Today we started doing our Summer Learning Journey activity, we got to pick if we wanted to do a shark or a seahorse. I personally did a seahorse because I like them more. This was very fun cause I enjoy art and enjoy showing how I do it, we had to watch the video to draw them. Here Is what I drew. I found this super fun. Have you done this yet?
Harold IT
This week we had Harold from life education
, we were learning Resilence. Resilence is when you push through stuff, you are able to control what you do, and you will have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is when you think stuff is easy but it’s hard, you give up easily, and you get upset when people fix what you say. A growth mindset is when you keep going, control your emotions.When you have a fixed mindset you get a mix of all emotions, and hurt others around you. Did you know what resilence means?
Personification
This week have been learning to use personification, we learnt it to make our own poems about a object, adding personification to it. Personification is where you add human like stuff to a thing that’s not breathing/living. Personification can be used to make writing more intresting, or it can help build pictures, or describe something better/make people understand better. It also helps learn more description or words for describing. Heres an example, the snow raced down, the water swallowed the shoreline, the leafs danced like bellerinas. Here is my work, my poem is about a stream and sea, it was fun and a bit hard. Have you used personification in your writing?
My holiday
In the holidays my cousins I’ve never met came from Austraila, Perth to New Zealand!. On one of the first days we travelled up to the glacier, 2 hours of being in a car. The glacier looked super cool and we saw lots of helicopters flying up to the glacier. After that we went into the little out of bound area and had a bit of a better view there. After a few days I stayed at my Nana’s house with my cousins, we planned going to the glow worms but we didn’t go as it was too late. Then we went down to shantytown to explore the place again but we ended up packing up and not going, so instead we went to the Kiwi centre and fed the eels, saw the kiwis, saw axolotls, and tried to fish up a crawly. It was very fun there and after we went green stone hunting in our river. After that day my cousins went back to Austraila and it felt very weird. The holiday was fun.
Soccer forever.
Today some people went to Cass Square to play soccer. Something lucky was that I was in the team with all my friends. There were about 350 kids which was quite a lot, there were also 40 teams, and 13 schools. The first school we were competting with was Kokatahi, we won with 5 – nil. After that game we versed Karoro this time it was harder, we won with 2-1.
That was super challenging as we struggled to get the ball off them. Next we versed Barrytown and we lost as we versed year 7 and 8s. After having a challenging game our streak was starting again, we versed St Marys and won with maybe 2- nil. After we versed all the other schools we won all apart from one, it was super fun and I thought my team did good. We had gotten a streak of 5, at first my legs were sore, then I started running around again. Do you like playing soccer?.
Our blue planet.
For this weeks reading we were learning about the water. In the book the sub headings are about, magic water, water cycle and taking care of our water. Water can be a liquid, solid or gas. Water is a liquid, Snow is a gas and hail / Ice is a solid. The water cycle goes around in circles till it goes back to starting spot and repeats. The way it cycles is made by temperatures / how far the sun is, or weather. Is snow a gas, liquid or solid?. 
Our passports have been leaked!
A couple days ago our passports were leaked around the internet. (Just kidding, only our school). Showing everyone our information, we had spent days on them and people got them in seconds.
They had our photo of passport and described them to chat gpt it would show a photo similar. It would be sent all around the internet. We learnt this to show Mrs King about us.
Passports are very fun to do.
Do you think passports are a waste of time? Just kidding our passports haven’t been leaked at all.
Summer learning journey
Summer learning journey is a app for learning, with lots of different activites. My personal favourite was Groove Pizza. Groove Pizza has music you can make it custom they way you want. I quite enjoyed it . And I made a good beat. Here’s mine.
Science
Today we did science, with water. We stand on a hot water bottle, you need a hot water bottle some wood and a jug, with half of it filled with water, and you need tube with a smaller jug. Connect the tube with the smaller jug, and connect the tube to the hot water bottle then put the wood pieces on the bottom and on top, and make sure they have holes in them grab rope and tie it. We learn’t that how you get taller is from the iron plates, the gravity comes from the iron plates when they spin around. So the water gets forced down, and the air comes up through the water, making the air come up to the top. Then how we get shorter, is cause the air comes out due to the shorter you get, it gets compressed in between the water bottle and water. We ended up lifting 3 girls and 4 boys.
Fakes news
Today our class made another Fake news report. But it was differnet, instead we made a picture of it, we got pictures off explore and google, to make it more realistic we used remove.bg, it removes backgrounds off pictures!. It actually was quite easy, I learn’t that making fake news is quite easy!. All you need is a couple images and use remove.bg, and thats how you make them.