Paper plane competition!

 Today our teacher Mrs Ghosh, made us do a challenge.The challenge was to make a paper plane without using a device and only using one piece of paper ,scissors and a glue stick . Our teacher put us in groups of four, the people in my group were Charmy, Nathan ,Marist and me. First Charmy folded half of the paper plane, I helped her with the other half. We wrote our names on the plane one by one. Several minutes later we tested the plane out, it flew through the air smoothly, Charmy thought it could fly further so she glued the plane together. We tested the plane again and it actually worked! (a little bit though) Multiple minutes passed and it was time to fly the planes, one person from each group had to fly the paper plane, my group chose me. The people who flew the paper plane lined up on a white line on the turf, our teacher did the countdown and in no time all the planes flew through the air and we actually ended up second!   

About our interesting term

 Our term was extraordinary because we had a wonderful student teacher that was practising to be a teacher, she did a lot of science experiments like what water is cleaner, about plants (how they grow,we even got 3 beans each to plant in a little plastic cup) and we even got to make a rap! Her name was Mrs Matenga and she was really fun, I mean even our teacher got to rest because she was practising on being a teacher so she had full control for multiple weeks. We made her a beautiful piece of art work that had a tree on it and a beautiful background because she had to go to another school to practise, My whole class got to help with the art work so it was from all of us. Our principal made a token competition and if you show respect then a teacher might give you a token to put in your token box( there are four token boxes,there is Kowhai, Kauri, Rata, and Totara.  This term we learnt about a lot of stuff like fractions, area and perimeter, respect and bullying. We also did a cinquain poem about ANZAC with a picture of anything related to ANZAC with a sunset. For Matariki we animated the Matariki story. We also made a harira  soup with Jean and Khaleed (it was amazing)

A Matariki animation

 Today my friend Priscilla and I made an animated story of how the Matariki sisters were made so if you don't know how the sisters were made just watch our animation slide (it looks way more smoother if you go through it very fast but you will have to do it a bit slower to read the texts.)

Our practice fale launch

 On Monday we practised our fale launches. ( A fale launch is basically a parade ) There is Kowhai , Totara , Kauri and Rata, i'm in Rata. The group who collects the most red, round tokens wins a whole block free. We practised the fale launch under the shade, we started yelling our chant ,  soon everyone was chanting and we couldn't hear a normal word, everything was like KTINIUKUCRCNKLPOKGYVYPJEOINJFH!    We couldn't even hear ourselves. After the launch I had a head ache. I honestly don't want to do the actual launch but I have to :<  R.I.P my ears. 

Cross country zones

I had zones because I got 1st place on cross country so a week after cross country the top 5 went to zones. We travelled on a old, dirty bus it was large but it had pink gum on the seat so it was pretty disgusting sitting there. The place where we did the zones was at blockhouse bay tennis club but we were running on the wet muddy fields (there were a lot of smooched worms at the surface). First the seven year old's ran, then the 8 year old's but then.... it was our turn, we walked to the start line to not waste our energy ( we were standing there for about 15 minutes because the 8 year old boys were still running) The lady who starts the race walked up with red wooden blocks and stood behind us. I was extremely nervous. The lady started the race by banging the red wooden blocks together and I dashed on the muddy grass and in no time I was done the first loop, there was a girl in front of me which I couldn't beat and she ended up wining but I got second which is good and I'm proud of my self!😀

Panikeke

Panikeke                                                                   

Today we tasted a panikeke. It tasted so good that I wanted it to last forever. As usual I was close to being the last one to finish it because I wanted to take small bites whilst I wrote down how it tastes and all that stuff. The size was just like a tennis ball and as round as a hand ball. The crust was a mixture of brown and yellow, it tasted a bit different from the inside. The inside was light yellow with brown dots of banana. It also tasted a bit like banana bread with some sugar. When I was eating it ,I could even taste that it was fried.

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 My class and I were with Phil and we learnt what we can put in a website and cant. Here is the slide that we were doing.