Summer Learning Journey day 4

Hey bloggers, I'm back! Today is the 4th day of the Summer Learning Journey, so of course there are some activities that we have to complete and that is what I am going to be doing now. Here is what we have to do for the first activity.

Aotearoa New Zealand is a country of mountains and valleys, dense forests, and sparkling oceans. At the centre of the South Island sits the tallest mountain in the country, Aoraki Mt Cook. It is the place where Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the top (summit) of Mt Everest, learned how to climb mountains. It was pretty difficult for him, at first, but Sir Edmund Hillary did not give up and, in 1953, he achieved this dream of climbing Mt Everest. His face can now be found on the New Zealand $5 note!

Let’s imagine that you met Sir Edmund Hillary in real life and were able to interview him.

On your blog, post five questions that you would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary about his life.

Here are my 5 questions!

How come you wanted to climb Mount Everest?

What did you find difficult about climbing Mount Everest?

How did you feel while climbing the Mountain?

Did you regret climbing Mount Everest?

How did you feel when you were at the top of the mountain?

For the second activity, we have to think of our favourite food and write down how you make them. MY favourite food is Macaroni except I do something's differently and add somethings that others don't usually add. Here are the steps!

1- Peel some potatoes and cut them in even slices, you want to make sure that they aren't too big or too small though! You then want to get some onions and cut them so they are small.

2- Get your pot that you will be cooking in and put water in it. You want to wait until the water is boiling and then you get your macaroni or spaghetti and put it into that pot.

3- You then get the flavoring ready. Get a different pot and pour some oil in. Then you want to add your onions. After a while, you add some juiced, canned tomatoes and pour it in the same pot. After a while you want to add some tomato paste. I also like to add some curry powder too and some spice to it.

4- While you are doing that, you must make sure that you are keeping an eye on the other pot with the macaroni/spaghetti inside. Once your macaroni/spaghetti is soft, you then drain the water so there isn't any water left.

5- You then get that same pot and pour a little amount of oil at the bottom and then you put the potatoes at the bottom too. You then add the macaroni/spaghetti on top of the potatoes.

6- You then get the flavouring that you made and you pour it onto the macaroni. You then want to sort of mix it but making sure that you don't make the potatoes move from the bottom.

7- You then leave it to cook for about half an hour and then its ready to be eaten!

For the bonus activity, we have to imagine we have enough money to build a hotel where ever we want. And for a bonus 5 points, you do a google drawing of one of the rooms of the hotel. Here is what I have done!

Well if I had a hotel, I would make it in New Zealand because it is my home town and I would make it close to the city where there are lot's of shops. I would make my hotel out of glass. And I would add a café there too along with a place where there are toys and things so that you could hang our there. Here is a photo of the room!

Summer Learning journey day 3 activities

Hey there bloggers, I am back! In my previous blog posts, I have been blogging about the summer Learning journey and the activities and that is what I am doing right now! My blog post will be about the 3rd day of the summer learning journey. For the first activity, we have to describe a mythical beast and that is what my first one is going to be about. I hope you enjoy my work!

Here is the 2nd activity!

Do I want to be a DOC Ranger?

Well I do want to be one because I love animals because there are types of animals and different breeds too. So if I was a DOC ranger, then I would  not only take care of the animals but I would also learn new things about the animals too. Those are the good things and I don't think there would be any bad things about being a DOC Ranger.

And here is the bonus activity!

1- The name of the animal the WWF is working to save. The name of the animals that they are trying to save are tigers and fresh water seals.

2- What the WWF is doing to help the animal. Well to save the seals, they are making snow banks so then the seals are safe from predators. And for the tiger I didn't really get what they were trying to do to save them, so I don't know!
3-What, if any, success they have had protecting the animal. Well if they do protect the animals then we won't have that breed of animal endangered and then we will have more of those animals hopefully!

That was my Summer Learning Journey activities for day 3 and I hope you enjoyed them, if you have any questions then please ask and I would like feedback on how I can improve my blog post, thank you!

Summer Learning journey-Day 2-Activities

Hey bloggers, I'm back!

As I said in the previous blog post, the summer Learning Journey is something you do in the holidays. Usually when kids go off to holidays, they forget about everything and play but they don't realize that they are forgetting lot's of the things that they have learnt form when they were at school. But thanks to the Summer Learning Journey, this improves our reading and writing. This is day 2 of the summer learning journey and here are the activities that we had to do!

Here is the 2nd activity!

Bonus activity!

Summer Learning Journey-Activities 1 and 2 and 3!

Hey bloggers, I'm back!

There is something that my school does the in the 6 weeks holidays and that is the Summer Learning Journey, it is where we do activities everyday for 4 weeks and then when it is finished, they announce 3 winners, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. There are super cool prizes and I want to try and win one of those prizes which is why I am doing it. If we do it then all of our hard work won't drop down so then you have to restart, but if we do the Summer Learning Journey then all our hard work won't drop all the way down and we will also learn new things too!  Here is the first activity that we did! If you want to see the activities then click on this link!

And here is the 2nd activity!

And here is the Bonus Activity!

Back at Lake Rua again!

Hey bloggers! So on Wednesday which was yesterday, we went Paddle Boarding to Lake Rua and we are going to be going Surfing on Friday! I had lots of fun and we got there in cars, I went with Ariana, Piper, Grace and of course Jedi. The first thing we did when we got there was making sure that we are changed into the clothes that we can get wet in and then the instructors just taught us how to paddle and then we got split into 2 groups. The 1st group which I was in went Paddle Boarding on their own boards and the 2nd group went paddle boarding on a really big board altogether.

