Year 5 day!

Year 5 day!

 Hello!, On 17th may 2021 the year 6's went on a school trip to spark arena. My sisters a year 6 and she got to go, I was upset that I didn't get to go but my sister told me the year 5's were doing something fun with McGrath, Then I was not that upset. Eventually the bell rang and the teachers called the year 6's to come to Manukau ( The yellow space). Finally the year 5's were called to Hauraki( The blue space). McGrath was sitting on the short moon table right it the middle with her grey apple laptop on the moon table,She was sitting on the chair. After everyone sat down on the mat she said good morning.

 Soon she called out the roll. 70 seconds later McGrath was talking to us about the well being survey. She said something that wasn't part of the survey but us girls needed to know, After, she said something's about our hair, earrings, rings, necklace, bracelets, coffee and why us children can't drink because it had caffeine  it and yea stuff like that, So she said something about earrings first. She said that hoop earrings are a little dangerous at school because what if someone accidentally pulls it your earring can break and your bottom ear will be ripped off. Everyone was shocked and she said something about my earring, She said I was not getting told off but my gold hoop earring could get pulled off like her friend, 

Her friend was playing netball and she had a hoop earring and a finger went in the earring and it pulled her ear and her bottom ear was damaged. She also said that we should tuck our necklaces in out shirt so someone dose not pull the necklaces or else we would choke. She told us it was going to be pink shirt day soon and she asked why is pink shirt day real? After one girl put her hand up and explained what pink shirt day is for. Eventually, we were going to make fortune tellers. People handed out white thin paper cardboard. There were no  more chairs so some people got up to get a table from the other class Waitemata( Green space) Then my friend grabbed me and herself a chair and put it at the table to sit. 

Finally it was time to make the fortune tellers. First we had to fold it diagonally, Then we had to fold it diagonally again except on the other side. Then you unfold everything and fold it from the paper in half, Then you fold the paper in half again from the side, After you bring the corners to the middle and they will look like small triangles. Then you flip your paper to the back and get the flaps you folded and fold them to the back. Then fold your paper in half and put our 2 index fingers and 2 thumbs in the flaps and try to mould it into shape. We got to colour it in and play with it.

Then we were told to clean up and form a circle. McGrath was sitting on a chair and she said something nice about someone. Once you say something nice about someone you sit down and if you get a comment from someone else you have to say something nice about someone else and then sit down once you get a thank you from the person you said a nice comment to. You have to pick someone else. when I got picked I told something nice about someone and sat down. 30 minutes later we were finishing off our work. Me and my friends saw the year 6's coming back with bags. It was time to pack up for the day. WOW! what a cool day today I said walking out of the building. Here is a picture of my fortune teller I made.

Experiencing Anzac day under the strings

 Tena Koutou, On Wednesday 14th April 2021, the teachers arranges a surprise. The surprise was a ANZAC surprise, also us students were not aloud to go into the senior building until the bell rang. Before the bell people started being sneaky and looking under the blinds and through the windows to find out what was going on but we didn't see much until.. RINGGGG! The bell rang but only one classroom had no string and that classroom was Manukau the yellow senior  classroom. The other two classrooms were closed so we only got into Manukau. everyone ran into Manukau because of the rain and people started whispering and mumbling to each-other about what was going on then the teachers yelled to be quiet, The students went quiet and the teachers had camouflage colours face paint that they put on their face, They had camou green, black, and brown colours  over their noses and they were all three teachers were wearing black. Black pants, shirts, jumpers and guess what the teachers had NURF GUNS! and were shooting the students and teachers shooting other teachers. They said they set up string every where and when I mean everywhere I mean EVERYWHERE. The whole two classrooms had string everywhere so we had to crawl under the string like they did in the army. The strings were tied to chairs, tables. seats. bookshelves, and there was no space we could walk only crawl under the string It was like this.

Some people thought the crawling was getting tired and hurting their knees and it really did but If you are going to do this I suggest you wear long pants so you don't feel your knees is pain, but the most important thing was we all had lots and lots of FUN!! But fun didn't stop us from still doing our work.. VERY BORING! BUT! we got to do out work under the strings so I guess it was a bit of fun. We did some Anzac work, The first thing the teachers told us to do was maths, maths was not Anzac work for us instead we had to do our basic facts test which was quite exciting because we got to do our basic facts test under the strings. One teacher played shooting sounds grenades sounds and bombing sounds on her speaker and that would distract us students from doing out work but we still had to carry on. After the timer was up we had to stop working and pass out sheets on to other people until it reaches the teachers. I also forgot to say that the teachers were also under the strings!

isn't that cool!

