Touch

 

Kia Ora my name is Jayden and I go to Paihia School and I’m a year 8 in Te Ngahere, we have been doing P.E. rotations with Te Maunga. For P.E rotations we have been doing touch with Mr Ngata, soccer with Whaea Penny and Gina, netball with Whaea Chrissy and Whaea Ronnie, and skill with Whaea Becks. For the rotation, I did touch. Mr Ngata was teaching us how to pass the ball properly, he also taught us a couple of the rules in the end we had a quick game of touch. The fields were pretty small but that was ok.  What I think that I did well was passing the ball to my teammates and following the directions. What I could have done better is talking with my teammates when we played the game.

Have you ever played touch before?

Wing

Lately in Te Ngahere we have being learning about this animation called Wing. What the class were learning about wing was to use words and phrases to create powerful images and emotional responses for our audience. Frist what the class did was write the plan and what I had to do for the plan was to write out little part of the the story then we write what happen in the animation and add interesting detail about the story. What I found hard was adding detail because I didn’t know how to use the thesaurus then I asked my learning buddie how to use it. The easiest part was to write the plan because the class only had to write what happened in the story.

Have you seen the animation about Wing? 

Technology Part 2

Lately in Te Ngahere this term the year 7 & 8s have been going to technology at Moerewa School the year 8’s are doing woodwork or metalwork and the year 7’s are doing cooking. The year 8’s are making waka with Mr E I was with Mr E making waka. What I found challenging was cleaning up the sides with the file and making the sides smooth and to make sure the side are straight and smooth. The easy part is waiting because I need to put one side of the waka and another piece of wood.  What I need to work on is making the sides on the waka straight.

Have you made a waka before?  

Mothers Days

On Sunday, 9 may it was Mother’s Day. On Mother’s Day me and my sister did a surprise. Me and my sister made pancakes and golden syrup for breakfast. Then me and my sister made some cards and it said  (Happy Mother's Day we hope you had a good Mother‘s Day). For lunch me and my sister made burgers It was hard because me and my sister don’t really know how to make burgers so we had  some help from my step dad. For dinner I made toasties for Mother’s Day.

What did you do for Mother’s Day?

Fish drawing

Latey in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to use the tools on google drawing. We had to make stuff in the ocean like fish shark and a lot more. I was drawing a fish and I’m going to make the reef and some more sea life what I think that I did well was drawing Sponge Bob because Sponge Bob is easy to draw on google drawing. What I think was hard was drawing the fish because I had to keep restarting.

Have you tried drawing marine life or anything else on Google drawings?

Technology

Latey in Te Ngahere this term the year 7 & 8s have been going to technology at Moerewa School the year 8’s are doing woodwork or metalwork and the year 7’s are doing cooking. The year 8’s are making wakas with Mr E. What I found challenging is cutting the waka to make the shape because we had to use a power tool and the power tools are hard to use. We had  to cut out the shape of the waka. What I think that I did well was measuring and making the shape of the waka but it took me two tries to get it right. What I need to work on is to get better at using the power tool to make my cutting straight.

Have you ever done technology at school?   

Trying to Follow The Directions

Lately in Te Ngahere Whaea Becks gave the class a sheet of paper with 23 directions. The reason why the class did this activity to see how well we follow the directions and see if the class actually reads the success criteria. The first instructions was read everything carefully before doing anything and and I thought we have to read the directions then start writing but what I had to do is to read all the instructions then start writing I got up to 20 then. When I realise I had not followed the instructions I feel like a failure but I thought easy. What I going to make sure I would do in the future is to read the directions carefully.  

Have you tried something like this?