Amazingly Fun PAL day

Kia ora bloggers, at Paihia School we had a PAL day, for those who don't know what PAL day and (teina) means they mean (PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEADER) day, and teina means our young kids in the younger classes. PAL day is when the PAL leaders put together some games for the whole school and we have a fun day. Thanks to Mrs Williams for organizing this awesome day. I really enjoyed participating in all the events and looking after all our little teina. There was thi thanks to Mrs Williams she has decided to have a PAL days game that I learned how to play and the game was called (rob the nest). It was a bit hard to get our teina to listen and participate but we got there in the end which made me really happy. Other then that the teina and I had a blasting day, thanks to all the PAL leaders, teachers, teacher aids and most of all Mrs Williams. Have you experienced a PAL day before at your Kura?

Serious Wacky Wednesday

Kia ora bloggers, today I am blogging about Wacky Wednesday Paihia School was dressing up for. Wacky Wednesday is a day when you dress up wacky. My favourite part of Wacky Wednesday is watching everybody looking wacky and enjoying themselves. I also enjoyed watching the teachers and staff dressed as their house group colour. We were reminded to not laugh at people but you are allowed to laugh with them, and especially don't tease them. Having to put on a costume would have taken a lot of courage to show up to school all dressed up. We were told who dressed up the wackiest would win a prize, but no one knew what any of the prizes were. I think some certain people in my class look great because it would have taken courage to be able to put on a certain costume but these people look amazing and they are also enjoying themselves. Have you dressed up on a wacky Wednesday?

Really Frustrating Image attribution

 Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been learning how to attribute images. I have learned how to find out if I have permission to use online photos. I really enjoyed learning about image attribution because I was  able to learn new things. I think this could help me in the future because having this knowledge would save me from copyrighting and getting fined. I  The most frustrating part of this was finding the license number, but in the end I was able to find it. 

Do you have the knowledge to know if you have permission to use any certain photos online?

Fun Mosaic Art.

 Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been creating our own mosaic art to go with our Ngahere QR codes. During my time creating mine I learned how to use the polly line correctly. I thought this was a great opportunity to learn how to use different types tools to create our mosaic art. I kind of found this frustrating because everytime I stopped my line three times all of my lines would just disappear. But the positive side of this subject I enjoyed doing was able to learn something new.

Have you ever created your own mosaic art before during your time at school???

Keep up the great work!!!

Lessons Around Being Safe Online.

Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been learning how to be safe using our time online apps like instagram, tiktok, snapchat and games. So in other words any kind of apps that you are able to talk to other people. We watched a video of someone not being safe online. Because she talked to someone she didn’t know, And told him  personal information like her email address and phone number. But lucky she was smart and realized that she was doing something wrong. So she pushed the (report abuse) button on the app and the person she didn’t know went to jail. I learned that it's not good talking to strangers we don’t know on online. My reason is because we have no idea if they are who they say they are or if they live near you. To be honest I used to talk to strangers on online games until the teachers asked us if we are going to change something, so I changed by stop talking to strangers on online games. I enjoyed learning about this because we can teach other people to not talk to strangers on online games and apps. There was nothing I didn't enjoy because this is something that taught me how to be safe while I’m online. 

Here is a good tip:

Don’t take photos of yourself in your school uniform and post it because they can just find your school and find you.

Do you think you are always being safe during your time online???

Exciting Fun Technology

 Kia ora bloggers, on Tuesday the year 8, year 7’s and I went to Moerewa to do technology again. In Mr Edwards class, which I’m in we were carrying on with our own waka that we started making. I was filing my frame for my waka, and I was filing it to hard and then sadly my frame broke. So I had to restart. I learned that when we are filing or using sandpaper to file our waka, if you file it to hard it will break. And I know for a fact because I speak from experience. To make sure I don’t break mine again I now know to file it nice and softley. I enjoyed technology this week because I was able to learn something and that's good because I learned from my mistake. I didn’t enjoy restarting because I didn’t want to be the only one that's behind. But lucky it only took me like 4mins to catch up because I knew what I was doing. Have you ever had a project and you had to restart? 

