Outstanding Team Building!

 In Te Maunga we have been doing team building activities. We learnt how to communicate properly. One thing that I really liked was doing and activity called Air Band where we had to choose any song and act it out (one person had an air guitar, one person was playing air drums, another person had to lip sync the words to the song and another person could dance, conduct or do whatever they wanted.) It was very fun. I tried hard to share my ideas in the most understandable way possible. 

Fun Sea Activities!

 A couple of weeks ago in Te Maunga, we did an activity about sea life. I learnt that there's such a thing as a yellow bellied sea snake! When we finished our slide presentation, we got to do some really fun sea-related activities.

Our Awesome Hauora Project

 In Te Maunga we did a learning activity about Hauora. We learnt about muscles and plants. One thing I liked learning about was how plants grow. I tried hard to get it done quickly. Have you ever learnt about Hauora?

Our Amazing Research Project

 In Te Maunga we have been doing research projects. First we had to buddy up with someone (I went with Kora). Then we had to pick an animal to research about and after that we had to gather information. Mine and Kora's research project was about eagle rays. I learnt that eagle rays grow to a maximum length of five metres. 

Check Out This Amazing Reading Post

 In Te Maunga we did character descriptions. We had to read 4 descriptions about separate characters. They were The Grand High Witch, Willy Wonka, Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey. We learnt how to describe a character with lots of detail. After we filled in the slides we had to draw a character from the story, one from a movie we liked and a made up one from your imagination. My favourite part was drawing because I really like to draw. 

Wonderful Statistics

 In Te Maunga we have been learning about statistics. All we had to do was pick a question to ask the class. It could be any question but not a yes or no question. We had to get into pairs and my buddy was Kova-Rose. We decided to ask a question and give people options. The question we chose was “What is your favourite ice-cream out of hokey-pokey, mint chocolate chip, chocolate and cookies and cream?” The most chosen ice cream was cookies and cream with 21 votes. Chocolate got 8, mint choc chips got 13 and hokey-pokey got 8. We had to find a way to gather our data so Kova and I got four pieces of paper and wrote the ice cream names at the top of the paper and went around the entire class and wrote down the names that chose which ice-cream. Then we had to transfer our data to our chromebooks and make it into a bar graph. We also had to write a little explanation each to say what we learnt and what we maybe could’ve done better. 

Our Amazing Swimming Session!

 In Te Maunga we have been swimming. We learnt how to do sculling and we had to swim from one end of the pool to the other. My favourite part was when we had to float on our backs.