Hello everyone,

Last week My group and I (Me, Harper and Violet) Started writing our script. We made our script about Racism, we talked about all the events that have happened that have been some form of racism. My favorite thing we talked about was Jesse Owens because he is a big inspiration for everyone. Here is our Podcast:

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Thanks for reading my blog! From listening to the podcast did you learn anything about Human rights/ Racism at the Olympics?

Kia ora,

This week we made a fact file about any Saint of our choice. I choose to do Saint Lucy not because we have the same name but because she is such an interesting saint and there is lots of information about her. I learned some really cool facts about her, like: When she was sent to death by fire but miraculously survived.

Here is what my fact file looks like:

(Click on the picture to see the Fact file)

Thank you for reading my blog and about my Saint. Did you learn about Saint Lucy?

Hi everybody,

This week in reading we have been learning about the Paralympics. We learnt about different athletes and their perseverance towards their sports. The create task was to read about any Paralympic athletes and create a google drawing, slide or a canva creation about them and also we had to create a device that will help them wih their sport. The athlete that I chose was Marilyn Stradford. She is a one time Olympic competing in the 1996 Atlanta games, she plays wheelchair tennis and she ranked 507 in the women’s singles and 401 in the women’s doubles. The invention Charlie Mae and I created was a wheelchair with a built in tennos rack and a hook so you are able to move with you head.

Here is the slide that Charlie and I did:

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Thank you for reading about my create

Do you have a favorite Paralympic athlete?

Hi everybody,

This month we have been learning about the Olympics. In this week’s reading we had to pick a sport from the Olympics and read about it. I choose to read about beach volleyball, one thing I learnt was that the games first appeared in the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 and are still in the 2024 Paris Olympic games. After we read about this, our task was to create a new sport combining the sport we read about and a different sport. I chose to do Volleyball (which is the sport I read about) and then I also chose flipping/tumbling. I made a google drawing with all the info about my sport, here it is:

(click on the picture to see it fully)

I call this sport Volleyflip because the names make sense together. I decided to do these two sports because I felt like they would be cool sports to put together.

Thank you for reading my blog post, What sport would you create if you had to make one?

Hi everybody,

I hope your holidays have been good, mine most defiantly have been. This week is this first week of term 3. Every week in kaupeka we have been doing a “Current events booklet”, where we use Kiwi Kids News to find out what new going on in the world each week, there are different challenges on each slide for us to do.

This week was all about the Olympics. On the first challenge slide we have to find a title of an articles from each section (National, World, Sport and Odd stuff) this slide has nothing to do with the Olympics since you just pick any article. This is what slide one looks like: (You can click on it to see the link)

The second slide was to find out what all of the colors on the Olympic ring mean, here is what this slide looks like:

(You can click on it to see the link)

The third slide is to read the feature article which they refresh every Wednesday morning, here is what this slide looks like:

(You can click on it to see the link)

On the forth slide, the challenge is to find what the article is and there is questions about the article, here is what it looks like:

(You can click on it to see the link)

On the fifth slide we had to do a vocabulary adventure, which was finding any word we didn’t know in an article, here is what my slide looks like:

(You can click on it to see the link)

On the sixth and final slide we had to read an article and answer questions, is what it looks like:

(You can click on it to see the link)

Thank you for reading about my current events booklet, Are you watching the Olympics?

Kia Ora,

This term we learnt about habitats. We learnt about all the different types of habitats, one of the ones we learnt about was a Marine habitats, we also learnt about coastal habitats, I like these habitats because they are apart of the ocean and the ocean is one of the best parts of summer. For PBL we had to create a Diorama of one of these habitats, Violet and I decided to create a Marine/coastal habitat, some of the other habitats that people created were, Wetlands and Freshwater. For our diorama we used a shoe box, we painted the top yellow (which was meant to represent sand), we added on glitter to make it look like the specs of sand and we also added some fake shells. For the inside we painted it blue which was representing water, We added starfish made out of pipe cleaner, and fish also made out of pipe cleaner. We added sea animals that were actually stickers and the last thing we added was coral made out of pipe cleaner. Here is what the inside of it  looks like:

Once that was completed we moved on to our inventions. We used canvas ai maker to create this, by invention I mean that we make something to help the environment. I created the picker-upper 2000 which looks like this:

(click on to see)

You can read about it but to make it short: this is a robot that picks up rubbish from the water

Well this is what I did for pbl, i hope you liked it, thanks for reading.

