The Scary Tsunami Evacuation

Last week the Bay Of Islands and my school had to evacuate up a hill because there was a chance of a Tsunami. When we got to the top of the hill we got told to sit down and not to panic but some of us still started to panic. We felt so scared but then we started to cheer up because we got to ring our parents, for a bit so we felt like we were safer. I started to hangout with my friends then one of our teachers got out her phone and gave us some quizzes about Harry Potter and then a quiz about basic knowledge. After that we were starting to get picked up by our parents luckily I was one of them, my dad picked me and my sister up and then dropped us off at the Golf Course next to my mum. But luckily my Brother lived nearby so I asked my mum if I could walk to there house and she let me. So when I got there we just chilled out watching movies but some of us were eating. Later on when we got the thumbs up that there wasn’t gonna be a tsunami we were kinda happy so my parents and my sister came to pick me up and dropped off some more food. Have you ever evacuated for a tsunami? or Were you one of the people who had to evacuate?.

Soundscapes

 In Te Maunga for the past few weeks we have been learning about soundscapes. I learnt that there are many ways to make sound with everyday objects and how they do it like in movies. For example when they want to make a thunder noise they would use a special type of leaves to make the noise.

Cyber safety or else

Dinorama

 In Te Maunga we have been learning about dinosaurs. For our makerspace we made a diorama of a scene about dinosaurs in groups. In our diorama we made a scene about a Plesiosaurus just chilling in the water and we also had an Ankylosaurus just eating then a Tyrannosaurus Rex came over and started to attack it. When it attacked it got hit by the Ankylo’s tail. I had fun making and if you do it  I hope you have fun too.

Geometry

 1 month ago in Te Maunga we were doing stuff around Geometry. In geometry I learnt parts of a shape more about 3D shapes that I didn’t know about. One of the activities I did was a net and in the net you had to colour in the shapes on the piece of paper. Then you cut it out and fold it to make a shape.

Films

 Around the end of August my class and I made a film for a film festival that was happening. First we learnt about filming to make our films so the teachers told us about shots, green screen, camera angles and the rule of thirds.

TREASURE HUNT!!!!

 Last week the senior students at Paihia School had a treasure hunt. At a random time the senior students went over to the court and that’s where we got told the rules. After we got told the rules our principal let the youngest senior students go first. My friend and I were in a team when my mate and I went looking. We split up first so we could cover more ground then we looked at the little kids playground. After that we looked on the other little kids' playground. After we kept looking but found nothing then at the end one of the people found the last one where my mate and I looked.