This term we have been looking at leadership. Last week we played a game called robot doge ball. There were 4 rolls: the robot, which was the person who could through the dodge ball, the controller was the person who gave the robot commands,  the visualiser was the person who had to make mime movements to tell the controller what to do and the assistant, who took count of the robots score. I think it was a fun game. It showed leadership because everyone had to listen to someone.

For the past 3 weeks we have been doing action stations. I did school monster attack. On week 1, we drew our monsters. I drew a monster based on a Welsh dragon and a flying monster. Next week we took pictures of us running from the monsters and removed the background of our monsters. This week we have put our monsters in a google drawing with a picture of our school with kids running away from our monsters. I enjoyed the drawing process. My picture is down here ⬇

This week was fun. For maths we are now learning the 8 times tables. I found it challenging. I’m doing well at the moment, but I still don’t know them all. For tech this week we did fabrics. We made our handles and chose our inner layers for our bags. I’m enjoying the making of my bag. Next week for tech we are doing more work on our bags like assembling it. For inquiry we looked at festivals and what they mean to different cultures. I made a poster for one of them. That’s all that happened this week.

This week has been very normal. Next week I hope that I can improve my swimming and maths. I feel proud of myself because I just learnt my 7 times tables. I found that learning the 7 times tables is quite hard. I hope to learn the 8 and 9 times tables next week. We went to tech on Thursday and I did fabrics. I made a design  for my bag. Next week we are making handles for our bags.

Today I made a poem about camp. A haiku is based around silaybiles.

my poem is below⬇

Off to camp we go,

We walk through bottle lake forest 

A eight kilometre walk to camp.

We arrive, set up.

Tents pop up, and hammers bang.

Smells fill the camp site,

and cooking is done.

Time for a game, then sleep.

Next morning we load,

And off to activities.

They end quickly, and then go

I enjoyed myself.

This week has been fun and interesting. I have lots to share. This week we started tech. I was in fabrics. This term I am making an environmentally friendly bag to help save the environment from plastic.  We can use them for shopping. Overall, I am excited about week 3.

This week I have been learning how to say greetings in maori. Today we had to make a story. This is my story.

Maori

Jim walked to the shop. He saw a person he hadn’t talked to before. “Ko wai to ingoa?” asks Jim. “Ko Oscar taku ingoa. Ko wai to ingoa?” “Ko Jim taku ingoa”. He continued walking to the shop.

This week I started my second year in Tangaroa. I feel I have done well this week at my work. I think this year is going to be similar to last year and I hope I can learn what I need to know before high school. I wonder what is coming throughout the rest of the year.

I have enjoyed this week of school. We did rotations with each teacher in the classroom. There was a reading survey, then we did Writing. Next we did some art. Finally, we did some maths. My favourite rotation was art. We put all the things we like and can’t imagine life without those things.

Overall I think I have done well this week at school. I hope week 2 has some interesting stuff in it. Either way, I am looking forward to the rest of the term.

This term for Inquiry I did NZ at war. I learnt about guns that the ANZACs used. I included tons of information about the guns that I included.

For action stations today I did world building. For world building you make your own world with creatures, and places. I enjoyed it because we got to start making our own world.