Fun PE Rotations

 Kia ora bloggers, today I am posting about out PE rotations Te Maunga and Te Ngahere have been doing lately. Every Monday and Thursday we come together and get into our house groups, I’m in Pohutukawa. The other house groups were Rimu, Karaka and Kowhai. The game my group and I were learning around was soccer. My group and I were learning how to kick the ball, intercept and how to work as a team by sharing the ball. I learned how to intercept properly and how to kick the ball right. I really enjoyed doing this because I like learning around new sports because I play netball and I didn’t know how to play soccer. There was nothing I didn’t enjoy because I liked everything. Do you do PE rotations at your school with other classes?

Really Fun Technology

 Kia ora bloggers, today I am blogging about technology the year 7’s,8’s and I went to. We went to Moerewa school to do technology. But sadly the year 7’s and 8’s swapped classes, which means we are doing wood works with Mr E and the year 7’s are taking cooking classes with Whaea Dot. The first thing we did was to go through the rules, expectations, things we were allowed to do and Mr E showed us how to be sensible while we are using the power tools. The second thing we had to do is to take a photo for Mr E so he can write our names on the picture so he can remember our names. During our first day back in wood works we are making and designing our own little waka. We got a few choices which were making a waka, bling bling, a wire game or a boat, just so you know a bling bling is a metal necklace. Obviously we chose a waka, I chose to make a waka because I am moari and I think it would be an amazing fun experience.  I learned  how to make the starting of our waka and I also learned what parts of the boat litter loan a waka is called. The front of the waka is called bow, the back of the waka is called stern, the left side is called port and the right side is called starboard. I really found this challenging because we had to make sure we measured the sides correctly, the measurements for the long side was 25mm and the short side was 7mm. I really enjoyed doing this because when we are finished we get to take it home. So all this hard work is so worth it. Have you taken woodwork classes before and made a waka?

Amazingly Fun Confusing Reading Test

 Kia ora bloggers, on our first day back at school our teachers told us we are going to start our day with something fun, our teachers gave us a paper with a set of 23 instructions on it and the teachers also told us we are doing a reading test. Te Ngahere and I were really excited until the teachers said we are doing a reading test so we all started moaning until the teachers said we are doing this for a reason. The reading test was to see how well we follow instructions. The first instruction was to read everything carefully before doing anything. I read them all but I didn't read them carefully because the last step said ( Now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentences one and two! Then draw quietly on the back of this paper while you wait for everyone else to finish!). So that's how I didn't read them carefully, and I chose to do them all because I did not read them all carefully. I thought this was really difficult because most of us didn't read the last instruction carefully and that made me a bit frustrated. To be honest I barely found this fun because when we were going through it with the class I now knew I was wrong. Have ever experienced something like this before? 

CAN YOU FOLLOW DIRECTIONS? 

This is a timed test--you have 4 minutes only! 

1. Read everything carefully before doing anything. 

2. Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this paper. 

3. Loudly call out your first name. 

4. Circle the word NAME in sentence two. 

5. If you have followed directions carefully to this point, call out "I have." 

6. Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner. 

7. Put an "X" in each square. 

8. In your normal speaking voice, count from ten to one backwards. 

9. Put a circle around each square. 

10. Sign your name under the title of this paper. 

11. After the title write, "Yes, yes, yes." 

12. Put a circle completely around the sentence number seven. 

13. When you reach this point, LOUDLY call out, "I AM THE LEADER IN FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS." 

14. Put an "X" in the lower left-hand corner of this paper.

15. Draw a triangle around the "X" you just put down. 

16. On the back of this paper, add 703 and 66. 

17. Loudly call out, "I AM NEARLY FINISHED. I HAVE FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS." 

18. Draw a rectangle around the word "corner" in sentence six. 

19. On the reverse side of this paper, add 8950 and 9805. 

20. Put a circle around your answer, and put a square around the circle. 

21. Punch three small holes in the top of this paper with your pencil point. 

22. Underline all even numbers on the left side of this paper. 

23. Now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentences one and two! Then draw quietly on the back of this paper while you wait for everyone else to finish!

