Kia ora bloggers, for the summer learning journey starter I decided to chose the artwork where you can digitally color in Christmas, Ramadan and all other cultures! Since its Christmas spirit I decided to chose a Christmas activity. I chose cute cats playing in the snow because its adorable. I firstly colored in the background so I could get a good color and image of the snow that they are playing in! Then one of the cats were playing with a mistletoe so I colored that in after, I did two shades of green to make it look realistic and did a dark cranberry color for the berries on it.

Then I colored in the cat that had fallen down in the snow a brown color. I colored all the other cats brown and painted their eyes! There was a cute ribbon on the back of one kitten so I colored it pink. I added in details that I missed with other colors to fill it in. Lastly on the bottom corner I colored in a slogan that said “Go Wish you a merry Christmas” in fancy writing. I also did a reindeer flying in the sky and it had another slogan that looked like a book cover that said “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer”

This is the activity I did:

Here are some photos of my digital art!

Kia ora bloggers, here is my 2022 top ten reflections.

The event that I remember the most is camp. The reason why I remember it so clearly was because it was so fun and a great memory to keep, I loved the scary times in the cabin when my friends each other ghost stories and myths, scream at each other in the Burma trail and laughing and talking at dinner.

The event I enjoyed the most was snorkeling at goat island because I love getting in water and the water was so clear and I loved seeing all types of fish. I also enjoyed the camp fire where we roasted marshmallows and played Chinese whisper, I ate lots of fluffy marshmallows!

The subject I think I have improved in is math because I used to not know my multiplication and division but now that I have learnt with the help of my friends and teachers I have improved, I know my fractions, multiplication and division! The subject I have enjoyed the most is math and reading because I love reading and I have improved in math so it makes it easy for me to learn.

New friendship I have made with others are Paige, Alexandra, Lewis, Drusilla and other people in my class! I also love communicating with people and being their friends because it makes me happy and I like having kind friends. It makes me feel joyful to be around them.

Responsibilities I have been given are being a leader, sports room monitor, AV room monitor and gardening club. I love being a leader because it was so fun setting up games for other kids. Being a sports room monitor was fun and I enjoyed working with my sports room buddy giving out wheels and balls to other kids even though I stood outside in the scorching hot sun while writing down names! AV room monitor was sometime chaotic but I enjoyed giving people chargers and chrome books knowing I probably wont get asked to get a persons chrome book in the middle of the day and lastly being in gardening club, I loved making kawa-kawa balm for the office and I wish I could of made beeswax wraps but it was okay!

I would like to say that being in the senior syndicate was my favorite, especially being a year 6. I loved it so much and I wish I could stay for longer, i’m not ready to leave but I am ready to face a new chapter in my life! I Loved camp and my friends, I know I wont see all my friends at intermediate but it was nice knowing everyone.

Here are some photos

Kia ora bloggers, in this post I will be telling you about my novel I have been reading for the past 2-3 months now. The book title is Lily and the Rockets, illustrated by Rebecca Stevens. I would rate this book a nine point five out of ten because it is really interesting and it involves sport, drama, happiness, sadness and all other things!

What is the book about?

The book is about a 17 year old girl who lied about her age to get into a munition factory. She plays football with her friends on her lunch break, together they form a team called the Rockets to go against another team who works at the factory called the Nippies. The Rockets and the Nippies are rivals.

Amazing moments!

On Lily’s first day at lunch break she was sitting down, enjoying her sandwich peacefully until a very important visitor told the girls lunch was over. One girl who was playing football got upset and didn’t want to go back to work so before leaving she gave a strong, whooping kick and the football went flying! It was about to hit the very important lady until Lily got up and pounced straight for the ball, catching it before it hit the important visitor! Everyone was stunned at Lily’s skills and the important lady exclaimed “I think we found our new goalkeeper!” and everyone cheered for Lily. From then on Lily started playing with them.

How did they form a team?

