peak and pit of 2020

HIGHLIGHTS                                     LOW-LIGHTS

  being back at school                                        - being in my house for 8 weeks
-learning new ways to problem solve.              - not being able to see my friends in        
-having Mr Hobsin                                            - covid 19
- getting new contracts                                      -lock down
-doing sports events          
- doing camp in school

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ANGLES 

Today my class learnt about angles, we learnt how to use a protractor and the different angles like acute which is smaller than 90°, an obtuse is bigger than 90°but smaller than 180° and a right angle is 90°. we discused  diffrent  angles and digrees. we filled in a work sheet that said to do the degrees and the what the type of angle it is (acute, obtuse, right angle).

 after that we went out side to find real life angles around the school we had to find at lest one right angle one acute and one obtuse these were hard to find but me and my friend found that a right were the most conman to find as you could find it on stairs, buildings and on the play ground. after that i felt way more confident to use angels.

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 puzzle pyramids

our teacher had a task on  the contract with a pyramid made of circles the only thing she could tell us about was that it is addition and that it was a puzzle. it was a bit confusing until i started adding the starting numbers in the circles then it increased the amount of numbers which means more to add then eventually i would fill all the pyramid.

we had to do this 3 times and it was kind of fun when i got the hang of it.  the pyramids were confusing because there were only numbers in it. but then i got it and i cant wait for more.

 ATHLETICS TRAINING

at the start of term 4 we started athletics training. personally I love athletics you get to do many things such as sprints (track), shot put , discus , long jump and high jump. I love doing all these different sports.  we are getting ready for the real school athletics day witch is in about 2 weeks.

to do a rotation we would have one year level on one activity for about 10-15 minutes then swap over to do a different activity until your year level has done them all. my favourite activity is long jump. 

we continue this training about every day to keep our fitness up.

most days our class is glad to do athletics because it makes us happy. I like doing athletics its so fun, athletics is realy fun and I cant wait till the school athletics day.

PLANTING

On Tuesday we were treated with a day planting, we went to Lake Gem and Lake Ngatu.  when we got there we had the privilege of seeing some Summit people who were planting many native species of trees  such as manuka, kanuka,flax(harakeke, cabbage trees, karaka, houpara and more,  we met Karen from Summit she said some rules then we got straight into it we were away planting making progress, the important  thing was we were working to help make a change in the environment as we were all working together.

We dug some holes and and gently put plants in. We had a whole hill to cover our plants with, we had to make the hole way down it. We had the brilliant view of both lakes as we were in the middle of them. Our plants were covering more and more land, when we were about finished we had morning tea by the lake and then had ice blocks. At the end of the day I definitely felt better for helping the environment maybe if we all help we could end up with a better earth. 

 

moment in time

MOMENT IN TIME

I was getting ready as the breezy winds were zooming past, the big trees shaking like a rollacoster all i can think about is not dieing i took 5 deep breaths then swish i zoomed off faster than ever. i was trying to get a good view but all i got was a small glimpse as every bit of nature was like a swift rapid cheetah hungry for food. i could feel the air drizzling by as the taste of victory was getting stronger. i got closer to land so i pulled my parachute out, then splat i landed like a feisty rhino. 

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cross country

on Thursday we all hoped on the bus and we went to Mrs Cuttler's farm as we got there we all saw the muddy track we all put our bags down and then the year 8 and 7s  went first then it was my turn i went to the start line my hart was racing and we took off the course was up down and muddy we went through a big drain with mud. i finished 1st it was amazing .

after that there was a nice canteen and i got to see everyone else run and i was even lucky enough to help the year 3s with the big track then we went back to school and i was proud of what i done.

moment in time

A MOMENT IN TIME

I was struggling to breath as i heard loud sirens i faintly saw someone walking towards me he gently picked me, he carried me to the light, he  gave me fresh air and i started to see clearly he gave me cool water and he carried me home.

my holiday

MY HOLIDAY

On the first week of the holidays me and my family went to Auckland and Taupo, we first stopped at Whangerei for lunch then we went to Auckland  stayed at my cousins place for the night. on the next day we went to a VR (virtual reality) and played games it was thrilling and exiting.


we stayed at our cousins for another night and planed the next day. on that day we went ice skating and went to a Japaneses Ramen (noodle) shop.  After  that we headed of to Taupo and that took ages but anyway, In Taupo we went to our grand mothers  house and we stayed there.


on the first morning in Taupo we went to a thermal hot pool that smelt weird and a park to kick a ball. the next morning we went biking (cycling) around  lake Taupo then we went on a boat that went to the Maori rock carvings on a island it was thrilling. the next day we stopped at Auckland again and stayed another night and went shopping. after that we went home and the holiday was fun.

