Reuben's Blog

Hello, Last week the year 5 - 8 students at St Francis went to on buses to Waltham pool. When we got there we got changed and sat on the grass with our gear. Then the life guards explained to us the rules and then our teachers told us made us but sunscreen on. Then finally they let us go in one year group at a time. When we got in all our friend group went to the deep part of the pool and started jumping off the edge and doing massive bombs. One of our friends brought a water polo ball and we played for ages and we also had a go on the hydro slide and then got out. After the pool we came back to school and played some games. Then we went home, overall I had a great time. Have you been to Waltham pool before?

Hello, This week we have been trying the summer leaning journey program. This is a program where instead of your learning going down in the summer holidays it goes up. For this to happen you have to sign up to the program and other people that get payed comment on your blog. Once you have signed up you have to write 3+ blogs a week or 2 blogs for your learning to stay at the same level. Today I did the first summer learning journey decided to do active 2. This is where you had to create your own Mihi. Here is my Mihi:

Hello, This week we are writing poems about our culture or something we enjoy my poem was on rugby the type poem I was doing was a Haiku. The goal was inferring so that is called show not tell so that is when you not telling them what your poem is on your showing it. Have you done a poem before?

Hello, Last week on Friday, Sport Canterbury came to our school to run some actives they called this Top Team. This is a series of teamwork. Some of the actives involved water and other sport equipment. Ar each active you earned points and at the end you would total them all up. Their were about 12 groups with and about 6 to 8 in each group. Overall I had I great time taking part in Top Team and would love to do it again. Have you ever done Top Team before?   

Hello, On Wednesday this week we did Tough Kids. This is a obstacle course run by Sport Canterbury. We had the year 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8's running this race from our school. There were some actives that involved inflatables, water and lot's more. Overall this was really fun and hope we do this again. Have you done Tough Kids before?     

Hello, For the past couple weeks we have been doing sport rotations. We have been playing Cricket, Korfball, Lawn bowls and softball. My first rotation was Lawn bowls, someone from Lawn bowls Canterbury came in and taught us how to play we also did a lot of fun actives with her. For softball someone from our class dad came in and taught us how to hit the ball and catch. For Korfball there was a person from Korfball New Zealand and taught us how to play and all the different rules you have to follow. For Cricket we already knew how to play so we just played a big game. Overall I really enjoyed learning and playing these sports and hope we do more. Have you done any of these sports?   

Hello, This week for our create task we learnt about the sea and under water footage. Our question was Why do authors take a stance in an article? Here is my create task. What do you know about the sea life?

Hello, About two weeks ago Rory from attitude came to our school and talked to the Kaupeka hub about puberty and what changers we will have, he called himself the puberty man. We talked about things that would happen to us in the future. The next day Rory came again and the boys and the girls split us up. We talked about our emotions and how these will change. Has the puberty man came to your school?  

Hello, This week we were allowed to write a free choice blog, so I chose to write about my link Ed comment on the Six C's and how we used them on camp. The Six C's are Collaboration, Creativity, Citizenship, Character, Communication and Critical Thinking. Here is my comment hope you like it. In term 4 week 3 the kaupeka hub went on camp to Wainui. During camp I think I showed creativity at search and rescue because we learnt how to fix a broken leg or an arm with a stick. It was pretty easy because all we had to do was find a stick that was thicker than your pinky and longer than your forearm. Then rap some bandages around you the stick and make sure the patient can’t move their arm. I also showed collaboration at search and rescue as well. Because we all worked together to find one person that was hiding with walkie talkies. My favorite part of camp was when we went Coasteering because we got to jump off rocks and look sea-lifes. Have you ever used one of these ...

Hello, Over the past couple of weeks the kaupeka hub have been writing recipes based on different counties. On the first day of term 4, we got given the chance to pick a country out of a hat. Then we had to make some food the was from that country and we had to share it on Friday. But first we had to make a recipe I chose Palacinke it is a Croatian food. Here is my recipe. How to make Palacinke? This is a croatian dessert that is a very tasty and it takes approximately 20 minutes to make. This recipe should make 6 large palacinke. Ingredients: 3 eggs  1 cup of milk ⅓ cup of soda water ( has to be bubble ) 1 cup of all purpose flour  3 tablespoons of sugar essence Generous sprinkle of salt  1 teaspoon of vanilla  Butter or cooking oil for frying Materials:  A mixing bowl  Spoon/whisk Large frying pan A plate to put the Palacinke on Spatula  First grab your mixing bowl and lightly beat ...