When Lily was playing with her friends Joe (a mean boy) challenged Jess (Lily’s friend) to a match of football. When Jess kicked the ball it hit Joe’s shoulder and it turned out to be broken! A few days later after the incident the Nippies (Joe’s team) Challenged the Rockets (Lily’s team) to a real match with people watching. At first the Rockets were so nervous but they they won with victory! After that they finally started getting recognized!

Here is my novel review slideshow

Kia ora! I will be talking to you about Parihaka. Land was taken in the 1860’s from the Maori from many tribes, everyone was angry that their land was stolen and didn’t accept it. Two Maori Leaders Te Whiti- Rangomai and Tohu Kākahi decided that they wouldn’t take this anymore so they set up a settlement for the Maori who had lost their land and their homes. When the government wanted to take this land as well they protested but instead of violence they wore headbands with white feathers to show a sign of peace. Our school learnt about this and decided to recognise Parihaka day. The teachers taught us about Parihaka and showed us a song about Parihaka made by Tim Finn.

How we made our own Māori headbands.

We wore white on Friday on the 4th of November and on the 2nd of November we made Māori headbands with long thick rubber-type of paper and drew Māori  Taniko designs on it, the teachers  gave us some inspiration from the internet of some designs. They came around and measured our head sizes  and marked where we could draw up to so we don’t have to draw on everything and save time!  I did a mountain like pattern and then added koru’s going on both sides of the mountain and then used a vivid to color it in! I had lots of fun with my headband and enjoyed making it. We cut the access of our strip of paper and blued it together with strong double sided tape. We could choose if we wanted two feathers or three feathers on our headband, I chose two feathers. We taped it with masking tape strongly so it wouldn’t come off! I am happy with my design and like it very much! Here is a photo of my headband.

Kia ora! I will be talking to you about the Black Ferns. The Black Ferns are the women rugby team! Recently there has been a new member who joined and her name is Sylvia Brunt who came to our school and has 2 cousins that go to our school, Waikowhai Primary!  Sylvia Brunt is one of the youngest members on the team to ever join and she is 18 years old and her birthday is on the 1st of January 2004. There are 32 Black Fern members in the team. Speaking of rugby, our syndicate got these big Black Ferns Score chart that we filled in by using the Rugby World Cup site to see which country competed against each other and who won. There is a photo down below! In our assembly the teachers played the “Like a Black Fern” which is also down below! The Black Ferns started in May 1915! There is an issue between the All Blacks and the Black Ferns, you see, the All Blacks are playing a game while the Black Ferns play but people want to watch both of them but they are playing at the same time! And another issue is that the All Blacks (aka the men’s rugby team) get bonus if they win but if the Black Ferns win they don’t get a bonus! In my opinion I think that it is not fair because women should have the same as what the men get for the rugby team and if the men’s get a bonus for winning why can’t women’s, if they win they should be able to get a bonus! Here are the photos of the chart, women’s and and a digital letter that the syndicate wrote to all the Black Ferns for support and for it to be a surprise!

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Kia ora! I will be talking to you about our senior school trip on the 18th of October at the Auckland Museum! From my point of view it was so amazing and I would love to go back again. When I arrived at school we waited for the 8:30 bell to ring so we could get in our groups and find out who our group adult was. My group adult was my mom and in my group was Jaycee and Josie, my friends. We had to only take 1 backpack in each group and put all of our lunch boxes in that one bag. Jaycee has the biggest bag so we had to put or stuff in her bag. We took a 20-25 minute drive to the museum and  it was so big! We got instructions from the teachers to stay with out group and to listen to the people who are at the museum.

My favorite was the volcano classroom, we learnt about volcanoes on this cool slideshow information and then they told us that we were going to do a race! We pretended we were in a house in the red zone where the volcano was going to erupt and we were going to leave but pack a bag with only essentials. We split into 3 teams because there was 3 tables. Our group packed literally everything!! We accidentally packed a hairbrush which we didn’t need! My least favorite was doing the Pacifica hunt where we got a clip board. You had to find the objects!  Something I found really cool was the weird and wonderful exhibit! It was a room so rainbow and bright, they had jars of insects  on this big wall, a microscope to look at bugs that are in resin blocks, cabinets to open to see images and even a video and drawers with labels, inside the drawers was bugs, sea animals and shells!

