Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Speeches

 This term we are doing our speeches!! I love doing our speeches because you get to stand up and persuade people that my opinion is right and that I am right. THis term my speech topic is Going For Gold In Achieving Your Goals . I am arguing that you should go for gold and achieve your goals and how you should go about it. Here is my speech:


Arthur Ashe once said

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can,”

  We all have goals in life that we set out to achieve.

 I believe we all have the ability to achieve these life goals.

 It's just a matter of using what we were given and go for gold to achieve the best we can.

 That's where this quote resonates with me.


Start where you are. 

Starting where you are is key,

like all things in life you need a starting point.

 If you start from where you are you can understand your strengths and weaknesses

 then you can work out a mental plan as to where you need to go next to achieve your goal.


Finding the start is stopping and looking around you to find the starting track. 

It is often thought that you have to go somewhere and then you can finally begin but actually all you need to do is start right where you are and go from there. 

Start with something that is achevibal, 

something easy 

and then work your way up to bigger goals 

that will require knowledge, preservarencie and determination.


Use what you have.

 We all have things that are unique

 and those things are the reasons we are different from everyone else, 

all we have to do is embrace that we are different and use those as our superpowers to go for gold. 

Use your surroundings to help you reach your goal, 

if there is something you need,

 set a goal to get that or make do without it.


Arthur Ash became the first and remains the only African/American tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles, (famous world tennis comp), 

He used his skills and proved just because he's different he can still go for gold and achieve his goals.

 Use your knowledge that you have now to elaborate and learn more to go for gold.

 Obviously over time you will obtain the right tools and skills you will need to go for gold.


Do what you can. 

In life to achieve goals and go for gold you can only ever do what you can,

 but you also have a voice to say

 “this is what is happening".

 You should do your absolute best in everything that you do to show that you are worth the support and value


Doing what you can can also mean helping others with their goals,

 their goals can become your goals to achieve.

 You have the power of all of your decisions and choices,

 the goals and things you take up

 and the things that you do. 

You can make change in someone

, something, or the world


All of our goals are achievable and are worth achieving

. Goals are part of life

 you are going to have to make one somewhere in your life. 

So remember whether you are smarter, 

Faster,

 Taller

 or more popular

 doesn't mean your goals are easier or harder than anyone elses to achieve

, at the end of the day make sure you go for gold.




Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Green Gold!🌳🌿

 Since 2014, our school has been working our way up to be a Green Gold school. It is now 2021 so we have been completely environmental for 7 years! Our generation (us kids), are the ones that can change our future from global warming, trashed streets and sickly gasses floating around in our air to beautiful wetlands filled with birds and native plants, clean air and native animals that are nearly extinct coming back to full capacity. 

Yesterday we had the Green Gold people ( Charlotte, Kirsty, Rick and Kauri ) come and judge if we are worthy of holding the Green Gold title. In the morning when they got there we greeted them with a powhiri. After the powhiri my class went to find the start of Hamanatua, our school awa. I horse ride over the hill we were walking so I knew the way. 

When we got to the gate into the farm Koka Rozie told us the precautions to take on the farm and then we headed in. Right at the start was a steep, slippery hill we had to climb up to get to the creek. I barely made it down the hill without falling, when it was my turn to jump I had tightened my bag straps and prepared myself and swoosh... I made it without any water on me, TADA!!

Onwards..... We followed the river through mud and poop until we got to the base of Hamanatua. Woohoo!! We made it. Everyone was super ready for lunch so we sat and ate our food. It is hard to believe that Hamanatua started as a big wetland, just a humongous paddock full of mud and cows!

When we got back a awesome surprise was waiting for us... WE GOT GREEN GOLD!!!!!!!
















Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Learning makey makey for LTP

Learning makey makey for LTP 

This week I went to makey makey and we first tried to make a lightbulb light up but then we decided to make a piano out of random objects but first we made it out of playdough then we found these cotton balls and connected those to the alligator clips and then we tapped it and then it made a piano sound then we started to find things like pasta, spaghetti, ping pong balls, circuit ball and humans... YES humans, we found that if someone is holding earth and someone is hooked up to the alligator clip if you are holding the earth you can touch the one holding earth, you can tap the nose of the person clipped to the alligator clip and they will make a piano noise. It was awesome.


 

Thursday, 13 September 2018

Room 5 helped nature

Check out our Gisborne Herald article about our penguin boxes here.

Our Inquiry Topic is: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
This term we made Little Blue Penguins boxes. Their population is going down.
We did this because we care for them and we learnt how to build.
We placed our penguin boxes all over Wainui Beach coastline.We put them all the way to Hamanatua stream and back to Tahini Point. 
To monitor our penguin boxes we will go down to the place we put them.If the entrance way is blocked we will clear it.

Nga Manu Waiata will further support us by giving us traps to put them by the boxes.


Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Room 5 Tunnel Data Bar Graph

Room 5 took the gotcha tunnels and ink pads home.
We made a graph here it is:


The least common Pest was the hedgehog
there was only 1.
The most popular pest was the rat.
Lots of people
had no foot
prints.