Gerald

 This week our whole class has been making a time capsule. We have been writing letters to ourselves for the time capsule. It is supposed to be opened in about 50 years time. We wrote about the past year and about Coronavirus, The Olympics for this year, About ourselves and family, Favourite music. It was weird writing the letter because I was writing to myself in 50 years in the future. If you ever made a time capsule what would you write in a letter?

Harakeke Basket

                                              

The past few days our class has been making a flax basket for Matariki. First we each got a big piece of flax each and we had to make it into twelve strips. First we had to put seven of the strips down and weave the other five in it. Then we had to make the handle we used the side with seven, you had to fold parts down and eventually you were left with three. I tied them off and then did the same to the other side. Then I went back to the other side and took the middle piece and folded it over to the other side. I took the middle piece from the other side and folded it over like the other one. Then I took the two pieces from the sides and I folded them around the handle and used a small thin strip of flax to tie the ends off. the I gathered all of the flax that was on one side and tied it to look kind of like one side of a boat. Then I did the same with the other side and it was finished. My favourite part about this was pulling the flax into pieces because it felt relaxing. This was important because it was the way that our school showed that we celebrate Matariki

Do you celebrate Matariki?

Emily Carr Art

 

This term we did art based on Emily Carr. We did research on her about what she did and when she was born and when she died. Emily Carr was a Famous Canadian Artist that based her art style on trees and sometimes villages and churches. She was born on the 13 of December 1871 and she died on 2 of March 1945 at 73 years old. First for the art we got given a piece of white paper and had to choose two colours I chose blue and pink. Then we had to sketch out a picture of a tree that we were going to paint for the silhouette. When the pieces were put on the back we got to put our initials beside ti on the bottom of the page.  

Have you ever heard of Emily Carr before?

How to Spot Fake News

 

The past few weeks we have been learning about how to spot fake news and we had a look at the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. It is a faux site and we had a look at it and our teacher told us all of the things that you would have to look for to spot fake news then we had to look at some posters and make a poster of our own. My favourite part about learning about this was making the poster. Have you ever heard about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus before?

Super Cool Tree art

                                             

This term we did art based on the style of Emily Carr First we had to copy a slideshow and answer questions and then we had to do research on what type of art she did. Then we went around the school and took photos of trees to get ideas for our paintings. I am very proud of my painting even though it isn't even finished yet. Have you ever heard of Emily Carr? Do you like Painting? 

Awesome Athletics and Beautiful Beach clean up

Last week on Thursday we did Hapu Sports Athletics and The whole school beach clean up.As part of the sports council I got to help set up all of the Athletics stuff at the Westland High School. The school was split up into age groups there was years 1,2,3,4,5,and 6. I am a year six. We had to do Shot put, Discus, Long jump, High jump, 80 meters, 50 meters, and the 1000 meters I did everything.  I got into the Districts for Shot put , Discus, Long jump, 80 meters and 50 meters. After we had finished the athletics we walked to the beach to do a beach clean up. I was in the enviro group so we did a survey down the other end of the beach and walked from where we were at the rocks to catch up with the rest of the school. By the time we had caught up with everyone they had already finished the beach clean up.  I think we did a good job cleaning up the beach and everybody did really well at athletics.What is the best sport you are good at?

Super Cool Cactus Sports

 This week we did Cactus on Wednesday and Friday, Cactus is like a group and you get to do fun activities and try to push yourself and get out of your comfort zone and try new things.  On Wednesday for Cactus we were only there for half an hour but we still did something fun. The people that run Cactus wanted us to get to know each other so we had to stand in a circle and we had to partner up with the person next to us and ask them what their name was, their favourite colour and their favourite weird food. Then we had to  introduce our partner and it went around like that. On Friday we stood in a circle and passed a ball around and as we passed the ball we had to say the persons name we were throwing the ball to. After that we had to do jump rope it took me a while to eventually jump it. Have you ever done Cactus before? 

Super cool Animation!!!!!!!!

 

This week we made school values animation's Olivia and I chose the value Kaitiakitanga. Kaitiakitanga means respect my own and other peoples property and Care for ourselves other and the environment. Our class decided to do animation's for the school values because at Monday morning meeting when the student councillors said the school value for the week it was really boring. everyone in the class made a animation so if you want to check theirs out just clink on the link Link the link will take you to our class blog. Have you ever made a animation before?

All Emergency Rescue Centres in town!!!

Last week at school we went to a thing in town called Clued Up Kids. It was held at the boys brigade hall in town. There was 8 stations they were the Fire Brigade, Police search and rescue, St Johns, Animal safety, Kitchen Safety, Alpine Fault, Motorbike Safety and Kiwi Rail. For example in the St Johns activity we did bandaging and say you got a knife stuck in your arm we learnt what to do if something got stuck like that. We had to have a buddy, and bandage them, and the two rules we learnt were apply pressure and elevate. In the fire brigade one we had to crawl through a tunnel in the dark to find the exit. My favourite one was the Motorbike safety and the animal safety, I liked the Animal safety on because we got to learn about horses and also pat a horse, I liked the Motorbike safety because I like Motorbikes and it was fun because we got to sit on the motorbike and the person that was doing the  motorbike thing tipped the motorbike when we where sitting on it. Have you ever been to a Clued up Kids thing before?

