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GYMNASTICS A couple of weeks ago we started Gymnastics.  Gymnastics was really cool at the start because we played stuck in the mud and octopus for a warm up. During the lesson we had to do a hand stand But if we could not do a hand stand we could do bunny hops. Doing some bunny hops was so fun because we jumped of the bench. There was other things to do like death jump,wall hand stand , bunny hops and skipping.  My favourite was when we did hand stand because we bunny hoped around the hall . The thing I didn't like was when we were doing skipping because the girls do it too much and it was annoying.

Talofa lava  My first reason was Australia because it was closer to New Zealand and my friends and family are in Australia. My second reason is because I would like to go on the joker ride at movie world.In Australia there are about 22 million people,  Australia is the world's 6th largest country by area. The largest cities in Aus are Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. In Australia the outback covers most of the land The name ‘Australia’ comes from the Latin word ‘australis’, meaning southern.  Australia has over 750 different reptile species, more than any other country in the world.  Australia hosted the 1956 (Melbourne) and 2000 (Sydney) Summer Olympics. Here is a link for the website if you would like to check it out. https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome

A few weeks ago we had athletics on Friday. Everyone got in to their age groups for the day and we started. There were so many activities like high jump,long jump,sprints,shot put and The 400 meter run. The activities that I like are 400 meter run,high jump and shot put. Shot put is my favourite because I am really good at it. I love athletics day because we get to dress up in our house colours and we can were bandannas for our house group . The four house groups are kea,tui,ruru and pukeko  . My group is kea and that is red, pukeko is green, tui is yellow and ruru is blue. I love that our age group cheers each other on. The best event was the house relays because some people were chosen to run for our house groups in different age groups . Everyone tried to behave so that there age group could win ice blocks . The Teachers give points on our sheets to see who wins The teachers give points for behaviour , how you change from activity to activity and cheering each other...

In August I had a holiday and went to Australia. The first thing that we did when we got there was shop at the mall called Harper town. Harper town is a small mall in Australia that we got our new things like my shoes and my Cav's basketball. I really liked the mall but it was really small and it was way too hot. The next place I went to was the arcade in hyper dome. The arcade in hyper dome  is really cool and the one game I wanted to play was called Wangan and it was my favourite game because you can challenge other people like adults and kids. The first thing I did was buy a card from the machine so that I could be ranked in the game and get cars that I could keep on the card. I got ranked around c. I am glad to be back because it has not rained ever since I was there and I like the cold sometimes. My sleeping schedules were different. I slept when it was 2 o'clock in New Zealand and 12 in Australia.

This term every Friday we go to different classes and we make projects. In my class we made a Geo board. This is my Geo board so the making of the Geo board 's are you need a piece of wood that is twelve  centimetres long and mark the wood so that there are two centimetres between them and  two centimetres off the sides. Then you put the markings five across and five down. After you mark five by five you get some nails and nail them in one by one and when you Finnish that you can make some designs like these if you would like to hear about more please comment  and help me next time.

KIND KINGDOM click here   Interland is a game were they help you  on social skills. So basically there are islands you can pick to play on and this is one of the islands called Kind Kingdom and you play as a character that has cards and he throws the card in the air in front of the sad person and he sees it and gets happy and you get 10 points every person you cheer up. REALITY RIVER Reality River is one of the islands as well  but Reality river asks you questions like your friend sends you something that hurts your feelings what would you do. And then it comes up with some options and if you get the answer correct a platform comes up so you can cross the river but if you get it incorrect you re spawn and lose 10 points. TOWER OF TREASURE Tower of Treasure is another island so you have to outrun the hackers or they will steal your messages and your identity. Start by grabbing your emails and messages and they are purple and green icons that are floating but i...

For our art show we made a house full of rubbish and the idea of this is.... would you put rubbish on your furniture and in your house? So we made a roster of when the classes are coming to watch our slide show. Everyone got a class to present there slide show and me and my partner worked out who had which slides and who had to talk in front of the class first. I was talking the loudest because I was sick and everyone before us was quiet. 

We found out that there was going to be an underground train station in Auckland.They asked year 6 students of Auckland if we could make a piece of art to put on the wall's of the underground as a tile. So we had to make an art piece of a place that we wanted to go to by train, so I draw Africa because  there are so many cool animals like Lions, Zebras and Giraffes. Africa would be the best country to go to because you could loose more weight or get more exercise and you would get to meet some new people and some new cultural things like dances and foods . 

ON Tuesday Waikowhai had a Art festival. Everyone in the school made a piece of art to put in the festival. There was so many people weaving and looking at our amazing art work. Hauraki's art work had to be a Kiwiana bird like a Kea, Kiwi, Tui and a Falcon. I picked a falcon because it looked real complicated and I wanted to practice my art. For my colours I could use what ever I wanted and I used red , yellow and green because I like the Jamaican flag colours. So part of my background was blue for the sky and part of my background was the Jamaican colours. For my actual background there is a tree behind the bird with the sun and some land.

