Sports Camp

We had many highs and some lows, especially when we were tired (from staying up late talking). However, we managed to win many medals. Check out a few of our photos.

My favourite part of camp was…

… staying in cabins was a new experience, but I enjoyed being with my friends. The food was great too. – Trinity and Treyden

… watching and participating in the performances. Coming third in Kiwi Tag. – Samsalvation

… the food the camp cooks organised for us (Thank you muchly). The Mountain Biking was fun too. – Sala

… Basketball where I managed to prevent the last goal. Playing Flag Football, and learning a new sport. – Kairangiahua

… when all the schools were made a competition out of the haka on the last day as we thanked the camp leaders. – Hineahuone

… enjoying the different sports with my teammates. – Tyson

… learning a new game – Gaga Ball and being successful at it. – Maliha and Tashifa

… playing different sports against different schools.  – Noriel

 

Rewriting the End

We are preparing for the end of the year and the teacher read us part of a story.

First, we discussed the 3 Little Pigs story and what we knew about the original story.

  • the 3 little pigs who were told to leave, and they are siblings
  • there is a big bad wolf who destroys property
  • houses were made of wood or sticks, straw or thatched, and brick
  • the pigs prosper
  • the wolf perishes

Do you know the TRUE Story of The 3 Little Pigs? Well, we listened to part of the story from A. Wolf’s point of view and then we had to complete the story.

Here are a couple of endings the students wrote:

He must be the brains of the family, he built his house out of bricks. 

So as I should, I knocked on his door, but there was no answer, so I called “Mr. pig? Mr. pig? Are you in, Are you in?” and still no answer. Then suddenly, I felt a tickle in my nose, it caused me to huff, snuff and SNEEZEEEEEeeee.. Luckily for the pig, his house doesn’t budge. I knocked again and again and again and again and again.. No matter what I did, the pig did not respond so I had no other option but to try to break in. I looked for the nearest thick object that would be able to break the door apart, so I went on my nose and started sniffing.

Anything? Nope. I was shamelessly standing there until something ran upon me! “Use yoursellfff” said the voice in my head. So that’s what I did. I stupidly charged directly at the door, which created, not a hole, but a dent. Seriously!? Is there anything I can do? Suddenly there was a response; “WHAT DO YOU WANT, BIG BAD WOLF?” the pig annoyingly calls, the response wasn’t so friendly, why did he assume I was bad? And why did he shout? Out of curiosity, I replied back with “Why do you call me big bad wolf? Don’t you know my real name?”   “Your name isn’t The Big Bad wolf?” said the muddled pig. “NO! In fact it’s Alexander T Wolf. May I come in? I need sugar for my Grandma’s Birthday cake!.” “Fine, get inside.” Mr. Pig ultimately said. 

Finally that pig swung open the door, I sensed something strange but still, stepped inside, AND… it was empty. Unhinged, I looked around and called for Mr. Pig “Uh, Mr. pig? Mr.Pig? You’re really good at hiding.” Eventually giving up, I attempted to look for sugar.. nothing.. and then something went flying in the corner of my eye, so I looked, when suddenly- BANNGGGG… A pan went across my nuzzle at a fast pace, missing my head completely. The incident made me shout – “YOWWCHHHHHHHH” – when the pain settled, I looked ahead of me, and there was not one, not two, NOT THREE.. Not even four.. Five large bags of sugar sat in front of me, almost like it was there to tease me. So when I made my move to help myself with a bag of sugar,- BANNNNNNNNGGG… the same pan hit me, this time it popped perfectly on my head. I felt disabled, almost dead, but still, I forced myself to motivate myself and speed crawl out of the house, so I did. 

