S.L.J- Achieving our Dreams (A:3/D:3)

S.L.J- Defying the Odds (A:2/D:3)

S.L.J - Miracle on the Hudson (A:3/D:2)

S.L.J Day:2, Act:1

Day 1: Explorers- Act:1

This is my first day for the summer where, not only me, but plenty of other kids around New Zealand will be creating our first blog posts and comments for the summer learning journey. For this topic, my task was to make a list of ten food items that I could take alongside if I were to go on a voyage. I actually found this task a bit challenging, as too I was to choose wisely with my food options and was only able to think of 5. Other than that it was a pretty cool task to think about , and cant wait to write more.

My end of the year reflection

Summer Learning Journey- day 2

Over the last 3-2 weeks year 3-8 have been working on the summer learning journey project. This week Tayla from SLJ has come in and kick started us off with a teaser week; We have each picked 1/3 activities from day 2, "Sport and Leisure" and today I have written my own little simile about Usain Bolt. It was fun to write about this topic, probably because it was really easy and didn't take that much time to work on, and also because I got to present it in a really neat and exciting way.

My types of movies ������

Throughout the last couple of term, Room 5 & 6 have been tasked to create, make, and publish a 3 minute movie, along with the rest of Kawakawa primary. Tahlya, Tunisia, Dakota, and I, have created our own little fun movie called, Different types of movies. We have all enjoyed the making and fun throughout filming, and have had lots of laughs. We have joined up with a few other schools, to present 3 of our schools movies. I hope you enjoy our movie, and make sure to comeback next monday for another free writing.

Orientation day - BOIC

BOIC - Orientation day

 As you may know all primary/intermediate year 8 students usually have to attend a orientation sometime of the year to get prepared, This week all year 8 students at my school attended one at our local college school Bay of island college school. We had 2 leaders to show us around the school, "Charlie &  Sharky" I believe there names were, and took about 4 different classes also, some including, Art, D.T.Y/digital technology, wood tech, and science. we had great teachers, but I'm still working out what schools I'm attending and different things like that. Overall I had a pretty good day, met some pretty good students and so on. 

Sorry I don't actually have any photos.    

Weekly 3 - Thursday maths

Every week room 5 and 6 usually have a set task to do for maths, this being our weekly 3 task, where we usually have to do three thing, each 5 minutes until we swap around and do the next , 1. prototec, 2. number of the day, and 3. e-Ako. I personally am not to keen on this warm up, but anyways take a look at what I have been learning throughout the course of the terms. 

First Encounters -Scratch project

A couple of weeks ago I put a post on my blog saying we had a few visitors from Waitangi come in, In week 8 we visited them in Waitangi to learn a little bit more about our first Encounters and coding, We each had a set topic to create our own Scratch project about it. My favourite part about this trip was definitely the trip and finding my way around all of it, I was definitely a little confused at the start but got a little help and quickly caught on to it. take a look. :)      

Scratch and coding

Through out the term Room 5,6 & NRC have and will be doing a few projects on Technology.  We will be attending Waitangi to continue our work and over the last weeks in we had some visitors from Waitangi come in and teach us about scratch and all about coding, we got to use green screen to make our own costumes, and do some other fun games on coding. We had room 6 and 5 attend Waitangi last year and NRC first year this year. Our task we have been set with this is to make our own presentation on a Scratch that also includes different costumes and coding. I have worked with a friend of mine "Tahlya" and together we made a baseball  presentation.We have all really enjoyed It and we all cant wait to go to Waitangi and finish these off, Take a look.

Te Rauangaanga Mauhta - Forced to sign

Over the past few weeks room 5 and 6 have been learning about ANZAC and some of the people in the ANZAC. We have each been paired up with someone in our class and had been set to make a D.L.O a Item that involves a soldier, Me and my partner Tahlya have decided to to go with the Item forced to sign. We have recovered all the stories behind it and we ave added a few other bits of information about it. Hope you enjoy.

Kaiarahi trip

As some people may know schools usually have kids that get picked to be a  leader/ kaiarahi and represent the school, at our school 10 students get picked to perform there leadership value and even go to amazing places. Last week the kaiarahi  traveled down Auckland on Tuesday night and attended the NYLD (national young leaders day) conference on Wednesday morning, We got to meet a whole range of really cool super stars including Hana Tapiata, Ronnie Taulafo, Dr Lehan stemmet  and loads more other cool people talk to us about leadership we even had kings perform for us. It was a really cool day, we all really enjoyed it and they had some really cool things to talk about to us. Take a look.  

Room 5/6 Assembly

Last week room 5 and 6 held there second assembly for the school, It was involved with a lot and we all enjoyed it, we performed a few items like a dance that whaea sally challenged us to, a few facts and poems about women suffrage, some poems about the Christchurch tragedy, the shallow song from the movie A star is born, and it even involved one of the deputy prime minister. It was a great assembly and again we all enjoyed it.

Inspirational quotes room 5

This week Room 5 have been working on some inspirational quotes we have each got some off the internet and no we never wrote them ourselves but we did see which one helps us and fascinates us the most. The fun part about this was probably reading everyone's because it reflects them the most and there quotes go really well with them. There all really cool and pretty inspirational take a look. By the way slide number 14 is mine.

Voyagers

Welcome to my first blog post of the year, in room 6 and 5 we are going to be doing free writing every Monday mornings, free writing is  where we get to choose anything we want to write about every Monday. This week i have decided to do a series and hopefully next week I can carry on from this next week, hope you enjoyed my blog writing and make sure to check my new one out next week.
We set sale along the south island of New Zealand, waves smoothly skim across the bottom of the boat as we move along the coast, not a single person but us knows where we are or were we are going, most people don't even believe in them, and most don't know about them, they wouldn't even believe it with there eyes if they saw. we navigate by using the stars, we each take turns at sailing...