Year 6 Spark Arena Trip

 Spark Arena Trip

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Today all of the Year 6's went on a trip to Spark Arena. It was so fun and interesting. There were also other schools there as well. The whole trip was made free by Suzy Cato. The CEO of the Spark Arena was also there to welcome us. We had traveled there by bus. At Spark Arena There were different places where you could have fun, express yourself and more. We had 30 minutes at each place. 

The first place we went to was Happy Place, I was really excited to go in because I had heard of it and had been wanting to go. The first thing we did was jump into a big ball pit a bit taller than me! After we could check out some of the other rooms at Happy Place. My favorite room was the cookie room. The next place we went to was Sounds Fun. Sounds Fun is a place where you can try out trumpets or trombones, try digital keys and more. The first thing I tried out was this thing where you could make different beats. The next thing I tried out was the drums. It is a bit hard to explain what I did on the drums, but it was fun. After that I tried out a trombone, trying that out was fun too. The next place we went to was the Van Gogh Experience/Alive. Me and My friend had gone there in the holidays so we knew what to expect. At the Van Gogh Experience. We got to see some of Vincent Van Gogh's art work. There was also another room. Where there were lots of sunflowers.

After all of that we got a little bag with food inside. Then we went on the bus again to go back to school. Have you ever been to Spark Arena Before or any of the places mentioned in this blog post?.

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Under The Wires Day!

Under the Wires

On the 14th of April the whole of the senior syndicate had an Under the Wires day! The reason was because we have been learning about  Anzac Day and what had happened on that day. So the teachers decided to put wires ( they were actually strings of wool) all around the blue space and the green space ( the blue space and the green space are two of the senior classes) so it was like we were in the trenches.

 It was fun but also tiring because we had to crawl on our hands and knees for most of the day. The fun thing about was that there were sound effects of bombs and gunshots while doing our school work. Yes we still had to do school work, we did Maths, Reading and Writing. For Maths we did a little times table and we got to choose from the 3x to the 9x, I chose 4x and it was fun. After we did a basic facts test but it was very hard because there were distractions. The distractions were the sounds of bombs and gunshots and I could not think properly. 

Next we did a maths sheet where we had to count up how many years NZ has been fighting wars and there were two sides on the piece of paper. We got to try and solve equations in different ways and also had to show our working out. Next was brain break. 

After Brain Break we did writing. For writing we pretend wrote a letter to our family's because we were "in war" and something else we did was an acrostic poem. I had enough of crawling on my hands and my knees. 

At least it was morning tea and we finally got to go outside after I got to go swimming (in the rain)  it was fun but I was getting cold so I got out. Then I ran back to the classroom. After a while I went back into the classroom and did reading for reading we did  a picture dictation it was fun and I enjoyed it, after that was lunch and like morning tea we got to go out. But it was very cold. 

After lunch we had to go back into the trenches and eat lunch there. Then the teachers had fake guns with fake bullets and if you put your head up the teachers will aim at you and "shoot you". After we unwind-ed all of the strings and then it was home time.

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Lockdown/Earthquake

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Last Friday most of you might know that there was an earthquake. It happened in the east coast of the North Island. My teacher was in that area.  There were also Tsunami warnings very early in the morning at 2:00 am. I also learnt how Tsunamis occur that day. Also that day we had a syndicate meet. We all put on something fancy or freaky. Today my classroom did a brainstorm on what to put inside an emergency pack. We thought of putting in a torch, a pack of cards and other essentials. We also thought of putting in an Umbrella, Phone, Charger, Batteries and also a few books and also a blanket or pillow if it gets cold Maybe you could discuss with your families what you would put inside an emergency pack. 

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Here are some of the things that you could put inside an emergency bag

Christmas Art

 Christmas Art

Today we did some Christmas art. It was very fun we did some heart weaving and some Christmas trees dot Art. First we did the Christmas trees. We made them by using pins, a Christmas tree with dots and some Card. First we lined the paper with the tree on it with dots and the card and then we poke holes with pin along the dotted line and we had to do it on carpet not hard services. Then we put it up to the window and then the tree sort of lights a up. The next Art activity we did was a little woven heart basket. It is a little hard to explain but it was very fun. We also did some Christmas cards and also used a Christmas collar this one is also a little hard to explain, but was also very fun. 

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Here are some photos!

Summer learning Journey Activity Teaser

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Today we a did a summer learning journey teaser activity. The summer learning journey is a variety of online activities that helps you with your learning and is something you can do over the holidays. You can also earn points for the activities that you complete. We used a digital Art coloring book and we had to choose a famous picture and  try and  remake it using Google Art. I'm looking forward to participating in the Summer Learning Journey .Can you tell which one is mine and which one is the original?

Lego Workshops

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Last week we did a Lego workshop, it was also called The Brick Pit. It was very fun and we got to build a lot of stuff. The theme was on space. We got to build spaceships, landscapes ,planets and more.We had to be in groups of 4. I had my friends in my group. First my group got to build planets, we built Earth and Saturn. Then we got to build landscapes I built some sort of rock wall and it was very fun. Then we got to make stars, that was fun too and a bit hard to make. Then we got to go to other tables and build other stuff I decided to make a little spaceship. The other thing that we got to build was a little tool workshop. Building all the Lego stuff was tons of fun. Hope you enjoyed my blog!

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Here is some stuff that we built!

Skateboarding 2020

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This term we are starting to do skateboarding! Our first lesson was today and it was very fun. Then we have another session later on .We learnt a lot of new tricks and got to try some. We also played a game called Whats up wolf pack? That game was very fun. We had 2 coaches, their names were Ben and Lawrence. 

One of the tricks we learnt was the crab walk we had to put one foot down on one side and then put the other foot down on the other side and then we had to try to do the crab walk. We also got put into 2 groups. I was in the group that Ben was teaching. We got to learn how to do flips on the skateboard and some other fun stuff. We also learnt parts of the skateboard. The top of the skateboard was the nose and the bottom of the skateboard was called the tail. The group that I was in got to learn really cool tricks. 

I loved playing that game called Whats up wolf pack? Its kind of like Red light Green light but we use skateboards and its called Whats up Wolf pack? It was really fun. I really like doing skateboard sessions at school because its fun and I get to learn something new.

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