Waikowhai Intermediate

I have spent nearly 4 years at Waikowhai Primary now I'm moving on to Intermediate next year. I'm looking forward to start doing new things but I'm also quite scared that I have to be at school by 8:30. I've had a lot of highlights throughout our school years but my favourite one was probably camp. Here are some photos of camp we did last year.

I also enjoyed going to Tiritiri Matangi. Here are some pictures of Tiritiri:

And I also can't wait to go to Rangitoto. Then we are doing our Y6 speech. I already have mine planned so I don't have to embarrass myself on the stage. 

Summer Learning Journey

Hi Bloggers, This summer we are doing the Summer Learning Journey. 

For this blog post we had to choose a country that we would like to visit and I chose United Arab Emirates because a city inside United Arab Emirates is Dubai and I love how there are a lot of water parks. Some interesting facts about UAE is that they have the most unbalanced men to women ratio. For every 219 men there are 100 women. There are approximately 200 nationalities in UAE. The week also starts on Sunday and they go to school and work on a Sunday. Also they get Friday off. The link to the Summer Learning Journey is: https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome

Bicycles

Today we did some bicycle training. I actually didn't know how to ride a bike before this. The first thing we did was we learnt how to be safe on bikes. We learnt what clothes to wear. For example if you wear a skirt you have to tuck it under and sit on it so it doesn't get caught on the wheel. If you have a bag on you can buy a bag cover to put reflectors on your bag so cars can see you. 

Then the next day we started using bikes. Here is a photo of me starting to learn how to ride a bike.

This was very fun but the weather was kind of bad while we were riding. Sometimes it was very sunny and the next minute it was raining. I learnt how to ride a bike that day, I didn't think it would be that easy! If you want to check out Big Foot Adventures Cycle Skills it is at: http://www.bigfootadventures.co.nz/our-services/bike-skills/

Athletics Day 2018

On the 2nd of November we had an Athletics Day. There were many fun activities to do. There were also House Relays at the end which I got to compete in. At our school there are different houses which are Tui, Kea, Ruru and Pukeko. The fastest people out of different age groups got to run the house relay.

Shotput

Watching Sprints

Long Jump

High Jump

House Relays

 There was a lot of cheering and shouting on the day. Also we got points on her our age group behaved and whoever is the best gets a free iceblock.

Production Rehearsals

We have been doing rehearsals for the past 11 weeks. Last term the roles were told to us. The name of the production is Pasifika Peter Pan. It's kind of like Peter Pan but with a pacific twist. For example, the Lost Boys in this production are the Lost Tamariki. Rehearsals start at 3:15 and last to 4:15. Something that entertains me while I'm waiting for my turn to get on stage is spotting logical mistakes. I'm feeling pretty confident to get on stage and perform my act with my other fellow pirates.

Arrrghh!

Literacy Tumble 2

We did Literacy Tumble 1, 5 weeks ago. Now we have done Literacy Tumble 2. It basically is the same thing but it has different activities each week. Sometimes there are more must-dos and sometimes there are more should-dos. Every week is different. This is my slideshow:

This week my favourite activity was the words instead of said. It was hard and challenging trying to think of more words for the activity.

Literacy Tumble 1

Hi Everyone!

3 weeks ago we did something called the literacy tumble. Basically there are 4 must-do's, 4 should-do's and 3 could-do's. We have to finish all the Musts by the end of the week. Also sometimes our groups have sessions like writing and reading. Then we can use the reading and writing and do an activity which is most of the time a must-do. Here is my literacy slideshow:

This activity is fun as we can learn and do fun activities. One hard thing I found to do is try and complete all the should-dos and could-dos.

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