Rangitoto comic

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Guess and check

Today for maths I was revising “Guess and Check.” I have just learnt guess and check this week. Our teacher had created a document where we had to answer questions and use guess and check as our strategy. It did take me a long time to finish all seven questions but I got there in the end. Guess and check is a strategy that I will try to use more of in the future. I didn’t really struggle with anything but I have to admit, my times tables are a bit shaky. Due to that, I did sometimes get my answer wrong. I enjoyed doing this activity because it really made my brain think which is always good since i do slack off sometimes.

Origami crane

Origami crane

This is an origami crane that we made with our Japanese teacher Mr Yamasaki. I enjoyed making it and it was a lot of fun, I would love to make another origami again.

Chalk Art

For the past few weeks Room8 has been learning about the rio olympics. Therefore our teacher and another teacher had thought up of an idea that we should draw a sport with chalk from the olympics, placing our bodies in the position where it looks like we are taking part. The sport I had chose for my art was canoe sprint.  Due to the weather concerns we had to wait and choose a sunny day to draw our art. Finally on Friday 12th of August the sun had decided it would come out, so then we emptied our class and left to the senior court. Once we had finished our art our teacher would come and take a photo then another photo but on a ladder making it look like a bird's eye view. I would do this art again but not any time soon, anyway I really enjoyed this art and I know that the rest of my classmates did too.

Mark gets overtaken

Cook Island Language Week

Since it was Cook Island language week we had some visitors coming in to talk with students about Cook Island’s history. Some of the visitors were from the Auckland Museum and knew MANY things about the Cook Island culture. A vaka - (Cook Island canoe) was used back in the days when we didn't have mitre ten or electronics. The vaka was made of a hollow log, niu - (coconut string) and to make it water proof they used grape fruit sap.  I found the drill they used a long time ago really fascinating because I had no idea that something like that was even invented. They had so much to tell about their culture and they taught me so much, I mean I never knew that a Vaka could be also shown as a family.

Jim Thorpe