Term 1 Narritive Writing

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In the past 2 weeks, the Senior Syndicate at Waikowhai Primary School have been writing narratives. Narratives are like a fairy tale. The way that I look at a fairy tale is that it is something you can only create if you use your imagination. 
The challenge was that you had to look pick a picture and then you had to write about it and make up character. My picture looked like this: 

Click here to see my narrative.

I hope you enjoyed reading my narrative. 
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Football Zones

Hi everyone! I am back! Last term, it was football zones. Football Zones is where schools come to compete in a football tournament. The football teachers, Dave and Mr Rattenbury, had to pick 1 team of girls and 1 team of boys. For a couple of weeks, we did some trials to see who would be in the 2 teams. I got into the girls team along with Maryam, Angelina, Brooklyn, Aahana, Grace, Ayva, Faith and Hepi. Football Zones was at Eden Park. When we first got there, we took a few photos first:

Then, we headed towards the gate. We were early; so we practised our skills while we waited. Finally, we were let in. The grounds were remarkable!

We headed up into the stands. We put our bags down and looked out towards the fields. Then, we spotted a trophy. We all went down to have a look. It was the Fifa Womens World Cup!

Me and my friend, Angelina took a photo beside the trophy:

In the corner of Eden Park was the Eden Park Stadium. Once again, we practised our skills until we were called over by the Fifa Womens Captain.

She told us that the trophy could only be touched with bare hands by the team that has won it or by the Prime Minister of the country that won it.

Then, we got sent off to our first game, and then the second and the third and so on.

Here are some photos from the games:

We had a lunch break half way through the tournament. Then, we got to go inside the big Eden Park Stadium! We had our last few games and then all the teams met up again. Each team got 5 mini footballs and some T - Shirts. Then, our school went to leave. It was a great day and I had a lot of fun.

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Gumboot Friday and Mental Health

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Last Friday was Gumboot Friday. The New Zealander of the year, Mike King decided this. Gumboot
Friday is a day where everyone is encouraged to wear gumboots. It is also supporting Mental Health.
Mental Health is like your emotional Well Being. The reason why Gumboot Friday is called Gumboot
Friday is because when you are feeling sad or blue, it feels like you are walking through the mud and
usually you walk through the mud in gumboots. So, that is why Gumboot Friday is called Gumboot Friday.
At school the teachers wore gumboots and only 1 student; me.

Then, 30 of our students from our Syndicate got picked to fill in a form. The form was about Mental Health.
The form was called ‘Healthy Puketapapa Student Questionnaire’. One of the questions in the form was
‘What would you like to be better in the community?’ Lots of people wrote ‘Mental Health’. Another
question was ‘How do you think you can do your part in making this happen?’ One of the students’
responses was ‘Post positive letters into mailboxes’ and the teachers thought that we could do that. So,
on Gumboot Friday, we wrote positive and uplifting quotes and messages on cards. On the back, we
wrote: ‘Supporting Mental Health’.

Then, yesterday, we were put into groups of 10, 9, 8 or 7 with a parent or a teacher and we got to go
down different streets delivering the cards into random mailboxes.

All this related to our Inquiry topic; Hauora, or Wellbeing. This related to Hauora because it is making people feel good about themselves, and this worked. Today, the teachers received an email from the
office saying that a parent had rung our school to say that her son had received one of the messages and
it had made his day. He suffers from depression. This made us all feel so happy that our messages had
worked.

Here is some images of the cards that I did:

My opinion to this is that I think it was a great idea. I feel really good about other people feeling good about
what we have done. I think this because everyone deserves to know that they are awesome or that they
are good at something. The quotes were very positive and that is all that people need to brighten their
day.
Next time, we are going say on the back that the people that got them can repost them so that our
messages will go further than the community.

If you got one, it must of brightened your day.

Here is some photos from the day:

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Christchurch Special Assembly

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On Monday the 18th of March, our school had a special assembly to remember the ones who died the Friday before. Over 50 people got killed in Christchurch at both Masjid Al Noor and Linwood Masjid Mosque. All of the school made cards for the people in Christchurch.

My class made cards for: 

Christchurch Police Force

Christchurch Hospital

Christchurch Ambulance Association

Majid Al Noor Mosque

Linwood Masjid Mosque

Local Schools

In the school hall, we sang The National Anthem. Then we went outside. We then sang one of our very important school songs called Aotearoa. The principal called up everyone with a different culture and those people got to get a shovel and put some dirt in a hole around the new kowhai tree that we planted. It sat next to our Friendship Bench to remind us that we are one. And then some people got to put the cards around the tree. We stood in silence holding hands for 1 whole minute.

Here are some photos from the day:

                                                                                             

Later on in the week, we had to decide on a goal to stop racism. Here is mine:

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The Senior Syndicate Treaty

Kia Ora, everybody I am back! This week, the Senior Sydicate at Waikowhai Primary School have made a Treaty. The Treaty of Waitangi inspired us to make this. One of our classmates bringing a fountain pen to use to sign the treaty full stop the five articles that we made up for the treaty was responsibilities at home, people, property, learning and safety. We had to make two laws for each article. The Year Six girls had to make up 2 laws for the article learning, the Year 6 boys got the article safety, the Year Five boys got the article people and the Year 5 girls got the article property. One of the teachers in the senior syndicate made up the article responsibilities at home. Here are some photos of the Treaty and the signing ceremony.

This week I learnt to swim on my side with my arm out. I learnt this at Cameron pools. when we do this we have to use a scissor kick. We also have to put our ear in the water in front of our shoulder. It is really easy and fun.

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The Week Of Inspirational Math

Hi everybody,  This is Jaimie and I am back! Today, I will be sharing with you what we've been doing in this week of inspirational math. The week of inspirational math is where, in class in maths time we have to watch a video of a maths task. The tasks are really fun but can sometimes be really  challenging. I really enjoyed the week of inspirational math because it really challenges me and that's really important to me. The challenge that I will be sharing with you is a challenge called the 1 - 20 challenge.

The 1 - 20 challenge is a challenge where you have to make a table with the numbers one to twenty on it and you have to use four 4s  with any operation to make a number in the table.

An operation is multiplication, division, addition and subtraction. We had to work in groups of four. Here is my work with my group.

The green writing was the work of me, the orange writing was the work of Ehsan, the red writing was the work of Jonathan and the blue writing was the work of Ayva.

We also got to explore using Chrome music lab. This is something on Chrome where you can create music and have real fun. On Chrome music lab we got to try  Kandinsky mode on Chrome music lab. Kandinsky is an artist, so on this mode we got to paint music. If you draw a circle it would turn into a person who would sing a note.

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Welcome back to 2019!

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2019 has been an outstanding year so far. In my first blog post of 2019 I will be sharing with you, my pepeha and my responsibilities as a Year 5 in 2019.
I'll start off my responsibilities.

My first responsibility that I have signed up for is being a librarian. This means I have to issue and return books from the school library. Another job in the library when I am not issuing or returning books is to put books up on the shelf and check that every one is respecting the books. I also have to show up on my day and be committed.
My second responsibility is to be in the Jump Jam team. This means that when we do Jump Jam I have to be at the front leading everyone.
I am also in Choir. I have also signed up for football.
Now, onto my pepeha. Here is my pepeha for 2019:


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