Waikowhai Primary School Athletics Day 2018

Hello blogging world. On the 2nd of November Waikowhai Primary School (the school I go to) had our school Athletics Day for 2018, Athletics Day is a day where you don't have to do any learning. Instead you have to go to your age group and you have to participate in a variety of activities like high jump, long jump, sprints, tennis and a lot more, and in the end the fastest runners in the house groups there will do a relay race. At the start of the day we all got into our age groups, there was the 5 year old boys, 5 year old girls, 6 year old boys, 6 year old girls, 7 year old boys, 7 year old girls, 8 year old boys, 8 year old girls, 9 year old boys, 9 year old girls, 10/11 year old boys and the 10/11 year old girls. I am 10 years old, so I got to the 10/11 year old boys groups, then we got into our first station which is the 400 meter run, a station is like 1 activity. After we did all the activities, all the groups came together for the house relays, the house groups are Kea, Ruru, Pukeko and Tui, and I was in Kea. For the final relay it was the 10/11 year old boys. I got picked to run for my house group with 5 more 10/11 year old boys in Kea, and in the next class assembly, it is announced that Pukeko won the relays.

Here are some photos

 

Summer Learning Journey Archive Activity: Germany

Hello bloggers. This week we did the Summer Learning Journey, the Summer Learning Journey is like a site where you have to do activities and post them on your blog over the summer holidays. If you get the top 3 blogs and comments in your school you will get a prize pack, and the person with the most blogs and comments in the Ako Hiko cluster will get their own drone and last year the prize was a tablet. For the first activity we have to choose a country and we get to blog about it and say why we chose this country, I chose Germany because that's where most Footballers come from and they won the 2014 world cup in Brazil, and it looks perfect for tourists to go to. When we get to the Summer Learning Journey site, we have to go to the Archived content and choose Summer 2016 - 2017 and it will send you to a document where it will show you a list of countries linked to another document showing facts about the country. The facts will be like what the climate is, what the population is and where the location is, if you have trouble finding the site here's the link.

Movie Making

Hello bloggers. Last term (term 3) the senior syndicate have been making movies for the Ako Hiko Film Festival, the group who gets the best movie will get their movie to the Ako Hiko Film Festival. For our warm up before we got into filming the real movies, we had to split into groups of 3, which is with my friends Qais and Faris, and our teachers said that the idea of the warm up movie is that we have to present a knock knock joke in some way. The teachers also said we need to have a storyboard to plan what are we going to film, so we had to go on our Chromebooks and search up knock knock jokes we could use in our movie. In my groups knock knock joke is about the police, after we finished the storyboard, our teachers gave us the Ipads and we got into the filming, I haven't got the movie to show to you because I didn't upload it to my drive. When got back to our classes we learnt the different types of shots we should use for our movies, there were shots like medium shots, wide shots, close ups and a lot more, after that we had go to groups of 4 which is with my friends Qais, Hilal and Peter, and we had to create the script for the movie for the film festival. Our teachers told us our movie had to represent 'change', after we finished our script we showed it our teacher, and our teacher printed the script, after that she gave us an Ipad and we can start filming our movie. My groups movie was about a person who told 2 people that they want to play a match of Football, and you can watch my groups movie down below also there's the link for the film making script.
       

Novel Review 2018

Hello blogging world. This term (the last term of the year) my teacher told us we are doing another novel review similar like the one we did last year. The novel review is like an activity where you have to read a book and you have to finish the book by the end of the term. Everyday we have to read our book for 20 minutes and after that we have to work on a google slide created by the teachers. In the slide it has work relating to the book, like our favorite moment from the book, your opinion of the book and other things like that. Our teacher sent us to our reading groups and my reading group teacher told us that unlike last year the teachers are letting us choose our own books. The books we got to choose from were Caesar the War Dog, Private Peaceful, The Peco Incident, Bloodtree Chronicles and Red Rocks. The book I chose was Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, I haven't read the whole book but looking at the description at the back, it says it's about a boy who got sent of to war. I haven't completed all the things in the slideshow, but I have completed most of it.

Here's the slideshow


   

This is Me Waikowhai Intermediate School thinking hats

Hello bloggers. This week (which is the last week of the term) the whole senior syndicate went to Waikowhai Intermediate School to watch their production 'This is Me'. When we got there we saw a lot of different schools like May Road, Hay Park and a lot more. Since our school was the first ones there we got the front row seats. Before the show started everyone was so loud and when the show started everyone went quiet, we saw a lot of students who previously were at our school and it was really cool to see them. When we got back to the school our teacher told us to do a reflection for the show using deBono thinking hats, and when we are finished we should blog it. If you want to find out more about Waikowhai Intermediate here is a link to their site.                      

Literacy Tumble (Week 4)

Hello Bloggers. This week we had to do another literacy tumble like the one we did for the past 3 weeks. If you haven't seen my last 3 blog posts read it now because I don't want to spend the next 10 minutes describing what the literacy tumble is. So anyways right now I am in the last activity in the must do's, well I haven't finished the 3rd and 4th activity in the must do's because I have to find out tomorrow to see what the activity is. Like all literacy tumbles all the activities get recorded in a slideshow with slight similarities than the last slideshows.

                                                            Here is the slideshow 



        

Literacy Tumble (Week 3)

Kia Ora blogging world. This week we had to do another literacy tumble similar from the one in the past 2 weeks. In case you didn't read the last 2 blog posts that I did earlier, I am going to explained what the literacy tumble is. So the literacy tumble is basically a group of activities which is mixed by reading and writing. The activities are split into 3 categories the must do's, should do's and could do's, and you have to finish all the must do's in the end of the week, plus if you finish all the must do's you have to do the activities in the should do's and could do's. The activities in the must do' is a blog comment, a reading task and a writing task. Right now I am in the first activity in the should do's which is a blog post, the second activity in the should do's is creative writing, then you have to do your cybersmart work and the final activity in the should do's is a summer learning journey activity. The first activity in the could do's is independent reading, the second activity is a poem activity and the final activity for the could do's is a note taking activity. Once you finish a activity it gets recorded to a slideshow that the teachers made.

                                                             Here is the slideshow