Summer Learning Journey Commenting

 For this task in the Summer Learning Journey we had to comment on someone elses blog post and take a screen shot of it and post it on our blog. Here is my comment below.

SLJ Colouring

 Today I did some more of the colouring and this time I had to explain about the elements of art. An element of art used in this drawing is lines. The lines are wavy and make the drawing look very interesting and detailed. It also uses shapes. The  waves are shapes which look very cool.

Here is my art.

Summer Learning Journey Art Colouring Book

For the summer learning journey today we had to watch a video and go onto a website and colour in a picture. There was an original and my one which is below. We had to click a colour and the part we wanted coloured. 

Top: Original

Bottom: My one

Diwali

 We have been learning about Diwali. This is a video about what we learnt.

Milltown to Kumara bikeride

 Milltown To Kumara Bikeride

On Tuesday 22cnd of September, Room 8 went to Milltown to do a bike ride to Kapitea reservoir for the William Pike Challenge. The whole bike ride we were doing was on the Wilderness Trail. I went in the van with lots of other people. We had to be rightly equipped in case it rained or we got lost and, unfortunately, it did rain. 

It took about an hour to drive to MIlltown. We drove through Hokitika and past Lake Kaniere. When we arrived there it was lightly raining. We put our bikes over the gate and waited in the small shelter there until everyone was ready. It was really cool because Charlie’s dad and Hamish went on a tandem for the whole bike. 

The first part of the bike was quite hard because it involved going uphill but the hill was a big zig zag so it seemed to go on for a while. I only stopped when I failed to bike across the shortcut which was grass. The reason I failed was because my tyre got stuck in a ditch in the grass. I also stopped to wait for people. 

After a long time going uphill we finally moved into the bush and biked there. It wasn’t a huge uphill on that part and we eventually got to Cowboy’s Paradise. When I arrived there everyone who got there ahead of me was yelling, “ DON’T SKID!” I was confused but I didn’t skid. Everyone then told me that a man had come out of one of the houses and started swearing and said he would kick them. Luckily adults were with us. 

We started biking again and stopped at the swinging bridge. The girls went first and someone was shaking it but I didn’t know that so I thought I was passing out. The ground below us was so far down that I thought I was just really scared. We biked off the swinging bridge and had to go up this hill that seemed to never end. It took a huge amount of effort to bike even some of it. I had to jump off my bike because it was so hard. I felt like crying because I was so tired that even walking was hard. We finally got to the top of the hill. It felt so good to bike on flat ground. 

We had a break when we got to a clearing and then kept going again. The weather conditions were not in our favour, it was still cloudy and raining a tiny bit. The part from the clearing to the Kawhaka Intake ( the place where we had lunch ) was so fun. Billie and I were going really fast because it was downhill.  There were two fords that we had to cross. The first one had gravel in it so I was worried I was going to crash into the gravel and embarrass myself in front of everyone. I made it across and found the next one even better because I got wet.  We had to do a lot of gear changing and pedal lots because it was up and downhill. When we arrived at the Kawhaka Intake Billie, Phoebe, Summer, Wairini and I had lunch in Billie’s horse float. I felt a lot more energized then I had before. 

We started biking again although some people pulled out because they were really tired. I kept going though. The next 15 minutes were boring because we were biking on a flat road with lots of pebbles. It was bumpy and long. We eventually got to the place where we got onto an interesting track again. It was fun because there were potholes with water and I went through them. Summer and I were biking and didn’t notice that one downhill had an easy way and a hard way. We both went down the hard way which meant going over loose stones and bumps really fast. 

In the end we got to the finishing point which was Kapatia reservoir. I was disappointed that we couldn’t bike to Taramakau bridge but the rest of the day was extremely fun. I want to say a huge thank you to all the parents who came and we couldn’t have done it without them!

What Now! at Shantytown

 What Now! at Shantytown

I woke up to my Mum shaking me at 10 to 6 in the morning. I then remembered why. It was Sunday and I was lucky enough to go on the What Now! show  with Room 7 and 8. We picked up Charlie on the way to Shantytown. When we arrived at Shantytown we met at the post office. It was really funny because there are these mannequins there. I looked at the mannequin and had a huge fright because I thought it was a real man. I screamed and then realized it was just a mannequin. We had about a half an hour to wait until we were told what to do next. 

