Amazing Mosaic art

Kia ora koutou for the past week we have been doing digital mosaic art. We had to find images to use and then use shapes to create the shape of the image. My image was a Saber Tooth tiger. When we do the outside of the image we had to use transparent lines so it would have more effect. I really enjoyed this art because it is really creative. Would you like to do some digital art like this? 

Wonder Project day 2

Kia ora koutou today our guest Troy and Gustavo had came back to our school for the Wonder Project. Today we talked about Health and Safety and being safe around hazards. We talked for a while about being safe for example: Stay clear from the experiment (if it’s like a rocket) and make sure you have a supervisor. Here is a DLO to tell you what we have been talking about and what we need to do. Today what I enjoyed was working with my group.

Wonder Project Slide

Wonder Project

Kia ora koutou last week in Te Ngahere some guest from a company called wonder project came to talk to us about how they have been seeing and experimenting new things that we haven’t seen before. They have been experimenting a red coloured kiwi fruit that we didn't even know about but about this time next year they will sell them at the shop. The guests names were Gustavo and Troy they are two really smart people that are an engineer and a scientist things. What I learnt is you don’t have to be told what to do in life you just need to follow your own gut. Would like to do something like this ?

Amazing Feathers Art

Amazing Feathers Art.

 Kia ora koutou this week we have started a new type of art which relates to Matariki. We are going to be making a korowai from paper feathers that we colour in. We had four different options of feathers to choose from . I choose one that had a pretty difficult design to colour. Reason why I choose that one because it was sort of a challenge and I like challenges..Once our whole class is finished we will ma Maybe you could do something like this?

Fractions DLO

Kia ora Koutou for the past few days we have been learning to properly understand fractions and figure out what the numerator and denominator did. The Teacher explained what the two words meant, The numerator means how much pieces they have eaten or taken and the denominator means how much pieces there originally are. We had to make a DLO to explained how we solved the problems that we already answered. When we finished our DLO we had to Screencastify it so people could listen to it. Here is the video link. 

Fraction Screencastify


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Turbo Touch Tournament

Kia ora koutou on Tuesday Te Ngahere had a little Tournament we had one last week too. This week was our last tournament we got into our teams my team was called the Seagulls, the first team we played against was the champions we won and the score was 8-0. Our second team we versed was the Chigs we won once again and the score was 6-

We enjoyed playing a turbo touch tournament but at the end of the game we came second and lost by two points but we still enjoy playing.

Here is a link of rules to play turbo touch.

Turbo Touch Rules

Meke Turbo Touch

Kia ora koutou in Te Ngahere week one our new teacher Whaea Shanna taught us a new game called turbo touch. Whaea shanna explained the rules so we could understand how to play, we went onto the field to practice a bit. Before we started to practice each team had to have four to five players. Once we had a good fifteen minutes of practice we got into the real game my team of boys had won all our games. Our teacher gave us a challenge ( our group thought was easy which it was) 5 players against 10, she gave us the challenge because our team was really good we let the option start with the ball. We enjoyed playing Turbo touch, hopefully Whaea Shanna Stays a bit longer this year.

Fantastic Energize

Kia Ora koutou on Monday week five energizer Whaea Gina came in to our class to talk to us about healthy eating she talked to us about the different food groups. There were four food groups such as meat and meat products, dairy and dairy products ,fruit and vegetables and the last one was grain. Whaea Gina gave us a challenge the challenge was we had to have at least two things from each food group. We have created a DLO to show what we have learnt and tell you more information hope you enjoy Kai Kite.

Re-learning Aha Ngapuhi E

Kia ora Koutou for the past few weeks Paihia Kapa Haka Roopu have been re-learning the haka Aha Ngapuhi E. We did not take long to learn the words but it was hard to pronounce them properly but we got there. A couple days later we started to learn the actions some were easy but the other were a bit hard. We have not been saying and doing the right things for this haka because our tutors told us “back in the old days people did not pronounce the proper words and they got lazy and started making their own words up”. It makes us feel happy that we re-learned this haka and we when present the haka we are not embarrassed of doing a different way. Because now we have the same action and Kupu as the rest of Ngapuhi. When we complete learning Aha Ngapuhi we will teach the rest of the school so they know the haka as well. 


enjoy Kai Kite.

Swim Safety With Whaea Tracy

Kia ora bloggers last Thursday Whaea Tracy came to Te Ngahere to talk about swim safe. She came and talk to use about being safe on the water and being in the water. First she talked to us about the five rules being safe on the water. There are five rules to be safe on the water the first rule is You need a suitable life jacket for yourself and others. Rule number two is to tell who your going with how many people your taking and tell them what time you would be back. The third rule is to take a flare one that is safe there are two safe options the flare gun and a parachute flare it is a really safe one though . The fourth rule is to check the weather before going out on the water just to be safe. The fifth rule on the water is to buy a boat beacon for your boat and you can buy a little one for yourself small one is really handy. These are really handy rules so you can be safe on the water. 

Next time I could work faster to get a DLO done. 

Free Standing Tower

In Te Ngahere we have been doing STEAM challenges. Our challenge was to make the tallest newspaper tower. The rule was we had to use limited equipment to create our tower. The limited equipment was 30 cm of tape and two sheets of newspaper. The tricky part was we had to use 30 cm of tape, but if we wanted the tape in smaller pieces we had to bite the tape to make it smaller, because the limited equipment didn’t include scissors. We had to use two sheets of newspaper. we were able to split it in half but it had to be done by hand  as we could not use any other equipment. 

What I could do better next time is to think of a better idea to create our tower. When it was time to go up and measure our tower my group and I had not completed our tower. We were very nervous because we had not finished. We had a Great time Ka Kite

Week 8: Practicing for the Kaikohe culture festival.

