TIRITIRI MATANGI ISLAND

Talofa blogging world, Last week the seniors went on a trip to a Island to learn about the endangered animals. It took about 1 hour to get to the Island because we had to stop at the Hauraki golf to pick up some supporters and guides to take us on a tour around the Island to look for endangered animals. We even got to go on a fairy to the Hauraki golf and to the Island and we got to buy food on the fairy. Something I learnt was when ever Maori's see a Nikau tree they think they are home. Another thing that I learnt was that they had a memorial tree of the birds that had died, and were remembered by the supporters and volunteers. I liked the part when we went on a treasure hunt with our guides and our job was to find little finger puppets.

I saw heaps of tuis and fantails while walking around the Island looking for animals that were our list. We had 14 groups and all the groups had the same list of birds to look for some groups didn't find a white head bird. Other groups did find a white head you have to be quite if you want to find a white head because they are very shy when people are loud because they think that they are going to hunt them. My favourite part was when we came back to Auckland and sleeping in the bus on the way back to school. Something that I didn't like about the trip was when we were coming back, the fairy was going up and down and everyone stood up and screamed then they woke me up. My opinion is that this trip was cool because at the end of the day when we came back to the fairy we got to see the yellow eyed penguins.

Here is a link of the site, where I got all the information from. http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/home

One of the groups that were joined together.

















I thought the trip was really really cool because I learnt heaps more about tuis and Kereru (NZ pigeon).

Emoji Art

Hi bloggers, Yesterday we did a emoji doc about what kinds of emotions we might use in a situation. We had to think of emotions that we already know in alphabetical order then when we got one in each we had to add more from the internet. We only had 5 minutes to start then the we had to finish it the next day. When my emotions doc was finished we went on a site named Tagul word art we had to insert our words onto the Tagul. Then you will have to choose an emoji like a demon, angel, chilled, crying, dead, sleeping emojis and much more that you could choose. Next you will have to choose a font to make your emoji standout with the colours you pick. Then you can change the layout of your emoji to make it better when you can put the words everywhere inside of  your emoji you choose.

Then you can choose the colours you would like to use for your emoji and you choose a background for your emoji. When you are finished you would see a button that says visualise when you press it will load then it will show up with what you picked from those four things. After that you are finished then you can play around with it when you think you got the hang of it. Have a look at my emotions document. We did this because so we can ask people for help when you are emotional and if you are feeling like you want to punch something or someone but instead you tell how you feel and can get some help.

This is my emoji that I made on word art.
I made two emojis one chilled and one is a 
dead looking emoji.

Here is my emoji document of different emotions 
you can use in a situation.

Des Hunt Visits Waikowhai Primary

Today, Des Hunt came to Waikowhai Primary School with his wife Lynne .  He told us about his life and he told us about his family background. He showed us an explosion because he made a fire torch look cool.  He is one of the famous authors who writes stories for children in primary to Intermediate. Des Hunts books include action, adventure and science to make his books interesting for the children. He showed us some physics with chemicals to make caps blow up into the air.  Another thing he showed us a Magic fly stick, a Magic fly stick makes a piece of plastic fly in the air but in stead of it touching the Magic fly stick it tries to go away from it. His presentation was cool because he used to have a cat but then he accidentally ran it over by his car. 

My favourite part of the presentation was when the balloon exploded.  It was my favourite part because he was winding it up and he was moving away from it exploding in his face, When it exploded it gave everyone a huge fright and it scattered on the floor and on Des Hunt. I think that it was important because it was relating to the book because he said eels grow but cats don't.

Now that I have seen the presentation I think I am going to read more of the Des Hunt books because I like action books and adventure books.  Another thing I could do is order a book online to read at home and school in my own time. I am going to think of questions to ask him on his website and go to local library's to find some Des Hunt books to take home and read.

Syndicate Treaty

Hi bloggers James here. Last few weeks we all had to choose a rule from our syndicate Treaty and we had to make in a google drawing to show what the rule is all about. I was the first one to finish because we did lots of things in the middle block until lunch. It was so cool because a teacher from room Manukau showed me shortcuts to make my google drawing. As I was talking about music from my other blogs that music makes me work fast and sometimes when I am not listening to music I still finish my work on time to go out to morning tea or lunch play.

I think that I did well doing my work because I always get it finish before lunch play and morning tea, And this part of my goal as well for my Key comp goal. BLOG YOU LATER.



          

Te Reo Maori

Hi bloggers James again. Last week for Te Reo Maori we had to write the days and date in Maori  up to the 30th of April. Then after that we had to do Autumn colours around or inside the boxes. When I was finished I kept on asking Mrs Peterson to listen to music but then I had to make it pretty so I can be finished before morning tea. I was so happy to do this because this would be one of my favourite work doing in Te Reo Maori this whole term. I really like doing this because we get to put colours and we get to listen to music the whole time working.

I think I did well doing this because I really like writing in different language. It was part of my goal as well managing myself while working. Music makes me work faster so I can show my teacher.BLOG YOU LATER. 

Cyber-smart session

Hi bloggers James here. Two or three weeks ago for cyber-smart we had to make a google drawing about what we are going to look forward too. It only took me one session of cyber-smart because I sat by myself so I can get it finished before lunch play. Only the year sixes got to do that while the year fives were doing cyber-smart with Gerhard and I think James not me it's cyber-smart James. It was fun doing that because we got to listen to music as well that's why I got all my work done so I don't have to do it at lunch time. I was looking forward to only three things through out this year.













I think that I did well finishing my work in one session and My key comp goal was to manage myself by sitting by myself to get all my work finished. BLOG YOU LATER.

Learning about easter

                    Learn about Jesus on Easter

Talofa lava bloggers, James here. This Easter I learnt about respecting our parents so we can have a great time while living in this beautiful world. I learnt that Jesus died on good Friday and he came back alive on Easter Sunday. The second Thing I learnt was that if you be naughty then you will not get a big Easter egg for Easter. During the weekend on Sunday after church we did a practice about Jesus and we made up a simple dance but some moves I got most of them wrong in front of other churches. I learnt that Easter is a joyful spring festival which celebrates the rebirth of Jesus. This Easter I learnt about respecting our parents so we can have a great time while living in this beautiful world.