Insanely Fun Yummy Lunch At Greens

 Kia ora bloggers, in the weekend it was one of Te Ngahere students birthday and his name is Shivam, his lovely parents who own the Greens decided to let our class go there for lunch. Just so you know Greens is a restaurant. The food there tasted really delicious that I wanted more even though I was really full. We were so lucky we got to have some butter chicken, a can of fizzy and also our very own big easter egg. I found this really thoughtful and really nice. I really liked how the tables were all ready for us to sit and wait for our delicious butter chicken to come. There was nothing I did not enjoy because I enjoyed every second of it. To show our appreciation Angela and Jade gave Shivam a card that they made themselves with everyones signature on it. To show how grateful and to show that we appreciate them we sang them a few Waiata. In the last Waiata the boys did a haka and got told that we were definitely way louder than the whole school. Have you been invited to a reasuant for one of your school mates birthday?

The Most Interesting Learning Subject: Coastal Seas

Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have been learning about coastal seas. We had to find facts to use them to make a DLO. We watched this documentary to get the facts off it and use those facts to make a DLO. I really liked learning about coastal seas because we got to learn a lot of facts about sea creatures. For example; sharks population is now 90%. My DLO will show you all of the interesting facts about the coastal seas that I found out and an amazing video. I learned a lot of interesting facts about sea creatures but this fact is the one that satisfied me; if you stay emotionless the sharks won’t detect you. I thought this was really interesting and amazing to learn about. Have you ever learned anything about the coastal seas before?

Learning How To Pronounce Maori Kupu Correctly

 Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been using an app called Education perfect to learn how to pronounce Maori words correctly. I learned how to pronounce alot of maori words like Otautau and that means Christchurch. I thought this was an amazing idea because this could help us throughout the year because we are slowly learning how to speak Te reo maori. I really enjoyed learning how to pronounce these words correctly because I could go home and teach my family what I learned and use it to teach them. I found it tricky for some words to pronounce correctly but I got there in the end. Have you learned how to pronounce maori words correctly in your classroom?

Amazingly Fun Smart Surfing.

 Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been learning how to Smart Surf. Smart surfing is about learning how to search up the right thing to get the right answer because if you search up a question that has (how) in it the web would go and find every page that has the word (how) in it. If you want to get the right answers there is something you need to use and that is called keywords, for example: What do spiders eat? You would find the most important word in that sentence and add more on but there are some words you can’t use like (the, and, to and for). So in other words simple everyday words. You would have to take out (what do and change eat into diet). Then you would be left with spiders diet. It would be better to search the right things by using keywords, it is only better to use them because you would get the answer you want faster and you also won’t have to read though a lot of things just to find your answer. Have you ever learned about smart surfing?

Amazingly Fun Google Drive Clean Out

 Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have been cleaning our google drive. Before we had to clean out our own google drives we had to watch a video that our Kaiako so we know how our google drive should look like we also had a presentation we had to do before we did our google drives because the teachers had to see how we would make ours look. We would always have random things in there not even sorted into there correct folders. I learned that you are allowed to have a personal folder and also a old stuff folder. I pretty much just put everything into the old stuff folder because I still wanted to have those things on my chromebook. I thought this was an amazing idea because if we had to do this in the middle of the year we would have way too much docs to file. I really enjoyed doing this because maybe not just me but others could find old stuff from 2 years ago and  I find that is really amazing because you could keep them on a USB stick so when we are older we can look back at our work we used to do during primary. But I found it difficult to find the folders but I got there in the end. Have you had a google drive clean out with your class? 