Hello, This Term we went to on camp at Wainui for 3 nights and 4 days. We had to write a reflection which included what we found challenging, what was our favorite part at camp, something we learnt, something we were grateful for. Here is my reflection. Camp Highlights   What I found challenging ?  I found the high ropes really hard and not many people could get past the first stage. But lucky I made it, I also found this really fun. I was a bit scare when I was climbing because you had to trust the person on the ground because he was holding you up.  What did I learnt?  I learnt how to find someone then fix there broken leg and then build a stretcher for them it was really fun. I also learnt how to belay, feed the rope to the rope tier and be the rope tier in high ropes.  What was my favorite part? My favorite part was when we went coasteering because I loved jumping off the big rock that was about 5 meters high. I also loved kayaking ...

Hello, In this blog post I will be sharing my create task for this week. Hope you enjoy. There was 3 goals this week in our reading workshops. They were: Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. Make connection between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. Here is a link to my goggle drawing .  Whats your reading follow up?

Hello, For this terms PBL, our driving question is how can I celebrate who I am? A big part of this is culture, we have already been talking about this and the teachers said that we have to perform a piece of music therefore we are learning how to play different instruments. Many people assume culture with race this is not the only thing that makes your culture. Culture is made out of who you are as a person and what you belief in. So this term we got given two topics one around music and another around who you are as a person. I will post new updates soon. Whats your PBL topic? 

Hello, Have you ever played soccer before if not these are some instructions on how to play and on how to score a goal. If you didn't know Croatia's national sport is Soccer ( Football ) and this week we had to pick a country out of a hat and I picked Croatia. Here are some instructions on how to play and how to score a goal.   Equipment Needed: Soccer Ball 6 cones 2 soccer goals You need 11 players on each team Soccer boots Shin Guards Different uniforms to the other team Rules on how to play: Each team can have a minimum of 11 players ( including 1 goalkeeper who is the only player allowed to handle the ball within the 18 yard box) and a minimum of 7 players are needed to constitute a match. To be on side you have to be behind the opposite team to be on side. The whole ball must cross the goal line for it to constitute as a goal. In soccer there is something called a foul which means a person has done some foal play during the game. If the player has done...

Hello, As you may know this week we are presenting our PBL to our school and to do this we had to make a main artefact. Me, Nasili and Flynn looked into climate change and how we can create an environment safely to live in? We decided to make a dome on Minecaft to show different climates in each dome, we had Sunny, Snow, Raining and Water. We mainly focus on the domes and how we could survive in them. Our main artefact was three domes and one mini dome with a different climate in each one. Overall I think our project was really good and think this terms PBL was a big success. What do you think the future will ask from us?

Hello, For PBL everyone in Kaupeka had to make a main artefact and at least two sub artefacts. Some examples of a sub artefact is a website, poster, display, board and etc. As you may know my PBL question is "How Can We Create An Envoutement To Live Safely In The Future?" One of our sub artefacts are is a business card, we also created a poster. Here is our business card I hope you like it. Have you made a sub artefact before?

Hello, As you may know this is the last week of school and this Wednesday is our PBL day. Because of this everyone in Kaupeka had to make an invitation. In our invitation we needed to have the dates and times of the event and where it is. Here is my invitation I hope you like it. What do you think about the future?

Hello, This week for math we are doing a science investigation, we got the choice to work in a peer or by yourself but last Tuesday I wasn't here because I had my St Bede's interview and had to go with Joey which is all good. The next day Joey and I ended up doing our science project and it worked pretty good. Overall I had a really fun time and hope we do something like this next term. Have you done a science experiment before?    Link to science method

Hello, Last week we have been doing our PBL planning for this term. As you probably know this term I am doing PBL with Nasili and Flynn and our question is "How can we create an environment to live safely in the future?" We were sent a planning template and were ask to fill it out so we can get on with our PBL project. Here is Flynn, Nasili and my planning template I hope you like what were going to do. Do you have a big project coming up? Link to Planning Template   

Hello, For the past couple of weeks we have been going to each home base teacher to learn what the 7 sacraments are. After we went to each teacher we then got into groups of 3 if you wanted to do a video or if you were just doing a poster you had to go by yourself. I choice to go in a group with Nasili and Flynn we wanted to do marriage. Here is a link to my planning script. Do you know the 7 sacraments?  Link to planning script