Same but different

This  year in Marama I thought we would be having a ton of homework and heaps of work when really it isn’t that bad. We get no homework unless we're behind and not that much work but enough to give us something to do all week. We thought all the teachers were grumpy but really they are so kind. You can suggest something and they could say that's good but hey why don’t you add this here.  They like to challenge us and I like that it’s nice to be challenged. I think everyone is scared of them cause their voices are a bit scary when they yell. Marama already is my favorite syndicate just by everything.

The Marama way

Multiple Intelligences

I know that I am not the best at some of these but I think that this chart describes me well.Visual/Spatial,  I am not the best at visual art but I really want to get better. Body Smart  I personally think I am Body smart when it comes to sports, some people may say different things but I am always willing to give things a go. Musical I know how to play a Trumpet and Piano but I do have some trouble remembering where to put my fingers. Naturalistic I can’t name trees just by looking at them I have to google it or ask somebody. Peoplesmart.  I am not really an Independent learner, I like working in groups. When I collaborate I hear what others have to say then my brain gets jogging and then gets some good ideas. Logical Smart, I am not the best when it comes to Maths. I find it hard to picture all the numbers and rhythms in my head. I also find it hard to draw the 3D shapes because I have trouble getting all the angles the same size. Myself smart I do know myself but sometimes I don’t if you know what I mean. It’s hard to know everything about you when you haven’t had an experience to think about it all. What impact will/could it have? Most of the time I find it hard to concentrate so this chart could prove to me I have to work a lot harder for what I want to achieve in my learning.What does this Smarts Test mean for my learning? It shows me how I need to work harder and try that little bit harder. It also shows me what I am good at and what I need to improve on. What are your strengths?   I think one of my strengths are working in groups.

Welcome back 2016

This year I am looking forward to being in a different learning environment with different people to collaborate with. Something different I am going to try is… Working with people I don’t normally work with.

My first impressions in the Marama Team…It is different to how I learned last year, I had this thought that it was gonna be really tough but now that I have settled in it is a bit more easier to understand.

A goal I would like to achieve this year… To try and get a leadership role or just be the best I can be.

Something I already know I am going to do better this year… Hanging out with different people all the time. Not hanging out with everyone I did last year. I find that if I still hang out with the people I am at the moment I might be a bit more focused on my learning. Being myself. Last year I was always wanting everyone to think of me a certain way. But know I don't really care how they think of me. This is all I think.

My Theme Song

The 100 word Recount

Tairua

I was invited to go to Tairua with Brooke’s Family last holidays. Wayne arrives . I put my stuff in, we head of. We haul slowly up the hill and then drop down. Around a few more corners, I can see Tairua. We drive up the driveway. I walk inside, I can see Brooke and we  jump into our togs and grab the GoPro were ready to go.  We got to the bridge jumped off a thousand times. Add 2 more days but then we had to say goodbye. Why do all the good weekends have to end so soon?

Maths Reflection

This year for maths I am  in the Fozzies. I think I have really improved in everything. My teacher for maths this year was Mrs Taaffe. One reason I think I have made a improvement is because of my AWS and IXL. AWS is a book filled with maths worksheets with basic facts and other activities. I definitely have improved on drawing 3D shapes because I never really knew how to draw cubes. We have also been working on tessellations and they are confusing but fun at the same time. I have sort of mastered Roman numerals but there are some I still have trouble with. Next year I want to know all my roman numerals off by heart. This is kind off like the tessellations we did except we had different shapes and had to turn them to fit without leaving any spaces.

   

High Jump

This Monday Ngatea school is going to participate in Athletics. On the day you have to do High Jump. We practiced with the wood and elastic.  I caught my foot on the pole so I didn't quite land it right. Before the day I want to work on my jump and getting over the bar at Athletics. Down below will be a video of me doing High jump.  Hope you enjoy :)

iDrive PMI

Labour Day

How it began:

Samuel Parnell’s Stand

On arrival in New Zealand, Samuel Parnell was asked to build a store for shipping agent George Hunter. Parnell who, while living and working in London, had been exposed to the prevailing international concern with worker’s rights, agreed to do so, but only on the condition that he not work more than eight hours a day. Though his employer protested, the shortage of skilled tradesmen in the new colony allowed Parnell to make good on his demand.Parnell organised other carpenters in the town and in October 1840 a workers’ meeting on Lambton Quay resolved a motion to adopt an eight hour working day (any worker who dissented was to be ducked in the harbour!).

Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New

Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel Parnell won an eight-hour day in Wellington. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade  members and supporters attended parades in the main city centres. Government employees were given the day off to attend the parades and many businesses closed for at least part of the day.  It is also to honor all those who work hard each week day.  

My holiday

My first weekend of the holiday

Dad waterblasting the digger

Digger

Imagine this on the first Friday off the school holiday waking up at 6:30 am. Shocking isn’t it supposed to be a holiday, but that day I went to work with my Dad. We went to Duder an Auckland regional park. My Dad is a contractor so he sometimes he will do  jobs at the parks. We went there and Dad had to talk to the man to ask how he wanted him and Poppy to lift up the shipping container. 

