Interland

 This week we were digi digging and were learning to keep safe online by playing interland. Its a game about learning to keep safe online, stopping cyberbullies, being kind online, have a strong password that hackers won't be able to unlock to keep your personal information secure and not falling for scams that are too good to be true. We had to be in a group with our blogging buddies so I was in a group with Lola, we went into kind kingdom, where bullies were sending bad messages to other people, so we had to give them good comments and we had to jump from one floating island to another and if we made enough people happy, a pole with a platform would come up and you could jump from it to the floating island that was unreachable.

Their were also other places called Mindful Mountain,Tower of Treasure, Reality River and Kind Kingdom which I've already mentioned. But we had to do Kind kingdom because Koka Ngaire said we have to, and there were also microphones that you could use to report bullies and remove them, there were also traps that you had to use to trap the bullies, some said "No fair." and "Keep you kindness to yourself." It took quite a while to get to the end but there was more questions, we had to fill in the sentences to make the sentences full and also not make them bad. At the end, there was an enormous bully that you had to turn into a good person, by making everyone happy and them sharing their happiness with the bully to make him happy and to make him stop bullying. When we finished we had to do a flipgrid on what we learnt, I recommend other people play this game so they can learn how to be better online.

How to carry your chromebook posters

On Tuesday, 2021 term 2 week 1, we did a big think poster on how to carry your chromebook and how to stay cybersmart on it, but you could only choose one. I chose how to carry your chromebook, and you also had to do it with a partner, so I teamed up with Taimana and we came up with a simple but great idea (you will find out later in this blog). Most people did how to carry a chromebook and I didn't know if our idea would be good but it was pretty straightforward, our poster said "Forklift hold, is the right way to hold."

There was a picture of me, forklift holding my chromebook and also a forklift next to me. When we took it to Koka Ngaire she said it was great and she even printed it out! But ours wasn't the best it was Momo and Cash's poster, on their poster I saw a big picture of Momo doing the forklift carry. But ours was still an honourable mention. Altogether there were five posters that were printed including our poster, now they are in our classes, to remind us how we should carry our chromebooks and how to stay cybersmart on them.

Cooks Cove walk

After a long drive we finally reached Cooks Cove, when we came to the entrance, Koka ngaire cover some ground rules for safety, and she also put us in groups with different parents. Then the climb started, at the start climbing wasn't that hard, we just had to walk up some stairs but soon after it started to get difficult. It became more steeper and more people were huffing and puffing very frequently, but just then we made it to the Beacon of Light, was was a large structure representing Cooks arrival. there was concrete that went 12 metres deep into the earth to hold it in place.

I sighed in relief but there was way more walking then i had hoped for, we kept on walking uphill until we reached downhill. i spilt some of my water on the dry ground, the thirsty ground quickly drank up the water. Downhill was much less tiring than going uphill, everyone quickly ran down the steep hills and we made it to the porta-potty and surprisingly only the boys had to go. From their I could see the end of cooks cove I patiently but excitedly waited until everyone was out. After everyone came out we made it to the end of cooks cove. But their was still the journey back.

we sat down and ate our food, after we ate our food we went back to the porta-potty where there was a picture frame.

The Fantastic Week 13

 This week on Wednesday, we went to the Kapa Haka festival, it was quite interesting. First we got our mokos on, Fly put ink on the tracer and put it on our cheeks, also we took off our t-shirts and sweatshirts and our socks, shoes and our pants because we put on skirts. We left the nametags on the table, we got the skirt from and put our socks and shoes there too. I was trying really hard not to touch my moko and I didn't touch it because I didn't want it to smudge, but it was extremely itchy, I resisted. 

Then the bus arrived, I got in. It was really cramped, so three people had to sit on one seat even though 2 people could fit on it, it was hard but I managed to stay comfortable. On the way there we sang our waitas and the haka too. We also did the songs that we sang last year, we also saw an extensive golf court it was colossal, what was surprising was that the kapa haka festival was going on right beside the golf court. So we made it there, it was exciting. we came out and went to the grass to go to the toilet in the porta potties. We also practiced a little bit too.

