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Hi bloggers, today for the summer learning journey, we had to explian to everyone if we are a night owl or a early riser. I am ecspisally an early riser, because every morning I wake up at 6:30 or when i'm tired I don't wake up until'l 7:30. Only an hour later. My mum and dad are night owls, because they love to sleep. I have four siblings and they are all night owls, because they love sleeping as well. I don't like sleeping because to me it is like, when you go to sleep it is the end of the day and a of a new one. 

GIVE WEAVING A GO!!! Hey bloggers!!! Today I am blogging on Weaving with flax. This is for the Summer Learning Journey. I am really enjoying it right now. Have you every weaved with flax before? Well I haven't. Today, we have to explain if weaving interests us , you want to try and why?  I would like to try because I looks like a challenge and I love challenges because they push me. When you challenge yourself, you seem to learn more than you usually do with normal learning.  I want to give it a go also because it can mean or create something special for someone like you family mebersand your friend. Maybe you could make one for a person in your family???!! BLOG YOU LATER

Today's  activity for the summer learning journey is finding out three top facts about New Zealand on the Tourism New Zealand site.  My first facts about New Zealand is,   New Zealand is part of the pacific rim of fire and it's most active volcano is Mount Ruapehu , which is found in the middle of the North Island . Did you know that? The Auckland sky tower is the tallest freestanding structure in the southern hemisphere, standing at 328 meters high.  Last fact about New Zealand that I found interesting was  30% of the country is forest. So there must be a lot of trees then. CAN YOU FIND OUT SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT NEW ZEALAND? LEAVE A COMMENT ON WHAT YOU FOUND OUT BLOG YOU LATER

Hi bloggers, at the end of this term it will be my last time at Waikowhai Primary School. I have had many memories at this school, including Ski Camp to Mount Rupehu☃, Production and just being here . My three years at Waikowhai have been challenging, like meeting new people because I used to be shy, going away with school to camp, and being away from my parents and family. I have also had moments were I just felt like leaving school. The things that I am looking forward to next year at Intermediate are, my new friends, opportunities and many more things. I am a afraid of the harder work, the more fitness we have to do and getting more homework, but I know I can do it all thanks to everyone that has helped me, like my teachers Mrs Simpson , Mr Rattenburry , Mrs Sands, Mr Riceman and Mrs Jones . Thanks to all the Waikowhai staff, Waikowhai students and parents. I hope that next year I can take on some more important roles. Overall I am really looking forward to next year at inte...

Hi bloggers, today i'm going to tell you some quick facts about Japan. One reason why I picked Japan is because my dad is from Japan. Another reason is because I am doing this country for the Cultural Toolkits, with my friend Amaya. Japan is located in the Pacific ocean and is made up from 6852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Japan is located to the East of Korea, Russia and China. The population in Japan is 127.1 million people. Did you know that Tokyo is the capital of Japan? There national icons are A Cherry Blossom tree, The Koi Fish, The Red Crowned Crane(Bird) and The Lychee Fruit. The lychee Fruit  The Red Crowned  The Korean Blog you later

Our school production this year was Pasifica Peter Pan (a twist on an old classic). We started rehearsing early last term and presented to an audience last week, with three performances (two in the evening and one Friday matinee show).  Our song at the end was one of our Jump Jam songs.  The senior syndicate had major and minor roles, both on stage and behind the scenes. The rest of the school performed cultural dances from around the Pacific. Shows were sold out and audiences were treated to a spectacular performance. An amazing end result from all our hard work! Well done! 

 Ciao bloggers, on the second of November, we had Athletics Day. Athletics Day is all about getting outside with the school and celebrating a day, where we can all work together and communicate. On Athletics Day we had a rotation that we did. In that rotation we had different activities like Team Building , High Jump , Shot Put and 400 metre dash . At the start of the day we sat in our age groups outside on the senior court. The ten and eleven year old girls were together and ten and eleven year old boys were together, and all the other ages were all separate. If we wanted to, we could come in our house group colours which were;  Blue (RURU),  Red (KEA),  Green (Puekeko)  and  Yellow ( TUI) or we could just come in mufti. I was in the ten and eleven girls group. We had Shot Put first. In some of the things that we did, we had placings as well which was  1st to 4th place. In Shot Put, me and my friend Jasmine  got placed. I got 1st place and s...

Malo e lelei bloggers, in the last couple of weeks we have been doing a writing tumble, where we had to write about a picture in a moment in time. After that we could pick a picture and write about in any style of writing. Either another Moment In Time, Creative writing or a poem. Our goal in those couple of weeks, was we had to at least finish two pieces of writing. We also had the choice of which piece of writing we wanted to start on. My teacher Mr R gave us some good information, which was pick one that you like and one that you don't like. My favorite piece of writing in a moment in time was The Rocky Slippery Slide. The Creepy Stalker was my least favorite because I didn't really find the picture interesting. The style of writing I choose was creative writing. The pictures I picked was a dunger computer and an email logo. When I was finished my writing on the computer picture, I sent my work to my friend Zoe to read over it. The feedback she gave was "I really enjoy...

