Monday Funday

Hi bloggers, today's post is about our last wheels day of 2017, in other words my last wheels day at Waikowhai Primary School. There were 3 parts to the day. Games, wheels and going to the pool and slip n' slide. On the day there were also some leftover things that weren't sold at Gala as well that you could buy. The day was really fun. My favourite part was going down the slip n' slide but not the part when I got a splinter in my foot. When it was time to the games me and my friends learnt how to play a new game called Draughts. The game was so much fun to play and took a long time to finish playing. Something that could improve would probably be making the slip n' slide more slippery. I would also change the colour of my dark coloured clothes because they made me quite hot. 🌞 Overall the day was totally awesome. Here are some cool photos of the day.

Playing games

 Going down the slip n' slide

Getting hosed down

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Inquiry Design Challenge

Hi blogging world, this blog post is about one of my favourite things that we did this year. Mine is the Inquiry design challenge. For this challenge we had to get in groups of three and my teacher gave us a materials which were 3 pieces of newspaper, 4 paperclips, 1 metre of string and some tape. We were then asked to create something that was equivalent to what the teacher said. for example a handbag, umbrella etc and we only had 15 minutes to make it. Here are some photos of the activity.

The challenge was super fun and was quite intense. My favourite part was when we had to introduce our product and say why people should buy it. A negative thing that happened was that sometimes your item would just break when it's the last minute or when you are introducing it. At times I thought my team was doing a great job at making it sturdy but sometimes I thought our item wouldn't be strong enough and break in the middle of us talking. It was really hard trying not to waste the supplies we had but, at the end everything needed a lot so we ended up with no material left. I would definitely want to do this challenge again because it is so much fun.

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Gala Day Thinking Hats

Hi bloggers I'm Joyce and today my post is going to be about my Thinking Hats about the Gala day that my school hosted. The Gala was so much fun! For the activity we had to write something about the Gala related to the six thinking hats. On each slide is a different thinking hat and we had to think about what we were going to write. Have a look at my work.

This activity was quite fun to do because I got to recap about the Gala day because I kind of forgot what happened. The best part about the Gala was shopping and throwing wet sponges at teachers. It was so funny when they got soaked. Another fun thing was when we made advertisements for the Gala. We got to decorate things which was a ton of fun. A negative thing that happened was that after you did all the shopping you needed there wasn't much more to see. Overall I thought the Gala was so fun and a huge success. At the end we raised $13,400 and that will go towards building the new junior adventure playground. I think next time I will add some more photos as there was a lot.

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Tote Bag Reflection

Hello bloggers, today's post is a reflection of the bag making process for the gala. We are having a Gala so we can raise money for our junior playground.

For the Gala my class is making tote bags to reduce the use of plastic bags. Plastic bags are taking over the world by the minute so we thought that making tote bags would be sustainable, useful and long-lasting. For this task we learnt how to sew with a sewing machine, screenprint and make a bag. 

The steps of making a bag is: (Wait! make sure you have adult supervision and try to make your lines as straight as possible.)

1. Cut 2 pieces of fabric the same size. This will be the body of the bag. If you want to decorate your bag this is the time.

2. Put the 2 fabrics on top of each other inside facing out.

3. Sew a straight line across 3 sides of the bag, leaving one open for putting thing in. Make sure you are sewing quite close to the edge but leaving space for zig-zagging. Make sure every time you sew go back and forth and the start and end of the your sewing.

4. On the outside of the straight lines turn your sewing machine into zig-zag mode. Zig-zag the same 3 sides. This will stop any freying and make it extra strong.

5. At the top of the bag where it is open fold down about 1 cm and iron it down. Sew that near the edge of the fold. Fold the bag down again about 2cm and iron that down. Sew that near the edge of the fold aswell.

6. Turn the bag outside facing in now. Make sure that your corners and all poked out. 

7. Iron the whole bag. Sides, edges, everything. (but make sure that you don't burn yourself because it will hurt a lot.)

8. Cut 2 strips of fabric or strapping that are 70cm long and 8cm wide.

9. Sew the straps on going back and forth 3 times on each side forming a square. Make sure that your handles are as far down as you can where the hem is.

Once your handles are sewn on you are done with your bag. Yay! You will now be an expert at making tote bags.

