Creating A Short 4 Shot Movie

 Kia ora bloggers in Te Ngahere we made 4 shot movies, these movies could be about anything that we wanted it to be about. We had to include these four shots establishing shot which tells you where the story takes place, a long distance shot to show you where the character is placed, a medium shot shows you more detail about what the character is doing and a close up to show you what the character is doing but at a better angle. We did all of our shots but I think that we might have forgot to do the medium shot, I think that we did the establishing shot and the long distance shot well but  I think that we did the medium shot and the close up wrong. I think that my group did well when we were making our film because we done the close up shot really good but when we did the medium shot it wasn’t really a shot of the waist up, it was sort of a shot of the waist up and then the legs. I think that we could have done the medium shot better because like I before said it had her legs in the shot too, also the close up showed more than it was supposed to. I think that this learning will help me with my movie because now I know what shots that I can do and I can also do more shots too. This took us about ten minutes to do the film but when we were editing we found out that we done the wrong establishing shot so we had to retake our establishing shot.

Have you ever made a film before???

Learning About The I Am Hope Charity

 Kia Ora bloggers on Tuesday the 10th of August we had two people from the I Am Hope Charity  come in to Te Ngahere to  and help us understand Mental Health, he was also talking about how his life changed because of a guy named Elliott. Their names are Tai and Trent, Trent  is Tai’s bodyguard, he follows Tai around in order to keep him safe .  It was very interesting when he was talking about his life story because he was saying that he grew up in a family that he was only aloud to speak when spoken to. My favourite part was when he was talking about his dream about being a professional rugby player and that it came true and on tryouts his dad was on the sideline and he felt confident, he said that they had to practice for the whole week before the game. On the day before the game when they had a runthrough  on how they would play the game and he broke his ankle. I learnt that Tai and the I am hope charity give people free counseling meetings

Have you ever heard about the I Am Hope Charity???

The Amazing Great Marble Challenge Take 2

 Kia ora bloggers on the last day of term 2 we did The Great Marble Challenge Take 2. We did it again because at the end of the first one we had to write a reflection about what we would do better next time?,  how many points we got, did you think your ramp was good?. My group was Charlize and Shivam, we could either make a new ramp or modify our old ramp. We were doing this for the science fair because we were learning about the scientific method and The Great Marble Challenge has a small bit of the scientific method in it. When we got to choose if  we wanted to make a new ramp or modify our old ramp we chose to modify it because we got 17 points the first time but it was constantly landing on three points and two points. It made a  difference because we got 16 points this time. I enjoyed testing the ramps because it was fun when we did the drum roll and found out who was the winners.

Have you ever built a marble ramp before???

Interesting Learning About Dot Plot Graphs

Kia ora bloggers this week in Te Ngahere we were learning about dot plot graphs. It was very confusing while doing this because I couldn’t figure out how to do the dot plot graph right but at the end I found out how to do the graph. It was also hard because there was a question and it had the word range in it and I did not know what range ment so I had to go to that mat with some of the other kids in the class. Before I knew what the word rang meant I was stuck on the question. The word range means how far apart so practically the distance between something. How we found out the range is taking the smallest number and the biggest number and subtracting the lowest number from the highest number and the answer is the range of distinct. I think that I could have made my Graph in my book more clear by using pen and not a pencil so it wasn’t hard to read when I took a picture for my DLO. Then we had to make a DLO to explain how we got the answer to the questions and activities. In my DLO I think that I could have used better words in my DLO and explained what the word range ment better because we had a workshop on what the word range ment and we got told how to find the range, but I think I did not explain it very clear. 

Did you know about dot plot graphs???

    

Interesting Learning About The Science Fair

Kia ora bloggers in for a couple weeks in Te Ngahere we have been working on our science fair projects. My group and I were experimenting about the five second rule ( Does the five second rule affect your health). While we were researching I learnt that bacteria can grow in hotter and colder placer than humans some most bacteria can survive in warm places and other bacteria can grow and survive in cold places. For me it was difficult to make a conclusion because we had to wait two days for our results and we only had a couple more days to finish our presentation. Next time we do this I think that I would do the experiment differently because we didn’t have any agar to see the bacteria but we had to use what we had, we needed the agar so we could see the bacteria grow and multiply. We used our hoe of whanaungatanga to help each other complete our work to a high standard. ( When Nanogirl done her show my favourite part was when she held fire in her hand and when she used the leaf blower to blow toilet paper everywhere) Have you ever done a science fair project before??? 

Interesting Learning About Science

 Kia ora bloggers last week in Te Ngahere we  went to a science roadshow. I learnt that if you use a mirror and position it at the right angle with something surrounding the mirror like pipes that were about 20 cm long, it would make it look even longer when you look into it. My favourite exhibit was one that had a ball floating on it with an air flow holding it up, because the boy that was helping us he had three different things that the ball could go on or in. It was my favorite exhibit because you were able to tilt and touch it. When you tilt it it changes the angle of  where the air flow was coming from and you turn the table to use the different activities that were on it. I learnt about fair testing and learnt that you should only change one thing at a time. We went to the science roadshow to check out some exhibits to get some ideas for our science fair and learn lots more about science. It was very fun to go to the science roadshow because we got to learn about science in a fun way. 

Have you ever been to a science roadshow???

One Amazing Day At Urupukapuka Island

 Kia ora bloggers this week in Te Ngahere the year six kids in Te Ngahere went to Urupukapuka Island for Project Island Song.I learnt that the difference between manuka and kanuka are that kanuka is soft when you squeeze it and manuka is hard when you squeeze it. A way to remember that is kanuka is kind k for kind and manuka is mean m for mean. Project Island Song is about bringing down the numbers of pests in New Zealand and bringing back the bird song. The Project Island Song team have cleared seven Islands in the Bay Of Islands and they call the seven Islands Ipipiri. On the first of june we went to the warf to go to Urupukapuka Island we went on the explore boat. There were about 11 rows of seats I sat in the third on the way there and the back four rows got to sit on the bour half way there and the rest of us sat on the front on the other half. When we got there we had morning tea to fill up our stomachs for the walk. After we finished our morning tea we split up into two groups. I was in the group that was planting first and the other group was making traps for pests. When we got split up my group got to name our group there were a few suggestions one was group one the other was roupu tahi and super seeds we called our group super seeds. We went for a walk up a big hill and went down the hill too ( there was lots of sheep poo but there was lots of sheep there too). When we got to our destination we had to climb a fence and help each other too. When we got over we walked up another hill and we got into groups of four. When we got into our groups we got given a tree to plant. When we planted the tree there were nine steps. After we finished planting we walked back to the grounds that our bags were left at and had lunch. After lunch we made traps to go around our school. We got into groups of three in my group was Charlize, Amber and I.when we finished our trap we got to draw on it and because we finished first we got a trap put in  ours. After this we got a photo of our trap, when the other group came back we packed up our stuff and went to the boat. The biosecurity people had to tick off our name if we were there to make sure we didn't leave anyone behind. On our way back about half way through the ride we seen bottlenose dolphins and common dolphins. Have you ever seen a bottlenose dolphin Before???