Hi bloggers, this week I made a slide show up about an author called Joy Cowley. She has written many books that my class have read. One of them was Snake and Lizard . It was all about these to friends one was a lizard and one of them was a snake. I have also been reading a book called Dunger which is all about when they go on holiday with their grandparents. My slideshow is telling everyone about the author Joy Cowley and some facts about her, like how old she, where she lives and some books she wrote. If you are going to read one of her books leave a comment on what book you read, and if it was a good book. My favorite book is Snake and lizard because I like reading about their journeys with each other. Here is my slideshow about Joy Cowley, Hope you enjoy.

Hi bloggers, this week was our first week back at school. We also had this activity  called a Novel Review were we had to get a novel and read it and fill in some activities on the book. My novel was called Dunger by Joy Cowley. In our slide we had many activities but the one  that I'm going to tell you about is the illustration of the setting . We had to design our setting in a book or digitally.  I created my digital on a website called Tinkercad. My story was all about this boy named William and his sister named Melissa, and they were supposed to go on holiday to Queenstown, but instead they went to their grandparent's bach and had to work for the whole summer holidays. On my illustration I think I did OK because it looks like a bach, because it has front lawn, a garden and even a mat at the front door and it even has the word WELCOME on it. If I was to do this activity again  I would change my book to have another setting. I would also like to actually be able p...

EGG Challenge Hi bloggers, in the last 2 days we have been looking after eggs for part of Keeping Ourself Safe. We have to look after an egg for 4 days. If we do, we get pizza on Friday. It's fun looking after eggs yeah! that's what I think. My teacher Mr Rattenburry says if it last until Friday we can eat it for breakfast on Saturday. But I don't really like eggs. We can also name our egg... But I don't know a name. Do you have a name? Feel free to comment a name for me to use by Friday. We also had to make a place for it to stay. People are also doing Egg siting for FREE. Me and my friend Mercedes, are doing egg siting and already have one customer. His name is Sam he has a Dinosaurs home, because he loves Dinosaurs. See if you can take on the challenge. All you need is and egg. But remember don't drop it. By Manea Blog you later    

Morena bloggers, Today in Literacy tumble we are doing something called the Summer Learning Journey.  We had to pick a country and, I picked Australia. The two reasons why I picked Australia is because one my favorite netball player is married to an Australian rugby player and, two because I wanted to find out about Australia so I can tell my aunt, who lives in Australia.  Who wants to find out about Australia? Lets Go.... In Australia the capital is  Canberra, there are many other places like Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.  In Australia they have a holiday called Australia Day, which is on the 26th of January. On Australian day they eat things like Pavlova and also chips down at the beach. The national colours are Green and gold and they usually have a Kangaroo on their sports uniform.

Hi bloggers, a few weeks ago a  person come to talk to us about being a learning champion. He was from NED, NED stands for, Never Give UP , Encourage Others and Do Your Best. He also taught us some Yo-Yo tricks. He told us a story about what funny thing they did that morning, He told us about his friend NED, NED is a caring and loving friend who does everything with him  to make people champions. While the man was telling the story he was also used some Yo- Yo tricks like around the world. Also a girl named Lavinia got a balloon crown and a Boomerang Yo-Yo Because the man loved her answer to his question. We could also buy a Yo-Yo, there were different types like A Boomerang, Accelerator and a Glow in the Dark one . The cheapest was the Glow in the Dark one. The others were 14 dollars for the  Accelerator  and the most expensive was the Boomerang.  Also there were extra things like a string replacement and Yo-Yo Holder. Remember..... to Be NED, and Neve...

Hi bloggers, on Monday we had  Cross Country with the whole school. The year six's  had a job to do like helping on the course, getting the children Warmed up, Board games and also using the Raku sticks. There were also a bake stall and a cupcake stall at the bake stall we could also get ice blocks. The cupcake stall was fundraising money for the SPCA, the SPCA stand for, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. We raised 700$ to go towards helping the animals. I did the warming up station which was station 2.  We had to do 20 star jumps, 20 squats and 20 Burbies. The year six's had to go first and the whole school watched us. I came 6th in cross country better than last year when I got 10th, Something that was helping me was running club.  Here are some photos of the day Blog you later✌✌❤❤

Hi bloggers, last week Wednesday we made a DLO on the game Interland. In Interland there are 4 different games called Kind Kingdom, Mindful Mountain, Tower of treasure and Reality River.  Our task was to find what the message was of the game was and what that means. We also had to take some photos or screen shots of the game to demonstrate what we did. The game is all about learning about what to do in cyber smart situations. My favorite is Kind kingdom because you find out about what you do when someone tries to cyber bully you. Here is my DLO!