LIZZIE'S LEADERSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 This year I am a year 6 so I get to sign up for thing like Sports council, Student council, Hapu leader, IT monitor and things like that. I chose to be a part of the Student council because I wanted to do assembly and Whanau time. I wanted to be Sports council because I wanted to help out in the PE shed and help set up the Hapu sports activities. I wanted to be an Enviro leader because I liked being in the school Enviro group an helping plants to grow. I got all three of the things I signed up for. Do you have any Leadership roles at your School? 

Summer Learning Journey

                      Original Image                                                                     My Image

Today we signed up for the Summer Learning Journey for the school holidays. Our first activity was an art colouring book. Here is the link to the colouring book Link. We had to go onto there and choose an image and I chose the waves. Then I got to repaint it, but there was only a certain amount of colours to choose from. I liked doing it because I liked the way that there was all sorts of pictures to choose from. Have you ever done the Summer Learning Journey before? 

Barrier Games

 

Today we did barrier games with Mrs Minehan. I was partnered up with Sora and you can go check out her blog post Click here. We had to move shapes on our screens and then we had to describe how to do it to our partner. For Example: The yellow dinosaur goes in the bottom right hand corner and the tree in bottom left hand corner. The one I liked the most where you had to say where all of the pictures went. I learnt about how tricky it is to give instructions when you can't see what the other person is doing and when they are facing a different direction. Have you ever played a barrier game?

Calendar Art

This term with Mrs Swinburn we did calendar art. We got to choose what we wanted to do for it. I  decided to do a fox because they are my favourite animal and I liked the idea of the background because I think it looks nice. Does your School do calendar art? 

Pablo Picasso Art

Anmation

                     This week with Mrs Minehan we made a morphing animation. First we had to decide on what we were morphing into and then we slowly had to turn into what we chose. Some people made their character change onscreen others made their characters go behind something and come back out as something else. Have you ever Created an animation?           

St Johns

                                   


                                    
This week on Thursday afternoon our class went to go lean some stuff with the St Johns lady. First we went is and she taught us the way to put some one if they are not responding to you, and also when there is no emergency service in contact. Then she told us to get into pairs and do it to each other. After that we got into groups and did a challenge where we got into a group and we had to save a friend that got hypothermia. So we had to save him not all of us completed the challenge correctly but some of us did. Then we all finished off and said goodbye and thank you and left.  Have the St Johns people ever come to your school?

Andy Warhol Art

Last term before lockdown we did some art inspired by Andy Warhol. The first thing we had to do was dye the background, we got to choose 3 colours for our background. Next we made the frame and dyed it. After that We got a photo taken and we traced around it on a peice of acetate and painted our hair, clothes, eyes and lips. After that they got cut out and stuck onto our background and then we had to draw a wood grain on the frame. Then we cut out our names and stuck them on. Have you ever done any Andy Warhol art?

My Anzac Baking

  This Friday our teacher told us that we had to bake Anzac biscuits or something else this weekend. I decided to make biscuits and an Anzac slice. I hope you enjoy reading on how I made them. Have you ever baked anything for Anzac Day?

Unexpected Pet!!!

Last year for Christmas (2019), I got 2 pet Fish and a Snail so He could eat some of the algae. I got a Black Moor and just a plain Goldfish, the snail I got had the shape of a garden snail. The next year (2020) My snail died in the month of January, very sad but strange! My question was How did He die?
No one in my family is snail experts so we just called him a boy. His name was Sampson. But a while after he died My Black Moor Died in February from bladder disorder infection😢. One month Later My poor Goldfish Rocky is still alone at least we thought he was. It was just the normal morning and I got up to feed him fish flakes. After I fed him I was watching him eat when I saw a black dot at the top of the fish tank at first I didn't worry about it but then I went and told my sister and she said it was probably fish poo but I know the fish poo isn't that big. So I went and got Mum and asked her if snails lay eggs. She didn't think so, so I asked her to come and look at the black dot. It had like a swirly cone shape at the end. Then we thought about it after we looked at the  swirl and I said "Sampson Must have been a girl!!! It turns out she was a girl after all. I searched up online "how many eggs can snails lay" and it said hundreds. So Rocky was actually spending a minute or to under the rock sometimes which he doesn't normally do. So I decided that he must have been eating the eggs. Now I know the answer to my question How did she die? because she laid eggs Did you know that snails could lay eggs?

Pj Day

Even though we are in Lock down/Isolation we can still take part in all of the days that celebrate or help people. Today is Pyjama day, Belinda, Lincoln and I as you can tell we are wearing our Pyjamas today. Have you ever worn your Pyjamas all day?