Question of the Week

Is It better to be a kid or a grown up?
I think it's better to be a kid because when your a kid you will grow up to be a grown up, but in the mean time you can just have fun, and enjoy not paying bills.

HP Cross Country

Yesterday I had my last HP Cross Country. It was terribly cool and wet and so our idea of “🔥keeping warm🔥” was huddling up on the big blue tarp hiding behind a three small umbrellas with two blanket covering our freezing cold body's. The day went pretty quick up until my Race. They had  to move the race alone quicker because like I said ☁IT WAS FREEZING!!! ☁The announcer's voice became louder as we were about to race. “Ready , SET, GO!!!

We ran down the slippery steep muddy hill, I was heading right towards an electric fence at the bottom of the mudslide and the only way to stop myself was… “Plonk”  

I landed in a mud pit just as I was going to crash into the fence. I look down at myself and see that the mud had crawled it’s was up to my knees and was oozing it’s was into my shoes and in between my toes. I carry on running up the BIG STEEP HILL, “DON DON DON!” It was much bigger than the killer hill at South Farms. The rest of the was just like a 🌺peaceful jog🌺, I noticed so many thing. I could hear the 🐦birds chirping🐦 to the cold, the whistle from the ☁wind ☁and how many patches of mud I stepped in, 7 to be exact.

I was almost at the 🏁 finish line 🏁 going at a steady pace I could hear others saying “ Who's going to win, I think it's this person, no it this one.”I  tie with someone else. At the end of the 🏁 race 🏁 a photo was waiting to be taken along with some other friends. Well I’m 😊glad 😊that's over.

Daffodil Day

Today I was a 🎂Chef🎂. We got to dress up as what we wanted to be when we grew up. The reason we got to dress up as what we wanted to be when we grew up was because it was 🌼daffodil day🌼. The events team wanted to try something new and different to raise money for the cancer society. 🌼Daffodil day🌼 is a day to raise money to help support people that have been affected in some way by cancer.

The money is then given to the lions gate cancer society and put into helping people with treatment and it gives them 3 meals a day and a place to stay all for free because some people are in a situation where they can't pay for all this. And so that why we donate gold coins on 🌼daffodil day🌼. 

Cross Country

Yesterday we went to South farms for cross country and it was my last cross country at ngatea primary. I signed up to run with the little kids to help them with their first race. At first all of the kids had so much energy but after 5 minutes the all got tired and started to walk, so me and the others who were running with the younger kids encouraged them to carry on and give it their best. It was almost at the end of the race when I had two kids by my side holding my hands and running to finish the race. The kids were so puffed and tired but for me it was just like talking big steps while they take tiny fast steps.

It was a little while later when my race came but I was ready, but when we came to start a bundle of butterflies gathered in the pit of my stomach. “Ready set go” We where off and running up the mud hill which wasn't so muddy like last year. Already I was puffed but I didn't stop running until we got up KILLER HILL, don don don. My feet were so cold that I couldn’t feel them, which was a good thing  because I could run on the stones while everyone else was trailing behind each other on the small strip of grass. I came to the stream and it was FREEZING.

After that was a giant puddle of icky sticky mud, it oozes through my toes as I almost slip over.I run up the hill to the finish line, but wait someone is creeping behind me and was almost about to pass me. At the last couple of seconds I sprint to the end of the finish line and it was finally over. I just made it into Hauraki plains because I came 10th. It was a fun and exhausting last cross country at NPS.

Global Warming GE Ignition

Today we had another session about our inquiry. We went off into our groups and started brainstorming ideas,I was in Global warming and how we can reduce it. These are some questions about our inquiry.

• What is it I hope I will come to understand more deeply through this inquiry?

I hope to know more and understand what actually is causing global warming and how I can help.

• What knowledge might I need to help move towards this understanding?

I would need to know when it started, what are the main causes of it, what else global warming effects and can we actually help.

• What is it I hope to be able to do more competently?

I hope to do more team work and discuss things more with my team rather than doing it alone.

• What learning powers will this inquiry help me practice and develop further?

Resilience -  When were at the bottom of the pit and we can't think, keep moving forward because it might lead us onto another track. Connecting- Working with our team and discussing ideas. Curiosity- This hole thing was based on curiosity so we are already doing a lot of this.

