Pool Day at Waltham Pool!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. On Friday the 29th of November the Kaupeka and Tumu hub had our pool day at Waltham pool. We arrived at around 11:15 am and got in the pool around 10 minutes later. Except some people had time taken of them for not having work done. Here is a picture of the pool. 

It was really fun trying to get on the noodle shaped long floaty. It kept rolling round and I fell over onto the other side lot's of times. Have you been to Waltham pool? Tell me about it in the comments. Goodbye. 

Top Team challenge from sport Canterbury!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week 6 on Friday we had the people from top team come in to run a few challenges for us. My favourite was the water one where you tip your container of water into the person behinds. There were activities like connecting pipes to roll a ball into a bucket. There was also the burst pipe where you have to hold your fingers over the holes and a block building activity. The first one we did was the bean bag slingshot. In it someone would fire the bean bag and the others had to catch it and put it in the bucket. Another I enjoyed was the sack race where you just had to go back and forth and each time we had to change two people. We also did a mystery maze. In that we had to move to different squares to find a path to the end. After all the activities my clothes dried quickly because in the water activities I didn't get that wet.

Have you done the Top Team Challenge before. Tell me what your favourite was in the comments. Goodbye.

Tough kids fun mud run!

Hello and welcome back. In week 6 we had our super fun mud run from Tough kids Mash. It was one of the best runs I have ever done. My favourite part was the slippery water slide. My teacher Miss Lover told me to dive and slide on my stomach, so I did. I got lot's of soap everywhere. It was run by M.A.S.H. Me and my friend William ran the whole way together. In it we had to wade through water and climb through bouncy castles and over tyres. There were lot's of other schools there. Here is an image of the water slide.

The run was really good fun to do and others probably felt the same as well.
Did you do the fun run? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye.

Sport rotations: Cricket, Korfball, Softball and Lawn bowls!

Kia Ora! Welcome back to my blog. Throughout the last four weeks we have done four sport rotations. We did my favourite cricket, korfball, softball and lawn bowls. One of them I had never played nor heard of before. Korfball. It is a really fun game which is basically like netball. I loved playing cricket and when I batted the last bat I did I smacked a four straight past someone. In softball on my first hit I smacked it far and got two home runs. I tried to go for a third but the aim for the fielders was for everyone to touch the ball and everyone had touched the ball. I had done lawn bowls before and it was fun. It was against my brother and I won. 

Have you played all these games before? Or had people from that sport Canterbury come to teach you? Tell me in the comments. See ya. 

Reading Create Task for Week 6!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week for reading we had to do predicting. It was pretty simple. We learnt basically how to predict. All you have to do is look for clues in the book. I read a book about oceans. Here is the task we had to do.

We had to comment on it to tell if our predictions where correct or not. 

Have you done this before? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye. 

Reading Create task Week 1,2 and 4!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week 1,2 and 4 we had for goals to tick of for reading: Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. We had to write on a doc explaining the book using these goals. Here is what it looks like.

The picture in the middle is the book I read. It is called my name is Rez. Each box has a link to my answers. It was pretty simple to do. But not when you don't understand a word of what one of the goals means. 

Have you read this book before? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye

Saturday Cricket for East Shirley!

Kia Ora! Haere mai! Welcome back. This term I started playing cricket for my fifth year at East Shirley Cricket club. This time I am playing hard ball so now we have to wear lot's of gear. We have to wear a box, helmet, pads and gloves. If you haven't played cricket before I could run you through the basics. First the bowler bowls the ball in an overarm way. Then the batter hits the ball. Depending on how far you hit the ball you could run to the other end of the pitch to get a run. If hit smack the ball over the boundary you get a four which gives you four runs. But if it doesn't touch the ground before going over the boundary you get six runs. If the batter hits it and a fielder or keeper or bowler catches it then the batter is out and loses three runs. After an over the bowler will change to someone else. An over is when the bowler has bowled six balls. Here is a Cricket pitch.

The bowler bowls from the main umpire side and everyone else is spread out across the field.
And that's basically it. Then there is indoor cricket. It is basically the same.

So far my cricket team for hard ball is undefeated and in the fourth game I smacked a six.

Have you played cricket before or are in a club? Tell me in the comments. See ya.

Attitude talks!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In term 4 we had people from Attitude come in to talk to us about puberty. I learnt a few new things but the is a blog and this is not something to talk about on here. In the first session we all got talked to together but the second session, we were split by gender. It was one of the weirdest talks of my life. But then again we had to learn it someday.
Have you had these people talk to you before? Tell me in the comments. See ya.

Week 5's create task: Inferencing!

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. In week 5 I signed up for a reading workshop for inferencing. For those of you who don't know what inferencing is, inferencing is basically reading between the lines. So basically it is like making a guess of what is going to happen in the future of the book. So basically it is like predicting. Here is a few examples of what you have to do.

Have you ever had a workshop or something like this on this topic? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye. 

How to make Nanaimo bars! Recipe Writing!