Hikoi In The Ngahere

 Kia ora bloggers, Today I am posting  about our hikoi we went on Thursday-18/3/21. We went on this Hikoi to because we were researching about things in the Ngahere. We went on this hikoiI really enjoyed having a hikoi in the Ngahere because we got to see a lot of things in the native bush. I learned that (ferns) can live up to 20 years, I also learned that there are all types of ferns like silver fern, red fern, hen chicken fern, black tree fern and king fern’s.  That is how many types of ferns we could of saw today but I only saw the Black tree fern, Red fern and I also saw king fern, so in other words different types of ferns. Just so you know (hikoi) means (walk).

Have you been on a hikoi with your class before?

Insanely Fun Team Building-Task Master.

 

Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been doing a thing that the Kaiako call team building. To be honest my group and I didnt really work well during the first attempt because I was the drawer and I was getting frustrated because all the it was really noisy. Also during the first attempt I found it challenging because this was the first time we did this team building and I didnt know what to do. During the second attempt I thought we worked really well because we knew what to expect to come and the only thing we found challenging and hard was that it was still noisy but we were able to hear each other but it was hard to concentrate. My group and I think that our picture looked really similar to Whaea Becks but we didnt finish our picture but they could be compared I think. Our Kaiako re named this team building because they got this idea from a t.v show called task masters. We only changed the name and also none of the students are comedians like the comedians off t.v. we were learning to communicate and collaborate properly with our learning groups. Any way we were doing a really challenging task. We had to use the three people in our learning groups. Including all three people there had to be 1 drawer which was Alana also Indie and I were the 2 runners. The runners are the people that have to run outside to look at the picture that one of our Kaiako drew. Who ever drew their picture that looks the most accurate to Whaea Becks picture won but our Kaiako have not decided who won. If you don't know what accurately means it means that it doesn't have to be exactly the same but it has to be around the same so keep that in mind. Have you experienced this before?

 This is my second one

This is my first one

This is my Teachers.

Measurement DLO

Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been learning how to use a measuring tape to measure accurately. We had to create a DLO about measurement so it could teach other people about measurement and also how to measure accurately. Accurately means that it has to be measured correctly and exactly that number. I learnt to place the measuring tape properly on a flat surface, also to start from 0 all of the time. We all had to make sure we were measuring straight. We used a 8m measuring tape and we also used a measuring tape that people use for dressing because it helped us work easier just like using it to measure how far two pens are apart. Have you learned how to use a measuring tape properly?

Our Pepeha And Mihi

Kia ora bloggers, In Te Ngahere we have recently been learning our pepeha off by heart. We are learning our pepeha and our mihi so that old students are able to welcome new students into this amazing Kura. I really enjoyed learning my pepeha including my koro and kuia because when I use to do my pepeha I didn't include my koro and kuia but this was fun to do but really tricky. The boys in my class have to learn this to be able to stand in our beautiful whare and speak in te reo maori. I found it hard to say my pepeha because I had to take a lot of breaths and I kept on messing up so I had to restarting. I am glad that I am able to welcome new students into Paihia school. Have you learned a mihi before to welcome new students into your Kura? 

E tu ana ahau	I am standing
Ki te mihi ki te kai karakia a __Tiana_____	the person who led the prayer ___________
Tena koe	Thank you/good wishes.
nga mihi ki te kai himene a ___Yazmin___	To the person/people who led the himene
Tena koe	thank you/good wishes.
Tena korua
Tena koutou	Greetings to everyone
PEPEHA Ko Pouerua toku maunga Ko Waitangi toku awa Ko Ngatokimatawhaorua toku waka Ko ngapuhi toku iwi Ko Ngati rahiri toku hapu Ko Te Tii toku marae Ko Paihia toku kura Ko Donald Mckibbin tōku koro Ko Penny Williams tōku kuia Ko Melissa tōku māmā Ko Mikaira Apiata raua ko Leo Kenny tōku koro Ko Maureen Takimoana raua koPolly Kenny  tōku kuia Ko Laurie Apiata raua ko Honetama Kenny tōku pāpā Ko Mckibbin raua ko Apiata ko Takimoana oku whanau Ko Vivianne raua ko Reitu ko Vanya oku tuakana Ko Raureti raua ko Andre  ko Russell ko Mystro oku tungane Ko Andre te potiki o te whanau Ko Mikaila Ingoa No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.
Tena koutou ( tena koutou tena koutou) katoa
Waiata tautoko
No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

