Crack The Code Breakouts

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Digital Breakouts. I really enjoy doing breakouts because you have to find clues hiding around the site. You then have to solve the hints to get the answers. I thought that we did really well on our break out because we crack the code. I don’t think I need to get better at the break outs because I am already great at cracking codes.The teachers gave us a breakout and if we got out, we got a badge for our blog post. My friends and I got out and this is the badge we got: Have you ever done a digital breakout before?

How To Create A Quality Blog Post

In Te Ngahere we have been doing blog posting. When you are doing blog post you have to make sure that you follow the success criteria. The success criteria is something you have to follow to make your blog post the best it can be. You need a title for your post an introduction, DLO, Reflection, Sources and a Question those are the six things you need to create a quality blog post. A title is one of the things you need to have. A catchy title will want people to read your blog. Do you do blog post?

My Most Amazing Creativity To Share

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I went to Rangi Point to build my house with my dad and his friend. My dad just started his building apprenticeship. Our house is looking really good because we have finished the floor, walls and we just put the trusses up yesterday. I really enjoy building with my dad because it is really fun. Our house is a 2 hour drive from my house but I don’t care because we always get a pie on the way. Has your family built a house before?

Interesting T-Ball With Whaea Casey

At Paihia School in Te Ngahere Whaea Casey came in. Whaea Casey taught us how to play T-Ball which is really fun. T-Ball is a really interesting game because you have two teams one team is the batting team and the other team is the fielding team. The batting team only has one bat at a time, and when they hit the ball off of the T they have to run to a base before the fielding team hit the base with the ball. The fielding team has to throw the ball and get it back to one of the bases to stop the batters from getting a home run. A home run is when the batter runs to all bases with out getting out and once they get to the last base they get a home run. The team with the most home runs wins. After all of the people in the batting team has a bat they then swap over and the fielding team becomes the batting team. Have you ever played T-Ball before?

Fun Amazing Mahi Toi

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Mahi Toi, mahi Toi is maori for art. I really enjoy doing Mahi Toi because you get to draw, blend and shade colors. I think that I am doing really well because I did good shading and blending. I also think that I need to practise drawing continuous lines. Continuous line are lines that you carry on drawing instead of drawing little lines one after another. Have you done art like this before?

Amazing Interesting Cricket Day

In Te Ngahere at Paihia School a man named Neil came in. He taught us how to play cricket and how to hit the ball perfectly. We also played a game of speedball it was really fun. I think that Neil did a really good job to help us improve on the game. The skill that we learnt was how to hit the ball with the bat. I think that I did really well because I did hit the ball really far and high. I also think that I need to improve on my catching skill because I wasn’t that good at catching. When you pick up the bat you have to make to v’s with your hands and pick up the bat. When you catch the ball you have to make a basket looking thing with your hand to catch the ball.Have you ever played cricket before?

My Interesting Holiday Walk

In the past few weeks me and my family went on a two hour walk to a cabin in the middle of the bush. The walk was really hard because we had to carry so many things we also had to walk up and down steep hills and narrow paths. We also had to walk thought rivers. The walk was really really long it was two hours there and two hours back. We stayed at a cabin for one night and left early in the morning. Would you go on a four hour walk?

Interesting Mahi Toi Practise

At Paihia School in Te Ngahere we have been doing Mahi Toi. Our Mahi Toi is a piece of calendar art. I think that it is really fun but really hard at the same time. For Mahi Toi we have to draw over some lines, we also have to blend colors once we are finished with the drawing. We use coloring in pencils to blend the colors with. I think that I am doing really well at the moment. Do you enjoy doing art?

Interesting Pounamu Pendants Math

In Te Ngahere a group of students have been learning about percentages. We had to count all of the squares that create the background and divide it by 135 we then had to multiply it by 100 to get the percentages. Here is an example: if there were 67 full squares you will divide that by 135 witch is 0.49… then you times it by 100 to get the percentage and the percentage is 49 percent. Do you enjoy learning maths with your group?

Time To Make Rockets Boom

In Te Ngahere we have been launching our rockets. Yesterday on Wednesday Troy and Gustavo came in so that we could launch all of the groups rockets. Some of the groups rockets were still getting modified so they did not launch them. The group that got their rocket the longest got a big chocolate bar and the second and third got a little chocolate bar or a lollipop. The group that came first their rocket went 69.4 meters, and the second place rocket went 28.8 meters third place rocket went 22.4 meters. Have you created a bottle rocket before?

