The Friendly Giant

There was once a giant, a friendly little man. This sweet and unharmful man, used to walk from mountain to mountain stepping on the high peaks. He used to blow bubbles into the sky, that somehow would turn into beautiful planets that orbited the earth and every other planet in the galaxy. He always could see the beginning of space from down were he was standing, his head far beyond the clouds.

The man made his clothes from old tree bark, and silk. He carried a bag that was hanging on the end of a tree, with the leaves plucked of. He had shoes made from 2 big rocks that could fit his feet perfectly. With a hat made of a stone mountain that was hollow on the inside. He loved creating brand new planets, he used to name and make about 15 planets a day. No one knows where he is today but what we do know is that he locked all diseases in his bag. The End

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15 minute writing


this is my 15 minute writing

Topic
Word count
93

Word count
93
My Writing
The Fox slowly creeped up to the small animal formerly known as a Quokka. The Quokka did not notice at first, but as the Fox grow closer the Quokka slowly began to realize that there was a fox was near. And when the Fox sprang from his hiding spot the Quokka screamed, jumped then ran in a second the Quokka was gone and the Fox had already spot his new meal or victim if you won’t. And then the story ended and the Quokka was safe and the Fox’s stomach full. The end.

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WHO WILL WIN THE RUGBY WORLD CUP?

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing an activity because we were learning to list ALL the teams that made it into the rugby world cup.
Here’s the DLO
MY learning for this was to learn about rugby groups from other countries like the Wallabies (Australian rugby team) along with learning which country the world cup was being held at, with that being Japan.
Reflection:
Thanks to this, I can now memorise the rugby world cup groups.
Have you ever had trouble knowing what group was playing?

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Maths Animation

This week in maths we were working on slide animations. We put together a variety of slides to explain what perimeter and area are and how to find them. I focused more on how to find the area of a triangle. I used around 27 slides to form this animation. This wasn’t too difficult, because it was mostly duplicating slides and adding a small detail every time. This is a lot like stop motion animation except a different site, and instead of using lots of photos you use lots of slides

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Pump track writing

Last week I started a piece of writing justifying why the pump track at Paihia School was one of the best facilities to be used in Paihia. I had to verify three reasons why the pump track was a good facility in Paihia. My first reason was that, the pump track is useful for those who are learning to ride a bike or learning to skate. My second reason was that, is makes Paihia School popular because of the uses it has.  Finally my third reason was that, it is a facility where families can kick back and all have a great fun at. Once my writing is complete I will post it and ask for your opinion on it.

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STEAM (Newspaper structure)

On Monday the whole class participated in a STEAM project. STEAM stands for Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics. We got into groups of three or two. Each group had to create a structure using only 30 cm of tape and 2 sheets of newspaper. My group’s structure didn’t work as we expected. It was time for measuring and one of my mates took our tower up for measuring. He kept trying to balance it but it just kept falling, we didn’t end up getting any results for our tower because it couldn’t balance that good. After all of that we had to write our reflection of how we did and answer a couple of questions. Each question was to be filled in with a proper sentence giving a reasonable answer. I enjoyed this particular project and enjoyed collaborating well with my group to create a structure that we were proud of. I learnt that newspaper is too flimsy to use as a base for a newspaper tower and I now know that I need to make something stronger than newspaper to hold up a paper tower.

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Swim safe

Recently Te Ngahere has had a swim safe lesson on dry land. Our teacher was Tracy. She taught us five ways how to keep safe in the ocean. The first safety rule was to wear a life jacket. The second rule was to make sure when that when you are out on the boat to have a device or a flare to signal the coast guard if you ever find yourself in a bad situation. The third rule was that you have to know the lifeguard channel. The fourth rule was to always tell someone where you are going and when you are expecting to be heading back into shore. The fifth rule is to check the weather before you head out just so you know what to expect out there. It is important to know all of these things because you never know when something bad is going to occur. I learnt that not only are these rules important to my life but it could also be useful to help someone else out if they don’t know the five ways of how to keep safe on the water. I enjoyed this lesson because it taught me a lot and now I can feel safe whenever I go out on the boat.

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Kapa Haka Drama

Kapa Haka Drama
Nā Ariana rātou ko Kyra, ko Pikitia
I ēnei wiki tuatahi o te wahanga tua whā, i te hanga mātou o Te Mutunga Iho i ngā kiriata stop motion. Ko tēnei tētahi kiriata in hanga mātou stop motion animator 
Ko te putake o tēnei korero i te waiata te tokorua, ā, i haere mai tētahi kotiro me te whakararu i te waiata, ā, i mahi taikaha te tokorua ki tērā kotiro.

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Cricket Rounders

Today on the 22nd of October we had Mr Terita/Matua Rocky, with him before lunch we played Cricket. I’ve never played Cricket so it was a big experience for me.

First, Mr Terita talked about how you play then we got ready to then start playing, my team was the first team to hit the ball and run around the cones as soon as you hit the ball. Every team was cheering for each other.

Everybody then got out because the other team either caught the ball when they threw it or it’s because the other team threw the ball into the wicket. After everybody got out the teams swapped. After the last team went and everybody got out it was time to look at the scores. The first team that went got 55 and the last team got 34.

It was really fun and I hope we do it again

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All about me…

Kia Ora my name is Shakaia and I am a junior year 9 student that is currently  attending Bay Of Islands College. From as far as I know I am full Maori. I have about 6 siblings 3 boys and 3 girls, I am the oldest. I like to say I am good at playing Netball. I enjoy spending “quality time” with my siblings though they can be a bit annoying. I have a lot of challenges one being I am a very terrible writer and I cannot stay on task. My goals for this year is to get outside of my comfort zone and just have fun, also to be super chill.  My main three goals for this year is to make a lot of friends that are very chill, have fun all year and try my best no matter the cause. My hopes for the future are to make sure that I stay at school until I finish my whole 5 years at college. 

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2019 Ski Camp

It was a early Monday morning we had just put our bag in the us we had left we were travelling. We finally stopped for morning tea after. 30 minutes we got back on the road and stopped 2 more toilet breaks we finally made it and went to put our bags in our room then me and Dayton jumped onto the tramp and started flipping and bouncing then we had dinner and dessert and went to sleep and about 9:30. The next day we went skiing and Mount Ruapehu we got our boots that were very uncomfortable and skis and had a lesson. We learnt how to stop and what was most effective for skiing. Then we had 2 hours of fun. Next day we had 1:30 of fun then a lesson we learnt how to turn and stop in a more complex way. After we took Gondola to the top of the Mountain. We came back after 1 hour of skiing for fun. The next day we went to the army museum it was super interesting learning about what happened in the war and what they ate. after exploring through the museum we had a challenge. We had a little cooker we had matches and something that we had to make catch fire. We cooked noodles, casserole and heated up some milo. We returned home and got ready to go the next day. The next day we put all of our bags in the bus and left home and 6 in the morning we left. We visited Lake Taupo and Huka Falls. We also stopped in Hamilton for pizza. Then it was a long trip back to Kawakawa. Overall it was a great camp and I would like to go back there.

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Term 4 Week 1 Reflection

One thing I enjoyed was cooking Cinnamon Rolls
One thing I have learned is Cooking more food
One thing I want to work on is my scout badges
One thing I’m looking forward to is my camp
One thing I’m grateful for is having friends

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