The best part of the whole bag making process is designing/decorating your bag. That was so much fun. something bad was that some of the screenprints bled into the fabric where we didn't want it to be. A challenging thing making all my lines straight and sewing on the handles. Those were really hard for me.I think that this activity changed my thinking about the environment and how we are damaging it by using plastic bags. I hope you guys can also reduce the use of plastic bags in your household aswell. I think that tote bags are going to help the world's problem of plastic bags. 

Here are some photos.

                                                                                   Our classroom was a mess after                                                                   a day of sewing.                                    

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Gala Day Advertisement

Hello bloggers, today's post is going to be about my Gala Day poster. This year we are holding a Gala and we would like it to be very successful. For inquiry we were asked to make a poster that would advertise for the school Gala. At the Gala we will be selling sustainable products like totebags, soaps, pot plants, candle holders, homemade paper and any more! All the information will be in the poster. I hope you can come!Have a look at my poster that I made on Google drawing.



I thought that this activity was very fun to do. My favourite part was when we could decorate the poster. I liked adding the colours and images. The hardest part of this activity was making all the information fit on one page because there is so much information to write about the Gala. 

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Travelling around NZ on a budget

Hi bloggers, it's Joyce again. Today's blog post is going to be about Travelling around NZ with a budget. In maths we had to complete a slideshow of us travelling around NZ. We had to travel around NZ for 11 days with a daily budget of $500. Here is an example of what we had to do. 

This is a  task board of what you have to complete.

We had to go to the Air New Zealand and Jetstar websites to find out the price of tickets and decide which to fly with. I chose Jetstar

We also had to select a car to travel with, during our stay at our destination.

 We then had to choose an accommodation to stay for the night. I chose the one in the bottom right corner.

While in Dunedin we also had to choose two activities to do. I chose Cadbury World and Taieri George Teain.

 Finally we had to add up all of our expenses and mine was under budget. Yay!

This activity was quite easy for me since I do travel quite a bit and I sometimes help my parents plan the trip. 

One thing that was quite hard for me during this day's activity was choosing what car to rent. 

Overall I thought this activity was very fun to do and sometimes a bit challenging. 

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Folk Lore Poem

Hi Bloggers, today's blog post is going to be about my poem that I wrote this term about mountains and camping. We had to make a couplet poem which is when every last word of two lines rhyme together. We did this because we were about to go to camp at Mt Ruapehu. If you can't really see the words on the picture the words are below:

Folk Lore

The pale white snow

Has a shimmery white glow

Mountains reach up so high 

Towards the bright blue sky

The still peaceful quietness

Gives my heart this wildness

That made my heart want to soar

Forever like a princess in a folk lore

There were some difficulties during the process of making this poem. We didn't have a lot of time to make it and we had to colour it, write it, and publish it. It was kind of hard to make the sunset blend since we only had colouring pencils. But at the end everything was fine. The positives of this activity was that I concentrated more because we had so little time to do it.  Another good thing about the activity is that I learnt how to blend with colouring pencils. Overall I thought that this poem was very fun to make. 

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Camp

☃❄Hi Blog World! It's Joyce here again.⛄❆

Today this post is about our school camp at Mt Ruapehu. Camp was awesome! It was such a blast! In class we had to make a slideshow about the trip. There were some tasks to complete in the slideshow. My favourite part about making the slideshow was adding photos. Some photos were super funny that you might see during looking at my slideshow.

There were many challenges I had experience at camp like skiing, going on the chairlift and finding particular things in Hamilton Gardens. At Hamilton Garden we had a competition between all colour groups we were in. We had to find 25 particular things in the gardens. We came first and got chocolate bars. I also had some successes at camp as well. I could ski down Happy Valley very well and confidently. My ski instructor Rory was very funny. I went on the chairlifts and saw some spectacular view of the mountains. Going on the magic carpet (travellator) was cool. I didn't like it when the chairlift and magic carpet stopped in the middle. I nearly fell over on the magic carpet, but when the chairlift stopped at the highest point it was super scary because it would swing around. I thought I was going to fall off. My first tobogganing experience didn't go so good. I bumped someone off their tobogganing and crashed into a icy snow wall. I don't think I'm ever going on it ever again. Me and friend Dora also learnt the Universal Alphabet from our bus driver Royal. We can say it off by heart now. On the bus we even made some of our own alphabets. That was super fun. We stayed at The Park Hotel at National Park. In my room I had my friends Dora and Hilary. Dinner was very yummy. My favourite was the beef lasagne and brownies. They were so good. The trip to every stop we went to was quite a long bus ride but it didn't matter to me because that meant me and my friends could talk for longer.

