What Does A Tidy Drive Look Like?

This week we have been learning how to clean our Google Drive.  We first watched a video of a person doing a activity.  After the we watched the  video we had to do the same activity as the person on the video.  First we ignored the 2nd slide and moved on to the 3rd slide which was the slide the person did.  

I actually figured out that the 2nd slide was a activity two..   On the 3rd slide we had to sort files for John.  We put a red circle around the docs that aren't named and if the docs were not named right we would have to put a blue circle around the file.  When we sorted the correct files we had to drag the docs into the correct folders.  There was multiple folders we had to drag the docs into like a writing folder and a reading folder.

I liked sorting out files and it inspired me to make a few other folders.

Do you know how to tidy drives?

Team Building Busters

 This week in Te Ngahere  we have been doing team building.  We did something called Taskmaster.  The name was based on a show that has comedians that do tasks.  Today fo Taskmaster we had to copy a drawing that was hanging outside but the challenge was that only the walkers can go outside and the walkers can’t touch the paper.

For the first attempt it was quite challenging because we did not know what the teacher was talking about.  I expected it to be one big drawing but it was a complex system of random drawings and that made it complicated.  Everything was going smooth until the teachers said “5 more minutes!” That's the reason that we did not complete the picture.  The only thing that was good was the drawer being a good boy and actually listening to us.

The second drawing went better than the first attempt.   We were better mostly because the teacher wouldn't yell how much time is left.  What worked well is that we were not stressed because we were having to much fun.  It all went smooth but one thing happened and it was still hard because we had the same rules as last time.  It was not challenging because we already knew some of the drawing which helped us.  We mostly got better because we had more knowledge because it was the same picture and that’s how we changed our picture.

It was very fun but we had Taskmaster before and our name was 3 Little Fishes.

Have you done team building before?

Original 

1st attempt

2nd attempt

The Food Web Catastrophe

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Food webs and food chains. Food webs are more complex than food chains because they have more arrows than a food chain. Here are 3 reasons why my food web is different to the other one: There are different colored arrows to represent what type of consumer it is, the arrows are WAY more complex than mine and the arrows phase through the pictures making it easy to understand and see. The reason why the arrows are like this is because it is the way energy transfers. If the arrows were pointing the wrong way (Eg: bird pointing to plant) that means the plant is eating the bird. If it was the opposite (Eg: plant pointing to bird) that means the bird is eating the plant. So if you get it wrong it can change everything!! Even though I didn't have a proper food web it was close enough and the teacher liked it. We are making food webs because we are going for a walk in the Ngahere so we can learn enough to make a report. I feel like next time we do this I should make my food web more complex. Have you made a food web before?

Mutualism/Ecosystem Help!!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about mutualism. Mutualism is based on plants, organisms, organic things and inorganic things having relationships with each other. An inorganic thing in ecosystems is a dead thing that was living and a orginic is the opposite of inorganic because organic stuff is living. I discovered that trees help birds by giving them fruit and birds help trees by fertilizing the seed from the fruit and dropping the seed somewhere else. Since bees collect pollen they help the flowers by transporting the pollen to another flower and then they transport the rest of the pollen to their hive. . I.Ecosystems can be anything between the smallest puddle to the biggest jungle because all it needs is a producer, consumer and a decomposer. Mutualism can be done by anything because bees and flowers can also do mutualism. I like this because it is reading and reading is my favorite subject because we write and read and I like doing that. Did you know about Ecosystems or mutualism?

A Tsunami Fake Out

Last week we experienced a Tsunami warning as soon as we started school. I was a bit nervous and started to freak out as soon as I heard that this was not a drill, but an actual Tsunami warning. We started to walk up the hill and I got more anxious. While going up the hill we left everything behind and we had no food but we had water later on. 

 I felt anxious because of my family but I noticed my family was safe and the other reason why I was anxious because our bags and our chromebooks were down at Tsunami level. A little while later there was still no Tsunami but then the staff went down to get our bags and I was very happy because I would've starved. Along with us getting our bags we got some sausage sizzles from down below and their company name was called Fritz‘s Wieners . We had a quiz about Harry Potter and after that quiz we did, another one about prior knowledge. 

 Halfway through the second quiz the quiz master thought it was a good idea to change the quiz up because we had to make a funny sound to answer the question. We had to stop because cars kept on interrupting us. While we were eating we had a little dance party music in the background and some of the songs made people dance. 

 There was no tsunami at the end and I was even happier that my chromebook was not destroyed. After the fake-out we had a play outside for the rest of school day. At the end we got ice cream and it was delicious. Have you had a fake or real Tsunami before?