Sharing My Knowledge On Te Reo Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been learning Te Reo Maori. We were learning Te Reo Maori so that we can get better at pronouncing our Te reo Maori words. We had to create a slide DLO by adding sentences related to types of sports and phrases. At first I thought that it was really hard to write the correct sentences so that I did not say the words and phrases wrong. When we did all of the learning we then had to make a screencastify. Do you like Te Reo Maori?

How To Take Care Of A Chromebook

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to take care of our chromebooks so that it does not break by doing a Kawa Of Care DLO. I really enjoy learning about how to protect my chromebook by following the Kawa Of Care. You need to make sure that you do not eat or drink near your chromebook or do not walk around with your chromebook in one hand by the corner of the chromebook because it might fall and smash on the floor. Chromebooks are really helpful because it helps me type and help research things. Do you like to use a chromebook?

Most Difficult Treasure Hunt

At Paihia School our amazing principal set up a fun/ difficult treasure hunt. To enter the treasure hunt you had to bring two dollars. I thought that it was really fun even though I did not find any prizes but the main point of it is to have fun and raise money for the charity I am hope. Do you like doing treasure hunts? 

Time To Make Rockets Boom

In Te Ngahere we have started to create bottle rockets for our wonder project. I like making rockets because in the end your group get to make them go as high as they can. I thought that my group helped a lot with making the rocket I think that they did a great job. I thought that I did a great job to because I did the cutting. I had to cut the top of the coke bottle off to make the bottom of the rocket. Our next step is to put the fins on and then test the rocket. I really enjoy making bottle rockets. This is my rocket here so far.

Interesting Wonder Project

In Te Ngahere some people named Troy and Gestarvo came in so that we could learn about how rockets work. we have been learning about the Wonder Project. The Wonder Project is a rocket project, we were learning to build our own miniature rockets. For the first week we had to pick two career roles and write what we need to know to get the job. The two career roles I choose were designer and an engineer. Have you done the Wonder Project before?

Interesting Mosaic Art

In Te Ngahere we have been doing mosaic arts. For mosaic art you have to make a picture using shapes and you have to leave gaps in between the shapes. You also have to pick a picture of something. When I tried to do a mosaic art I didn’t understand how to do it and I thought that a mosaic art was a vertex art so I did a vertex art piece of Ronaldo. I did my art on a chromebook because it is easier to do it on a chromebook than using pencil and paper. Next time I need to do the art we are supposed to do. Have you done a Mosaic art before? Here is a photo of my Vertex art piece:

Amazing Fitness Activities

In Te Ngahere we are doing fitness and P.E to practise for cross country. For fitness we have to do sit ups, crab walk, planking, push ups and high knees. We also play games like Capture the Flag. I really enjoy doing fitness and playing games because I get more energetic. Fitness was not as fun as doing four way Capture the Flag because we had to do a lot of push ups and sit ups. Doing fitness helps me get better at my sports. Four way Capture the Flag is like playing normal Capture the Flag so how you play is you have to teams and the you have to try grab the other teams ball/flag  without them taking your ball/ flag and you have to take it to your side of the half.  Four way capture the flag is the same. Have you ever played four way capture the flag?

Interesting Basic Fact, Spelling and Division

In Te Ngahere we have been doing basic facts, division and spelling. In the past few weeks I have learnt my basic facts and division now I need to do 13 more spelling words and i’m done spelling. It is easier to do division when you know all of your basic facts. I thought that I did really good on my basic facts. I also thought that my buddy Rymon did really well because he is a good teacher for me. Do you know all of your spelling, division and basic facts ?

Interesting Assembly

At Paihia School on Friday we had an assembly. At our assembly we showed our pou pou art and did two Tik Toks. Our assembly was really funny because of the tik toks. I thought that I did not do that well while I was doing the Tik Tok dance because I was not looking at the audience I was looking at the floor. Here is a video of us doing the Tik Tok dances. Do you like Tik Tok?

My interesting Math Whizz

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Maths Whizz every week. I have been doing Maths Whizz really well lately. Three weeks ago I got to 12 progressions and one week after that I got zero progressions and on the third week I got four progressions. I am still working on this weeks progressions. Do you do Maths Whizz? Comment what your name is and we can be friends and have challenges. A progression is a level up and it shows that on a diamond shard. In Maths Whizz you have to answer maths questions. If you get 3 or 4 progression every week you go up a rank. A rank is a level up when you are level one to level 2 and it keeps going up.