Finally, Erin (  the presenter ) and her crew came in. There was Morgan (the director), Matt ( The cameraman) and another Matt who was the props and other things guy. They told us that we were going to go on the train, Erin was going to yell out hello and we would file out after her. We rehearsed once and then the man shouted out, “10 seconds” to us and ten seconds later we were live. I was so excited, I thought I would burst. The next time we went on live we all had to go behind Erin. After that, she asked a few people ( including me ) a question each. My question was what do you like about the bike tracks? I said that they were really fun to do. I was so nervous then because I knew heaps of people would be watching me.  Lily had a birthday shout out and we all sang happy birthday to her.

When we finished that part of the show, we walked to the place where we were going to play: Say it don’t spray it! We went to the Shantytown fire station. Five people were chosen. They had to say a tongue twister without messing up otherwise they were sprayed. Emma passed the first round, same with Mea but Jordyn messed up and was sprayed. A lot of foam came out of the machine and it was hilarious to watch. Lucy also messed up and it was the same with Zade. They all were foamed and then it was down to Emma and Mea. Erin told them to say the tongue twister twice through. Emma went first and only messed up on one word, Mea however messed up on three or four in a row so Emma one. 

Mea was foamed and then Erin said to Emma “ How do you feel that you’ve won?” Emma said “ Amazing!!!” Erin then said “ And how do you feel about getting foamed on live tv?” It took Emma a moment to realize what Erin meant. She screamed and yelled “ NO!” and ran off onto our audience made up of the two classes. Erin said “ You can’t get the prize if you don’t get foamed” so Emma wss sprayed. She was obviously panicking because she opened and closed her mouth like a goldfish.

We then pretended we were going to watch a movie. We lined up and started walking in. Erin had to think of an invention in thirty seconds because one of the men told her just before we went back on air. She thought of a shoe tying machine which I thought was awesome and she thought of that so quickly. Morgan was doing a hand signal to try and make us hurry up so everyone could get in but the people at the front were too slow. A minute later we were back on air and walking out of the theatre. We had to act as though the movie was terrible but I almost erupted into giggles when I was trying to act mad. 

After the movie scene we went to the gold panning area and pretended to go gold panning. Jack actually found some. The next scene was called “ Target Your Teacher!”. I really enjoyed this one. Some people were selected to throw the ball at the target if Ms Newton answered the question wrong. She answered the first three right and then the last one wrong. Karmi missed the target but Ilish hit it after and gunge poured out. Ms Newton's goggles even fell off from the force. There was so much in the bucket. The blue is all slime!

The final scene was when we all were gunged. I had so much fun getting gunged! I was cold after though.  I want to say a huge thank you to the What Now crew for making this day awesome. It was such a cool experience that I will never forget!

Whakatauki - Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori

 For Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori we had to write about a whakatauki, write when we did that and when someone in the wider world does that. I worked with Olive and Phoebe. Here is our work below.

Wild Things Spring 2020

 For the past week we read a wild things magazine and had to answer questions about the articles. My favourite article was the shark article.

William Pike Challenge - Lake Daniell Day Tramp

Room 8 Lake Daniell

On Wednesday 9th of September, Room 8 set off to tramp Lake Daniell. For the William Pike Challenge. Lake Daniell is at Lewis Pass which is on the Southern Alps. My car group was my Dad, Billie, James and Bob. It wasn’t a long way to travel because it was only one hour and 48 minutes. When we got to Marble Hill car park, I put my wig on because it was crazy hair day, raising money for the child cancer foundation. I was the only one wearing a wig but my wig was awesome because it was rainbow. At the end of the day when we were in a group after we finished tramping, just before we drove back to Greymouth Ms Kemp awarded me with Coolest Hair Of The Day which I thought was pretty funny.

Before we went tramping, we had to do some preparation. We learnt about being safe in the bush and how not to get hypothermia, the signs of it and what to do if you get it. A website we looked at was to leave no trace which meant leaving the bush how you found it and don’t litter. Some people did litter though so I picked it up. 

