O Le Malaga Fa'a'atua- The Journey Of The Gods

This morning, My hub and the kaupeka hub watched a play. It was called O Le Malaga Fa'A'atua or in English translation The Journey Of The Gods. The actors that did the play for us were Thalia, Jake, and Manu. The story is about an eel that turned into a coconut tree, Involving the most famous...MAUI. It was very funny and definitely a memory im pretty sure the whole tumu and kaupeka hub won't forget. Sadly we don't have any photos of the play because no photos were allowed to be taken, I'd like to give Thalia, Jake, and Manu a rally big thanks for coming to St Francis Of Assisi school and performing your play. I really enjoyed it and loved the part of where you were all making fun of Maui.

If you have seen them come to your school, what would your favourite part be?

Winter Sports

 This year during the term we have been doing winter sports on Thursdays . 

The winter sports I do is Hockey, with my team players Benjamin, Charlie G, Lily F, Dakota, Oliver, Jack, Samantha, Gianna, and Me! We are the hockey A team aka The Cheetahs. My team won every hockey game we have played but we had a draw with Hillview school and we lost one game to,  I'm thinking their name was Selwyn house. We lost by 9-8,oh right Charlie was not able to play with us during our game because he offered to play for the Hockey b team but anyways at least during our game we tried. This year I improved on my Passes and on my defence during our games. we versed b teams half the season but then we started going up into higher groups like other hockey A teams. 

Picture of the A hockey team

It was great working with this team everyone was very good at passes and dribbling.

  

Picture of the Hockey B Team

What sports do you play for winter sports and 
why did you choose to play it? 

Fun with LEGO!

Yesterday on Monday, my hub and I created cars, a bridge and the tallest tower with Lego. for the cars we had to see how far it would go using a ramp everyone's turned out good, next we went to build a bridge. We would make a bridge to see if it was stable enough to have a book on it I built a bridge with my two friends Gianna and Samantha. Our's was stable to balance between the two tables we used but not balanced enough to have a book on it. Last but not least, The tallest tower. This Lego creation wasn't too hard just the making it tall. Again I did it with my friends Gianna and Samantha, At the end we all had fun this is the end of my blog, Please help yourself to see the photos I have down below

 Which Lego creation would you want to build?
 The car, Bridge or The Tallest tower.

Endangered animals-Amur leopards

The Amur leopards are one of the endangered animals on our earth because of us humans.
This took a lot of researching to do but did YOU know that their are only 85 Amur leopards are left? Well maybe 85 some people might've already slayed a few you can find more data about the Amur leopards in the slide above.

What is your favourite animal and what would you wanna do to save it? 

Help Save Our Environment!

In reading this term we have been reading about the environment. I have enjoyed reading this book called "People and the Planet" my group and I got to choose a book for reading and got information from it.

Please see my slide below to see the key points from this book. This shows everything that I have read and understood.



This book relates to our PBL because it is about pollution and how we are hurting animals.

Race to win it

Yesterday on Thursday it was cross country. My whole school walked to Walter park it was kinda cold but not really. When we arrived to Walter park the year 3/4 ran first then 1/2 and then us the year 5/6. The year 5 girls and boys ran first and then the year 6 girls and boys ran after we all had to do 2 whole laps around the park with some of the year 7/8 cheering us on. We finished our first lap now onto the second, After our second lap we stopped and I just collapsed to the ground and was out of breath after a few minutes I was drinking some water and we went back to school. 

How many laps would you rather do for cross country?

PBL Fun Zone

PBL - Term 1

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about kindness and the big question was: How can we build community through our actions?

First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.

We created an action plan and my group and I made kindness tickets for each hub that the teachers then choose kids to come to our fun zone if they are choosing kind. We all did our fun zone on friday at morning tea and lunch. Morning tea was for Tumu we did apple bobbing, M&M tossing, The chocolate cutting game and tasting and smelling test. each 5 kids were put into groups of 2 for each activity the smelling and tasting testing was a big hit .the kids from the hubs seemed to enjoy it!


Reflection:
For our final product our group The kids on morning tea from tumu was Max,Frankie ,Lara,Archie ,Daniel and Benjamin. First we started off with M&M tossing first we grabbed one plastic cone and gave it to Frankie and lara got M&M’s and when she threw it Frankie tries to throw some M&M’s into the cone and if they get some M&M’s in the cone they get to eat it and then we had apple bobbing. the water was freezing they tried getting a apple out of the bucket. it was tricky. next the chocolate cutting game we cut the chocolates in four blocks and see who can get the apple’s out with their mouths lastly the smelling and taste testing we had mayo,fruit burst,vanilla scent and lime scent that was our biggest hit so everyone did our activities!


We did this for our PBL because our school value is choosing kind so we decided to do kindness tickets so the kids will learn how to be kind.

I contributed by buying the chocolate for the chocolate game, setting up the games and helping with ideas.

I think the PBL might impact on others by inspiring others to be kind. This will make people feel happy. When they were playing they looked excited.

What I learned about working with others was Easy because you get to share what you think and share your ideas and it makes you do your quicker.