Exploding a Moment

Optimist yachting

Optimist yachting was a cool experience

Arriving at optimist yachting, we bolted off the huge bus and prepared for optimist yachting.  

Once we hopped off the bus, we had to put all of our gear on like life jacket, togs covered shoes, hat, and more. After that, we split up into rooms sixteen/seventeen. Sixteen was doing tubing and Seventeen was doing yachting. When we were told to go to our spots, we sprinted like Usain Bolt to the tubes. Me and my friends Reed, Jaedyn, and Rico grabbed the pango tyres so that we can do manus on it. Also that it can fit all of us on it.

Hanging on to each other, sun beating down on us, we took turns jumping off. Cold water hit me taking my breath away. After that Reed and Jaedyn thought of jumping on the black tube at the shallow end. While they were jumping on to the black tube, Mrs Borger took a video of them in slow motion. When they were running to the tyre Jaedyn sprinted off and landed on it first. Once they did it about ten times I jumped in but I was landing on my on black tyre. When it was our last turn to jump on it we decided to swim like Michael Phelps as fast as the wind around buoy 2 and back and Reed won. Once we finished with the tubes we switched over with room seventeen and did sailing, paddling, and kayaking.

When we headed over Mr Russ said “ We are going to try paddling”. then after that, me and Te amo hopped on to a boat and grabbed the special ores. Once we hopped on, we had to wait for the other people to get ready and start paddling like a speedboat to the other island. When we started the race me and Te amo raced to the island like a torpedo soaring through the beautiful sea. First ones that made it to the island and back was me, Te amo, and Samson. On the boat, Samson did the rudder and me and Te amo did the paddling.

After that, I went on the kayak and Sean, Jaedyn, and Quaylo went on the huge 3 seat kayak and Layton on the other kayak. Once we were Kayaking on the amazing sea, we had a race to buoy 2 and back they were winning at the start but I won it at the end because I do canoe polo. While I was paddling on the sea, Reed asked me “ can I have a turn” and I said “ yes“. So I jumped out into the freezing water and handed it to Reed ( also a canoe polo player ). When Reed jumped in he said “thanks” and I replied “your welcome.” It was close to our time is done on the sea and going back to school. But I had one final time on the yacht with a sail and capsized. It was so fun that I could go under it and breathe. Also, I could flip it back over and it could still float. While we were doing capsizing Mr. Russ said “everyone come in that’s time” so everyone started sailing back in and kayaking. While the yachts were coming back in I was one of the first to come in so I helped with the yachts and pulled them back up.

Finally, I went to go get change. While I was in the changing rooms I was so freezing that I thought there was snow. So I got change fast like the flash and got back outside in the scorching hot sun. Once I got outside, we were allowed to eat our yummy food and it tasted delicious. When we were done we headed back to school on the humongous bus and felt tired at the end.

A that was my cool experience at Optimist Yachting.

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Haiku Poem

Wairangi_ Term 4 Goals

Wairangi_ Term 4 goals

1. Understanding factors, primes, and multiples in maths.

Achieve it by going to workshops and asking for help.

2. Understanding decimals in maths.

Achieve it by going to workshops and asking for help.

3. Supporting my friends in their learning and helping them to do the right thing in and out of class.

Achieve by going up to them and helping them do the right thing instead of staying back.

Science

Procedure for Free Throw

Free Throw

Equipment Needed:

Basketball Pumped up

A Basketball court with marked lines

Yourself

Step 1: Get a basketball that is pumped up.

Step 2: Go to basketball court with marked lines.

Step 3: Go to the free throw line with basketball.

Step 4: Put your toes just behind the free throw line and have your feet shoulder width apart.

Step 5: Bend your knees to a 45 degree angle then have your elbow on a 90 degree angle.

Step 6: Have your finger tips on the basketball.

Step 7: Have your eyes at the hoop then take a shot at the hoop and remember o follow through.

