Rocket Challenge!

Last year we started doing rocket challenges with plastic bottles. A bunch of schools around the world has been competing in this, but last year I wasn't in Kereru, so I couldn't participate. But this year we are doing it again! Now that I am in Kereru I can participate. On Wednesday we launched a rocket belonging to Lincoln. When Lincoln shot his rocket off it shot straight up, It was spinning in a really cool way as well, It went so high I thought if it was a bit bigger it might not have came down for at least 5 minutes but I'm not sure. Here Is the video of Lincolns rocket, just so you know It might be a bit hard to see the actual rocket but It's still cool,

I actually helped Lincoln put the sand in the bottle and while I was helping I was kinda thinking that since it had sand in it it would be too heavy but instead it was just right! After we shot Lincolns rocket we shot it again, but the rocket broke a bit and it had a burn on the end. I have and Idea on how I'm gonna do mine and if it goes how I wan't it to be I'm going to be very happy. I found out that extending your bottle and putting just enough sand to fill at least 3 quarters of the bottle makes it go better, I think I might mix a tiny bit of water in the extended part of my bottle so that it mixes in with the sand. What kind of things should I do to my rocket so that it goes better?  

Hoki History! ^﹏^

Two weeks ago we started a Hoki History website. We all made our own individual websites! Some people did an AMAZING website! I haven’t finished mine yet but I think mine is pretty average though, this is most of our first times making a website, but I think I am doing pretty good for my first time. My website includes a working map, a bit of information, some links to different sites, some pictures, and more,

Here is my site so far,

I'm really excited to see how it turns out, I'm gonna add some videos and some other stuff later but this is it right now, thanks for taking your time to read this blog post. I hope you all enjoyed reading this:)

True Or False?👀

This term we have been doing something super fun for writing! We were doing one true story and one lie. The true story had to be a recount on something we did in the holidays, the lie had to be a fake recount on something we did in the holidays. When we were done we would read out both story's In front of the class and they would try to guess which one was true and which one was fake, I haven't gotten my chance to read mine out yet, but I know I will soon. One of my stories were about me in Christchurch and almost getting hit by a city train and the other one was about me going Ski-ing in Queenstown. Which one do you think is the fake? You can read both my stories now and tell me what you think!

Time for districts! ^_^

 Last week on Thursday we went to the Hokitika Westland High School to do athletics. There were lots of sports and fun things to do! I actually thought that Shot-Put and Discuss were some of the things I was the worst at, but somehow I came second in both of them for yr5 girls! I tried my hardest to do as well as I could and now the day after Easter weekend I’ll be going to districts! Last night I told my dad and he told me that he has a really good friend that is great at discuss and might even have one at his house that I can practice with. He can even show me some tips! I’m super excited and really proud of myself. Even if I don’t make it to the West Coasts at least I will still have fun and try my hardest. This is probably the first time I've made it to districts and I’m really happy, even if I’m not as good as others. Do you think I’ll make it to the West Coasts? And if you do, do you think I'll make it to Canterbury? Personally I don’t but I’ll continue to work my hardest. We did do a beach clean up afterwards but I'll save that for another blog post!

Big EyEs!👀

 

A few days ago we started working on a peer mediation poster! We have never done one that I knew of, and if there was it’d probably look kinda boring. So we decided to make one and take a photo of ourselves and make ourselves have big eyes! We used the app "Pixlr E" to make the big eyes. And clicked Liquify and pressed the enlarge tool

Then we would use “remove.bg” to remove the background, Then insert it into a slide/google draw for a poster! This is mine so far,

It's not that good RIGHT now but It'll get better, well.. hopefully it will! Thank you for spending your time reading this to the end, I will post another blog when its done! If you tried out Pixlr E tell me what you think of it! Also what do you think I should add to my poster?

READING THE WHALES!

 This week and some of last week the green reading group have been working on a reading passion project. We chose a topic and then did some research on different sites so that we could get our story, read it, put it into a google slide and then put it into our own words. Me and another girl called Renny chose the same topic, it was whale strands! We didn’t ACTUALLY have to choose our passion, but some of the boys liked hunting so they did that, but another boy likes something else but doesn’t choose that. If we see something we are interested in we can choose it as our topic. I went on lots of different sites and searched up questions on google. Then I put them into my own words and onto the slide. I also put in the links to the sites I went on. It was really fun and cool. Here is a photo of my work and if you want to read it just click on the picture!  

What do you think I could improve on with my reading?(if you read the story though it might be a bit hard to read)

CLUED UP KIDS HAS CAME AGAIN! - CLUED UP KERERUIANS!

Last week on Friday we went to the B.B.(boys brigade), hall for C.U.K.(aka clued up kids). We had horse safety, fires, police, safety hazards, train crossing, earthquakes, quad bikes/motorbikes and lastly St Johns. 

There were many different schools that came, Kaniere school however were split into two groups because there were so many year 5's and 6's. I was in the red group. At the horse station it had a very calm horse and it also had two girls. One of them I actually knew and recognised straight away. Her name was Isla! They told us about it and then we moved on to the next ones. My favourites would DEFINITELY be the horse station, the fire station, the motorbike/quad bike station and lastly the train crossing station. I don't think a lot of people liked the train crossing part but I did. My absolute favourite was the fire because there was small long tunnel that you had to crawl through and it has some wall type thingies so you had to make sure you went the right way. It was so dark! blacker than black paint. There is so much to tell you but it'd be too long and there is just so much, anyways I really liked it and am excited for next year to do it again!

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