Making changes

Making changes to the environment

We have been learning about sustainability and the environment, we have heard all thees terrible things that are happening around the world  so we cant just sit there waiting for the world to end we have to make a change.

In the north Pacific ocean there is a big patch of garbage with the length of 1.6 million square kilometres called the garbage patch. this is where all your garbage ends up with all the fish that are dying by choking and swallowing it. the garbage patch is all the way from top to bottom of the sea and is the size more than twice as large as the US state of Texas. the garbage patch is a big vortex traping all the rubbish in one spot.

did you know because of global warming new Zealand was once a big contaninant of its own and was so closes to Australa but then water flooded it and it was only a bit left witch is what we have now.

no rules !

 Last night we moved to level 1 that means no more rules of social distancing and no more restrictions. New Zealand  is moving to a new normal with more fun to have.

The past 21 days we have had no active cases of Covid 19. For level 1 and no cases we are leading the world we are still trying to find a cure for Covid. Rules of level 1 ... NOTHING we are back to normal with nothing to worry about.

powerful paragraph

powerful paragraph
in our paragraph writing we had to use deep words to dis crib something. we used onamatapaer, similes, metaphors, and heaps more we had to give our story's lots of detail and aiming for level 3 and  4
our class used lots of different types of formats and words to meat level 3 & 4. on the paragraph we wrote we used mims and cops to make our story. we wrote about a picture and we could do moment in time, what happens next, or be the person in the camra in the photo

hanging basket

on Thursday we made  hanging plants we used baskets to put the soil and plants in. The plants we used is mainly succulents and we put potting mix in to the basket and put a diversity of plants in the type of plants we put in was amazing there was some shaped like roses some like stars and even some dangly ones. some plants look like flax and some are very soft.

Emotion wheel

Tuesday we made a emotion wheel. the task was  that we draw an emotion without using faces or emoji's. we had a wheel to start with witch had words on to show us the categorises witch are proud, angry, exited, happy, scared and  sad  this was not allowed to have the categorise names in them because we wanted to see if you could tell 
what they are it was really fun. 🔚THIS IS MINE

caramel brawny

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and HOT
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil, (olive oil or coconut oil are fine)
• 1 1/8 cup superfine sugar, (caster sugar or white granulated sugar)*
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup all purpose (or plain) flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
• Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking oil spray. Line with parchment paper (or baking paper set aside.
• Combine hot melted butter, oil and sugar together in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk well for about a minute. Add the eggs and vanilla; beat until lighter in colour another minute.
• Sift in flour, cocoa powder and salt. Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until JUST combined (do NOT over beat as doing so well affect the texture of your brownies.
• Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing the top out evenly. Top with chocolate chunks or chocolate chips.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the centre of the brownies in the pan no longer jiggles and is just set to the touch the brownies will keep baking in the hot pan out of the oven. If testing with a toothpick the toothpick should come out dirty for fudge-textured brownies.
• Remove and allow to cool to room temperature before slicing into 16 brownies.

level 3 covid 19

 In level 3 your distancing must be 2 meters take away's resistant may be open you can be go to places but best you should stay  local. you can add people to your bubble but that is up to you. 

you can send kids back to school if you have to work if you can work from home its better to do that. the gatherings must be small but you can celebrate something if it is small. 

It is better to stay home because it stops the vireos from spreading

stay safe.

how to make chocolate cake

chocolate cake

                                   icing ingredients:

ingredients: 
1 3/4 cup flour                                                                       50g Soft Butter

1/2 cup cocoa                                                                         2 Tbsp Water

2 tsp baking powder                                                             1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder 

1 cup white sugar                                                          1 1/2 cup icing sugar

125g butter

2 Tbsp golden syrup

2 eggs 

1 1/2 cup milk                                 

2 tsp baking soda                              

1 tsp vanilla essence                                 cooking method: 

                                           Preheat oven to 180°C. 

           Mix together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and  White Sugar. 

In separate bowl add the butter and  Golden Syrup and melt 1 minute on high in microwave usually works In another bowl whisk the eggs  Add both the butter mix and the milk mix to dry ingredients and beat on medium for 1 minute. In a 20 cm round tin this takes 50-60 minutes to cook. Cool before icing.

Lock Down

Lock Down

In lock down lots of things are different such as shops and public  places like playgrounds are not to be used. you can not stay somewhere overnight or move from home to batch or second house. you are not allowed to go tramping and you must keep exercise local. You can not go anywhere unless shopping for essentials. When you shop you must nominate one person to go from your household.

confession

Last week we made a poem that we had to confess something you have done. We needed to use the structure that William Carlos Williams used which was what you have done, and what you were going do with it, then forgive me. So we drafted on a piece of paper then we published it on a shared document.  Something I would like to change next time is the confession and use better vocabulary. I enjoyed writing it and refreshing my memory from heaps of years ago. This is an image of my confession:

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