Litter Blitz

                    Litter Blitz

 










Hello Bloggers and welcome back to my blog. Today I am going to talk to you about a very big issue. So Wednesday the 24th of July my whole school went on the Litter blitz. In class we were given rubber gloves to wear, a florescent yellow sash and a black badge that said " Be a tidy kiwi ". We had a quick assembly in the hall then broke into groups and walked around the streets with two adults and about 6 children. We walked from our school, down past Hibiscus Place, Quona, Most of Hillsborough, past Waikowhai Intermediate and past dominion road extension. Before leaving each group were also given a huge bag to put the rubbish in. We walked all these streets collecting rubbish and putting them into our bags. I was very surprised to see so much rubbish around me. Some of the items we found were glass bottles, plastic bottles, cardboard, newspaper etc. One of my friends even found twenty dollars on the grass and she gave it to our teacher! We even found a lot of food thrown away. So many people go hungry every month because they have no money and what are we doing? - Throwing food away. So many people say they love animals. Do you love animals? I do though there is so much plastic around us that so many animals are dying. Please don't use plastic in the first place. Please don't throw rubbish on the ground. Please don't fill New Zealand with rubbish. At the end of our blitz we had collected 36 bags of rubbish and the bags were about 1 metre long, there were also 200 kg of rubbish! Have a look at the photos below. Well that's enough for today. Blog You Later.

 Here are the photos!!!

Hip Hop

                       Hip Hop

 Hey Bloggers. Welcome back. In our school each term we have different sport or activity. We participate in the activity for about 5 weeks. This Term we did Hip Hop. We had Hip Hop every Wednesday after lunch. Our Hip Hop teacher's name was Miss Millie. We start off with the warm up. You would think our warm up would be just like any other warm up but no. For our warm up we stand in a circle and Miss Millie starts. Miss Millie can do a dance move or a stretch. Once she has done hers she would choose which way the circle would go, clockwise or anticlockwise. Then the person next to Miss Millie would do the same they would choose either a dance move or a stretch and so on. 

For the first 3 weeks we did a very fun activity after the warm up. We were put into groups of 6 and they would be the people who were standing beside you in the circle warm up. Then you and your group would make a line and there would be one leader. As soon as Miss Millie starts the music the leader of the  group has to start doing a dance move and walk around the room. The others who are behind the leader would copy the leader and follow her or him around the room. and then when the music stops the person who is behind the leader would switch and become the next leader and the first leader would go to the back. We then learnt some new Hip Hop moves. 

In our fourth week we did something a little bit more fun. We were told to get into groups of three. I was with my friends Hosanna and Brittany. Our job was to use our body and make a rhythmic sound. We came up with something brilliant. We stood in a triangle. At first Hosanna was the point of the triangle and she can do any kind of sound pattern she wanted to do. She would do it once then I would do it with her the  second time and then Brittany would join her the third time. Then we would switch. I would be the next point of the triangle. We would repeat the way we have been doing the things and then at the end Hosanna and Brittany would stand on either side of me and point to me sitting on the ground and  then I would do a cool sound pattern that I learnt a long time ago. Then we would perform in front of all of the people in our class and they would do the same. 

Due to our busy term, we unfortunately missed about 3 sessions of Hip Hop. In our second to last week of Hip Hop we did something super duper fun. We had to be in pairs or groups of 3. I was with Brittany. We had learned a dance that day, a sitting one. Then in our groups/ pairs we had to make up our dance for the rest of the song. By the time we finished doing our steps it was time for the class to end so our Hip Hop teacher said that next week we can perform these dances for everybody. Since the week after that was our last week at Hip Hop and school we had extra fun. We performed our dances after a quick practice then danced on the other songs that we had learned before. Hip Hop was a great experience for me. I loved it a lot. Well Thank you for reading. Blog You later.  

