Auckland Zoo Trip

Blogging about the Zoo

 WALT: Report, Recount, Reflect

When:We went last week on Thursday the 14.

Where: We went to the Auckland Zoo which is near Western Springs.

What: We went and looked at some animals and even went into the bug lab.

Why:  We went to the Zoo to learn about the animals and we also went for our Inquiry we are learning about "CURIOUSITY".

Who: We went with some parents that volunteered to help with the trip.

How: We travelled by bus but it wasn't a small one it was a double decker.

One event that I liked was Bug lab, Seals, and the Cheaters.

I liked the Bug lab the most because it was dark and their were these kind of mazes you go through and they have different facts inside of them. My favourite part of the Bug lab was the butter-fly maker you could make planes and put them in this big massive tube and they fly out. I felt happy when we saw the seal swimming in the water. The seal was so big I have never seen a seal in person so it was very cool. The first time we went to see the seals they weren't there but the second time we went one was swimming and the other one was scratching itself. 

I think that this trip was really fun and cool because we saw different animals and their species. When I saw the Cheater there was only one but then the other one came and I was amazed, like 1 Cheater is cool but 2  you don't get to see that every day. I wanted to see the Cheaters run but I think they were tired. 

I would definitely go to the Zoo again because I haven't been to the Zoo like  around four years so it was very fun to go back and look around again. 

SEE YOU GUYS NEXT TIME

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ART

Hi guys, last week we had a task given to us by our teacher. She gave us a big piece of paper called water strength cartridge paper, we also used high school paint brushes to paint with. Then she told us to draw a native bird to New Zealand onto the piece of strong paper but as always we had to practice it in our art book. I drew a Sparrow for my bird. So after we did all that, the next day we drew the background for the picture. The week after we got to paint, I was so exited to paint, because I haven't painted since last year like literately. My favourite thing about  this whole process was the painting part, the reason I liked the painting better is because I really enjoy mixing colours and making things very colourful. The thing I don't like about my artwork is how I did my bird so terrible. I really wanted to redraw my bird but I already painted it. I could improve my bird because the drawing of it was really poor and I know that I could do better.


What my partner James thought:
My friend liked how my flower was drawn and my bird.
My friend didn't like the tree because a real tree doesn't have zig- zag twigs.
My friend said I could improve on making it better and more colourful.
My friend said that I could have made my grass bigger because he said that all he could see was blue sky.
He said that I could draw the bird bigger and practice the colours in my art book before I put it on the good copy. 


If you are interested in art, you could come to Waikowhai Primary Schools special "ART SHOW". Every class in the school has a piece of art to show. So come along and enjoy your time looking at our artwork. 
Opening night : 6:15-8;15 Tuesday night 26th June.

                                                  This is my piece of art                                               I think I did a good job. keep scrolling down to see my friends artwork

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                                             This is James' artwork 

Tiritiri Matangi Trip

Talofa lava blogging world, last Thursday we went to Tiritiri Matangi Island for a senior school trip. We went to the island on the ferry. We each got to go to the top of the ferry in the groups we got put into. When we got to the island we sat down in our groups and the instructor from the island told us about it and what happened. We went for a walk in our groups again and were looking out for birds then writing them down on the piece of paper. I learnt that when the Maori first saw the Nikau they thought there would be coconuts on them but actually there was nothing so they called it the Nikau tree which means no coconuts. When I was on the island I found out a lot of new things about it. We also did a treasure hunt to find little finger puppets. I didn't find that many, I only found one. After all of the hunting and looking we went down to the beach so we could chill and have some relax time but I got injured. After all of that we came back to Auckland and went home. I saw a lot of birds that I didn't know about so it was a great experience to see those birds like a Takahe, Tui, and a Pukeko. 

Here is a link to the Tiritiri Island website:  http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/home

Des hunt visits Waikowhai Primary

Today, Des hunt visited Waikowhai Primary School. He taught us about physics and he showed us some of the books he wrote. Des hunt is a popular writer that writes books for kids. The kinds of book he writes are fiction. He came with his wife Lynne. He showed us his backstory it showed us when he was born and where he was born. He was born in the north island. He studied to be a teacher in wellington and moved to Christchurch to become a actual teacher. He showed us how to make a powerful force out of a lighter he took out the parts of the lighter and made some kind of explosive.

My favourite part of the presentation was when he exploded the balloon it exploded and made a loud sore noise. I liked that part because it got bigger and bigger then it was a green explosion. It was important because the balloon that popped was representing an eel it popped because he told us that an eel get's bigger and bigger until it's system can't handle it anymore. It also represented the tension in a book because the tension gets big then you never know when something is going to happen then BAM it strikes.

Now that I have seen this presentation I want to read more of Des Hunts books. I also want to use him to motivate me to write books

Anzac Day

ANZAC DAY

This week we have been learning information, reading books and discussing Anzac Day. ANZAC day is a day when we celebrate Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought in the war. Our class have been doing different things about Anzac Day like writing acrostic poems and we read storys about the war. We read different storys their was one that was about this village called Le  Quesnoy and the Germans took over but a group of New Zealand soldiers came from across the world and saved the village.  On our first day back from the holidays we had to put the crosses on the grass for the people who died around the Auckland area. 

Kiwiana artwork

Hi guys, In art in my class we have been doing some Kiwiana artwork. For our great pieces of art we had to colour our background either warm colours which are red, yellow, pink, and orange, or cool colours which were green, black, blue, and purple. For my background I used warm colours. When we finished our Kiwiana background we had to draw a picture of something native to New Zealand. This picture had to have the opposite colours of what I did for my background. I drew a fern for my picture in cool colours. Blog you later!

fun at wheels day

Talofa lava bloggers, Richard here. On Monday we had a really good time because it was our wheels day we had a slip,n slide I felt awesome when I slid down. the wheels was really cool we had fun games like capture the flag and t-ball the day was so amazing. The cool things about our wheels day was that we could have fun during school and also we got to stay outside for the day and didn't have to go to class. The downside was that it was hot the whole entire day. tofa soifua blog you later.