When we started tramping my head got itchy from my wig but I kept wearing it. I took some cool photos of my friends and I and I also got some cool photos of the rivers. The water looked really nice. I walked with Olive and Phoebe for most of the way. Olive was pretending to be a grandma which was really funny. 

It was spring so all the leaves were really nice and green and the rivers looked so pretty. There were lots of boardwalks and they were fun to cross. There weren't many hills and when there were hills they weren’t that big. It was 8.5km to the hut so we walked 17 km all together because we walked there back in one day. I really enjoyed the tramp especially because I got to do it with my classmates. The beech forest was really pretty and I can understand how you could get lost easily. It all looked the same, so if you walked off the track you wouldn’t know what direction to go back in. 

At Kōhanga Atawhai-Monsoon Nicholls Hut we ate lunch and went on the jetty. When I sat down to eat my lunch on a big tree stump, I fell backwards and screamed so lots of people looked at me so I said “ I’m fine, I’m all good!” and hoped everyone forgot about that. The lake looked really cool from the jetty. The mountains reflect on the water and it looked amazing. When we were about to leave we all signed the visitors book for the hut. The hut looked so much cleaner and better than it had been before when I last tramped there.

My feet were super sore and I had a blister in between my toes by the time we got back to the car park. We started at 10:20 and finished at about 3:45 so it took us about 5 hours and 20 minutes to walk to the hut and back. It was such a good experience to do with my class friends. It felt so good to sit down when we finished and just relax. 

I want to say a HUGE thank you to all the parents who came, transported and walked with us. I had a great time walking with Donna and Olive because we were chatting and laughing the whole time. It was really nice to hear all the parents' comments that we were a really cool group of people, we had nice manners and we were a really good group to take out of the classroom. Overall, I had so much fun and an awesome day!

Te Ika Poem Conservation Week

 We had to write a poem about if we were a fish, river, sky father etc and what it would feel like to be that. We then added a picture of nature in with it. My poem is below.

Ski Trip DLO

 On Tuesday we went to Porters Pass to go skiing. Thanks to all the parents who came and were a big help and part of the day! Here is my DLO about it.

Maui's Journey

WALT: understand some of the important stories to Māori culture and to our local areas.

Success Criteria: watch the story of ‘Māui’s arrival in Maitahi/Mahitahi’ and discuss as

a class what we learnt in this story. 

Click here to watch the video.

Matariki stars

This Monday for Matariki, we made Matariki stars. We cut out a circle and cut 12 even slits around the circle. We then put wool in one of the slits and then put it in another slot. We had to repeat the process of putting the wool in the slots but put the wool in a different slot each time until they were all filled up and then you could go over them again or make a cool pattern. My star is below.

Beach Cookout

Today we walked down to Watson's Creek to do our beach cookout. I was in a group with Wairini, Billie, Charlie and Donna, our parent helper. For the past week or two we have been organizing our menus, the food we needed for it and what each person had to bring. I brought potatos that I pre-cooked for us, butter, plastic plates and tongs. We used the cone or teepee set-up for our fire which worked really well so we had a big fire.

First we let the fire die down a bit and the we put the potatoes in it. Then we strated cooking our sausages. Once mine had cooked, I got the potatoes out with our tongs and put them on a plate. A few seconds later I see something dripping on my hand which feels hot. I then realised that it was melted plastic. The tinfoil the potatoes were in was so hot it melted the plate. When we unwrapped the potatoes they were a bit burnt but tasted fine. The sausages were really good and I cooked mine perfectly. We then made s'mores. Donna & Billie brought giant marshmellows that we cooked on the fire and some chocolate covered biscuits. It was delicous!!! 

A big thanks to all the parents who volentered to come down and help us kids with the cookout because with out them we wouldn't been able to go down there and that would have been such a shame. Overall I had a really good day and my team was great too. We worked really well together!

Life In Lock Down Art Work

When we got back to school we did an art piece on something or a few things we did in lock down. I did mine of me and my family at the beach because we live about a minute away from it. We went down there heaps to play and have a break from home.

