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Pihitia Station

 Pihitia station was real fun we got see cows getting milked, a sheep being butchered, a dummy (That looked like a real person) get run over by a quad bike. When we saw the cow getting milked my friend passed me the jar with milk in it. It had been shaken so that the milk would turn into butter. 

Aswell a seeing a cow getting milked, and making butter, we also saw a sheep get butchered. the sheep meat was already there ready for us to watch it get cut up into little sheep chops.

One of the most funny things was when the drone was being flown. We saw a dummy under a quad bike, and people actually thought it was real!The drone was pretty cool it flew really straight and we could see a lot of the farm through the screen.

That's it for this blog post, please leave a comment with feedback!

Pollution 2020

Describe different forms of pollution

The three most common types of pollution are air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution. Sometimes, air pollution is visible to the human eye. A person can see dark smoke pour from the exhaust pipes of large trucks or factories. Pollution makes nothing good happens, so don't pollute.

Why is pollution dangerous? 

Pollution may make landscapes muddy, poison soils and waterways, or kill plants and animals. ... Long-term exposure to air pollution, for example, can lead to, lung cancer, shortened lifespan and other diseases. Toxic chemicals that collect in top predators can make some species unsafe to eat.

What can we do to help reduce pollution?

There is many thing we can do to help reduce pollution. some of them are...

• Reduce the number of trips you take in your car.
• Reduce or eliminate fireplace and wood stove use.
• Avoid burning leaves, trash, and other materials.
• Avoid using gas-powered lawn and garden equipment.
• Arrange a rubbish clean up.

What might happen if we don't get pollution under control?

If air pollution is not controlled, by 2030 the air will become so poisonous that it will be needed to use an oxygen kit to breathe easily. Rising air pollution will also lead to premature aging. Human exposure to air toxins will increase to a great extent if air pollution is not controlled.

Litter 2020

Why littering is so bad?

Littering is bad because it makes the area you live in look yucky. It also kills marine life, a fish will eat the rubbish then it will choke and die. Then a bigger fish will come and eat that smaller dead fish and will die, because it ate the fish that had eaten plastic. So technically it ate plastic. This cycle will go on and on until  a fisherman will catch a fish with plastic in it. Cook and eat it. Then the fisherman will choke and die since he ate a fish with plastic in it. When we litter, there is a chance we can DIE!

Who do you think is responsible for picking up litter, and why

I think that whoever throws rubbish on the ground, is responsible for picking it up. But if you see rubbish on the ground and noone is going to pick it up. If you care about mother earth you will pick it up anyway. In a way, it is everyone's job to pick up litter.

Where would you like to organise a litter pick up in your local area, and why

If I were to organise a litter pick up, it would be at a beach. The beach has a lot of litter on it, and it is more likely that the rubbish from the beach will blow into the ocean, than anywhere else. I want to make sure that ocean life doesn't die out.

How could people be encouraged to litter less in your local area?

People can be encouraged by telling them to imagine no plastic. Imagine how great that could be. there would be more marine life, cities would look very clean, and just the fact that all people contribute in removing plastic would encourage people to not litter.

 

 Reading 2020

What are the benefits of reading

The benefits of reading are…

• Getting a better job, since you're more intelligent

• Keeps you entertained

• Helps you learn words

• Helps with mental health

• Helps with loneliness

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You can also  learn to . . .

• Cook

• Do creative things

• Read new words

So start reading now!

How often do you read, and what sort of books?

Even though you have heard me say the benefits of reading, I don’t read that often. One session of 10-15 minutes a day is all I read. so in a week, I read for about 70 minutes. The types of books I read are non-fiction, factual books. But sometimes I read roald dahl books.

What is your favorite book, and why

My favorite books are the guinness book of world records books, because I get to see people doing incredible things. Like drinking a 1L bottle of water in a second, or the fastest origami bird, made in 10 seconds. There's so many cool world record you can see and also try to beat. I haven't beaten any yet but it's really fun to try.

What is the best part reading a book?

To me, the best part of reading a book is getting into the best parts. When you read for a while you start to get a picture of what's happening in the story. You pretty much just imagine so hard that you are in your own world. That is the best part of reading.

 Mobile Phones for Children

Are mobile phones good for children, and why?

