Duffy Assembly

On Monday, Paihia School had a New Zealand actor named Hayden Weal come  to talk to us about his acting life and childhood. He told us a story about when he was in school. He said that he was always getting in trouble so one day he got sent to the principal's office. When he got there he sat down and she asked him what do you want to be when you grow up?. He said I want to be an actor because he loved to watch movies and the principal said that’s never going to happen. One day Hayden was being naughty and his teacher asked him what do you want to be when you grow up?. Remembering what his principal said he didn’t want to tell her, but then he did. He simply said “I want to be an actor.” Then the teacher said “That’s great.” He then told her what the principal said. She then said “Follow me.” She took him to the library and picked out three books on how to become an actor; he read them everyday. Years later the dream that he was hoping to become came true. It turns out he acted in The Hobbit, Lord Of The Rings and was in a film with Daniel Radcliffe. I really enjoyed him talking to us because he’s shown that you don’t need to listen to negative people and keep on living up to your dreams.

Maths DLO Trebling and Thriding

In Te Ngahere we have been learning doubling and halving and trebling and thirding. After we learnt it we had to create a DLO to show what we have been doing and learning. We also made DLO’s so we can show how we did that strategy. Using these two strategies will help to simplify difficult maths equations and make it easier to work out. I think I did well on making a DLO that my audience will understand and explaining how that strategy works. Next time I think I could finish my DLO in less than 3 days and finish it to the best of my ability.

Robett

On Monday, a guy named Robett came to Paihia School to talk to Te Ngahere about “Saying yes to success”.  He was traveling all around New Zealand to talk to high schools about his life and how he became a successful man. He explained to us how hard his life was growing up and how he didn't have much. My favourite saying from him was that “You don’t have be smart in school or have the best grades to be successful”.   His message to us was if you hang out with people that make bad choices or are negative people you could have a tough life. But if you choose to hang out with people that make good choices and are positive people there is a big chance that you will have a great life and be successful. I really enjoyed Robett visiting and inspiring us to work hard and keep pushing to what we want to achieve.

Tech

Last week on Wednesday the Year 7/8’s went to technology in Morewa. For the year 7’s it was there first time. The year 7’s did woodwork with Mr E and the year 8’s did cooking with Whaea Dot.  She told us that we were going to make lasagne. We had to choose 5 vegetables to put in our lasagne. We either had to been in a group of 3 or work in peers, my partner was Kingi. Then we choose a workstation to sit at, once we got all our ingredients we chopped them up. After that we put the mince into the pan and cooked it with the veggies and bacon. While the pasta was cooking in the pot I started making the white sauce, I had to be very careful because if I left it on the element for too long it might burn. To make the white sauce we added in garlic salt, butter, milk and cheese we stirred the white sauce together until it became thick, then took it off the element. When everything was cooked we put it into a dish and put it in the oven. Once it was done we got to taste our lasagne, our lasagne was yummy but we had to save some to take home. I think my partner and I did well at working together we were able to follow instructions very well to create a delicious lasagne.

Marshmallow catapult

Last week in Te Ngahere we made Catapults.  Our challenge was to work as a team and see who’s could launch the furthest. For equipment we could only use skewers, rubber bands, marshmallows , masking tape and a spoon. Once we had finished building our catapult we tested it out. Our catapult launched the marshmallow over to the other side of the class. When we went outside to have a competition to see who’s could launch the farthest our catapult started breaking. When it was our turn it didn't launch that far as when we were in the class. We tried to fix it and when we went for another go it went further than our first attempt. I enjoyed making the catapults and enjoyed competing against other groups.

Fakebook-novel study

For the past 3 weeks in Te Ngahere we have been doing novel studies based on the novel we choose to read about. We got to choose a DLO create part to share our learning about our book.I choose to do a fakebook. Fakebook is where you can make a fake facebook account and you can add characters from the story, create conversations between them and can share posts from your characters profile about what is happening in the story .I enjoyed making a fakebook because it was fun to make and was cool how it is just like facebook . I choose to read about the BFG.

Duffy Assembly

Yesterday, Paihia School held their first Duffy assembly. A Duffy role model came to talk to us about reading and how we use it every day. Her name was Zinky. She looked kinda weird because she was dressed up in rainbow colors everywhere. We sung the Duffy song, meditated and fought crime. She said whoever I see doing the best actions and singing loud will get a million dollar signature. The teachers from each class got to choose two people to go up and get their books and a handshake from Zinky. Then she took a photo with a whole bunch of kids. Then we went to class and received our free Duffy books.