Gumboot Friday!

Gumboot Friday

 Hey bloggers if you did not know it was Gumboot Friday on Friday the 5th April. Gumboot Friday is a day where people are encouraged to wear their gumboots to support Mental Health. Bad Mental Health is a feeling that means people think the worst of themselves and think they can’t do things. So on Gumboot Friday the Senior Syndicate had to write kindness cards to lift up people's feelings. This idea came from a senior named Neeve when we did the Healthy Puketapapa Student Questionnaire. Neeve picked Mental Health and said that we should put some kindness notes in random people’s letter boxes around the community. So that’s what we did. Unfortunately we did not get to put them in people’s letter boxes on Friday. So we had to do it on Tuesday the 9th. On the actual Gumboot Friday all the teachers wore their gumboots to raise money for people Who actually have Mental Health issues. So far there has been $1,031,411.28 raised for people with Mental Health problems. Gumboot Friday was begun by a person thought that if you don't have a bad well-being or bad mental health. It's like your brain is struggling to get through a lake of mud. In this case the mud is the bad thought. You need boots to get through the mud so we wear gumboots to help people get through the mud. This year the person that is the head or leader of Gumboot Friday is named Mike King. Hauora - Well Being that is our main Inquiry topic this year. Well being means your condition and whether your happy and healthy. If you are sad you probably have a bad mental health. We have had 2 people call the school saying thank you for the messages. One of them was a boy his mum said that these notes really helped him with his Mental Health and it made his day. That felt like a great achievement.I think we should continue to do this it helps people that are suffering with bad Mental Health. 

Here are some photos

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Tread Lightly Caravan 2019

Hey there bloggers!
Today I will be blogging about the Tread Lightly Caravan.
The Tread Lightly Caravan is a programme for schools.
 In this programme they show the problems of what is happening to the Ocean when we put rubbish, oil and paint down it. When we do this all the things that I listed go straight to the Sea where it kills all the animals and creatures living in the water. They also have a VR ( Virtual reality) system where you sit down and hold it to your face to see what the expert team has been reasearching about. VR shows very crazy things there were birds that have eaten plastic and died. It was very sad. They also showed in a second clip a video of them testing the waters of oceans to see how many of them were polluted or not polluted they were also wanting to see how much of the fish were eating plastic. Around half of the water they tested had been polluted and fish had eaten the plastic. There were three differnt types of activities. There was an ativity where we had to look for all the drains in the school. There was the drain activity about the paint stuff. Then there was the VR.

Here are some photos of us it was really fun.

 my friend using the VR

The waste water cleaning compartment  

A little village  

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Climate Change March

Hi boggers welcome to my blog.
Today I am blogging about were I went on friday the 15th of March.
On Friday me and my friend Toby (check out his blog here) went to the CCM Climate Change March.
We had to leave school early (10.00 ish). We then took a bus into the town square and saw about 2000 people. From about 11- 12:30 was just talking but then after our lunch about 1:00 we started to march down Queen St. There were some realy cool signs like 'THERE is NO planet B'. There were also some really funny ones like 'I want a hot date not a hot planet'. Unfortantlly Some people didn't think that there would be primary kids so they made rude signs but that is just a teenagers life. The march was not meant to go onto the road but we did not care we were protesting about something much worse than being late to to a meeting, if we dont act everyone will be late to their meetings. One funny thing is that they were using cars so we stuck our signs onto their windows. Some people got mad and honked their horns but some parked their cars and walked. Climate Change is a really important thing, maybe you could just stop having plastic. Or even better stop dropping it. Just do little things and if we all do little things...one big thing will happen (the end of Climate Change).       

Here are some photos of the day also one video. 

It was a really fun day full of yelling and sceaming about Climate Change . 

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welcome To 2019/ Getting to know you

Hello bloggers welcome back to 2019 It's a new school year of blogs.

This year I will blog about lots of things I will share lots of wonderful things for you guys to comment and read. The start to Waikowhai Primary's year has been great.

We have already done wonderful things like swimming down at Cameron Pools. We have also done things in class on our chromebook (Getting to know you, Pepeha, timelines of last year) these things will all be shared sometime on my blog. 

Here is my getting to know you form for you bloggers who don't know me.

