Jaeda

  the Summer Learning Journey started on Monday! This is week one and it is about to finish.  Week one is about how Maui created New Zealand with his magical hook. We had to find three fun facts about New Zealand on the  Tourism NZ website 1. The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland although its capital city is Wellington. 2. When in New Zealand, you must drive on the left side of the road. 3. 30% of the country is forest. Reflection: I think it was easy and fun because all we had to do was just look for 3 fun facts! And we also learn a lot .

This week Meghan came to visit Waikowhai Primary! She gave some some information about the Summer Learning Journey and how it works. She also explained what sort of prizes there are! Last year there was a tablet but this year there is a drone! We are doing a practise activity because some people have not tried the Summer Learning Journey and now they get to see how it works before the Summer Learning Journey actually happens. The practise activity we are doing is countries. We have to choose a country and we then write all the information and facts about the country that we chose.  Here is the different types of countries that we could choose from! Canada (North America), Mexico (Central America), Chile (South America), England (Europe), Germany (Europe), South Africa (Africa), United Arab Emirates (Middle East), Japan (Asia), Malaysia (South-East Asia), and Australia (Australasia). I chose Japan because I saw the pictures on the link and they looked so pretty and fu

 2 weeks the school had Athletics Day! Athletics is a day where all the students wear mufti, and there are heaps of activities for the whole school to do. But we cant just do the roll then start Athletics straight away! We have to line up in our age year and gender! For example im 10 years old and I have to line up with the 10/11 years old girls. Activities that were there on the day was high jump, long jump, fun relays, tennis, and I think there was a 100 meter run and much much more activities! But one sport that was my favourite was the high jump. Last year in high jump I think I came 2nd. And this year I came 4th place because there were heaps of good people in the year sixes. Something that was hard for me was tennis because it was really hard to hit the ball back to the other player ( and there were also some places that you couldn't go past.) Something that was easy for me was the runs. Because I came 1st when I was racing with the other year 6 girls. But when I was i

In class for inquiry we have been working on something for the bush (which is at our school).  We had to think of a problem that was in our bush. And I chose rubbish because we have a lot of rubbish in our bush. After we did our problem we did a game called crazy eights! It is a game where you get creative and we draw anything to save the bush. Not everybody chose rubbish some people chose birdhouses, stopping predators and more! But not only did we have to do that! We had to divide our page into eight squares then draw!  After that we got creative again, but with heaps of craft stuff. But some people chose tinker-cad, and I was one of the people who chose tinker-cad! Something that was hard for me was putting all the shapes in my box. Because I had to make some shapes small and some big. Something that was easy for me was making the big shapes because I could just place it where I wanted it to be placed because you can see it clearly. What I learned was the word prototype!  it m

The first day of term the teachers came up with a lot of tumbles for Te Waka Ako to finish by today! There were three tumbles! The reading tumble, maths tumble and the writing tumble. The reading tumble was when you got to choose what book you wanted to read then you had to do a slideshow about the book that you read. The maths tumble was the same thing as the reading tumble but we didn't read a book we just had to do maths work. And the writing tumble was when you did creative writing about a picture that the teachers put in. But I chose the writing tumble. I did not get all the pictures done but I did three and a half pictures. Something that was hard for me was when I looked at the last picture because I wanted to write if they were friends already or if they were enemy but I wrote them being enemies and then friends! Something that was easy for me was the rollercaoster ride one. Because the people looked like they were having heaps of fun but not the dad because he looked reall

In my writing group (called the Da Vinci) we had to create a story about a superhero! But we had to do heaps of planning before we had to write the actual story. First we had to think about a setting for the story ( the background ). I chose a house and a forest. I can't really remember the rest but I know that we had to draw our superhero on a piece of paper. Something that was hard for me was  thinking about what the problem was going to be, because I had SO many problems that I was going to write for my superhero. Something that was easy for me was thinking about my superhero's personality. Because I really like art and I want my character to really like drawing and doing art just like me!