Haven's Blog

  Week 4, Term 1, 2021 The most interesting/fun thing we have done during class time this week is Whetu stars because mum got to come and help me create it. We started our art this week and I have chosen to do art with Mrs Kennedy. Our art is going to be a landscape circle but it is not just a normal landscape it's going to be made out of patterns. We created our Whetū stars on Thursday and they look AMAZING!!! because we all put our best into it and made them look great!! Next week we have our school swimming sports. I am feeling a bit nervous but also a little bit excited because I will be with my friends.

  Week 3, Term 1, 2021 Someone who has helped me with my learning this year is Mrs Kennedy and my friends with things I wasn't sure on but after they helped me I knew everything I was meant to know.  The most interesting/fun thing we have done during class time is water games because it was hot and we didn't get to have the pool that day so our nice and wonderful teachers let us do that!! The most fun thing that I have done at a play or lunch time this year is Crocodile, a game me and my friends play every-day on the big blue and always have fun each and every time we play it. One word that describes learning in Whetu is Fun!! because everything we seem to do is exciting and fun and I never get bored of it.  Something I am looking forward to is camping overnight with my friends and some of my class.

 We did Chapter Chat and I did the parashot. I made the parashot with 7 long ballons and then colored some paper towels and then put water on them so it would look like tie-dye and it did. Then I stuck them on paper and then stuck the balloons on the paper underneath and then tied a string on it and made the string even and tied a basket on it when I was going to make it be a seat but I left it like a basket and then I tied more string on it so it was like a kite so I could hold it and get it to fly and so it wouldn't fly away because it was a windy day. When I was running with it it was flying for some time but then three ballons poped and some twisted and so it didn't fly as well and then it wasn't working anymore so I put it in the bin. The part that was my favorite was making the parashot because I got to stick the balloons on and make tie-dye paper. The part that was the hardest was flying it because at first, the string came off so I had to run and get it before it fl...

 Today we got Mrs. Taaffe to come into Whetu. She confessed that she did the crime. She was having computer trouble then she saw the dongle in Whetu so she thought she could just go into Whetu and take it because she didn't think we would find out so she went to the office and turned the Whetu alarm off and went into Whetu and took the dongle and then she saw the mini chocolates and took some and dropped some on her way and when she was trying to push the door open because she heard someone coming so she cut her hand on the door frame when she was trying to open the door and then she got out and ran then hid behind the bush. Then she went to the hairdressers. She also wears scrunchies. Her shoe size matches the footprints from the scene. She was there on the day it happened.

 I did a sheet where you think like a detective it's really easy. I worked with Marley and when we figured out the codes we made up our own. The first code is a sentence and it says Look carefully to uncover the clues.   The second sentence says This is no red herring I didn't really get the last code.                                               My favorite part was working with Marley and breaking the codes it was really fun and I think I did well.     At first, I didn't know what to do but then Marley told me how to do it and then it seemed really easy.

On Athletics day the hardest race for me was 800 meters because I ran around the field 2 times. My favorite race was doing relays and our group came 2nd place. I liked shotput too because I think I did pretty good at it but I think I could have done better. I think I did good at the long jump and had done my best at jumping. I didn't like 200 meters because I could have done better but I still did good I was just tired from my other races. 

 We got to see our finger print's and see what they were. On my left hand, I had all loops and on my right hand, I had loop whorl whorl arch arch. Loop's are the most popular and then its whorls and then its arches. We got to see our fingerprints by rolling our finger one at a time in ink and then we rolled it in a square and that's how we got to see our fingerprint's up close. When your mother is 16 months old pregnant your fingerprint starts to develop.  If you have gone to jail before you could search up the person and see his fingerprint's so is you see fingerprint's in a crime you can search that person up to see their fingerprints to see if it matches the crime fingerprint.