Summer Learning Journey- Teaser week

Equal pay for equal work?___________________________________________

The Summer Learning Journey is coming up, so our syndicate decided to try out some teaser activities. If you didn't know what the Summer Learning Journey is, It is a program that has 60 activities to do. For each activity you do, you get points, and for commenting on someone else's activity gets you two points.My activity was to write about whether I think that women and men should be paid equally.

I think that women and men should be paid equally because we all have rights to be treated the same way. There is no better gender, and both men and women can do things well. I think that the fact that men are getting paid more is really unfair and horrible. I hope that everyone else sees how unfair this is, and how much of an urgent matter this is.

Fun Creations Tumble

Fun Creations Tumble

This week, the senior syndicate started a Fun Creations tumble. On the tumble there were set tasks for everyone to do. The tasks were making an origami frog, a marshmallow tower, making a play dough insect, cutting patterns, making butter, plasticine characters, pavement art, lego place and paper planes. My favourite activity was pavement art. I collaborated with Abigail to make a huge earth using chalk. Judging by the fact that we had never learnt geography, I think we did pretty well. I also liked the marshmallow maths activity because we got to eat the marshmallows in the end.
I think that we should do more activities like this because it was really fun and we actually learnt stuff.

Here is my slide below:

Futsal for P.E

Futsal for P.E

For P.E this term, we are doing Futsal. If you didn't know, futsal is technically indoor football with a smaller pitch and it has less players. Our coach's name is Kingsley and he taught us a few fun games. One of the game were when we had to dribble the ball around the room. When Kingsley said "Freeze!" we had to put one foot on the ball and freeze. If we didn't freeze we had to do star jumps or push ups. If he said to stop the ball with any body part we had to do so. He also might say a number, and you had to get into a group with that many people. If you weren't able to do any of these mentioned, you would have to do push ups.

We also played some games of futsal. The teams were bibs and non-bibs. Each team had around eleven to twelve people in it, and each person had a number. If Kingsley called out "11" the people with  number 11 would have to go in and play with the ball.
I had a lot of fun in these sessions and I learnt a lot.

Supermarket and food for thought

Supermarket Trip And Food For Thought

On the 23rd of October, The senior syndicate of Waikowhai Primary School went to the supermarket (New World) . Before the trip, we had a visitor from the Heart Kids Foundation and food For thought. The visitor's name was Isabel. She came into one of our classes, and taught us about how much of each food we should have, and how much sugar is in things. In one of our sessions, we got cards that had a drink on it. We had to arrange them to the least sugariest to the sugariest. The sugariest thing was actually a lime fizzy drink, and it had 33 teaspoons of sugar! To investigate further, we got permission to go to New World and look at what was an everyday food choice and what was a "sometimes" food.

When we arrived at the supermarket we got given papers. We filled in good and bad choices for muesli bars, breakfast, bread and dairy. Did you know that the cereal Cocoa Puffs has around 15 grams of sugar while Weet-Bix has around 1.2 grams?
After we filled in the sections, we turned the paper over and filled in veggies in their colour sections. The colours were red, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown and white.
I learnt so much in our sessions and in the trip itself. I think we should learn about this subject a bit more, because it is really interesting.

Beach Clean

Beach Clean

On Friday, the 27th of September the senior syndicate of Waikowhai Primary School went on a beach clean. Previously in the year, we have been learning about the horrible effects of rubbish on the beaches, so the teachers  decided to do something about this. Our plan was to go to Waikowhai Bay (the beach closest to our school) and clean up and hunt for rubbish in different parts of the beach.

At the beginning of the day, we put on our gloves and got our bags, then we headed off to Waikowhai Bay. Once we got to Waikowhai bay, we got put into groups. I was put with Zoe, Chimay, Jia, Abigail, Neeve, Apollo and Araya. There was so much rubbish pushed between rocks and stuffed in high places. I even found an indian statue. 

At the end of the day We gathered a few full black rubbish bags. I think there is too much rubbish on the beach, and that other people should care about the ocean and its creatures, just like us. I also think that the Beach Clean was a great idea because we were helping the environment.