Year 5 day

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Yesterday we had a day where it was only year 5's in Te Waka Ako and Miss McGrath was our teacher. We got to do lots of fun things like Fortune tellers, and Wellbeing activities. At the end of term one, we did a Wellbeing survey on our Chromebook about if you have been bullied. In this blog I am going to show and tell you some things that we did and how to make a Fortune Teller. 

First we did a little bit of talking about the Wellbeing survey, mostly questions from the survey and some of the answers that were clear and easy to understand. Some of the questions included "Have you been bullied in school by students, staff or peers?". Some people on the server said that they have been bullied but when they went into the office to talk about it, they said that they did get teased or bullied but didn't feel like it was done in a mean way. People who said that, I don't think that they really understood the concept on if you had been teased. If you get teased once then It's not kind, if it happens 2 times then it's mean, but if it happens 3 or more times then it's bullying.

Once we had done that, we did a bit of exercise to warm up. After that we walked 

around Hauraki and Waitemata, Miss Mcgrath turned on music and then we started walking around. If she stoped the music then we had to get to the nearest person and tell them something that were thankful or grateful for. We had lots of fun. Once we had done that we moved on to the Fortune tellers. Here is a photo and a video of how to make a fortune teller. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhiIlTxUYA

Siloet Art

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These couple past weeks we have been dong silhoeuette art, and great news I got my finshed mine yesterday! It took like maybe 6 - 7 days to get it finished but it's worth it in the end because it looks so nice, neat and tidy. My shape was a ballerina with it's hands curving in.

These are the steps to doing it.

1.First of all you have to have a planning space and then you can make up some movements to draw.

2.Then once you've made your movement and you're happy with it you can grab a big piece of paper and stencil that movement on a window.

3.So when you're happy whether you can grab a black marker or a vivid and colour in the stencil/movement.

4. Once you've done that you can get your pencil again and make a bunch of lines around the thing.

5. Once you're happy with your lines then you can basically get any colouring pencils or pens and colour in the lines and heat tranferring colours (from hot to cold). Then your basically done. Later Bloggers👋😙

Swimming Leasons

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In Waitemata we have been doing swimming leasons with our teacher, Miss Daly. We do the swimming in our school pool. Whenever we get fun challenges or we get free time in the pool I always so excited because my friends are all in my class this year. Having swimming lesons in the pool is very fun and it helps me to swim better because I am not very good at swimming especially when we have to go under the water for about 5 seconds. One of the things that we did was did was play captins coming. So how you play is 

• Scrub the decks: crew members get on their hands and knees and pretend to scrub the deck.
• Man overboard: crew members find a partner, hold hands and pretend to row a boat.
• Climb the rigging: crew members pretend to climb a rope ladder.
• Captain’s coming: crew members salute and say "aye aye captain".
• Shark attack: crew members must not touch the ground. At the beach you could stand on a towel.
• Hit the deck: crew members lay face down on the floor.
• Captain's wife: crew members curtsey.
• Four corners: there are four corners of the ship: back, front, left and right. Use something to mark each corner. When the captain yells out a corner all crew members must run to it. Goodbye Bloggers ✋
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Under the wires

Hi Bloggers, on the 14th of April we had a under the wires day. So basically I wasn't even aware of this. All the teachers were wearing black and they had green, orange and black face paint.

Firstly all the whole senior syndicate was in Manukau and we were all so exited because there were lots of wires all along Hauraki and Waitemata. We had to crawl through a called no mans land and then we had to crawl though lasers/strings to get our box and to find our space on the mat. When we had gotten everything sorted the teacher's gave out basic facts tests and they were under gunfire so it go me distracted but I wasn't that bad of a distraction I mean I got 53 right so it really actually wasn't that bad. 

After the basic facts test we had to do Anzac maths 

witch is basically where we decide to write down some times tables and we have to awnser them. Once again they put on gunfire but not for very long.

Afterwards we had done the basic facts test and the ANZAC maths we had fruit break and we did some exercise. For fruit we all had pears and for some exercise we didn't push ups and yoga and stretches

Once we head finished from fruit break and exercise we had wrote a letter from the trenches to our parents. and this is what mine said.

2 Arundel St      25th April 1915

Dear Whanau

A life in the trench is hard without you guys. I hope you have been staying safe. Everyday I have been in the trench for I’ve been thinking about you. Our only diet is Canned beans YUCK! but I guess that that's better than nothing. I’ve been shot in the arm but luckily my friends have taken care of me and cared and helped me heal. I miss you and I would love to come home but I have to do what I have to do which is also save you because they will want all the land and take it if we don’t defend.when we're underground in the trenches there are rats the size of cats. I miss you guys, love you 

Keep safe 

Sincerely yours Kiara

We had also done an Anzac poem (acrostic)

All the men are,

Rushing to the,

Mountains to

Yell to their team, Charge!