If you were to make a diorama for pbl what habitat would you do?

Kia ora everybody,

Earlier this week on Monday a group for kaupeka were lucky enough to go to Travis wetlands. Here is what Travis wetlands looks like:

In this blog post I will take you through everything I learned when I was there. When we got off the bus we headed to the front of Travis wetlands and saw Tracy waiting for us, her name was Tracy and there was also a man called Chris.

The first thing we did was get an introduction from Tracy about her and what’s so important about Travis wetlands. Then we headed over to the information center. First thing we did was look out the window (which led onto the lake) and tried to look and see what we could find, I saw some ducks and birds but nothing to special, we sat down and she asked what we saw. Once that was done she pulled out a bag, it had different items that represent the wetlands, she picked students to come up and pull an item out of the bag, I got to go up and pull out an item, I pulled out breakfast in bed, that relates to the wetlands because its like the animals food that they get. Then she taught us about how old the wetlands is and why we need to protect it, something I learned was that there is so much more urban land areas then wetlands now compared to 1999.

Once we were done there Chris took all the year 7’s to the lake where he gave us all binoculars to look at the birds and other animals in the lake, we saw lots of different animals but one the stood out to most group the most was a black duck,he gave us a challenge that we had to figure out its eye color, we had to zoom in nice and close to try and see what it was, some Friends and I thought it was red, but then we looked closer and it turned out to be white!.

Once we were once there we went over to the bird watching center where we saw lots and lots of birds and ducks. One thing I saw that was pretty cool was a bunch of ducks all sitting on one branch, wow that must have been tight! Once we had spotted all the animals we headed over to a small muddy lake where we saw lots of black and white birds, there two kinds of them so we had to spot which were which, either there were just one kind of them or both, in the end there ended up being both kinds. Once we were all done we headed back to the place where we started and had some yummy morning tea. Well we were eating pukekos kept coming up to us and were trying to get some of our food, we all started backing up because we did not want to give them our food, so one of them came onto our tarpaulin and pooped on it! We were all a bit shocked but it was pretty funny.

Then Tracy took us over to the river to a pretty fun activity, we had to go through the lake with a strainer on a stick to try and catch any bugs, I did it with my friends Miriam and Juliana. At first we only found sea snails, which look like small black dots. After a while we found some back swimmers,they look like this:

 We put them all onto a tray, that had different parts on it so we could separate them. We all showed off what we got to the rest of the year 7’s.

Then we headed back to where we started and all stood in a circle, to put some animals into the food web by holding up photos and putting them in order. Once we were done we said our thank yous and headed back to school.

Thanks for reading, have you ever been to the wetlands.

Hi Everybody,

For about a week we have been learning about Laudato Si which is a letter from Pope Francis about Climate Change and what we can do to help.

From this learning we had to create a word search, this had to include words that sort of describe words that relate Laudato Si. Once I had made it, I transferred it onto a google drawing, here is my word search, (Click on image to see the google drawing):

I also created a poster on google drawings about water and how its being wasted, this is affecting our environment by using the energy it takes to produce the water. Here is poster (Click to see google drawing):

Hi everybody,

This week we have started to learn about statistics. We have learning about telly charts and graphs.

Today for our math creation we had to make a graph, we had to go around our class and ask questions, my question was “What is your favorite color” very simple but it easy because most people have a favorite color. Here were my options for colors Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Purple,Pink and other (since some people like other colors). I choose to make my graph on the google sheet, I started with a telly chart then converted it into a graph, on my graph I changed the color of each of the options of colors so it could be more obvious if you couldn’t see the names of the colors properly.

Here was my graph:

I noticed that the most popular color for Kaupeka students was pink 

I noticed that the least popular color to Kaupeka students was orange

Green and Yellow both have the same amount of students that like it (2 people)

Do you have a favorite color, is so what is it?

Kia Ora,

For the past two weeks we have been learning about habitats, some of the habitats we have learned about are: Wetlands, Alpine, Estuaries, Freshwater and Dry lands.

This week, taking this information we had to make a post card for a family/friend where we would tell them about our trip pretending went on this trip we also had to find and use images of the habitat to put on our post card. I chose Travis Wetlands because I have actually been there before and I would probably know for info and what is looks like more than other places.

Fun fact! Did you know that the Māori name for Travis Wetlands is Ōruapaeroa. 

Here is my postcard:

Have you ever been to Travis Wetlands?