A Challenging Tournament

last week on the  30th of October some students were chosen to play at a Ki O Rahi tournament. Luckily I was chosen to go to the tournament. When we started practising I learnt how to offload by surprise. Offloading by surprise is when you run, hit the pau then run straight towards one person in your team then when your close to them you pass and they bank the points. The teams we versed were Taipa and we lost 6-3, then we versed  Motatau Kura and we won 8 nil, the 3rd team was Moerewa and we won 9-3, then we versed Taumarere in the semifinals and we lost 13-6. I enjoyed learning the new trick and using it in a game. I think we did very well because we made it to the semifinals and only had two practices.

Extreme Facts About Water Safety

In Te Ngahere Tracy came in and talk to us about how to swim safely. We learnt the five safety checks for when you go on the boat. The first check is make sure you have a life jacket, 2 check the weather, 3 make sure you have a signal device aboard your boat or attached to your life jacket, 4 let the coast guard or an adult know where you're going how many are on board and when your coming back and 5 ,make sure you have a radio and know the Coast Guard Channel which is 16. The 5 steps for when you are swimming is 1 bring an adult with you, 2 if you are a bit scared to swim where you are don’t do it, 3 check if there is a rip by throwing a stick in the water, 4 check the weather, 5 never swim alone. I found this lesson very useful and I learnt a lot from it like the coast guard channel and that you never swim alone. Here is me and my buddy’s Swim Safe DLO.\

Jumping Into An Unknown Genre

In Te Ngahere we started a new focus in writing. The focus in writing was to use passive voice and timeless present tense to write an explain. Explanation is a writing genre that is assessed against E-ASTTLE. Passive voice is just saying something without your opinion or ‘me, I, etc’ and timeless present tense is talking about now, not the future and not the past. We were writing about special places and we all had to write an explanation about why the pump track is special. I learnt how to use passive voice in my writing. I enjoyed this because I like writing and trying new things. Have you ever heard of the genre explanation? Here is my writing. Please give feedback.

My Writing: Is the Paihia Pump Track special to you? Is it somewhere you enjoy or somewhere you just hang around with your friends? Well for many families and people the pump track is somewhere they can relax, have fun, get fit and it can help less confident people practise and become more confident in biking.

The pump track is a special place because people can relax and have fun biking on the pump track with their friends or family. When people go to the pump track it leads them away from just hanging around and talking and it gets them to engage into a healthier choice. A lot of people find bike rides, relaxing making the pump track perfect. Also riding on the pump track is a good and active family activity for any family that just wants to get outside and do something together.

The pump track is very good for Paihia citizens who want to get fit and healthy because it is free access, you’re exercising and having fun all at the same time. Staying fit is very important because keeping fit also leads to good health and the pump track is somewhere where anyone can go to get fit (as long as the person has a bike). Also it doesn’t just get someone fit but that person has so much fun so it's a win win.

The pump track is the best for young children or hesitant bikers because when they go on the pump track it is easy enough for them to bike on and they build more courage and skills. The reason it is good for people who aren't very confident is because they aren’t yet ready to ride on the mountain bike park.

Everyone in the Paihia community loves the pump track because it is safe, fun and really good for your body. The pump track is one of the number one places people go to have fun and enjoy themselves.

A Tower Of News

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we did a steam challenge. The steam challenge was to make the tallest tower we can out of 2 sheets of newspaper and 30 cm of tape. Me Izaiah and Muscles were in a group together and we worked well together but we took too long for planning. In the end we only just finished but the base was too flimsy and we knew it would not hold. Once we were called to measure our tower I went up and kept trying to stand our tower up but in the end it didn’t work. We learnt that for the base we used newspaper is way too flimsy for it to work. I think we did well at working as a group and not giving up even though it may have gotten hard at times. I think next time we could be a bit faster so we get the tower 100% done.

A Fabulous Comedy

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to make our own short movies. Me and my buddies (Izaiah F & Kingi) chose to make our movie about problems only New Zealanders will understand which are, top and tail, when your nana says “back in my day…”, when your friend 1-ups you in everything, the overprotective mum, when you don’t have shoes, hori socks, asking parents to go to the bro’s house, when all the good parts of the boil up are gone and  when your at the marae and your in the back of the food line . I enjoy learning about how to cause more effect with different camera shots and learning how to make a really good and easy to understand script. Because me and my buddies were making a comedy we had to make each problem funny so I had to try and make the problems that I did funny. I learnt a couple new camera shots like an upward shot which is from the ground looking up and a side view shot which is from the left or right side of the character. I really enjoyed making the script but I think we need to speed up the process a bit. We haven’t made our movie yet but when it’s made I will put it on my blog. Would you like to watch this movie? If you have some tips write them down below in the comments. Thank you.

Steps To A Magnificent Blog Post

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about how to make a quality blog post. We learnt about the 6 steps of a quality blog post which are: a catchy title, an introduction, the DLO, your reflection on what you learnt, the sources of where your photos are from if needed and the question. The reason these steps are important is because it makes your audience want to read and comment on your posts. I learnt that the title actually is important because before I just thought it was the learning that was important and nothing else. A challenge I had to overcome was finding catchy titles for my posts but I think I did well so far since I learnt this. I enjoyed learning about this because I enjoy making blog posts and DLOs. Did these steps help you at all? Thank you.

The Amazing Subtraction Strategy

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about word problems . except for Me and my friend Ben, we learnt a new maths strategy called borrowing and paying back which is helpful because it’s good for some equations but also for some equations it doesn’t work at all for example 387 - 264 because there is no borrowing required in this equation. The reason Mr Lindsay taught us this is because me and Ben are really into maths and are both good at it. This strategy helps me a lot in subtraction because it is a really straightforward strategy. This is also quite an easy strategy to learn. I think my next step for maths would be percentages and fractions of certain numbers.Here is my DLO to explain the strategy. What do you think about this strategy?

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