Cultural Games

 On Thursday we did our own cultural games. We were playing games from Russia, Scotland Australia. There were 30 students in groups showing us how to play lots of cultural games I was one of the students showing people how to play a cultural game. I had four people in my team Saul, Nigel, Mahdi and Naweed. We were teaching people how to play Ula mika . Ula mika is were you have two poles one meter apart of each other and a lei four meters away from the two poles you stand behind the lei and you under arm the coconut in between the two poles if you don't throw the coconut in between the poles you loses if you do get it between the poles that means if your coconut goes the furthest you win.

There were three teams red, green and yellow, if they get it through the two poles they go to the championship. If your coconut went the furtherest,  second furtherest and third furtherest you go behind the red lei and the rest go to the green lei.  if it doesn't go through the poles you have to be behind the yellow lei. Only the red lei people get a house point if they get through the two poles and who ever gets there coconut the furthers gets two houses points because they came first second and third.

I enjoyed teaching people how to play a game from other cultural's. Have you ever have a school cultural games??

Waikowhai student led tooktits

 In Te Waka Ako we were doing our own Waikowhai student led tool-kits we did this because it was STEM week STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. There was 24 student persisting and 12 toolkits to do and I was one of the presenters. We got a form to fill in it was about what toolkit you want to go to we had three session  the first session I picked Drones three time because was presenting it the for my second session for my first choice I pick Google maps for my second choice I picked Webcam toy and my last choice I picked Makey Makey then my last sessions I pick Drones. Then we got your tool-kits that we are doing I was doing Drones, Google maps and Drones.

 The first place I went to the hall so I can present Drones we l had 17 people to present to. Only one of your Drones were charged so only one group can use it. The Drones weren't working so everyone went to Spheros. Spheros where fun they are little balls that you can control is was so fun. 

Then we went to morning tea after that we went to our next session I went to Google Maps. I learnt  from Google Maps you can go to space and look at planets it was to cool we had 15 minutes to play around it was so fun. 

The the last toolkit I went to was Drones but none of the Drones were working again so we could pick another toolkit. I picked Incredibox. Incredibox is were you put people some clothes and then they will make some beats. I made so much cool beats.

 It was so fun we learnt some much things I hope we could do this every year. Have you every had a school toolkit?

Student Led Toolkit 2021

 Thursday 20th May, 24 Waikowhai senior students went to toolkit's. Toolkits is were we go to a school and we meet other schools and learn new things. We went to Owairaka school. That is where all the schools meet at. Everyone goes to the hall and sits on a chair then Phil told us where we are going and what to do.

The first place I went to was Pixel. Piskel is where you make art out of squares and you can add different kinds of colors. We had 15 minutes of play time, I had no idea what to do. I was thinking what to do for 14 minutes and then I was making my thing and it was really bad but I tried my best. When we were finished we got to ask some question about it. Then we had 15 minutes to eat go to the toilet and play I was playing football. 

The next thing I did was Incredibox.  Incredibox is where you give people some clothes and then they will make some beats and sound. This time we had 20 minutes to play I made two beats they are really cool.

The last place I went to was Kahoot. Kahoot is where you ask question and there is four answers but one of them is right you have to pick the right one to get point's and come first. We were playing a game of Kahoot and it was about Matariki I came 5th place. Then we had 15 minutes of play to make our own Kahoot sadly my account was not working so I couldn't make one.

Then everyone came back to the hall and two people from Fusion they were interns and they were telling us how they got in Fusion and why were they inspired to get a career in tech.

It was a lot of fun I got to meet new people and teacher's I learnt new thing from other school. Have you ever been to student led Toolkit's?

Landscape Art

"That looks really cool!"

In Te Waka Ako we were creating landscape art. Landscape art is where you draw a cool view of

mountains and the sky then color it. The top of your landscape has to be warm colors and the bottom

has to be cool colors. We had to get our art book and get a pencil and get A4 paper. I started to draw hill's

and snow covered mountains. I also drew a river. Then on the top I added the sun and squiggly lines next

to the sun. When I was done with my drawing I started to add color. We had to use crayons to color in the

landscape. For my mountains I use different shades of greens and for my snow mountain I use white for

the top and grey for the bottom. Then for the sun I used red,orange and yellow then I blended them all

together. The landscape looked beautiful and it was really hard to color in the different spaces. I thought

it wasn't gonna look good but when I added color it looked very cool.

Family Fun Day

Last Friday we did family fun day. Family fun day is when everyone in the school gathers up in house
groups. I was in Tui and I wore yellow.  We had Five activities fun activity's an inflatable obstacle course,
water slide wheels, swimming and slip and slide. We first did the obstacle course. There were two of them,
one small and one big. Everyone had to go on the big one  then go on the small one. only two people
was allowed at a time you had to go through a hole then you had to go through theses log/lines then you
had go through tall thing with fake spikes then you had to go through a tunnel 'then go up a climbing wall
then we went down a slide. The small obstacle course had two people go at the same time then you have
to climb up a wall then you have to through a log/lines then you have to go in a  tunnel then you were done we did that couple of time then we got our money for the bake sale I bought a blue cupcake  and a chocolate fudge cake yum.

Then we rotated to the next activity - the water slide. We had to change our clothes then we waited in line for the water slide. Finally it's my turn you had to get up to the water then you had to slide down into a puddle of water . there was also a pirate ship with no water it was a bounce castle it's time to  rotate no we went to  the wheels everyone brought there wheel to school I forgot to bring  mine but there sphere I chose a bike there were cones telling us where to go we went up a hill then down there were also ramps that we could try that wasn't really fun. we had to rotate because was burning we got our swimming tog’s and went down to the pool team A was on the slip and slide team B was in the pool I was so excited to get in the pool  it was so refreshing then we swapped over the slip and slide yes only one person at a time in the slip and slide when it's my turn I Was so happy when I finished I got so soapy. It was a cool experience. I really like family fun day I really wanna do it again sometime.

Tsunami

Last Friday my family got an alert on their phone about a tsunami warning and that people needed to  get

up high. So I went on the news and people were talking about the tsunami warning. We were lucky

because the tsunami was not coming our way in Auckland. But it was coming at the east coast so they

had to evacuate  and they had to go somewhere high. But thankfully there was not a tsunami.

At school we were talking about things we should pack if there was another tsunami or emergency. The

things we needed were sunscreen,a hat,medicine, flash light, radio,bug spray,non perishable food, water

and other stuff.

Are you ready for a emergency?

Lock-down 4

Oh no we were back at lock-down!!!!! I was so sad when I heard an alarm that said it is lock-down

level three, please stay

home stay two metres away from people. Then ten minutes later a

got message from the school that we had to stay home and do the class site

are work that we can do and we have goggle meet everyday at 9pm.

The next day I woke up at 8am for the goggle meet one hour later it was 9am.

I enjoyed seeing Manukau and Mrs

Jones during our class meets.

Then I wrote about the it then I went on the Math's page and I saw a

kahoot so I clicked on it and played it it was math questions

when I finished all the question then I took a screenshot of the leader board then

I put it on the lock-done creations slideshow and wrote about it then

I went on the reading folder and I saw sunshine classics and read

a book then I had to take a picture of the book cover and the put ti

on the lock-down creation slideshow and then I wrote about

it and then I had to write a daily reflection. My favorite activity is the kahoot because it is

challenging and you had to be fast.

My favorite family activity was monopoly because I bought  so many houses. When I came back

to school I Felt happy because I could see my  friends and  play with them.