Title what Do you think about Art

  In Te Ngahere we have been doing art. We have been doing art for so long. I’m still on my practice sheet because it is so hard. You start off with a practice sheet to get good a outline. Then you blend the colours on the picture. After you have practised on the practise sheet you go on to your real copy. The real copy is the same except the picture is bigger. It makes it even easier to do the outline, even blending is easy because the shapes are bigger. 

Do you like doing art? 

Mind Blowing Facts About Our T-Ball

 This term in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to play T-Ball. The rules to T Ball are.when you hit the ball you have to run even if you are already on a base. When there are no more chances to get anybody out, the back stop shouts ball in and they get ready for the next batsman. Every time somebody makes it to home base then the batting team get one home run. After everyone on the batting team has a go at batting they switch over. When we played we batted first and got 7 points and when it was our teams time to field I was the backstop. To get someone out when you are backstop either catch their hit  or  put the ball on homebase before the base 3 runner gets there. In the end my team won, the score was 14 to us and 12 to the other team. I really enjoyed the game because it was fun to play. Have you ever played T Ball before?

T-Shaped

 This term in Te Ngahere we have been doing lots of T-Shaped. This T-Shaped was about looking at a picture and thinking of what was happening and what might happen next. I found it quite hard because we have to look for an adverb, they usually start end with a ly. It helped us to  start looking at mood and atmosphere in stories.

Have you ever done T-Shaped in your class?

Bay Of Island

 Kia ora yesterday I went to Bay of Islands College. We went for orientation day. We were there with another school. We walked around the school and we did things that people in college do. We had fun. Some of the lessons we learnt were Social Studies, Te Reo Maori, PE, Art, Woodwork, Science and at the beginning of the day we made a paper tower. Do you want to go to Bay of Islands College?

Here is a link to the Bay of Islands College website.

Wonderful Fishing

 Wonderful Fishing 

Kia ora in the holiday Ben and his grandpa and I went fishing. We had heaps of fun and we all caught 2 fish each. The fish that we caught were snappers, sharks and a king fish. The place we went to was in Russell somewhere I can't remember. Then we came back and smoked the fish for our dinner. After that we watched movies like Annabelle and then we went to sleep.  

Cross country

 Kia ora,  my name is James,  I’m a year 8  In Te Ngahere. We have been practicing for cross-country. We run around the school grounds. Tomorrow our whole school will travel to Bledisloe Sports ground to race in age groups.  We have fun doing cross-country. I really like cross country.

Do you like cross country?

Te Reo Maori

Kia ora my name is James,  I’m a year 8  In Te Ngahere. We have been learning more Te reo maori. We have been learning how to pronounce Maori words about weather. I am enjoying learning and saying te reo maori.  Do you like te reo maori?

Wonder Project

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been doing the Wonder Project. There are two people who come in every Wednesday and talk to us about science. They mainly talk about the careers there are that relate to science and rockets. We have started to make bottle rockets and started to launch them, it is so easy to build the rocket  .

Do you like science? 

Maths

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been doing maths with our teacher Whaea Ronnie. We learnt measurement by counting all the paper hands inside the hula hoop. The hands could touch but not overlap. We also counted teddy bears inside the hula hoop. It is hard to put the teddy bears inside the hula hoop because they cannot touch the  hula hoop.  Do you like maths?

Maths

 Hi, we have been learning about maths. Maths is very good for me because it helps me with school and my education because it help me to listen to the teacher and when  I  work with my buddies. Maths is very easy for me because it helps me think about numbers and it’s funny to do maths.  I am learning to multiply tidy numbers. Do you like maths?

These are what I learnt.

1 4x 20=80

2 5x4=20

3 8 x 200= 1600

4 3x5,000= 15000

5 9x30= 270

P.E

Hi, in Te Ngahere we have been doing P.E. We were playing Universal Ball and  we had lots of fun. We played turbo touch, basketball, soccer and netball. My favorite game is Turbo touch when we play Universal ball. We got into two different lines and those were our teams. We had to run around the basketball hoops then get to the middle. When we got to the middle Whaea Shanna threw in a certain ball, that ball that Whaea Shanna threw in was the sport we played. Have you played  Universal Ball  before?

Cross Country Practice

Kia ora, in Te Ngahere we have been practicing for cross-country. We did some warm ups, and the teachers played some music while we were running around the goal posts. I ran 17 times, it was so hard because people were beating me every time and it’s not easy when you run for so long. For a cool down we walked to the goal  post and come back to the classroom.

Matariki

We have been learning about Matariki.t  Did you know there are about 500 stars in the Matariki Cluster but you can only see seven of them. The appearance of the Matariki Stars starts at the beginning of the Māori New Year. As part of our Matariki study we are decorating paper feathers. I coloured my feathers  with  pencils. We cut the matariki feathers out after we finished colouring them.the name of the Matariki stars are Waipuna, Waiti, Waita, Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi and  Uru-rangi. Have you ever seen the Matariki stars?

Pou Pou Art

In Te Ngahere I learnt about Poupou Art. I learnt how to draw a body and the face and
the tongue of a Poupou. We designed the body and we coloured the body, we blended different colours to make it more gradient. I did pretty well.