Daffodil Day At Ngatea School!

Today is a day to remember those who have cancer or who has passed on because of cancer. Today is Daffodil day. At Ngatea school we dressed up as what we wanna be when we grow up. I dressed as a netball player. I just wore my Netball dress, a thermal,A daffodil,My Netball,Ankle brace and my shoes. 

I play netball as my winter sport. I know a few people who has passed away from cancer and I think that the money that has been collected will hopefully do something in the near future. Edell and I both play shooting together so we decided to have a photo together. Hopefully one day if we get into the silver ferns or the Magic that we will be shooting together again. 

Group Endeavor Ignition

Today we have been doing more on our group endeavor ignition.   I am in a group working on power and energy. We had to write out our driving question.Our driving question is How can we reduce our carbon footprint? 

Some of our questions were. 

Is there a point in investing in solar panels?

Would they eventually pay themselves off ?

Could you make solar panels to heat your house?

Can you make solar panels with different shapes?

Can you make solar panels out of recycled items?

Is the energy that we are using now sustainable?

Is there a way for the entire world to preserve energy as a community so that we could use it for a longer period of time?

What would be the cheapest way to travel including fees?

If we made traveling cheaper would it be more expensive in the first place?

 I have a few questions to answer and share on my blog. 

• What is it I hope I will come to understand more deeply through this inquiry? How we can save power/ energy to benefit our environment.

• What knowledge might I need to help move towards this understanding? To learn about solar power and how it works

• What is it I hope to be able to do more competently?   To be able to tell people what this is doing to our environment and how simply turning off a light can save money.

• What learning powers will this inquiry help me practice and develop further?  (Explain this)

 Resilience I think is the most important one because if it gets hard you can't just give up you have to keep on going.

I think I will need to use Being Me because what if I am only in here because my friends are and i'm not really all that interested in it.

Connecting because I will have to connect with people who know quite a bit about it and my group in particular.

I will have to use Curiosity because if i'm not even interested in it why do I be doing it.

Last of all I think I will need to use Creativity because you have to be creative, Unique and be yourself when it comes to project like these.

Waimata Netball Tournament

I was a cold frosty morning. I smack the alarm on the head and get up. I hop into my black and white netball uniform. Grab a bowl, Milk and some Weetbix. I lace up my shoes, fill up my drink bottle and I am ready to go. We arrive at school to pick up 2 other team members. We have a dance party on the way to Waihi. When we arrive we take of our track pants. We watch the other teams play and eye up our competition. We played our first and and the score was 4-5 to us. It was quite cool wining our first game. Unfortunately we lost the rest of our games. Our last game we lost by 1. The year 5 Netball team won their age division and went into over time.  The year 6 netball team got second. We had a good day and finished of with ice cream.

Taupo Netball Tournament

The crazy adventures at the Taupo Tournament

On Friday I went to my friend's house. We were getting prepared to go to Taupo for a reps tournament. We went to sleep and woke up the next morning. We had a pancake and had a shower.

We jumped into the car to go to Ngatea to pick up Lara.We started driving to Taupo. We go to Tirau and went to this really cool Christmas decorations shop and went to an ice cream shop. I got a hokey pokey single scoop waffle cone.

We were about 30 minutes away for Taupo and Lara was sick.I jumped out of the car. We went to the Huka falls look out. We arrived at our motel and jumped into our togs and went to ac baths.

Lara was still sick so she didn't come. I went down the slow and fast Hydro slide . We also went on the Tarzan swing. We went back to the motel and  ordered Dixie.

I had this really nice burger. It was so big they had to have it in two halves. We also ordered garlic bread but I didn't eat it because I was so full.  We went to bed and at 12.20 pm Brooke started spewing.

I wake up in the morning and watched some of the Olympic highlights and had a pancake.I got into my netball uniform  and put on my shoes. We went to the courts and watched the year 6’s rep team. Since Lara and Brooke got sick we had to borrow a year 6 each game.

First we played Taumarunui and lost. I played GK. Our second game was against Hastings and we lost. I played GK.

Then we played 2 other games but I can’t remember who we were up against but we lost both of them. I hope that next season I can do it all again.

 From the left Becky Little Brooke, Molly, Big Brooke, Emma, Me and Hayley. Absent Lara and Theresa

Mahe Drysdale wins gold in photo finish

Mahe Drysdale has won the men’s single sculls at the Rio Olympics.The kiwi won our gold second medal of the Games with a dramatic photo finish victory. The Croatian led the field by a boat length after 1000 m but by the 1500 m mark Drysdale was in front and he appeared to have the race under control.But a sensational burst by the Croatian seemingly beat Drysdale right on on the line.There was then a nervous wait for a minute and a half as the judges checked the photo finish,  before awarding the race to Drysdale but crediting both rowers with the same time.Below is the photo finish. The kiwi boat is the top boat.

Source: Kiwi Kids News

Opinion: I really enjoyed knowing that we have another gold after Valerie got silver

Group Endeavour Ignition

This term we are starting to brain storm what we are most interested in. Instead of doing it alone we will be doing it in groups.My 1st choice was photography. I really like photography because you can capture beautiful moments and have them last forever. A couple of my questions were, who was the first person to invent the camera and flash? Who was the first person to take a photo? I hope I can learn more about photography throughout this term. My Second option was Travel. My last IE was based on travel, cutlers and food. This IE I wanted to base it more about the traveling side of it. How long does it take to go from New Zealand in a plane to London or by boat. I hope that if I don't get my first option I get my second option.

Current events: Hurricanes win first Super Rugby Title

The Hurricanes have won The 2016 Super Rugby. 20- 03 against the lions.  This is their first time winning this award after losing 2 finals. Defense was the key to the Hurricanes victory. The Lions had been the top attacking side in the competition but they were unable to breach the Hurricanes line. In fact, the Hurricanes went through the playoffs without conceding a try Hurricanes first five Beauden Barrett was man of the match with another super display. He scored the final try of the game and hit two conversions and two  penalties.   Hurricanes winger Cory Jane
 scored the only try of the first half.

The Olympics

The Olympics have kicked off.  For the next couple of weeks countries from around the world are competing for the Bronze, Silver and Gold. There is a range of events starting from Swimming, Football, Archery, Rowing Water polo, Table tennis, Beach volley ball, Hockey  and Fencing. I hope New Zealand can bring home at least 1 gold.