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DAY 1: EXPLORERS setting sail hey Bloggers, Today for the summer learning JOURNEY We have to list ten foods that we will bring to a STRANDED Island. Here's are My list of ten foods i'll bring to a stranded Island: MAC chicken burger Just in case i get really hungry. Water melon because it has JUICE and It is something you can eat  nut bar For a snack   fresh Water so I can drink  LOLLIES so I can have a treat when I'm over there  A bag Of chips so i can have something that is more than one thing  Bananas so i can eat if I'm not really that hungry  apples because they are JUICY like a water melon and plus just case My water finishes   some More fresh water just in case i run out  and lastly some plums because I love plums. Bye bloggers thank you for reading my blog, blog ya later.

Athletics Zones Talofa bloggers, If you don't know me my name is JD and I'm a year six. Today's blog is going to be about Athletics Zones, so on Athletics Zones the 26th of November we got a chance to go up against other schools around Mt Roskill we had lots of activities to do. If your wondering what kind of schools were there, there was: Waikowhai, Three Kings, St Therese, Mt Roskill, Halsey Drive, Christ The King, Monte Cecelia and etc. When we were there we had to set the whole thing up  like we had to put the poles out, when we finished setting up Athletics we got straight in to it. The first activity was the 800m run for the boys and girls then when 800m was still going that was when the girls long jump and after the 800m and the long jump was finished the girls had high jump. and in the end We had relays for every school and it doesn't matter what place you came it only matters what time you got in your relay so first in the relay came Mt Roskill in every r...

Unveiling of the new garden. Good Morning Bloggers. On Monday the 4th of November we had an opening for a special garden and people from different culture. So let's get right in to it, so on Monday afternoon we normally have singing assembly but this time we had a singing assembly but we had a short one. We normally have a couple songs that we need to work on but we only had one song and it was called Waikowhai's school song ( made by one of the student's Mum), well we didn't really need to work on it but we had to practice it before we opened the new garden. Then we came outside and sat down like we sat down in the hall for singing then as we sang the song, the student's mum that made the song was there to see how we had improved. We surprised her with a small gift of flowers then the oldest and youngest students of the school, came up and cut the ribbon for the garden. Then lastly  we revealed the people of different cultures. Bye Bloggers - blog ya later. Here...

Mindfulness Hi bloggers, on the 30th of October we got to learn new ways to calm our self's, on the first activity we we got to learn how to candle breath but before that we had to tell the teacher our names the people who were there was: Mosese, Jamie, Zion, Jia, Abigail, Adian, Alan, Aniya, Chimay, Neeve, and some more. Then after we got to write on paper like what we know, what we want to know and what you learned. Then we got to learn how to balloon breath, and when we were doing it we had to say breath in belly rise's breath out belly falls. Then it was morning tea and we got to have some fun then we came back in side and we got the make a mindfulness jar with glitter dish soap and water and I had Really FUN! time. Blog ya Later.

Supermarket Trip Hi bloggers, on the 23rd we went to the supermarket to learn how much energy and more stuff that is in your food. But before we got to learn at school how much sugar is in drinks and soft drinks the drink with most sugar was does big fizzy drink bottles that you can get from the dairy and then on Wednesday that was when we got to go to the supermarket. Before we left we had to go down in class order so that if we are all down and New World some of us might get lost and there might not enough parents to take us down. When we arrived down at New World we got a paper sheet from our teacher Isabella, on the sheets it had five stages here are name of them: Breakfast cereals, Bread, Muesli Bars, Snack Foods and  Milk Dairy Products. When we got the papers they gave us a stage each one group started on bread another one started on breakfast and cereals and another group started on muesli bar and my group started on milk and dairy products.Once we finished the stages ...

Pillow Day Hi bloggers if you don't know me my name is JD and I'm for Waikowhai Primary. On Wednesday the 18th of September we had to bring a pillow to school, everyone was shook how we had to bring a pillow we thought the teachers we going crazy but they weren't. When they told us to bring a pillow one of the teachers was surprised that we had to bring a pillow she thought we were joking. Then it was the day every came with there pillow, the pillow I brang was  like a skull pillow it was so cool one of my friend's named Toby didn't have a pillow because he didn't know. Then in a meanwhile in the last block we got to read to TouTouwai's Duffy books to them then after we got to read our own Duffy books to our self. Here are some Photos.

