Writting Wk 1

Immersion assembly

Today 29th on a Monday we came back from school holidays. When our class came back together to a class assembly then we went to the hall to have a school assembly. Our inquiry for this year is I Like Your Latitude. Team 5 have done a video about traveling and taking more adventures around the world. My favorite bit of our movie is how Miss Illaoa dragged the tiger of the stage with Miss Tapuke.

Posters

Waka

A waka is for travelling and going to the islands. The waka is also made from wood then the will decorate the wood.

The paddle for the waka is used to go back, forward and side to side. But if you don’t have a paddle for the waka you will just float across the water or you could use your hands.

Tepaia - Marshmallow Challenge

Have you ever heard of the marshmallow challenge? Well the rules are very simple, you are given 25 bits of pasta (uncooked spaghetti), a long piece of tape, a marshmallow and some string. Today this is what we did in my class.

We had to go and sit in the blue space. I was in a group with Quincess, Akanesi, Paige and Nevayah. Then Miss Parrant said 3,2,1 GO!!! We all stood up and ran to a table, My group was trying to plan but we just started. We put the marshmallow on the table and pushed some of the pasta into the marshmallow.

After we did that we got the bit of string and put it around the pasta. Then we tied it into a bow, Then we got the tower and flipped it over and stuck it onto the table with the tape. Then we got the leftover pasta and stuck it into the marshmallow. Then we had to take it of because the pasta on top was coming off. It was tilting and looked like it would be impossible to work.

It was looking like we wouldn’t finish so we started again. We took the marshmallow off and put tape around the tower of pasta to try and hold it together. Then we put the marshmallow on top and our tower looked tall and big. When we let it go it was standing straight. We had managed to create a tower that stood by itself.

I was really happy with our tower because we were one of the only groups to have one standing. It looked a little bit ugly but it’s fine because it worked. We worked well as a team.

Tepaia-Inflatable world

Tepaia-Thank-you letter To Miss Moala

Dear Miss Moala

Thank-you for helping the green machine to become good role models. Thank-you also for hugging us when we go to sleep to make us feel safe.

Here is a BIG thank-you to our leaders for treating us like you’s and here is a thank-you for not yelling at us. My best thing that I did with you was talking.

My best highlight from camp was going kayaking because I kept falling out of the kayak and it was so funny I fell out TWICE.

My second highlight was slip-in-slide because we had lots of challenges like who can go the farest who can run the whole thing without slipping.

I want to say a big thank-you to Miss Moala to spare some time with our crew but you missed your child and I felt sad.

Yours sincerely

Tepaia