This term Te Puawai created films to go into the Te Hiku Film Festival. Our class created four films: The Turtle & The Shark, Paparore School, Matariki Stars, and my film, Finding Your Way. My film got into the film festival and it was shown at Te Ahu on Wednesday the 3rd of September 2025. Here is my film:
We are learning to reflect on our term.
We have been doing basketball with Kade. We play games like this one, shown in the image. In this game Kade calls body parts such as “head” or “shoulders”. If he calls “cone”, we have to try to get the cone. Whoever gets the cone gets a point. We really appreciate you Kade!!
We have been learning how laughter can help with health, recovery and stress.
Here is a poster I made on Canva about laughter.
We are learning about NZ Music. My favourite NZ song is Tua by Stan Walker.
This video teaches anyone and everyone three easy breathing exercises and helps to calm and relax the body and brain.
G.G.O.A.T: Greatest Gala Of All Time!!
My dream gala would be an amazing success because children and adults would come to either their dream theme park or a relaxing spa day. They would also gorge themselves on a treasure trove of goods from the stalls, cafe and raffles. At my gala there would be a DIY makeup studio, a waterslide, a relaxing spa studio, a make-your-own beauty products/skin- care, a fundraising for endangered animals stall, a pet sanctuary, a little kids treehouse storytime, an art studio and a fashion show. There would be chocolate fountains in all flavours of chocolate, a breakfast buffet, a lunch buffet and a dessert buffet!! There would also be a super cool aquarium area!! Amazing right!!
We are sharing our science experience at Kaitaia College.
On Monday Te Manga went to my Dads school, Kaitaia College. First we did biology. My dad had prepared the tables for our activities. On the tables were glass jars filled with clear or colourful liquid. In the liquid there were preserved animals. There was an armadillo dragon, some kind of adorable rodent, a toothy frog, two octopuses, one big one little, possum skin and half a fish. There were also five microscopes. One with yeast, one with a sand mix, one with a sliver of kidney, one with cockroaches and one with a bit of a sunflower stem. Everything was beautiful to look at, except the fish and the roaches.
Next we did physics. Our challenge was to drop an egg without it breaking. We were given a bread bag, one sheet of newspaper, one metre of string and fifty centimetres of tape. Me and my partner Nikki wrapped the egg in the newspaper and put that in the bread bag. We then taped the whole string to the bread bag and stuck the leftover tape onto the end of the string, trying to make it longer. I thought our idea was ingenious, but Unfortunately, our egg cracked. The only safe egg was Isla’s, which wasn’t surprising.
Last we did chemistry. First we tried to make a rainbow with sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid and universal indicator. Me and Nikki’s rainbow was not successful. After the rainbow we did an experiment with magnesium, water balloons and sulphuric acid. We put three pieces of magnesium in the water balloon and attached the mouth to the test tube. We then tipped the magnesium into the sulphuric acid and it started to bubble. The magnesium reacted with the sulphuric acid creating gas that filled the balloon up. The gas in the balloon was explosive and we had a candle going. When we brought the balloon to touch the top of the flame the balloon exploded! When the balloon popped it was quite loud.
It was really fun and I hope we can go again every year!
We loved our music sessions with Whaea Jen, so we created a poster to share the things we enjoyed. We are going to give this to Whaea Jen next week.
