Minecraft Build Challenge

 Okay okay, I said that I would be doing weekly blogs but it's almost been a month. But that's not the point of this blog. We have been using Minecraft to make challenges to write about. We had to make stuff on the island that we could survive with on the island. Then we took Screenshots of the things we made and put them on a Google Doc. And then write about the things that were on the island and why we had them. We have been using Minecraft to show the other teachers that Minecraft can be used for learning.

Writing

We had chosen to make many things for this Challenge. We had made a Bunker, 2 Houses, a Well, a Carrot farm, and a blossom tree. 

I made a floating house and just a house with underground tunnels that takes you to an END PORTAL. Ben made the end portal. My floating house has underwater tunnels. Ben made a carrot farm underwater. We had chosen to make a farm because we needed food to survive, and we had a well for water. We made a bunker with all the things we need, we have a book chest, even an ender chest. But the bunker is camouflaged into a house. We had made the blossom tree for it to feel like there were more trees. We have a house out on the water and it leads to a fish tank. But you're underwater and the fish are above you, and it leads to the carrot farm. We have a secret entrance to lead into the end portal, but you have to pull the secret lever to get it to activate. We also put buried treasure on the island. Do you think you would be able to survive on this island, with all of these things? If you think you could, go to Ben and you can try to survive on the island with nothing.

Where I've been

 The reason why I haven't been doing any blog posts for the past two months is that We haven't been able to use Blogger because of the rules saying we had to be old enough.  But today we have started to reuse it. This is my first blogger post in over 2 months. maniakalani had shut down bloggers because you had to be over 13 to use this site. But we had still been using it at under 13, so maniakalani shut down blogger for primary schools. But when everyone had no hope for our school, we had started doing blogs on Google sites. Which turned out to be kinda fun, but we did not get to finish off any of them. I think that it was kind of stupid that they shut down blogger because blogger had so many good features that we learned, then they all just went down the drain. But we got it back in the end, better late than never is what I also say.

This is one of my blogs on Google Sites.

BUILD TO THE SKY

 This week for reading we have been doing it on Amazing Structures, like bridges and sky scrapers. We had to read 2 articles. Next we had to go onto google maps and measure with building. But the best part of this reading is we get to build a bridge or a sky scraper in MINECRAFT, then take a screen shot then put it on your reading VNB. My favourite part of this reading is going to be making my bridge in Minecraft. What's your favourite structure in the world? Let me know.    

I am A MAGICIAN!

This week for reading, we are doing it on magic. With our magic reading we had to read 3 articles and make a E Book on a Magician. Then we had to do 3 magic tricks in front of our family. We also had to come up with a name for ourselves, I called myself The Great and Amazing Boy. My favourite part of this reading was making the E book, because I love making E books. Do you like Magic or have you done any Magic tricks before? Let me know.

Lock down

We have had lock down for the past few days, because of Covid 19. In Lock down we have been having Bubble School. Bubble School is when you do school but at home, and go on google meets to see what you need to do. This is our second day of Bubble School and i'm waiting to get out of Lock down. My favourite part of Lock down so far is staying at home and being able to go outside, and play basketball. The worst part of Lock down for me is having to go on google meets and needing to wait until 2pm to have a meet with the teacher for help. Whats your favourite part of Lock down? Let me know.

I am a Scientist!!!

We are doing a Science fair at school, but it’s a virtual Science fair. We have made a Jamboard with our ideas for what to do for our Science fair. We have done this Science fair so we can learn about Science and get our brains thinking about what we could do with Science. One of my ideas was, What gives for heat a Red light or a Blue light? So far this Science fair has been a lot of fun because we get to think of ideas  and then get to test them and that's the fun part. I have 5 ideas for what I could do for the Science fair and I'm still thinking of more. My favourite part of the Science fair was coming up with the ideas because I got to think of what would be fun as a project. What would your favourite part of the Science fair be?Let me know.

Tokyo 2020 but in 2021?!?!?!?

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is going on right now, but it's not 2020 it's 2021 we have the 2020 Olympics in 2021. It's because we had corona virus in 2020 and the Olympics got postponed to 2021. With the Olympics going on we have watched about 6 hours watching the Olympics at school. My favourite event at he Olympics is the basketball. We have won 6 Golds 4 Silvers and 5 Bronze. I hope one day that I could get into the Olympics for basketball. What is your favourite sport in the Olympics, and what would you want to go for?

