House captains, Houses, and SHINE Cards!!

SO.... a couple of weeks back we started having house captain entries coming in from year 5's and 6's hoping to be chosen for house captains. Among them was me. AND, a couple of weeks back the house captains were announced! and I got chosen!!! SO, now I am house captain of mango house along with Isabel. Each house has a different mascot and mango has a shark!!!. The other mascots are: karoro (seagull), kakahi (orca), and manaia (seahorse) I have some responsibilities that come with being a house captain, such as being a role model for my house, setting up for school events, counting the house's SHINE cards, and just generally being awesome. I am so happy to be house captain and I look forward to the next three terms. See you next term!!
- Hunter

Escape from Kraznir

This week and last week in MLH EL4 writing group has been making something called Escape from Kraznir.

It is were you choose two characters from the picture below, and then make up another character. (that character is you BTW).Then you have to make a plan to escape from this evil castle called castle Krill, and then escape the land of Kraznir to get to your home country called Slinsil. You have to make a story were you decide your characters fate, a bit like Dungeons and Dragons if you know that game. BUT, there are some set challenges that you have to do on the way. I have only done one chapter so I am not so far in. But I like this writing task because I really like fantasy. Please leave a comment.

Aurora team Mindlab!!!!

Since last year, me and my friend Charlie have been going to Mindlab in Gisborne to develop a phone app. It is supposed to count you walking to Gisborne monuments, which Charlie and I have been actually been learning about in recent weeks! It is supposed to tell you how far it is from Gisborne or how far to get there in kilometres, were it is on the map, facts about the monument, and star rating. It has been really fun going to Mindlab every once in a while. We are using an app called Appsheets to create our app, and Appsheets uses Google Spreadsheets to make the app, so we have to put the info on the spreadsheet and the app updates by itself! But, it's actually not that easy. BUT, it's not that hard either. I don't exactly know the actual purpose of doing this app so I might have to ask why exactly we are doing this. I can't wait to see the end result of the app.

CAMP KAITAWA!!!!!!!

Last week me and the rest of the year sixes went on school camp at Camp Kaitawa. It was about 2.30-3 hours from school to get there. We had this really flash Go Bus with the best bus driver ever (Don) to get us there. Every day we went on a different walk and my favourite was either wakereiti or panekire bluff. I have tons of pictures to remember the week with and remember all the awesome stuff that happened. I was in a walking group with Seve, Josefa, Miriam, Henry, and me. our group was led by Stefan and Koka Ducky. my dad went on camp with me as well and his group was Bjorn, Shea, Bonnie, and Isabel. I made a reflection slide for my time so here it is: please leave a comment.

Mountain biking!!!

This weekend my friend Nikau and I went up to the fox st mountain bike trails. Nikau had his go pro hero 7 white and we took turns wearing it and videoing. We kept going down this one track called Central skidz (Central school named it). It is really fun and has lots of jumps to jump on. He made this cool video by editing and cutting bits of and putting music on. If you want to see the video here it is: Please leave a comment! :)

Fennel, Grass, and plants

 Today at MLH (moana learning hub) we went down to Hamanatua Stream, AKA our awa. We call it our awa because it is our stream in our pepeha. Three or four years back room 2 planted some native trees down at Hamanatua. Over the years the plants have grown, due to room 2 and later room 1 cutting down the fennel that grows around the plants and mulching the trees and the plants. It has always been hard work, but you feel a sense of accomplishment when it is done. Recently we have strode to make Hamanatua EVEN BETTER we put down some signs and made some brochures of what we have done. I was assigned to down under the bridge, so the trees and plants up the top are the ones I didn't do. Here are some before and after pictures:

Wondernana reading task.

Today in room 1 I had a reading task to make a advert for a fictional item called a wondernana. I made a powtoon for my advert. This 'wondernana' was supposed to be bigger yellower and tastier than any other banana. This is my powtoon and I hope you like it. Please leave a comment on my work. :D