Team Goal Refection

 This weeks goal was about collaboration. It was to collaborate with our groups achieve shared goals. I think this is great because can keep us all on track. In my group this week we achieved heaps. We have been working on our GE's. Just think about this quote for a second "What we learn with pleasure, we never forget." This is why we have GE’s. GE stands for group endeavor. It is an inquiry project, based on interests and passions, just like what we did at the start of the year with our IE's. The steps of our GE’s are linked to our NPS learning powers. My group is looking at Food Miles. We are starting to research questions. It has been so fun so far and I am very excited to see everybody's projects. In our group, we respect everyone, we work together, set goals and encourage everyone. Good teamwork/bad teamwork Image result for good teamwork

School Vists

Today some schools came to visit our school.  I am a school ambassador leader so I got to talk to them about what stands out for me in my learning. It is so cool listening and talking to the awesome people coming to our school to help improve theirs. I love my job! Mr Fraser, Mrs Hull and I talk to the schools. Then we show them around the school. This was the last school visit of the year! The year has been so fast. I am so sad to have finished. A big thanks to the people that allowed me to have this opportunity.

Duolingo

I am learning a new language on a website called Duolingo. Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free and fun. You can learn many different languages on the website including German, Klingonn, Italian, Ukrainian, Swedish and French. I am learning Spanish. I can speak 14% Spanish so I am doing really well. I play games to learn and work through the different levels. It is starting to get really hard to remember all the words, so I can not imagine what it would be like if I was 100%. I think that it is soo much fun and if you have not got an account already you should defiantly get one. I am using this for school, but you could just do it for fun.

Miniature Gardens

Today we made miniature gardens. The theme of my garden was the home for elephants. I had a two toy elephants, a pool and moss. I started by putting the sand in my pan. Then I put in all my decorations. The pool was the hardest I had to make sure it was the same level as the sand. I put in the moss and it mad everything look pretty.

I love my miniature garden. I am very proud of what I have done today with my garden. I think that the elephants would love to live there. They can have a swim in the water and the baby elephant can hide in the moss. I had to show real creative and resilience when I found things tough but it was all worth it in the end. 

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The Wellington Cable Cars

“Three tickets please. One adult, two kids.” We were all set for our ride on the cable cars. The lady doing the tickets gave us ours. We then went through the gates. Right in front of us we saw the cable car sitting in the tunnel. It was a bright beautiful red. Although it look as if it had had a lot of use. As we walked closer and closer it looked even more magical. We stepped up and hopped in. The car made us feel comfortable and welcome.

The bell chimed and the ride began. As soon as we came out of the tunnel the bright blue sky welcomed us. The roaring sun shone and it felt like it could light up the whole universe. We went up higher and higher till we could see the whole of Wellington. We sat in silence as we had lost our voices at the state of the view. We were shocked to our cores.

At the top the sun was still shining. You could hear the sound of birds chirping and trees swaying softly. We hopped out of the cable car and we were all sad to have finished the journey. We had had a marvelous time. What a fun trip!

Learning In The Making

I really really enjoyed the learning in the making. I think this year was the best out of the three. I think that this year there was a lot more variety of learning.  My favorite workshop I went to was lunch box yummy, where we made two different pastry treats. Following close behind was bouncy ball where I had fun making a big mess. I also was lucky enough to lead two workshops, this was the highlight of my day seeing all of the kids smile when they had completed something.

I have learned some much during this workshop day. I learned that bouncy balls are very hard to make and you need to have the perfect ingredients. I learned that you can have more of a yummy lunch box with some easy steps. I learned that there is a lot of planning and things need to be done before the workshops. I learned that looking after young kids for 50 min can be a handful. And last of all I learned about all the cool/weird jobs there will be in the future from Mark Osborn.

I learned lots of new things and tried new things that I might not have done before. While starting of the new things I felt a bit weirded out especially when we started the bouncy balls, but I soon found out that these new things were very enjoyable. I think that since I try that workshop I got the work with some different people and I really enjoy it. I really think that this year has had a lot of cool things going on and I think that I have no ideas to make it better next time.

The Marama Way

We all have things we are expected to do just like Marama. The Marama Way is things that we kids in Marama use as a guideline to help us to have a great term in the Marama team. It is expected for us to follow it. It is to help use make good choices. This term I have to follow the Marama way to have the best term I can, the Marama way will help me to do great things in a great way.