maths program

today we did math on a different website. It was the second best math website been on because it is really fun and it has different levels of maths. There are two different types of ways that still have on the same level you picked because you can do a timed session or a sheet session the sheet session means that you have as many time to work on a question.    


 

speech

I’m going to talk to you about what a changemaker is and a changemaker that I found interesting. I really struggled with this topic.  I wasn’t sure what a changemaker was and why I’d want to know anything about changemakers.  I’m 9 what kind of change matters to me.  The teachers showed us pictures of all these really ‘important’ changemakers – Einstein, Kate Sheppard, a lot of them black and white’ boring pictures.  I know that these people are really important and that they have made the world a different and better place… but what makes them important to me.

So to help me understand  - I looked up what a changemaker is.  I found out that it’s someone who does something to make a difference in the world, they don’t do it to be famous or to make money.  They do it because they want the world to be a better place for everyone, not just those who have money or the ability to do things themselves but every single person in their community.

Then I googled ‘who is a changemaker’ and I found a whole load of old people and not many people that really interested me.  So I googled NZ kids who are changemakers and I found Wildboy - Brando Yelavich! He looked very interesting – he is just a normal NZ’er like me and you…so I emailed him to find out more…and do you know what…he wrote back to me within 1 day…How cool is that…within one day he’d changed my speech… 

Brando is a normal kid who changed his life because he didn’t think he fitted in at school, he wasn’t doing well at school, he did drugs and he wasn’t happy with his life or who he was and he decided he wanted to change his life – he had a dream to have an adventure but had never done it. He woke up one morning and decided enough was enough, he was only 19 and he figured that he would walk around the coast of NZ and start to live his dream.

Brando wanted to help kids follow their dreams and he wants to help people with their mental health, and when he caught everyone’s attention when he was on the news he told everybody about his trip and why he did it. He raises money so he can go and talk to kids about thinking outside the box, following their dreams, reconnecting with nature and most importantly how to look after their mental health.   The funniest part of it all is – he said that when he told his mum and dad that he wanted to be the first person to walk around the coast of NZ – they told him it was a silly idea – but he did it anyway – and now he’s doing trips around the world raising awareness.

My message to you about changemakers is that there are all these important people in the world that have achieved huge things but the message I got from WildBoy is that change doesn’t have to be big that YOU can make a difference in the world – it's up to all of us to be the change in the world.  Change our attitude to learning and life, appreciate what we have, give back, be better, enjoy life and try new things.  Make other people happy and you will make yourself happy – then you can help make the world a happier place - and that’s got to be the best change any one of us can make.  Remember that you are the change – we all need to go out now and make a difference! 

word work

 

This is my word work it is way different to all the other ones we have done. I like this word work because itś more challenging then the others.

Movie's, Pizza's and PJ's

 Movie PJ day

Today, me and the half of the school had a Movie and a Pj day. We watched the Sleepover. Me and all the other people that were watching got a bag of popcorn and then half way through the movie we got pizza (me and Harry got cheese pizza). Later, when it was lunch, me and Harry keeped on talking about the movie. We both thought the movie was funny.  By the time the movie was finished I was so tired I could fall asleep. Most of us liked the movie, but most of all I loved it. 

Tonui Collab 

Today I went to Tonui Collab with my friend Harry. Again we had to wait for more people to arrive, but this time there was only 27 people there. Then Mac asked us to into groups of three, Dylan, Harry and I was in a group. For this challenge for the challenge we had to build a tower with only 27 pieces. It also had to be free standing. Today are tower fell over, just the time ran out. But they gave us all another chance, they also gave us all 8 more pieces so that we all had 35 pieces. After we the challenge we had to write some ideas of what we were going to have in are game... There really was a lot of suggestions on the window, where you had to put your sticky notes. Next Mac us all play some of his games... After 15 mins of playing Mac's games, we all went out of the computer room and went into the sunshine room, to eat some morning tea. Once we ate some of are snacks, we entered the computer room to get started on are game, are game was going to be based on Te Maro. When we got started most of us were stuck on a couple of things, but we all got passed where we were stuck, because Mac or Shannon would help out... As we started to finish up for the day, we all added some extra detail to our game. But all of us still weren't done our game, because there is always  a way to improve.   

