The Case Closed

We found out that the thief is Mrs Taaffe because there was more evidence from her than all the other teachers. Her feet matched the prints, she had a cut on her hand, she was here on the day, she used the dongle because she had chrome casting issues so she came to Whetu and stole the dongle and her fingerprints are on everything in the scene. Mrs Taaffe was confronted on the 23rd of November 2020. She admitted that she stole the milky way bars and the dongle. Some of us were stoked because she seemed pretty suspicious when she came into Whetu. I felt great that we solved the case now.

Code Breaking

This week the teachers put a new must-do on Whoogle called Think like a detective - Secret codes. It got a little bit hard on the second one when the clue had to be solved backwards. The easiest part was trying to figure out what secret code I could make myself. The hardest part was understanding the second secret code this is no herring.

Athletics

Before athletics began I felt nervous because it's like "this is it, this is what I trained for" In shot put, it went a little bit fun because I had a little bit of support from my mates and that made me come third. When we did high jump I felt nervous and a little afraid cause I knew I couldn't make the jump. At our 100m race, I felt good until Mrs Frazer shot the gun thing to send us running. It was fun as to do long jump because I got a little longer than last time I did long jump at Te Puru. At the 200m I was like "oh my gosh, I'm gonna get smucked up" But I came 2nd to last. Even at high jump when I kept falling over, I enjoyed it. Athletics was fun and I hope I'll be here to do it again.

Letter Of The Week

 For Letter Of The Week, we did the letter N. The hardest part was figuring out what sentence I wanted which was question 10. The easiest part was changing the background to a rainbow. It was really fun todo the letter N. 

Fingerprints2.0

Today me and Michael M buddied up to do our fingerprints. When we were waiting for our turn we just hopped on Our CSI website and just did the task that was on the site. When it was our turn, we had to grab our thumb and rub threw our hair. After that, we just got our thumb and pressed it on the window. Then we dusted our print with cornflour and laid the tape on our dusted print. Carefully we ripped the tape off and put it on a cut out black piece of paper. It was sort of hard to rip the tape off the window because the corners of the tape were sort of in shape with the window. Above all that it was exciting todo.

Fingerprints

this week we learnt about fingerprints. There are three types of patterns, There are Whorl, arch and loop. We all have different patterns even if there are identical twins, twins may have the same DNA but they have different fingerprints. I have one arch, seven loops and two whorls.

Holidays

In the holidays, I chilled out at home for 3 days then went to Rotorua for 2 nights and when I arrived in Roto's, I saw my cousins that I haven't even met yet and they were from my mum's side, I was just like wow when my cousins were related to me. When I home 2 days later I had to pack again because I had to go to Taranaki and chilled with my canty and cousins threw the whole first day. 2 days later I went to the pools and went down 2 hydra slides, the first one was painful because my head kept banging on the slide and the second one, it went fast and I could just see when I was going in a sort of a straight line. On Thursday last week and my whanau did waka ama which is basically a Kanu and a fin then. On Saturday dada and Jaymie came over and all of the whanau went for a walk at the garden walk, I think that's what it is called. Dada and Jaymie stayed Saturday night and Sunday morning we shot off then waited for an hour when we got back then we went for groceries. For dinner, we had fish n chips.

Chapter Chat

 For Chapter Chat, I drew Abby as a rockstar because I thought I could make her look cool as. The hardest part was trying to draw what her hair looked like. The easiest part was drawing the body because I watched pros on Tik Tok and got experiences from my sister.

 

Letter Of The Week

For Letter Of The Week, we did the letter M. The hardest part was trying to figure out what my sentence was gonna be because I didn't know if the word I put in was like proper. The easiest thing was Doing an onomatopoeia because I already had a word in my head when we were sitting in the Milky Way.\

Chapter Chat

 For Chapter Chat I did a cassette tape For the book Wink. The hardest part was putting the spring of the button in. The easiest thing was putting the tape in for the audiotape ( I had my own tape)

Slice Of Cake Mystery

 For our mystery this week we, did a slice of cake mystery. The easiest thing was and most fun was doing the word search. The hardest thing was doing the last clue because I didn't really understand it but then I got some help and I got it right.

