Passion project

A couple of weeks ago I finished my passion project. I think it went really well. I love playing it and I wouldn’t do anything differently.


In my passion project I showed persistence, curiosity and hard work.


I would like to thank my Dad for all his time and hard work to help me achieve my foosball table.

Here is a photo of my passion project.

Passion Project

This term Kahikatea learnt about passion projects and watched a video about a boy named Caine and he made an arcade out of boxes. After we watched that video we went away and thought about our passions and also thought about what we might create for our passion project. It took a lot of thinking but I came up with an idea.



My idea was creating a foosball table because soccer is my passion and I also wanted to try something new. I have beeen working very hard and I have only a few more steps to go.

The reason I chose foosball over a chairity match was because I wanted to be able to play it all the time.

For you guys who don't now what foosball is, foosball is a game of football and you have little men connected to sticks and you swing the sticks back and forth and try and score a goal.





I will show you my passion project when it's finished.

Graffit Art

At the start of term 3 Kahikatea got the choice of doing graffiti art or portrait art I decided to go with graffiti art. I chose to do graffiti art because it was something that I had never tried before and I was willing to try it. My first attempt of graffiti art wasn't very good but I was determent to get it right. At the end of week 4 the teachers wanted a graffiti name plate either of your first name,your initials or your nickname. What I liked about graffiti art was I got to learn how to try a different art style


This is my first attempt














This is my second attempt

AWE Swimming

This last week we have been going down to the Aquatic center to do Awe which 
is water safety. So far we have been... 


* Diving through hoops in the deep end at the bottom of the pool.
* 8 lengths of our choice.
* Sculling.
* Pin dropping into the pool safely. 
* Diving into the pool
* Backstroke, Freestyle, and toeing people across the pool.

Our instructors have also been an amazing help and also very nice. 



At the end of Wednesdays session everyone was awarded with free time and  certificate telling you how well the instructors thought you did. On the certificate you will get a gold medal a silver medal or a bronze medal.


I got a gold medal.

by Ella  

  

How much sugar is in food

Are you aware of how much sugar is in foods and how much sugar you eat per day. You may like junk food but if you don’t know junk food can cause terrible things.

Unhealthy food:

A king sized snickers bar has 54 grams of sugar in it.

A packet of skittles 1 bag has 47 grams of sugar in it.

A packet of starbursts has 34 grams of sugar in it.

Healthy food:

A banana has only has 14 grams of sugar in it.

A apple only has 10 grams of sugar in it.

A orange only has 9 grams of sugar in it.

What sugar can cause:

Your liver. An abundance of added sugar may cause your liver to become resistant to insulin, an important hormone that helps turn sugar in your bloodstream into energy. This means your body isn't able to control your blood sugar levels as well, which can lead to type 2 diabetes. Which isn't good.

Stay healthy

Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables may help reduce the risk of many diseases, including heart disease, high blood pressure, and some cancers. Vitamins & Minerals. Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals that help you feel healthy and energized If you stay healthy.

fruit has less sugar than junk food. I want you to stay healthy and only have about two pieces of candy a day. And eat lots of fruit and vegetables and healthy food

Girls Coding Challenge

The girls coding tech challenge is a challenge where students can get in pairs of 3 or 4 and make an app that can help people from around the world.


Our group is called the L.E.L.S (Laughing,Educational,Learning,Superheros).

In my group there is Lila,Lucia,Georgia and I.


We are making an app called feed me but this is how it's spelt in our way F33d M3. Our app is age appropriate for people 15 to 85. Our app is for people that can't drive,don't have much money or have disabilities. We connect with restaurants and supermarkets that have leftover food or food that they don't need any more. We can hire some people to make all the food into freezer meals and the customers  can come and get their food or get it delivered to their home.


Here are our strengths,weaknesses,opportunities and threats in the girls coding tech challenge.

STRENGTHS looking at apps that are similar to ours. sharing ideas with each other. good ideas.	WEAKNESSES agreeing on an idea. having fights.
OPPORTUNITIES To help others. make people happy. to make a difference.	THREATS Competitors. Game Hackers

  

Feelings After Camp

Please check out feelings before camp underneath this post. Sorry this piece of writing took so long.


As soon as I hoped out of the car I started to admirer the beautiful camp ground Sage,Freya and I were in a cabin together. Our cabin was called Grey Warbler and we all know Grey Warbler is not a haunted name but it did seem like our cabin Grey Warbler was haunted.

Anyway we unpacked our stuff and headed to our first activity.

Our first activity was supposed to be kayaking but it was bee mania out where we were supposed go kayaking.

Instead of kayaking we did the spider web you had to go in and out of the little and big holes without touching the rope forming the spider web. After we got the hang of going 1 by 1 we did all sorts of challenges and then we moved onto the confidence course.

We had to do this rope thing were the ropes went wider and wider it was a tough challenge none of the people in my activity group completed it.

But that didn't matter all that matters is that we tried as hard as we could so we moved onto this balance beam it was easy really easy in my opinion.

The next activity challenged me a lot you had to walk,climb and balance on this rope course thing. You had to walk across this not too thin or thick rope it had thin bits on the side for you to hold onto I almost fell off.

