Farm Trip

    On Monday the 15 of September Room 4 and The Shade House crew - a gardening group at Wainui Beach School - went to Mangaone, the Lands farm. We went there to plant up the wetlands with the trees that The  Shade House had grown in the Shade House we also were tidying up the trees that had been planted last year. 

Also on Tuesday Wainui Beach school went to Pihitia station to learn about where your food comes from. There was multiple little workshops like butchering the meat, technology on a farm, dairy, shearing, dogs and sheep, conservation  things like that. 

PBL

PBL stands for play based learning. PBL is a group of students who will chose a project to help students and the community it could be a fundraiser, art or something else.  

More Maths :-)

 This week  MLH has decided to start Maths-Whizz, anyone know it ? Well it's like a math thing where you do a game version of a math skill and then you do the same skill with different equations  but with just a blue background. I like the blue background better than the game one because then there is nothing to distract you while you are doing maths (that may have something to do with my Irlen Syndrome). 

When you are doing the maths, if you get the questions right, you earn credits (money) and buy things like pets, pet food, clothes and furniture. Also, if you don't feed your pet, they get rehomed !

When you go past a certain amount of skills you get parts of a gem and after you get a certain amount of gems you go up levels. Rookie, Pro, Master and Superstar . You also get to design a character to go as you in your home ( I chose Jungle for my theme. The other theme you can choose is Space )

This is my home 🠉

🠝This it were you can buy things like pets ( the paw print button ) , Pet food ( the dog bone button ) , Plants   (the leaf button ) you get the picture. 

I learnt in Maths Whizz a new times table skill like this 6x70= 6x10x7 =420 and I also practise old skills which helps a lot because then I don't forget the old skills.  

Maths

This week in group maths Level 3 maths has been working on maps. Everyone divided into pairs and each pair had a map of Wainui Beach school BUT without the labels so we added the labels. 

Quick write

Quick write this week was about a healthy lifestyle. There was 4 questions you had to answer, the questions were: 1 What makes a healthy lifestyle ?, 2 What are the benefits of a healthy lifestyle ?, 3 What are your favorite healthy foods and why ?, 4 What are your favorite forms of exercising and why ?   In the next paragraph, I will write one of my answers. 

1. A healthy lifestyle is made by having a healthy diet and active lifestyle. A healthy diet is when you swap out unhealthy things like biscuits and chocolate for salad and fruit. Fruit and vegetables also have more vitamins and dietary fiber. Dietary fiber keeps you fuller so you can work mare at school and have fun doing sports !     

Queen Charlotte Sound

How many of you have walked the Queen Charlotte Sound, without tourists? Well I'm guessing not many of you. 

I know I am probably going to sound like an ad but I can't really help it because the walk was soo much fun. You don't even need to carry all all your luggage! The water taxi takes the things you will not need while you are walking then the water taxi drops your stuff off at the place you are staying overnight. 

We stayed at Furneaux Lodge the first night, Ponga the second, Treetops the third and Mistletoe the last!   

The scenery was pristine, meditative and almost picture perfect.  It felt like we almost had the place to ourselves.  The restaurants were delicious the service made me feel like a duchess. 

Holidays :-)

Wow

 Term just whizzed by and already it's holidays but Wainui Beach School has done sooo much learning during lockdown and at school.

My favorite part of learning at home was the Google meets because on Fridays we could dress up in a particular theme  like the African big five and a famous person.