Letter f The Week

 For Letter Of The Week, we had to do the letter G. The hardest thing was trying to make a sentence that has lots of words starting with G. The easiest thing was typing in what has a double letter. It's fun todo Letter Of The Week.

Maori Slang

 For our Te Reo Maori challenge, we had to do a google drawing, doc or google slide. I chose a google drawing because it would be easier to draw and make the whole page wider. For my word, I chose Kia Kaha which means be strong. The hardest part was drawing the Tane and Wahine's body. The easiest part would probably be the Maori coloured koru art on the top. I liked learning what Kia Kaha means even though I know what Kia Kaha means, it's still good to re-learn things. I didn't know how to put a video on my drawing so I'll put it in separately.

Escape The Hut

 This week we have been doing an Escape The Hut
codebreaker. After when I finished my codebreaker  I got some codes wrong but I went back and got them right. The easiest part was doing the crossword for digit two because I liked doing multiplication crossword. The hardest part was figuring out what digit two was because it got a little confusing. But besides that it was exciting. 

Rad Rhythm

 We are learning how to find the beat and the rhythm. The beat is the steady pulse that you feel in the tune, like a clock's tick. It's the beat you'd naturally clap along to, or tap your foot to The rhythm is the actual sound or time value of the notes, which in a song would also be the as the words. I enjoyed having fun with my mates and producing sounds. A challenge for me was keeping in time when others because we're all ways changing beats. 

Maths Mahi

 For Maths Mahi, we have done coordinates to figure out what emoji it was. For me, it was a little challenging because I sort of didn't know what coordinates. I thought that was easy was, crossing out the location of the coordinates. But besides all that it has fun.

Cooking

This week I joined the cooking group.

On the first day, we did our safety stuff to mind when we are in the kitchen. On the second day, we brang veges to cut up for soup. On the third day, we ate the soup and I would give it 9.5. The part that I liked the most was cutting up our veges. I brang an onion because it was the only thing that I had in my head when we were thinking of veges to bring.

New Zealand Famous Person

 For my famous person, I chose Tumuera Morrison to research about. We for the last step we had to print our report we had to publish it, decorate it and you could add some things that represent that person. The hardest thing was drawing the border around the page. The easiest and fun thing was drawing the Maori flag by the border. 

Maths Mahi Investigation

 For our investigation this week, we did a transformation which is translations, reflection and rotation. On my whole Maths Mahi, I fell back a little bit cause I needed to do some other work done. The hardest part was flipping the heart. The easiest thing was rotating the square because I just had to draw a square.

Option Workshops Reflect

 During Term 2 and 3 the Whetū students have had the opportunity to be involved in a range of different workshops. The workshop that I have enjoyed participating in the most has been Dancing with Ms Frazer because I like music and it was nice to learn something new. 

The new learning that I have learnt is being in science because of the experiments from the past terms. What I have most enjoyed about the workshops are doing art with Ms M because she is a really good artist and would really learn from her5 again. I am interested in learning more about music because my dream is to be a famous DJ one day. 

Art

Today, we did a pop-up art. I drew two series which are Naruto and Boruto. The hardest part was colouring in the background of my art. The easiest thing was drawing Naruto which is in the top right corner. I chose to draw Naruto because he's my favourite character and he was the only thing I thought of.

 

Inquiry Presentation

 For my inquiry presentation, I drew a poster for a question 'Should Animals live in Zoos'. Before we had to do our poster, we had to get some pros and some cons. My opinion for 'should animals be kept in Zoos' is yes and no because there are some bad things about Zoos and some good things about Zoos. Zoos help people with education and learning.

WK 5 Investigation Maths Mahi

 For our wk 5 investigation we did an enlargement for geometry. Enlargement is drawing a picture bigger than the one you just looked at. For me, I did two hard one's which were a robot and a cat. The hardest part about them was drawing them on a big piece of paper. The exciting thing was drawing the other half.

