Lockdown Madness

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

How have you been surviving lockdown? Well, I have been coping well. Today I had a lot of fun.

This morning I drew a dolphin with my sister and my Mum.

Afterwards we had lunch (pasta) and went on a 17.41km bike ride in the forest.

This lockdown we have done 16 walks and bikes in Bottle Lake Forest. Altogether we have done 164km. (This includes walking and biking.) I like lockdown because school still starts at 9:30 and I don't have to leave the house at 8:30! I also really like to be able to go out for walks and bike rides during school hours. Also smimming lessons are cancelled which is a bonus!

What have you liked about lockdown? How have you been keeping yourself entertained?

I would love to know!

Ka Kite see you next time!

Mouldy Apple Science Experiment

 Kia Ora bloggers

Over the past 3 days for Distance Learning, we have been going on google meets at 9:30am and 11:30am. 9:30 is our Literacy meet and 11:30am is our Maths meet. 

For Inquiry, we are learning about how mould grows. We have all done a science experiment. Here is my slide on how to do this science experiment.

I haven't put in today's pictures yet though. 

Have you ever done an experiment like this before? 

Ka Kite see you next time!

10 Minuite free writing

 Kia Ora bloggers welcome back to my blog,

As you know we are currently in lockdown, and we have had to use Google Meet to talk to our teachers and get our tasks for the day. 

Yesterday we started off our lesson with our teacher showing us a picture and, we had to write a story about it. This is my story:

How do you like it? I think it was one of my best pieces of writing.

Ka Kite see you next time! :)

Instructional Writing - Making a cup of tea ☕

 Kia Ora,

For literacy this week, we have been learning how to write instructional text. 

We had had two sheets that look like this:

(Sorry this is not quite finished yet) The two sheets we had to fill in were: How to make a cup of tea and how to construct a burger.

Here is my sheet on how to make tea so you can read it. 

Have you written instructional text before?

Ka Kite see you next time!

The Christchurch Earthquake - Infomation report

Kia Ora bloggers,

This week during literacy there were five disasters to choose from and then we had chosen one to write an information report about. The 5 options were Cave Creek, Christchurch Earthquake, Rainbow Warrior, Green Peace and Tangawai Railway disaster. I chose to do the February 22nd Christchurch Earthquake.

I think I did really well writing my report.

If you want to read it here it is.

Sources: Mrs Kerins slide and Google 

How much do you know about the February 22nd Earthquake?

Ka Kite see you next time!

AMAZING Winter Sport 👍

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

Welcome back to my blog.

Last week the Korimako hub started Winter Sport. There were so many different options for us to choose from. There was Netball, Ki O Rahi (a Maori game), Gardening, Table Tennis, Rugby, Bowls, Hockey, Football and Capture The Flag.

I chose to do netball. We then hopped on a bus that took us to Rafiti and we then walked to the netball courts. There were 4 Yr 5-6 teams. All of the Yr 5-6 teams won. We played against South New Brighton and we won 9-7. 

Overall I thought that it was a really successful game, and I'm looking forward to playing again soon.

I'll see you next time I post a blog!

Ka Kite!

EPro-8 Qualifying Challenge

Kia ora bloggers, Last week I trialled for the EPro-8 comp. The EPro8 Challenge is an inter-school science and engineering competition. There were 2 tasks. One was Rock Band where you had to make a drumbeat from 2 meters away without touching it. The other one was the School Bag where you were put in groups of 4 and you had to use the heavest school bag in our group and build a structure the was 500mm off the ground and you couldn't touch it. We decided to do Schoolbag and we used Amelia's bag. We made it like some scaffolding.  The second part of the task was to put all of the group's bags on the scaffolding and they couldn't touch each other. Some of the people who did it last year chose who would go into the teams.

There were 9 spots available and we had 17 people who wanted to do it. How many tasks you completed determined how many points you got. Our team got 110 points.

I got in a team!! 🙂

The next week there was a challenge that you had to do in your teams. It was a qualifying challenge.

The task was to make a famous landmark and launch party poppers from 3 different directions. I was in a team with Tayla, Matt and Hamish. We made the Taj Mahal.  We only had 6 hours to make it.

This is a video of our completed task.

We used about 2 bags of party poppers before we got it right. I think we did really well. 

Was there something like the EPro-8 challenge when you were at school?

Ka Kite see you next time!