The Tower of Protest

We have been writing 100 word stories, here is one of mine.

They weren’t going to give up, not until the government made reforms. As a peaceful protest, everyone stacked up on top of each other. It was mental because if they all fell down then they would die. The government had just introduced a law that banned NFL, and all NFL fans were going to try and make a change. Signs waved up in the air branding words such as BRING FOOTBALL BACK and FOOTBALL IS LIFE. What was strange was, no media reporters were there. The government stopped all media outlets from reporting so that everyone would forget about NFL...

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The Tsunami Story

Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been writing one hundred word stories. Here is one of mine.

The weather forecast was saying it was going to be a fine sunny day, a perfect dream for surfing. However this was not the case, today was a horrible day for surfing. No one knew what it was going to be like that day, it showed how merciless mother nature really was. As the highways were full, the water sped 10 kilometers offshore. The alarms wailed but it was too late, the wave was already surging towards the coast. Everything was submerged in water. Nowadays, natural disasters happen everyday, people die to them as well. The world’s entirely in anarchy.

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Continuing Tee-ball

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere Whaea Kc came in again to teach us Tee-ball. This time everyone’s skills had gotten way better. We split into three groups and then started playing. One group was watching whilst the other two were playing, then after a match was finished, we rotated. Whaea Kc gave us all some advice on fielding the first time we fielded. My team were batting first. It was easier batting than last week because I had learnt how to hold the bat properly. When we were fielding I went onto third base but I didn’t really do much. When we were watching we got back to batting very quickly because the team that was fielding got the batting team out within five minutes. I thoroughly enjoyed doing Tee-ball and I can’t wait to do it next week. I find fielding hard sometimes because you have to predict where the ball will go and you might predict wrong and if no one’s near where the ball is you have to run after it for awhile. Do you like fielding (if you’ve ever played Tee-ball)?

Terrific T-ball

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere Whaea Kc came and taught us how to play T-ball. T-ball is a sport that is similar to softball, there are only three differences between T-ball and softball they are, in T-ball, no one bowls, everyone gets a turn at batting and there’s a much softer ball. Instead of bowling, the ball is sitting on a pole and a person grabs the bat then hits the ball. It doesn’t matter if you hit the pole because as soon as the ball moves, you have to run and the fielders have to get you out. To get someone out, one of the fielders has to get the ball and place the ball on the base that the runner is running to. When I was fielding I stayed on third base. The end score was 8-11 to the other team but we didn’t get to finish our match. I found batting really difficult, but I enjoyed the game a lot. Have you ever played T-ball before, if so, what’s your favourite position?

Bay of Islands Orientation

 Kia ora, the year eights from Paihia School and Karetu School went to Bay of Islands College for an orientation day. The reason there was an orientation day was so that the year eights could experience what high school was like. At the beginning of the day we all sat in the library and the year nine dean, Mr Smith,  we had a talk and read out the weekly notices. After that we all walked to the woodwork classroom and we made an object that was made for hanging bags and(or) coats. Once we had finished woodwork class, it was interval. During interval I went to the gym to check it out, it was jam packed when I walked in but I stayed in there anyway. The bell rang for second period rang so all the year eights and the year nine guides made their way to the quad (the quad was an area where people could sit down and play handball and a few other things). The reason we made our way to the quad was because Mr Smith told us to meet him there after the interval. Unfortunately, this ended up in us getting in a bit of trouble because he had to do something and the principal told us off for not being in class. After awhile, the guides led us to the the Whare so that we could do Te Reo classes. They did a mihi and we sung a few waiata and then we played a game. Basically we had these sticks and the teacher would say either Maui or something else. If she said Maui, we had to let go of our sticks and pick up the person to our left’s stick. If she said the other word we would go to the right and pick up the person to our right’s stick. If we didn’t pick the stick up before it hit the ground, we were out. After Maori it was Social Studies. Social Studies was my favourite subject that we did because we were basically doing geography. There were degrees and then there was longitudes and latitudes. It would say N°40 and there would be a clue with a country’s beginning letter and we’d have to find that certain country. It was a really fun lesson. We then headed to the science classroom. We had to wait awhile because the teacher wasn’t there yet. We all got told off because we were being too loud while there was a test going on. Eventually the science teacher came and we experimented with Bunsen Burners. The teacher explained a little bit about them and then we had to leave because there were two classes jammed into one period. We left  for PE in the gym. For PE they taught us the basics of Volleyball. We had a bit of a competition on which group could keep the ball up for the longest (my team kept it up for the shortest). When PE had finished it was interval, we were very lucky that the orientation day was on a Wednesday because every Wednesday there is free lunch. There were two more periods after interval, in that time, there was a man who gave a bit of a speech about army training and how you could join a group. He had a presentation to go with his speech as well. After the speech it was the final period. Karetu and Paihia School split up, Paihia School did Art while Karetu School did Music. That was the end of the day. Do you have a favourite subject, if so, what is it?

