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I Turned 10!

Kia Ora Bloggers!

Welcome to term 4! As you all know we are still in lockdown. Our first class meet was today. The teachers assigned us all to make a blog post about what we did in the holidays. So I said 'I turned 10!' Here's what I did.

For my birthday we got a Llama cake. On it said 'Llamas are cool!' We ate a lot of cake, and you will be happy that we ate it over three days, not one. The day before my birthday, we shared it with my grandparents. On my birthday, we shared it with my friend. And the day after my birthday, we ate it ourselves. 

I got my "llama"* from my parents on the morning of my birthday. I didn't know what a "llama" was before I unwraped it. You see, a "llama" is not a llama. Very confusing. * The "llama" was just a dad joke. It is actually a Lego Hotel.

In the moring I met Anna, who has the same birthday as me, in a little reserve near her house. It is an easy walk to get there. Anyway, I gave her a present and she gave me one too. I gave her a small lego set and she gave me a water-proof swimming bag and some double-sided highlighters. We played around and I went onto her front lawn for a while.

In the afternoon we went to the park to meet up with my friend and her mum. We brought the cake with us because, why not? We met at Potters Park in the band rotunda. We ate cake, I got another birthday present, and my friend and I played on the playground. Then it started to rain. So we gathered up our stuff, said goodbye, and went home. On the way home mum had to pick up the wine she ordered a couple of days before.

My Mum cut my hair! To do this well, we Facetime called my hairdresser to get tips. She cut it to just below my shoulders. There was a lot of hair on the floor when we had finished. I looked like a whole new me. 

In the evening mum cooked my favourite dish. Pork belly with crackling. It was in the oven for 4 1/2 hours and it tasted delicious, as always. On the side, was some cole slaw and mashed kumara. After dinner we watched my choice of TV. I only got to choose an episode of something, which really isn't fair because it was my birthday and I shound have been able to stay up late.

I hope you had as much fun reading about my birthday as I had doing it. Blog you later!

 

Marble run(s) project

Kia Ora bloggers,

For my extra learning projects I have been making marble runs. Two years ago I made a marble run.

Here it is.

Then I made another one using;

Small boxes

Pool noodle

Stools

Chairs

Masking tape

Rock

Tray 

Balloons

blue - tac

Paper

Magazine

Tube

Ipad cushion

Funnel

Marble

The Kitchen

My dad was filming while I put the marble in. Here is the video.

AND I made another one the day after, and I used;

Pool noodle

Toilet rolls

Masking tape

Bendy Tube

Other Masking tape

Nails (hammer kind)

Shelf Stand

'POP' Dolls

Wooden rail tracks

Tube

Mr. Fussy from 'Mr. Men'

Funnel

Container

Soft toy Olaf

Marble

My Bedroom

Again, my dad filmed it. Here is the video

I had a lot of fun, but when it didn't work I got a bit frustrated.

I hope you like my marble runs.

Blog you later!

Create a Planet writing

Kia Ora Bloggers,

Annoyingly we are still in lockdown. Somehow I kind of hope we stay like this for a little longer. I think my wish will come true, because I don't think we are going into level 2 anytime soon. Anyway, my favourite peice of work this week would probably be Monday's writing task. We had to get a piece of baking paper and fold it in half lengthways. Then we had to unfold it and on one side starting in the middle, write our first name in linked writing. After that we had to fold it in half again and trace our name on the other side. We had to colour in our name so that it looked at least a bit like an alien. When we were done with our alien we had to write a description of the planet it lived on. Here is my description.

My alien lives on planets Zorg. Planet Zorg has two sides, one that is steaming hot and another that has salt storms and snow. To get on to this planet you have to land a rover from over 1 million miles away because of the planet's gravitational force. The population here is low and there is only about 500 aliens on this planet. The aliens that live here are all the same so the only things unique about this place are the plants. There are many plants here and they are all different. Some of them even look like flip-flops. This planet is famous for its bubbly hot springs and their warm hot chocolates. If you came across this planet looking for resources, you would find a lot of mines inside the Snowy Mountains. Inside these mines there is a lot of silver and iron to collect. Zorg has their very own mining team to help you get all the silver and iron you need. Zorg population use little buggies to get around the planet easily. If you were to get to planet Zorg you would have to travel 1 light year (9.5 trillion km) away!

I hope you like my writing. 

Blog you later!

 

Paralympian DLOs!

Fakalofa Lahi Atu Bloggers,

This week the Teachers assigned us some work on making a DLO about a chosen Paralympian. I did my one about Jayne Craike. As soon as we had all the information we needed to make it we would put it on a new google slideshow, or a book in Book Creator. As I'm sure you will know, we are in lockdown. Again. Each individual class has their google meet to catch up everyday. On Wednesday and Friday the whole syndicate has a Google meet together. On Fridays, as usual, we give out certificates like at the assemblies back at school. My favourite tasks are the extra ones because we get to make forts with pillows and do cooking. Here is a link to my DLO.

I hope you enjoy reading my DLO and all the other blog posts I will be doing over this lockdown.

Stay safe, and Stay home!

 

More Olympics!

Welcome back bloggers!

This is more facts about the Olympic Games!

Did you know that Lisa Carrington, the Maori NZ Canoer, has won THREE GOLD medals so far in the canoe sprint! So far we have got 7 GOLD, 6 SILVER, and 6 BRONZE medals. The Maori name for the Olympics is Taumahekeheke. 

Each classroom has their own medal tally and they each have different ways of marking it. Hauraki colours in the circles with black marker and writes what sport we won it for. Waitemata colours in the circles with the relevant colours but does not write the sport. Manukau colours in the circles with black marker and also does not write the sport.

Anyway, that's all for this week! 

I will update you soon!

Bye!

Olympic Sport Study!

Talofa lava Bloggers!

The Olympic Games in Tokyo started last Friday night (23rd July) when the Olympic flag came into the stadium and the Olympic flames were set alight. This week we have been, and are still working on, our research on one of the sports in the Olympics. This was part of our inquiry work. We were also lucky enough that the Teachers let us watch the Olympic games whilst doing our work! Before we could do the research on a sport we had to finish another slideshow on the logos for every single sport in the Olympic games this year. I chose artistic gymnastics because it is basicly ballet and gymnastics together and I have done both before! Then we could start our sport study. We had to include; 

• A Description of the Sport

• Country it started in - Map / Continent

• Basic History of the sport

• Countries the sport is popular in

• Number of countries involved

• Well known athletes and or teams 

• How long it has been in the Olympic Games 

• How it has changed over time

• How it has been affected by Covid-19

• Other Interesting facts

• Reflection and Summary

Here is the link to the sport study slideshow.

And here is the link to the logos slideshow.

I think I have done pretty well, what do you think?

Please consider leaving a comment.

Blog you later!

Bye!👋