Minecraft Challenge

Last week we had to do a challenge on Minecraft we were stuck on a deserted island and we had to build something that we would need so Olivia and I decided to make a house with heaps of food and amour and we put horses around outside. Olivia found a baby turtle so we made a turtle pen. We also made a kill pen if we run out of food we put in pigs, chickens and cows we made that on the top of the house and there is a ladder at the back of the house to get up. After we were done building we had to write about it and do a lot of planning. Have you played Minecraft before?

The School Production

 This year we have been learning the school production.  It is called Snow white and the waru and a half matific Monster. There are 4 scenes in the show and I am in two of the scenes. In the show, there are narrators, snow-white, Monsters, Mr Cowl
, prince, guards, Frog, wicked queen, Kind queen, huntsmen, mirror, Horse, fairy, Tree, rock and bird. Every class has a dance as well these are the songs for the dances Kereru-Am I wrong Piwakawaka-Hall of fame Tui-Shake it off Weka-Fame and Weka Teana has Happy but then we have three other songs one is KFC song one is Celibrason and the other one is Ugly Hert the dance group is dancing to Ugly Hert. There is a lot that goes on in the show

Have you ever watched snow white before and the seven dwarfs before?

The puzzle

Quite a while ago we started a puzzle. And we are still doing it right now. Its called Lego minifigure faces. It's really hard because there's a lot of pieces that look the same. And it's a 1000 piece puzzle.Yesterday I done about 30 bits and Mum Nate and Meia done about the same.It's taking us quite a while but we're just about finished we have got about 100 or 200 more pieces to go. Have you ever done a 1000 peace puzzle before?

The big bike

 The other day we went out to our granddad's house for a bike. We biked from his house to my family's house. We went down the road and went into a track. Then when that track was about 1/4 away from finishing we went on a different track. It had a really big hill going up so i had to walk up it. after a we while we got to the end of the track so we crossed the road and went down the golf course. Then we went down the drive way and we were home. Then I got in the spa. Dad said the bike ride was about 15km! Have you been on a long bike ride before?

The beach

 The other day we went down to the beach for a walk. When we got there we had a little play. The next day we went back to the beach because it was really hot. We got in our and togs and went swimming in the water once we got cold we went and got our towels. When I was getting my towel I saw my friend Renny. Then I went back over to where we were sitting and we had some food. Then I went over and jumped off the little Bank. After a while we went back home and had a shower. 🏖

A cat hat and Maisy

Today in my Google meeting with my teacher my dad put Maisy on the top bunk with me. and yesterday I made a cat hat because we were having Crazy Hat Day and tomorrow we're having a crazy Shirt Day. When Maisie got put up here she kept crawling around everywhere and she sat on my nice fluffy blanket. She didn't want to go down so about 2 hours later she wanted to go down and she went outside. The cat hat took about Couple of hours to make. First I put all the face stuff on it and then I put the whiskers on then the tail. It was really hard. Have you ever put a cat on the top bunk before or made a cat hat?

 

Day 1 Lock down

 In the morning my brother Nate went on his motorbike so I went in the garage and got out the go cart. I was driving it up and down the drive and around the lawn. After lunch Nate got in the go cart and jumped over the little bike jump. The first jump the go cart broke the jump then dad had to come and fix it then he tried a couple more times and it worked. Then a bit later we went to the beach with the motorbike and the go cart then we drove around there then we went down a little bit more and we sore a seal so we turned the go cart around and we got stuck in the sand so every one had to help come and push it out. Also when we walked up to it it hissed at us.  Have you ever been on a motorbike, go cart or sore a seal before?🏍🚙

Seal

The amazing gifs

 Today we made some animated gifs.  First we put the camera up on our Chromebook then we had to take a video of something that we are doing. Then we had to go onto unscreen and and download the video on to unscreen then we had to put a background on them. Have you ever been on unscreen or made an animated gif?   This application lets you do Greenscreen video work without an actual Green Screen.

Time Capsule

 Yesterday we thought we should make a time capsule. We are making letters to put in there. We are writing them to ourself.  We are going to keep it in the ground for about 50 years and then people might dig it up. If no one digs it up in 50 years or less it might never get dug up! We are doing it because we might forget what it was like in the past. It is really fun writing it. Have you ever found or made a time capsule?

        

The most amazing and wonderful Sausage Bowl ever made in the whole entire world.

 This week we have been weaving flax. On Friday we are having a sausage sizzle we had to make a Harakeke plate to put our sausage. What we had to is we had to get 12 pieces of flax and then put 5 down then we had to put 7 down and weave. Then we had to do some folding. we also had to tie some of it to try make it stay on. We did this because it is are culture and it is Maratriki.  Have you ever made anything out of Harakeke?

Emmiy Carr Term 2

This term we have been trying to paint trees like Emiy Carr first we tried blending and painting trees. The second one we had to get sponges and sponge some paint on and we used three different colours then we had to paint the tree on then wait overnight. The next day we put our name on it then we were done. Have you learned about Emiy before? 

Fake News Site

 This week we have been learning about fake news. What we have to do is make a poster about things that you could notice in fake news sites or fake news posters. We also had to make a fake animal and we are going to show it to the other classes to see if they can tell if it is real or fake. We were reading about the tree octopus and we all thought that it was real but it is fake. Have you heard of a tree octopus.?

