The Summer Learning Journey

Last week Taylor from the Summer Learning Journey came to our school to tell us about how the Summer Learning Journey can help us stay at the expected level of education during the summer holidays. The  Summer Learning Journey helps you catch up with your reading and writing and then you post about it on your blog. They have done a survey on all the people that have done the Summer Learning Journey and the results where all the people who did the summer Learning Journey stayed at the expected level of education for their year and the people how did not do the summer Learning Journey went down the summer slide. The summer slide is when you haven’t been practising you reading and writing as much as you do in school and your reading and writing levels drop during the holidays.  You also get to look at other peoples work on their blogs and comment on them. When you comment and post on your blog you get points. At the end of the holidays all of your points gets added up and whoever has the most points wins a cool prize. Did you know that it takes three month for you to get back to the level you where at at the begging of the holidays? Have you ever participated in the Summer Learning Journey?

Tessellations

In Te Ngahere we have been creating tessellations.
First the teacher gave us some mathematical words related to the
math we were doing. We had to find the meaning behind tesselating,
translation, rotation, reflection and symmetry.  A Tessellation is an
arrangement of one or more shapes that are fitted together without
any gaps. After that we made a shape on our computer that could
be tessellated. After we decided to create a tessellation using quadrilaterals.
The shape that I decided to use looked almost the same as  a Nike Tick,
when I had rotated the shape to line up to the rest of the other shapes
so there were no gaps showing. This is the DLO I have created about
Tessellations with Nevaeh.

Ki - o - rahi

Kia ora everyone, last week  on the 30th of October there was Ki-o-rahi tournament at Simpson Park. It was great. We traveled from Paihia School  to Simpson Park in Morewa. I went with Whaea Becks in the school van with 9 other students. I was  a little nervous because we didn’t have many practises. Our first game we lost 21 : 1 I think we lost because we were playing a year 7 and 8 team. I think we did good in our first game. The  second game we played we won 10-1. I was very happy. The third game we lost but I can’t remember the score. Next time we need to spread out evenly around the feld. When we had breaks in between the games we went to go and  watch the year 7 and 8’s. The year 7 and 8’s were amazing. Our team didn’t make it into the semi finals but the year 7 and 8 team did. The year 7 and 8 team lost the semi finals but they tried their best and did great. Have you ever played Ki-o-rahi?

Swim Safe

Last Week Tracy from swim safe came to Paihia School to explain to us about boat safety and swim safety. She told us about the important equipment to have on a boat. We learned that there are five rules that keep you safe on a boat, and five rules to keep you safe at the beach. Next time when my family goes out on a boat I am going to remind them to where their life jacket.

Rugby World Cup

In the past week we have been learning about the rugby world cup. First we had to find out which 20 countries are competing. Then we needed to find out what each country's rugby team nickname is. Afterwards we had to find out what their emblem was and find a picture of it. My favourite nickname is the “Brave Blossoms” from Japan. What is yours?

COUNTRY	TEAM NAME	EMBLEM
Japan	The Brave Blossoms	Sakura
Ireland	Shamrocks	Shamrocks
Scotland	Thistles	Thistle
Samoa	Manu Samoa	Southern cross
Russia	The Bears	Russian bear
New Zealand	The All blacks	Silver fern hihihi
South Africa	Sprinbokks	Springbok
Italy	Gli Azzurri	Badge with national colours
Namibia	Welwitschias	Fish eagle
Canada	Canucks	Maple leaf
England	Red and whites	Rose
France	The Blues	Gallic rooster
Argentina	Los Pumas	Puma
Tonga	Sea Eagles	White dove
USA	The Eagles	Amarinan  bald eagle
Wales	Dragons	Prince of Wales's feathers
Australia	The Wallabies	Wallaby
Fiji	The Flying Fijians	Palm tree
Georgia	The Lelos	Borjgali
Uruguay	Los Teros	Southern lapwing

Paper Tower

In Te Ngahere on the first day back at School we did a Steam challenge.
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and 
Mathematics. We were learning to collaborate and work well with our

learning peers. We were also learning how to problem solve and use
limited material to build A tower.  We had to made a tower made out of
only, 2 sheets of newspaper and 30 cm of tape and we could not use
scissors to cut the tape and newspaper. We also only got twenty minutes
to plan and make the tower. When we got in to our groups we made a
plan. Our plan was to make our tower so it looked like a space telescope. 
We built our tower like this because we thought that it would make it as tall
as possible and it would make it very steady. Making a plan for the tower
was hard but building the tower was easy. After we built our tower we had
to bring it to the front of the class and balance it and then the teacher
measured our them. If the  tower fell over it did not count. Our tower was
1 m and 8cm tall !! Next time we make a tower out of newspaper we will
put things on the side of the tower to help keep it up.

I found that  having a big base on our tower worked well and  what did not
work well was having nothing to help hold up the tower. I worked well with
my group. I also worked well and hard on the tower.

I got my tower image from  the teachers when they took photos of us with
our towers. Have you ever had a Steam challenge ?

Cross Country

Last week in Te Ngahere we have been training for Cross Country. We had to run around our school two times. We did this every day and the teachers had a stopwatch, when we finished two laps the teacher told us how long we took. This week we have to run three laps around the school. My first time was 6:16 min, my second time was 5:27 min and my third time was 5:18.  Next week we have to run 5 laps I think that I will take 8-9 minutes.