           

Tonui Colab

Tonui Collab

This week my friend Harry and i were selected to attend Tonui Collab. Along with 27 other kids from different schools. Then Shannon (the former leader) asked us to do a challenge. We had to get in a group of four. So Harry, Finn, Ngarongotoa and I formed a group. The challenge was who can make Shannon's tower exactly how she did. The main thing you needed was good memory. We had one thing wrong, the next challenge was who could build the highest tower with 32 connection pieces. The only thing was that had changed the teams around. I worked with a boy and girl from central, there names were Dylan and Ada. This challenge we won by 90cm, our tower was 161 cm and the second placed tower was 71 cm. Then Shannon let us have some morning tea, after that I buddied up with Dylan to make a game. Then Shannon told us a couple of tips on how to make it, and what to make. Then she let us have another snack to eat and she said we will have a visiter in to tell us a little more about Te Maro. After she told us all about Te Maro we had to do a brainstorm for our next game. So the game that we have already completed, was just to show us how to make a game.  Our next game will be based on Te Maro .     

  

Word Work

This week we did a very new word work. I am very proud of it I thought it would be hard but when you get correct you start to understand what you are doing. Photo Below.

 

Quick Writes

Quick Writes 
Every week we do four hard questions for our quick writes, this week we are doing it on mobile phones. Pictures downwards.

And I guess that's it for this weeks blog post. And I guess that is the End. 

Word work

 This week we did word work it was very fun we had to do this to get are priorities done we still have to do one more but this is the first one I. We do two but it is coming soon so I haven't completed word work yet.  I have just finished it today on Wednesday. It is different every week.                                                                          picture scroll down

Here is a screenshot of my word work

 

Quick Write

School Holidays

In the school holidays my family and I, rushed to get to Wellington so my dad woke us all up before 7:30 in the morning... whew we made it right in time just before 3:00 in the afternoon. We were staying at my grandma and grandad's house for the week. My grandma is the nicest person in my whole entire family, she would do/get anything for me or my sisters, if you don't know who my sisters are, Skye and Caitlyn. 

We drove to the mall to make some balloon animals, because we were bored and we had nothing else to do, but we thought it would be fun. It took about 1 hour to find some long balloon's. The pack we found had a pump with it so it was easy to blow up. It also came with instructions on the back of it, so we were pretty much sorted out for the week. We finished making our balloon animals the next day.

My dad gave me a surprise by letting me go to Brody's house for the night. It was Brody's birthday that day so it was even better, except we had to get him a present... My dad got Brody a fart button, I was really embarrassed when I got to his house because he got a PS4 for his birthday. Brody and his family couldn't get it working, so they had to get a friend over to get it working. Well they called the wright friend because they got it to work in 15 minutes. But then they had to leave so it was only me and Brody. So we took turns on Fortnite and we downloaded some games. Brody also got a keyboard and mouse.

Going to Wellington was the highlight of my holiday. 

just dance performance

JUST DANCE PERFORMANCE 

This week we are doing a just dance performance, Me Harry, Nalu and Jaxon are doing: Waka Waka four players.You could have done two other songs like: Timber  which is two players: Hands Clap three players. "you boys aren't going to be doing just dance this week because it's a rotation of boys and girls" Koka Terri said. "What                    but we didn't get a turn"! I said. 

Things you need to have for the performance 1. costume 2. Teamwork 3. X-factor 4. synchronization, and yes you can get points  for how good your dressing up is, your teamwork and your x-factor and also your synchronization.
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just dance

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This week we have been doing just dance me, Harry and Jaxon are the hosts, we set it up and we change the songs. We would also dance are self, we love doing it but unfortunately we have rotations that goes like this: Me, Harry, Jaxon then it is Rio, Josie, Ella and last but not least Angus, Rasmus, and this week was Angus, Rasmus but we still participated it was still as fun, except we did not get to choose the song and set it all up, but "we will get to do it next week" I would tell Harry, but he would not listen to me.

We had to get control of the little kids (witch was really hard but) it was still fun. The first just dance was: Waka Waka (the best one) four players:YMCA four players: I can make your hands clap three players: Timber two players: and Rustafen one player.

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Lighthouse Walk

Lighthouse walk

Crash,crash,crash as the waves crashing on the smooth yellow sand. Me and Harry

partnered for the lighthouse walk. We were so excited to go and see the school's old

lighthouse and the

maunga. I had never actually seen the school's lighthouse before.