Cross Country Reflection

This year I participated in the NPS Cross Country held at school on the Ngatea Domain. I ran in the 10yr old group. I am most proud of how much I pushed myself more in cross country training. I think my effort towards our training at school was like probably an average state. I have came 2nd to last at cross country. I know its not the best but I did my best and hopefully next time I can do better.

 

Chapter Chat

 For Chapter Chat today we read a new book called Wink. For our options like what we did 2 terms ago. I have chosen make ( in make I chose todo a freak-out scale. The hardest part was putting the arrow on the scale. The easiest part was colouring in the squares.

 

Maths Mahi

For our Maths Mahi investigation, we did 3d net. A net is a 3d shape that is broken like this. I have done a rectangular prism and a hexagon prism. The hardest part of the nets was glueing each tab together to keep the shape equal. The easiest part was cutting out the shapes to fold.

Whetu Challenge

For our Whetu Challenge today, we had to do a google drawing of a cartoon show or movie that we had to choose from. I worked with my learning constellation group called the Fozzie's. We chose the Incredibles. I drew the baby Jack-Jack. The hardest part was trying to colour in Jack-Jack. The easiest part was drawing him because I just traced him.

Maths Mahi

For our Maths Mahi investigation, we had to draw symmetrically (symmetrical means like drawing in a mirror) I did a butterfly and I think the other one was a ring, I don't know. The hardest part was 

doing the butterfly because it was a little tricky and because it was hard to see where the dots were that I had to copy.

Whetu Challenge

For our Whetu Challenge, we did an Egg Drop Challenge. I have worked with Christian and Darius. We used string, a bag, a balloon, a sock, newspaper and tape. when our egg was in the windy sky our egg parachute (I do not know what to call it) I wasn't in the photo when we were going to drop it and Christian holding it.

Matariki Star

This week we have done a Matariki star that represents each star. I reckon the hardest part was doing Hiwa    I te rangi because I had to draw a genie and because I had to sketch it in my art book. The easiest one was doing the Matariki star which represents the central star. It has taken me four days in total to finish my star.

Term 3 First blog

For the start of the term, we did a little activity for Matariki. We did a word search, a fact or fiction and a mix and match. It's nice to be at school and hang with all my mates and to see all the teachers.

Matariki Jigsaw puzzle 3.0

This is the big finale. I have finally finished my Matariki jigsaw. The hardest thing was glueing the pieces on my piece of paper. The easiest thing was writing MATARIKI. I don't really know what to say next so here's my jigsaw.

Term 2 Reflection

My Term 2, 2020 Reflection

The new learning activity that I have enjoyed the most this term is doing Number of the day because I liked pushing myself and trying to learn new things. 

Something that has challenged me this term has been doing studyladder because I had to finish the rest of my must do’s before I jump on studyladder.

The Whetu Challenge I enjoyed the most was making the tennis tower because I could talk to my mates about what our plan is. 

The opt-in workshop I enjoyed the most was dancing with Mrs Fraser because one, dancing is my favourite hobby and two is learning something new. 

An aim I have for my learning is trying not to talk to my friends too much. Term 2 was a little bit fast because of lockdown.

Matariki Jigsaw 2.0

For our jigsaw 2.0, we have had new pieces this week. We had some like, our family tree, what they ate, what you wish for, and a karakia. The hardest thing for my first one was colouring them in purple, brighter purple, green and red. The easiest thing was doing what your wish would be, my wish is to be in the military and for a two ps4. My favourite puzzle is the wish one.

For our Whetu challenge, we recreated the egg carton challenge. The hardest part was doing the body because I had to poke the thread threw. The easiest part was glueing the eyes on. I was support to do a dragon but I decided to do a pink lizard. I really had fun and talking about my creation with Eli and Christopher. I was really proud of my work.