 

I'll see you in 50 years.

 In the past few days we have been making a formal letter to put in a Time Capsule. A Time Capsule is something that you hide somewhere and if someone finds it will get send to you, and we are writing to our selves. First step was to write a formal letter to our selves. We are going to put stuff from the current time of 2021 and then hopefully someone will find it then will send it to us and we can see what has been happening in 2021, because we would have forgotten what is going on now. The only thing we know that we are going to put in there is a and the letters Covid Mask. I have been having some fun doing this Time Capsule. Have you ever made a Time Capsule before? Tell me in the comments or send me a email benp@kaniere.school.nz.

This is my letter that i'm putting in the Time Capsule so far.

Matariki Mat

 We have made a Matariki Mat. You might be thinking what is a Matariki Mat, it was a Mat made out of Harakeke and you weave it into something like a plate. First with out Mat we had to get 12 pieces of small flax then start weaving, a 7 by 5 grid. Next you have to put the 2 ones next to the middle flax and fold them up to the, other side. Next you grape the 2 ones on the edge and fold, them to the other side. Then you fold the 2 up top back down, next you fold the one in the middle and do the same thing. Then you get something that you can tie something     with like a rope, then grab all of the flax and tie them together. In do that for the other side, Then you need to do that with the other ones and then you are done that. You need to fold it up and make a handle then BANG you done. Have you made a Matariki Mat before or did you already now how? Let me now though a Email or in the comments.

I am a Artist

 We have been learning about Emily Carr with Mrs Swinburn. Emily Carr was a Canadian Artist that liked to paint trees. She was born on 13th December 1871 and died on 2nd March 1945. We wanted to make trees like Emily Carr  so first we had to get a sponge and then put in some paint then do the page and then put on a second colour or a third. Next we had to make a draft of our tree that we were going to make. Last we had to paint our draft tree onto the coloured paper. Have you ever made a tree like this? Tell me in the comments.

Fake News

How to spot fake news. To spot fake news you need to follow thees steps. First you need to read all the way throw that post to get all the info. Second you need to go some where else to see if others agree. You cant believe everything you see on the internet, because if you see a someone really smart say something you think is fake cheek else where to find out. Did you already now how to spot fake news?

First flight of Kaniere 2021

You might be thinking, why have I made another Rocket blog? Because that bottle didn't have carbonated water so it EXPLODED!!! So we got someone carbonated water bottles and started putting on the fins and we were going to put a tennis ball on top. But I put sand in there and the same with Lincoln. The first thing I did was cut off the top of a bottle and then put some sand into it as my weight. Next I had to clue the top of the bottle back on then Mr A put some duct tape on it because Mr A is very smart. Then I cut out some fins but I haven't finished cutting them out. But Lincoln managed to finish his Rocket and we blasted that one off. Can you give me anything that could help me make a better Rocket?

Blasting off A Rocket!

We have been learning about Rockets. Our class has entered a Challenge called the Rocket Challenge. In the Rocket Challenge you make bottle Rockets and put pressure into the bottle and launch it and try to be the best school. First we need to get 1.5 litre bottles to blast off. Oscar and Jack.T brought in Lipton tea bottles but when we put fins on it and 500 ml, it EXPLODED!!! Everyone was excited but confused. Because it was really funny for it to explode but not a lot of people knew why. Mr A told us that the Lipton drinks weren't fizzy so it couldn't handle the pressure and exploded. Would you like to do the Rocket Challenge?    

I almost died! (not real)

 A few weeks ago we made some Anzac letter home from Gallipoli. The first thing we did with this we looked at a dairy to someone who got put in prison in the Anzac war. They made a story about what they do there. Then Mr A told us that we were going to make letters home from Gallipoli.

First we had to write our letters on our computers so we had everything planned out. When we finished we got some paper and put some wet tea bags and dip them on it and made it look like really 100 year old paper. Then we left it outside for about 5 minutes and then we started writing. With the writing there isn’t that much to say about it because it was easy just long. When I finished we put some pictures on the poster and then we were finished. Do you know a lot about Anzac? Tell me in the comments.

