Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

❤ Hello, I have another blog for you and this week it's about STEM week and you're probably wondering what stem week is. Well it stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, in this blog I am going to be sharing what we did. 

On Friday the Middle school and Senior school came together and did Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits which is basically where you go and make a google slide and you pick one educational game or site and then we have a little description and the instructions for what that game or site that it is.

The first toolkit that I went to was Brain Box and Brain Box is basically just this little kit that has a bunch of cool gadgets and part that makes a lot of cool things like Propellers, Fans, working light bulbs and even your own radio and much more but those are some of things I made. It was so fun.

My second activity was Music Lab that was really fun as well. All you do is find the address bar on your device and write Music Lab in and guess what it's completely free. So then you can just click on one of the items that you want to make music on and then go for it make your music. And last but not least it was Book Creator. I think it was the most fun toolkit out of all of them because you got to create your own book. It was amazing. Book Creator and also another online thing that will get your mind and your creativity to the next level. Again like Music Lab all you have to is type in Book Creator in your search bar and then it should come up saying the Creator and that first link you click on you're there and then there are heaps of cool gadgets and stuff that you can fiddle with and try .

After that really cool experience for the three Toolkits I'm feeling really glad and happy and I would like to do this again one year.

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

Hey bloggers 

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!

Picasso Self-portrait Art

 Hello bloggers,

 Last week we did started a Picasso self portrait and this week I got it finished so, I'm going to tell you all the steps on how to make one yourself.

For this you need paper, colouring pencils and pen or a pencil. 

Well first we watch the video on how to do it. And in that video they showed us that you just had to do the outline and then at the end they coloured it but colouring is the best part of the whole pictures so you can colour at however you would like it. Once we had finished the outline then you had to show the teacher and if she/he said it was good then you could start colouring, but you can't leave any white in between the colouring cause it has to be bright like actual Picasso portrait. Mine came out really great and bright. I did geometric shapes but you can do any other shapes you want you can do zigzags, circles, waves or even little images. I really like mine but if I could change one thing it would have probably be the vivid that we had to go around the shapes with but after the colouring you had to show your teacher you're finished thing and then she/he would let you know if you could do the vidvid or not. Pretty much the vivid you were finished. 

See you next time bloggers. 😄

Video tutorial

 

Lockdown 4

So bored of being at home 

Hey bloggers,

In the previous lockdown that we had we took our chrome books home and had some tasks to do like art, maths, slideshows, writing and some other fun things, and now I'm going to tell you all about it. In the lockdown I did a task called the lockdown slide diary and I manged to finsh it befor I came back to school. In the slideshow we're tasks that we had to do like take walks and watch movies and then after all that setting from watching the movie we had to do some exercise outside but on that day it was raining so I just did some exercise inside. 20 lunges, 5 laps around the house, 40 star jumps and 15 push-ups, after all of the exercise I was sweating so much so then after that I had a freezing cold shower. After all of that I felt really relieved that it done my work for the week but then also I can't super annoyed with my sister because I couldn't get away from her because I was stuck at home for a hole week. I think my favourite school activity though was the art that we got to do for extras. My favourite family activity was watching the movie Trolls with my family. I feel very excited and happy to be back at school because I can play with my friends and see my teacher again.

Later bloggers