Cross Country  Hi bloggers, last week on the 11th of September we had Cross Country for the whole school. When we were there we had six stations and they were called: obstacle course, run, warming up and down, skipping, kicking soccer balls in to the goal and resting. Out of all the stations I think the one I liked the most was kicking into the goal and the long run, the reason why I liked the run because it makes you fit and it's just fun and the reason why I liked kicking into the goals because I got to be goalie and everyone was having so much fun. Before we started we were working in the morning on our blogs and then when morning tea was finished. That was when we started the Cross Country. The thing that I didn't like was when it was lunch time I had no more food left but luckily I still had money so I bought some food from the cake stall. Bye bloggers thanks for checking out my blog. Here are some photos.

Mt Ruapehu 2019 Snow Camp  Hi bloggers. If you haven't read my other blog about camp then you should see it after. leading up to camp, before we went to camp we had to find skiing and snowboarding gear from shops. When I was packing, it was taking for ages but the thing is that was good was that I packed my bag early so that I don't have to worry about anything. Feelings about going to camp, I felt excited and worried, I felt excited because I wanted to touch snow and ride a snowboard for the first time, I felt worried because when I left I felt like something might happened to them. At Camp, at camp when were going to the crossing were we were staying, we had got to have a theater room that was in a closet once we saw it we all were surprised then we got to watch a movie on the second day. When we were going to sleep we had to go shower first you had to go to dinner. At Taupo pools, on the last day we got to go to taupo hot pools, it took 1 hour and 30 minutes. Whe...

My emotions before going to camp Hi bloggers if you don't know me my name is JD. Today's blog is about my emotions before going to camp. The emotions I am feeling are excitedness and I am a little worried. Here are some reasons why: I am excited about trying something new and having some fun adventures. I am worried about when we go to camp something might happen to one of my family members or I miss out on something. Now I'm going to talk about what event or place is going to push me to my limits. I think the event that is going to push me to my limits is snowboarding and touching snow for the first time. This is because when I'm snowboarding I get to learn something new and have some fun with some friends. I am really going to remember touching snow for the first time.  Now I'm going to tell you what am I going to gain from going to camp. Here is what I think I'm going to gain from going to camp, I am going to learn how to take care of myself because my...

Tread Lightly Caravan  HI bloggers, today we got to do a tread lightly caravan. It was fun because we got to learn more about water. we had three stations one was inside and the others was outside, the one that was inside you could learn about water land. The other outside was called a grain game, and the other one outside is that we had to look at all of our drains in the school. First, A water land is like a swamp but it's not, a water land is where any type a animal can go. We had to name all the animal that went there. Then we got to color a picture of a pukeko, and when we finished we could go on this app that could make it 3D. The other activity inside was we went on VR's for the first time and when we were on there was this person, was talking to us when we where in it we could look everywhere. Here are some photos.

Soccer Zones  HI bloggers this week 20 kids from our school went to soccer zones we had two teams. The teams went to Eden Park but the thing that all of us was sad about was that we didn't  get to play in the real stadium. So we had to play on the place where they warmed up. So the boys  team and girls team had seven games. The boys teams came first in the pool and then the girls almost won but the team they vs got no goals and the girls team got no goals to, so it was a draw. But we still got into the stadium and took a photo, our first game we won five zero. We got to see the Women's World Cup. Here are some photos.

pink shirt day  Hi bloggers last week there was pink shirt day on Friday, if you guys don't know what pink shirt day is it is a day when we stand up for anti bully.So on pink shirt day everyone in Te Waka Ako made small Te shirts, to hand out and put it into people around the schools mail box. First on our literacy tumble we had a padlet that had to write nice things to say to people, then when you write one then in your book you have to write any of the boxes in your book. Then when you  write in your book then you show it to the teacher and then when they check it they give you a te shirt then we had to write something on the back that says supporting mental health and some more.Then on the front you write on the bottom waikowhai primary senior syndicate, then when we all are finished then we went to go and sent it to the peoples mail box.Here are some photos. Bye blog ya later.    

Mental health Kia ora bloggers, on Friday we had a Gumboot Friday. If you don’t know what Gumboot Friday was, it is a day that New Zealand encourage you to wear Gumboots to fundraiser for charity. If you were  wearing Gumboots on Tuesday you were really showing your respect, and when you even give some money to the charity. On Friday 30 students from the senior syndicate signed some booklets from the Government, to see the kids opinion to see what they would say. On Monday one of the teachers look at one person’s booklet from the senior syndicate, and it said that we could drop off positive uplifting letters into random people's mailboxes. So on Monday we started to make positive uplifting cards to put in people’s mailbox. We started in our books, and then we had to make up or search up on google nice things to say to people. When we were finish we had to show the teacher when the teacher sees it than they will say if yes and then you have to go on the card and do your best writ...

