Kids Can Dress Up Day

On Wednesday at Paihia School we all dressed up as something random. I dressed up as a nerd and my little brother dressed up as spider- man. The whole school was so colourful and really bright. Some people dressed up as ghosts and others were dressed up as minecraft characters. It has been such a cool morning and I wish it was every day.

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How to eat healthy

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to eat healthy. Whaea Gina came in on Monday and told us about how much sugar are in different types of drinks. Green meant everyday, orange meant once a week and red means once a month or hardly ever. Most of the drinks like Coke and Powerade had about 10 sugars. The most surprising drink had was the E2 drink it had 20 sugars. That is 4x the amount you should have daily. I now want to learn how to read the labels on drinks or foods so I can see if it is good for me.

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Ukulele Lessons

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to play the ukulele. Our ukulele teacher was a Irish lady called Alison. She taught us about the parts of the ukulele and some of the chords. Tayla, Jack and I all had the same color ukulele. A bright yellow. Alison is going to be teaching ukulele to us for 5 weeks, everyday on Wednesday. Soon the whole school will be become an awesome ukulele playing band. I think I did well listening to Alison but I could do better by playing to the beat.

Maramaku

On Friday some of the school went to Maramaku. Maramaku is when all the rugby and netball players come together to have a tournament. In my team was Tia, Tayla, Astin, Taleisha, Saffyre and Reitu. We had a to play netball. The tournament was 4 and half hours long and we had 5 games. We only won 2 games because we were in a year ⅞ team, we won against Opua and Waikare. It was really fun and a good learning experience for us because every weekend we win so we needed a good challenge.

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Possum Problem

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to make connections between the text and my prior knowledge and/or personal experiences and/or between texts. We had 3 different texts and we had to choose 2 to answer questions on. I decided to do the Possum Problem one. We had to explain how the possums food chain is different from New Zealand to Australia. After that we need to list up reasons for and against, that people gave for possums to come to New Zealand. We then needed to make a flow chart of all the events in the story. Then we had to pretend that we went back in time to when people were going to invite possums into New Zealand. Lastly we needed to write negatives and the positives for people bringing carpet snakes into New Zealand to stop the possum problem. Once we finished all of those activities we needed to put them all together on a doc or a slide show. I did well answering all the questions but I could do better by answering them quicker. '
Here is my presentation.

Endemic, Native or Introduced animals.

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to make connections between what we read or view. We had to decide on a bird and a animal and research it. My bird was a Morepork and my animal was a Long Tailed Bat. We had to say what that creature ate, where it lives, how it helps in the ngahere, if it was endemic or native and some interesting facts. When I made my Morepork presentation I worked with Dayton and Jack. With my Long Tailed bat presentation I worked with Taleisha. I think I did really well working on my presentations but I could do better by rehearsing and adding some more facts into my slideshow.

Hope you like my slideshows.

Bay Bush Action

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to save the ngahere. Brad and Stella came into Te Ngahere and taught us a bit about our ngahere and how we can save it. We first got told about the different types of predators that are in our ngahere. We talked about how to trap possums, rats or stoats. They demonstrated what would happen if a rat would walk into the trap and the consequence for that (Death). They gave us 10 traps to put around our school so we could become the first school in New Zealand to become rat free. I enjoyed holding the plush possum. It was such a memorable day. 

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