Once I’ve successfully got out, he menacingly stood upon me. “I don’t care about your grandma’s stupid cake and her birthday!” He said sadly. “Excuse me? That isn’t really nice..I-” Unexpectedly, I sneezed! Without a huff or a snuff, it just came out! I felt so much better after that mountainous sneeze. I looked back up to finish the conversation with the pig, but he disappeared! So I got off the floor, dusted myself and looked around. Sadly, I found the pig on the floor. Dead. So…. So I ate him.. and took the five bags of sugar out of his house. That part is too much to talk about, it was a lot of work I’d admit, but for now, I have a lifetime of sugar! I could make unlimited cakes! – Treyden

 

I walked up the hill farther than the others. I thought to myself that this pig must be smarter than the ones I had eaten. I knocked on the brick house, but no one answered. I called out, “Mr. Pig, Mr. Pig, are you in?” Suddenly, I heard the pig’s voice from inside.

 “Go away, you little rascal! Get back to where you came from!” I sighed, thinking he probably had a who

le bowl of sugar but wouldn’t share even a tiny bit for my grandma’s birthday cake. Just as I was about to head home and make something else instead of a cake, I felt a chill in the air. Determined, I huffed and puffed again, but the pig’s strong brick house didn’t move, unlike his brothers’ houses of straw and sticks. I started to feel a little defeated when an idea came to me. Instead of trying to blow the house down, maybe I could ask nicely. So, I took a deep breath and knocked again, this time gently. “Mr. Pig, please! I just need a little sugar for my grandma’s cake. It’s her birthday!” I waited, hoping he might be in a better mood this time.

– Kairangiahua

We would love to hear if you have read this story or how you have changed the end of a story

 

 

Art – Influenced by Raewyn Harris

Select and draw at least 5 different culture patterns. We also had to use the Koru design to represent our family members.

Choose an image from Raewyn Harris.

Add the patterns to our Raewyn Harris Design.

On larger paper, we had to  transfer our design

Then colour the art using only 4 colors, but we could blend them.

As we do art only once a week it may take us a while to finish I hope they are done before we go to camp.

Sharing Learning through Scratch

We are learning how to share our learning using Scratch. We also practiced using angles to create shapes, such as different triangle shapes and adding backgrounds with the name of the specific triangle.

Photographs and their Influence

This week in reading, we had to recreate an image from the story. In our story, the main character was getting a tattoo as a new chief. We had to create the tattoo he was to get. In the story it was going on his thigh we made one for his shoulder.

 

In our story, the Chief was telling the story of the octopus and how it was taking over the water around the islands.

We had to create a tattoo for the Chief’s arm

Chemical Engineering

Yesterday we made ice cream as part of an experiment about chemical reactions.

First, we used salt and ice to see if we could attach a short piece of string. We all thought the ice melted faster, but we realised the fingers were close to the ice and the heat was melting it too.  What we learned was that salt helps it to stay colder for longer.

Have you ever tried making ice cream, use our recipe and let us know how you go.

Novel Study – Maze Runner Week 5

This week we are focusing on the Word Lab and Ponder.

We are learning about Hyperbole, another name is Exaggeration. Here is the one I picked to explain.

This is an exaggeration because we can lose a pencil or clothing. But to lose your mind you would need to take it out of your head and take out your mind, that is in this sense of the word lose.

For the Ponder, we had to think about whether these statements are more likely to be true?

  • People who go through the Changing are so upset because they remember their old life and they cannot have it back.
  • People who go through the Changing are so upset because they remember their old life and it’s no better than what they have now.

Which do you think?

Environmental Engineering

Today we had the challenge of transporting a liquid from one side of the courts to another using a paper cup. There was a lot of excitement and chatter. The race was on, and we had one minute to see how much water we could get in our cream container. we then stopped and predicted how long it would take to fill the container. Most containers were a 1/3 full after 1 minute. One group thought they would need another 20 minutes.

Here is the DLO we have to complete

Civil Engineering

Kia Orana

This week, Teilym and I are engineers. We had to explain what civil engineering is and then help with a project where RM9 had to build a stable tower. The tower needed to handle wind pressure, be tall, and stay standing even when hit by a big checker. Each team had to use at least fifteen large Jenga blocks, six Connect Four discs, and five large checkers. There were about seven teams with three people each. Out of these teams, around three kept their towers standing. I measured the height of the towers, Teilym tested the wind pressure, and Tanya from Edmund Hillary School helped with the evaluations. Me and Teilym did a DLO here it is