I thought that it was going to be tricky but it was really easy and at first, we were on our knees and we were paddling and then we had to stand up. We paddled and paddled and paddled! It was so much fun and tricky because we had to make sure that the board is balanced so it doesn't tip and so that we don't fall into the lake. We paddled from one end of the lake to the other and I did well apart from bumping into bushes. We paddled for more and then we had to swap over and we had to go on the big board altogether but I was really hungry so we had lunch and then we swapped over.

After we had lunch, we went on the big board altogether which was fun but really tiring because your hands get tired easily. We were paddling and something tricky that we had to do was stand up altogether which was hard because there were like 6 people on the board and we had to stand up. Grace fell in because Ariana pushed her in and we didn't even know until she started shouting so we had to paddle back to her and then she had to get on. We had life jackets so we wouldn't drown so she swam her way to the board.

We then had a race where we would be split up and then we had like a relay but on the big board. On the first one, we were winning but then the other team speed up and the 2nd relay people for our team went the wrong way. But we still did a great job and it was really fun! We then had to change our clothes and we had to go back to school! The day was great and I hope that we go paddleboarding again! I hope you enjoyed  my blog post and if you have any questions then please ask and I would like your feedback on how I can improve my blog post!

Pet day!

Hey there bloggers!
We had our pet day which is where you bring your pet, soft toy or a pet rock to school. They get judged in the afternoon by either the student's or adults or sometimes both. In the morning we make a Sand Saucer or a Veggie sculpture. I made a Sand Saucer with my amazing friend Jedi and we made a Zen garden which kind of looks like this!

We tried making that kind of Zen garden and instead of using white sand which is probably what they used, we used salt! I know, it was a smart idea but we had to use lot's of salt. First, we got a little bit of sand from the sand pit because we only need half the the plate with sand and then after, we shaped the sand and pick stones on the edges of it. We then added some salt on the other half and then we got some decorations and decorated it! It looked pretty good in the end, this is how our one looked like!

After we did that, we got sticks from outside for our hobby horse race and then we drew horse heads for them but later on, we realized that we couldn't use sticks even if they have a super cool horse head on them! (◕︿◕✿)

After break time we came inside and ate our food while listening to a story, then we would have carried on with our work but since it was pet day we didn't. Instead we went outside and watched some dogs making ducks go in these cage thingies. I think it was pretty mean because it looked like the dog bit the duck, which it might have because you never know! I felt bad for the ducks so I didn't watch most of it. Some kids then asked some questions and so did I. I asked if the ducks had names but they didn't but the dogs name was D. So I told my friend Jedi that maybe he could call the other 3 ducks A, B and C! 

I know I'm hilarious. After that we had our Hobby horse races!

All the kids went one by one from each class, there were a few people from my class who also did the same and made a hobby horse out of a stick and stuck a head to it like me. We were sad that we couldn't do but that didn't really matter that much now. There were only 2 kids from our class that brought a hobby horse from home and they were Sam and Rhys. Once they had all gone, we watched a sheep get sheared because shearing is caring! That was hilarious. The sheep kind of smelt when the wool was taken off and he had a lot of wool actually. 

I think after that we went inside to our classrooms and carried on with our work until lunch time. The PTA kindly gave sausages for lunch and they were for free but I didn't get one because they had por in it which I ma not allowed to have. Most of the kids got a sausage or 2 or maybe even 3 but after that, we went inside and packed our classroom up. At 1:00 we went outside and had our Agri sports which include gumboot throwing sack races and more. We go in our house colours but we would be slit into 2 teams and I was in E2 which stands for Eadgar 2. 

My favourite Agri Sports activity was probably the sack races because it was fun jumping around and trying not to fall. But it was also kind of funny when they fall over because when they get close to tagging the next person, they just tag them and fall over on purpose. 

We had our afternoon break and then there were the pet judging and I mean the real live pets which they brought in that time. I judged the guinea pigs, rabbits, cats and other animals which I couldn't remember. I was going to judge them and Jedi was going to help me do that but turns out that Constable Brad was going to help me do that. We finished them quickly and then I played with my friends.

We then had our parade which is where you have a real pet and walk it around while the others that didn't have a pet stand on the outside and watch them. I didn't have a real pet but we got Mikael and we pretended that he was our pet dog and surprisingly nobody realized anything either! It was really funny!

It was then home time or the time where you buy things from the Bake Sale but I didn't bring any money with me because I forgot so instead, I played around until it was time to go home! What a busy day! 

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If you have any questions then please ask!

Hooked on books!

Hey there bloggers!
Last week or 2 weeks ago, we had our hooked on books week which is where we read a new book each day and we have questions based on the books. One of my favourite one was Liars the truth app because it straight away goes into the problem and doesn't take long to build up. The book Liars was a about a boy who made a truth app and someone tried killing him and his dad when they were driving but he doesn't know who it was and when he does he becomes very shocked. You should tread the book, it's such a good book but when our teacher read it and she had to stop, we were all very sad because we wanted to know what happened but luckily, I put a hold on the book and have read the book. As I said before, each book has  different questions and here are the questions and answers for the start of the book. We also had book character day and I dressed as a person from the book The storm keepers island which is a really good book. There were lots of people dressed from different books and they all looked amazing, here are some photos! I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions then please ask! If you have any feedback on how I can improve my blog post too!