The highest rocket

 The other day we had a test flight with one of our rockets. We have been learning about the physics of bottle rockets.  We put pressure into the bottle,  and then the pressure forces the water out making the rocket rise up.  We are learning about problem solving and we have a completition.

 It went SO high. One of the wings fell off when it was coming down because it hit the tree. Then we tried it again with only two wings but the top was not strong enough so it blew a big hole at the top! people are still making their's and I am too so hope we are done soon. Are you made a rocket before?

Emily Carr Art

 

                                    I have been learning about Emily Carr. She is a famous artist. She is a Canadian artist. She loves to

paint trees, she loves the wild and she loves animals. She always blends colors in and mixes them.

This is important because we are learning about her this term for art. Have you ever painted trees or learned about

Emily Carr?🖌

    Emily Carr

Kaniere history

 We have been learning about Kaniere and Hokitika history. We went on West Coast Rcollect, which is a web site with lots of old photoo's on it, to find some pictures. We had some free time on it for a couple minutes so we could know what to do. After that we had to do it i went on Canva, which is a collage maker and I just put photos on there. I just did Kaniere. Have you done history of your area before? You can see the photo It was really fun.

War letter

This year we have been learning about the war. We have been making war letters. We had to do it on our chrome books first then write it on the paper. We had to get paper then we had to get some tea bags and put some tea over it to make it look old. After that we had to leave it in the sun to dry. We have to poppys on our front lawn for anzac day.

The best athletics!

 This year I am going to district athletics. I made it in for discus, high jump, shot put and 1000 meters. It will be on the 7th of April at the high school. I was really good with my sprints. I was right behind Elizabeth and Olivia. We hadn’t been practising it at school either. Have you ever been to districts before?

Cactus 🌵

 This year we have been doing Cactus. This is the first year Kaniere has been doing Cactus. Nearly every school in Hokitika does Cactus. This organisation helps us to get fitter and to learn important life skills. Our coaches are  Pita and Pascal. Every Wednesday and Friday we have cactus. Today we have been doing trust things. We had to be blindfolded and we had to have a partner. Our partner would help us put the blindfold on and then they would go over to Pita. Then Pita would show the others around where to guide us. I had to go to the playground and over and through the stage, it was very bumpy. My partner was Olivia Cuff I had to bring her through the dodgeball pit around the netball hoop around the tables and up and downhills. It was really fun! Do you do cactus?    

Districts swimming

 On Wednesday some people went to the district swimming. I only had two races. I got in for 2 lengths freestyle and 1 length breaststroke. Both of my races were at the start but my friend Olivia’s was around the end.Every Friday we went to the town pool and had a practice. It was really fun. Have you been to districts swimming before?

Rocket challenge🚀

 This year in Kereru we are doing a rocket challenge. We need to bring as much cardboard and bottles as we can. We need 1.5 lt bottles. We have got a pump to shoot the bottles. Last year Kereru made the rocket and one of the students' rockets went next door! The rocket challenge is a challenge you compete against other schools. First we have to get the bottles and the cardboard Mr Abbott our teacher is going to buy some hot glue guns for us. We need the hot glue guns to glue all the cardboard on. You get a little wet but it is fun have you ever did a rocket?

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The very fun day of clued up kids

This year Kereru went to Clued up kids. Clued up kids is when all kinds of safety people go to the Boys Brigade Hall. There was the Fire brigade, the Police, there was a horse the horse was there so we know what to do if is a horse in front of us. There was a man teaching about motorbike safety and  about wearing your helmet all the time there was St Johns, there was Kiwi rail, there was things about the Alpine Fault and there was kitchen safety. My favourite one was the horse and I have another one and it was the fire brigade because they had a maze. Have you ever been to Clued up kids?

The black cat! E-book

In Ruma Kererū we have been writing  E-books. We found some photos for our E-book. It is hard to think of what to write. I saw a picture of a cat so I did it of the black cat. My story is short but interesting. In the story my cat called 'Fluffy' was hungry so she went and found some wild food, rabbits!

Kawa of care

 

This is my kawa of care poster. When we looked at the slide with the rules on it we decided that the slide was not very inspiring    Our job was to turn this into a really cool poster.   Taylor and Xanthe, and I did it together. We did it on cavana. The  computer is a hook. Hooks are what makes you want to read it. We need big words so we can read it from a long way away.

Me poster

 

This is my "me poster" we did it so others could learn more about us. Our teacher Mr Abbot doesn't like white so we had to colour the whole thing in even the background. My favourite bit to colour in was the cake so I did that first. I didn't really want to do the pencil so I done that last. Have you ever done something like this?

SLJ Discovering Aotearoa

 All of my family is from New Zealand. I like New Zealand because it is interesting and fun. We love being close to my Nana and Granddad and not to far from the sea. All of my family speaks english.

SLJ Exploring the world

 This is all the food I would bring on a trip with Nainoa.    Chips 

                                                                                              Pasta

                                                                                              Fruit   

                                                                                              Bread

                                                                                              Biscuits 

                                                                                             Spaghetti

                                                                                             Eggs    

                                                                                             Jam   

                                                                                             Buns   

                                                                                             Rice bubbles