Case Closed

Today we have completed our Crime Scene Investigation on who broke in and stole the Milky Ways. It took us around six weeks to find out who committed the crime. We had a final catch up with Mrs Taaffe to present our evidence to her on why we thought she was the Milky Way thief. Finally, this morning she confessed to committing the crime. Some of that evidence included was that she had fingerprints all over the scene, She was here on the day of the crime and she had been using an HDMI cord regularly because she was having Chromecast issues. After confessing to her crime she told us her story on why she did it. She had come into school on the day of the crime to drop some work off and she needed to get an HDMI cable from our class because she was having Chromecast issues. When she came into Whetu she saw the Milky ways and she loves mini chocolates so she took some and hurried off in a rush because she thought someone was coming. Along our journey of solving the crime, we have learnt how to lift and identify fingerprints, We have had people come in and show us how to use special investigation tools and devices and all-round we have just learnt so much from this. Whetu has forgiven Mrs Taaffe for what she has done as long as she buys us another bag of Milky Ways!

Letter of the Week

  

Today I have completed my Letter of the Week. The letter was E! I found this letter pretty easy because there are quite a few words with an E in it.  I had a lot of fun trying to find a way to present my learning and answers. I made the whole background of my slide by myself and I didn't use any pictures apart from the big E. I am pretty happy with how my LOTW turned out and I can't wait until next week!

Letter of the Week

 

Today I have completed my Letter of the Week. I went with the theme of a game called AMONG US which has recently become a big hit! I chose this theme because  I really like the look of the little characters and I thought it would be cute to do as a theme! The letter for this week was C! I am so happy with how my LOTW turned out and I think that it is a SUPERNOVA because I made all the little characters by myself and really tried to put detail into the presentation. I really can't wait to see what I come up with next week!

Letter of the Week

 

This is my Letter of the Week for this week. The letter was R! I tried to come up with a new idea for presenting my work this week but my mind went blank. Suddenly I thought about how the US election is happening so I did something along the lines of America. I am not very happy with my LOTW for this week. I kinda feel like I failed and I rushed it because I had to do all sorts of other things.  I hope next week I can come up with something that can make up for this week!

 

My Letter of the Week

 This is my Letter of the Week for last week. This LOTW came a bit late because the presentation took a while because I had to trace everything and make it my own. The Letter was N for last week and I am so happy with how my LOTW turned out!!! The theme I went with was Halloween fruits because Halloween was coming up so I just went with it. I think my work is a SUPERNOVA because I really tried hard to make everything my own and make sure my idea for my presentation was out of the box! I rate my work a 10/10 and I can't wait until I finish the next letter and what I come up with!

NPS Athletics Reflection

 

Yesterday was our school athletics day! I competed in Long Jump, High Jump, Shotput, 800m, 100m and 200m. I came first in all my events apart from 4th in Shotput with a 5cm difference from 3rd to 4th. The event I found the most challenging was the Shotput because I don't usually practise it and I'm not very good at throwing events.  The event I found the easiest was the Long jump because I have been practising it forever and I jumped a distance of 4 meters and 23cm! I think I used a lot of Resilience in my events when it got challenging and I'm so happy with how I did yesterday.  It will be fun to see how I go in Hauraki Plains if I made it!

Whetu C.S.I 2020: Fingerprints

 

Lately, for our Whetu Case, we have been focusing our work on fingerprints! We have had someone working for the police ( Sally) come in and teach us more about fingerprints and blood samples etc. She taught us a lot and we learned so much from her! Later on, in the week, we got a chance in our C.S.I rotations to transfer our fingerprints onto a piece of paper and identify what pattern they were. Did you know that there are three main fingerprint patterns! There is the loop ( Most common) The whorl ( Second most common) and the arch ( The rarest). But there is also another pattern called the double loop which is very rare and apparently, if you get it then it means you can see both sides of an issue and you would be a great lawyer. I found out I have 4 loops and 6 whorls! I think transferring my fingerprints to paper was fun but it was harder than I had thought it would be.  I can't wait to carry on with our investigation and it will be fun to see what we do in future!

