My Helicopter

 Today our class made paper helicopters! We made the helicopters for a reading task, basically we got the idea because on the reading book the persons cat got run over and he turned dead cat into a helicopter! Its pretty funny. All you need is a paper clip, and a strip of paper. Then you fold the strip of paper in half and take out the sides, then you fold them down a little bit to the side like this,

after that you fold the bottom part and it should look like this,

then make the sides go out a bit

After that you slide in the paper clip and it should look like this,

Then you stand up on a chair or something a little bit high and let it drop. Here was my video of me, Haki,  and Xanthe! I went a bit before them by accident but Haki was cheating a bit because he had two paper clips, if you put on two it goes down faster!

Gardening With Sarah!

Hi everyone! This week is the last week of term until the holidays! I'm super excited, Anyways... today a very nice lady called Sarah (pronounced S-EA-RAH-) came to do some enviroschools with us! First Chris split us into groups, then one group at a time came up to plant some seed's. Chris also let us come up to get a bunch of seeds out of leaves. then we would put the seeds in a line, get some tape and stick it over them to that they would stay on so that we could pick them off and plant them. We had a LOT of fun, well... I did at least. When we went up with Sarah, she taught us a Karakia that we didn't know. Then we got some seeds and planted them so that we could let them grow! This is a picture of her teaching us and a picture of her, 

  

Her,

And this is me and some other kids gardening with me, 

Me,

We had so much fun doing this and are hoping to do this a lot more often! Hope you enjoyed this post!

My College!

Hello everyone! Today I have finished my Collage! It looks really funny and I gave it a name, It's name is Fredzig, such a bEaUtIfUl name right? I started working on him a while ago, I might as well show you, Here he is!

Isn't he beautiful? I used a dolphin tail, a zebra body, a tiger bottom, a elephant ear, owl wings, and a shark head to make him! the thing in his mouth is a fat seal, you know how sometimes people come to their date with a rose in their mouth and give it to them? Well he used a seal instead. I dressed him up with a bow tie, a hat, some shoes, sunglasses and a tie on his tail. Have you done a college? If not you should try one!

This Weeks Jobs!

This week the Year 5's and 6's had camp, that meant us Year 4's had to take over. They do a lot of jobs when they are here, and we had to make sure we did those jobs. The good part is that we get to practise because soon we would have to do those jobs every week as well. The jobs we were doing were Whanau Time and Assembly, Bikes, PE Shed, Peer Mediation, And Flags. It was so fun! Since the Year 5's and 6's were gone it was pretty peaceful, because they are as noisy as screaming elephants! I'm not lying, anyways, my favourite job was the PE shed job. It was AMAZING! I also loved doing Whanau Time and Assembly. I heard the Year 5's and 6's went to Orana Park and saw Lions! It sounded amazing, I'm excited for our camp its probably going to be so fun! 

El Gregoe's amazing MAGIC

Hi Everyone! Yesterday on Wednesday, we had an AMAZING magician come to our school! He involved a lot of animals in his tricks. His name was El Gregoe. He could pull birds out of pictures! make parrots appear out of scarfs, he could make things disappear and so much more!! It was like his magic was real magic, he even had a grey parrot that comes from Africa! How amazing is that!? Here are some of the pictures of the birds and parrots, 

They were so amazing! the girl with the short blonde hair was his wife Sue, she helped out. Anyways, you know how most magicians pull rabbits out of hats, El Gregoe showed that a bucket was empty, then he shook it and pulled a rabbit out of it! The rabbits name was Fluffy Bum because it was very fluffy.

He got a few kids up to help him with tricks and he made a little boy float! Here are pictures, 

WOW! He really was a magician, he did something with drinks and a little girl that literally twisted my mind, he also made a pot of water never stop pouring. Speaking of water, he even made a senior come up and see if she could trust him, he poured water into these two cups and they held the cups above their heads and spun around slowly and did dance moves and suddenly, they poured the cups of water on their heads but... there was no water! My favourite part was when he pulled a parrot out of a scarf! It was a rainbow parrot and there is a picture of it flapping its wings up where the pictures of the parrots are, I loved the show, and I bet everyone else in the school did as well, i'm excited to see if next year he will come again. Thank you for taking your time to read this post! Maybe you will meet him? Hope you enjoyed!

My Notans Calendar Art!

Hi everyone, if the last few weeks we have been making something called a "Notan" they are REALLY cool! Its basically when you cut something out and flip it over, you will also have another coloured piece of paper. Our class watched few videos and looked at some examples, then we practised on a blank page in our art books, I chose to do my name! Same with a bunch of other people, after we practised a BUNCH and tried a lot of things, we finally started to make it happen. Also a few days before we did our names and all that we also did another good Notan, here is the one I did, 

I thought this one was really good! 

Here is my name one,

Chris helped me with some of the cutting, the thing was, I had to try and make this look as good as I wanted it to, because we were gonna be able to choose which No Tan we would put on our calendar art because we are doing No Tans for our calendar art! I chose my name because it took the longest and it was my best one I think, it was a hard choice though. I hope you enjoy my Not Tans because I worked really hard on them, maybe you could try?

My Animation W/Scarlett From Kotuku

Hi Everyone! Today we did a bit of a collaboration with Kotuku. We had quite a lot of fun, our class was supposed to show the younger ones in Kotuku what we can do with the power of "Remove.BG" We had watched a little animated movie about this girl on magic bubbles and then we had to ask the little ones if they wanted to be on top or inside the bubble, we all had one kid to look after and they were allowed to choose, Scarlett was my partner, she chose that she wanted to be on the beach in this, so I did that. Scarlett and I took pictures and made this animation come together, soon it was time for me to go back into my class, so I carried on a little on the animation! Now it is fully done, pause on slide number "87" to see the last slide. If its too fast you can make it slower. Hope you enjoy my animation! Stay safe from Covid and remember, the best things are free like to be happy! 