No mobile phone are not good for children. Your child doesn't need more screens than they already have. They could get sleeping issues, medical issues, and there mental health won't be as good, either. But if they need to call you in an emergency, Phones are the perfect thing to have. Your child will have complete control to contact you whenever they need.

How could mobile phones help you both in and out of school?

Mobile Phones are capable of a lot of things, Calling is one of them. Being able to call your parents at will, is a luxury at times. If your late from coming home from school, your parents will be worried. Unless they know the reason why your late. If you have a phone, you can tell them that your coming home soon.

What are the risks of children owning a cellphone?

The risks of buying a Phone for your children are high. They will have access to everything on the internet. And yes, They will also be able to see inappropriate content such as...

• Violence
• Inappropriate images of human beings
• swearing

One more thing to say, computer and laptops, etc. Also have complete access to to internet. So if your child has one of these, and you trust them. You can buy them a phone.

At what age do you think children should get a mobile phone, and why?

I think that ages 11+ are good to buy your child a phone because by then they will ...

• Be a trustable age
• Be hopefully mature enough

Also if everyone in your child's class has a phone get them one or they will be lonely. Another thing to say don't buy your child a phone when you got one. It's a new generation so new technology.

Success 2020 Quick Write

What does success mean to you and why?

To me, success mean achieving something i've reached for, for a long time. Like finishing priorities quicker than usual, or drawing an art piece that i'm really proud of. These are things that are success to me, doing well in a video game may be a form of success to some people as well.

How do you measure success

The way i measure success is how far you are into your goal, and how hard the goal is to complete. If your goal is really hard, Than i would think that you would be more proud of it than any of your easier successes. Also The effort you put into your goal counts too, if you don't putin any effort than you won't feel as proud

Does it matter if you don't always succeed, and why? 

No it does not matter if you succeed or not, If you fail you learn . If you succeed, good for you, when you fail you learn and you'll do it better next time. If you don’t succeed, and you give up. You will never win, this is what you call a loser. Don't give up and you'll succeed.

 

Choose someone you think is successful and describe why you think they are successful.

I choose Bill Gates, I think that he got success by showing resilience and investing time and effort following success. He probably also took a lot of risks and chances. Also he probably needed encouragement to keep going and to not lose hope. He knew that it takes time and effort to succeed.

Household Chores 2020

Should children help with household chores?

Yes I think that children should help with household chores, because it gives a child a sense of proudness. when children do household chores, like folding clothes, It makes them feel proud and happy. If your lucky you may even earn some pocket money. Another thing is you can't make your parents do all of the housework, they need more rest than you, and it's nice to help out sometimes.

What household chores would you enjoy doing, and why?

If I could choose between all the chores, I would choose either mowing the lawn, or washing the dishes. One because I get the most money from them, two because my parents hate doing them, and three because I feel proud when I finish them. 

What household chores would be your least favorite, and why?

My least favorite chores would probably be... folding clothes, making my bed and putting away the dishes. I don't like these chores because they are very time consuming, and boring. Putting away the dishes is so boring, Once my Mum turned of my PS4 and made me put away dishes. Sad isn't it.

If you could choose between homework and household chores, what would you choose, and why?

If I could choose between household chores and homework, I would choose homework because I do it already. It is an expectation in my family, and I have to do it. Also it is surprisingly quick too, Chores take like half and hour, and homework takes like 10 minutes.

My Trip To India

My Trip To India

I woke up this Saturday morning at 6:00am, and got ready for the Airport. We got all our luggage my origami paper, my computer,also my sunglasses. We hoped in Ray ( english grandfather's car) he dropped us of at the local airport were we waited and waited and waited then finally we went on the plane  I was so excited .

3,2,1 we went as fast as a shooting star flying through space,after about 1 hour we had to get of the plane and then we arrived in Auckland. It was really nice there. Then we had to wait 3 hours and then we could go on to the next plane we went to Mcdonalds and played at the park there 😀. After 3 hours we hoped on the next plane this plane was gonna take us to Malaysia. 


Then we arrived at New delhi although we were in India we were still not in the state Punjab so on more plane we would be in Punjab.We were on the plane for one hour again. After that we finally arrived in India. it was so hot there well that's all that happened on my trip to india but this is only the start of the adventure. The End. 

