Paddle boarding at lake ngatu

Last week Te Manga,Te Puawai and Te Kauru went paddle boarding at Lake Ngatu for a fun activity. We walked there so we could get more fit and not be inside all day. The first thing we did was have some Kai. Then the first group went out my turn was the second group. We had to say he ha so that we were all in time. When we got that my group sang school songs to still be in time we also played some games. On the way back we got to jump of I did a front flip that was very fun.After all the groups went paddle boarding we got to have kai or a swim or play in the sand I played I the water me and my friends played tag I kept slipping over though we had about half an hour then we had to get and walk back to school. 

   

Mad science

WALT predict and explain what is happening during our science experiments.

On Friday last week Te Manga did some science experiments. The 3 things we did was crawling colours,salt volcano and magic milk.My favourite one was the salt volcano because all you need is salt oil and water.What you need to is put some water in a cup then poor some oil in gently and slowly otherwise it will go all bubbly. After that you put a little bit of salt, but only do it little by little because if you do it fast it could spill everywhere. Then the salt goes to the bottom and make's bubbles pop up.

My second favourite thing was the magic milk Because all you need is milk food colouring and a little box.The first thing you need to do is put a little bit of milk into the box then put a few colours in to the milk . You would also need a stick and some Liquid with those dip the stick into the liquid then into the milk and the colours will spread everywhere.If you keeped dipping it and moving the stick around it will turn into one colour.That was why it was one of my favourites. when we finished we had to tip it in a bin all of it together looked so cool.

Salt volcano

magic milk

crawling colours

Thank-you Whaea Gee

We have had a different teacher she is really fun also she does lots of other things with us. We loved having her as a teacher but now she is at intermediate it was really sad to see you  go but i'm  sure she is going to see us when we go to intermediate.I loved having her as a teacher I am going to really miss you whaea Gee.

 

Te Whare Tui Camp 2020

This year Te Manga and Te Tinana went to the Coopers Beach Camp. We had so much fun all the activities were: Waterside, Kayaking, Slippy hockey, Beach activities and all the inside activities. My absolute favourite one was the obstacle course. 

Cheek out my slide here

 

Sailing the Pacific

We are learning about traditional sailing and navigation methods used by early Polynesian voyagers.

What did you enjoy? I enjoyed finding out lots of new facts about navigation.

What was tricky? finding the answers and knowing where to put them.

SJ P2 No3 2003 

- Sailing the Pacific

We are learning about traditional sailing and navigation methods used by early Polynesian voyagers.

Activity 1 - WALT locate, identify, select and present relevant information.

Traditional Pacific Navigators found land by looking for signs like clouds, birds, stars and ocean swells. 

Use the text to help you complete the table about traditional Pacific navigation tools. The first one has been done for you.

Clouds	Clouds moving across the sky slow down when they pass over land The colour of the clouds would change if they were above land.
Birds	Watching these birds the shearwater and the godwit helped to lead voyages because they migrate on land.
Stars	In the night certan stars always rise and set at the same positions on the horizon.
Ocean Swells	Ocean swells,or other unusual movements in the water, could be a sing that land was close.

Activity 2 - Read about the tirito ‘etu (or starpeeker)

The tirito ‘etu (or starpeeker) is a navigating instrument from the Cook Islands. It was made from an empty coconut shell with holes drilled in it. Water was filled to the level of the lower ring of holes. This helped to keep it lined up with the horizon as the boat moved up and down in the waves. The navigator looked through two of the holes until the reflection of a particular star came into view. The holes were positioned so that the star could be seen only when the vaka was directly east or west of its destination.

Activity 3 - The Vaka

Use the text to help you answer the following questions about ‘The Vaka’

What type of natural materials were used to build the vaka?	These vaka has two hulls            made from many planks carefully stitched together with cord made from coconut fibre. Their sails were often woven from pandanus leaves.
How long was Kupe’s vaka and how many people could it carry?	Some of these ocean-going vaka could carry up to 150 people. Kupe’s waka may have been up to 21 meters long.
What supplies were often carried on board?	Supplies such as dried bananas,taro,breadfruit, Coconuts and fish.

Raranga Matihiko

On the 9/11/20 my class Te Manga went to Waitangi which was our second visit.  That time we made Poe with sculpt gl that was very fun, I put a smiley face on it , some Koru's and some waves.  

Kuaka

 We are learning to use visual language features to support our understanding of the ideas and information in the text. 

1. What did you enjoy? I enjoyed finding all the facts because you had to skim and skam a lot.

2. What was tricky?fining out what to do.

Raranga Matihiko

Last week on Thursday we travelled down to Waitangi to learn about all sorts of cool thing's. 

First we had a little korero about what we were going to do that day. Next we got split into two group's, I was with Mihi. The first thing we did was tinkercad. We had so much fun doing that! Then we did sculpt gl where you are supposed to carve anything you want. The last thing we did was VR where you put this cool mask on and see really different things then in real life you can also draw things. After that we switched groups and went on a walk.

