Pizza Night

On the 8th of October I celebrated my 12th birthday. To celebrate we made pizza for dinner and we got to choose what we had on our pizza and I got to invite two of my friends over.  My favorite kind of pizza is margherita. After dinner we had some of the birthday cake that my sister had made and decorated for desert. Then we watched “The Lion King”.

I really enjoyed making the pizza because we could put whatever we wanted on our pizza but making the dough was really hard because you have to knead  it for a really long time. Have you ever made home made pizza before?

I am Hope!

A few weeks ago we participated in a Treasure Hunt at Paihia School, to fundraise for the I Am Hope foundation which helps kiwi kids who have mental health problems by providing  free counselling and support when they need it. We all had to bring a gold coin if we wanted to do the Treasure Hunt. Also instead of finding prizes around the school the principal hid little pictures of gumboots. There were numbers on the back of the pictures of gumboots that represented a prize we would get. We had as much time as we needed to find all of the pictures of gumboots. Also a rule was when we found one of the gumboots we had to take is to the principal so she knew who to give the prize to at the end. When all of the prizes were found the principal called our name if we got a prize. I found two of the gumboots, my two prizes were eskimo pies. Over all the Treasure Hunt was really fun. Have you ever done a Treasure Hunt?

Going to Extraordinary Lengths

This week  in Te Ngahere we have been learning about prime numbers. The purpose of my blog post is to teach people about prime numbers. A prime number is a number that can only be divided by one and itself, e.g - 7, you can only divide seven by one and seven (itself) that means that is is a prime number. For our maths activity we had to find all of the prime numbers to 100. After we found out all of the prime numbers we then had to make a DLO based on how we solved our problem. At first figuring out the prime numbers were easy but as the numbers got bigger finding the prime numbers got a bit harder. This is my DLO. Did you learn anything from my blog post?

Important information that you should know, if you own a chromebook

This Term  in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the Kawa of Care. The purpose of my blog post is to teach people about the Kawa of care. The Kawa of care  is is a contract that we need to follow in order to keep our chromebooks safe. For the Kawa of care we had to make a DLO to show the rules you need to follow, e.g - never have food or drink near your chromebook. Then we need to screencastify our DLO. This is my DLO. I didn’t learn very much because I have done the Kawa of Care before, so I already do every thing to keep my chromebook safe. Do you have a chromebook, if so do you follow the Kawa of care?

Comedy

This week inTe Nga Here we have been making movies for the short film festival. Our movie is a remake of Back to the Future. When we started to make our movie we had to make a plan for what our movie was going to be about. First the teacher told us to do was tuse what type of film we are going to make. Our movie is comedy and fantasy. After we chose our film type we needed to write the script. We also had to make a list of props we are going to use in our movie.  Then we decided where we were going to film the movie - Location, we are going to film our movie on the field and in the school Whare. After that we thought of what sounds we are going to use in our film and wrote them down. Finally we wrote the title and credits.

Writing the script was challenging because we  had to decide what the characters in the movie where going to say. Deciding what type of film our film was going to be was easy. Have you ever made a short film for the film festival ?

Wonder project

This term in Te Ngahere our teachers have organised two engineers to come to our school and teach us about rockets and jobs that you can have to make/test rockets, over the next 8 weeks. This week they introduced themselves to us and told us about what their jobs are.  Troy is a civil engineer, Civil engineers design major transportation projects and supervise them. At the moment he is working on ways to transport stormwater so the towns don’t flood.  Gustavo is a Pomologists,  a Pomologist is someone that works with fruit. Right now he is creating more varieties of kiwifruit. Gustavo and his fellow Pomologists created the red kiwi fruit. When Gustavo told us how different Kinds kiwifruit where made it  was really interesting and very complicated. I had no idea how 

complicated  making different kinds of kiwifruit was.

Did you know that there is such a thing as a red kiwi fruit?

A&P Show

In Te Maunga we made some things for pet day.  My class decorated novelty containers with flowers,
We decorated vaseline saucers and three biscuits each. We made digital posters to advertise The Bay Of
Islands A&P show.

After we had finished our work we went outside and one of the teacher aides came into judge our work.
The people who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd got their work taken to the A&P show.

Our teacher also sent some of our other artwork that we have done during  the year. She entered my
collage. It came first at the A&I show and I won $3!!