Sports Assembly

Today we had a whole school assembly and I presented at it. During the assembly kapa haka, choir and Irish dancing groups performed, athletics certificates were presented to. Since I am in the kapa haka group I performed the songs we performed my favorite thing we performed was the haka. I got five certificates for athletics I got one for 1st place one for 2nd and 3 for 3rd. It was really fun performing and watching the other groups perform.

Potato Gun Experiment

Today we did a science experiment. We made potato guns out of straws, skewers and of course potatoes. We were trying to test what angle was best for making the potato guns shot the bits of potato. The way the potato guns were meant to work was you would stab each end of the straw into the potato so that each end of the straw had had a bit of potato in it, then with the skewer push one of the bits of potato slowly so that the air pressure builds up and then after the air pressure gets to strong the other bit of potato flies out of the straw. Well that's what was meant to happen but the straws were to bendy and when they bent they weren't air tight so the air pressure couldn't build up. 

NZ Music Month Add

This term we have been working on passport tasks, passport tasks are tasks on a sheet called a passport they are in six category's each activity is gives you a certain amount of points, each year there is a different theme to the activity's this year is NZ music. one the activity's I did was a add for NZ Music Month, I made it on scratch. Here it is. 

St Peters Orchestra

Last week the St Peter's College symphonic and string orchestras came to school to play us some of the music they had been learning. My favorite song they played was the James Bond theme. They also taught us about the different instruments, my favorite instrument was the trumpet because it sounded really cool. It was really fun listening to the music that they played and learning about the different instruments.

Cultural Festival

On Saturday most of the kapa haka group performed at the Eden/Albert Cultural festival at Rocket park. there was tons of good food for us to buy before we performed, I had some dumplings, a bowl of stir fry noodles and slushie. When it was time for us to perform I was a bit nervous at first but after a while I found it was really fun. It was really cool watch the other performances and performing.

beak experiment

Today we did a science experiment. We were try to test which beaks were best for which job. The way we tested this was, with different types of forceps trying to pick up different objects, including: skittles as berry's, gummy worms as worms and paper as leaves. My group prediction was that the flat forceps would be best at picking up the paper and skittles because they can get underneath the paper and skittles we also thought that pointy forceps would be best at picking up the gummy worms because they can stab them and pick them up. My groups prediction was correct! It was really fun testing the our prediction and most importantly eating the lollies.

Comics

Today Mr Drummond came into school to teach us about writing and drawing comics. My comic was called Iron-man but not the super hero, like the sort of iron you use for ironing, geddit. I really enjoyed making characters and the comics they were in. I found the hardest part of making comics the was showing the characters personality in the comics.

Pede Patterns

Today we learnt about patterns by making creatures called pede (pede also means legs). Then we tried finding the rule for the pede pattern. My pede's rule was: pede x 3 + 2 = total squares. I really enjoyed making my pede and figuring out the rule.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ↑                     ↑      ↑             ↑     ↑     ↑
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