  

Telling the Time

 WALT tell the time o'clock and half past.WALT tell the time o'clock and half past.

What did you do well? I think the thing I did well was doing the clock and trying to get the right time. What was tricky? finding the right pictures and numbers for the clock.

My Speech

 WALT present a persuasive speech.

What did you do well? The thing I did well was getting the ideas and putting my speech into paragraphs. Also I was using as much eye contact.What do you need to work on for next time? making my speech a bit longer and adding more detail. What was your overall feeling about your speech experience? At the start I was very very nervous BUT when I stood up in front of everyone I was so exited after that I was very proud.

Keeping New Zealand clean

 On the  22.9.20 Te Puawai, Te Kauru and my class Te Manga went to lake ngatu to do some planting and picking up rubbish on the track.

 All the teams planted about 5 plants each the types of trees we planted were native Kanuka and manuka.

I learnt that keeping the environment beautiful helps the waterways and farmlands develop easier without all the rubbish getting caught everywhere.

My favourite part there was helping out the community and helping out Zana and Lucy with getting the plants out of the bags. 

 

Unwanted visitors

 WALT use different strategies to understand what we are reading.

SJ Level 3 May 2019 

- Unwanted Visitors 

Activity 1

Use the article to answer the following questions:

1.  What could tramping boots, dairy products and even honey contain?

Can hide species that might harm the environment. 

 

2. Unwanted pests, weeds and diseases endanger New Zealand’s plants and animals. Find evidence to support this view.  

Pests are animals that cause some kind of harm. weeds are plants that grow where they are not wanted. Diseases are caused by bacteria viruses and fungi .

3. Why is biosecurity so important in New Zealand? 

Something really bad could happen to destroy New Zealand 

4. What might happen if the Brazilian wandering spider ever reached New Zealand? 

It could invite other dangerous species of anything that could kill our land  

5. What do you most like about New Zealand? 

 Because If I wanted to visit my family I wouldn't have to travel to another county because all my family lives in NZ.

Read Read Read - MONSTERS

 WALT do a reading response.

On your blog write a reading response to one of the text you read.

WOW that's amazing!

Yuck, gross!

I don't believe it!

Kraken

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That the Kraken monsters are giant octopuses.

what I found yuck gross was that there heads are giant and slimy.

that the Kraken has the biggest tentacles in the world.

WOW that's amazing!

Yuck, gross!

I don't believe it!

Kahui Tipua

That the Kahui Tipua can stride from one mountaintop to another and swallow whole streams.

What I  found yuck and gross about the Kahui Tipua is that they swallow whole streams.

That the Kahui tipua hid in caves and attacked anyone who walked past.

Problem Solving

WALT  solve word problems using different strategies.

What did you do well? The thing I did well was do the video

My motorbike ride

 On the weekends I woke up and felt like I wanted to ride my motorbike so I did. When I was riding my motorbike my Mum and Dads friends came over. When I was riding I was on a hill I slipped on a branch and hurt my leg I was also on a hill but lucky there was a fence and it wasn't a big hill.

Animal X -Factor

 WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others.

What did you enjoy? I enjoyed creating the animal x factor slide. What was tricky? finding the A-Z words. What could I do better next time? find more words.

Covid-19 Writing

What happens at level 2?

I think that at level 2 we have to use physical distance.

At level 2 lockdown we all have to make sure that we are physical distancing. I am not happy that covid 19 has hit us again in New Zealand. I feel quite scared for my dad's sisters family that live in Te Awamutu which is near Auckland. All of NZ should know to wash their hands and use lots of hand sanitizer. This is called hand hygiene. Always remember that we need to be 1-2 meters apart and we need to stay in our bubbles. The people in Auckland need to stay in isolation. We need to try really hard to not bite our nails and touch our face. We need to make sure we wash our hands before and after we go somewhere.


Thank-you for reading about what I think about Covid 19

From Kaydee

Diabetes

 WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others.

1. What did you learn from reading this text? The one thing that I learnt from reading this text was that you cant cure diabetes.

What did you enjoy? I enjoyed doing the a-z. What was tricky? finding the words for the a-z .What could I do better next time? better words for the a-z.

Connected L2 2015 - Why do our muscles get tired?

WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text. 
Here's what I learnt well reading the book that swimming causes 
Muscle fatigue is when your muscles get tired .One reason is running really fast because your blood carry's oxygen to the muscles.

I enjoyed reading the book

the thing that I found tricky was finding the facts

I could maybe do better with adding more facts.

   

Matariki

We are learning all about Matariki.

What did I find interesting? The thing that I found interesting is that there is actually 500 matariki stars but you can only see 7 of them. Why did I think it was interesting? I thought it was interesting because you can only see 7 stars of matariki. Was there anything that surprised me in my learning? No. What did I enjoy doing the most? my scratch project.

