Korowai or Kakahu

 Hello Readers,

This week for Inquiry we have been learning about the New Zealand culture. We have been learning about the traditions, culture, customs, and heritage. We have been learning about how traditions have changed over time, this could be due to technology or just practicality. We got to choose between some traditions and write about how they changed. Here is my slide.

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My Holiday

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In the recent school holidays I went up to Waikanae to see my Nana. My cousins also went up there and it a fun holiday. We drove up there and took the ferry. It was a very long drive and I watched a lot of movies.

While we were staying in Waikanae we drove to Wellington to go shopping, I spent my birthday money on a skateboard and now I'm trying to teach myself to skate. I haven't learnt any tricks yet but I have mastered turning. I also bought roller skates with my birthday money and I'm very excited to get rolling.

In the holidays I also went ziplining for my birthday with my friend Kasey. It was very fun and scary because we were 150m in the air. We don't have any photos of us on the zipline but here are some photos from the website.

Thanks for reading, have you been on the ferry?

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Our Rocket Video

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This term we have been learning about rockets with The Wonder Project. We got into teams and learnt all about rockets, This includes Newton's laws, drag, lift and mass, and design features. THen we made our rocket using everything we learnt, next it was time to launch! Here is the video we made.

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Percy the Penguin

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This week the art extension group at my school have been painting a penguin fro the Christchurch treasure hunt. A few years ago there were giraffes all around town and there was a challenge to find them all. This time there are going to be penguins. Our school had the opportunity to paint one, we named them Percy.  The theme we chose for him was New Zealand. So we brainstormed some ideas and sketched and then drew them on the penguin. The last week we have been painting him every lunchtime and morning tea trying to get him finished. Yesterday we finished him except for the outline which our teacher will complete. Some of the things on him include: our school logo, kiwi, fantail, koru, Longest Drink in Town, Marmite, poppies, beehive and many more.

Thanks for reading, what animal do you hope is next?

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Teenie Tots Furniture Company

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On Wednesday we had to make our own business idea and plan our startup. Me and my friends Kasey and India decided to make a toddler furniture company. This company would be called Teenie tots. Here is a slide describing our company.

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My story: Nelly and Nina go too Far

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At the start of this term we got a new student teacher, they taught our literacy group about children's books and in week 5 we made our own story. I drew all the illustrations myself. Here it is.

Did you like my story? Who's your favourite character, mines the teacher!

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Maori Games: Pukana

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Last Friday we were put into groups and had to make a poster with a qr code for a video of your group playing the game. It was quite hard to explain how to play with words so I was happy we could make a video also to further explain the game. Here is my poster.

I think the games were very fun to play but making the video was quite hard because we didn't get to choose our own groups. That's all for this post!

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