Healthy Food Quick Fire Write

What makes a healthy lifestyle?

A healthy lifestyle is made up of being active, and of course, eating your veggies. It is recommended to spend at least 30-60 minutes doing physical activity such as sports, gym, trampolining etc. also people should replace unhealthy snacks like pizza, cupcakes etc, with fruit alternatives. You can replace juice that is high in sugar, with a fruit that is nice and juicy, such as an Orange.

What are the benefits of a healthy diet and an active lifestyle?

 

The benefits of a healthy diet and active lifestyle are you don't have much of a chance to get chronic conditions like diabetes, cancer, arthritis, etc. also you will be very fit and decrease the chances of getting obesity.

What are your favorite healthy foods, and why?

my favorite healthy foods are fruits, specific veggies, and curry, because they all just taste nice. Fruits are sweet and fresh while veggies are nice in curry and soup, and sometimes good plain. did you know that some curry's are very high in protein.

What is your favorite form of exercise, and why?

my favorite form of exercise is trampolining, I may not be the best at it, but it's so fun. I go to trampoline club every tuesday to learn new tricks. There are 7 difficulties, they are red, blue, green, yellow, purple, white and black. I'm on yellow and am almost able to do a back somersault.

That all for my Healthy foods quick write, please leave a comment below. 

W1T3 First Week of the Term!

First Week of the Term!

Its the first week of the term, some new thing have been introduced to our weekly timetable. We now do LTP (Learning through play), it's pretty much like Discovery, but more learning. Also we only do it with moana syndicate. There are four options to choose from, Planet construct which is about constructing with lego, mechano and other bits and bobs. second option is Cardboard nation, it is all about making things with cardboard. The third option is Makey Makey, it's about using yourself objects like bananas asa form of electricity and use them to replace the keys on your keyboard. Finally  the fourth option is Junky Monkey, it's all about taking hard plastic toys unscrewing them and putting them back together in a different way.

There is also a completely new check of list, and new priorities. one of my favorites was the quick write it was about endangered animals, we watched a video and then we answered the questions with 50 word paragraphs, I think that I did a pretty good job at answering them. There was word work and a new thing called ninja maths which you answer easy, average then difficult questions. One of the question was 248x56 and I actually got it using my ultimate skills.

That's all that has happened so far in the week, thank you for reading my blog please leave a comment below.

Blog Post Week 12 LAST WEEK OF TERM 2!!

Term 2 Week 12

It's the last week of term  2, i'm really excited. This week is going to be a fun one because our whole class is going to be performing on stage in their groups for Just Dance. The dance options are, Handclap, Waka Waka, and Timber.

When the holidays come up, i'm going to be going to hobbiton to see hobbit holes. My parents never get time to go places with me and my brother abhay, so it's going to be a really fun trip. I'm probably going to be gaming with ben too.

Thank you for reading my last blog for term 2, please make sure to leave a comment.

Week 11 Blog Post

Week 11 Blog Post

This week we are doing a lot of writing, we have to do 4 quickwrites. 2 of them are menus, yes we get to make our own restaurant menus, one of them has food that we like and the other has food we hate. the other 2 were letters to the Board Of Trustees, the first one was so we could have school holidays earlier, and the other one was telling them what kind of new teacher we would like to have when Koka Terri has her baby. 

We do our e-ako and steps like usual, and this week I have been doing lots of gaming with my friend Ben. there is new ores in Minecraft.

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Week 10 Blog Post

For week 10 we have been doing our priorities as usual. This time we had to create a get well soon card for Flynn since he got hit by a car. He's really lucky he survived, I saw him on the road just after he got hit, it was horrible. We have been doing just dance like always, and are working on some pepeha art. In this weeks quick write, we have to focus more on our vocab. We had to fill our word bank with nouns and verbs for a crazy robot which had to write about.

We are doing our bubbles on Wednesday, it's a competition on who can make the biggest bubbles with their own recipe. We worked in our buzz groups and found many recipes. Jacksons was the best but then Nathan deleted his because he said that everyone liked Jackson's better and i'm guessing he got jealous. We submitted our ingredients that we need yesterday, Koka Holly said that she would get our ingredients today. I hope our bubbles turn out good.