Kia ora bloggers, for the past few weeks our Kapa Haka Roopu has been practicing for the Kaikohe cultural festival. We are working very hard to complete our bracket, My goal is to work on my sharp movements and don’t be as stiff but move with the waiata rhythm. We have been using our rakau that we cut, smoothed and polished but sadly we have to wait until they get blessed before we use them outside of school. We have been putting new ideas into our whole bracket but also things that I’ve struggled with facials and keeping focused so I can be a good role model for our backline. Our roopu is slowly getting smaller two people actually dropped out of the roopu but we are still doing great even though our roopu is small. Also on Monday we even have a after school practice I think it’s going to be fun. Blog you later.

Kaikohekohe Cultural Festival.

Kia ora koutou. Today our Kapa Haka Roopu finally went to the Kaikohekohe Cultural Festival. We had a fantastic time there. It was amazing to see our whanau watching us. It was a bit nerve-racking to go up on the stage. Once we started we were fine but when we got half way through some us made a lot of mistakes but we still kept going. Once we got off our whanau and friends came and gave their kids a hug and a cheer; they were so happy. The Kapa Haka roopu was so happy that they went and performed there. We were so glad we came back and our teacher said our reward was a juicy each. It was pretty relaxing and refreshing to eat. We hope we can get another opportunity like this again. Kia ora. Here are some photos and a video if you watch the video it would be great if you comment. Thanks Ka Kite.

Here is a link to our video  Kaikohekohe Cultural Festival video

Roopu Rakau

Roopu Rakau Yesterday the boys from the kapa haka roopu finally had a chance to work on their rakau. First we did a karakia to start off our day once we finished our karakia we got handed our rakau. Then we got given instructions about safety, which we had to be careful on how we handle the power tools. After that we began to sand the bark off our rakau it was really tiring to do but we still got there. Then later on we got the electric sanders first we used p80 ( we didn't really understand what that meant), then we used p120 sandpaper to make it even smoother. We would have our usual breaks at morning tea and lunch then we would get back to our rakau, once we finished sanding with the p120 we would an other sander we called the black smoother sander we all laugh because it was really funny it took a long time to do but we finished using the black smoother sander. We used this special oil to make our rakau shiny (if you drank the oil you would most likely die). We called it coating oil because we used it to coat the rakau we had to use a cloth and some gloves, when we had done we took a photo. I really enjoyed doing the rakau with my friends.





My Friends are really funny sometimes.

Te Reo Week 2

Te Reo Week 2 

 Kia ora Bloggers the last week we have been doing Te reo Maori we had to make a google slide. When we finished creating the slide we would take photos of our buddy or ourselves we would also use an app to take the background out to make png. We would say He Aha Tenei meaning What is this then we would reply He something Tena but we wouldn’t actually say He something tena for example He aha tenei ? He pene rakau tena we had to do ten slides of different objects we used the photos that we download from the app and put the photo on the google slide we were also able to buy ourselves or with a buddy my buddy was Dalton. We have been having fun we are going to do something fun next too well blog you later.         

The Ned Show!!!!

In week two we had two special guests come to our school. Their names were Ned and the Amazing Nicole. They came to our school to tell us how our brain works and about Mindset Mission. Ned stands for N Never Give Up, E Encourage others and D means TO DO YOUR BEST. We all learnt that instead of giving up we needed to keep going and Nicole said use the power of Yet!!!. Which means I can’t do it YET but don’t give up. Nicole presented some tricks through her show she used an Excelerator (the excelerator is a very cool yoyo it is an yoyo for professional but you do not have to be professional to buy one). She did so many cool tricks like around the world and other cool ones. I really in enjoyed ( even though I was late) the show was very interesting. Bye 

Cross Country

Kia ora bloggers for the past Week we have been practicing cross-country. Te Ngahere have been doing great efforts in cross-country training, Our times have been very very good we have been achieving our goals that we want to achieve my goal is to run fast and reading drain my time (what I mean by drain my time is to take off time). My first time was 10 minutes and 10 seconds,Second time was 7 minutes and 55 seconds and then my third one, was 8 minutes and also my four one was 7 minutes and 38 seconds.

Cross Country Spreadsheet

Infograpic

Infographic Yesterday in Te Ngahere we made a infographic. An infographic is a graphic with information on it that explains things using images and a little bit of words. 

 The steps are: 

Ask a question Gather information and observe (research) Make a hypothesis (guess the answer) Experiment and test your hypothesis Analyze your test results Present a conclusion

Infographic Easel.ly

Rippa Rugby

2 weeks ago we had Rippa rugby in kaikohe we played against a lot of teams and we lost some of them and won a couple when we had a break we were practicing our moves we made a move called wokanda then we made another move called wakonda forever We used this move on our very last game But we practice these moves throughout our other games we had difficulties working as a team but we got there. however our other half of our team won all of the games I was a bit jealous but I was too glad for them. 



 At the end of the day we all have fun and on the leaderboard with my team came for us and the other team came first and if your first or second place on the leaderboard our team wins the qualifiers they are able to go to Wellington with matua Pep.

Taku Whanau

Kia ora bloggers. The past week we have been doing our Taku Whanau. We had to say our family and we ha to say in te reo maori this is this my Mum this is my Uncle this the younger brother of my Mum is was really diffetcul to make animation. We really had a long time to work on it then after we finished the animation we We had to use screencastify to say our whanau in Maori We had to go somewhere quiet. The boys I was with they were a bit noisy and they made me laugh it was really hard to speak because  and the corner of my eye the boy was laughing. But at the end of the day I finished my taku whanau. Ka kite bloggers