Our SECOND Egg-speriment

Hi everyone! Yesterday on Thursday, we went and tried again. Remember the last "Egg-speriment"? and how we still had another week? Well, this is our second time. We left the eggs in the glass jars for six whole days. This time we tried three eggs instead of two. The egg shells dissolved as we thought. We got two meter rulers and a spare empty Tote Tray to bounce the eggs in. Sadly there was only videos and the videos won't work, but one of the eggs was like it would never splat, we tried up to about sixty or sixty five centimetres until it broke, it was one of the white vinegar ones. We did it for the school challenge if you cant remember and Mrs King set the challenge. If you are from another school maybe you could do the challenge or you could do it for fun at home with your family members!

Our Fun Egg-speriment!

 Hi everyone! Last week we had an announcement that our class challenge was to bounce a raw egg, our principal gave us a tiny hint, "It might take some time"  That was the hint. Mrs Hickford asked us if anyone knows a way we could try. Some people said sugar water and soup, others said vinegar in a glass jar. We tried the vinegar one, we got two eggs, and two different types of vinegar. We put Malt Vinegar in one glass, then we put White vinegar in the other. We put the eggs in and waited a few days. Here are some pictures,

 

We had so much fun! A few days later we took out the eggs and felt them, they were squishy and you could kinda see the yolk, then we talked how it felt and we rubbed the dissolved shell off of the egg, we then got told to go outside, but I stayed close to Mrs Hickford and she started bouncing one of the eggs on the table then dropped it on the ground and... IT EXPLODED!!! Eww! Mr Abbott was outside so I told him about it and then a lot of kids in my class came inside and saw the yucky disaster on the floor. Then we cleaned most of it and went outside onto the concrete, because that's where we had to bounce it. We got a meter ruler and put an ice cream container there, first we dropped it from 10 center meters, and it bounced, then we tried 20 center meters but it didn't make it. At least we still had a few days, but today we got told we still have another week to try! Keep safe everyone! Maybe you could try bouncing a raw egg?

Reading! My Limerick and unsinkable boat!

Hello everyone! This week we have been working on the Titanic for reading! Some of the tasks were to write a limerick, poem, or rap about the Titanic or something related to water, and to create a boat that will NEVER sink. First I did my Limerick,

 Then I created a boat that will never sink! Here is it at night when lights are on,

 Here it is at day!

This is my inventing slide, where I create some things and colours and different shades to copy and paste them onto the boat!

 Now I am going to show you how I made the light shining out of the lights and the back round dark at night! Like this, 

First I went to shapes and got a rectangle,

Then I pressed Ctrl + Shift + The down arrow, to teleport it to the back,

  I made it black,

 I pressed costom,

 Then dragged the part at the very bottom until I found the right shade!

And my back round is now dark! I did the same with lights accept a different colour. I hope you learnt something from this!

My funny and cute animation!

This is my animation about how my dog turned into a red panda! I like it because it is funny and also cute! I made the animation because it was part of our cyber smart and also I made it like this because I really like how its a short, funny, adorable story! This took a super long time! I did exactly 338 slides in total! That's a lot, my favourite part of the animation is probably when the red panda open's it's mouth but the cupcake drops, it reaches out its arm very angrily and grabs it. It's really fun and i'm thinking of doing more animation's in the future! But even longer... I will probably also continue on this one at home. I love red panda's, dogs, and cupcakes so I thought of doing this! My dog Molly, gets stuck in a tree and turns into a red panda! Red panda's mostly live in tree's, so that was a good idea, I used, Remove.BG to Photoshop them and make them have no backgrounds. I hope you enjoy my animation!

Bruce Mclaren reading.

Hi everyone! This week we have started reading a bit about "Bruce Mclaren". For my story map, I thought of copying and pasting from a different story map I made, it had a super car in it. That's why I copied and pasted in the car, then I thought of making a road, I didn't know if it really looked much like the Grand Prix- (pronounced, gran-pree) road, but at least I tried! Here's what my story map turned out like,

I named the story map "young famous racer", because for one of our tasks we have to come up with a new name for each story! The original name that they had named the story was, "In His Blood". I also put a bit of decoration beside the name, right here, 

As you can see, I pressed, "ctrl c ctrl v" that's how I copy and paste, but I have to click on the thing I want to copy, and I drag my mouse like this, 

Except I drag my mouse, anyways, then I make the cars smaller and drag them up to the top. I made my story map have a super car and road because it matches with the story, they have super cars and Grand Prix roads in the story, and I really want to remember the story map of the super car and not just leave it in my drive on a folder, because I worked so hard on it! I'm really starting to love the super car I made, I've liked the look of my super car for a long time. We learnt quite a lot about Bruce Mclaren from the story, we learnt about his first race at the age of 15, we learnt about the time he had gotten a very bad disease called, "Perthes Disease" which made him unable to walk for two whole years! We also learnt how he was the youngest person to win a Grand Prix and so much more! We even got to make a bio cube about him! Here is mine!

It has a lot more writing on different slides, we used cube creator to make it, this is what we did. 

 We pressed, "get started",

 this came up so we clicked the button on the top,

then we clicked allow,

 this came up so we put our name in,

 then clicked "BIO CUBE"(purple box)

And then this appeared and we put all the information in and just kept pressing next when we were done and then sent it to the teacher and they print it out for us to put together! I hope this helped!