Special Assembly  HI bloggers, on Monday the 18 of march we had a special assembly for the people that past away in Christchurch. If you didn't know what happened, there was a guy that lived in Dunedin. He planned an attack  for two years. To try and kill Muslims down in Christchurch. Then after that he drove all the way down to Christchurch, he went to two Mosques. The first one he went to, there were people praying and he just shot everyone in the mosque. We had a family fun for school and on that day we had a two minute silence.  When we did reading we got this site that we can go on for the people that past away.  Here is the site for it  . There is a site that you can put some donations on. Here it is  . Bye thank you for reading my blog. Here are some photos blog ya later. This was the family fun day  This was the special assembly 

Rippa rugby. HI bloggers on Tuesday ten people got to go and play. Heaps of people wanted to come but they didn't get pick the things that you needed is you have to be fit fast and a person that knows the rules of the game. Here are some of the rules,  no jumping, 2 meters away from the person that got tag. we had five games our first game we won five one, our second game we lost four one, then we won again because the school wasn't there. So that was a automatic win, our fourth game we won five three, then after that game we had to play for first or second in of pool and we came second because they one by one point the score was three four but over all we came sixth. Then when all of our games was finish we came back to school and most of us didn't have our chrome books. Here are some photo 

Swimming at Cameron Pools T his week Te Waka Ako and the middle school has been going down Cameron Pools to learn how to swim. We always go down on Tuesdays, Thursdays and we have lunchtime swimming on Wednesday and Friday. When we go down to the Cameron Pools there are different pools, there's one for little kids and the ones for the bigger kids and adults. When we went got down there we learned how to get in the pool and how to get out of the pool without using the ladder. We also learnt how to float and we learned how to freestyle. Last year the teachers had a race for the house groups. The house groups are Kea, Tui, Pukeko and Ruru. The teachers won last year, they were super quick. I wonder who will win this year? W e learned that when you are at the beach and you're in the middle of nowhere, you keep swimming and if you get tired you can float on your front and back.

GYMNASTICS AT TRI STAR  Hi bloggers today we went to tri star with for gymnastics  some people didn't like it so they didn't come he thing i like was that when we got there, there was this big carpet the was very bouncy then we got to play a game is just like musical chairs but there was hoops in stead of chairs. If you get in the hoop you are safe and then you go in to the next round. But if you don't make then you are out.After the game we went with two people, one class went with couch Moe and the other class went with another couch. Then we change couches then hauraki and room six, had a race to the end then after we had to line up again so that we could go back to school.

here is the link to the Summer Learning Journey  Summer Learning Journey  archive activity  South Africa  Hi bloggers my name is JD  today a person from the Summer Learning Journey came to show us what it is. We had to chose what country we could do. We had to tell reasons my we want to go there and my reasons was that I could play soccer and rugby, and then I could learn how to speak in South Africa. Three facts I found:  there are 55 million people living there In the  1920's to give all children English names as English  people  a round 2,030 million years ago a meteor, the size of a mountain, fell into South Africa. 

Waikowhai intermediate Dress rehearsals    hey bloggers, JD here. Today me had to  blog about a show from waikowhai intermediate from yesterday. The way that we was going to waikowhai intermediate, in bus we could of walk because we didn't have enough bus to go. But then waikowhai intermediate send, us another bus so we can go in the bus and walk everyone was happy that we didn't have to walk. And when we got there, there was different dances, songs, and more  my favourite one was this street dance  group And the reason why because they were doing the best dance ever and one of them was the  and after the show we went back to school we had to use debono thinking hats to show understanding and evaluate so what we had to do is we have six thinking hats  one of them was about information another one was the good things that was happening and another one is the negative things that happen and another one was how did you feel when and what was ...

HI bloggers. Last week we had to look after eggs for one whole week. We had to bring it were ever we go. It was hard for some people,they had to leave it at home.It was sad because so people had to go to cross country zones but when the they thought that they were out of the competition but when they ask the teacher they that you were not out yet then mostly everyone left there egg at home so your mums and dad to egg sit it but when the teacher heard then he said your parents can only egg sit your egg when you have something on. Then most of the people were out and then the last day and we had to keep our egg alive when it is 3:00 but our teacher said that when we were packing up she was writing the people names who's  egg survive on the white board and I was one of them and I was so happy and the other people happy as well  and if your egg survive the whole week then you will get pizza on week ten Friday thanks for listening hope you enjoyed it  bye.  THE ...