Year reflection

The year has been quite fun and enjoyable and WAY better then last year. Some of the major events of the year have been going on the overnight-er,ski trip, sailing, cross country,elgregoe,swimming sports, athletics, went to the regent theater  twice, bottle top art,did a first aid course, pet day and shantytown.For me the Chromebook has had a 2 steps forward 1 step back scenario on me as i have picked up a lot of skills and opened a new way of learning. But sometimes some of the activities that we got told to do on the Chromebook i would prefer to do on pen and paper. At maths time this year i thought that it stepped up in difficulty this year and pushed me to the limits which i found quite interesting. Technology this year a new experience made me more of a social person and opened a new way of thinking.Next year i am looking forward

to camp and High school entrance exams. overall 2016 was a fun school year and hopefully 2017 can top it.

Overnight trip

ON Thursday the 8th and Friday the 9th of December our class went on camp to the kanerie lodge. The video above is photos and videos from our trip. Overall it was a fun trip and future classes should do this. My favorite part was swimming in the lake.

Arahura marae diagram

Bottle top art reflection

Hr home links last one for the year

Pots and pans drumming

Yesterday we made our final pieces for the International pots and pans playoff. For the past couple of weeks we have been watching lessons of people teaching us how to drum but with pots and pans.The Rad Rhythm competition where people from all around the world enter a preform a piece of music made from drumming on pots and pans. They taught us different patterns and the basics of drumming. Then we made our own pieces of pots and pans music. Some of the cool things we learnt was that you can pick it up quite quickly. The rhythms were the same in 95% of drumming pieces. My favorite parts were putting together and finding new ways to make patterns. I would definitely do it again and if we could do it next year it would be awesome. I found the process of making the rhythms quite fun but unfortunately at the worst timing ever in the world i got sick.  If anyone reading this has spare time find some pots and pans and sticks and start making music.

Hr Home links Week 7 Term 4

Sailing on our lake

Home links W4 T4 P1

Home links W4 T4 Part 2

Spring Time

Where blossoms bloom,

Becoming day at night,

In the season of Halloween,

Where people get a fright.

Animals being born,

Waiting for the summer,

This heavy rain

Is a real bummer.

Birds chirping,

Flowers in the tree,

What do you know

The cat’s next to me.

Barbecues outside,

Sun beaming down,

Bees flying,

Dad looks like a clown.

Vegetables growing,

Want the pool,

This is why

Spring is cool.

If there was a word

To describe this season,

I could say anything

Without reason.

Why New Zealand is unique

Home Links Week 2 Term 4

Hr home links week 9

Explanation writing

Home links week 8 T3

https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=de7cc12a-4221-4415-9513-58f7c0daefb2

Here is the link the picture one does not work

Home links week 7 T3

How to multiply fractions with whole numbers

Home links week 6 T3

How to add and subtract fractions with different denominators

In this video i explain how to add and subtract fractions with different denominators

Home links week 5 term 3

Money Money Money brainstorm

Hauora: Whare of well being

In this video i am explaining my Whare of well being. Hope you enjoy.

Olympics Learning

Home Links Week 2 Term 3

First aid workshop

On the 2nd of august we had Denise from ST Johns visit to teach us about first aid. We learnt how to do CPR, The doctors ABC, what to do in a scenario and a game about a patient named Joe on a hike. The game we played about Joe on the hike and you had 2 minutes to pick all of your supplies. Then you had to pick the supplies you would use for different scenarios and once you used them you cant use them again. Then we practiced CPR on a mannequin and I learnt that cpr breaks someones ribs. I think maybe next time we could have learnt things that we didn't learn last year. Overall it was good that Denise taught us about first aid and I hope she comes back next year.

Whare of well being.

This morning in class we all made an individual whare of well being. My four walls for my whare represent the emotional wall, the social wall, the physical wall and the spiritual wall. My emotional wall means that it is OK to show you emotions to let people know how your feeling. My spiritual wall means that i can see things that people can't because if you look closely you can see 2 walls dividing and one sees things while the other person doesn't. My social wall represents me and my friends and that we can bond really easily. And my last wall which is the physical wall means for me to be happy and healthy. To make myself do this i go for a 2 Kilometer run every day it is fine after school and control what I eat. Those are what my 4 walls of my whare mean.