Blog Challenge WK 11

For blog challenge week 11 we had to design our bedroom or classroom. I did a painting of Nauto on the wall and Netflix on the new Samsung tv. The hardest part was doing the Naruto painting frame. The easiest thing was doing the bed.

Matariki puzzle piece

I have done a puzzle piece for Matariki. I had to draw my own kite, I put the NZ flag and #blm aka Black lives matter. These are the only pieces I've coloured but I'm going to colour some more on the way.

Matariki

This week we did Matariki work because on July 13th it is gonna be the Maori new years eve. The black squares are the answers that I think. 

Paper plane making

Today our challenge was to design an accurate paper plane. We were given a draft piece of paper to trial and a good piece to use once we had tested the accuracy of it.

Before we started I thought this challenge was going to be really easy

I decided to use the design because it was the only hope I had of getting a score

The hardest part was trying to make a plane that had good accuracy

During our competition time, I managed to score 12 points

blog challenge

For week 10 I have done a birthday card for the blog challenge. The hardest thing was drawing a happy birthday. The easiest thing was drawing the koala. 

Whales

Sick Sentences

For week ten I have done sick sentences about a snail and a strawberry. The hardest part was filling in the last slide because it was a little tricky to think of an adjective. the easiest part was doing the first slide. It was fun to see the snail come out of the strawberry.

Blog challenge

For my blog challenge this week I have done what I am in ten years. The hardest part was doing who I will still be friends with. The easiest part was making what I looked like.

Tornado

Sick sentences

For sick sentences about a Bird and a Bee. I had to do nouns and adjectives. The challenging part was doing the last slide because I had to think about words to make the sentences healthy. The easiest part was doing the first slide and second because they were really fun.

Tennis tower challenge

Today I worked with Regan and Shawn. At first, we had trouble with the bottom base because the legs were to thin. The easiest thing was getting the sellotape ready. The best part of our tower was straws. Our tower looked pretty good. In the end, our tower fell over when it was the real deal.

The Sahara desert

I have done synthesis Eggs for the article The Sahara Desert. The hardest thing was doing the last egg. The easiest thing was doing the first and second because the second was about what I read something new. It was really fun learning about The Sahara Desert egg. I saw the word stapes and I researched about it. Stapes are what help you hear. I enjoyed doing the second one.

Sick sentences

I did sick sentences today. The hardest thing was putting the slides on my blog. The easiest thing was doing the sick sentences on slide 4. I enjoyed doing slide 3 the most.

Catapult challenge results

Whetu Catapult Challenge

The things that I used to make my catapult were: a spoon, rubber bands, ice block
sticks and a pom-pom. To make my catapult I worked with Emily and Chrysler. The most challenging part was putting the rubber bands on. Our best results were hight. Overall I think that everyone did a good job

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Onomatopoeia

This is my Onomatopoeia worksheet. Onomatopoeia means sounds like twang, boom, pow, boing zoom and snap. The hardest part was doing the first question and the third. The easiest part was creating my own sentences. I enjoyed making my Onomatopoeia work. 

Emoji

I created three emojis. The first one I recreated a dog, the second one I recreated an alien and the last one I created a cat emoji. the hardest thing was putting everything together. The easiest thing was creating everything. I enjoyed creating the alien the most.

Dress Up Reflection

My highlight this week would probably be catching up with all my mates. I was nervous about being back at school. Sadly I didn't dress up as anything. I think the best dressed person was the teachers because they look like triplets. It was really cool to see everyone dressed up.

Milk Bottle Creation

I have made an Owl made out of a milk bottle, cardboard and glue. I really enjoyed making my creation. The hardest thing was sticking the feet on. The easiest thing was doing Owl's features.
I got pretty confused at the start but as I was going along I got thinking.

KITE DAY!!

On Wednesday I made a red crepk paper kite. Me and my stepmom went to Miranda beach and tried to fly my kite. At the moment I flew my kite it ripped right away. I created my kite with my stepmom mum because she saw me on the phone trying to make my kite so she helped on facetime and because she lives in Australia.