Last week was Speeches. The topic had to be a about a changemaker, I choose Henry Ford. I choose Henry for because he created the Mass production of the Assembly line to build an Automobile. He also dropped the price for his vehicles and founded ford motors. Surprisingly I made it to the Speech Finals which is on Monday.
Over the weekend I didn't have much time to practise because I had reps on and we had to travel to palmerston north to play against them in soccer. On the day I was pretty nervous but in the end I think my speech turned out pretty good. I didn't end up winning but the after the speeches the Judge said there was most popular bird of the year and we got to say our bird on the radio. I choose a Tui.
This term I hope will be very exciting because we have quite a few things on this term. Also it is my last term at primary school so I hope it will be fun.
This week we had athletics training after lunch for half an hour each training. Yesterday we did high jump and long jump. Our school athletics is in week 3 on Tuesday and I am looking looking forward to it. Also in week three is Speeches on Wednesday. Next week is year 6 camp for four days while the year fives have school. Since there aren't many year sixes this year instead of going to camp Kaitawa we are going to Hastings/Napier for camp.
In week 5 will be the craft fair and I hope I will be able to go. For project based learning we will be painting murals around the school in either groups of three or five. Also the kapa haka festival is in week 6 and we have to do training every morning when it isn't raining except for Friday.
Just yesterday we went to Tristin's Dad's farm and they gave us a tour of the place. The first place my group went to was what farm vehicles they would use on a farm. There in front was a tractor, a motorbike, a quad bike and a truck. One of the people who came to help explained about what they used them for. Also, we got to see a drone flying around checking the farm in case of emergencies. After that, we watched what weighed the sheep and how you could tell their age. They could could tell their age by their 2 front teeth and how big they were. To weigh the sheep it would stand on a metal platform and weigh it in kg's if it went green it meant it would be going to the freezing works.
Then we got to see a few Sheep Dogs. Ones name was Cruise and other I forgot. Cruise was loud and the other dog was quiet. They do what you ask by doing certain whistles. Then we saw some people shear a sheep and show us how much it would cost for different parts of wool. Also, they showed us few things of what wool could create like jackets, socks, beanies and even a surfboard.
Next a person showed us most of the traps they used on the farm and what they caught. Some things they caught were stoats, ferrets and feral cats. There were different traps for different pests. Some of the traps could only be set once and some could go off 24 times without coming to reset. Then we got to see a cow and what it could make with all it´s milk like cheese, butter, calcium etc. And the very last thing they showed us was how they cut lamb what it would and what they used to cut it.
This week the teachers chose some people for PBL (Project Based Learning). PBL is when you create a project that can either help the community or just to add to make the school better. My group is Robbie, me and Anroux. Our group name is RAM because it means Robbie, Anroux and Mako. There are also 4 other groups in PBL. We were chosen because we were self-directed learners. A self-directed learner is a person when can manage themselves and their learning. For PBL we decided to make bird feeders and birdhouses.
We decided to make bird feeders and bird houses because we have noticed a lot of hungry birds around that have been eating the scraps off the ground and we are making birdhouses because birds need somewhere to perch when they are tired. PBL goes on till week ten! Because of PBL, we don't have to do our Quick Writes and Word Work. We don't have to do those priorities because they take too long and we wouldn't probably have time to do PBL. Also, I will be updating my blog post every week!
Hi on Wednesday MLH had some relievers in class. They said we were going to make automatas. The term automata means self acting. A mechanical device which performs function determined instructions.. In and automata there are thing called cams which make the toy move up and down. A cam could be a circle, drop, heart and pair exc. Koka joe gave us some pieces of paper with what we needed to know. Me and Robbie completed the paper so we could build our automata on Wednesday.
Interschool Soccer
Last week I had Inter School Soccer. When I arrived there were a whole bunch of Schools already there. The Soccer games were 18 minutes long but the Referees sometimes let the games go longer. The first team we were going to face didn't show up so we won our first game. The next game we played was Central they were one of the best teams. We ended up winning by 3 points.
We won 2 more games and then we were in the semi finals. The team we were facing to get in the finals was Manutuke it was a very close game but in the last second we scored a goal and won!We were in the finals! Mangapapa was the team we were facing in the finals. I was the goalie, I had to save lots of goals some went high, some went low, some went left, and some went right. I missed two goals. We had lost against Mangapapa 2-0. Even though we lost we felt pretty good for participating and making it to the finals.
When I walked into the school it felt very different because I hadn't been there for a long time. I noticed not many kids were at school yet because I get to school early. It felt good to be at school again. When my friends arrived it felt good to see them again and finally I wouldn't be bored.
When the bell rang we headed to our class’s and sanitized our hands and sat down on the mat. The teacher said a few things that would be different and things that would be the same.This week we were going to be learning about clouds and the weather. The first thing I worked on was the weather forecast. We had to fill in a cloze text to complete the second part of the task. The second task is to write a script and then screencastify yourself doing the weather.
After that it was Lunch and we went outside to play. When we came in from lunch we did read to self for 15 minutes. Then we started some world art. After that the bell rang and we all went home. It felt good to be at school.