Conclusion:

Here a tip BEEF B stands for balance E stands for elbow the other E stands for eyes and F stands for follow through.

Wairangi_Exemplar - Story

Tangata ako ana i te whare, te turanga ki te marae, tau ana

A person who is taught at home, will stand collected on the Marae (meeting house grounds)

At Middlemore hospital in 2007 on October 26 my mum was having a baby and guess who it was, yes! It was me. My mum was going through a lot of pain, but then she saw my lovely eyes. When she saw my eyes she was sweating in tears, happy to see me.

I was born in Auckland, when I turned 2 I went to this lovely Kindy called little Sunbeams. Since my sister has been here before I was not that nervous but when I got inside yes I was nervous. I only went to that kindy for one year.

When my mum applied for a job at Heretauga Heretaunga that is when we moved to Hastings. My Dad stayed in Auckland with his family because to him that was home. We went to go live at Hapuku Street with my Uncle and Nan. While my Mum was working at Heretauga Heretaunga she was signing up for me to go to abc. While I went to the kindy, my sister was there with me and my mum always came to pick us up after kindy because her work is so close to us.

One thing that is important to me is my family why family because they love me with all there heart. Also they take care of me feed me kai and give me hugs and kisses. Probably because I’m the youngest in the family. My step dad work at vegez, my older sister went to Hastings Girls High School and made dozens of friends. My brother went to Flaxmere College, and you already know where my younger sister.

One more thing that is important to me is sports. Why because when I was 5 my mum put me in a HRS team and I like literally played in that team my whole life. Also when I was 4 I started taking lessons to learn to swim at Flaxmere Waterworld and when I turned 10 I joined there swim club called Sundevils.

My goal for second half of year is to have more blog posts because every week we have to finish something important than a blog post so we can finish that thing for that week.

What am I going to do to achieve it I am going to finish that thing that is more important than a blog post and then do my blog post.

Nz Fur seal

New Zealand Fur Seal

Introduction:
New Zealand fur seals normally dive for prey for up to one or two minutes though some individuals have been know to dive to almost 400 meters and to stay underwater for more than 14 minutes in one go. Pups will spend a lot of time playing with each other and with objects like seaweed and reef fish. The scientific name was Arctocelphalus Arctocephalus forsteri.

Diet:
Kekeno ( Nz fur seal ) eat a variety of creatures like squid, mid water fish, conger eels, barracuda, Jack mackerel and hoki. These seals mostly forage at night, using their whiskers to locate their meals.

Predators:
Nz fur seals predators are Juvenile fur seal, Orcas, and worst of all Great White Sharks and Sevengill Sharks. But lucky they kekenos can go on land and sharks can’t. As the sharks attack the Kekeno, theKekeno swim fast as lightning

Habitat:
These Kekeno live on rocky shores and land. They sleep on land at night and what I said in the introduction they can stay underwater for more than 14 minutes in one go.

Conclusion:
A New Zealand fur seal is an excellent swimmer. Juveniles have been located at more than 1000 km from where they were born.






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Equivalent Fractions

My goal for writing

Story 1 :

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It was freezing cold in Alaska. Reed the strong one, Jaedyn the bag carrer, and Wairangi the fearless one were hiking the rocky, teitei maunga. Until it started to hail Reed, Jaedyn, and Wairangi Climbed up high until they came to a gigantic, dark, spooky, cave.They all decided to camp there the night Reed spectated around to see if there was anything dangerous. Reed saw the shiny, flashing light around the corner and the flashing light was crystals, rubies, and diamonds. Reed hurdled to Jaedyn, and Wairangi to tell them that Reed discovered crystals,rubys rubis  rubies and diamonds. They all went around to search it and Jaedyn, and Wairangi said, “woah this is awesome we can be rich grabbing this.” But Jaedyn went to go sit on this bunch of snow to see if the crystal was real but Jaedyn was sitting on a huge, white, hairy yeti. The yeti woke up and chased Reed, Jaedyn, and Wairangi to there boat and sailed away very, very, very fast.  They were lucky they made it out with crystals, rubies, and diamonds.

