I survive

 Something really scary happened last Friday, a tsunami. As soon as I entered school Gina started yelling “IN CLASS EVERYBODY”. I started getting worried. I ran into class hoping it wasn’t anything bad. Then we started doing the roll. As soon as we finished that we rushed up the hill trying to stay in our class form. The sirens started going off all over town. A couple of kids  started crying because they were scared about their family. About mid day I didn’t really mind. This one kind man offered to get our bags that were still in class. We then had lunch. Two men came up with a lot of sausages. Us boys were doing exercise to pass time. I came first in all of them because I had been practicing over several weeks. I just did what I was asked to do and was the  good role model everyone wanted me to be.

Interesting Cross country Training

Hello It’s Dezray here from Paihia School. In Te Ngahere we have been doing cross country practice, we have to run for 15 minutes without stopping but me and my mates just walked most the way tho. We ran  2 laps but then we walked and talked for ten minutes it was really fun, next time I am just try to run most of the way now. Have you run 15 minutes straight before?

the Eiffel Tower

In Te Ngahere for the first day back at Paihia School we did a Steam challenge and we made a Tower only made out of two sheets of newspaper and  30 cm of tape. The rules were to Build the tallest freestanding tower with limited materials, with out sicking the tape to the tower then placing the tape to the floor or table. We were learning to collaborate and work as a team and to make a free standing tower only using that equipment. First we got into buddies . My buddies were Calais and Kayden. It took awhile for us to get an idea. Once we got an idea we started building our own tower.  Me and Calais made it and Kayden taped it. Once we were done and the timer just had rang, we all went down to the mat and tested our towers. We found it hard making bottom of the tower because it was ripping and it was hard to contain.  I think for next time we should make the base a lot bigger because it was hard balancing it when it was our turn. We worked well with with Making the paper attach together and communication. We had to put them in the same place or it becomes a variable.  The first person to come First was Kai Dayton and Shay. After their turn Zhynaliyah and Imogen placed First with 118cm. They were the winners of the day.

Science fair

For the past 8 weeks we have being doing science fair. We had to pick a real world problem in our house. My science fair question was what battery lasted the longest. We tested Rechargeables, Max life and Eveready. We thought that the rechargeable batteries will last the longest because they cost the most and said they lasted for 13 hours, on the packet. We tested the batteries on a remote controlled car. There was one person looking at the timer/looking at the car and me writing down the time. The timer person was really doing nothing but just being the captain. It was a bit boring being the writer. I like watching Darrius driving the remote control car. I think I need to work on being patient

and not telling him to drive the car. The LINK        

marble challenge

This term we did a marble challenge. The challenge was to see who could get a marble to land 110 cm from the end of the ramp . My buddy was Kayden. On the first day of practicing we had to get materials to make anything we wanted. To make the marble travel 110 cm . My teachers had names of the groups in a jar. There were two of my teachers; one was testing us and the other one was testing their own marble bridge or hill. Someone did my one and I came 3rd to 5th. I did someone else’s and I did a pretty good job of testing it. If anyone gets 110 cm then they will get 5 points. If they get it between 109 cm to 100 cm they will get 3 points . If they get it between 99 cm to 50 cm they will get 2 points. If they get it between 49 cm to 20 cm they will get 1 point . You have 5 chances to roll the marble. The best thing about it I was the first person to get 110 but IT WAS THE LAST MOVE... 

Journey animation

Journey animation  is what we have been doing for the last 2 weeks.  I have got nearly 200 slides. That is a big thing for me because I don't do that much work  normally. It's not just about slides it's also about speech bubbles and time AND MOVING THEM AROUND!!! It took about 3 to 5 hours to make it. But it was worth it. Some people did 910 slides and it took them 4 to 6 hours. Right now I have got 193 slides so far. I like the first 83 slides because it is about the army having a gun war and trying to kill the the bad guys. Right now my buddy is Dalton and he is doing the same work as me because, when he's gone I'm doing the work, or when I'm doing something else he's doing the work. The way I do my animation is make a google slide and  put all the stuff on a slide then click on the slide then you push Ctrl d then that will duplicate the slides, and you start slowly moving the stuff you want to move.
My animation doc.

Pet day

In Te Maunga we made vaseline saucers, biscuit decorating and we drew pictures that were on halloween with crayon. My favourite was the pet show. Mrs pou said to line up and then we walked to the field to see the dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, cats and kiwai.

Procedural Writing

In Te Maunga we have been doing Procedural Writing.

I liked making things first and then Writing a Procedural, on the thing we made.

We made a bird ball pikelets,and flubber then, we wrote a Procedure about it.