PAL DAY

 Kia ora bloggers welcome back to term 4, on the last day of term 3 Paihia School had a pal day. I was one of the PALleaders so I didn’t get to do the other activities but I did get to run an activity. A Pal day is a day where e have different game  to play and teach, everyone starts at one game and rotates to the next.  I was in a duo with Alexandrea. Our game was called stuck in mud, if you don’t know what stuck in the mud is , it is where someone is a tagger and they have to go around a try tag everyone but if you get tagged you stand still with your legs apart so someone can crawl under them. I had lots of fun teaching and playing stuck in the mud with all the groups that came to us. It was sort of hard with one group because they wouldn’t listen  but in the end they listened to the instructions that we gave them. If we did it again I would want to teach the game dodgeball. If you don’t know what PAL mean it means Physical Activity Leader. 

Have you ever had a PAL day? . 

Scams and Phishing

 On the 21st of September Te Ngahere did a cybersmart challenge about scams and phishing, We got given photo’s of emails and pop up to decide if they were legit or fake.  Scams and Phishing is when someone tries to get personal information or tricks you into clicking something that is not what they say it is, it also means that if you share your personal details on the wrong site they can log into your account and access your personal information. You can tell if something is legit or fake by 1. Looking at the padlock on the top right corner of your screen and checking if it has a red line on it because If it does it means its not secure.   2. If you get a pop up it is always fake because It is just phishing for your personal information 3. Always check  their email address and see if something is off about it like Google spelt with zeros. To keep safe you always check if it is legit or fake and never give any site your personal details unless it is run by your teacher or adult.  It was hard to understand how to see if something is legit or fake so I asked someone to help me to understand. 

Can you identify if something is legit or fake? 

Guess The Book

 During lockdown My friend Azure and I meet up on Google meets and created a guess the book slide for our class to guess. We made it because we thought that it would be harder than a guess the movie, some of the books are also movies. On our last lockdown Google meet I asked If I could still share the guess the book challenge because Azure wasn’t there. Our class loved the book challenge but they did find some of them hard. It was hard because we sort of struggled finding books that our class could guess but we didn’t give up. We used emojis to symbolize what book they were guessing. 

Do you think you’ll be good at guessing the books?  How many books do you think you will get right?

Passion Project

 During Lockdown Te Ngahere  has been doing a really fun subject called passion project. Passion project is a subject where you come up with things you want to do and then work on them until you complete it. I came up with a lot of ideas for my passion project I have almost completed them all but I have one more to do. The first one was to bet my Mum in speed 2 times in a row and I did, I also completed making a lemon custard cake and using the cartoon filter on a phone. The hardest one to complete was beating Mum at speed but I never gave up and kept trying. I still have to bet my big brother in handball 2 times in a row.  

What would be your passion project? 

Lockdown Riddles!

 Last Friday during lockdown school Te Ngahere had a shared assembly, If you don’t know what I mean by that It is where we are allowed to share anything we want. I created a presentation to share with the class, my presentation was about riddles for everyone to solve I had a lot of riddles but one of them was tricky for the class apart from my big brother he guessed it straight away. Some people shared things and some people didn’t. My big brothers emoji movie guessing presentation was amazing. 

Do you know any riddles?  

Lockdown!!

 On Tuesday at 12pm it was pronounced that the whole of NZ was going into lockdown because Jacinda Ardern  our prime minister pronounced that we were going into  level 4 because there was another case of Covid-19. I was upset because I love going to school to see my friends and learn about new things everyday but when I saw we were doing online work I was really excited because I still got to work. I watched the news on Thursday to see what was going on with Covid-19  and I think that we will be in lockdown for another couple of days because there were more cases of Covid. Everyday e have google hangout with the class at 10:00 am and 2:00pm. I was really shocked when we went into lockdown because I didn't really think that there was going to be another case for a while but I was wrong.  

The 4 Different Shots!

In Te Ngahere  we have been learning about 4 different shots combined  into a movie. The shots that we were learning about are establishing shot, long shot, medium shot & close up. Establishing shot shows the setting a long shot shows the setting as well as the characters, the medium shot  shows you what the characters are doing, & the close up shows you what the characters are doing or what they see, in the close up you will see none of the setting. The thing my group did well was that we followed our plan correctly. I think we  could of made the words bigger at the end of the movie on the sticky note because it was hard to read. 

This will help me when  I am creating my movie because I will know what shot to use and how to use them. 

Do you know any different shots?