Argentina

Today we are learning about Argentina. We are learning about their foods, Capital, Sport, Dancing, Music and many other thing about Argentina. 

Argentina has very yummy foods like Asado or Chimichurri. Argentina has yum desserts as well. They have tasty chocolate cakes and chocolate muffins. Argentina's foods are very creative. They make their own foods and games. 

There are millions of people in Argentina. There is about 43, 995, 357 people in Argentina right now. Argentina is about 2.78 km² wide. Argentina's capital is 203.3 km²  wide.

There are a lot of people in Argentina. Argentina is on the top of my to do list because one day I would like to visit Argentina when I am older and have permission to go with my younger brothers and friends. Here is a picture below that was taken in Argentina.

Abstract Art

The Abstract painters took a picture of the real photo and added different colours to make it hard to find. Some people actually don't need to get a photo and draw over it. They start drawing abstract art from scratch. Here is an example of what Abstract painting is.  This was the first abstract art created by Wassily Kandinsky. 

Abstract Art




Where did Abstract Art come from ?
Abstract art originally came from Europe but the person who drew the first Abstract painting came from Russia. Abstract painting was made during the late 1900s.

You colour different boxes with different colours, that's how the original art was hard to find. The first examples or abstract art was made during the 19th century and the 20th century.

Cooking Tech

Today we had our first session of Tech for term 4. Today we were supposed to do cooking with Mrs Heka but unfortunately, she couldn't teach us because she was cooking food for the Tamaki College 25th anniversary. So we went with Mrs Tuipolotu to cook us some chocolate chip cookies.

We first looked on the white board because it had rules that we are suppose to follow. There was also cooking ingredient on what we are suppose to do first. We mixed the ingredients and made a cookie shaped cookie. We made cookies with white chocolate chips and brown chocolate chips inside to make some taste. We learned how to cook cookies and we cleaned up our mess because we were made the area messy. It was a privilege to be cooking with Mrs Tuipolotu.

Cheers

Kiwi Can

Today, Room 7 had our first Kiwi Can lesson for this term. Our tutors for Kiwi Can are Mr Numia and Ms Tuia. They have been teaching us telling the truth, being helpful, listening to the teacher and many other respectful rules. 

They first introduced us by saying Fakalofalahi atu. We guessed that greeting came from Niue and we were right. Next, Mr Numia asked us to line up outside so we could have our energiser. We played a game that four cones on each corner with different words stuck to them. Mr Numia had to call the words that were on the cone and had to run to the cone without getting tagged by the chosen tagger. 

Once we stopped playing our energiser, we went back to room 11 so we could learn more about respect. Mr Numia asked us questions about kindness and telling the truth. After that, we started acting about the notes that have been given to us and that was our activity. 

When we finished acting, we had a round of GKQ but that was our last game before we went.

Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi can we had a very fun game and learned lost of respectful thing too. This was our last session of Kiwi Can for this term. 

We played G.K.Q for our energiser. That was our first time playing energiser before we started learning. Our first question was kinda hard because Mr Numia asked us, what was the first topic for this term and answered it. The first topic was Goal setting. We learnt that goal setting has short term goals and long term goals. I also learnt how to set easier goals to get to the main goals. Then we learned problem solving and to help other people with their problems. After that we learned perseverance. Perseverance means to never give up and to keep trying. 

Then we played a game called multi sport. We had to split into two teams to verse each other. We played three games, Netball, Touch and soccer. At the end we played the whole team when we played touch. That was the end of day we had fun and enjoyed it.

Science Intensive in Room 10

Today we have been learning about magnet's. Magnets is a very strong source of energy only if its is a very strong magnet. When you connect two magnets together it pulls itself together but if you turn one of the magnets around, the other magnet will try to not connect. I learnt so many things like, how to fish with a magnet and how to move a car with a magnet. Magnet's can be very helpful because if you are lost, you can use the compass which uses magnet's. 

Light / Science

Light

In room 9 we have been learning about light and how the light turns int several colours.

The light is the fastest travelling thing on earth. Without light in the world we won’t be able to see coloured objects with our eyes. But we are lucky enough that we have a source of light that is called the sun. The sun creates heaps of different cool colours but all those colours can bunch up into one and create a colour called white.

Reflection is a light that shines from one object into different mirrors if placed in the right place. Light bounces of the different mirrors, big or small but it will still reflect from the mirrors. If a mirror is placed on a angle, the light will bounce somewhere else instead of hitting into the other mirror.

Refraction is when it hits a raindrop or a prism, it will turn back into the seven colours that create the rainbow. When a white light travels through the prism, it will come out as the colours that created the white light. When it goes into the prism and come out as different colours it called Refraction.

Colour is a source of light that come from the sun and earth’s energy. Lights all bunches up into white and when it hits the prism, it turns back into the original colours like if the rainbow colours bunch up, it will turn into one colour called white. Then if it hits something like a raindrop it turns back to the other colours. if a red light hits a green object like grass, it won’t reflect because it is a different colour but if you shine a blue light into a blue object it will reflect back because it is the same colour.