Mr E was explaining the rules of the power tools and hand tools (actually it took awhile, it was a bit of a slow start) after that Mr E told us the instructions of the tech room. Then he made us fill out a safety rules form then it was morning tea, we got something to eat and played touch for a bit then came back inside. Then after morning tea he gave as a strip of wood and we had to make a waka with the wood he had given us. So far we have only measured and drawn the outline of the waka. I think i managed pretty well for listening to all the instructions because Mr E took awhile to explain all of the instructions and I'm normally not that patience.  

Can you Follow Instructions?

Kia ora and welcome back to school. In Te Ngahere we have already been given a reading test. The test determined if the students in Te Ngahere could follow instructions. We had 23 instructions listed on the left side of the paper and had to complete the the test in 4 minutes.

The first question we read stated, read everything carefully before doing anything. I think no one understood what that meant because they started doing the test. As soon as number 23 was read it stated to only do questions 1 & 2.

Everyone should have read number 1 carefully so it wouldn’t have turned out to be wrong. Have you ever done an activity like this? Hope you enjoyed.
Ka Kite!

The Biggest Discovery For The Coastal Seas

In Te Ngahere these past few days our class have been learning about our planet and all the animals that live in the Coastal Seas, what they rely on and what they need. First of all we had to watch a video about our planet that was called ‘Our Planet; Coastal Seas’ on netflix. While we were watching the video we were writing down all of our notes thats we could, we had to a least get 10 facts. After that we had to make a DLO about all the facts that we just learnt. We all really enjoyed this because we got to learn a lot about whales, sharks, dolphins etc. Our class really enjoyed this so I think that we would want to do it again because it wasn’t hard and didn’t take long to finish. Have do you ever done any work around Coastal Seas before? This is my DLO.

BirthDay at Greens

 Ki Ora Yesterday it was our friend Shivam’s Birthday. Shivam invited the whole class to come and celebrate his birthday at greens. We had coke or sprite, Butter Chicken and rice and shivam's family brought us all these big chocolate easter eggs. Everyone had a great time at greens and everyone ate a lot of food. At the end of us eating and when we were ready to leave we did a little performance for shivam and his family to say than you.  

Happy birthday Shivam.

Have you ever been to greens?

Frantical Taskmaster

Hello. In Te Ngahere we have been doing something called taskmaster. With our latest activity doing taskmaster we were learning to use communication and collaboration with our group members. For example there was at least one runner and one drawer. To explain; the runner had to try to describe a picture the teacher drew and give their information to the drawer and the drawer had to try draw the picture as close as possible to the teachers picture. It was very hard because the drawer couldn't see the picture and the runners couldn't touch the piece of paper the drawers were drawing on. The runners were so loud as they repeatedly screamed in the drawers ears until they finally gave up. This was an enjoyable and intense activity for the most of Te Ngahere. Something we could work on is having better communication with each other. We will put pictures down below. Hope you enjoy this blogpost. Have you done taskmaster? 

Ka kite!

                                                                                               

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Walk In The Ngahere

Kia ora. In Te Ngahere last week we went for a walk in the ngahere. Before we went for a walk we had to research about what we could or would possibly see in there. We researched about bugs, animals and trees. We learnt that there are plenty ferns such as king ferns which have huge leaves, silver ferns and more. After we researched we walked sensibly down the road to the Paihia School track. The first tree we were welcomed by was a great big totara tree which shaded us. As we walked further we came across a bridge and we walked all the way to the other bridge. We found so many native things like ferns, we even saw a lake. We stroked our hands down a tree which was quite fuzzy. We had a awesome time discovering new things. Something we could improve is to do more research because there were some trees we knew but we didn’t know the name of them. At the bottom there will be pictures of us in the Paihia School Track. Hope you enjoyed. Check out our own blogs down the side.
Ka Kite!