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Ako Hiko student led toolkits

Hi everyone!

Today a group of people from Te Waka Ako went to New Windsor School to do some student led toolkits.

I learnt how to Powtoon and I also did Prodigy. They were both really fun fun to make and play. I also did the problem solving challenge with my friends and we won the most creative for our structure. The structure had to be at least 10cm tall and could hold a cup containing 100 grams of weight. Some people were lucky enough to teach others to do things and play with robots. After the event we went on to the Ako Hiko website to leave a reflection. We had to records ourselves answering the questions. We also took selfies to go with it, some were super crazy. Here are some photos of the event. 

I think Powtoon is great for presenting information. It is just like google slides but more fun to make. The most enjoyable part of the day was the problem solving challenge.


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Suffixes

Hi  everyone it's Joyce here with another blog post.

This week when Literacy Tumble I made a poster about suffixes. Have a look.

I enjoyed making the poster because I like to change the colours of a lot of things to make it all pretty. Making the poster wasn't challenging because I already knew all of this stuff. 

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Procedure writing

Hi blog world it's Joyce here again. In writing this week we did some procedure writing. We discussed what features a procedure needs and the structure it has. I decided to do a procedure about how to make Chinese dumplings from scratch. My writing is below.👇

WALT Create a Procedure             

Success Criteria I will include:

• A clear title
• Ingredient list
• Equipment ist
• Strong verbs
• Specific nouns

How to make Chinese Dumplings from scratch

Ingredients for filling:

Pork mince

Chives

Oyster Sauce

Soy sauce

Salt

Or

Ingredients you would like

Ingredients for dough:

Flour

Water

A lot of energy/power/muscle

Equipments needed:

Frying pan or Sauce pan

Kettle

Really big bowl

Chopping board

Drainer

Draining spoon

Spoon or chopsticks

Bowl

Instructions for filling:

Step one

Drain and wash the pork mince through the drainer until it doesn’t have too much blood and whitish pink.

Step two

Chop up the chives or whatever you choose into small pieces.

Step three

Mix the pork mince and chopped up vegetables and mix thoroughly.

Step four

Sprinkle two pinches of salt over the mince.

Step Five

Splash over some soy sauce over the filling mixture.

Step Six

Pour in a lot of oyster sauce. (2 cups for about 1kg.)

Step Seven

Stir the filling mixture well until everything is combined. (You can add more flavouring if needed.)

Instructions for dough:

Step One

Pour some flour into a really big bowl. There are no exact measurements for this you really just need to eyeball it.

Step Two

Spill in some warm water into the flour and mix.

Step Three

Mix well and when it becomes a dough-like consistency you should now decide if the dough is too sticky or too dry. If too sticky add some more flour, if too dry add a bit more water. Because we are making dough for dumplings make sure it isn’t too soft. Once you are happy with the consistency of the dough wrap some glad wrap around the dough and leave it for about 30 mins. After 30 mins the dough is ready to use. When you take the dough out of the glad wrap you might notice that it becomes a bit more sticky so add a bit more flour and mix in the dough.

Now just make the dumplings!

When finished making the dumplings either fry them or bring to a simmer in a boiler.

If you choose to fry them place the dumplings in the fry pan and add a bowl of water to that.

If you choose to boil them make some hot water and pour it  into the saucepan and once it is boiling in the pan put the dumplings in the hot water. Bring them to a simmer and use a draining spoon and scoop them out onto a plate.

Both ways for better taste dip them in some dumpling sauce or vinegar.

Writing the procedure was really fun and quite easy because I've made it lots of times and know it off by heart. I was basically just using my prior knowledge. I really enjoyed writing this. Also feel free to try the recipe I wrote.

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Smart Choices Comic Strip

Hi Blog world, today my blog post is about always being cybersmart online.

For inquiry this term we had to make a comic strip about being cybersafe online. Being cybersafe around emails is really important and you should always be cybersmart when online. Take a look at the comic strip that I made with my friends.

