Hauraki's Gala Preparation

Hello, This year Waikowhai is hosting a gala on November 25th. We are fundraising for the junior playground as well as not using plastic bags as often. Each class had to make different items for the gala. There are Tote Bags, Recycled Paper, Soap and other exciting items. This was awesome because it taught me how to sew and how to make a tote bag. This could be really helpful in the future. If you wanna learn for yourself these are the steps of making a tote bag. First you wanna grab 2 pieces of fabric a bit bigger than how big you want the bag to be. Then flip them inside out for later when we flip them around again. Pin every side except for the top which you want to be exposed so you can put things in your bag. Start sewing at the top right corner and go down, across and up the other side. After that you fold the top down. You should pin it then iron it. Put one side of the bag under the sewing machine and sew all the way around until you come to the spot you started at. Fold it down again and iron that. Sew that all the way around and then you can add straps to your bag. Sew a square where the end of the handle would be. Well Done! You have made your bag! If you want to look at some of the photos we took:

Our first ones weren't as good as our 2nd and 3rd bags. We barely knew what we were doing and needed a lot of help at that stage. It hasn't changed my thinking a lot on plastic bags because I already knew that plastic bags did a lot of damage and harm to the environment. But I did not know that, that many animals eat plastic. This is very sustainable because we have used old paper to make brand new paper and made tote bags to stop using plastic bags.

Frog Whistle Mine - Reading Slideshow

Hello everyone, a few weeks ago we made a reading slideshow on the book Frog Whistle Mine. We had to write the main parts of the story in the plot or story line. We had to tell others the problems the character faced and how they solved it. The next two slides are about the main character and the minor character. We wrote about what he looks like, what his actions are and his personality traits. We also wrote our favourite moment in the book and two reasons why it is. Also we had to add a screencastify of ourselves reading that part in the story. The opinion PMI stands for Plus (Positive), Minus (Negative) and Interesting. Then we did our thinking hats which mean Information, Good, Negative, How they feel, What was creative and What should they do now? We then used tinkercad to create something in our book. Then we questioned the story with our questioning board.

This was a cool and awesome experience. It was quite hard because we had to write a lot about the story and that needs you to look through the story and find that part. I liked the book a lot because it was really mysterious.

NZ Journey

Hi, a week ago we did a slideshow called NZ Journey. We basically had to plan a trip having the most fun as possible while trying to stay under a budget of $500 per day. There were 11 days in this trip and we are travelling from Dunedin to Cape Reinga with car rentals, petrol, hotels and activities. We also calculated how far we drove and how long it took.

This was insanely fun but only lasted a few days. Sadly I went over budget by about $1100. This was definitely the most fun we have ever had in a math activity. If I did this again I would probably choose a Juicy Rental so I don't have to stay in the hotels for more money but I still have the option to. In slide 15 I missed out on a lot of activities because I really wanted to go to Hilton Hotel. I also missed out on the Helicopter Ride on the next slide. This is where my budget was way over.

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Cross Country 2017

A few days ago we did cross country in our school. We did a 2K run around our school. While others were running we played games and group games in places that they were not running. When it got to our turn my heart was beating! It was very tiring when I finished and when I did, I didn't come anywhere close to the top 5. Most of our parents came and watched us run. I will show you some pictures of us running.

Inquiry

For the last week we were doing our Inquiry about mountains. We could do anything to present our work. I decided to present it using an animation. Others did it by painting, drawing, paper mache and building. If you want to watch my animation it is down below; also you need to hold down right or down button to make it look better.

I really enjoyed this because we were learning and also playing around with animation. In it you can see the little characters moving. It is made with a lot of google slides in one presentation. Please comment on my work!

Magical World of Crazy Science - Richard and Robyn

Today we went to the hall and we had a look at some cool science. We learnt a lot of things when we were there. Also there were a lot of amazing things like when they showed us how a baby nappy works. In the baby nappy there is something called "Polymer," that turns liquid into a solid. So he got a cup of water with yellow food colouring to make it look like pee, and poured it into a cup of Polymer and then he tried to pour it onto his head but it became solid. This show was mostly about chemicals. Also there was a really cool one that he turned on a blow dryer and he put a ping-pong ball on top and it floated! When he moved it, the ball followed the blow dryer! He taught us that the thinnest object in the world that can be seen with the naked eye is a bubble! He made a lot of tiny bubbles and at the end he made a gigantic bubble that he could probably fit in. Once he put it around his head and it was so cool! I wonder how he tossed a firework out of his hand!

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Pixel Art

Ola Bloggers, We made Minecraft Characters for Maths. We also made other video game characters and also real life people like Logan Paul: Max in my class made it be sure to check out his blog: Max's Blog

Logan Paul

Steve

Steve is one of the ones that all of us did. It is an amazing idea to make this. If you're wondering how to make this, you make a Google Forms Sheet and change the size of the boxes to 30, horizontal and vertical to make a square shape. Then you just change the colours by using the fill tool. Here are the instructions:

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