Monday Fun Day

Hi there blogging world on Monday our school had a Monday Fun Day. It was so much fun. I bought my bike and I taught some of my friends how to ride a bike. We did rotations between pool, games and wheels. I went to the pools first  we were split into three groups my group watched the water slide first then we went into the pool lastly we went on the water slide. It was really fun going on the water slide because we did lots of funny poses. The pool was also fun, there was lots of tackling, I liked finding rings under water. Next we had some games on the field. There was team tactics, softball and relaxing. Team tactics was really fun our team won! I loved when we were playing on our wheels it was so much fun. Luckily for me I had an ice block for lunch. I loved our Wheels day. Here are some photos: 

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Marine metre squared trip

Hi there blogging world, for this blog post we were told to blog about something that has happened this year that we have not blogged about yet. I decided to blog about our Marine Metre Squared beach trip. In term four about a month ago the whole senior syndicate when down to Waikowhai beach, sadly not to play. We had to pick up rubbish. Then in groups of four children and one adult, we  had to find a rock pool and use rope or poles to make a metre squared. Then we had to find out the percentages or numbers of sea creatures we found. I was very surprised about the things we found. I had so much fun and when we got back we had to enter our information into a survey. The whole program was organised by sea week . Sea week collects data from all over New Zealand

Here are some photos:

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Gala day reflection

Hi there blogging world on the 25th of November our school had a gala day. I hope you were there, in my previous blog posts I was advertising about the Gala day and now sadly it has passed. It was so much fun I wish we could have another Gala day. Since Gala day is past we reflected on it. That is why we made a slideshow about the six thinking hats. We had to fill in the slideshow thinking about each hat and what we need to write. 




I had so much fun at the Gala we raised about $13,400 for the new junior playground.  My slide show also includes photos about the fun we had. Next time I would add more photos since there is lot of photos. My reflection was also about making bags. Please leave a helpful comment and please checkout some of my other posts.

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Gala Totebags

Hi there blogging, world soon it will be Waikowhai Primary School's (The school I go to) Gala day. For the Gala day each class is making a sustainable product to sell. In my last post I was advertising for my school's gala day this blog post is about how we made our tote bags (The product my class is making for the Gala day is tote bags) and the process of it. I hope you can come to the Gala checkout my last blog post to find out more information.
 Here is the process: 

First we had to cut two pieces of calico that are the same size. On one piece of calico we used some stencils we made out of paper to be our stencil for screen-printing.

After we did our screen-printing we sewed the two pieces together using a simple straight line on the sewing machine. If you would like to you can pin the pieces of fabric together before you sew. Be sure when you are sewing that your screen-printing is facing inwards and not outwards. Also make sure you leave one side open and not sewn.

After you have sewn do not turn it back the right way yet! Now you must fold your hem over but only the side that was not sewn together make sure your fold is quite skinny. Once you have folded it over iron it. Then you sew a straight line down the hem that you folded over. Now repeat the steps on the other side.

Now to stop the fraying you must do zigzag stitching on three sides but not the one that is the top.


It is time to add strapping we just bought strapping from a shop and attached the straps by sewing a square.

Last but definitely not least you must sell your bag!

Here are some photos:

My reflection: 

Sometimes when you do screen printing it can bleed so screen printing is quite hard to do. The reason we are making our tote bags is because plastic bags are a big part of global warming and our goal is to get people to use reusable bags more. The good part was designing our second bag I hand sewed sequins on my second one. I used to think that making tote bags would be hard but it is actually quite fun and easy. I would not do it by myself because there is lots of supplies I need that I don't have.

Gala Day

Hi there blogging world, this term for inquiry we have worked on advertisement.  We had to make a poster for our Gala day. First we had to do some note taking we did this on a google drawing. We had to state some examples of advertising you see like posters on the back of a bus or flyers etc. Then you had to  say how you are going to incorporate those ideas into your own poster. Here is the poster I made advertising our school's gala day. I hope you can come, all information is stated clearly in the poster down below.

reading review

 Hi there blogging world for reading we had to read a book that we were assigned to read, then we made a reading review about the book we read. I have not finished my slideshow so this is only one slide. I think I did pretty well but I wrote the story line as I was reading the book so some of the facts were wrong ,  I changed them as I went.  I definitely recommend the book I read, which is called Cool Nukes and it is written by Des Hunt. I will soon be posting my whole slideshow. Please leave a comment on my blog.

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Voting: National or Labour?

 Hi there blogging world, for week nine we learnt about voting. We learnt about how to vote. This Saturday most of your parents will be voting .  Will they vote for  Labour, National or  another party.  

This is how you vote: To vote you first have to enrol online or  call the Electoral Commission. After you have enrolled you should get an information pack in the mail. First we had to find out what electorate we were in. You can find it on elections.org.nz.  For your parents to vote they don't need to find their electorate  because it will already be there when they enrol. For your parents to vote they must find the voting booth nearest to them. We had to do the same except our voting booth was in the classroom because we set up a fake one. We had to say our first and last name and our electorate and address. Then the people behind the desk crossed our name out and gave us the voting paper for our electorate. There are two parts to the voting paper there is a party and a MP (member of parliament) If you vote for National it does not  mean you have to vote for the MP that belongs to National. Voting is very fun. Since I am not old enough to vote, our votes will be included into a survey for the gouverment.

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