Climate Change March

               Climate Change March

 Hello bloggers. So on the 24th of May Friday the Year 5 and 6 students attended the Climate Change March at Aotea Square marching down Queen Street. We made signs in pairs to chant with at the march. I was with Abigail. On the day we were supposed to share one bag our of 2 or three people. We would carry snacks. Ama later joined our group and we used her bag. We took a bus to Aotea Square. We talked all the way there. Then once we reached we walked down to where the march started the whole way chanting " HEY HEY HO HO CLIMATE CHANGE HAS GOT TO GO". We reached our destination and while we were waiting for the march to start we sat down and ate a small snack. The three of us shared our snacks with each other. Some reporters were even interviewing some students from our school. 

The March began soon after we arrived. The three of us held hands with each other and the other hand was holding up our sign. We stuck together so we wouldn't lose each other. We were put into groups and us three were with one of the student's mom. We followed our group leader as best we could. We were chanting the whole time. Every big interjection we came across we had to lie down on the road for a couple of minutes. Then we would get up and start marching again. The teachers made all of us wear orange beanies. Even the teachers were wearing them. They made us wear them because in  case we get lost and lose the group we just have to find someone with an orange beanie. The three of us took tuns holding the bag and the sign. There was another chant that we did it was " NO MORE COAL NO MORE OIL KEEP THAT CARBON IN THE SOIL". At 2 o'clock the march ended and we walked to a beautiful park. It was called the MAHUHU KITE RANGI Park. The park had a beautiful pond/waterfall and there were stone benches, there was a big grassy area and many big stones for us to sit on. The park was just in front of Abigail's mom's office so she had been here before. She told us that sometimes ducks come there. We played there for a while and then our bus back to school arrived. We climbed aboard. We talked at the way back too. Once we reached school we got a little bit of play time. Then it was time for us to go home. 

It was truly important that we went on the march. It was a really great experience. When there is another march I really hope that you come. It will be great a great way of helping the planet. Climate Change is a really big issue. That's all for now. Blog You Later.

Novel Activity

                  Novel Activity

Hello Bloggers, and welcome back to my blog. Today I am going to tell you about my reading novel activity. In our reading groups, everyone was given a novel to read that we would be doing activities on. My novel was The Secret Of Jelly Mountain - By Des Hunt. We had to read the whole book and then answer some comprehension questions about two or more of the chapters. Our first comprehension question was from chapter 3-4 and the next one was from 8-12.

The first comprehension questions sheet [ that was from 3-4] had 10 question just like the other one but this one had an eleventh activity.  The novel is mainly orientated on Huia being found on Jelly Mountain. So we had to do a  google drawing of facts about the Huia. We had to write 6 facts about the Huia. It was a lot of fun finding several new information about the Huia. In the novel, there was a lot of information about global warming. They told us what global warming is doing to many animals. Many animals are dying. So because of this I really liked this book because Jesse and Jason, the main characters, are trying to stop global warming to the best of their capabilities, and are fighting for the right to live for the animals. The most important theme of this novel would have to be determination because Jesse and Jason were super determined to find a way to get to the top of Jelly Mountain when nobody else could figure it out. They never gave up or lost hope and because of that they finally found a way to the top as a gift for never giving up. Another theme of this novel would be extinct animals. This novel talks a lot about many new and different animals that are extinct or will soon be extinct. Like the Huia and the Tuatara. Below are the links to my work. Click on the purple words to view my work. Below the links are my comprehension question photos. Have a look. Blog You Later.

Comprehension Questions 3-4   Comprehension questions 8-12   Huia facts

Choir Rehearsal

                 Choir Rehearsal

 Hey Bloggers. Welcome back. Today I am going to tell you about our amazing choir rehearsal. My school walked to Hay Park School. There were seven schools there. The schools there were :

Hay Park Primary
Waikowhai Primary-[us]
River Hills Primary 
Northcote Primary
Hillsborough Primary
Glen Eden Primary
Arahui Primary

