We will miss you Whaea Gee !

We have had a different teacher. She was a great teacher she was very kind. We will miss her a lot. 

Sailing the Pacific!

We have been learning about navigating. I decided to focus on clouds here are some facts that I found out .

The thing that I found tricky was probably also finding the facts because The website that we used didn't have many facts that on clouds and the one or two that they did have were very hard to understand.

The thing that I enjoyed was scanning  for facts in our group reading book.(I love books.)  

Kuaka

 We are learning to use visual language features to support our understanding of the ideas and information in the text.

The thing that I enjoyed was the feeling I got when found heaps of interesting words.It felt like a warm tingly feeling like snuggling into a warm woollen blanket on a cold day.

The thing that I found tricky was finding the information.I couldn't find any information that interested me, until I found these three facts.

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One of my favourite creatures (Fish)

My family Just loves fish but I didn't until a couple of weeks ago.

My favourite fish is probably snapper I love their multiple coloured scales.

The reason why I like fish  now is because  they are on of the coolest creatures in the ocean also because  smoked  fish is DELICIOUS!!!!!

I also love fishing of course I don't like seeing the fish getting killed.

 

Tuia Matauranga Roadshow

 Yesterday we went to the Tuia Matauranga roadshow. We learnt a lot about stars. I learnt that the constellation of Maui's hook is real. There was a virtual reality station, i-pads and a really cool star map. We could even do a bingo sheet and the coolest booklets we could ever imagine. There was even a table where we could make modules of waka. My favourite thing was probably the virtual reality station.

My Speech - Kids Should Play Sport

WALT present a persuasive speech. 

What did I do well? The things that I did well was eye contact,expression and actions.

What do you need to work on for next time?The thing that I need to work on is not using my cue cards.

What was your overall feeling about your speech experience?

Do you think children should play sport? If you don't, maybe I can change your mind. Today I’m going to talk to you about why children should play sports.

My first reason is because it’s healthy. Sport helps you have a healthier heart and lungs. It also helps your muscles to develop and grow big and strong. Fat can block your veins so that blood can get from one place to the other. Fat has a lot of energy in it. When you play sports your body needs energy so it burns up fat that your body has stored. 

Now here is an example. When you do gymnastics your heart, lungs and muscles all get exercise and get stronger! 

My second reason is because when you play a game like netball your brain has to send messages to different parts of your body to tell them what to do and to get them to work together. This is called hand-eye coordination and helps your brain develop. 

My third reason is because you make lots of friends and you learn how to work as a team. For example if all my friends were away I would feel as if I was lost in a forest ,but if all my friends were at school I would feel as if I had got out of the forest. It is also tough when you don't know anyone.How would you feel?Here is another example if I didn't know anyone at soccer I would probably hide.What would you do?

Reason four is that sport teaches us determination. Like when you are running in a cross country and you are determined to get in the top five. You get tired and you get the stitch but you just keep running. Like last year if you had seen my face you would have known that I was exhausted and very surprised! To finish up on this reason I want to say that determination is important in a lot of areas of life. 

Here is my last reason. If kids play sports when they get home they won't bounce off the walls,run around and break things.If I broke anything I would never be allowed to play prodigy!Even if I promised to clean the whole entire house every day of my life.How many times have you said you would do something just to get out of trouble or to do something you really want to do?

Now back to my first question: do you think kids should play sports?

Sports is healthy, it helps your brain develop, helps you make friends, teaches you determination and means you burn off energy so that you don't break stuff at home. 

If I changed your mind today, awesome but if I didn't maybe next time.

Thankyou for listening to me.That is the end of my speech.     

Lake Ngatu Planting

 Yesterday we went to plant native trees at lake Ngatu .We planted 360 trees some of the trees were Manuka and Kanuka .We did this to help the environment we also picked up lots of rubbish.There were a lot of cigarette buts.One of my friends picked up 11 cigarette buts.We were there with Te Puawai and Te Kauru.