Fantastic Color Art

In Te Ngahere we have been doing art, our art is about poupou. Poupou is the things that represent your ancestors or other people they are also the carvings on the sides of the whare or the meeting houses. I think that my poupou art is really amazing because I put a lot of effort into it. In our art we were only allowed to use warm and cool colors. Warm colors are colors that like they are warm colors like red, orange and yellow, cool colors are colors that are like the ocean blues and purples and other colors that look like cool colors. Do you like my poupou art?

My Amazing ART

Magesatical Angles DLO

 In Te Ngahere me and my buddy Kai created a DLO for finding angles. For angles it is easier to use a protractor because it has the right types of angles on it. There are 5 different types of angles. There is a right angle, obtuse angle, acute angle, reflect angle and a straight angle. I think that my buddy Kai did great with angles in the DLO because he helped a lot. I think that I did a lot of but I could write less words in our DLO. Do you think that we should write more or less in our DLO?

Maths Eyes Out And About

Today in Te Ngahere we have been using our maths eyes around the school. Our class had to be split into groups of three my group was Mark.S and Warren. Our task was to find as much things using our maths eyes my group and I found seven things using our maths eyes. What we found: 38 rectangles on the court 49 circles on the court 42 triangle on the goal post 28 blue poles on the big playground 38 gray poles on the big playground 40 chains on the big playground And 29 green pole on the big playground I think that my group did well because they helped me count how much poles and chains and they thought of the idea of counting the poles and chains. I think that I could do better by helping and finding more ideas for our hunt/ for our maths eyes. I hopw that you enjoyed my blog post.

Turning Fractions Into Pecentages

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about fractions and how to turn fractions into percentages and into decimals. What we had to do to turn a fraction into a decimal or a percentage is we had to times the denominator to whatever make 100 and then we had to times the numerator with how much we multiplied the denominator. Here is an example: 3/4 3x20=60 so the answer is 60% 5x20=100. I think that me and my group did really well on the screencastify. We should try and do a harder problem next time. Do you like my screen castify?
 This is our screencastify teaching other people how to turn a fraction into a percentage or a decimal. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QDkWbKdgc6Wd7wlRCHLMZSt9-y8ekFQ5/view

Sharing My Maths Eyes

Sharing my knowledge on my maths eyes
WALT identify maths in the world around us.
 What I noticed with my maths eyes on the gingerbread men was that they had different shades of skin tone on the gingerbread men. They also had different face styles and different hair styles. I also seen 3 rows with 4 gingerbread men and 4 row and 3 gingerbread men in. What can you learn from this? I can learn how to use my maths eyes. What did you try hard at today? I tried hard at trying to use my maths eyes on the gingerbread people. What do you see in this picture?


 

Mind Blowing Facts about Chromebooks

Kia ora I’m Dale and this blog post is about chromebook shortcuts. It will include all of the shortcuts on the chromebooks. We have been learning this in class. This post will make it easier for you to use your chromebook. I did really well on my presentation and I learnt a lot of things like how to duplicate things faster. It was hard trying to make the right arrows point at the right places on the slide. In the future I will use the shortcuts to make it easier for me. Is there anything I need to improve on my digital dig presentation?

Interesting Digital Dig

In Te Ngahere some of our students have been doing a digital dig.
A digital dig is where you go to do short cut for your Chromebook. The first thing we had to do was
make a copy of the doc and then we had to drag the arrows to
the keys in the right places. We were learning this because it is
easier to use and faster.

Link to my Digital Dig: Digital Dig

Technology

Last Wednesday all year 7 & 8’s went to Technology in Morewa. At Technology we were creating pewter jewelry. Pewter Jewelry is jewelry that you make with metal. You have to melt the metal on a hot flame in the pan. You then have to pour it between some wood to make the shape you are looking for. Put a hole through, tie a string through and knot it together. Then you are finished you are looking cool.

Technology

On Wednesday we went to technology at Moerewa School.
Technology is where us year 7 & 8’s go to do things like
woodwork and baking. Woodwork is where you go to learn about
how to use power tools and hand tools and you get to build things
out of wood. Baking is the class opposite woodwork and that is
where you got to learn how to bake things like cakes, cupcakes
and other things. At tech I created a necklace that looked like
maui’s hook but smaller. I can’t wait to go back to have more fun. 

Walk in the Bush

In Te Ngahere we have been trying to design our class to make it look like the bush so we went for a walk into the bush to get ideas for our class room. Once we got to the bush we had to scrub our shoes with the scupper so that we didn't bring any germs in to the bush that will kill all the plants and trees. In the bush we saw a lot of things like a river, trees, leaves, logs we even saw a tree growing on another tree so that we could get ideas for in class. We came back and started talking about it. I really wanted to go back into the bush to find more cool things.