Cross Countery

In Te Ngahere we have cross country coming up.
We have been practicing our running to keep our fitness up.
We had to run 5 times around the pump track,
5 times around the field and 5 times around the court.
We had to get timed for our running and my times kept on going up
and down. We had to make a graph and put our results into seconds.
After we put it in seconds we had to make a line graph.
We used a line graph because pie graphs are harder to understand
then line graph.  We had to name the Y and X axis
so people understand what the lines and numbers mean. 

Science Fair

This year in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the scientific
method. We had to come up with an awesome idea for us to
experiment. For the science fair, me and my buddy Anyah were
doing a experiment called, Warm Vs Cold. Does warm cheese rot
faster than cold cheese?We did this experiment because it is  a real
life problem. Also because my buddy's brother leaves the cheese
out of the fridge for an 1 hour because he likes it warm but my buddy
doesn’t like warm cheese is good for you. Instead of using containers
we used petri trays to grow the bacteria for us, so we don’t have to
wait for a long time for the cheese to rot.  We are really proud of
what our results were. 

Cross country training (2 laps)

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Cross Country training.
We have been running 2 laps of our field, pump track and court.
We were trying to decrease the amount of time it took us to finish
the course, also keeping our fitness up. I am very proud of myself
because I have decrease my time by a lot of seconds. I’m not fast
at running but I know that I try my best and push myself to the finish
line. To get our blood pumping we have been doing some warm up
and warm downs after training. Next time I gonna try get a few
seconds off my time. 

Last week in Te Ngahere we did some coding with Mr Lindsay. He was teaching us how to draw all different shapes, like the rhombus, parallelogram and cubes. We learnt to make shapes using degrees to construct our shape. We also used a coding site to construct our designs. At times I found it hard to figure out all the numbers for the degrees and pixels. It was fun to have a play around with the numbers, angles, pixels and degrees to make design shapes. I could work on using more actions to code more complex shapes.

Last Wednesday, at Paihia School, our awesome parents and PTA heald a glow in the dark disco. Our school was excited to have an disco. The theme was black and white with an awesome vibrant glow in the dark paint. The vibrant paint glowed under the bright black led light. Mmmm, yum nachos and Hot dogs where freshly made waiting for people to buy. All my friends were there dancing having a brilliant time listening to the cool music. Our disco started at 6.15pm. I hanged out with a group of friends from my classroom. I really enjoyed hanging out with my friends, eating the yum food and listening to great music.

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about STEAM. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and maths. Our STEAM activity was a marble run. My partners are Missy and Emma. The challenge was to create a ramp that rolls 110cm away from the ramp. The activity challenged us to find different variables. A variable is when you adjust, change your experiments. This activity is a fun enjoyable task, I loved how we get to change the angles of the ramp. What I could do better is help my partners more as a team.

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about these four explores, Kupe, Nukutawhiti, Abel Tasman and James Cook. We learnt about how they got to Aotearoa. We did a DLO about Kupe and we had to answer three questions. How they got here? What the impact  did they leave behind? Why did they come to New Zealand? What I enjoyed was, that I could find information really easy and learn about people I didn’t even know about. Our group did well finding information about Kupe. I think I could of collaborated with my group better and work as a team.