Book Bash

✈Paper Planes ✈

💮Date: 16/08/16

💮Pages: chapter 7-9

💮Task: discussion director

💮 Words:

1. When Jarko was telling his story when he was in the trench, he said that he stayed still when the enemy came. What would you do if you were in that situation?
2. When jarko asked for the two rabbits what do you think he wanted them for?
3. When you first read this why did you think Tata was furious about the painted egg shells?
4. Why do you think Mama and Tata were being really quiet when Jarko Left to fight again?
5. Do you think that this will ever happen to us? Do you think there will be war here?

All Most Summer

The frost covers the ground,

In the morning there is not a sound,

Jack frost nipping at your toes,

Watching the ice melt as it goes,

A bright beam screams through the sky,

And letting the warmth in as it starts to fly,

The sun gleaming through the air,

Beautiful trees standing tall and fair,

The hot air runs past my face,

The birds fluttering at a steady pace,

Water drops glisten beneath a ray of light,

Butterflies get ready to take flight,

The bees come out to play,

As they hover to flowers as they may,

The sun starts to go down,

Darkness comes and the world starts to frown,   

Today was a beautiful day,

I can wait for tomorrow to go outside and play.

Hockey tournament

On Saturday I had to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to go to a hockey tournament in North Harbor. The ride felt like forever but we got there. (Eventually) We started off with a light training before the game against Auckland. I was all pumped up and ready to go but a hockey ball smashed into my knee. It hurt for 2 minutes once I put the Ice on it, but after that it felt OK.

Once the whistle went the ball never really came to where I was standing, in the second half the ball came towards me a lot more and the other team managed to get 4 goals and I ended up stopping 11 goals. Overall it was a great game even though we lost, we felt pretty accomplished because Auckland is a hard team and we learnt lots from that game.

The second game was at 4:45 and we played Waikato. This game was a little bit messy because we got called out for a lot of PCs. I stopped only 1 goal and over all and the score 2-1 to Waikato.

The next day we didn't have to wake up quite as late but I was still really tired. When we got to the hockey club we all sat down and watched the women's Hockey Olympics. We didn't want to stop watching but we had training.  The third game was relay intense because if we didn't win this game we'd have to go home. The ball was so close to getting in the goal but it rebounded of the post. I was so relived. In the end of that game we WON. The score was two nil to us and we played against Counties,  and I stopped 9 goals.

We had  our last game against North Harbor. We were playing on their turf so we wanted to play a good game. In that game there were a few PCs but all in all it was a good game. They won 3 nil, they played really well so they deserved it. It was a great and fun weekend of hockey and I can't wait for more to come.

Book Bash

✈Paper Planes ✈

💮Date: 09/08/16

💮Pages: chapter 5-7

💮Task: Quote to charter

💮 Words:

1. I chose this quote because even though they’re in war they still need to make the most out of that time, and focus on the little things, like when Niko was thinking about all the good times they had before the war.

2.I chose this quote because I think Niko needs to tell someone what happened with the brothers, because if something like that happens you need to tell someone otherwise it will change you.   

3. I chose this quote because everyone that is in the middle of this war can’t do anything and it’s driving people insane.

Curiosity

Today we where exploring our curiosity. We had some objects and books and a lot more placed  around the room, then we where given posted notes to write about any questions that we had about those object or  those object could have sparked questions in our heads.
We wrote them down and placed them on the table. We then had to write our two most interesting question that we wrote done on the tables and dived our self into groups. I was in the group interested about space. I had a couple of question off the top of my head and they where...
1. " How did people know that there was something other that earth?" 2. "Why are planets round why can't the be triangle?" There was one that I though was relay cool that someone else did, it was... " Because of gravity we don't drift off of earth, but we are on the bottom of earth so why don't we fall off?" I thought that one relay cool. And that is what we did today.

Current Events

Lost Orca 

An Orca calf has been separated from it's family after carelessly swimming off  into the Tauranga Habour. Because young Orcas need their pods to get food and keep them out of danger the Orca calf that has been stayed from the pod might not have long if it don't find it's pod soon. It has been lost for two weeks now but the Department of Conservation has put out a search party  for this young Orca.
I hope they find it soon. :(

My Book Bash Prediction

✈Paper Planes ✈

💮Date: 02/08/16

💮Pages: Read Chapter 1-2-3-4

💮Task: Predict what will happen next

💮 Words: I predict that the paper plane that was flown is a way that someone is is trying communicate with others, and then whoever is flying the paper planes end up sending messages after every bomb or shooting to see if people are ok.

I also think Niko and the person that threw the paper plane end up becoming friends but getting to know each other by writing things about them on the paper planes. Then I think that the person stops sending paper planes and Niko gets suspicious and goes out to find him but I think that he’s dead.