Reading Challenge

Whenever we have read a book we put what it is called and who it is by on the grid. There are specific categories for them.

Leadership Work

For the past 9 weeks we have been doing a leadership unit. We have read a few texts and answered questions about them and we also watched a video. We have done a lot of researching about leaders we think are great or we know about. My work is below.

Introducing yourself in a conversation

WALT: Greet, farewell and acknowledge peope and respond to acknowledgements. Introduce ourselves and others and respond to introductions.

Maths DLO

Death Of The Earnslaw

WALT write a narrative short story. 

 Death Of The Earnslaw Part 1 Of 3 Death Of The Earnslaw Part 2 Of 3 Death Of The Earnslaw Part 3 Of 3 BY INDI

Digital Arts

We are learning to: Develop ideas by developing and revisiting visual ideas, in response to examples we have seen, and ideas that we can think of for ourselves.

Crossword Puzzle

WALT learn new vocabulary.

For one of our online pieces of work today we had to complete an online crossword. Here is my completed on below.

Street Art

This week for visual arts we got to go on a website that was all about street art and draw something that might look like street art or is inspired by street art.

We are learning to: 

Develop ideas by developing and revisiting visual ideas, in response to examples we have seen, and ideas that we can think of for ourselves. 

He Kakano

This is my list 4 video for He Kakano.

Problem Solving

As one of our maths tasks we got shared a slide of some problem solving. I worked with my Mum on it and I also found it really challenging. Here is my work below.

He Kakano

 This week for online he kakano we learnt Maori words. Our teacher emailed us a list and we practised spelling and saying them. We then recorded ourselves saying them. Here is my video.

Crossword

WALT learn new vocabulary.

For one of our online pieces of work today we had to complete an online crossword. Here is my completed on below.

He kakano

This week for online he kakano we learnt Maori words. Our teacher emailed us a list and we practised spelling and saying them. We then recorded ourselves saying them. Here is my video.

National Geographic Work

For this piece of work we had to read a article National Geographic Website and then answer questions about it. I chose the article called Into The Wild about a man who walked 7000 km across New Zealand.

Drawing emotions

As we are in isolation because of COVID19, there is no senior arts so our teacher shared a link which taught us how to draw emotions. I did two of them.

Making Bagels

As we are in isolation because of COVID19, we don't have technology on Thursdays. Instead we all made something at home. I made bagels. They were so good especially when they were fresh and warm .

Trip To America

For our GetNZWriting we did a poem. You chose a place that you have visited and do a poem about it. There was a special way you had to do the poem though. Six lines with six words in each line. 

There was a topic for the lines. Here they are.

1. Something you saw

2. Something you remember about it

3. A person who was with you

4. Something amazing that you wished happened but didn't

5. The reason for your trip

6. Write you own six word sentence

Write a poem about that for me and put it in the comments. Have fun!

Here's mine below

A Trip To America

Floating past the Statue Of Liberty

Accidently walking through a nudist beach 

Aalia, dancing in a rainstorm

Meeting Obama at the White House

Going to my great grandpa’s funeral

Waking up to hot, humid weather 

Edvard Munch Art

List Poem: What Makes Me Happy

What Makes Me Happy

Hanging Out With My Funky Friends

Seeing My Wonderful Family

Having Lots Of Fun

Accomplishing Something I Thought I Couldn’t Do

Sleepovers With My Besties

Playing Sophisticated Sports

Getting Something New 

Playing With Babies

Smiling, Laughing And Giggling 

Seeing A Newborn Baby

Eating

A 

Lot 

Book Extract

Stem And Leaf Plot Leaf Margins

Yesterday we went up to our school bush track with a partner each and counted how many different leaf margins, spines or shapes there were. Wairini and I chose to do leaf margins. Watch the video below to see information about our work.

This Is Just To Say...

This morning we started the NZ writing pieces. We did one called this is just to say. You had to think of something naughty you did and then put it into a poem with William Carlos William's format.

                                        See mine below.

This Is Just To Say

By William Carlos Williams And Indi Robins

I have put glue on the carpet,

 in the shape of the first letter of my name. 

That was upstairs.