When we were ready we went inside and waited, when it was our turn we stepped up on the stage, the crowd went wild. We got in our rows and started singing. We sang beautifully and at the end of our waita they cheered loudly. Then we did a haka, it was strong the crowd was impressed, when we did our last song the boys went to where the audience was. The boys sang still, and the girls went down too, at the end we watched the other kids do their performance and went in the bus and went back to school.

The Fantastic Week 12

This week is I got some good news, the craft fairs coming up! It's going to be extraordinarily exciting and also immensely fun too. I just can't wait, i've been to the craft fair a couple of times but it's still fun after years of celebrating it. They have lots of fun games like cow pat bingo which is when people pay money and wait for the cow to poop on a square they bought and whichever square it lands on first means that the person who bought the square wins lots of prizes. There is also lots of other things like food drinks and a whole lot of other entertaining games, like prizes dip where you put your hand in a mystery box and pull out a random prize.

Also there is some inflatable bubbles that you use to ram people down and, there is no points and it is only for fun. You can also by drinks from the soda van, they sell sprite, coke, lift and a big variety. Waffles are also for sale with chocolate sauce and whipped cream(which is mouth-watering). They have bouncy castles too, and a game where the kids are moles trying to steal all the balls from the bopper. The bopper bonks you on the head with a hammer to try to stop you from stealing all the balls, also if the kids get all the balls they win.

There is also a festival coming soon, it is called diwali. Most indians celebrate it and they light lots of lamps and light fireworks and celebrate and eating lots of sweets,Diwali is called the Festival of Lights and is celebrated to honor Rama-chandra, the seventh avatar (incarnation of the god Vishnu). It is believed that on this day Rama returned to his people after 14 years of exile during which he fought and won a battle against the demons and the demon king, Ravana. 

The Fantastic Week 11

This week has been incredible. The year 6's were sent to camp and all the year 5's and 4's stayed, while they were gone we practiced kapa haka and athletics. It was quieter without the year 6's, we saw them in photos and were they were.They were at a napier prison observing and exploring, also they went to white pine bush and the napier pā (village). They went to the arataki honey factory and got some honey and a thick strip of beeswax which they used to make a beeswax candle.

When they were going to sleep, they went to their cabins which they shared with a buddy or two. I'm sure they were having lots of fun at camp as it was expensive, it was two hundred dollars per student. For breakfast they would eat weet-bix or peanut butter on toast, and for lunch they would have a brownie or a muffin and an apple or an orange. They were at camp for about four days.

In the end they came back at around 7:30 and everything was back to normal, when we did our hakas and waitas they were louder and stronger, which was great as it was going to be the kapa haka festival soon, it was great with the year 6's back. Camp was done for them but not for the year 4's and 5's, I can't wait to go to camp because it sounds very fun.

The Fantastic Week 10

 This week is fun and exciting, lots of stuff has happened. On the first day, we were not doing any priorities and we were moving all the furniture into the hall. We took all the furniture and left nothing, I didn't know why we were moving to the hall but I soon realized that their was some builders in mlh (moana learning hub), People told me that mlh was going to be renovated.

On the second day, we went to pihitia station to see what they did to make money, set traps and shear sheep. When we were at school a bus came, we walked in and the bus driver drove us their. When we got there we got out of the bus and walked into the farm, we met some people, they told us the safety rules and what not to do. Then they showed us how to round up sheep, we start out walking along the corners and made them run into the other paddocks, when we got them in they were weighed.

After that, a woman got two dogs and made them round up the sheep, then we went to a tv with a drone camera someone drove the drone and found a dummy under a quad bike, I knew it wasn't a dummy so I told him "this is not a real person." and then he told us that it was a set up and he showed us some gadgets. After we had some food and we went to another room where someone told us about all the pests in nz and he showed us some traps And one even had a rabbit and a mouse in it.

Finally we went to our final destination the butchery, where we saw how they cut up meat and how much money they got. The butcher told us all about meat and what was the most expensive, He told us he was a butcher for 40 years! When we went in to the bus and we got back to school. It was interesting to see what they did at Pihitia farm.