My Amazing Piano Scratch Game

This is the game that I made on scratch. If you didn't know what scratch is it is a coding website that you can make and play games on.  I have been learning to code my own games and not just modify somebody else's. This is important because it shows you what you can do without copying other people. It also shows that if you try hard enough and concentrate you can do lots of cool things. My game is a Piano game. You use your arrow keys to play different piano sounds. I think it sounds quite good. Have you ever used scratch before? If so what have you made. What do you think of my game?

Painting Trees Like Emily Car

 

Recently we have been learning about Emily Carr. She is a Canadian artist. She likes painting trees and other things in nature. We have been painting trees. We did this by drawing a plan of our tree on a piece of paper and then sponging a white piece of paper 2-3 different colours. I chose purple and orange. After we did that we painted our tree onto the sponged piece of paper and added some grass. I thought it turned out really well. Have you heard of Emily Carr before? 

Kereru Write Letters Home from War

 We have been learning about ANZAC(Australia New Zealand Army Corps) Day and its meanings. We also learned about Gallipoli and Chunuk Bair the hill that the Anzacs captured. We learned about this because quite a few people don’t know about the true meaning of Anzac Day. We made our own letter to our parents about what happened when we were in the war.  

This is my Letter. 

Corporal Liam Cuff

Dear Mum                         86 Kaniere Road                   19/12/1915

I hope you are well and not worrying. I have been on the battlefield for 7 weeks now and I have ranked up to the position of Corporal. On the boat, we had boxing matches and did a lot of training. What I didn’t know was that we were actually heading to Cairo. 

It was December 21st when we got there. All we did was walk and train, and walk and train. In between, we also played cricket but it was too bloody hot. We hated it, all we wanted to do was go out to war. Finally, after 4 long months, we set the course to Gallipoli. 

It was April 25th when we got there. It was like nothing I had ever imagined. There were bullets raining down like hailstones and men falling left and right. I felt the adrenaline rush through me so I ran for my life, then we all realized the fools had sent us to the wrong side of the island. This one had a big steep slope. We had to dig a trench to get away from the bullets. When we got into the trench I went looking for my friend James but then one of the other soldiers told me he got caught in the crossfire. 

We stayed in the trenches for ages. It smelled of sweat and vomit and the sea was crimson red from the blood of our comrades that died. We wanted to give up because we lost so many soldiers on the first day during the crossfire. But we went on to claim the hill Chunuk Bair. We had the high ground for a while but the Turks came back and outnumbered us. While on Chunuk Bair my Comrades and I shot about 9,200 Turks but we don’t know how many died. We also had around 2,500 of our soldiers hit and around 800 of them died, sadly one of the losses was my other friend William.

After they outnumbered us we went out to a new trench and set up some guns that randomly fired using water, buckets, and string. While they were going off the Turks were distracted so we ran away. They didn’t know we were gone for quite some time. 

After you have read this please share it with the rest of our family.

I thought it was pretty cool getting to make a letter about the war. I learned a lot of things about what happened to the Anzacs, why they wanted to go to war and where they went, and what they did.
 

Do you have any relation that went to war or fought for their country?

The Dividers are Pro Problem Solvers

We have been learning to solve real-life problems using maths in our group. We have been learning about this to show us why maths can be helpful in the real world.

Our teacher also gave us a challenge to see which group could do the most.

I think it was cool because it helped show me how some problems can help with real-life situations.  It was also cool because I got to work with other people I don’t usually work with. It also got me to think outside the square.

What real-life situations do you think some of these problems could help you with?

Kereru are the New Black Caps

 

We have been learning about how to bowl a cricket ball. Yesterday we had some people come into the school to teach our class some cricket skills. We played a bowling game and we also played a tag game. I thought it was really good. Our group bowled all the wickets out first. I think everyone in the class did really well with the cricket skills. What is your favorite position to play in cricket?

Whanaungatanga

This is an animation about Whanaungatanga. We had to make this animation to make learning about Whanaungatanga less boring. This will tell you about that value and I have set up a few examples that will hopefully make you want to watch this animation and learn about Whanaungatanga. Did you like this animation?

 

Kereru, Experts in Clued Up Kids

 On Friday the year, 5-6's went to the Boys Brigade Hall to do Clued Up Kids. Clued Up Kids is an event you can go to where you learn all about safety and other things. There were 8 different workstations. There was 1 about trains, 1 about animals, 1 about motorbikes, and much more. We learned about how to be safe using or being around different things. I liked it because it was different from what I usually do. I also found it fun because I got to do a dark maze with the fire brigade and I got to pat a horse with the animal safety. We also learned about search and rescue and I decided that when I'm older I might volunteer for it. Have you ever been to the Clued Up Kids?