What did I do well? the start of my scratch project. What was tricky? finding facts about matariki. What could I do better next time?  add more facts and punctuation.

This is a link for how to make your own manu tukutuku / kite


Click on this to go to make your own manu tukutuku

DESCRIBE A MOMENT IN TIME - descriptive writing

WEEK 7 - WALT to hook our reader in with our first sentence.
WALT use descriptive vocabulary to describe a moment in time.


What did I do well? The thing that I did well was use lots of descriptive words.

 What did I find tricky? The thing that I found tricky was adding writing that relates to my night sky writing.

 How can I extend myself next time? Add more descriptive writing. 

Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui

WALT find out what students at one school do to celebrate the Maori New Year. WALT to use the main ideas to summarise the text.

What did you enjoy? I really enjoyed learning about puanga, what the school did to celebrate the Maori new year. What surprised you? puanga is also called Rigel. What was the most interesting thing you learnt? The thing that I found interesting is that the Ramanui school celebrate Maori new year

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Wb4OY7pUn1KY9i9G75-KKW3JPwXy74q/view


https://drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/19WvOAsdz52dSfdeJFoCgZ45jUqPIwk9D/view

What did I do well? The thing that I did well is read the book and  get information from the book.

 What was tricky?   The thing that I found tricky was making my scratch project.

 How can I extend myself next time? adding more information writing and details.

My cat Benjiman

The Plastic Free Challenge

WALT find out some of the causes, effects, and solutions for plastic pollution.

What did you find interesting? The thing that found interesting was how much plastic the kids found in one day! What 'plastic changes will you make at home and school? I think that I can use paper towels instead of glad rap for my sandwich at school. At home I think I can reuse cardboard instead of throwing it away.

What did I do well? putting the links and writing in.What was tricky? finding plastic pictures. How can I extend myself next time? adding more writing and punctuation.

Bubble Memories

We have been creating a google slide about our bubble memories.

We are learning to share our bubble memories with our class.Our class and me have made a google slide about our bubble memories. The first thing we did was plan. The second thing we did use our plan to write down some memories of the lock down.The last thing we did was make a google slide about it copped and pasted it in to the slides than add at least 1 picture to each slide. 

Take a look at my slide.
We are sharing memories from our lockdown bu


Something I did well was finding pictures that relate to my writing.

Something I found tricky was finding pictures that look really really similar to the real things

Something I could do better next time is add more detail and punctuation.   

THE STRIPED INVADER

WALT find out some interesting facts and information about wasps. First we found interesting and tricky words to increase our vocabulary.The second thing We were doing was skimming and scanning the article to find interesting fact's about wasp's. something I did well was make my own life cycle of a wasp.something I found doing tricky was finding facts about the wasps.I think I can extend my self next time by adding more punctuation,adding more facts.

Conserve water

 We have been learning how to conserve water. Whaea deb has set us some tasks about conserving water. my slide is about how to save water because off the drout in each slide we had to write 5 interesting facts about the drout.

Kawa of care class assembly -draft writing

WALT understand the Kawa of Care.

WALT write a recount of our class assembly experience.

check out my draft writing.

Last Friday on the 28.2.20 at 1.45pm it was Te manga's class assembly!. There were actors, accessories. Before Alaini Atama and Tuva-Lisa started.The rest of the class was waiting outside for the music to start. The first group up was alani atama and tuva-Lisa; they were the titel starters. The next group was Koda,Chase,Mihi and there was no food or drink there than they spilt pretend food and water on the Chromebook. the next one was Kaydee,edmon,larell our’s was about two hands well holding your device but when it was our turn we weren't doing the right thing we were holding them with one hand and swinging them around edmon was running down the hall yelling look at my new Chromebook also we were too after we did the wrong thing we did the right thing .But the Chromebooks weren't real.my favourite part was when Me Edmon and larell bumped in to into each other .

Sea Week 2020

WALT use a website to find out information about the sea during Sea Week.
The website we are using is  https://www.youngoceanexplorers.com/

We had to do a google slide. When we were making the goggle slide it was challenging for me because I didn't really know how to put the pictures and text boxes in the right place. I got amazed when I found out that some fish only eat sand and kelp also seals can hold there breath for longer than 11 minutes. We did it so we could learn more about the sea. in the goggle slide the information  was from the young ocean explores. the thing that interested me the most was I learnt that female great white sharks can get bigger than males also Dolphins arch there tails up and  down  not side to side . 

Water Conservation

We are learning to identify key words related to water conservation. We were using a  pamphlet . Northland is on water restrictions,  water restrictions are when you're not allowed to use lots of water. So when we have showers and go toilet and using water with any thing we have to be really careful and not use a lot of water. 

This is an A-Z of key words that relate to water conservation.

Kawa of Care

WALT to take care of our Chromebooks and have been learning about the Kawa of care .We have been doing skits and are going to do them at our assembly. 

Chromebook-camera action

We have been learning how to take photos on our Chromebook and put them into the correct file.