Retreat

This week all the year 5 kids went to the year five retreat. We left school at 9:00 am and went to Saint Francis Retreat Centre. When we got there we went straight to the Fireplace Room. Where we learnt what we were going to do for the day. First, we got a leaf and we had to find a matching leaf. Then in groups, we did a treasure hunt but the twist was that we all had to hold onto some cloth for the entire hunt but my team won and we left Saint Francis retreat centre at 2:00.pm and I loved the retreat.                                                                                                                                                          

Graduation Mass

Yesterday in school we had Graduation mass. It was about 2&1/2 hours long. It was quite sad for me because so many of my friends are leaving this year 😭. The year sixes performed a dance it was really good. Afterwards, I went to the morning star and there I met Otis.T, Molly.F, Maggie and Liam we all shared each other's food we played some tag and then we parted ways. 

Sherbet!!

This week in school we did a sherbet experiment where we got to make sherbet but we had to eat straight baking soda first and it tasted like rotten fish. We also had to eat citric acid tartaric acid and icing sugar. My best sherbet combo was 1&1/2 teaspoon of TA 2&1/2 IS 1 CA and 1 BS. Some other people did straight icing sugar and straight baking soda😧. And that was the sherbet experiment.

persuasive

This week in school we did persuasive writing. Here is mine:

 Why The New Star Wars Movies Are Trash!

So Star Wars, you probably know about it. It is definitely the best sci-fi movie series ever. But here's my argument why the newer movies are trash.

Firstly Snoke the all-powerful and mysterious leader of the First Order. We know almost nothing about him he is the most mysterious character ever like, who is he? is he old? is he human? So do you think Snoke should be more mysterious or have more origin?

Secondly, the plot has holes like where did the first order get all there funding to make there ships and weapons like Star-killer base and why did the New Republic demilitarize.

 Lastly, every character is a copy of another character Rey= Luke, because Rey lives on a desert planet find a droid and saves the day. Poe = Leia, because Poe sends a droid with information to a desert planet and gets captured by the Sith. Finn=Han because he rescues Poe/Leia from the sith leaves the good guys comes back at the last second and helps save the day.

So in conclusion now you must hate the new Star Wars movies.

So you must like my work now.

Spud Guns

This week we made spud guns. Most of ours didn't work. But a couple of ours worked. The method that we used to make the spud guns was that we got a potato and lodged straws right into the potato and if we got some potato we used a bamboo stick to push all of the potato out and if we created enough tension we could push it out so hard i could create smoke but that didn't happen😭 and that was the spud gun experiment.

Dragon

For topic this week I did a concert ticket on Dragon. The reason I did it was that for passport we had to 200 hundred points. Dragon is an old New Zealand band that performed songs like Rain and April Sun in Cuba. Here is the ticket. 

Hope you like the look of it.

Cloud

On Friday the other travelwise leaders and I went to the Cloud. We went by taxi and got there at 9:15 a.m. When we got to the cloud the people who were running the event gave us morning tea, it included chips and a biscuit. After some guy did a speech we went on a scavenger hunt. Our team took so many pictures. It was lots of fun.

Bird Beak

This week in school we did a science experiment on bird beaks. It was so fun and we got to eat the lollies at the end.
We learned about the different bird beaks by using forceps to represent them. Then we had to find out which beak type was best for the different food types. The food groups were skittles for hard food, gummy worms for soft food and paper for leaves. My group consisted of Liam Tupou Ethan Nathaniel and Molly H. we got to eat the skittles and gummy worms and I loved that experiment.

Diorama

In class this week we created dioramas about a habitat of our choice. I did the river Nile. If you look at the picture above you will see my diorama. My class did it because we were learning about habitats. I enjoyed it because it was really fun making it. I hope you like the look of it. 

Author

Today an author visited our school his name was Raymond Huber. He has created books such as sting and wings they are both books about bees. He talked to us about his books and how he makes them.
I think he's really different to other authors I have meet and that's good.

Code Ransom Note

This week in code club we did a ransom note. We used trinket to create it using code. Here is mine.

Science

In science, we learned about animal adaptations and how it helps them survive in tough environments. Here is some example. Bears have heaps of fur to keep them warm and snakes have hard scaly skin to keep them from burning. Adaptions can vary from camouflage to claws. Adaptations are amazing!

Code club

In code club this week we created acoic out of code here is mine.

Phantom

In class we did book reviews mine was about the phantom of the auditorium. Here is mine.

