Camp Kaitawa slides awesome

 On week 7 we went to camp kaitawa, we all had the best week ever! My highlight was kayaking on the lake, because you got to do anything. It was pretty sad that we had to leave,  but it was pretty good to be back in my own bed.

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 .