While Dad went and got the digger he got me to stand by the gate and open it for Poppy. Just my luck when it started to rain on the angle I was standing on.  When Poppy came Dad had just come with the digger. They lifted up the shipping container and put a couple blocks of wood under it. When we were done I got asked to shut the gate but the wind to it out of my hands and got a big dent in  Poppy’s ute. After that Dad, Poppy and I went and cleaned the Little digger (Hyundai 1.6 tonne) and the big digger (Hyundai 12 tonne). We sent about 15 minutes trying to get the water blaster going because Dad accidentally left the choke on. 

But when it got going Dad let me water blast the tracks but while dad finished the rest off the diggers I got some photos and videos on my Gopro. After we washed both off the diggers we loaded them onto their own trailer’s. While Dad was loading the big digger onto the trailer I had some lunch. Then Poppy realized there was a big dent in his ute. This ute he got in July. He said it was ok but dad kept on joking around saying “It ain't new any more” then continuing to laugh. Dad and I jumped into the Truck and Poppy followed us behind in his ute with the little digger on the back.

We went to Wiri to get the sand for The Ambury Farm Day. We continued on our way to Mangere. We went to Ambury Park and dropped off the diggers and tipped off the sand.  We saw one of the workers running around and  his name is Gary. We left the Truck there and we hopped into Poppy’s ute. We went back to Duder and dropped Dad off at his ute. Poppy and I went to poppy’s house in Orere Point as I was staying at Aunty’s . He went over to the shed for a little bit while I did a coloring in competition.

Shirley got home and we ordered some hamburgers from the local shop and had some chips, onion rings and Pizza. I was filled after that.  Aunty finally got home at 8 oclock. Aunty works for Water Care in New market. The traffic is really bad so she gets home late. We went to Aunty’s house (next door)  and I had a glass of juice and a cheese and cracker. I had a shower and then  I went to bed. The next morning when I woke up I got a Up and go and turned on the Tv and sat there and slowly started to wake up. We made our way to Manukau City and to The Mall. We went shopping and I got some pairs of new jeans and a couple t-shirts and I can’t forget the Sushi. 
We continued to shop then we went to Takanini Pak'nsave and got some food for dinner. 

Aunty and I decided we should get a chocolate thick shake at Mcdonalds. We made our way back to Orere point.  We spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing. We had Sausages, Salad and mashed potatoes for dinner. I can’t forget dessert.  We just relaxed some more and then I had a shower and went to bed. The Next morning I woke up bright and early and got ready to go to the Farm day.  The Ambury farm day is a day to show the people of Auckland and places around there how farming works. There is also fun activities like making your own butter from cream and all these rides kinda like what you would go on at a Amp show. I went onto a big trampoline with harness and did a couple back flips. 

Dad and Poppy let the Kids and some big ones too have a chance to go on their diggers and the lines are quite long because the hardly see anything like that let alone play on it and push some leavers. Ambury Park has a lot of history behind it as well. Ambury being nearby Māngere Mountain was once the site of a large fortified Māori pā and the area now known as Ambury Regional Park was used by Māori for gardening.

Māngere Mountain erupted approximately 18,000 years ago and the park sits atop a lava field made fertile by ash from the volcano. After the farm day is over Dad and Poppy took the diggers to Duder. Jayde went with Dad in the truck and Kaylah , Mum and I went in the car and got some real fruit ice cream and strawberries. Once we dropped off the digger we came home and had dinner and you can’t forget about watching the block.  

My Term 3 Reflection

Learning in the Making Conference

On Tuesday 11th of September Ngatea school had The Learning in the Making Conference.

Tiny stiches

What this day is we Skype or meet a person. Last year we met Mark Osborne this year we meet Andrew Cowie. He talked to us about Cyber Safety.  After that we went to our first Workshop. For this workshop I did tiny stitches. I made a minion finger puppet. It looks really cute and I love it. We had a break and we could go to the tuck shop and buy some food. Next I ran a workshop on Powtoon. Powtoon is a online editor and publisher tool. I taught year 2,3 and 4's how to create and use it. They published a poem.  We had a break then we went to our next workshop. Mine was Fabric Stitching. We made a brooch. Mine had a deer on it and it said "Hello My Deer". We had another break and then I ran another workshop on Powtoon. It was the same as the last one but I had different students. After that we packed up and went back to class. I got a Chocolate fish for tidying up other people's mess with sand. It was messy. 

Powtoon 

Presenters 2015 

                                                                                                              

Princess Diana

Princess Diana                                                       

Most people have heard of Princess Diana. She was married to Prince Charles from 1981–1999.She died in a tragic car accident. It has been 18 years since her death on Monday  and many people are still devastated. Princess Diana did a lot of charity work to help different countries. Her family consists of Charles Spencer, John Spencer, Jane fellowes, Baroness Fellowes and Lady Sarah Mccorquodale. Her wedding to Prince Charles was  on July 29 1981. 600,000 people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Diana on her way to the ceremony.  Diana wore a dress valued at £9000, which is $21636.98 in New Zealand. Diana became Princess of Wales when she married  Prince Charles on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral.

