Dons Dam- Senior Bike ride 2021

Last Week room 4 went on a mountain bike ride. We started at the bottom of the Rakauroa went headed down the road and stopped up by a woolshed for some morning tea. We then made our way past the Rakauroa Quarry and up a big step hill called smarts road. I was in the top group with Duncan,Rylee,Hayley,James and I. Our adult in the group was called Adam he said if you can make it up the hill I will give you three lollies and I made it I said to him now were's my lollies he said here you go you earn it thank you Adam. We then Headed down a couple of hill and up to Mrs Bennett's wool shed we had lunch and played a massive game of hide and go seek. We met Lou, she had a big pot full of hot chocolate and tub full of lollies chocolate and lot's more we each he to get a peace of fruit each. We then bike another 10 or so more km to Don's wool shed that's where we were going to stay. And before you knew it he had a massive swimming dam. We slept over night then the next morning we went for a swim it was nice and refreshing. We headed off to our pick up place where our parents were waiting over all the bike was the best and that was my last bike ride for Matawai school.

This was our first outdoor adventure for our William Pike challenge we are completing this year.  

2021 profile update

 

Kia ora my name is Maranga, I am a year eight and I go to Matawai School. My favourite thing to do at school is to play with my friends and play sports. I love dogs and riding motorbikes, I enjoy Mustering deer and cattle and working with animals. I have one brother and one sister; I live with my grandparents. We live on a station called Tuhaka and my Grandad is the manager.

I love maths and enjoy doing made up writing, I am good at my times tables, The best thing that I enjoy about maths is adding, taking away and times tables. My challenges are long divisions and fractions. My goals for this year is to learn and understand geometry.

I am looking forward to our senior bike ride, winter rugby and swimming sports. I really want to improve on my breast stroke and get in the rhythm of doing it right and perfect. This year we are doing the William Pike challenge and I really think he is going to inspire me to do things that I've never tried before, and  'Just do it' just like that Nike tee shirt says.

Would You Rather z

 Last week we had a fun writing task when Mrs Bennett said we are doing would you rather statement I said yes. I haven't done would you rather statements for a long time, last time I did It was last year so I had to make some good ones I said. One of mine was would you rather crewz around in a 1970 dodge super charge or tanner foxes GUACZILLA.I really enjoyed doing the would you rather statements it was fun learning and it was one of the funnest writing tasks.

Here Is My would you rather statement comment which one you would chose.

Ice cream Challenge

The years 7 had a challenge today to design a new flavoured ice cream. We had to include one fresh element. My fresh element is strawberry. I have named my ice cream Choc vanilla strawberry dream. We created a poster using  postermywall to advertise our new flavour. Here is my poster.

Sound Trap

In the past week we have been creating a instrumental. Which is just sounds no talking. My image is a basket ball hoop on a sun set. My favourite part was looking at all of the different beats. I found it challenging to get the right beats to go with my image.

Unsuccessful Robots!

Robotic

 Instead of doing tech we did robotics with (Mr Knight). We were going to play a game of soccer with the robots.

In my team was Jaimee,Duncan and I.

Our main focus was to work together and talk and listen to each others ideas to make the robot successful.

For our crazy tech this morning we made robots. Our challenge was to make a soccer person on top of our robot so it looked like it had design. It was hard to connect some of the parts. Like the battery and the taking it apart. Duncan was working on the chassis, I was doing the battery and the outer body. Jaimee was to the bumper to score a goal. Next time i would be a bit more onto it and think a bit harder about making to and following the
instructions properly. In the end we didn't end up playing the soccer game because our robots weren't finished. 

Today i was learning  how to make a gif about yeast.The gif was a science experiments was how to activate yeast I enjoyed today because it was my first time making a gif. I liked gathering all the images  for the gif.