Kia ora, I’m going to tell you about the showcase on 28th of September 2022! It opened at 5-6:30 but I came around 5:20. People could bring any food they want! Some people brought dumplings, pastries and cakes! I baked chop chip fudge brownies myself! It was delicious and I couldn’t help eating one before I brought it to the showcase! I arrived with my dad and I put the brownies down on a table and went to look for my art work.

The showcase was super fun! I ate lots of carrots and like 3 of my own brownies. Oops! I played with my friends for a bit and chatted with them. My dad had to park in the court because there was no more space!

There were so many people, I met some children’s mum’s and dads! I found my art work. It was a model of a mine. Everyone in the syndicate had to choose a disaster on the Christchurch library app where u can finds lots of disasters! There were hot air balloon disasters, shipwrecks, mine incidents, volcanoes, earthquakes and so much more categories to choose from! I picked the Kaitangata mine disaster. It happened on 21st February 1879 near Balclutha in Otago, we also did one about or school maps where we had to calculate the volume of 3D paper buildings we stuck on our school on a big A3 piece of paper.

My favorite piece of work.

My favorite piece of work was my school map. I chose a big navy blue A3 piece of paper to stick my 3d buildings on. This was one of my favorite activities because it was super fun to create then, cut them out and tape it together! In total I made 6-7 buildings within the past weeks and I loved them all! Except for the office because I accidentally crushed it and when I put it back up it got all wrinkly and the tape wasn’t sticky anymore but that doesn’t matter! I still like it. I measured the volume of my pool, I made the depth of the pool 6 or 7 cm squared each. Then I cut a hole the length and width of my pool out of my A3 piece of paper so I could tape my pool under the square hole I cut. I glued a little cute diving board too! I added a long blue ribbon into my pool to make it look like water.

How I did my mine model!
Back to talking to my mine model. I used a deep plain paper plate and cut a round door-like shape to make the entrance of the mine, I covered it with PVA glue and newspaper aka paper mache! I did lots of layers to make it hold in shape before I painted it dirt brown and add different shades of brown on my mine to make it look realistic. I painted it when it was dry and I painted a different shade of dirt brown on a small square cardboard as my base to stick my mine on. After everything dried I used clay to make a mini mine cart that goes into the mine on tracks to get coal.

I made a box with my clay and made it thick so it wont fall apart, then I added blocks of clay into it when it dried so I don’t have to make lots of fake clay coal and put it all in the box but just put it on a top layer. I used water with my clay to make it smoother to shape to make a coal like rounded shape then painted then dark grey, then I painted the box dirty grey brown and added copper streaks. It took a while to dry but luckily it was Friday so it would dry over the weekends in time for me to do it on Monday!

I had a lot more to do so I made the railway tracks with kebab sticks and toothpicks, I colored the kebab sticks and toothpicks copper. I cut off the sharp toothpick ends. I hot glued it all together and it looked like a shiny ladder! I glued the shiny copper tracks into the mine to make it look like its going in the mine and glued the crater box on the tracks to make it look like its going in the mine, even though it was bigger than the mine. I used leftover clay to make shovels and pick-axes and put them on a clay stand! I made fake rocks and even made a moving lever! That was my favorite thing to make. I added touch ups and done! I was finished!

I was super proud of my model and my school, here is a photo of my model, other peoples creations and what happened on the day!

Kia ora guys! Welcome back to my blog. Today is Friday the 8th! The last day of school! Are you guys excited!

Anyways I’m blogging about my art piece the senior syndicate have been doing for ages now! So there is a big circle on this big square paper and a smaller size circle inside it like a doughnut! In the smaller circle we have to draw something we like or something that represents us and something about us! I drew A dog and a cat because I LOVE animals!

I did a lot of patterns in my art book but I chose one pattern I loved! It had sea-like waves that I colored navy blue, blue, baby blue and dark blue! All the lovely blues! Then I did A Koru type of pattern around my small circle and it looked like a sun so I colored it a lovely bright yellow and a cool orange color going it patterns on yellow then orange then yellow and orange and over and over!