Family Background Hi my name is Noah. I have lived in New Zealand all my life (well I lived on Great Barrier Island for half a year). I was born in Auckland but my family moved to Wellington when I was 6 months old. “After”7 years we came back to Auckland. In my family I have my dad Mark, he has english ancestors one of them was the Mayor of London in the 16 hundreds. They were also the on the second boat to come to New Zealand. There is also my mum Bridget, she lived in Papua New Guinea. Sophie and Wiremu are my brother and sister I play lot of sport with my brother (mostly football) me and my sister sometimes play but not often they are still awesome. There is one there kid in this house his name is Daysharn I don't really play with him because he is 16. We had a bird, Billy-Bob, but the bird died. We have a rabbit called Sparky.	GETTING TO KNOW YOU Noah	Things I do not like: Some things I don’t like are pumpkin, mushroom and kumara yuck not a fan. I really hate missing out on  in things my family do. Sometime my brother goes and plays with his friends making me alone I don't like being lonely or alone. I also don't like losing my toys. The sound of fingernails being scratched on the wall not me it is so. Repeating sounds pure annoying (the one thing my brother does best). People calling football soccer is one other thing like I not american so why not call it football you use your feet don't you.
Things I like Football I love the sport football This week sunday 17/2/19 I have football tryouts for a team play all around Auckland even on Waitangi. A warm bed is one other thing i like it is so nice to go home and have a warm snuggly bed (in winter). My friends and family are really important to me I like them a lot.  Swimming I love to swim bomb backflip into water I find it so refreshing. Video gaming I Yeslike to play video games. Basketball i am a sport person I will play most sports but basketball is in the top 5. Playing with little kids they.		What is important to me and my family? We are a zero waste family, so we try not to buy thing that have plastic, we buy milk bottles in glass bottles, and we have a shop named bin in which is a refill place for food so you refill your container one plastic thing that has made it hard for us is bread that is very difficult.
My Friends: I have a lot of friends, and they are all very important in my life some of my main friends are Toby, Torian, William, Alex, Ben, Daiki, Amaya, Kobe, Rio, Ishaan Tyson, Anuk, Oscar, Peter and Nikhil they are the best friends you could have sadly most of them went to intermediate.	Things I am good at: I am a footballer and I find myself pretty good. I try to do 30 to 45 min a day training. I am also good at remembering things I like to remember My stuff. I am a technical person is like devices and epro 8. I really like to do maths and reading I read about 4 or 5 books in a week.	What do I want people to know about me? I am a good friend so if you want to come a kick a ball I am the kid to go to. I Love to run, come and race me if you dare. I am good at reading, if you are calm I can read to you.

HAVE A HAPPY 2019!!!!

Day 1 summer learning journey

This is the first day of the summer learning journey here is the question.



DAY 1: In the Beginning... Activity 1:  The Legend of New Zealand  [4 points] According to Māori mythology, much of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed when Māui, a powerful demigod, fished it out of the sea. Legend has it that Māui created a magical fish hook from the jawbone of his grandmother, and that one day he took his hook, boarded a boat and rode out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Once at sea, he threw his magical hook into the water and caught a fish. This ‘fish’ was the North Island of New Zealand! In honour of this legend, the North Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Ika a M ā ui or ‘M ā ui’s fish’ and the South Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Waka a M ā ui or ‘M ā ui’s canoe’.



What are some other cool or interesting facts that you know about Aotearoa New Zealand? List three cool facts about this fabulous country of ours. '

1. A cool fact is that the official language of NZ is Maori 

2.The biggest city in NZ is Auckland but its capital city is Wellington. what????

3. Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometers away from the International Date Line. cool !!!!

Summer learning journey

Hi guys today I am going to tell you about the Summer learning journey. This is a program  that helps kids to keep up their grades. This means the teachers don't have to do lots of work to get you back to the right level. If you would like to visit the site here is the link
https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome

The first activity was called choosing a destination
Here is a photo

I  would like to go to England because my family has English ancestors and my great great great great great poppa was the Mayor of London . So it would be cool to go and see his grave. Also their national sport is football and I love football. 

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Writing

Hi bloggers to day I am going to show you my writing tumble. For writing we had to complete 3-4 writings the pictures i chose were My favorite and my least favorite.                             

Hope you liked my writing. Blog you later