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Making my tree hut

Last term Room 6 started a project about making 3D tree houses. We had to collect recycled materials and I used hard rolls ,Styrofoam, masking tape, mask boxes, string, cardboard 

 

den cut offs. I found it very hard to make my tree hut balance and have a solid base. But it was worth the hard work and problem solving in the end!.

 

 I first made the base first and then I glued hard rolls under the base to stabilize it and keep it firmly on the ground. Then I made the trunk by gluing it to the base. I tried to put Styrofoam on the top but it kept falling off. After a few tries I had an idea to put it on the bottom instead!.

 

 

 On top I just added a cardboard box on top which I glued on. I was supposed to put in some windows but I didn’t  because I reckoned it would make holes that water might get in (we had success criteria we had to meet.)

 

 I worked on stabilizing for a bit by adding Styrofoam marshmallows for weight. I was done with the tree house structure and now time for decor.

 

 I used some string first to make a rope to hang on the side of the hut. I made quite a few knots in it. I made a person next out of Styrofoam marshmallows. I cut it in half but not all the way then made the body by cutting the sides but not all the way too! Finally I made the head by just cutting it in half!. The last step was just gluing it all together. Weird for making that but it worked out!

 

 The very last step was…. Painting!!!!. It was so much  fun. I loved adding the color to my hut. In the end we had to all test that our huts could pass the success criteria. First, we put our tree huts in front of the classroom fan and counted to ten to see if they would fall over in the wind. None of them did. Then we had to put at least 4 scissors in the hut for weight, without it falling over. Lastly Mrs Yumul poured water over them to see if any water could get inside. I was successful with all of them.

 It was really hard to make but I liked the challenge and experience!

Making our class movie.

A few weeks ago we made potato people after our teacher Mrs Agnew had shared a video called “The Potato People” with us. At first it sounded really weird to me but then  Mrs Agnew said, ” ok now we are going to make potato people!” The class was REALLY looking forward to that. Mrs Agnew took out a selection of potatoes and some of them were old and wrinkly, fresh, new ones and a really big one too! Then she took out the art supplies and we got to work!

We used googly eyes, string, pipe cleaners, ribbons, sticks, toothpicks and I made an echidna but after a week or two I made it into an alien! It had sticks all over it and pipe cleaners adding extra character. A few weeks later,  Ms Toland thought our ideas of using  potato people in our movie were great. She taught us about the four important people who make a movie. They are the director, camera man, scene manager and editor. I enjoyed being the director the most because I could tell people what to do.

When we were making our movie we had to have some backgrounds! I was in the group making the rocket and there was also an evil lair, party scene, and inside the castle. The group decided that two people would make the bottom of the rocket and two more people would make the top of the rocket. Then we got to work. The bottom group was going to make so many rocket boosters and the top group was really fast too! Next we had to paint it which was time consuming.

After we had painted we were done.  Then we had to work on the making of the movie, group by group.  We were in the library with Ms Toland and we took lots of photographs as the potatoes moved slowly across the table. In this one scene when the rocket ship flew high and the sunlight was in sync with the rocket! After that we took a break for a while and then we did the voice overs! A friend and I went first and I did my normal voice and he did too but the next time round,  I did a different voice.  Yeah, then we were finished. All right time for a quick story about the movie. The birthday princess gets stolen by aliens and then ninjas save the princess in their rocket. In the end  everyone shares in her birthday party.

ki o rahi

Last Thursday a woman named coach Chelsea taught us how to play some games but they weren’t related to ki o rahi, the game we were meant to play. At first, we watched a video that told us the story of Rahi and Tiara. It was about a guy stealing Tiara and Rahi who is trying to save her. That is most of it. After the video we went outside and played a tagging game. There were two teams, Kioma and Taniwha. The rules were to choose a team then the two teams were back to back and if she shouted Kioma,  then that team would run until the end of the canopy and Taniwha people would try and chase them down. If she shouted TaNiWhA then that team would do the same thing. We played that for 3 rounds and then we stopped. I was tired after that game and since it was raining we all stopped. Then we all said bye and that was it. MY HEART WAS POUNDING. It was really fun though.

About me

Kamusta. Good morning my name is Eldritch. I am nine years old and my class is room 6 at St Patrick’s School in pammure I live with my two siblings and my mom and dad. I was born in New Zealand but I’m a Filipino! 

 

I am terrific at math. I keep my friends entertained and amused at lunchtime. My goal for the year is try to be the very best I can be. I love reading, drawing and writing blogs. Sometimes I find it difficult to stay awake at school because I can’t get to sleep easily at night time. Also we get up very early in the morning because we live a long way from school.

 

   My parents inspire me to do as well as I can because they work very hard every day. I would like to be a doctor when I grow up. My uncle Benedict is a Surgeon and I would like to be like him. This year I want to be able to come to school everyday because I like being with my friends and I have had to stay home too often this year. Go away, Covid.

 

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