Thanks to the Covid-19 lockdown it's already Term 2 Week 10, so that means only 2 weeks until the term ends. That means school holidays!! Also school camp for year sixes is coming up. I'm really excited about the next few weeks, I Hope you enjoyed reading my blog post.

Blog Post Week 9

This week we have been finishing of our work from last week. we have added on to our canoe quickwrite, and also made certificates for our teacher aids because it's support staff week. support staff week is when students support staff and teacher aids, they make a certificate or something I did last year was write a letter. We also had to make a blog post, and as an addition, we have to organise our google drives as well.

We are doing just dance too,  just dance is a video game for XBox, but we can watch it on youtube as well, it's these really good dancers on screen, and there is lots of colors on screen. you can't really see the actual people. It looks like they have been animated, you just try to copy what they do.

 Yesterday, we were in our buzz groups and we were planning to create giant bubbles. We saw many recipe's  but we didn't write a list of ingredients so Koka Holly couldn't get us the stuff, but now we're planning to bring our own ingredients. there is also a competition on who can make the biggest bubbles, and we're hoping everyone doesn't argue about who makes and mixes the mixture.

Thank you for reading my blog post.

Covid-19 Lockdown

Covid-19 Lockdown

  

 The Covid-19 lockdown was a huge change for MLH,
it lasted for almost 2 Months! We had to do learning from home after 3 weeks of only holiday and fun.
to be honest I did prefer school learning over lockdown learning, because at home,
there are just too many other things to do other than schoolwork,
like play video games, ride your bike or just jump on the trampoline.
Lockdown Learning did have some good things, like whenever I wanted to,
I could grab a snack,
or I could have breaks or play games whenever I wanted to.

As you probably already know, the lockdown started because of Covid-19/ Coronavirus 2019.
The deadly disease started in China and spread rapidly across the globe.
The first week of home learning had the topic of ANZAC day,
Then we had the topic of animal kingdom, then world famous and then finally story time,
after that we came back to school.
Coming back to school was fun because I got to see all my friends , but even in lockdown
I played minecraft with my friend Ben.

I really liked learning from home but being back at school is so much better,
  so that was my writing for the coronavirus lockdown.
I hope you enjoyed reading, make sure to leave a comment below for feedback.  

Enterprise Swimming 2020

Ready, set, go!! I was  swimming as fast I possibly could, my heart pounding, this was only my first race and it was my freestyle race. I went zooming overtaking Anaraux and Ben, then I don't know if I overtook Tristin or not, I think he beat me. While I was munching away at my food, I heard my name being called out, I soon figured out that Koka Ngaire was calling out my name for the next race, I quickly packed away my food and rushed to the racing lines.

 I waited for so long but finally it was my turn, I was aiming for at least not a last placing, which I normally got in enterprise swimming. I was so nervous, but also very excited to race against my friends. Once again I was waiting for Koka Rosie to blow in the whistle, this was my favorite stroke, breaststroke, I heard Koka Sophia shouting out "ready, set, go!!

 This time this was my last and final race and I gave my all I overtook Ben and then overtook Anaroux and then I Still don't know if I over took Tristin or not, I ended, I bet I would have overtook Tristin if I did more swimming practice, I said to myself, that was the end of my swimming, comment how well you think I did.

First Week of School 2020

The first week of school was pretty jam packed with excitement and fun, first thing we ever did in our new classes in 2020 was meet our teachers, I think that my teacher this year is terrific, also we have a  new timetable we do reading after morning tea and lunch, then we do things  like our  collaborative art.

The only collaborative art peace we have done so far is our bird art, it has three birds in it and it looks really, really cool. The next thing we started is our Waitangi day booklet, it has so much information about Waitangi day and it so many fun things to do like, draw the meeting house or answer why you thing that people feel weird talking about Waitangi day, if you have any facts about Waitangi day, you can write them down in the comments.

We also made our buzz groups by this cool animal quiz, we each had a peace of paper and they had a word or and animal name, we had to find out what words are related to each other in some sort of way, when you find someone with a related word, they are in your buzz group. it was really fun and I do lots of activities with by buzz group to Get better at teamwork, that's all i did in my first week of school, comment below if you think it was a good first week.