Princess Diana has 2 children. Prince William and Prince Harry. She has 2 grandchildren Prince George and Princess Charlotte. From 1989 she was president of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children and did a lot of work for other charities. After the accident the media gave the subject a lot of attention. Diana was born on the 1 July 1961 in. Her relationship with Charles ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Well you may wonder how Princess Diana Died. She was in a car accident with Dodi Fayed  in the Pont de l'Alma underpass in Paris.

Diana and Dodi were not wearing a seatbelt said by British and French police. The police also discovered that their chauffeur Henri Paul was under influence by alcohol. There was also a idea that paparazzi were following the couple. It is claimed that Dodi bought Diana an engagement ring just a few hours before the crash. There a is a rumor that princess Diana and Dodi were killed on purpose to stop her marriage to Dodi but the most shocking part was who apparently said it can you guess???? Well it was the Duke of Edinburgh otherwise known as Prince Phillip.

The Queen didn’t even speak publicly or fly the flag at half-mast over Buckingham Palace after the death. She was called “The people’s Princess” because she was the first royal in a very long time who had truly connected with the people she was engaged in countless charity actions and was also Praised by the people for her compassion and more. Her funeral took place on the 6 September 1997 at 9.08 a.m in London. The official ceremony was at Westminster abbey.

Two billion people traced this event worldwide making this one of the most watched events in history. More than one billion people stood on the streets to see her coffin and family walk past. During the service Elton john sang “Candle in the wind” which has been rewritten as a tribute to Diana. The original plan was for Diana to get buried in the Spencer vault at a church nearby Great Brington. But Lord Spencer was concerned about public safety and security.

He decided for Diana to be buried somewhere that her family could visit .The island is in an ornamental lake known as The Round Oval within Althorp Park's gardens. A path with thirty-six oak trees, marking each year of her life, leads to the Oval. Four black swans swim in the lake. In the water there are water lilies, which in addition to white roses as those were Diana's favorite flowers. On the southern verge of the Round Oval sits the Summerhouse, previously in the gardens of Admiralty House, London, and now adapted to serve as a memorial to Diana.  To me Princess Diana seems like a lovely person like Kate the duchess of Cambridge married to her son William. She was willing to help the world. She was amazing because not many people wished to but she did.  

Rest in peace Diana

Term 2 Art

Last term we did lino printing. My group was based on houses and streets.We looked on google Images and found some old houses. I didn't base mine on a real life house but Elaina did here is the link to her post Elaina. I did 4 colors. They were Blue ,Red ,Yellow and Black. When I first started carving I cut out some lines and blocks of lino and printed it in yellow. I cut out some more lino then printed blue then red. When I got to black I had to carve out majority of it. Then Printed. Kate did a really cool one Link to here Blog.
Here is the finished Product.

My Art

My holiday Trip

At the start on the 2 week holiday we went to Hamilton. When we were in Hamilton we went to KBB Music to pick up my trumpet. Next we headed to Chartwell to get our movie tickets and lunch. We also went to a shop named Girl on the swing and got some cupcakes. Next we went to Splashy. Splashy is a place where you paint a object and decorate it how you like. I painted a cat bowl. We went back to Chartwell and did some shopping. We set off to the movies. We watched the minion movie in 3D. That night we headed to Rotorua. When we first got there we went to eat dinner at Wendy's. After that we headed to our hotel. We stayed at the Millennium Hotel. The next day it was raining. We decided to go and do some shopping. We made our way back to the hotel and booked a private spa. We just relaxed in the spa for 30 minutes. After that we spent about an hour in the swimming pool. We went out and got some dinner. After that we meet up with my Mum’s friend Sarah. Sarah bakes amazing cakes. Down bellow you can see one of her cakes. After that we went up to our room and chilled. I had a bath then went to bed. The next morning we had to pack all our bags and head off but we went to Rainbow Springs. We watched the bird show and went on the Big Splash. Mum told us that Sarah had so cupcakes for us. So we went and saw her and got our cupcakes. Finally we got home I was so happy to see our animals and they were happy to see me too.

Mum's plate

Sarah's cake

Alyson's Term 2 Reflection

J-rock

J-rock

Yesterday Ngatea Primary School participated in J-rock ( stage challenge) in Hamilton. J-rock is a version of Stage Challenge but for primary school’s. J-rock is a dance performance telling a story. Our J-rock dance was based on the Gaming world. The main character is given a play station for her birthday and starts getting confused with what is real and what is not.

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Movenote

This week on my blog I have created a Movenote showing my knock knock jokes.

Please click the link here Movenote

Presenting

On Tuesday the 2nd of June I got to present to 2 different school's. I had to present about our syndicate( Whetu ). Mr Fraser asked me some questions and I answers them as good as I could. I had fun but I got really nervous. It was my first time and I think I can do better. Next time I will speak louder and clearer as well as trying not to look at my notes too much. It  was an amazing experience and I hope to do it again some time.