Dolphin slides

 In our literacy group, our learning has focused on the sea. We have been learning about the hectors dolphin.

An interesting thing about dolphins is most dolphins have triangle dorsal fins but the hectors dolphin has a rounded dorsal fin.

Marine Biologists research marine animals like the whale and other fish like that.

Seaweed is amazing because it plays a really important role in our Eco system and scientists believe it is the plant of the future.

Olympic Athletics Day

Last week we had our Olympics athletics day the events included sprints, throws, high jump and long jump. I came second in the sprint races, third in the high jump first in the long jump but I didn't place in the throws.

I really enjoyed all of the events, I gave it my all and it really paid off by me getting lots of places.

Something that was a bit tricky was the high jump because when the bar got high I had to start using different techniques to get over it.

I am really proud of how i did this athletics, I tried my best and left it all out on the field.

Add a personal comment this was my best athletics ever!!!

 

Moa Slides

 In our literacy group, we have been learning about Moa and how we can bring them back to life.

Moa are the largest bird ever to walk the earth and it would be amazing to see them walk the earth again.

They became extinct because the Haast Eagle hunted them for food like Māori. Māori hunted them for their bones to make fish hooks and pendants.

An interesting thing that I learned was the Moa are part of the ratite group of birds and they are closely related to the ostrich and the emu.

Modern Olympics vs Ancient Olympics

 Over the last 2 weeks I have been working on a slideshow about the Ancient Olympics vs the Modern Olympics.

I enjoyed learning about both Olympics what sports were in them and what country's they were held in.

I found it hard to read the information on the text because the print was so small and that made it hard for me to get all of the information.

I am proud of what I have done I worked my hardest and it really paid off their will be no next time because I don't want to remake what I have already done my best at.

Liberato Cacace Report

Over the last week, I have written a report about Liberato Cacace, who is a pro football player playing for the OlyWhites at the Tokyo Olympics. 

I enjoyed finding out all of the information so I could write the report - like who he plays for and what tournaments he plays for and things like that.

I found it hard to put all of the information into sentences because they were all listed as facts on the websites I looked at.

I am proud of the learning I have done and I have met all of the success criteria.

This week in Maths, we have been focusing on the Olympics so we are doing thing like javelin throwing, football and all of those types of challenges. In the challenges we have to measure the area of things, the millilitres (ml) something of things and the meters of how far something went.

I really enjoyed collaborating with my team, doing all of the different activities and exploring what it would be like if I was in the Olympics I found out that when rowing if their is to much weight on one side of the canoe than than it will tip, so you have to distribute your weight evenly and things like that.

Something that was a bit tricky was getting my team to listen to me and getting all of the stuff together for the challenge. Maybe next time I could ask my team to do some stuff for me and talk a bit louder when explaining stuff.

I am really looking forward to next week when me and my team are going to do the other half of the challenges that we didn't do this week.

Braiden M Holidays Reflection

In the school holidays we cruised down to the Hawke's Bay to see my grandmother. The trip down was very scenic, we passed lots of cool landmarks like the Devils Elbow and a milestone we like to call Rocky. We call him that because someone spray painted Rocky on the back of him and put a face on him.

When we got down there it was around 8:00 - 9:00 pm. We went inside set down our bags in our room, said hello, ate something and went to bed. The next day was a lot more exiting, I woke up in the morning feeling like I had just had twelve coffees. I leaped out of bed chucked on my clothes and ran out to the lounge to see everyone. I had breakfast while looking at photos of my baby cousin and watching funny videos of people failing cool things with my grandmother.

At around 9:00 am I went down to Guthrie Park to watch the football. I was down there for a couple of games before I came home to wait for my brothers so we could go practice taking penalties for when I start taking penalties in my games.

In the afternoon we went to see my uncle at his retirement home. We were there for 2 hours before we came home. When we got home we had dinner, I had a shower, I relaxed for a bit and then went to bed to get some rest before the big trip home the next day.