Title: Phantom of the Auditorium

Author: R.L Stine

Text style: Horror

Plot: Zeke and Brooke are main characters in the play but some say it is cursed. Then one night they find a message saying the phantom strike again. Then on the night of the play someone plays Zeke's part and they find out its a phantom.



Fav Character: Phantom

Stars: 4.5

Did you like my book review i hope you did.

Mini BB fair

This week in school we had a mini fair. It was called the Mini BB fair. The reason it had 2 Bs is because we were only selling books and baking. My friend Xavier and I were on one of the baking stalls. The rest of the school council and I were the ones who organised it. We thought the fair was a good idea because we wanted to get a mural on the power box outside the school. We asked kids to bring in old books and baking. Some of the baking was really cool and colourful. I even managed to snag a rainbow cupcake. We needed to raise $670 for the mural and we raised $750! We were really happy that we raised enough money and can’t wait to see how the mural looks.

Netball

This week my netball team represented my school at the netball interschools. My team's name is the thunderbirds. We won our grade and didn't lose a game. In the final game for the cup we won. The final score was 4-8 to us and we got the cup and won. When we got back to school it was just about the end of the day and we went home champions.

Horned Lizard

In writing this week we did explanation writing on a reptile of our choice. We did it because we needed to learn how to do explanation writing and as a slide because we did our last piece on a doc. I did mine on the horned lizard. I hope you enjoy it.

Seal

In class we did explanation writing I did mine on seals.

Seals

What are some of the fiercest and the cutest mammals alive? The carnivorous Seal!
So did know this whatever the case read on.


Seal parents go out and hunt fish and other sea creature. The biggest Seal is the southern elephant Seal. It can grow to 6.09 metres and the smallest is the ringed Seal which is only 1.5 metres long. They are carnivores and eat small fish such as rock fish herring and salmon. They are the biggest carnivores alive.Seals live in the antarctic Seals have quite a lot of blubber to keep them nice and toasty.Seals have white or black fur. When Seals are born they are fed fattening milk to gain all their blubber. When they are 3-7 years old they mate. Then the females give birth after 9-12 months.

Seals are flourishing and are not endangered at all. :)

Seals are amazing creatures don't you think.

Maths Poster

In class this week we did maths posters to show Room 8. We could either do it on addition, subtraction, division or multiplication my best friend Liam and I did addition. In the picture above is my poster. I loved doing the poster because I could do it with my best friend. 

Speeches

At school, we did speeches we do speeches because it teaches us public speaking. Mine was about A.I  (artificial intelligence) stealing our jobs. I hope you enjoy reading it. 

You might think that robots and technology are cool and amazing. Robots are doing amazing things like dismantling bombs in countries and being used in complex operations. Technology lets us play games like Fortnite and Minecraft together - letting us pretend to be somewhere and play together- even when we aren’t in the same house, city or country. It lets us  connect with people all over the world. But would you still think it was amazing if robots or technology took over people’s jobs, took over your parent’s jobs?	People are saying that new technologies and artificial intelligence or AI as they call it for short will take over simple processing jobs. Jobs like repetitive factory work and order taking jobs like cashiers at restaurants. You can already go to MacDonalds and order using a machine and visa paywave – no need to talk to a person. But they will not only take over simple processing jobs as the technology gets more complicated the machines will also take over more complicated process jobs like legal work, accounting and medicine	People are starting to worry that A.I. will do their jobs better than they can, so they are scared that they will lose their jobs. But this is not the first time that people have had this worry. Imagine back in the days when people travelled by horse and cart  - there were jobs for cart drivers, cart builders, and horse shoemakers, etc. Then suddenly along came this new technology that we all know today as the car….. People were worried about their jobs back then too. What would those cart drivers and builders do now?
They learned new skills and got new jobs. Because with new technology – new jobs are  created. Towns no longer needed a cart builder but they needed a mechanic, and rich people wanted car drivers. As old jobs went through the introduction of new technology, new jobs arose.	So what does this all mean for people working today? What are the long term effects of this new technology? Will the new technology mean less jobs and because of this less money, which will lead to more of us living on the streets? I think it will be good and bad. For those that want to learn new skills, they will be fine and be working in jobs they may even prefer in the future. For others it will not be so easy and I think they will find it hard to get work because they don’t have the right skills for the new jobs. But what do you think?
What do You think of it is it good or is it bad?