Hi, bloggers for the past three weeks we have been doing a technology Rotation. We had many different stops like making paper circuits, making a Marble Bridge and making Geo boards . In the paper circuit making we had to try make a light using and LED battery to make a  LED light bulb flash or turn on. After trying that out, we used different materials that have electricity to make a circuit.  Some of the materials we used were LED batteries and light bulbs , tinfoil, split pins and paper clips. Our challenge was to make a switch to turn our LED light bulb  and turn it off again. The thing that I found difficult was trying to get the circuit stable and show perseverance. The next place I went to was making Geo boards. The materials we used were nails, wood and elastic strings.  The Geo board challenge was using measurement to create, using tools to put things together and also taking turns and sharing. The thing I found difficult were nailing the nails in because I ...

Hi, bloggers today we have been doing some stop motion movies. We had to use playdough to help us tell our story, we could also use other thing like sticks and also goggely eyes.  We had a sparkly playdough and a normal red piece of playdough. My story or stop motion is all about being friends but I used flowers. In my story I had used the red piece for the flower that wanted to find a friend and the sparkly one,  for the flower that thought she was special and didn't care. At the end the special thinking flower was all alone and so she felt weird so she invited then red flower backover for some cake, and the become best best friends.  I think I went good because I enjoyed it and also because some of the teachers also liked it. The things I could change is with the frames that I had with speech bubbles in it, I could take them a few more times so it is easier to read.  Blog you later

Hi, bloggers today in Cybersmart, we have been working on improving our blog comments. The first thing we had to do was write a blog comment to a buddy( mine was Clara). Then we chosse one of their recent blog post's and commented on that . We had to use the three main parts of a good comment Helpful, Thoughtful and postive. Then we had to copy or take a screenshot of the comment we made and add onto a google drawing that we were using. After that we had to read through the instructions and make changes to our comments. The changes I made to mine comment was, I changed some of the words into more interesting words and also add some information on what we did in the A-Z alphbet emotions activity. Next we had to check it with a buddy and then the teacher. If the teacher said it was good, we had to take a screenshot of it and post on our blog. After that we had to explain what we did. Here is my drawing.

Hi bloggers, a couple of weeks ago it was the startof Matariki. Matariki is a cluster of stars, also known as The Seven Sisters.  Matariki this year was held on the 15th of June and it will be held on the 10th of June in 2019. For Moari people it is called the start of a new year. On Matariki people wake up early and have breakfast then go out side to see the stars go past. On Matariki my family wake up early and go to my cousins house to have a really yummy breakfast, then we watch the stars and also head down to the beach for the day. Who celebrates Matariki? Tribes celebrate Matariki when it is first seen. Celebrations last up to 3 days each year. Here are some photos.

Hi bloggers, today the year 6's went down to Waikowhai Intermidete to see what it is like. When we got to the intermidete we went into the hall, and the princaple Mr King told us about the school. Then we got to walk around the school and visit some classes. We were with Mrs Smith, she is the deputy princaple at Waikowhai Intermidete. Also Hay Park was there. We got split into four groups. We also got to visit the speical classrooms wich were, Food Tech, Music and Dance, Hard court, and art. I also saw some friends from lat year like Kayci, Sifa, and Dorothy. My favrouit place that I wished I went was Food Tech because they got to make chocolate sauce with bananas and vinalla ice cream.  In music we used Rythm and Perccusion instruments to make a song. We Also learmt how to make our own music using notes. Mr Peach used family names to help us like, Semibreve was Grandpa and Quaver was the baby. Then it was time to go. When we got back to school we got an enrolment form. Her...

STUDENT LED TOOLKITS Hi bloggers, on Tuesday a group of 24 students went out to represent Waikowhai Primary at Christ King Catholic School, for the Student Led toolkits. Many schools from Mount Roskill, like Wesley Primary and Intermediate, Hay Park and New Windsor, were there as well. Student Led Toolkits are all about digital learning with other Ako Hiko schools. When it was time to eat we sat on the steps and ate our lunch, then we got to play. In the student led toolkits there were three sessions on e of them, was tour builder which was when we had to pick a place or a contry, and  write about it. After all that fun it was time to leave. Thanks to Gerhard for helping make this day happen and Christ the King for letting us use their school.  Here are some photos of us when we got there  Here is  a video of us using the spero robots  Blog you later 😎😎💦

Hi, bloggers as part of our inquiry we went to Auckland Zoo.  We went and saw the New Zealand animals because that is our inquiry focus this term. Each class went with one of the zoo educators. We were sent to specific place in the zoo, we went to see the New Zeland birds and animals like the tuatara.  Some of the birds we saw were a kereru, kaka, bellbird and teike (which is a stichbird). We also went into the Bug Lab where we got to learn about bugs and do some activites. My favrouite activity was when you made a butterfly and tried seeing how high it could fly. After that we got to explore some other animlals around the zoo. My favrouite animlal was the elephant because it was doing somthing really really funny. Here are some photos of the day! Here is us being a Tuatra Blog you later😍😍