What I Know About Food Chains

Kia ora bloggers, In Te Ngahere we have recently been learning about food chains. Food chains is when energy is transferred from a living thing to another living thing. A series of organisms each depend on the next source of food. I found this really hard because it took me a while to find out where the arrows actually have to point. We had to use arrows to show what eats what. I found out that Tui eats berries off Kowhai trees. I also learned that stoats eat possums and rats. I think if I listened better next time I could finish my food web the first time because the first time I had the arrows pointing the wrong way but I finished it eventually. Three things that are different to my teachers food web. My arrows on my food web are different because my arrows are just plain black not colour coded and also my arrows are just straight. My pictures on my food web are set out more clearer then this one. I think my arrows are more easier to understand because having different colours are confusinging. But I understand why they need to be different colour, they have to be different colours because the red arrows are pointing from what the predators eat, the blue arrows are pointing from what the tui eats, the orange arrows are pointing from the food that the Kereru eats, the green arrows are pointing from the birds to the possum because the possum eats the birds and the purple arrows are pointing from all the birds and what the birds eat to the rat because the rat eats the birds and the rat also eats what the birds eat which is called berries. Have you ever learned about Food Webs?

The Scariest Tsunami Evacuation.

 On Friday there was a Tsunami Evacuation siren going off so we had to gather the children who were at home to get  in the car to go up to the golf course because it is the highest hill in Waitangi. As we were on our way up there I had no idea what was happening because my parents wouldn't tell me but when we got there I knew straight away it was a tsunami evacuation because when I was 8 years old this happened early in the morning till night time and this really scared me. My mum went to go pick up my cousins Tiana, Jade.O, Azure and Karceya from Paihia School on the hill behind the school. When they returned, my cousins and I were putting on fake nails, colouring in, having a drawing competition, putting on makeup and also rolling down the hill holding hands. We were eating a lot of biscuits and my parents went home to get about 17 bottles of water. I found this evacuation really scary and I was worried for my cousin Mahia because he was with the school and not with his parents and siblings.Have you been in a situation like this before?

The Essential Guide to Understanding Ecosystem.

Kia ora bloggers, in Te Ngahere we have recently been learning about ecosystems. We have been learning how the ecosystem works and how things depend on others to survive. My learning group and I learned 2 things about the ecosystem, the plant/producer will throw away what it does not need that will decompose and we also learned that an ecosystem is made up of animals, plants and bacteria as well as the physical and chemical environment they live in. I really enjoyed learning about this topic because I learned a lot of new things about it. What have you learned about the ecosystems before?

Some Work I Absolutely Love, Kawa Of Care

Kia ora bloggers, today I am blogging about Kawa of care. Kawa of care is about caring for your Chromebook’s and following the kawa of care rules. I made a DLO for kawa of care. On the DLO it has rules for what to do and what not to do.I found it hard to do this because it was hard to find images that you are allowed to use off the internet. I really enjoyed doing this because I learned some things like always leave your Chromebook in the case so no liquids get into the Chromebook and so if you drop it in the case it won’t get damaged.Do you follow these rules around your chromebook?

Pop Art Self Portrait

 Kia ora bloggers, this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about this famous artist named Roy Lichtenstein. I learned that he became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of everyday objects. I also learned that he uses ben day dots for his art and paintings. Also Te Ngahere will be doing our own self portraits, Azure and I are going to be using ben day dots, stripes/lines, shapes, colours/shading and angles. I really enjoyed learning about Roy Lichtenstein because I learned alot about his way of doing art. Have you learned about Roy Lichtenstein or ever done a self portrait?