Cultural Festival 2016

Scottish group, outside waiting to perform in the indoor stage

Indian group boys, having a photo taken

Melbourne, in the Hawaiian group

Here are some of the photos taken from the Cultural festival 2016.

Camp photos

Here are some photos from our school camp 2016

My bike information slide

Today, me and my friend, Vegas, made a google slide about bike safety. I am going to share it with you

Camp photos

We drew words to communicate at the silent dinner

My activity group

Kids at the archery activity

Last week, we went to school camp. Here is a few photos that I am going to share with you.

My confident cloud

Created with Tagul.com

Today, we have been learning to make clouds from the website Tagul. Here is a cloud that I have made about confidence.

My speech 2016

My Speech

It's the last 30 seconds in the match. He takes a run up and shoot the ball right into the back of the goal. He scores! The crowd goes wild. Roooarrrrrrr! He does a little victory dance with his team in excitement. Nothing feels better than scoring the winning goal.

Hi my name is Vaughn and I will be explaining to you why soccer is a good sport and everyone should play it.

My first reason, it is a global sport.

A lot of people around the world play soccer. There are about at least 265 million players that play soccer, which is around 4% of the whole world! The most popular soccer team is probably FC Barcelona. They also have at least 190 goals scored and they have 24 players in the team.

The second reason is that the rules are pretty simple.

Once you know what to do, you may get a few red and/or yellow cards. But when you start playing a lot, you will be a skilled player and get better at the game, also you will avoid the yellow and red cards.

Thirdly, you don't really need much equipment.

Really, all you need is a ball and some cones or anything to be the goal and you are good to go. You can use red and yellow cards if you are in a rough game. Its good use if it is slippery. Another good thing is also using soccer shoes.

Lastly. You can play any time you want and with anyone you want to play with. Muddy, wet, raining, snowing  or not, it is a good time to have a quick match with your friends. You can do it on concrete, grass or sand. You can play anytime, anywhere. My opinion is if I was offered to ever play in snow, I think i would decline that offer, you know since it may be too cold. Unless you had lots of clothes on, of course.

Well... do YOU think soccer is a good sport? I do. It’s easy to learn, you don't need a lot of equipment to play and you can play anywhere. I suggest that at lunchtime today, go to the field and have a go at soccer. Everyone should play it.

My blog comment

Today, we are learning to send blog comments to other school blogs.

My olympic writing

I could see the finish line, then as soon as I was 2 metres away, someone was right next to me. I was close to winning but then… we both tied, both stretching over the finish line together. I was angry and annoyed. I nearly won the sprint gold trophy but me and that person got a silver medal.

The person with the silver medal said “Nice try”.

I said “thanks”.

Then he walked away. I went home and had a rest.

My soil diagram.

Today we are doing science about soil. Here is a diagram about different soils.

Matariki screencastify

We have been using screencastify, and this is my matariki screencast

My stop motion

Today, we have been learning to use stop motion

My story about a whistle

The whistle was blown… the team FC barcelona disappeared! The soccer team is gone and it is full time. Where did they go? Were they robotic? Did they see me? The team reappeared and another whistle blew and they regrouped. Then I went to see them to ask what they were doing. They were saying “let’s go Barcelona let's go!” I came close to them and they started chasing me. I ran and ran and ran until I run out of energy but… luckily they just ran past me. To this day I still don't know how they disappeared and I guess I will never know.

By Vaughn

Science week journal

A few weeks ago it was science week so i am going to show you some of my learning

Thinglink

Today it is green day and I came up with an idea for this area

My thinglink poster

This week I have been learning how to use Thinglink to make interactive posters. Here is one I made about rubbish.

Cyber smart

We have been learning About copy right and how to use pictures that are labeled for reuse.

Brains

Today we were talking about how brains work...

A few days ago, Me and my friend Atlantis had a te reo conversation...

I wonder

Today we have been wondering...

Care code 2016

Today we have writing about our care code

Race Relations day

Today was race relations day.

Creative writing

Clip clop,clip clop, I heard as the sticks went on the ground. “The giraffe always escapes. He will never get away this time!” I thought. “I smell him! I see the giraffe! You can’t hide from me!” He looked as big as a 47 storey building.I took a run and jumped onto his back. As soon as i scratched the giraffe, my claws stuck on his skin. He was really sticky. After that I scratched him so hard that he fell to the ground. After I jumped on him, I was hungry. He was tasty! I ate him for dinner with my family. After that there was leftovers we saved for brekkie. My dad was happy. I was happy as well.

Poem writhing

Children mincing

doing the dishes

holding knife carefully

planting seeds

cutting wood

it is so fun

I love it.

Swimming

Flippa ball

Kids having fun

Learning

Streamline position

Starfish

Black is shadows and coal. It is dark when you look up on a late day







Here in room 21, We have been writing poems with Ms Whysall.

Positive Blog commenting

 Today, we have been learning about positive Blog commenting.

My pepeha

Ko Au

Tena koe/korua/koutou

No New Zealand ahau (my place/place from)

Ko Owairaka te kura (school)

Ko Owairaka toku maunga (mountain)

Ko Marivic toku mama (mother)

Ko Allan toku papa (father)

Ko Maria toku tuahine (a brother’s sister)

Ko Murray taku whanau (family name)

Ko Vaughn taku ingoa (my first name)

Tena koutou, Tena koutou, Tena koutou katoa

(Greetings to you, greetings to you, greeting to you all)

Welcome

Welcome to my new learning blog. I'm really looking forward to sharing my learning with you.