This is my class swimming at Cameron pools  they were learning how to get in and out of the pool from the side. So you had to put your hands on the side lean on your stomach and level your self down slowly. I have seen them learn to dive in the pool but some people hurt them selves by belly flopping but I said keep going you can do it just keep trying. On Thursday they had a test to see what group you would be in because we have swimming sports on Friday.  I came second on the swimming sports for freestyle and for backstroke I came second again but I didn't make it to swimming sports for my house group but I was still proud that my friend was in the swimming sports and my sister they were both so fast that they were in the front.       

For reading this term we were learning about how we could protect our house or village from a tsunami. So we could make our Fale or our houses on tinker cad or in our books. This is my Fale I designed My Fale with Strong wooden foundations that stick through the ground and I have metal poles holding up the roof. The book we had to read was based a round houses that can last through a tsunami in Samoa. The story we read was called building for the future. The book is talking about the village's that live on the beach because Samoa is getting smaller the water rises every year and sometimes they water rises and they move.  

On Thursday we had a trip to Tiritiri Matangi island. When we got to the ferry we had to scrub our  shoes with this funny looking brush. when we got on the Ferry everyone was so excited because this was there first ride.  everyone got to know each other better because we didn't have our Chromebooks and our friends in our group. When we got on the island we got in to groups of ten with a guide to show us and help us what kind of birds there were like a tui or a kereru or a whitehead. We were so excited because we found a drunk New Zealand pigeon. I learnt some new things like a bird can actually get drunk. so many people found out that fantail birds just stay on the ground. Fantails eat bugs on the ground and when we started walking around the fantail will start jumping around . http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/history

Hi Yesterday Our teacher showed us this cool website were we could make an emoji out of words. So we had to put emotions in from a to z and it took so long thinking of some. This is my one I have a lot of different words like confused , anger and Disappointed. If you want to make your own just go on WWW.Tagul.com These are the instructions so that you can make your own. Firstly you put your words on the left hand side of your screen and on the bottom of the left side there is some words that say shapes , fonts and layouts and stuff. Click on those and you can pick your emoji and your colours and other stuff and than visualise so that it will make your emoji.

So today Des Hunt came to visit Waikowhai primary school with his wife Lynne. He is popular for writing books for kids under twelve. He spoke to us about physics and what inspired him to write books and carry on when he got rejection letters from all the authors in New Zealand. So when he was explaining physics he showed us his  invention of a barbecue litter  but it was modified so that it will make an explosion. He brought in a magic fly stick in with a ribbon. The magic fly stick made the ribbon float in the air because it was the energy that they both had.  My favourite part of the presentation was when he showed us how eels just keep growing and growing with a balloon. The balloon grew big as and than bang it exploded and everyone jumped and started laughing saying wow . Now that I have seen this presentation I will try read some more of his books because they are really interesting books they are all non fiction books. If you would like...

This week we have been learning information, reading books and discussing Anzac day. Our class had one cross each that had a name on it and I had Sargent d.f brown. After we placed down the crosses and we read a new book called the Anzac Violin. In the book this boy got given a violin and he only had one lesson. We had this activity to do in a group and I had my friend Conrad. The activity we had to do was adding up how many years the wars were and how long the wars took. We will remember them.

In maths my maths teacher gave us an activity that we had to finish before lunch. So basically you have to go on a web site to do bar graphs to show the right fraction. So say if I was to do one on 13/4 I would have to get a bar cut the bar in to fours and make as many bars to make thirteen. and then if I had 3 wholes and 1/4 left over it will be 3 and 1/4. It was really easy because I knew what I was doing and I listen.

Don't Cheat during a game Over the Easter holidays we went for a BBQ in the park and we didn't know we were going to have a Easter hunt. all the kids went to the park and the parents started to hide the eggs. but i stayed in the car and saw them hiding eggs so I cheated and only took the big eggs but i learnt not to cheat because it never turns out good because i cheated and I didn't get the big Easter bunny.

Open a new blog post - copy this text at the top: T his week we are working on using descriptive language by sharing our writing straight onto our blog.  The challenge we have is to describe a place using only six sentences. After reading the description you need to guess the place that has been described. It would really help if you say what clues helped you come to this conclusion. 1. people love it there 2. people get scared all the time. 3.it is popular for its rides. 4. it is really colourful. 5. you can only find it in new Zealand. 6. It is the most expensive place to go to.

Last term we found pictures on the internet and we put them with the season that they match. Red is summer, Orange is Autumn, Green is spring, blue is winter. I hope you like my work and please comment down below.This work helped me to learn more Maori words and Maori seasons. It was hard to figure out by our selves because no one helped us we had to ask other teachers if they knew what it was. Check out my blog at http://wpsdazharnr.blogspot.co.nz/ blog you later.

This is my all about me It tells you what month my birthday is and my favourite food. I had to use google drawing to make my all about me. I went online to find the butter chicken photo and this is the photo that I found I even used different fonts and different colours so it could stand out better. I put my all about me on my goals slide show as well.