Eel and the flounder

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  My friend Otis and I made this slide for reading. We were learning about Pacific myths, and this story is a Samoan myth. I liked this myth because 2 friend broke up and fought. Hope you enjoy it.

selkie

This week in reading we learnt about selkies. Selkies are mythical creatures that are half seel half human. I hope you enjoy it.

Animal classfication

Today we learned about how animals are classified into groups. Animals are either veterbrate (which have spines) and invertebrates (Which have no spines)

invertebrates are animals like jellyfish crabs and insects.

Vertebrates are put into 5 groups. They are mammals, birds, reptile, fish and amphibians. mammals have fur or hair and give birth to live young. Birds have feathers lay eggs and have wings. Reptiles are cold- and lay soft eggs. amphibians breathe through there skin and need to keep their skin moist Fish breathe through their gills and have fins.

Here are some examples of the types.

Mammals: Humans, Bears, manatee, cats, dogs and mice.

Birds: parrots, Robins, swans, ducks, Falcon and penguins.

Reptiles: Crocodiles, chameleon, turtles, snake and gecko

Amphibians: newt, frogs, salamanders, caecilian and toads

Fish: eels, goldfish, seahorse, Shark and stingray

science roadshow

On Thursday we went to the science roadshow. In my group was Riley Liam Sarah Peter Mia and Jemima. My mum was our chaperone. My favourite exhibit was the skeleton chair exhibit were a skeleton turned invisible then visible. It was mindbending. When we first got there we had to wait for about 5 Minutes before it started. The first show was the fire and ice show.  Were they tested with liquid nitrogen and metal. So that's about it.

1st Day

When I got to Hawaii I found it much hotter then I thought. So when we went to the shop I bought a six pack of Dr Peppers. When we got to the place that we were staying I got a pack of Doritos and a Dr Pepper and sat by the pool until dinner. Then I went to sleep.

The airport

On Friday  I went to Hawaii. our flight was at midnight when we got there my cousin aunt and grandmother. when we went into the line to check in line we thought it would 1 hour but then a nice employee lets us go to the front the line. After we checked in we went to a cafe and had a midnight snack. Then when we went through security my cousin broke his neck pillow and started crying about it then we got to our gate.
So thats it the airport.

Ala Moana

In Honolulu there is one of the biggest malls in America. It is called Ala Moana and it would take 48 hours to shop in every shop. When I went there I got Lego, cards and candy. when my sister went into the shop she likes she bought and bought and bought. In that shop it smelt like rose farts.
So thats Ala Moana.

Home

On the way back from our hotel in Hawaii it took half an hour to get to the airport. When we got to the terminal I was playing Minecraft hunger games. Then we found the food court and had amazing pizza.
When we got on the plane I had some more pizza. On the plane I watched Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time and the Incredibles. When we got off the plane my Dad picked me up and took us home.

The toy shop on Zip Zap Avenue

At school we peformed a play called Zip Zap avenue. I was one of the main parts the shopkeeper. We were  practicing for 17 weeks. On the night my hair looked like Albert Ainstiens except coloured green and purple. I also had to play spider man because the person who was playng him ws sick. It was on 2 nights. The day after the play I was sick. I love It

Dutch poster

 In Reading we are doing country studies. I did mine on the Netherlands. Some facts on Netherlands are that their prime minster is Mark Rutte, their population 17.02 million and their currency is the euro. Their capital is Amsterdam and 1 of their major exports is tulips. 

The Battle of Passchendaele

In reading we did slides about the days in the great war I did the battle of Passchendaele. Hope you enjoy.

peoples favourite energy

In maths we created slides on what peoples favourite energy is. Here is mine.

Roll an answer

Today in maths we played a game called Roll an Answer. It tests the skills we have learned this year like rounding, place value, addition and subtraction. My group did rounding numbers it was so hard.

Maori subjects

Hello there today Im going to teach you some Maori names of subjects here they are.
Hangarau (tech).

Hauora (health and p.e).

Nga reo (languages).

Pangarau(maths).

Pufaroa (science).

Nao toi (the arts)

Tilcanga a-iwi (social studys)

pa nui(reading)

tuhituhi(writing)

Graphs

In Room 6 maths class  we have been doing statistical investigations. First we learnt about stem and leaf graphs and fun investigations on sports. We also learnt how to make graphs on excel. We learnt how to make pie graphs and different types of Bar graphs. Below are some of the graphs I have made on Excel