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Matariki

 

Making Nets

 Making nets

WALT makes nets for simple 3-D shapes

 and to create models of these.

A net is a ruled 2-D patten 

That folds to make a 3-D shape. 

These are patterns or nets that make

 for making cubes.  

These are my nets that fold into their 3-D shape. 

Only 3 out of 4 worked. 

         

This is my cylinder. I think that it does not look like a cylinder because I folded it where I wasn’t meant to. 

rowing Olympics

 Rowing Olympics 

Rowing is one of the many sports in the Olympics. Rowing is a sport that uses a canoe, with oars to control the canoe/boat with. In the rowing Olympics there are lots of different types of rowing like mens and women's singles, doubles, coxless pairs, and eights. In rowing New Zealand has three golds, two silver, and zero bronze. In total New Zealand has won five medals in the Olympics. The Olympics started in 1894 and the first time New Zealand competed in rowing was in 1900. 

The golds that New Zealand have won in 2021 this year for the 2021 tokyo Olympics is Grace Prendergast and Kerri Glower who raced in the women's doubles, men's eight these are just a couple of E.G. New Zealand has entered into are mens and womens singles, mens and womens double, mens and womens coxless, and mens and womens eight. 

 New Zealander Liza Carrington has entered into all of the women's rowing as she could, which is most of the women rowing games. Soon Lisa Carrington is going to become New Zealand’s best Olympic rower, she is 32 years old, LIsa Carrington has won 3 gold medals for rowing in the Olympics. 

The first person to row in the Olympics for New Zealand was Victor Lindberg at the 1900 summer Olympics. Victor Lindbeg was also the first ever New Zealander to win a gold medal in the Olympic for New Zealand and for rowing and he won it in 1900. 

perimeter

Length

waka DLO

Link to DLO 

Water DLO

Bike Ride

Bike Ride For The William Pike Challenge 

Wednesday the 26th of May 2021. Room 8 and I went on two bike rides for a William Pike challenge, we all arrived at school at 8.30am and pack our bikes and bags into the car I was in Indi and Tims car with Hannah, Emma, and me. Our first bike ride was the Mananyi track and the second one was Hurunui Jacks. These were both wilderness trail tracks. I liked the Hurunui track more because it was easier for me.

Before we started biking we all unpacked our packs and our bikes, and in our groups we grabbed our compass and hopped on our bikes. At first most of the girls were in the front of the biking pack and on the way back most of the boys were at the front of the biking pack. It was cold and frosty at the start. I biked with Ms Kemp, Emma, Ilish, and Mylah for the Mananyi track. 

About 10 minutes later we were back on the road on our bikes to go back from where we started biking from. The sign told as it would take as about 2 hour one way on the Mananyi track but it only took as about 40 minutes, on the way back I biked with Ms Kemp, Emma, Mylah and Ilish. my goal was to bike both of the ways, 40 minutes later we had all finish ed biking the first track I was so happy because I was so tired we all hopped in our car and went to the Hurunui Jacks track. 

We arrived at Hurunui Jacks track and we ate our food till all the other car groups came, and we were off on our bikes again. I liked the Hurunui Jacks track more because there were more down hills than the Mananui track, we set of on the Hurunui Jacks bike ride, I biked with Ilish and Mylah till I slowed down and started to bike with Ms Kemp again, we had to bike up a big hill, this Hurunui Jacks took this about 40 minutes to bike my goal this to bike all the Hurunui Jacks and the Manganui track. 

 When we stopped Emma, Shannon, Mylah, and Ilish all went into Ms Kemp’s car and rode back to the start of the Hurunui Jacks. There were lots of green tree and a main road. I was so tired I ask Ms Kemp if I could go back into her car to ride back with  Emma, Shannon, Mylah, and Ilish but there were only four seats for kids so I could not ride back so I had to bike back. We stopped at the fords and I had a go. It was very fun! I was the only girl to have a go on the first ford. We continued to bike till we got to the 2nd ford. I had a go at trying the ford out.  I liked the 2nd ford more. We biked till the end.  I biked 26kms in one day! 

 

Beach cookout 2021

 

The Treaty Of Waitangi

                   The Treaty Of Waitangi 

 

We are learning to understand how and why individuals and groups pass on and keep alive their culture and heritage.

First we read an article about the Treaty of Waitangi, then we answered questions about the Treaty. We made our own treaty about the class rules and we signed it with a fern pen with a quill nib. Also we marked the places where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in New Zealand. 

We learnt about this so we can know more about the reasons why Māori and the British (Crown) signed the Treaty of Waitangi. 

We both learned when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed (Feb 6th 1840), we 

also learned  when New Zealand first celebrated the Treaty of Waitangi (1974).  

The challenges that we faced were pronouncing the Māori words. 

Mana

 

Whanau Poster

 

symmetry

 

This term i learnt about symmetry....

Diwali

Diwali

Video

Story behind diwali

Diwali is the festival of lights, usually lasting

5 days and celebrated by millions of people

around the world for New Years. It is also a

festival of a new beginning and the triumph

of good over evil and light over darkness.

Diwali originated in India and is strongly

linked to the Hindu religion.

Day 1: Card games, gambling and purchasing gold and metals are

common for the first day.

Day 2: Known as Naraka Chaturdasi or Chhoti Diwali/ demon effigies

are burned in Goa.

Day 3: New Moon day; the most significant day of the festival in

North and West India.

Day 4: Meaning varies across India including the start of

a new year victory over Demon King Bali.

Day 5: Known as Bhai Duj; celebrates Sisterhood.

The festival is mainly about the renewal of life, and bringing

light to replace darkness. Like the chinese new year and diwali

there are similarities. In the Chinese New Year they exchange

gifts, light candles and use firecrackers and fireworks. This

also happens in the Diwali festival. Diwali cultures also celebrate

by making rangoli patterns like these.

By Olive, Emma, Billie W, Summer.

Whakatauki Work

Wild thing magazine

 

Week 5 of reading the story of the race to the south pole

The Story Of The Race To

South Pole

I read an autobiography or a biography book

this week about Robert Falcon Scott.

He was an Antarctic explorer. Ms Kemp

my teacher helped me pick a book for

this week if you don’t know what autobiography or

biography it means a real life story. I don't have a

bit that I like the most about this book.

 Written by Nick Saunders  

Simple Machines

 

My class has been learning about magnets and
gravity this term.Here is some of my work that
I have done this term. I have done more activities
like readings and study leader tasks on magnet,gravity
and more. I have learnt a lot of magnets and gravity
to be honest I knew nothing about magnet or gravity
but That they can connect your fridge. One thing that
I learnt in this term is that simple machines are Related
to gravity and something I learnt about magnets is that
they can Attach to black sand or well I never thought of it.

Wild Things Magazine Stop Throwing Food Scraps Into Nature 

I read from the magazine section this week.

I picked this book because it was the only magazine the classroom had.

The three of the stories in the magazine were called The answer can

be brain boggling, Mouthparts beaks and teeth and stop throwing food

scraps into nature. This is the book that i am going to tell you about, my

favoutive bit in the story is. Stops throwing food scraps into nature,

takes scraps home with you and disposes of them in your home or school

bin comset bin. Why this is my favourite bit is because I think that this

can help people realize  that throwing scraps and food into nature can kill

animals. This story can stop people from litter is bad for nature.

photos taking in the magazine article by Matt

Binns and Kat Macbeth