Parasailing

 Kia ora, one week ago I went parasailing. It was quite fun because I like big heights. The boat departed at 3:30 pm and we had to put on these weird things but they helped to attach us to the parasail and kept us from falling. At first I was nervous but then the parasail was gliding quite slowly so it wasn’t too bad, until the wire that attached the parasail to the boat started shaking. I thought the wire was going to snap but luckily it didn’t. There was a really nice view and I could see over Russell and I could see some other nice sights. It looked like it was about to rain but fortunately it was sunny. I enjoyed going parasailing. Have you ever gone parasailing?

Through the Window

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been doing a math activity called Through the Window. The whole point of this was to try and figure out how some windows had been priced at the price they were at. All I knew what to do at the beginning was find the area and perimeter but not the next step, then Whaea Chrissy gave us some advice which was look at windows which shared the same area but not the same perimeter. I made a DLO for this activity so if this post doesn’t really make sense there’s the DLO to look at. Do you like doing measurement?

Magnificent Mahi Toi

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been doing art. Our art this week is basically two koru with patterns in between it. To begin we’ve been practicing on a piece of paper which had a couple of koru with patterns on it already but it was really light so we had to trace over it. There were four practice Mahi Toi (Mahi Toi is art in Maori) on the piece of paper. When people had finished all the practices they then practiced shading, I find doing shading really difficult. If a person feels ready they can move onto the real thing. I found doing the Mahi Toi hard because I can’t really draw or trace that well, and I can’t shade either. Do you enjoy doing art? Here is what our Mahi Toi looks like.

Funky Google Music

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have begun to do Google Music Lab. Google Music Lab is a website that has a lot of interactive activities teaching you how to learn how to make digital music. There are three activities we have to do, they are the rhythm lesson, the melody lesson and the Kandinsky lesson. By Tuesday next week (as of this post) we will have learnt those three lessons and made a song. We have only done the rhythm lesson so far but it has been very fun. The rhythm lesson was very easy for me because all we really needed to do was press a few buttons and it would make a rhythm. I think making a song will be hard. Do you like making music? Here is what some of our work looked like.

Explaining Newton's Laws

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been writing an explanation piece of writing. The reason we have been writing the explanations is to show that we understand Newton’s Laws of Motion and everything else that has been explained e.g trajectory, aerodynamics, mass and drag. At first I struggled writing the explanation because I wasn’t sure on how to start my introduction, but once I did, it got a whole lot easier. Here is my writing. Have you ever done an explanation piece of writing?

Wonder Launches

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been continuing with the Wonder Project. We have made a rocket and launched it a couple of times. Everytime we launch our rocket we have to record all the details like, how much PSI we used, the distance our rocket flew and what we need to modify. Something that has kept on happening that we haven’t figured out how to fix yet is, our wings have kept falling off mid flight. The farthest that our rocket has flown is 14.2 meters, it would’ve gone further in our latest flight (as of this post) but it got blown off course and stopped by a tree. Something that is difficult to do is modify our rocket so that our wings don’t fall off. Something that is easy to do is launching our rocket.

I Am Hope Treasure Hunt

 Kia ora, at Paihia School, Mrs Lindsay set up a treasure hunt. The reason we had a treasure hunt was to fundraise for a charity called I am Hope. I am Hope fundraises for people with mental health issues. To participate in the treasure hunt you had to bring in two dollars (We fundraised $402 in total). There were 15 prizes in total. To get a prize we had to find a picture of a gumboot. On the back of the gumboots there we numbers, the number on the gumboot determined what prize you got. The gumboots were hidden really well and I found it very hard but it was enjoyable. Do you like treasure hunts? 

Here is a photo