After our maths test we did this kind of Anzac worksheet that looked hard to do but it had thick stripes and it said, Vietnam war, Korean war and some other wars that I could not remember. The worksheet was hard to me but we had to plus the year to make another year and then write the answers down, When we finished our answers we had to add them all together. I finished writing my answer and crawled to the teacher and gave her my sheet. After a few more minutes The teacher said we had to give out sheets in, Then the bell rang for morning tea. Everyone crawled their way to the exit and gasped. Then I reached down to my bag got my morning tea and grabbed my hat then I waited for my friends. When my friends came out and got their stuff we walked for a while. (AFTER MORNING TEA) RINGG! The bell went and I put my stuff back into my bag and crawled back under the strings. Then the teachers gave out piles of papers with stuff on them and gave them to us. I grabbed one and passed them on. After everyone got a paper the teachers told us what to do and what we had to do was write a letter to our family on the paper we got but we didn't actually give it to our family it was just how it felt to write a letter in the trenches and was work. I started writing for about 2-3 minutes and my letter looked like this. Down here!

I waited for a long time and finished my letter then lunch came and the bell rang again RINGGG, everyone crawled their way to the door again. IT WAS LUNCH TIME SWIMM! Only one of my friends brought their togs. I grabbed my togs and lined up.

Fancy or freaky!

 Hey bloggers,  In lock-down there was a fancy or freaky Friday. I don't remember the date but I do remember it was in lock-down. I had a syndicate meet which is where all the classrooms in the senior syndicate meet. I had white and reed face paint but I didn't know what to do with them when an idea popped up in my head. I used the face paint to paint my lips red and fangs on the side of my lips like a vampire and I painted my eyes like a 'V' shape and coloured it in. I didn't know what I was gonna be so I just called it the red vampire but I wasn't a vampire actually I was just doing random face paint.

It was time to go on the google meet so I squashed into a small gap where my chair was and I sat down. While I was getting on the google meet. I wanted breakfast so my mum came in and I stuffed my breakfast in my mouth and chomped it, swallowed it and went on my meet, and yes  was in a bit of a rush. When I joined I heard the teacher talking and sometimes my teacher mistakes me for another girl in my classroom whenever I  join the google meet which I find something I think the teacher needs to learn on, not being rude though. I had my phone under my desk and alerts kept on going off about the tsunami warning, OH! have you heard about the tsunami? Its scary right? One boy in another classroom but still in the seniors lived where the tsunami came so they had to evacuate which is why he didn't join the syndicate meet.

We waited for some other students to join and when all of them joined the teachers decided they had a game to play. So one of the teachers cased their screen. There was different things like red dice, a cork, pen, batteries, shell, a kind on plaque thing ( I called it a thing because people called it something else which I didn't know) scissors, and a few other things which I don't remember. How the game works is one object gets taken away and the first one to say what object got taken away in the chat wins a round. When the objects were gonna get taken away a black screen appeared just to cover what is gonna be missing so you don't see it moving away from the picture and know what it is straight away. The objects were gonna be put back in place.

Some people got most of the wins but I kept my eye on one with the chat open on the right side of my screen, Then the screen went black and what was missing I knew straight away when the blackness disappeared. It was the cork! I typed in the chat straight away 'Cork! and the teachers said 'that's Zara'  And I won a round. After a few minutes of playing we moved onto certificates. some people won a Duffy certificate when my name came up. I got a merit
certificate. I was happy and my pop peeked through my door and smiled at me because she was standing in the hallway listening if any of us got a certificate. A few minutes later the meet was about to end soon so I said goodbye and left. Bye bye bloggers! see you next time!

