TerraCycle

A few years ago, when I was scrolling through the internet I found a website and company called TerraCycle. After a little bit of reading and researching I found it was a recycling company that recycle non-recyclble waste. I though straight away that this was a really cool idea and introduced the idea to my principal. He also loved the idea, however we never had the time. At the end of last year we quit, and a new fill in principal came. This year I handwrote a letter to him about the idea and though it was amazing, and helped me and my friend start the 

Suez Canal (group reading work)

Today in class for reading and word study, our reading group (the Itlots, the name created by 2 words (it and lots) found in a book and combined together) Mrs Bennett introduced a new reading topic... the Suez Canal! After a bit of reading and researching we were asked to make a slideshow to display work, then share our work onto our blogs. Here is our presentation...

Snr Bike Ride Slow Writing

On the 18th and 19th of March, Room 4 went on our annual Snr Bike ride. We rode the Rakauroa Road, the Koranga Valley Road, and the Te Wera Road. Then pitching tents and staying the night at a woolshed. (I will be doing some writing about the trip with more detail and information later!) 

 Afterwards, when we were back at School, we did some slow writing about or trip/journey. Here it is...

Awa Poem

Recently in class, we read a poem in class about the river mouth. After reading the poem we did some writing changing the words but keeping the same format. Here is my poem... 

Enjoy! 

All About Me!

 

Kia ora, my name is Hayley, I’m a year 8 attending Matawai School. I live an hour out of Gisborne, with my family of four on a small farm or lifestyle block with many animals and a humongous garden! My family and I are from Australia and moved here in 2016. This year I'm looking forward to the Snr bike ride/camp and another camp later in the year.

At School, I love all subjects, but I find Math the most challenging of them all. One of my biggest goals for this year would be to keep trying my best and progressing in all subjects for high school next year. Some of my favourite things to do in spare time are to spend time with family, friends and animals, along with drawing, playing sports, doing photography, playing the ukulele, writing, silent reading, looking after the environment, driving motorbikes and racing my Go-Kart. My favourite author currently is Justin D’ath and his book 47 Degrees which is based on a true story in Australia about the bush fires not far from where I used to live. That is just one of many books and I'm sure I will find many other favourites throughout the year!

In the future, I’d love to have a job in the medical field and be a paramedic, vet/doctor, police officer or firefighter and if those plans don't work I’d love to travel the world visiting a wide variety of countries and trying new things and cuisine along with inspiring and spreading awareness along the way. Otherwise I'll try to become a professional driver and race F1 cars, motorcross or karting. I’m looking forward to finishing my last year positively and seeing what 2021 brings, I hope you enjoy reading my blog posts! Mā te Wā

Float Your Boat

For today's Summer Learning Journey task, we had to make paper boats. But, that isn't all, we also had to test our boats to see if they could float. 

From there, if we wanted to complete the Step It Up task we also had to see if they floated with weights (rocks) and see what boat can hold the most weight. 

To test my paper boats, I went down to the river with my family. At our river spot we have a small flowing creek which I used to float the boats in to see if they floated in both still and flowing water. 

I found the making of the paper boats really easy and fun, my boats floated perfectly with and without weight, although once I added to many rocks... it sunk! But to be fair, it was already a little bit wet and so the paper had already been soaking in the water and there were way too many rocks in the boat. 

Anyways, without further to do, here is the pictures I got...

In this photo (above) I am holding my 2 boats, I also named one of my paper boats Bateau De Papier. I don't really have a reason of why I called one of my boats 'Bateau De Papier' I just thought that calling it 'Paper Boat' would be boring so I chose a country, used Google translate to translate paper boat, and that's how I got the name!

In this picture one of my boats (above) is floating down the stream

And in this photo, my boat flowing down the stream once again. I got sidetracked swimming and playing around at the river and completely forgot to get any photos of the paper boats carrying weights, but the Bateau De Papier did manage to carry over 10 rocks before sinking. 

Have you ever made a Paper Boat? Did you find it easy or hard to make?

String Games!

Today I completed the 'string games' activity from the Summer Learning Journey page. This blog post was super fun to do! This blog post is quite short, but their really isn't a lot to it. All we had to make was a cup and saucer, I remember making one of these when I was younger, and it was relatively easy, anyways without any further to do, here is my cup and saucer... 

There is a 'Step It Up' task coming soon!