A Guide to Learning About Aquatic Safety

Kia ora bloggers! Last week in Te Ngahere we had a lady called Tracy from swim safe come in to teach us how to stay safe in the water. She taught us that there are five steps on staying safe on a boat. First you need to bring an emergency beacon so if disaster strikes you can get some help, next are flares so they know if you drift away from your last location they can see where you are using the flare, a radio tuned to channel 16 for the coast guard, before you sort out any of these you’re gonna need to check the weather in case of a storm & last but also the most important, WEAR A LIFE JACKET. So many people have died on a boat because they weren’t wearing a life jacket so they drowned, It’s just common sense! I made a DLO saying everything you need to do on a boat. 

DLO

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Tower Battles

Kia Ora Bloggers! The first week back at school we did a STEAM challenge. We had to create a tower out of two sheets of paper and 30cm of tape. I was working with Ben & Mark S. I learnt that the strongest part part of the tower is the base as it strengthens the tower and balances it. We also learnt how to make the tallest free standing tower. After we did that we had to write a reflection about what we learnt. I found it easy coming up with the ideas for the tower but actually making the tower and putting it together was hard. 

I think we did well when we were trying to make it stand up as it does that easily. We made the towers as a challenge to see whose was the tallest out of the whole class. Our tower was only 60cm tall which was a real bummer! Emma & Zhynaliyah came First with 118cm. If we did this STEAM Challenge again I would probably make the base of the tower thicker and the top longer. Blog you later!

Things you need to know about caring for your teeth

Kia Ora Bloggers! Last week in Te Ngahere we had a dentist come into our class to talk to us about caring for our teeth and our mouths. She talked to us about how if you have a cavity it’s not always on the surface of your teeth, they can sometimes be on the inside of them. I learnt that we brush our teeth to get rid of the plaque on our teeth. Plaque is this stuff that grows on your teeth and if you leave it there for too long then it will become hard as rock and can cause cavities. It’s amazing what happens in your mouth that you don’t know about. After she left we created some Digital Learning Objects to show what we learnt. Here is Mikaire and I’s.

I think we did really well when we were trying to make the DLO funny for the readers. Are there any further questions you would like answered? Blog you later

Fun with Multiplication!

Kia Ora Bloggers! This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to do standard written form for addition, subtraction, multiplication & division. I was learning how to do Standard Written Form for Multiplication using 2 digit numbers. I learnt that this is extremely easy if you know all of your basic facts. We had to multiply 2 digit numbers as it is the next step from single digit numbers. Though it was quite hard at the start trying to understand what the placeholder was and why I had to put it  under the ones showing that I am not using the ones anymore, now that I have done quite a few questions around this topic it is a lot easier for me. Here is my DLO!

I think in my opinion that I made the right choice when I put in a word problem and asked the readers (You) to answer it in the comments. Can’t wait to see how you figure out that question! If you think there was a better way I could have done this could you please tell me? Blog you all later!

Bear Hunt

Kia Ora Bloggers! This week in Te Ngahere we have been creating movies for the film festival. We had to get into a group of three or 4 and brainstorm some ideas. Mark O, Franky, Mikaire & I created one about a bear hunt. Here is our script.

Bear Hunt

Characters

Billy: Mark O

Bob: Jack 

Bear: Mikaire

Director: Franky

Once upon a time	There was a bear terrorising the home of two hunters.
Every day	The bear would go over to the house and scratch the door trying to get into the house to eat them.
Until one day	The two boys had enough and went to find the bear.
Because of that	They traveled through the forest
Because of that	They get hungry because they forgot to pack food
Because of that	They start crawling on the ground
Because of that	They saw the cave and the bear and got up
Until finally	They defeated the bear
Ever since then	They had a new piece of furniture on their living room floor
Moral of the story is	If things are going wrong. Don’t just sit there. Do something about it

Script:

Sitting in the living room of their house drinking tea 

Billy: “what a wonderful day”

Bob: “Yeah it is!” 

Bear starts to bang on the door to get in. 

Billy: “that stupid bear will knock down that door soon! we need to stop it!”

Bob: “How?”

Bear:”ROAR”

Bob & Billy: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Bob: “RUN!”

(They run in circles and then into each other)  

Billy: “OW!”

Bear runs away

Bob: “alright it’s gone, we need to find where the bear is and stop it!”

Billy: “yeah Lets do it”

They leave the house and start to follow the footprints

A few hours later...

Billy is Crawling: “I need water.”

Bob is Crawling: “sssame I’m thuuursty... uhhhh”

Billy: “Oh. There's the cave, let's go in” Quickly gets up

Inside the cave

Bear: “RRRRROOOOAAAARRRR!!!!!!!”

Billy:”AHHHHHHHH, My phone died :(”

Bob “Why are you screaming at your dead phone!? THERE’S A GIANT BEAR RIGHT THERE!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH were gonna die :0 ”

Bear starts getting closer

Bob faints

Billy: “Uhhhhhhhhh oh Well this is convenient!” Picks up Nerf gun lying on floor

Billy shoots the bear with a Nerf gun.

Bear falls on ground 

Bear: RAAAR!

Billy carries it home just as Bob wakes up.

Bear is on floor as a bear skin rug and Billy and Bob are drinking Tea celebrating their victory with their legs on top of him like he is a footrest.

Billy: “want some more tea?” 

Bob: “Yes please chap”

Bear starts talking

Bear: “Remember kids, If things are going wrong. Don’t just sit there. Do something about it!”

Bob: yeah do something about it AND Bye LOL

Credits on a Cardboard Sign

The End

We’ve been preparing for these movies for quite a while now by learning about story beats. We had to start making our movies by starting with story beats talking about Once upon a time, Everyday, Until one day, Because of that x3, Until finally, Ever since then & a Moral. Next we had to create a more detailed script with dialogue in it. Do you think that we could have added anything more to our script that would have made it funnier? Please write it down in the comments below! Blog you later!

Reusing and Attributing Images

Kia Ora Bloggers! This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to reuse and attribute images, we did this because we are always taking photos from the internet but we never check if we can actually use them so we did this to make sure we aren’t copyrighting. The first step was to take an image from explore and then go onto it’s link and see if we could use it, then we had to write down the license and put down the links to where it came from. I’m definitely going to use this learning when we’re making DLO’s by checking if I can use it so I don’t get in trouble for copyright. For more information check out my DLO. 

Here it is

 

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Hummus

Kia Ora Bloggers! Today we went to project energize with Whaea Gina. Usually we just sit in the whare and talk about healthy choices but this time we actually got to make Hummus! Whaea Gina told us we were doing this because hummus usually costs quite a bit at the store so this is a more financially friendly way to eat healthy food. 

Step 1, pour a can of chickpeas into a blender. 

Step 2, scoop a generous amount of peanut butter into the blender. 

Step 3, add some salt and pepper

Step 4, add some lemon juice

Step 5, now add some paprika

Now blend the ingredients together.

Now you have your hummus

I thought that the hummus was delicious even though I really dislike chickpeas and peanut butter.

Here are some photos

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