Totara Fun Day

Totara Fun Day

Today the senior school had a Fun Fair day! We had to get our own tickets and write our names on the back of them. We had six activities to complete. The first activity I did was science in room 12 with Dana and Sam. After that we went to the court and played outside games with Mr. Fisher. We had to lie on these skateboard type of things and Sam grazed her elbow. The next thing we did was making mice with Mrs. Dunkley. The photo down below is of the mice we tried to make. I finished my mouse but Sa and Dana 

Athletics Practice

On Athletics Practice we did a lot of different sports and I learnt a lot of new things. This photo is of me jumping as high as I could in Long Jump. Mrs. Todd told us to run up to the cone and spring off with on foot in front and one behind. She also told us to land straight with both feet and and NOT TO TOUCH THE GROUND WITH OUR BOTTOMS!!! Long Jump was my favourite sport.                                                                         
The next photo is of me practising high jump which I was terrible at. Mrs. Nelson told us to jump with either our right or left leg in front and the other one at the back. She also told us to do scissor legs and run slower when we are further away from the mat then from when we are closer to the mat. I was really bad at high jump and it was my least favourite sport. Although I still really enjoyed it.

Goals

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 For my maths goal this         For my reading goal this term I have chosen       For my writing goal this 

term I have chosen                                       Questioning                                   chosen to Use a variety 

Understanding decimals                                                                                       of ambitious            

(stage 7)                                                                                                                 vocabulary

The Kite and the Taniwha

Clay Moulding

On Thursday we went to room 12 to do clay moulding. I made many things like a cake, moustache, burger, braid and a cat. We didn't have any clay so we had to use Plasticine instead. I really loved it and it was awesome.

Breakout EDU

On the 31.7.18 Tortara had a STEAM Extravaganza which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. A man from Taupo came and talked to our school about the boys and their coach stuck in the cave. He also talked about some other things.We walked out of the hall and into Room 12 to play breakout EDU. The team we were up against had 10 boys. We had 10 girls but near the end 2 girls had to leave because of guitar! Lea and Imogen were the makers of the game. Breakout EDU was were two teams had to break open a box in a limited amount of time. To open the box we first had to find all sorts of clues which would lead to the keys to the lock on the box. My team was the first team to find the keys to the box. When we finally opened the box we ended up finding another box inside the box we had just opened. We had to open the box with a hole lot of padlocks. The boys beat us by 11 minutes. If we hadn't got help from Lea and Imogen we wouldn't of been able to open the box in time!

Hei Tiki

On Tuesday 26th of June My class and I went to The Tea room in the government gardens. We went to the Hei Tiki activity and learnt all about the Hei Tiki. We made our own Tiki. We made it out of felt, craft glue and felt pens. My tiki was yellow with blue button eyes. He also had a red  mouth, white tongue and red arms. I named him Mr Potato head because he really looked like a potato. We also did another thing where we looked at different pieces of art with Tiki in them. My finished product is the middle photo. Also we looked at photo's and told each other our opinions about which photo's we think were okay to use the Tiki in. I had a go and did well. Our teachers were Emma and Kristina!