I Am The Best Runner In The World

A few days ago I went to Athletics. The ones that I was in were 50m, 1000m, High Jump, Discus and long jump. The first thing that we did was Discus. With Discus you throw a disc as fair as you can. You get 3 tries at throwing, my first try was my best. I get a PB of 16.33m. My 2nd try I got 13.23m, My 3rd try I got 16.20m. Then we went to the 1000m. We were waiting for the race to start for about 5m. When it did start we had to do 2 and a half laps of the high school field. Lincoln got 1st, Haki got 2nd ,will got 3rd, and Crous got 4 and I got 5th.Then we went to the high jump. We had to wait around 20mins for it to really start. When it did start on my first jump I hit down the bare and the bare started at  1 METER. Then I thought I don’t want to do high jump now. But I still gave it a go, The same thing happened with the first jump. On the last jump when I hit the bare down it hit my spin and it really hurt. Then we went to the 50m. The 50m was finished in seconds. Then we went to the long jump my first jump was 2.22 my 2nd jump was a no jump same with the 3rd jump.

Have you ever run 1000m tell me in the comments.

The Best Swimmer in the World!!!

 We have had swimming sports recently. With swimming sports year 4, 5 and 6s swim at the Hokitika pool qualify for the districts. Only year 5 and 6s can go to districts. My races were 3 lengths freestyle ,2 lengths freestyle, 1 length freestyle. 2 lengths backstroke, 1 length backstroke, 1 length breaststroke, 2 lengths breaststroke, 3 lengths, IM wihich is 1 length backstroke ,1 length breaststroke, 1 length freestyle. and lastly butterfly. Do you enjoy swimming as much as I do?. Have you ever done butterfly or breaststroke tell me in the comments?

I Am A Professional Cricket Player

 Yesterday we went outside and did cricket practices. Two men from Canterbury Cricket came to work with us. First they asked us who was the fastest. Cooper thought she was really fast so she was the first in for ball tag. When someone got tagged they had to help the tagger. Oscar  and I where  the last people left. Then we did some catching. All we had to do was catch the ball. Then we did some batting. We got three bats and whatever team got the most hits won. Our team WON!!!.Do you want to play Cricket? If you do send me a picture.

The Best Animation In The WORLD

 

Today my group finished our animation. We had to do our animation about Kaitiakitanga. We made someone picking up rubbish on the beach and see a turtle that got beached. He called the vet and they put the turtle back into the water. Me, Lincoln, Xanthe, Renny and Rhys made this animation. Do you like our animation?

Klewed up "Chill" Dren

 4 days ago we went to Clued up Kids. 'Clued up Kids' was a group of emergency services, NZ Rail, NZ Search and Rescue and others who were there teaching us about all kinds of safety. 

ST. Johns were there to teach us some basic First Aid.  It was fun learning about how to wrap a badge around a knife that was stuck into you. There were also people teaching us about animal safety, around horses. They told us if you are going to be behind a a horse you let them know you're there, because if you scare them they will kick you, and that could kill you. Then we went to the Police area. The Policeman were with someone from the rescue team. They told us all the things that they would need to go and rescue if someone got lost. Then we went to 'how to make your house safe.' They told us to walk around the tables (house) and see how many things you can see that can hurt you. I didn't like doing the animal safety because I do not like horse's. I liked doing the police because all I needed to join was just finish high school. You might be able to go to Clued Up Kids too? 

Ben Provis The Auther

 Today I finished  my E-book. We started our E-books in week 2, when Mr A said were going to make a real book for the little kids I thought he was joking, but then we actually made one. First we found a picture and I chose a fire in the house with a big hole in the ground leading to LAVA! When we thought we had finished we had a buddy check it for us so we could see any mlstakes. You are able to look on our learning site to see mine and Oscars, have fun reading!

Me Poster

 

At the start of school Mr A wanted us to start a Me Poster we had to colour EVERYTHING in, Mr A wants no white to be there. We had to write in our name what colour hair we have what our favourite TV show is, our favourite colour, where we live, our family, our favourite sport, our favourite food and favourite book. 

I made a poster!!!

 

Today we looked at the Kawa of Care rules.  We decided that the document was very boring to look at.  Our task was to turn the boring Google Presentation into an interesting Poster for our walls. 

 I finished my Kawa of Care poster. First we all thought how would we make a poster on our Chrome books? Then Mr A showed us this site called Canva then we looked for a poster and put some of the Kawa of Care rules on.

How do you think I could improve this poster at some point I would love some ideas.