FWEET,FWEET,FWEET. Blows a whistle and the air suddenly goes silent. We had

two lines for everyone's buddies and as you know my buddy is Harry. We started

to walk down the beach, ¨I have found some gems here Hunter¨ Said Harry. So we

started to look for them on the way there. ¨You look on that side I will look on this

side¨ Said Harry, So I looked on my side and Harry looked on his side.

We both came back together with two each, then it came to a pretty rocky bit. It

wasn't that slippery, ¨Harry we might need to go to a bit where it is dry so we don't

slip over¨ I said. So we moved up to a dry spot. Then we heard a whistle blow again

we will have a little break now¨ shouted Koka Ngaire. So we searched for some more

stuff, Harry found this very cool shell, found a stone with purple stuff in it. It was

incredible what we had found.

After a while we were at the school's lighthouse. It was as easy as that, we had sang a

school song right next to the school´s lighthouse. It was very old but it was still a cool experience.

The school turned around and started walking back to school.

Me and Harry had found a lot more gems on the way back.

¨I think there are more gems because they got washed up from the sea and ended up here

on the beach¨ said Harry. We had about a bag full when we got back where we came from but then Koka Ngaire said that we will have to drop them here. It was a little bit sad because we were going to keep them but we empdead them out on the way back to school.      

THE END

           

Online schooling is fun.

Online schooling is fun.

School lockdown was pretty fun, because I got to spend time with my family. And I also liked

sleeping in and getting to do my work whenever I want in the day. I also liked the google meets to

see my teachers and my friends. School lockdown was pretty much the same for me. Because every

2 hours my dad would let me have a break like it was lunch time.

Online working was fun, because it was faster but at the same time it was harder. I also liked online

schooling. It was cool because there were different types of priorities. There was a famous week,

there was an animal week there also a story week and there was our world my earth. 

I am pretty excited to go back to school and see my teachers and my best friend Harry!

But mostly to do work in a book, and to see everyone at school!!!!!!!!

3 2 1 swim!!!

On Wednesday at school getting ready for swim sports Rm 2 had there brain break early hopping on the bus going to enterprise. We well me and the boys sang some songs all the way. There well part of the time we talked and we did some very funny jokes. But when we got there we Rm 2/3 hopped of the bus. Rm 2 and 3 went to go and get changed into are togs for enterprise. I waited and waited for my race to come.  

I was so terrified lining up to go for a swim. There was three in front of me. I was scared because the next two people went so fast there was just one more before I have to go. Koka Rozie was ready to start the person's race in front of me on you're makes get set go!!!  The person in front of me finished very  quickly. 


It was my race I had to race Rori, Nathan,Apay and Osca. They were all very hard but I accomplished to come third so I got in the final. But then I had to wait for my next race and that was Breaststroke. Mein while I ate some of my lunch waiting for my Breaststroke race.  Koka Ngaire/Koka Joe King cold out my name. I was so scared  for my race. I was behind three more people again they went so fast that next up was me. I went as fast as I could. but I came forth in Breaststroke then it was a tie with me and Nalu in the final.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   After my race I went to go and get changed to get ready to go back to school. I talked to Harrison. and me and the boys sang some tik tok songs and some cool normal songs and I was so realeafet to be back at school.

                                                                                              

The start to school is amazing!

Week one back at school started off a little boring until they mentioned Buzz Groups. I was like what are Buzz Groups? The whole class looked for their Buzz Buddies. It took me a little while to find my Buzz Buddies. Eventually I found Tristan, William, Ben and Mako.

Buzz Groups are learning groups of five to seven people. We do lots of learning and quizzes together. Working as a team can be hard for some people. My group works well together, some times. Cup Stacking was a hard game. I think most of all we need to work together as a team. 

We had to first find our Buzz Buddies. It was not going to be easy. You had a piece of paper, that had a word on it. You had to find a person who's word matched to your piece of paper. When you found a buddy, you had to find the rest of your Buzz Group. All of my buddy's where boys.

Ben is a funny boy, he likes to tell jokes. William is nice, he always helps you.Tristan is a smart year 6 he always finishes his work . Mako is also a smart boy.