Making the comic strip was really fun when we got take the pictures. Please go and check out my friends blog @http://wpsdoras.blogspot.co.nz/ @http://wpshilaryg.blogspot.co.nz/

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Sustainability Inforgraphic

Hi blog world, it's Joyce here again.

This term we are learning about being green. In reading we had a look at sustainability. We made an infographic about it. Infographics is presenting information in a fun way. You can read any part you like whenever. You don't need to follow the way it goes. Have a look at my infographic.

Making the infographic was really fun. I liked when we could add icons on the google drawing. 

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Thinking hats

👩Hi blog world it's Joyce here again. 👩

We had to write our thoughts about the new building called 'Te Waka Ako'. We wrote them down in our thinking hats. Have a look.

I thought the work was quite easy and I really enjoy learning in the new classrooms. 

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Maori Seasons

👧Hi again bloggers, it's Joyce here.👧

In class for Maori we had to make a google drawing about them. In the drawing there is a screencastify of me saying the Maori seasons.

I thought it was quite easy and fun to make. 

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Skateboarding Poem

👧Hi peeps, it's Joyce.👧

Every Wednesday we have a skateboarding session. We had to write a piece of writing about it. I decided to write an acrostic poem. Have a look below.👇

Skating from one side to the other

Knee pads for protection🐢

Aiming to go in a straight line

Tumbling from side to side

Elbow pads for extra protection

Blue, pink, white coloured penny boards

Over the lava we go!😈🔥

Aren’t we the best worst skateboarders?😎

Roaming the courts

Dying of fear (so true)🔪💣

In coming skateboard!

Nerve wracking first try

Give way, I’m coming through!

I thought that writing the poem was really fun.

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Caesar The Anzac Dog

In celebration of Anzac Day we read a story about Caesar The Anzac Dog. I made a slideshow about the book.



The book was super interesting and the slideshow was quite easy.

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The Tooth

Hi bloggers, in Term 1 we read this book called The Tooth. Here is a slideshow I made about the book.


I thought the work was quite easy but finding the information about somethings were a little hard.
My favourite part was when they found the tooth in the canyon. My least favourite part was when Sam Mason found the tooth before them. Luckily it was a fake and was just a horse tooth and some concrete.

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Fata Feu'u inspired art

In Term 1 we made these pieces of artwork. We were inspired by Fata Feu'u work. We had to plan two piece in our art books and then we could move on to the good copy. We used paint to colour our patterns. We made a doc about it which is down below.👇

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The art was super fun to create but was a little tricky at times because you want to have the cleanest edges possible and have lots of coats for each colour. Overall I think I did pretty well.

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Trench Diary

Hi everyone, in Term 1 we pretended we were soldiers writing in our diaries during the war. It needed to include our five senses that are see, hear, taste, smell, feel and also write about what we think and feel.

WALT describe using our senses

	I can see some dead bodies on the battlefields and barb wires everywhere. There are a few rats crawling around the trench looking for food to eat. Most of the soldiers are still alive like me but unfortunately some have been shot when putting their head up to aim at the enemies. Everyone is quite dirty.
	I hear the loud banging sounds made from the horrible bombs and guns. The terribly loud sounds have made a few soldiers have shell shock. I can also hear the occasional moaning made by the soldiers. They say stuff like “Why am I even here”, “I miss home” etc.
	I can still taste the disgusting meals we had before with corn beef etc and this very hard and dry biscuit. I can also kind of taste the dusty air in the dry mouth which doesn’t help the tiniest bit. I am still very hungry not like at home we could eat whenever we were starving. We are very short on food as well.
	I can smell stinky soldiers (especially the feet) and the bad breath everyone has because there is nowhere to brush your teeth. The air smells smoky and dirty.The toilet (long drop) is not a very good journey and experience because it stinks and is very dirty.
	It rained yesterday I can feel the the water in the shoes making my socks all wet. If you stay in the water for too long you can get a disease called trench foot which I do not want to get.
	I am kind of scared and nervous at this rate because I don’t want to never see my family again. I also feel very sad because one of my mates have died by a bomb. There is just so many things I want to tell you but I can’t my hands are just too shaky and doesn’t let me write too much. I feel very tired I didn’t get too much sleep.
	I think the war is terrible. Why do we even have it? Well wish me good luck for the next few months of fighting. Bye. Miss you guys.

It was really fun to imagine how life was during the war. It was a little hard because we're living in such a high tech world now.

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