Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. Today in PBL we learnt about Racism in the Olympics. We looked at 3 athletes. Jesse Owens, Tommie Smith and John Carlo.

For our create task we had to fill out a google drawing about either the Tommie Smith and John Carlo situation or the Jesse Owens situation. I did it with my friend Campbell. We then had to answer these questions?

Why is it important we stand up for groups of people that have been unfairly treated? Because they went through a lot and we don’t have the future to generate to be like that.

How have the Olympic Games helped and/or hindered athletes of colour? They have been racist on not fair to people of color.

What is fairness and how can we promote it in sport? Maybe we could by treating people equally and remembering that at the end of the day we are all humans.

Here is my create task, I hope you enjoy it. Do you think that racism is fair?

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be showing my Te Reo create task. So basically we had to grab some Māori phrases which can be used in Olympic sports. I did Basketball since this is my favourite sport. Some phrases I learnt that I can use in Basketball were with the bank shot! which in Maroi is Ko te kuru ā-papamuri, The buzzer beater!! which in Maori is Patu wheo, Haukoti wheo. Here is my create task, I hope you enjoy it. Goodbye. What is your favorite sport?

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week marks an important day for Catholic’s around the world, it was the Assumption of Mary. The Assumption of Mary is when Mary went up to heaven, body and soul. This week’s create for R.E was to either Create an artwork for Mary, A book for a student in Kākano about The Assumption, A poster/slideshow about The Assumption, An animation to show your understanding of The Assumption.

I went in a group of 3 with Caleb and Louka, and we made an artwork for Mary. We used Google drawing to make it and we added Jesus on the Cross, Mary,  and a bush with flowers. I hope you enjoy our create.

What are some interesting facts you know about the Assumption? Goodbye.

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. Today we will be covering the modern Olympics. In Reading we have been learning about the Modern Olympics and for our create we had to make a timeline about the modern Olympics. In my timeline, I covered the 1896 Olympics in Athens, the 1926 Olympics in Chamonix, 1936 in Berlin, 1968 in Mexico City, 1972 in Munch, 1988 in Seoul, and 2024 in Paris. Something interesting I learnt is that in the 1972 Munich Olympics, people from the Palestinian terrorist group, Black September, Eleven Israelis had been killed and one Munich policeman. Here is my timeline and I hope you learn some new information from it! What is your favorite Olympic sport?

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. This week we came back to school from a 2 week holiday. We got back and since the Olympics are coming up, we learnt about its history pretty much. This week we focused on the Ancient Olympics and what things they did back then. We learnt about the sports, what the athletes did, and more.

Something interesting I learnt about the ancient games is that a sacrifice would take place in honor of Zeus and other gods. The sacrifice was to kill 100 cows and they athletes would eat the meat of those cows. Another thing I learnt is that Theogenes of Thassos won over 1,300 times in boxing and pankration events. They made a statue of him in his home town.

Our create task was to make a copy of a slideshow and fill in the blanks. Here is my create and I hope you learn lots from it. What is your favorite Olympic sport?

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be showing you my invention for PBL that can be good for a habitat. I chose to make a Rover in the forest that can detect a spot where a tree can be planted, and can detect when a tree needs to be watered. This helps the habitat because more trees can help with providing oxygen, improving air quality, climate amelioration, conserving water, preserving soil, and supporting wildlife. Here is my invention, I hope you like it. What is your favorite habitat?

This week we went to the Groynes to learn more about Freshwater Habitats, since that is what we are learning about in PBL. At the Groynes when we arrived we went for a walk on the swing bridge. On the swing bridge, some people were shaking the bridge and it was scary but fun at the same time, the bridge was also slippery. After we had a walk on the bridge, our instructor Tracey took us on a walk through some trees and gave us some history on the variety of trees. After that we went on another bridge and looked down on the stream to see if we can spot some animals, we did not. Then we went fishing for insects with nets. There were so many insects we caught, a group even caught a Cockabully in their net. The most common insect we caught was called a Water boatman. Afterwards, Tracey taught us what we can feed ducks and what not to feed ducks. It turns out that feeding bread to the ducks is bad and feeding it cooked rice is better! Did you know this? After that we played a game about survival. 1 person was a duck, 2 people were something that I forgot what it was called, 6 people were water boatman and 11 people were plants. We had to collect life cards to survive one day before the day ended. I was a plant and I was getting hunted by Water boatman because they needed a plant life card to survive. I did not make it past the first day or the second day. But the trip to the Groynes was really cool and really fun and I had a great time.

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be showing you the next thing we are learning about in Maths. We have been starting to learn about Statistics and Data. Today we had to come up with something to collect data with, I came up with what is your favorite sports and my selections were Rugby, Basketball, Netball, Soccer, Hockey, American Football, Tennis and an option for other.

Here are my statements on the data I collected.

I see that Netball, Rugby and Soccer are all tied at the most amount of votes.

American Football and Tennis had the least amount of votes with no votes at all.

Basketball and Other has the same amount of people with 3 people voting for it.

Here is my graph with the data I collected, I hope you like it. What is your favorite sport, mine is Basketball! Goodbye.

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I will be showing you my task for R.E this week. This week’s task in R.E was to make a new symbol for the Holy Trinity. I chose to do something like this and put other symbols in it like a crown for God, the Cross for Jesus and a Dove for the Holy Spirit. Here is my final product, I hope you like it! Who is your favorite saint?

The past couple of weeks we have been learning about Insects. Our task was to make a Mihi or a Fact File about any insect. I did a fact file about Wolf Spiders. I chose to do a wolf spider because its name sounds cool since it has the name of 2 different animals in its name. What we had to include was the Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom and we had to describe the land where the insect comes from. Something interesting I found out about Wolf Spiders is that they are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. Here is my fact file and I hope you like it!