Whetū Workshops Reflection

 

Whetū Workshops Reflection

During Term 2 and 3 the Whetū students have had the opportunity to be involved in a range of different workshops.



The workshop that I have enjoyed participating in the most has been fitness because I have been trying to stay on top of my physical health and I feel like that really helped alongside my training at home.


The new learning that I have learnt is about what happens when you put certain things together just like chemical reactions.

We did one reaction where we put Vinegar and warm milk together and it curdled it all and I didn’t know that would happen when you put them together.


What I have most enjoyed about the workshops are changing workshop times from a 2-day workshop course to a 3-day course because then you can really get stuck into what you are doing.


I am interested in learning more about making pom pom birds because they came out looking like an absolute fail and I thought mine was so ugly and I was not happy with them at all.

Letter of the Week

 

This is my LOTW for this week! The letter was A which was cool because that is my first initial! I had so much fun doing the letter A and I really love the way I presented it. I think the background and everything in my presentation POPS! I also think I used my space on the slide really well because most of the time I had to cram things in.  I rate my work a supernova because in my sentence I have 19 A's in it! I can't wait until next weeks letter which will be T!

My Zoo inquiry

 

For the last few weeks, Whetu has been working on an inquiry to do with zoos. Our question was " Should Animals be kept in zoos?"  To present my findings I made a poster with lots of little animals on it. My opinion on animals being kept in zoos is yes they should. The reason behind my opinion was because if they are in zoos they have breeding programmes for animals becoming extinct and they also have proper medical care for animals and other things like that. I am so happy with how my inquiry came out and I can't wait to see if we do another one.

Letter of the Week

 

For the Letter of the Week for this week, it was H!  I found this letter pretty easy and I love how I found all my words first really quickly and then had lots of time to focus on presenting my findings. For my presentation, I went with something that also started with H. The first thing that came to my mind was Homer Simpson. I ended up going with inside Homers mind. I'm so happy with how my learning got presented and I think its a Supernova! 

My Cross Country Reflection

 Cross Country Reflection 2020

This year I participated in the NPS Cross Country held at school on the Ngatea Domain.  I ran in the 11 yrs age group.

I am most proud of coming first in Cross Country by quite a bit because I have never won before and so that means that all my effort and all of my training has paid off.

I think my effort towards our training at school was extremely awesome because I always made sure that I was pushing myself and focusing on things I should have done last year like my breathing.

I showed the Learning Power of Resilience by pushing myself towards the end of the race by making sure I picked up the pace so they didn't close the gap during my run. Another way I showed the Learning Power of Resilience was by always getting out there on my training runs at school and at home even though I didn’t feel like it.

Whetu Challenge

Today for our Whetu Challenge we had to work with our learning constellation groups to recreate a cartoon show group using google drawings. My group decided to go with the Simpsons. At the start, it was a little hard to get going seeing none of us had used google drawings in a long time or had never used it before and the Simpsons had lots of detail in them.  I went with Homer Simpson which I think is the hardest one because his shirt has all the little collar bits and his face was super detailed. In the end, I'm so happy with how ours turned out and I hope we do one of these again in the future. I think my favourite google drawing from another group was probably the Kermits, the Kermits had also done the Simpsons. I think why I like theirs the most is because they really paid attention to all the little details and made it look exactly like the real thing. I had so much fun doing this and I really hope you liked my groups google drawing!

This is my Homer Simpson.

Letter of the Week

For the letter of the week this week it was S! I had so much fun with this letter because it was easier and it gave me more time to think about my presentation.  For my presentation, I decided to just scramble all of it over the page but  I made sure that it was a tiny bit organized. I've seen other people do this which made me try it but I figured out that I can push myself to do even better the that. I don't think I will end up trying this way of presenting my findings again because I don't think it's up to my standards. Either way, it was really fun in the end.