When I finished that part I moved onto another rope the same size as the one I just did and you had to hold on to these dangling bits that were about right in front of your face.

That one was much easier than the first part of the course. The next part on the course was walking across these tires that were hanging from a tree above us I wobbled a lot. The hardest part was climbing around the tree I felt like I was going fall of but luckily Kelvin was behind me in case I fell of the tree. Anyway I made it across the tree then there was a rope climbing sort of thing it hurt your hands a lot. My hands were still aching when I moved onto the last part it was pretty much the same as the first part of the rope course thing I made it across and finally we were finished that activity.

I walked back to my cabin and it was locked! I asked sage and Freya if they locked the cabin they said know so I got keys. I unlocked the cabin without looking inside of the cabin then I                                                                                                                                                   gave the keys back to Mrs Mcallister. After I handed the keys back I looked at our cabin and Sage and Freya said come here. I ran down to our cabin and ?

suit cases were open.

Anyway

We headed to one of my favorite parts of camp THE WATERSLIDE it was huge with a capital H. It also had a lot of sheep poo beside it it stunk a lot. Besides the sheep poo it was so much fun. After that fun we had more fun we went on a flying fox it zoomed and was also so much fun.

After all that fun Sage Freya and I went to go have a shower the wait for a shower took like twenty minutes for one shower to free up any way after awhile we found a free shower.

After our shower we went to our cabin got dressed and headed up for dinner.

For dinner we had hamburgers it was really yum.     

But dessert was more yum there was jelly,ice cream, brownies and more.

After dessert we headed to bed we talked for awhile and then we fell to sleep.

As we awoke from our sleep we got into our onesies and walked up to breakfast. For breakfast I had eggs on toast yum! At about ten o'clock we headed off to do our first day 2 activity.

Our first day 2 activity which was archery. This was something I had never done before. Let's just admit this I was really bad. After that activity We headed to our next activity which was stream science. So stream science was a pretty cool activity you had a chart and a tray. One of the parents would have to fill our tray up and we had to see if we had any bugs that matched                the ones on the list. Let me say I got some pretty interesting bugs.

Next we walked up to the place where we have our meals and made bread dough for hobo stoves. So to cook the bread we used matches and hay. After we cooked the bread we could eat it. I wasn't fond of it.

Know the bees had calmed down so we went kayaking It was the longest walk ever. But it was well worth it. We had a blast but my dad was so cheeky and splashed me with the cold as water that we were kayaking in. After all our activities for today we had some free time till dinner. We played swing ball it was really fun.

For dinner we had my favourite spaghetti bolognese it was delicious and we had the same dessert as we did last night.

We were exhausted and we fell asleep straight away and before we knew it we heard a knock on the door it was morning we slept in and we got told to hurry up and we were so late we had we had to have jelly for breakfast. After breakfast we were going to do the great Te Wera challenge.

The great Te Wera challenge is a challenge and you have groups of about ten people and everyone is given the same challenges and you have to complete them as fast as you can. You get placed on how fast you are. I am going to tell you what our group did in no particular order.

We sang for weetbix and had to eat a whole dry one. We had to hit a bulls eye on archery. We threw water balloons at the parents. We made a human pyramid. We got whipped cream in our faces. We made our parents and outfit out of newspaper and they had to do the highland fling. We drew a picture of what we could see.

Anyway I really enjoyed camp well it lasted. But after the great Te Wera challenge we had to leave Te Wera campground.  

It was a great first camp.                                                                         

Feelings Before Camp

I wrote this piece of writing 1 day before I went on camp with my classroom Kahikatea. I knew I wanted to write this piece of writing because I knew I was going to write about my feelings after camp. That piece of writing will be coming out on my blog soon be sure to check it out when it does. In the comments below tell me if you have been on camp if so tell me what were your biggest emotions before you went on camp.

Camp is only 1 day away here are my feelings.

NERVOUS

I'm very nervous for camp it is probably one of my biggest emotions right now

I am most nervous about.

• Getting homesick
• Road trip
• I don't know what to expect

   FRIGHTENED

   I am also quiet frightened for camp it is another one of my biggest emotions.I am most frightened about

• Creepy animals
• Noises
• Unusual and scary bugs

       EXCITED

       This is my biggest emotion right now i am very excited for …

        

• Activities
• Cabins
• Food

     SAD

   Sad is not one of my biggest emotions I am sad because

   

• I will miss my family except dad who is coming with me.                            

If I had My own shop

 Oh the thoughts in my head were very big wondering what shop I should own. Thinking thinking,


 Ha ha finally and amazing cunning plan a huge picture in my head. A teddy bear shop oh yes a teddy bear shop oh and instead of stuffing candy inside yes that is a marvellous idea. Magnificent I will have loads of customers yummy food,and money that I might give to charity.



Store name now umm oh yes my store name will be Teddy bear sweet and my slogan will be the best candy bears come from teddy bear sweet!



Ok time to set up firstly wallpaper RAINBOW walls perfect,now to stuff the teddys full of candy. All done now flooring, rainbow floors to match the walls all done the store looks great but I have one more finishing touch accessories for the teddy bears genius time to sew and make Now I really am finished that is what store I would make. Yay my first customer this looks great