Recycled Paper

Hello bloggers. 2 or 1 terms ago my school decided to have a gala day which is in the 25th of November. The class I am in is Manukau making Recycled Paper, Waitemata is making Soap and Hauraki are making Tote Bags. Also the other classes are making stuff that I don't know, there will be food, stalls, games and more. There will also be a Tongan, Samoan, Kapahaka, Bollywood, Chinese and European cultural performances. Now I am going to show you how to make recycled paper, first you have to rip normal paper into small pieces and put it into a bucket. Then you have to fill the bucket with hot water and pour it into a large container and mash all the bits of paper using a egg beater. After that you get a paper cloth and get all the mashed paper using the paper cloth and you dry the paper. When the paper is dry enough you can peel the paper out of the cloth and when you make lots of recycled paper you can use them to make Christmas cards, birthday cards and many other cards. If you want to make a card you have to cut the recycled paper using scissors and you have to cut them to the picture you want them to look like. For example a Christmas tree and you cut a normal piece of paper to a rectangular shape and glue them in the card so you can write in it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        W

hat was good was that I got to make paper because it was really fun                    What was bad was that we were running out of recycled paper so couldn't              make the cards

NZ Journey

Hello bloggers. 2 weeks ago my teacher gave me and my classroom a task called the NZ Journey. At the start I didn't know what it was about but when I figured it out it was about a fake trip around NZ using google slides. First you got to estimate how you think your trip would cost and I estimated 5 million dollars because I think it would be expensive. I finished the work 2 or 1 weeks after I was given the task, so we had to go down to Dunedin and go all the way to Cape Reinga. The hardest part was looking at the bookings of the flight. The easiest part was adding the total travelling cost because I used the calculator.

                                                              Here is the slideshow

Book review

Hello bloggers. In the first week in term 4 my teacher gave me a novel to read and all the other students got one. We had to go to the link in our Chromebook. It was the novel study and once we read the book we had to go to the novel study and work on the activities there. There's activities like: What's your favourite part of the book? What was the book about? What hard words did you not understand? We had to go to the online dictionary and look for the meanings of the words.

My book was called Jonty and Choc. It was about two best friends from primary school who are moving to intermediate. Jonty found a lump of ambergris in the beach and gave it to Choc, but Choc won't return the lump and they stopped being friends. In the end they became best friends again when they shared the lump.

Cover of my book

One of the pages in the novel study

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Skiing google slides animation

Hi bloggers. This week everyone in Te Waka Ako has to make one way to present their answers to their mountain inquiry topic, but in my class we didn't have time to present so we are presenting next week. The ways are to do a poster, slides and a animation, I did a animation and my topic is skiing. A google animation is something that you have to make a google slides and you add a character and you duplicate the slide and on the duplicated slide you have to move the character and you do that in every slide.
                                                          Here is my animation  

I found making the slides hard because at the start I didn't know how to rotate the character but now I know how to rotate my character.
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School Cross Country

Hi bloggers. On September 12th was the school [Waikowhai Primary School] Cross Country. So there were groups like year 0/1 boys, year 0/1 girls, year 2 boys, year 2 girls, year 3 boys, year 3 girls, year 4 boys, year 4 girls, year 5 boys and year 5 girls and I was in the year 5 boys. There was 6 activity's for the groups large board games, racau sticks, blind fold game, ball games, watching people run and a long run. When it was the year 5 boys turn to run we got warmed up and started running, the year 5 boy who came first was a boy named Qais, I didn't know what place I came but I think I did good. When the year 5's are finished running it was the year 6's turn to run. When Cross Country was finished we had the bake sale in the old room 7 and most of the baking was 50 cents and I had 2 dollars.
                                                                     
                                                          Here are some photos

Year 5 boys getting ready

Year 6 boys running

Year 6 boys getting ready

Magical World of Crazy Science

Hi bloggers. On September 11th was the Crazy Science Show in the school I go to [Waikowhai Primary School]. So there was two people called Richard and Robyn, Richard was the one who did all the science and magic while Robyn was on the computer playing the music in the computer when ever Richard tells her to. The show was taking part at the school hall and Richard taught the whole school about chemicals. Richard taught us a lot about science, water, oxygen and more about science and I was impressed of his magic tricks and now I know a lot about science.   


The most amazing thing I saw was that Richard made a big gigantic bubble and he made his own fireworks with a lighter. 


I learnt that paper lifts when air blows across the curve of air pressure and I learnt the word polymer which means to turn liquid into solid.   


I wonder how does Richard do the magic tricks and how did he know all about science.

What I could do is at home is that I could try the science that is easy and try to hover a ping pong ball by turning on the hairdryer vertically. 

Mt Ruapehu Senior School Camp

Hi bloggers. On week 5 term 3 it was the senior school camp on Waikowhai Primary School!. The camp was taking place on Mt Ruapehu and we have to split in 8 colour groups Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Purple, Green and Turquoise and I was in the pink group. So in the bus trip we stopped at Hamilton Gardens for morning tea and we had to do a activity where Ms Sands gives each group a piece of paper and on the paper are pictures from the gardens and each colour group has to walk around the garden and find the same picture from the piece of paper and you have to write the garden that it is in. The winner of the activity was the pink group which was the group that I was in and for the prizes we got chocolate, who came second place was the purple group. The next stop was Otorohanga we had lunch there and explored the Ed Hillary walkway. The final stop was Taumarunui primary and we played at the playground and had afternoon tea. Finally we were going to the hotel called The Park, when we arrived there we took all our luggage and got the keys to our rooms. If you want to see more about the camp there is a camp booklet slideshow for you to see.
                                                        Here is my slideshow

       
What I found challenging was when I was up the mountain skiing.
My success was when I learnt how to stop.