Wonder Project

This week in Te Ngahere we have started the Wonder Project. The
Wonder Project is a free program to get New Zealand kids excited
about science, Technology and engineering. For this term there will
be two people coming every Wednesday. Their names are Gustavo
and Troy. Troy works with the Far North District Council as a
stormwater engineer and Gustavo works as a Pomologists and he
studies the biology of fruit and their development. Right now
Gustavo is working with Kiwi fruit in kerikeri. Each week we will be learning a little bit more about rockets. This week we had to choose
2 jobs from a list after we had to find out a little bit about them, the
two I chose was Environmental scientist and a biologist. By the end
of the eight weeks we would of built a rocket in our groups.

Has your Class done the Wonder Project?

Learning Te Reo

This week in Te Ngahere we are learning Te Reo from a book called
“Nga Mahi Parekareka Kei te Marae” which  means “Fun at the
Marae”. This week we began with the basics like how to pronounce
words and the other basic things. We will be reading the book to
younger kids in our school in Te Reo and then they will read it to us in
english. When we started the teacher said it was like learning to read
and it was. I was asking my buddie.  Am I saying it right. When we had
done it for two days the teacher told us to do a game of memory, I
won the last round. 

Do you know how to speak Te Reo?     

Nga Mahi Parekareka Kei te Marae  

Amazing Touch Rugby

On Monday half of Te Ngahere went out to the field to play some
touch rugby there were these two people one called Henry and the
other called Jason he's a student at BOIC ( Bay of islands college). The
first thing Henry asked us to do was if anyone would like to take the
exercisers and someone in our class said yes. We did them for about
15 minutes then we moved onto some drills. We got into groups of
3-4 people in a group. Then we did some passing after passing we
moved onto how to play the ball. The group I was in got into a rhythm
until we finally got to play a game of touch. The game was fun even
though the score was 0-0. After the first half of the class the second
half went and played. What I found fun was dong the drills but the
hard bit was when we had to go back when the other team was
playing the ball.

Have you ever played touch? 

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First Step Of Our Circuit

 First Step Of Our Circuit

This week in Te Ngahere we have been trying a different trickshot called
a circuit using our success criteria. Our success criteria was that our

circuit must include a way to make a ping pong ball or marble travel a
drawbridge, classroom materials and a way to make your whole team
involved. We first started our drawbridge because our drawbridge was
most likely going to take the most time. To start off our drawbridge we
used popsicle sticks and a hot glue gun. We watched an example video
then using that video we designed and created the bridge  using her
instructions. The hard part of doing the bridge was finding the

placement of the sticks because sometimes we would put the hot glue on

the stick and then place them in the wrong place and the glue would

already be

dry. 

Have you ever tried making a circuit Trick shot? `

How many gingerbread

How many gingerbread men 

WALT: We are leaning to identify maths in everyday live.

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning to look at things
with our maths eyes this is what we found. All of these
gingerbread men have walked through some mud,
all of the gingerbread men are smiling, all of the m&ms are
different colors, some of the m&ms are crooked,12 gingerbread
men, 24 m&ms on the gingerbread men, the gingerbread men
have really bad bowl haircuts, their smiles are all different, only
one of the gingerbread men has got two of the same color m&ms
on his front.  What I found hard is that I took a while to see the maths
side of it but then I found it to be what I found easier after a few minutes.   

Do you have think you have maths eyes?

Little critters

  Little critters

 On the 6th of May I made little critters out of clay. They are adorable. When I had finished making them I put them in the oven to see if they would harden. When I had put them in the oven I went away for 1 minute then I went back to the oven and they had melted apart from one which is the one sleeping. I was upset because they were my originals. After they had hardened I made them up again but not completely the same like the spikes on their backs are different. They still look the same. I was happy after I had made them up again. Then I went and gave two away, one went to my brother which is the one with headphones on and the one sleeping to my mum. I just need to make one for my dad. Have you ever made clay things? 

Mystery fish 

On Thursday 30th January my brother mum and
me went for a walk along a beach in Russell we
were almost half way down the beach and we saw
this weird fish. And we didn't have any idea what
it was and we still don’t. I said it might be a unicorn
fish but it wasn't. Then we kept walking then when
we were walking back we said to my brother to stay
there so me and my mum walked back to the car and
drove to my brother to take a photo of the fish.
The walk was nice and mysteries when we found
this fish. Do you know what type of fish this is. If
you do leave a comment down below.