Some more patterns are 2 lines with little patterns in them and in between those lines I did little smooth mounts and colored them violet, purple, dark purple! On top of each line I did mountains that were really cool! They also had colors of the sea-like waves and they looked awesome! I saw big gaps in my art so I did triangles in each gap and did a bright dark teal color which stood out really well!

For my background I did a white mixed with baby purple and it looked awesome!  I repeated every pattern on each side to make it look fabulous!

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Kia ora! In this blog I ‘m going to tell you about what we did in the year 6 camp trip! And also why I chose these activities as my favorite! My most memorable moment from camp was my friends and I were roasting marshmallows at the campfire because it was a moment where I enjoyed laughing, talking to my friends and having fun, warming up and talking near the fire. To me it was a real treasure!

I was also super surprised when there was so many bags of marshmallows and we could eat lots and lots because I thought we were only allowed 2-3 marshmallows but that really made me happy and I ate about 10 hehe, which I really enjoyed eating! There was one funny part where I accidentally caught my marshmallow on fire 2 times! But still ate it anyways. When you roast a marshmallow the outside it crispy and smooth and crunchy! While the inside is sticky, soft and delicious to chew on! 

I felt really proud when because it was so cool to see my flippers wave in the water and hear my breath breathing in and out because it felt so cool and made me feel so proud for trying to do snorkeling again and be braver the last time I snorkeled! The place I likes most was snorkeling because it was so beautiful under there, you could see kelp, fishes, snapper, eagle rays and so much more because it looked awesome! It was real fun watching the fish close up as well!

Something new I tried at camp was kayaking! Kayaking was new for me because I’d never been kayaking before and I found it tiring but really really fun! Something  learnt about myself is that I always have a good attitude to whatever activities we are doing and be really really good and doing them and being good  and confident in the water like snorkeling and swimming,

I felt challenged when the long whistle went off at the beach, which means get out of the water with no questions because the current was trying to take me out to sea and I was struggling to get to shore but then Ben (Alexandra’s dad) helped me! I felt excited when I first looked in my cabin because I had 4 beds to choose from but I chose the top bunk because you can look down on people below and it feels safe and warm up there! 

I felt nervous when I went to the Burma trail because my friends because while we were getting dressed we all were telling each other scary stories and we were a little afraid to walk in the dark, But we did have a good nights sleep! I felt proud when I went snorkeling because it was so cool to see my flippers wave in the water and hear my breath breathing in and out because it felt so cool and made me feel so proud for trying to do snorkeling again and be braver the last time I snorkeled! 

I felt happy when I felt happy when we got a drink of Milo and wrote it our books after our normal shower because there’s nothing better like a hot cup of Milo before bed! I felt a little worried when we had to sleep in our cabins on our first night because I was a little anxious and a little worried I might fall off the bed or get a little frightened.

This is my slideshow I used to make this blog! Watch the images!

Anyways! That’s all for my camp trip to Mangawhai for now! I will see you guys next time!

Catch you later bloggers! 🌞🌜

😊My Favorite Piece Of Writing!😊

Kia ora bloggers, welcome back to another post! Today I will be showing you my favorite thing the syndicate has been learning lately with the deputy principle (Miss McGrath). We have been learning about punctuation and how to use them correctly, we also learnt about how to use speech marks for when someone said something or someone is talking in a story or anything else.

Here is an example:  “Hi, my name is Zara!” and “Hey! I’m Zara and my favorite color is brown, white and navy blue” The past few weeks we also learnt how to use commas, full stops, speech marks and a lot more. She told us we should also use ! , and ? a lot to make the book more interesting like this: “I’m stuck!” “Should I get the dog or the cat?”

Miss McGrath told us instead of using “Help! My cat is stuck in a tree!” We should add a comma or if it had a question mark or a exclamation mark at the end of the sentence then we say what the cat or the owner of the cat shouting is doing like this: “Help! My cat is stuck in a tree! Said (the owners name) as she screamed out loud.” That is what we should do to make the reader more interested.

Here is some of my work slideshows to show you what I have learnt so far: