Procedural text!

Procedural Text!

Kia orana everyone! For this post I'm going to talk about the procedural writing we have done for writing. We learnt about what makes a procedure writing and how to make one. We could choose to either write about a cultural game or a normal game like tag. There were 6 steps to make a procedure writing we needed a title, quick explanation, what you need/equipment, numbered steps and a diagram. Here is my text:

The game I chose was a traditional Russian game called Stream. We watched a video of a mans daughter and son giving a procedural text on how to make PB&J and it went didnt go well. I learnt that sentences in procedural texts have to start with verbs and that it has to be extremely specific. After writing on a google drawing we had to publish it on a google doc, here is my final text:

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STEM Week Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

 Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

Kia orana everyone. For this post I will be talking about how we had student led toolkits in our own school! Our school did this for STEM week which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. This toolkit was pretty much the same as the one in Owairaka School, we had 3 sessions, lots of choices but the middle school was joining us. The people who went to the toolkit in Owairaka school but didn't present had to present for this toolkit. The presenters could choose whether they wanted to use the toolkit from the smackdown or make a new slideshow for one of the toolkit they went to. My friend Ayana and me were presenting Book Creator!

The first toolkit I went to was Piskel, Piskel is an website to make pixel art, you can also animate your pixel art! Piskel was in the room Haumia. The presenters for this toolkit was Zara and Josie. They told us everything about Piskel like how to use the colours and pen. They also tought us a hack to animating your pixel art! I made 2 pixel art, one was a moving skeleton mouth and a dancing skeleton. This was a fun toolkit and my second favourite!

The second toolkit we were presenting Book Creator. This toolkit was in the hall. Book creator is an website you can use to make books or comics! We explained what book creator was and how to use it. It was hard trying to get everyone to sign in becuase some people had problems loading the website. After explaining how to use Book Creator the students had 15 minutes to make their own book, our only rule was no violence. It was fun to present but we were nervous!

Third toolkit we had to present again. This time it went better then last time because we knew what to say this time and not many people had problems! Some people said they loved our toolkit and we also did some sharing time at the end if people wanted to share. Not many people needed help this time and even a teacher was surprised with this website!

This was a fun day and I would like to do it again I also think they should do this every term so we can learn lots of different fun websites, but the presenters have to be different each time so everyone gets a chance. Blog you later!

Toolkits 2021!

 Toolkits 2021!

Bonjour everyone! For this amazing post I will be talking about the student led toolkits that happened on the 20th of may. For this years toolkits we went to the Owairaka School! Some of the people were presenters and the others were just going to test some of the apps. We had 3 sessions, non presenters had those 3 sessions to look around but presenters only have 2 sessions to look around because they have to present at least once. We also had to have buddys so my friend, Ayana went with me and we chose the same tookits! I wasn't one of the presenters but I did have 3 sessions. The 1st was Book Creator which was my favourite, 2nd was making a book using Google Slide and the last was Coding with Minecraft. 

Book creator was probaly the most fun for me. Book creator is an app/site which you can use to make a book or even a comic! For a regular book you can add text, change the background,import photos and even draw. But for comics you can choose different kinds of panels which you can upload photos in, there is big comic stickers,different kind of comic backgrounds but my favourite is the different kinds of text boxs. This is a good website/app to make books!

Next was making a book using a google slide, I chose this because I like making books but It was boring for me. I also thought It would have some kind of special trick for making a book. I couldn't think of a story to make but eventually got one. All we had to do was make a new google slide, add a title, add some text and importing free images from a site called Pixabay. There was also A site called Pobble 365 were we could get Ideas from. I kind of liked this toolkit!

The last was Coding with Minecraft! The code with minecraft we had to go to this site called hour of code and find the minecraft coding games. There were different types of minigames like aquatic voyage, designing, and learning to code. I made it through 3 of the minigames guickly then got halfway through the main coding. This was a fun session of coding!

After our 3 sessions we had some people from Fusion come in to talk to us about cyber saftey and how they became interns. They also talked about how they became techinicians and being technicians like them if we wanted! I want to be a technician when I grow up! Toolkits is my 2nd favourite thing so far. Blog you later everyone.

Spark Arena Trip!

 Spark Arena Trip!

Hello Fishies! For this amazing and fun post I will be talking about the year 6s Spark Arena trip. The year 6s went on the bus to the Spark Arena for free! The CEO of spark arena, Brendon Hines organized this very expensive trip for us. Royal Road school and Lincoln Heights School also came with one of their classes/years. We had 3 exhibitions set up, one was for the public and the other 2 were set up just for the schools. The 3 exhibitions names was the Happy place, Van gogh and sounds fun also we had 30 minutes at each exhibitons. Theres one more exciting thing, we had the famous Suzy Cato there as well!

The first exhibition we went to was the happy place! In the happy place we started off by diving into a ballpit! The ballpit was taller than most students by an inch and only 4 people got to go down at a time. The ballpit was also hard to get out but really fun! Next we had 3 small boxes to take pictures in! One of them had chains every where, the next had a tub with rubber duckies on the walls. The last one had glittering silver walls on it as if your a popstar. They also had 3 other big rooms! One was an room with a unicorn, another was an upside down room and the last one was a chocolate chip cookie with the chocolate chips being doors. There was another room that we had to wait for, the room had lots of pretty flowers in it. My most favourite and last room was the room with a dome. The dome had confetti in it and we all jumped around and played while the wind from underneath!