 

Super Swimming Sports

Last week on Wednesday a group of students from Paihia School aged around 10 - 12 got the opportunity to attend Russell Swimming Sports. Everyone boarded the ferry as they all had an anxious look running across their faces (like why wouldn’t they). As soon as everyone arrived at Russell we were getting ready. In the first division the divers went followed by the boys swimmers. Then was the girl swimmers, the swim wasn't that long but as anxious as we were our hearts were beating fairly fast. They dived into the water and off they went. The boys and other swimmers cheering them on until they got to the end. In the girls swimmers Ana came first followed by a girl from another school and Breeze came third. Paihia School didn’t stay for that long but when it was over we were so happy to know that we did well and we got a little laugh out of it too (because we found out someones pants couldn’t stay on them after they dived in). Something we could all agree on is next time be more prepared not saying who (divers). Hope you enjoyed reading about our awesome experience at the Russell Swimming Sports. Leave comments below if you would like to, make sure to check out our own blogs down the side. Hope you liked it.
Ka Kite!

Te Reo Maori Online

 Lately in Te Ngahere we have been doing Te reo Maori on a site called Education Perfect. Education Perfect is a online learning platform that you use to can learn Te Reo Maori . It has a lot of lessons but the first lessons is the Te Reo alphabet. The lesson tells you how to says all of the alphabet first. Then you have to say the letter that is on the screen. We are learning how to pronounce the alphabet, girls name and boys name. It is very important to learn the Te Reo alphabet because it will help you pronounce Maori words.

Do you Know all of the Maori alphabet?

Sharing my knowledge about roy Lichtenstein

 

Kia ora my name is Brooklyn i’m a year 7 student at paihia school.I am learning about roy Lichtenstein art roy Lichtenstein was born in 1913 and past away in 1997 Roy Lichtenstein only uses few colours in was paintings in 2013 one of was paintings sold for more than 55 million dollar.

The False Tsunami

 When the tsunami lockdown was happening me and hudson went camping to kiwe lake it took about two hours to get there.  About the first hour we got a warning about the tsunami and we started to get more warnings. When me and hudson got to kiwe lake started to put up the tent after that we went for a swim it was very hot. The second day we went biscuiting and we tried the wake bored then after a few days we got told the tsunami did not come did you get the tsunami warning.

Things About Measurement

This week we have been learning about measurement and how to measure accurately. I learnt to measure on a flat surface, to start from 0.  also learnt to measure straight we used a 8m measuring tape we also used a dress measuring tape we had a worksheet of things we had to measure like two pens and the caught. We had to do a DLO about measurement and we had to teach other people about measurement and teach her how to measure accurately.

 

Amazing Things About The Ecosystem

 In Te Ngahere this week we have been learning about the ecosystem and how it works. We had to complete some work on the ecosystem and make a drawing of a  cycle of an ecosystem. We also had to make an ecosystem drawing that I enjoyed.

I learnt that if something from the ecosystem went it would not work and everything will die. 

I could do more work on it  and write longer sentences  and add more punctuation. I think I have done very good with my

ecosystem. Did you like what you read

Mind blowing things about kawa of care

In the past weeks we have been  learning about kawa of care because you need to know it  to take your Chromebook home. If you don't  learn the kawa of care  and you break your Chromebook you will not get insurance. We had to do a animation and include something about kawa of care and how they did not follow it and they paid the consequence of not getting insurance.

Roy Lichtenstein facts

 In Te Ngahere We have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and his art. We had to write facts about Roy Lichtenstein. I found out that Roy Lichtenstein is famous.  Roy Lichtenstein is a great artist. Roy Lichtenstein was born in new York. Roy Lichtenstein also made sculptures. Roy Lichtenstein is famous for his ben day dot technique. Roy Lichtenstein was often accused for copying comics. Roy Lichtenstein is also famous for his bright bold colours.

Sharing my knowledge about roy Lichtenstein

 Kia ora  my name is Brooklyn i’m a year 7 student at paihia school.I am learning about roy Lichtenstein art roy Lichtenstein was born in 1913 and past away in 1997 Roy Lichtenstein only uses few colours in was paintings in 2013 one of was paintings sold for more than 55 million dollar.