Ski Trip Reflction

Art Inquiry

Division problems

Home Links Week 9

Bowl a fact

For maths this morning we played bowl a fact a game where you roll 3 numbers with a dice and you see what equations and answers to 10. you can use all types of methods such as addition, subtraction, multiplcation, exponents, division, square root sand much more. I got all of the answers apart from number 9 by using the numbers 3,4 and 1.

IALT: multiply decimals

Home Links Week 8

Elgregoe visit

This morning at lake brunner school we had elgregoe come to visit. The point of his show was to preform magic tricks and get an anti bullying message through. Some of his key catchphrases were: Use your wits, walk away, ignore, talk about it and stop. Another one of is messages are somewhere on this photo can you see what what they are?

I thought his show was quite good and the best it has been in a while. His bullying is not OK message can really get through if you listen and get the concept. Overall I though it was quite good and I hope he comes back next year with bigger and better messages and tricks.

Paul Klee Reflection

Home links week 7

Ukulele task with Ridge

Sound investigation 2

In this experiment I am trying to see how sound amplifies through a balloon. I explain in the video how this works.

Sound investigation 1

Mr Barnett and Henk visit

Today at school Mr Barnett and Henk from The Department of constervation came to give us step 2 from the Talking shed. Henk and Mr Barnett took us out for a walk out on the velenski track. Here our some photos of our day. Henk and Mr Barnett taught us a bunch of things and gave us a big boost of knowledge about our flora and fauna topic and be on the lookout for our talking shed at about late term 2 or early term 3.

Looking at a punga tree that woould be about 40 odd years old

Looking at a 100 year old kahikatea

Trying to guess the name of the laef

Home links week 6

IALT: solve multiplication and division problems using standard written form

Magnet experiment learning

Home links week 3 and 5

ukulele creation

WALT: consider different viewpoints that people hold in the same topic

Home links week 4

For Home links this week I made a video about different types of energy. It links to home because energy is in our everyday lives and it links to school because our school wide topic is energy. Hope you enjoy

IALT: identify parts of a circle

Tech Space visit

On this Tuesday the 24th of may Lake Brunner School went for a visit to tech space. We used all sorts of high tech equipment such as 3 dimensional printers, Infrared sensors, A touchscreen TV and lots more. It is a really good place to learn tech tips here and there. In the future i think we should incorporate the use of the 3 D printer. Here are some photos of our day.

Niko and Jaymin are using a device that you don't need to use the keyboard with.

Our class made a  3 D print of our class name

In this video Eric shows us how to use a cool infrared sensor that detects you hand and pops up on the screen

                               

This little device that Bridget is holding can recognize how fast, what angle, how many steps and much more while connected to Bluetooth. you see the statistics on the ipad.

IALT: use Thing link

Energy morning

Home Links Week 2

WALT: Write quality blog comments

WALT: Identify the properties of 3D shapes

WALT: Write an information report

Great Spotted Kiwi

A kiwi is a flightless bird that lives in only New Zealand. They are in the emu, moa and the ostrich family. There are 5 main types of kiwi. One of these is the great spotted kiwi which is based on the west coast of the South Island. The great spotted kiwi has quirky characteristics, lives in the mountains and bush with many predators and prey.

The great spotted kiwi lives in the bushy and a mountainous habitat.it generally lives in burrows made under old trees or under the roots of a big tree. Each burrow is 3 metres long with a sleeping room for the kiwi at the end. It can be found in these 3 natural locations. These are:north west Nelson, the Paparoa range and Arthur's pass. The great spotted kiwi lives in a habitat with lots of bush and many predators and prey.

The great spotted kiwi has many predators and prey. Its predators are stoats, ferrets, weasels, pigs, brush possums, cats and dogs, which can even kill adult kiwi. In places that kiwi predators are controlled kiwi hatching increases 50-60%. The maximum penalty for killing a kiwi can be up to 1 year in jail of a hefty $100’000 fine.

Kiwi are endangered and protected and we need to save them.

Reference: https://www.kiwisforkiwi.org/about-kiwi/kiwi-species/great-spotted-kiwi/

My first blog post!!!!