Sounds fun was the next exhibition we went to. In the room we got to play with different kind of instruments like trumpets, trumbones, eletric drums and stuff like that. There was also stuff like keyboards and drum pads to play on. I would say it was like 4 stations. The Keyboard/drum pads station had a tablet and keyboards/drum pads set up so you can take lessons on how to make music using keyboards/drum pads. They had a station where you learn to use trumpets and trombones. Apparently they use thing small tubes that go into the trumpet/trombones to make sounds! 2nd to last station was the station with the electric drums. People learnt how to make music with the electric drums but I didn't go on it so I don't know much. The last station was the station where you got to play with some drum pads and keyboards while making music at the same time. That was really fun!

The finale exhibition was the Van gogh exhibition. If you don't know who Van gogh is he is a famous dutch artist who painted the famous starry night. There were 3 rooms in the exhibition, one of the rooms was the main one where his art was displayed with information about it for you to see. The other room was a giant black room that displayed the art on many screens, there was even a moving picture connected to all the screens! The prettiest room was the sunflower room. The sunflower room was tiny and had lots of artificial sunflowers everywhere with mirrors as walls! We didn't get to stay in it because it was just a walk through space.

 

The people there made us a packed lunch which included a sandwich, apple juice, an apple and a chip pack. There was a vegetarian sandwich for those who are halal or can't eat meat. I think that was the best trip so far! I hope we get another chance like this. Blog you later fishies!

Swimming at cameron pools!

 Swimming at Cameron Pools!

Bonjour Fishies! For this post I will be talking about the Cameron pools swimming lessons we are having. In this term we are having swimming lessons every tuesdays and thursdays from week 1 - 5. Only year 3 - 6 students get to go to cameron pools. The middle school swim in the nans pool and we seniors swim in the big pool where its deeper. For the seniors we have been split into 3 groups and we have 3 instructors. The instructors names are Jasmine, Alisha and Britany. My instructor is Jasmine!  

We started off by going over the basics like how to float, backstroke, freestyle and more like those using flutterboards. After going over the basics we started going into more advanced stuff like breathing while swimming, swimming on one side, swimming on your tummy then turning and so you get the idea. We also do dolphin dives but thats only at the end of swimming time. My favourite swimming technique is the one where you have to swim on your tummy then turn on your back beacause I think it's fun. I wish we could have more swimming days. 

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"A day in the trenches"

 "A day in the trenches"

The teachers locked us out and the doors and all blinds were down but after a while we were let inside, it was pitch black and we saw.... STRINGS everywhere! For ANZAC day the teachers made a surprise for us by making us feel what it's like in being in a trenchs from war times. The string was the mark for the trench and we had to crawl under it but if you went over the string that ment you got shot. The things we need were our art books, pen, ruler, rubber and a pencil. We had 10 lives and if you got shot you had one less also if you lost all your lives the teachers would've made you do things like make their lunch!

We did school work under the trenches by starting off with maths. For maths we did a basic facts test and while we were doing it the teachers played bomb explosions and gunfire sounds! People were starting to get distracted with the sounds and I think I did less then my last basic facts test. For writing we wrote a letter to someone in our family about being in the trenches and how it felt. For stuff the fruit break we just had to pass the fruit box and compost bin around the syndicate. 

Halfway through everyone got sore knees and elbows but it still wasn't over. We also did art were the teachers would say a story and we have to draw the scene, we had to draw 12 scenes for art. After this we unravelled all the strings in pairs. My favourite part of the day was maths because I actually like maths tests. It must've been very hard for the soldiers that fought especially how they fought for years!

I think that this day of learning about ANZAC is my favourite day of the year so far! Bye bloggers.

Netball

Netball!

Pass it to me! Kia ora Everyone! For term 1 we learned about a sport called netball, netball is a sport about teamwork and strategy and it is really fun! We had Joselina and Olivia come to our school on wendsdays and teach us netball. To start off with we learn't about the rules in netball like staying 1 metere apart when someone else is shooting but the most important rule in netball was that you cannot move with the ball! We started doing the basic stretches like high knees, bum kicks and sprinting then we did dynamic stretches like Squats and lunges! For the first few weeks we started to learn about skills like passing and piviting. If you don't know what piviting is its when you keep on foot on the ground and the other foot twists around so you can pass the ball to the other side if you need to. 

After learning these skills we played different games, one of them was called golden child. Golden child is when you have 2 teams, the runners and the shooters. The runners have to run around the court to get to the other side while shooters are trying to shoot the ball in the hoop. If the ball gets in the hoop while your running you have to stopin your place. The golden child is at the back of the line and when its their turn they will tap the people stuck on the shoulder while their running and you have to run to the end with them. If someone shoots a goal the runners lose but if the runners make it the shooters will lose!

We played lots of other games and we also played a real netball game. There was a bib team and non bib team. The caller will call a number of people like 5 or 4 and those people have to try score a goal in the other teams hoop. My favourite part of netball was playing the actual game! Blog you later!