We all sat in the big hall. Our choir teacher or guider was Mr. Lambert Our performance will be held in November in the Town Hall. We will be singing around 15 songs but have only learnt 7 of them. I would tell you guys the songs we would be singing but to find out you guys will have to come to watch our performance. As we arrived, we got some time to just sit and chat with our friends who were next to us as we would be singing quite a lot and that meant we wouldn't be able to talk to our friends. After we got to talk we sang our first song. It sounded beautiful. Mr. Lambert told us to add some things and to add more power. We did as we were told. We sang about 2 more songs after that and then we got to go outside and play and eat because it was morning tea. I had been to Hay Park School before as that was where the Student Led Toolkits was being held. I showed my friends around the school. Shortly after, we went back inside and sang all of our other songs. We were singing for 4 hours. Then around 12:30pm it was time for us to walk back to our school. 

Since the time I heard there was a choir at my school each year I wanted to be in it. I love to sing, it is my passion. Now that I am a Year 6 I can finally be involved. Year 5's can be in it too but last I didn't know when it was and then didn't get a chance to audition. Being in a choir is a really amazing experience. I think being in a choir is a great way to express yourself. I love being in choir and I think you will too. I loved getting to go to a different school and sing songs with other schools and I hope you come and watch us sing in November. Soon, in one of my other blogs, I will make sure to add the date of the performance. Well that's enough for today. Blog you later.

Personal Response

                        Personal Response

 Welcome Back Bloggers. Today I am going to tell you all about my personal response for reading. My reading teacher is Ms Sands. While we were at our reading class Ms Sands told us to read the STUFF article about the Climate Change March. Once we read the article we had to do a Personal Response about it. The  Personal Response included : 

What I was surprised about.
What I like.
What I didn't like.
What I would change.
What it made me change about.
What I didn't understand.

The article was very interesting. I loved reading it. Here is a LINK to the STUFF article. Click on the word link above to view. Hope you will read it too. I enjoyed this activity a lot. It made me think about how important stopping Climate Change really is. Here is a link to my Personal Response that I would like to share with you. Click the word Personal Response above to view. Hope you enjoyed this blog. Blog you later.

Student led Toolkits

                        Student Led Toolkits

 Hey there bloggers. How are you doing? Today I am going to tell you about something so much fun. On Tuesday the 28th of May some students from my school got selected to go to he student led toolkits. All the schools that are in the Ako Hiko cluster get together at a different school each year. This year it was Hay Park School. We went there by some of the teacher's cars. Once we got there we were told the three activities we will be doing and where they will be held. We saw a slide show of names and classes we had to see which slide our name was on. 

My first activity was to learn how to create a kahoot. The student led toolkits is called the student led toolkits because other students from all kinds of different schools teach us not any of the teachers. The students leading the kahoot told us how to get there and then what to press to start creating a kahoot. I did as they had told. Then we got to choose a topic anything we like to create a kahoot about. I chose Harry Potter Lines. I love Harry Potter so much that I remember each line by heart. I got time to make half the kahoot but then it was almost time to go to play so we saved out kahoots and bookmarked them. We then got a little time to play the kahoots that the other children had made and had finished them. After that we got to play and eat some snacks for a little time. The school had a awesome bake sale and I had some money so I bought some brownies and some cookies. Then we went back inside and went for the second session.

My second session was Stop! Go! Animation. I went there and we had to be in groups of two or three. I was with Brooklyn and Brittany. The students there showed us how to use stop, go, animation. Then we used an iPad and got onto the app and set the background. Then we used small action figures/ toys to film them. It was a success. It was a lot of fun making this.

My last activity was Google Drawing Art. The students there told us to choose anything that is a cartoon characters it could even be animals. I chose my favourite animal a bunny. They then told us to use the pollyline to trace and draw the animals we did that and it turned out great.  I traced and I added a grassy land once I had finished drawing the bunny. Then I added some carrots and a bowl of water as well as a girl standing in the background near her house with the sun shining bright. It was a fun activity. We then went back to the others and did some prizes then we went on the car and came back to school. It truly was a great experience.