Or though you were probably quite annoyed 

at me for dirtying the floor.

Forgive me. 

It was so much fun

And so entertaining. 

Sea Week The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This week is sea week. We got to choose a subject to research, write about or make. Billie and I chose to make a presentation on Ben Lecomte and The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and not littering. Our presentation is below.

Statistical Investigation

Over the past five weeks we have been learning about statistics. One of our tasks for this was to do a statistical investigation. I did mine with Summer. Our wonder was if senior school students would like class presidents, one boy and one girl in each class. Our slide show about this is below.

Sea Week Scavenger Hunt

Name: Indi
Questions Worksheet
WALT: Understand Earth systems
Sea week-
Context: Moon, tides, ocean currents.
Fact Card#1: How does water move on the surface of the ocean? The water in the ocean is constantly moving. On the surface, water moves in the form of waves.
Fact Card#2: How does water move below the surface of the ocean? The water in the ocean is constantly moving. Below the surface, the water moves in great currents.
Fact Card #3: What are the two types of ocean currents? There are two types of currents: Surface currents and deep currents.
Fact Card #4: Define ocean currents. Ocean currents are moving streams of water within the ocean.

 Fact Card #5: Define the ‘surface current’. Currents that move on or near the surface of the ocean is called a surface current.
Fact Card #6: List the factors which control the surface currents. Three factors that control the surface currents are air currents, Earth’s rotation and location of continents.
Fact Card#7: Which factors affect the flow of ocean surface water? Global wind belts are a major factor affecting the flow of the ocean surface water.





Fact Card#8: How are deep currents generated in the ocean?
Difference in the water density the temperature moves the water and makes deep currents


Fact Card#9: Write down the characteristics of cold and warm water. Cold water is more dense/heavy and sinks where as warm water is less dense and floats.

Fact Card #10: Which ocean currents travel faster?
Surface currents are much faster than deep ocean currents.

Fact Card #11: Write the factors that cause the deep currents. Deep ocean currents are caused by changes in temperature salinity and density of the water.

 Fact Card #12: How do the Sun and the Moon cause the ocean currents? They make a gravity pull to cause ocean currents.

Fact Card #13: Give the definition of wave.
A wave is a rhythmic movement that carries energy through matter or space.





Fact Card#14: What are the causes of waves? Waves are caused by wind, earthquakes, gravitational force of the moon and sun.

Fact Card#15: List the characteristics of a wave. The charistics of a wave are the trough and the crest.
Fact Card#16: Write the parameters on which the wave height is dependent. Wind speed, distance over which the wind blows and length of time the wind blows.
Fact Card #17: What happens during tide? Tide is the periodic rise level  and fall  of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon.
Fact Card #18: What do you mean by high tide? When the water level is at its highest.

Fact Card #19: What do you mean by low tide? When the water level is at its lowest.
Fact Card #20: How does the Moon’s gravity pull ocean water? The moon's gravity pulls the water on the Earth towards it . The water moves up into a slight bulge on the side of the Earth that faces the moon.
Fact Card#21: What is the cycle duration of high/low tide? Generally one low tide /high tide cycle takes at every 12 hours and 25 min.
Fact Card#22: Define tidal range. The difference in the ocean between high tide and low tide is called tidal range.

Fact Card#23: When does spring tide occur? Spring tides occur when the Earth, the sun and the moon are in a line.
Fact Card #24: Which tides occur during a full/new moon? Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon.

Fact Card #25: When does neap tide occur? Neap tides occur when the Sun and the Moon are perpendicular to each other.
Fact Card #26: Which tides occur during the quarter moon? Neap tides occur when quarter moons occur. 

Fact Card #27: Which tides are known as weak tides?           Why? Neap tides are weak tides. It happens when the gravity pulls of the moon and the sun counteract each other creating weaker tidal forces.
Fact Card#28: Which tides are known as strong tides? Why? Spring tides are strong tides because the moon and the sun's force gravitational force combine to create a strong tide.

Book Review

This is a book review about a book called Dragon Dawn. In the video you will find out what it's about.

Statistical Investigation Cycle

WALT: follow the statistical investigation inquiry cycle

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