                                                                    

Lock-down diary

Lock-down Diary

Kia ora bloggers, I don't like lock-down it isn't fun but it is for our safety. My favourite activity was how Kiwi saved the forest. That activity was a cool story to read and that was the activity that took me a short time which is why I always do How Kiwi saved the forest for my first activity in lock-down. I wasn't happy when doing online classes because I just felt like it wasn't my job but I didn't have a choice because I need to learn so I can be smart. I like being at school sometimes because it is a lot of fun you can do there and you can learn in fun ways. Some activity's  I enjoyed and I also made a puppet show of a legend I remember that I was told in middle school. Here is a link to my lock-down diary and here is a another link to my how kiwi saved the forest, And oh wait! I have a puppet show link I made to show you as well, If you end up on how kiwi saved the forest page scroll down to see a slide with a big black square on the corner of the slide it is my Puppet show video you may have to click on the video a few times to watch it. come check it out here!

Photos down here!

How to create a rainbow

• Glass or something clear
• Water
• Light
• White paper
• glass cup

1. Place some white paper on a table or floor.

2.grab a piece of glass or something clear and place it onto the white paper

3.Take your light from a torch or something that has light and turn the light on.

4.Shine the light on the piece of glass

5.Fill the glass with water

6.Put the cup of water behind the piece of glass

7. Try moving the piece of glass left and right until some colours appear

8. When your moving the glass make sure it is in the light.

9.2 or 3 colours will appear. Keep moving until a rainbow appears!

Done!

Last years athletics day

The whole school did athletics except me. but I helped some teachers first I helped Louise she was working at the throwing place after the little kids came and we showed them how to throw. then we had our morning tea and then juniors,middle school and seniors went back to their places then I helped Mrs McLellan first Mrs McLellan asked me to go over to the tires and give the runners courage. I  clapped and watched then lunch break I had a ice block and ate my food then we played a little and went back to our stations. I went back to the tires i waited and waited for a few minute's later I saw them coming and did the same thong over and over again I sat down on the tire and waited for a long time until Mrs McLellan came and said I can come up then she asked me to hold the box and walk with her to the rope and she pulled out some things that hold the rope so it dose not wiggle off the hill i put the box down and helped Mrs McLellan pick out those things she was pulling out then we put them in the box and Mrs McLellan rolled up the rope and put it somewhere  and I put the box in room seven after time went it was finally the relays people had to go in their house colours so i went in my house colour group. I watched people line up and go to their places I watched and watched but i heard people cheering so I cheered too. finally we went to our classroom got our bags and went home.





                               

Summer learning journey art

Kia ora, On Monday 30th of November Kaiwhare and Mokoroa did art for the summer learning journey. There was an activity that was with art. There was a site google art and culture site. Then on your left a little blue button would appear and it would say launch experiment. Then you click that button and it takes you to a page with lots of big squares. In the squares there were art works like roses,a women combing her hair, the statue of liberty and more. It was very short to scroll down but there were a lot of pictures. The first picture I picked was the statue of liberty. I picked it because I thought it looked cool to colour. I clicked on it and it started loading into the picture. On the bottom was a pallet with little circles of colour. You click on a circle with a colour you like on it and then click on which part of the painting you want to be coloured and then in goes the colour you chose.

Second when I finished colouring there was a little X on the top right and you click that then in the middle of your screen is a little bar and it will say with blue words, Yes quit or No stay. Then I clicked yes and then I picked a rose The rose was the hardest because there were lots of bits. But I coloured the roses bright red. Then there were little lines that were still growing into a rose so I coloured some green and dark green. I coloured the background dark grey and then there was a little table and I coloured that neon yellow. Then there was a vase that all the roots and roses were growing in so I coloured the vase neon yellow too except the neon yellow was a bit brighter. Then I presses the X and moved on to the next picture.

Third I picked the wave. It was just waka's in the sea and that a huge wave was gonna hit. I coloured the sea blue and had little dots. Then there was a little mountain with snow on it that I could see in the distance. I coloured the snow a yellowish white colour. Then I coloured the background a original colour. On the bottom left there will be three or four buttons and you put your mouse on the second or third one and then the original colour appears. I coloured the sky the original colour because I had no idea what to do for the sky.

Fourthly I did a Lady comping her hair half way down. There was this lovely flower dress and I coloured the flowers a light brownish colour and left some of the flowers white. Then I did a dark brown for the hair and the skin colour a kind of light mud colour. I added red lips and dark blue eyes. But then Mr. Riceman my teacher tapped the te rakau sticks and we had to pack up. See you next time! My colouring in down here.