Kia Ora. In week two we had a shared lunch for the Kaupeka hub. Everyone had to make a small thing from their country that they got chosen to do. If you have read my Lacrosse blog you will know that I got Canada. I chose to make Nanaimo bars. My great grandma had a special recipe for these but I had already wrote my recipe on a doc. I used my great grandma's recipe to make the bars for the shared lunch though. Here is what Nanaimo bars look like. 

Here is a link to my recipe I wrote. Nanaimo Bars. Have you ever made or tried Nanaimo bars before? Tell me in the comments! See Ya! 

Term 4 PBL Driving Question!

Hello and welcome to Term 4. For PBL this term our driving question is "How can I celebrate who I am?" We get to do what ever we want to showcase our PBL. I am going to do an animation on what makes me me. I think scratch will be the easiest to work on. What would you do for this? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye.

PBL main artefact with planner 5d!

Hello again and welcome back this term for PBL our driving question was: What will the future ask of us? Me and my friend Pacis decided to make a house with planner 5d.

This house is to house the homeless. It has most things a house would need. A kitchen, dining room, bathroom and laundry. And then it has three bedrooms for the people in the house to sleep in. 

What do you think of it? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye. 

PBL business cards!

Hello. Haere mai. Welcome back to my blog. This term for PBL we had to design something to help the future. And with that a sub artefact. Like a brioche or a business card. Me and Pacis made a business card and poster. For the business card we used the website logo-maker.

This is our business card. I am very proud of it because it looks professional and has our own custom logo. Have you ever created a business card with logo-maker? Tell me in the comments. See ya. 

Stanford Lagunita course!

Hello and welcome back. Throughout the term we have been doing the Stanford Lagunita course.
In lesson 1 we were learning about what math is and finding out other things that math really is.
In lesson 2 we learned about having a growth mindset during math because if you have a growth mindset you achieve more. Where as if you have a fixed mindset then you not opening yourself up to new things.
In lesson 3 we learned about making mistakes and about speed. You do NOT have to be fast at math because most successors in math actually are slow and take their time to work out the equation. And mistakes help your brain grow because you are learning off what you have done wrong.
In lesson 4 we learned about making connections and that you can work with others to get the answer because then everyone contributes ideas and maybe if you put them altogether then you could get the answer.
In lesson 5 we learned about number patterns and that math can be all to do with patterns. Sometimes you just need to find the pattern and you have the answer.
And in lesson 6 we learned about math in life and the spiral that Fibonacci found out. 
Have you done this course? Tell me what you thought about it in the comments. Goodbye.

Your invited to our PBL expo!

Kia Ora. Haere mai. Welcome back. This term for PBL we had to design something to help the future. We also had to create an invite to our parents and share it on here. So where it says Mum and Dad it actually means to you.

What type of showcases have you done before? Tell me in the comments. Kia koa. 

Planning our PBL!

Hello and welcome back. This term for PBL our topic is the future and our question is: What will the future ask of us? We had to plan out what we were going to do. This is mine and Pacis' PBL plan.

Have you ever done something like this before? Tell me about it in the comments. Goodbye. 

R.E. Advertisement for the St Francis of Assisi Catholic Parish!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week eight we designed a R.E. advertisement for the St Francis of Assisi Catholic Parish. This is my one.

What do you think of it? Have you ever created a poster to advertise something for your school? Tell me in the comments. See ya. 

Science Investigation!

Hi and welcome back. In week 7 me and my friend William. We got to choose what we wanted to do. William and I did gravity free water although all the tests failed. We watched a video to know what we were doing and they seemed to get it right. Have a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJwN3bXQUs
Ours did not end up like the one in the video. No where near the one in the video. We had to right down everything that happened which was annoying because we started writing what happened late so we had to memorise everything. But it was fun to splash the water on each other when it fell out of the cup.
Have you done this science experiment before? If you have tell me how it ended in the comments. Otherwise. Goodbye.

Volunteering at the Curtain Bank!

Hi again and welcome back. In week seven we did volunteering for one of the three places: Curtain bank, Food bank and Graffiti removal. I got put into the curtain bank. There wasn't much you had to know. All you had to do was:
1. Measure the curtain.
2. Write the measurements down.
3. Fold the curtain.
4. Staple the small paper of measurements on the curtain.
5. Repeat that with the other curtains in the set.
6. Pack them into a bag.
It didn't take that long unless you had a set with around a whole house of curtains. Not literally a house but all the curtains in a house. We got a brake half way through to have something to eat. My only friend there would've been Max H but he wasn't here, so my friend Christopher came instead.
Have you ever volunteered for the curtain bank, food bank or graffiti removal? If you have tell me what you did in the comments. Bye.

Finns Quest: The Queen Seekers!

Hello again and welcome back to my blog. This term we had to read a novel and then do these reading slides about it. I choose the book Finns Quest: The Queen Seekers. 
It is a really good book. I had to make a slide that explained the book. Here is the slide.


What books have you read and retold like this? Tell me in the comments. See ya