Writing

In Te ngahere for writing we are learning to use story beats to make stories. Story beats are the main parts of the story or events that keep the stories that we write in order and make it  very interesting and marvelous. For example we would use something called a story spine to jumpstart a story and get a rough outlines of events because it is a simple tool and the sentences would always start with Once upon a time,everyday,until one day,because of that and it goes on until the end which starts with the moral of the story is. Story spine is used as a tool to create well-structured stories and it is a series of sentence fragments that prompt the narrative elements of a story.In writing I have learnt that story beats is helping me with my writing because it makes the stories that I write fantastic and extraordinary.

Panui

In Te ngahere for panui we have been using story beats to tell the story that we’ve read. If you don't know what story beats are they are the main parts of the story or plots events that keep the stories that we write very overwhelming and marvelous. I have learnt that story beats helps me with my writing because it helps me to make my stories more interesting and outstanding and I also enjoy writing the stories that we’ve read because reading the story makes it much easier to write every sentence.For example Finding nemo like Once upon a time there was a fish named marlin who loved his son nemo more tan anything.Every day he marlin tried to proctect nemo until one day nemo was taken away from a scuba diver.

Cross country

For the past few weeks we have been doing cross country training. Last friday our school went to the football club in Haruru falls to do cross country. We would do our work and then we would play and have morning tea. When the bell rang we had to get our bag and wait for all the parents to transport children. Once that was done all the people that didn't get called out would go onto the bus. 5 year olds were on the bus and they were noisey .After we got to the place we had to wait until it was our turn running. Then the last people would be the 11, 12 and 13 year olds. We  had to run around the Football field and then go over the fence then up the driveway. We had to go to our teachers and then up the hill to our 2nd teacher and then back down to the hill then back to the field.I learnt that it doesn't matter if you win or not and to always try your best and also never give up even if you hate it or not.

Sceince fair

In Te Ngahere we have been doing science fair. We would make a science planning doc so that we would be ready before we would do our science fair project. We had to identify the variables that we would explore. My group project was called growing bullets and we were exploring to see if we can make biodegradable bullets that is made out of paper mache and seeds and then we would shoot it and measure how far it went. While we were making the bullets we realised that nerf recommended not to put anything else inside their gun but their proper nerf bullets and we also didn’t want to break a perfectly good nerf gun. So we decided to use a black pipe and a finger of a glove to launch it but when we did our test the bullets kept getting stuck into our pipe so we change the pipe to a slingshot. When we were finished doing our science experiment we had to make a Science fair presentation about our project like what our hypothesis was, what our aim was or what equipment we used for our science fair project. Once we were finished with our presentation we  had to get it printed out and we put it on to our board all in order.

Magic show

On the 27th of february the Year 6’s went to a magic show.The Magician came to our school to teach about to eat the right food, always be strong and Be Bright but he also came here to show us his cool tricks. we also learnt about to always eat healthy food like fruit and vegetables and No junk food  like Chocolate and candies.The first magic trick he did was A fire trick and set his arm on fire but his shirt wasn’t burnt at all..I was surprised,confused and amazed that he did a trick like that.He also did another trick that i liked.The trick was where he and an empty glass case and he was swinging it around and he covered it with a cloth and then he took the cloth away and there was money when i watched the tricked  i was kinda shocked and amazed because he did that.

Waitangi treaty grounds

On Thursday and Friday The Year 6’s from Paihia School went on a trip to the Waitangi  treaty grounds. When we got there we met two people that worked there.There names were Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monica.We went to the learning center. We had to Split into two groups.My group got to do the fun activities.We did  interesting stuff like SculptGL, Paint 3D, VR (Virtual Reality) Stop Motion, DashBots and Green Screen. My Favorite was the VR because i because it was my first time using it..When we Finished having a tutu with all the stuff it was our turn to go for a heikoie We  got SmartPhones so we can take photos of the stuff in the museum. We first looked at a wall and we talked what was important about it.Then we went into the museum and saw pictures of the sailboats that people came in and the European people that came to New Zealand. Monica started telling us why Abel Tasman Wasn't able to stay and the sailboats and other interesting stuff as walked around the whole musuem.

Our Identity

On Monday Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika Came to Our School with there cool devices. We were learning how to make Virtual trees and Animals. We were also learning about our Identity and how our ancestors came on a waka to New Zealand. When we were at treaty grounds we made people on paint 3D and they put the people we made and put it on there VR World and showed our people on a waka and they also put our forest while we were at lunch time. We used Two apps to make the trees and animals. The apps are TinkerCad and Paint 3D. On TinkerCad my buddy and I made a fern, trees, log and other cool stuff. When we finished the forest and stuff we made our identity on SculptGL by putting a design that explains our identity onto 3D shapes.