Story 2 :

As the strong tāne was lying on his back underwater in the huge aquarium, the mangō taniwha was heading towards him. The tāne kept very, very, very still so that he didn’t get eataen eaten. The tāne grabbed the shark some food for the mangō taniwha. So the tāne feed him but something else was wrong. One of the bones got stuck in his throat so the enormous shark couldn’t breathe. The strong tāne didn’t know what to do so the tāne grab him squeeze the shark in the stomach. Then this bone came out of his mouth and it had blood on it. The tāne saw the blood spread so he jumped out of the tank then refilled it. He was lucky he didn’t get the germs.

Story 3 :

My favourite part of me is my feet because they help me run very fast. They help me walk when I was a baby. They also help me stomp around when I’m mad. When I get older they will be big and strong. Also they help me hari to music. That's why my legs are the best part of me

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My goal for writing:

Aspect 2 : Is to use language features like metaphors and similes

Maths Workshop

Hungery Shark

As the strong tāne was lying on his back underwater in the huge aquarium, the mangō taniwha was heading towards him.

The tāne kept very, very, very still so that he didn’t get eataen eaten. The tāne grabbed the shark some food for the mangō taniwha.

So the tāne feed him but something else was wrong. One of the bones got stuck in his throat so the enormous shark couldn’t breathe. The strong tāne didn’t know what to do so the tāne grab him squeeze the shark in the stomach. Then this bone came out of his mouth and it had blood on it. The tāne saw the blood spread so he jumped out of the tank then refilled it. He was lucky he didn’t get the germs.

Reading follow up task

Te reo maori

Rich task

Multiplication Box

Wairangi Poem

Wairangi Poem

Wairangi is a lamborghini as he runs around the field.

Wairangi is a woolen coat because that's what keeps us warm.

Wairangi is a rugby ball being kicked over the post.

Wairangi is a thick huge Kauri tree.

Wairangi is a delicious crunchy chippe sandwich.  

Wairangi is a cheetah running like Usain Bolt.

Flooded Land

Flooded land Crack! Bang! Smack! The sound of a thousand tigers hunting down there prey. The earth splits in half with a enormous house broken in half. As rusty old swings go round and round, there was this one freezing cold man walking home on the soft snow. The freezing cold man looked at his house an noticed his precious house was split in half and he saw the other half floating away on a humungous
humongous iceberg. He looks to see if there was anyone on the ocean and he can see two stranded dogs on ice hovering away . He looks closly closely at his half broken house floating away and sees the lights flicking on and of. Since the massive earthquake happened he spectats to see where the roads were and they were in a bunch broken to pieces. An he saw lamposts lampposts in the wrong spot and freaked out then the freezing cold man fainted.

Crystal Canyon

It was freezing cold in Alaska. Reed the strong one, Jaedyn the bag carrer, and Wairangi the fearless one were hiking the rocky, teitei maunga. Until it started to hail Reed, Jaedyn, and Wairangi Climbed up high until they came to a gigantic, dark, spooky, cave.They all decided to camp there the night Reed spectated around to see if there was anything dangerous. Reed saw the shiny, flashing light around the corner and the flashing light was crystals, rubies, and diamonds. Reed hurdled to Jaedyn, and Wairangi to tell them that Reed discovered crystals,rubys rubis  rubies and diamonds. They all went around to search it and Jaedyn, and Wairangi said, “woah this is awesome we can be rich grabbing this.” But Jaedyn went to go sit on this bunch of snow to see if the crystal was real but Jaedyn was sitting on a huge, white, hairy yeti. The yeti woke up and chased Reed, Jaedyn, and Wairangi to there boat and sailed away very, very, very fast.  They were lucky they made it out with crystals, rubies, and diamonds.