Gumboot Friday

       Gumboot Friday

Gumboot Friday is used to raise money for mental health and to help people. Also there is a give a little page that has got over $800,000.00.  So give a little to to help those kids and people who are stuck in negative thoughts. Every dollar that is raised is used to help the people. We also made cards with positive notes on them that everyone made in  Te Waka Ako. Once we had enough we all split out into groups and spread around the neighborhood to give them to the people and to uplift the community. They decided to choose gumboots because people were getting stuck in negative thoughts and they described it as getting stuck in mud. So they picked gumboots because Gumboots go straight through the mud and it also acts as straight through those negative thoughts. This relates to our inquiry topic that is  Hauora-Wellbeing and mental health is in our wellbeing. I think this was a really good experience because it teaches people to be really kind. You feel much more happier after this because you have made other people happier. We inspired them with these notes. I think this because people feel much happier after someone has given them compliments on how they are. To keep going and believe in themselves that's why I think this is important.

special Assembly

Hi bloggers yesterday we did a special assembly to remember the people who were hurt on Friday. We all felt sad for the people who were hurt. We all make special cards to send out to the hospital and the people who helped. All the cards we made we put around a special kowhai tree that the whole school stood around for respect. People from different countries got to put a shovel full of dirt around the tree to show some respect to the people who were kiled and hurt. The Christchurch schools were all in lockdown for 4 hours. I would imagine that would be pretty scary. The last couple of weeks we have been trying to fit as much lockdown practices as we can in case this happens again and might happen to us. That's why we need to practice a lot. Not that long ago on Friday the 22nd we had a community fun day we all had a lot of fun. We also listened to the Call to Prayer and did the 2 minutes silence. We all felt very sad as we remembered but we felt better after we had done it. https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/christchurch-shooting-victims-fund/donations
this is the link to the Give a Little Page

             this is the cards we made.                this is the tree.                                 this is the  people poring soil in the hole.

paper plans

 http://www.foldnfly.com/34.html#Soaring-Eagle http://ender.realtypark.co/paper-airplane-pattern In math we did a paper plan challing and we mad paper plans to see witch one went the fariste and we also had to meshed how far it went we did this  because we we wher  doing mesh-mints this weak

Name of paper plan	estimated	actual	diffrence
1. Apollo 11 wind berner	2m	5m	0m
2.Apollo 12 grass cutter	1m	11 1/2m	6 1/2m
3.Apollo 13 flash ciler	12m	11m	0m
4.Apollo 14 dream crusher	12m	12m	1m

Cameron pools

Hi blogger! These couple of weeks we have been going to Cameron pools to swim. We have had three (or four weeks) of training. We have had heaps of fun and some days we have played games with life jacket. My favourite part would be when we got to pull each other with pool noodles and we all had to go and do it. We had lots of fun swimming like fish, and we also shared the pool with some juniors on the last day. We all had days we went on, Tuesdays and Thursdays we all had turns so Manukau left to go to the pools first, then Waitemata went and then Hauraki. Every time we went, one of the junior classes went with us. Here are some photos.

welcome to the 2019

Hi bloggers today It is the new school year of 2019. I hope you all had a nice start to the year. We all made a getting to know you form, so people could find out different stuff about each other. We all made up one and we had to have heaps of information, accurate grammar and punctuation and also if you finished, you got to colour them - yeah! I finished mine, here is the link

summer learning steps

Hi bloggers today we have been starting summer learning journey it is a blog and committing site. A this is are first activate. The bonus activity is to send a letter to your family it is blogging about a country and why you would go to their I piked the amassing astralya.


                                           Australia


I piked Australia because it has a howl hep of animals and I could visit my cousins.  



                                           Letter


Mum I am going to Australia because of all the cool anamils. We could visit my cousin. Would you like to go with me. If you wont to go meat me ant the airport at 5 o'clock on Saturday December the 5th  . Kind regards Apollo




                                           Cool facts

• As of 2012, Australia has an estimated population of over 22 million people.
• Australia is the world's 6th largest country by area.
• Due to its large size and isolation from the rest of the world, Australia is sometimes known as the ‘island continent’.
• The largest cities in Australia are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
• A desert area known as the ‘outback’ covers much of the land.
• The name ‘Australia’ comes from the Latin word ‘australis’, meaning southern.
• It is estimated the humans have lived in Australia for around 45000 years.
• The indigenous people of Australia are Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
• The highest mountain on mainland Australia is Mt Kosciuszko, standing 2228m (7310ft) above sea level.
• The world's largest reef system, the Great Barrier Reef, is found off the north-eastern coast of Australia.
• Australia has a range of different landscapes, including urban areas, mountain ranges, deserts and rain forests.
• Australia is home to a variety of unique animals, including the koala, kangaroo, emu, kookaburra and platypus.
• Although they usually keep to themselves, there are a range of dangerous snakes in Australia, such as the Brown Snake, Tiger Snake and Taipan.
• Australia has over 750 different reptile species, more than any other country in the world.
• Australia is a relatively wealthy country with a high life expectancy.
• Australia hosted the 1956 (Melbourne) and 2000 (Sydney) Summer Olympics.
• For more information, check out maps of Australia or take a closer look at the Australian flag.

circuits,BP challenge,geoboards

Hi bloggers in the last week we have been doing class rotation. We had in Manukau circuits and in Waitemata BP challenge. In Hauraki was  geoboard . Each class started at our own class. We did it every Friday.

                                     circuits

In Manukau Mr Riceman  taught us about circuits and we had a Little light and a flat battery. One piece of card-board and some tinfoil and some tape we had 1 hour to make our designs we could  decide if we wanted a partner or not. Here are some photos.

                       BP challenge


In Waitemata Mr R gave us 45  min to Mack a Bridge that cold hold a marble  as far as possible.  We had 2 long strips of tape and 4 strews and 1 mar ball 5 toothpicks and 3 ice block sticks and 1 cup heir are some photos.

                         geoboards

We had a long piece of wood and we had to masher the bored then cut the wood with a hand sore and then we spas-id out dots and then we pot permanent marcher. we hammerer the nails in to the wood and then we pot rubier bands on the nails heir are some photos.