Today my class and I did action stations and I did song writing with Matua Travis, Paige and I worked together to write songs, we wrote about Rawhiti school and we’re gonna put the words and facts that we have down into a song. We worked with Tane Mahuta, Twm and some other kids from Tangaroa. We all wrote about different subjects and added different things. We got to work in pairs or we got to work by ourself, our choice. Most of us choose to work in a pair because we didn’t know what to write about alone, I thought that writing songs would be easy but it wasn’t. It was harder then I thought, I really liked writing about songs and I’m happy I picked song writing with Matua Travis.

This term we are learning about science and today we learnt aboout what particles solid, liquid, and gas. To get solid to liquid you must melt it & it will separates into liquid. If you want gas instead you have to boil it & then it will turn into gas. If you want solid again then then you’ll have to freeze it. Solid particles are normally pushed all together and connected. Liquid particles are a little bit more apart then solid. Gas particles is mostly apart from each other.

This term my school did action stations. I did Kiorahi with Whaea Jasmine and when it would rain we would watch a old time video of how Kiorahi was done back in the days. After the video we would have to make a animation and I worked with Aj, Kingston amd Travis. Here is the link to my work.

Yesturday my class and I went to go see Harold and we learnt more about peer pressure. Sometimes peer pressuring is good but then sometimes it can be bad, we also watched a short video about what peer pressuring was.  why could peer pressuring could be good or bad? The bad outcome afterwards some wouldn’t like, because it’s either getting told off or more. The good outcome though it nothing could happen, as long as it’s something kind then yeah you wouldn’t get told off.

Harold cracked some jokes here and there aswell, such as ‘What’s a line of barbies?’ ‘A barbie-que’ get it? Like a big line and what not.

and what could happen afterwards. Like once I asked this person to go get my chromebook and my tote tray because I wasn’t bothered, later on we found out that it was peer pressuring. I did end up getting told off, so from now on I’m not gonna ask someone to do something for me without me saying ‘Please’ at the end of my sentence.

Then one time I got peer pressured to buy someone lollies after school because I had some money, sadly I brought them a lollie. When I got peer pressured I didn’t really mind because I had kinda a lot of money, but when I peer pressured someone I just ended up getting told off. 

Have you ever been peer pressured ??

This terms foucs is action and how to stay healthy. We have learnt a lot and do a lot of work around it. Lately we have been working around what vapes and smoking does, I learnt that smoking can make your brain grow slower and you can get addicted. Same for vaping, I’ve learnt a lot more things but I’m sure everybody would know. But if there is anything else anybody would like to know just comment and ask! I’ll answer as soon as I can. Did you know about any of these?

So far my class and I have been learning about peer pressure. Sometimes it can be negative but sometimes it can be positive, negative can sometimes be like forcing somebody to do something that they don’t want to do or arenn’t comfortable doing. Positive can look something like telling the truth about whatever you have done. Some people experience a lot of negative peer pressure and sometimes they’re the one saying for another person do to it. Sometimes just saying no or walking away from the situiation can make things better so you don’t get told off.

Most people would agree that smoking is not good for the environment and your guy’s family . Your mental health , it is REALLY unattractive . Smoking makes your teeth yellow and you’ll get lung cancer and mouth cancer . You don’t wanna end up like my Whaea Jasmine going out for “FrEsH aIr’ during breaktime and asking people for perfume , it smells disgusting and makes you look disgusting . People spend thousands of dollars on smokes when they can buy at least a car or house. 

 

A sensible idea would be to tell someone you see to quit and tell them that they could get yellow teeth , lung cancer or mouth cancer. Around 4500 to 5000 people die yearly in NZ caused by smoking. Carrying around a smoke makes you look unattractive and disgusting.

 

Here are two reasons why you should quit smoking!  One – It makes your clothes, hair, house ect smell like stale old smokes. Two – People throw cigarette butts and still smokeable smokes into the ocean and kill or extinct most marine animals. 

 

Surely you would agree that having clean air is better than second-hand smoked air from a disgusting smoker?

 

EVERYBODY knows that smoking is unhealthy and disgusting, some kids grow up around smokers and when they’re older they might start. So maybe try to stop smoking to make sure your child doesn’t grow up as a smoker!

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Arihana.

This morning my class and I have been working on Na Wai I. I have been learning how to say something in Te Reo Māori. Like – “Na wai ahau i whakahaka ki Rotorua ?” –  Who will take me back to Rotorua ?

Nāku means me.

Nā wai means who.

Here is the link to my work.

 

Yesterday my class and I did science with Marijn and Tewharau, first blcok we focused on learning about the importantance of Tikauka and Harakeke for our Tupuna. The Tupuna used it for shoes, rain coats, shin guards, food (Suger from the Tikauka.) They brought some to school, like shin guards, shoes, and mini rain coats. Second block we got given glass, razor, water, and a patato. We put our Harakeke or Tikauka in between the cut of the patato and used the razor and cut a little of the Harakeke and put it on the piece of glass. When everyone was done Marijn put blue dye on all everyones Harakeke or Tikauka, once it was done 5 minutes later we got given a paper towel and had to get all the water out of the Harakeke. I picked Harakeke and it was pretty easy to get the dye off the glass and Harakeke. We used a microscope and had to have a look at, I discovered that under the microscope the Harakeke has like small air bubbles and it looks very pretty. Once we were done using the microscope everyone had to draw what they saw under the microscope. After that we went out to break. Third block we tested how strong the muka was and I was shocked to see that it weighted 28kgs until it broke. We put water into a bucket and some weights, but it wasn’t lots cause they only had a little bit of the muka. Last block we had to make solar panels and had to see how high we could get to get the highest number, my friend and I got up to 5.43. We ran all around the back just to get a high reading. Throughtout all of that we learnt how to respect the things and treat them good.

Today my class and I went outside to go and draw about what we see but we had to draw all the details. I drew the rocks and some trees and bushes, but I cant really draw but yeah I tried. Its not the best drawing cause I aint a drawer or anything so I just drew something random things I saw but then I had to add all details to the drawing. I think it was fun because we didnt have to be in class but yeah I think it was hard to draw cause again I aint a drawer. But heres my photo and my work of art.