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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Crazy Christmas Dress Up !

Aloha Blog buddies, last Friday we had to bring a gold coin to help raise money for Christmas hampers by dressing up. Some children wanted face paint so some kids in my class did face paint on others like Christmas Trees, Candy canes and Reindeer faces. I was one on the face painters ! 
Here are some photos of the day :






I really liked help raise money for hampers because we were helping people over the Christmas season, I loved dressing up and seeing everyone with there creative costumes. My most favourite part was doing the face paint. However I did not like making mistakes with the face paint and having to go swimming and my face paint coming off. I hope you liked my blog post about Christmas dress up day, Please feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment. Stick around for the summer learning journey.
Blog you later, Bye

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Jumping Gymnasts !

Welcome back blog buddies, 
This term we have been working on our inner Gymnasts. We went to Tri Star which is our local Gymnasium, it's even home to Olympians! Our classes all walked down on Wednesday which was our first session down there and the next week it was Monday. We had other sessions in our school hall With Coach Mo and Coach Mesha.
Each time we learn new skills and challenged ourselves. The coaches bring in new equipment and even more fun each week. 
Here are some Cool Photos :









We did rotations with the different coaches, I liked jumping on the spring board doing flips into the foam pit and bouncing on the trampoline. Some things that I found difficult were swinging upside down and balancing on the beam. Next time I would try harder to work on my balance. I would recommend Tri star Gymnastics because you have a chance to learn new skills and go out of your comfort zone.
Feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment. Stick around for my Summer Learning Journey.
Blog you later, bye

Friday, December 7, 2018

The End Of My Time At Primary School : (

Hey Blog Buddies,  My time at Waikowhai is now over. I started in 2013 and I can't believe It is all ready 2018. Unlike all my other friends I am going to Blockhouse Bay Intermediate, but most of the others are going to Waikowhai Intermediate.
I am excited to spend the last weeks with my friend though. Here are some photos of my favourite memories -



I hope to make many new and amazing memories at Waikowhai and at Blockhouse Bay. I hope you have liked all my blog posts because I have loved doing them ( most of the time) Make sure to stick around for the summer learning journey. As usual please feel free to leave a positive thoughtful and helpful comment.
Blog you later, Bye 

Pacifica Peter Pan Thinking Hat Reflection !

Aloha Blog Buddies, Last week we did our school production 'Pacifica Peter Pan'
In our production I was Wendy Darling. We did a reflection using De Bono Thinking Hats. One of  the thinking hats are White Which resembles facts and Red that resembles feelings. Here is my slideshow With my thinking hats:























My favourite thinking hat is the yellow hat because it a very happy hat, The hardest hats to do in my opinion are the Green and blue hats because we have to write what we could have improved and the blue hat is what we could have improved.
Overall I loved Production, It has Definitely been a highlight of my year.
Please feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment.
Blog you later, Bye 

Monday, December 3, 2018

Summer Leaning Journey ( practise )

Hey Blog Buddies, today I am going to be Practising for my Summer Leaning Journey using the 2016 - 2017 Archive. We had a lady called Megan come in and tell us all about the Summer Learning Journey.
Activity One - You have to pick a country and tell them why you picked that country,

  • The reasons I picked South Africa was Because South Africa Is a lot Bigger than New Zealand and I wanted to see what the population was. 



  • Another reason I wanted to Pick South Africa was because I wanted to know there national Flower Which Turns out to be The Protea Flower 


Image result for the protea flower
  • And the last reason I picked South Africa was Because I wanted to learn about there languages, They have 11. ( and South African English ) 


This was the second activity - Now I have to tell you some facts about the country,


The country I picked was South Africa, Here are some Facts :

  • The population of South Africa is 55 Million however South Africa is 5 times bigger then New Zealand. 
  • There National Flower Is the Protea Flower. Which looks like this 
Image result for the protea flower





  • The currency in South Africa is Rand 
  • The national sports Are Soccer, Rugby And cricket 
  • There are 2.2 Million foreigner's in South Africa.
I hope you liked My Practise Blog post for the Summer learning Journey, Remember to keep on checking my blog over the summer holidays for new posts.
Please feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment ! 
Blog you later, Bye 

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Adventurous Athletics Day !

Hey blog buddies, A few weeks ago our school held our annual athletics day. We were separated into our age groups. We started at 9:15 AM. Our first event was Shotput. Have you done athletics before ? My favourite event was High Jump because I came 4th place jumping 1 meter and 3 centimetres. Here are some photos of the day !








What photo was your favourite ? At the end of every Athletics day we do a House Relay, I was in Tui. I think our team came second! We had a sheet of paper that tracked our house points, We got house points for moving at rotations and for individual people. The points are added up and the year group with the most points get's an Ice block. My least favourite part of the day was probably the  sprints.
Please feel free to leave a positive, Thoughtful and helpful comment!
Blog you later, Bye.

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Ako Hiko Film Festival (Term 3)

Welcome back blog buddies, in Term 3 Te Waka Ako was part of the Ako Hiko Film Festival. The Ako Hiko Film Festival is when you have to create a movie that is 3 minutes long. During that process we needed to learn about the different shots and camera angles, like An up shot or wide shot. We also had to plan, so we used a storyboard and planned each shot/scene. We started off small by doing a knock, Knock joke.


We also had to make another one about Change, when we had finished the teachers picked the best one from each class then they entered the video. I did mine with Shabeera, Flynn and Sam. Here it is (it was not finished),

 

I think our group did alright with the movie, but I think we could have worked on cooperation. We tried to use as many shots as possible. We could have done a little bit more planning. Have you entered into the Ako Hiko Film Festival ? If you have please let me know in the comments ! Please feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment. Blog you later !
- Abby 😀💗💜