Whetu Case # 2020

 

Yesterday was the first day back to school and the first day that we were trying something new! We started doing a criminal investigation in the class because someone had broken in and had stolen all the chocolates! Whetu started off the investigation by observing the scene and seeing what was left behind that might help us to find out who had stolen the chocolates. As well as doing that we got a booklet to fill in and draw a sketch of the scene and what it looked like. Quite a few things were left by the thief that we might be able to do a swab of and check if it has any D.N.A left on it. The second day of school we continued on with the investigation and had a talk about theories and collecting evidence to help us. The teachers also got us to fill in a case file on google slides to remember all the things we had learned within the days we had been investigating. So far that is all we have done and I feel like we are covering a lot of ground. I can't wait to continue on with the investigation and find out who the culprit is!

My Case File slides

My Letter of the Week

 

Today I have finished my Letter of the Week! The letter was M. I found this letter really easy I guess just because I know a lot of answers related with M. I had lots of fun presenting my learning and I am pretty happy with it. The only hard part was that I don't have many ideas left seeing we have done so many and I have used most of my ideas. I rate my learning a SUPERNOVA because I got it done really quickly and I made sure I thought it was up to my standards!

The Mystery of the Missing Moji

 

Today I have completed the Mystery of the Missing Moji. I had so much fun solving the Mystery and I found it pretty easy to do.  I worked alongside Madeleine to complete the mystery and I found it great to work with her. The missing emoji I got was the emoji with a halo ( Angel emoji)! I hope I got this right because I am 100% sure we did everything correctly. I can't wait to do another Maths Mystery soon because I had so much fun!

My Literacy Mystery

Today I have completed the Literacy Mystery. I had so much fun solving the mystery for this week and I thought it was pretty easy. The teacher had to explain to Fred the Moth what the first clue meant but after a short moment, I got the hang of it. I think the winning astronaut is Hugo Cooper. I'm 100% sure I got it right and I hope the Maths Mystery will be even better! I rate my working out a SUPERNOVA because it took me a very short amount of time and I was able to figure it out by myself.

My Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori slides

This is my Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori slide. Since it is Maori language week the teachers gave us a challenge to do with Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. I had so much fun doing this challenge and I think my slides turned out great. The challenge was to do a bunch of slides with the things the teachers said you had to have in it. But you also had to pick a phrase to base your slides on. The phrase I used was To ataahua Hoki. That means you look beautiful. I rate my work a SUPERNOVA because I really tried hard to make sure I paid attention to all the things the teachers wanted in my slides and I think I did that successfully.

Her is the LINK to my slides.

My Letter of the Week

 

This is my G Letter of the Week. This was my last LOTW for this term. I'm pretty happy with how it came out and I really enjoyed presenting and finding my answers. The theme I went for was shapes. I found some cool pictures and ten cropped them into shapes before putting my answers in them. I think the final result of my LOTW turned out great and I cant wait to see if we do it again next term.

Literacy Investigation

 

For this blog post, I did the Literacy investigation. I had to solve who stole the missing gold medal. I worked alongside Maddy when it got a bit hard. I found it pretty easy most of the time but there was this one clue that tricked me because it didn't really make sense to us and we hadn't learned much about it and the different names it had. I had heaps of fun solving the mystery and I can't wait to do the Maths mystery. I think the thief is CLAIRE WHITE!

My Letter of the Week

 

This is my Letter of the Week. The letter was L. I found this letter really easy because there are a lot of nouns and adjectives etc with L's in them. I had lots of fun finding out my answers. But I had a lot of trouble trying to find a new way to present my learning. I have no idea what I am going to do next week but I can't wait until the next letter! 

Letter of the Week

 

This is my LOTW for this week. The letter was J! I found this letter super hard because J isn't a very common letter so it was hard to find words and nouns for the letter. I also learnt something new along the way like what a Hajj is. A Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage where they travel to Mecca and Saudi Arabia. I had lots of fun with this weeks letter because it really challenged me. I am also so happy with how I presented my findings because I made the background myself.

Letter of the Week

 

This is my letter of the week for week 6. The letter was T! For some reason, I felt like presenting my work in a way that involved cupcakes. I have no idea why I presented it this way but I'm really happy with how it turned out. I had so much fun creating my letter of the week and I can't wait until next weeks letter!

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.