Year 6 Technology - Foil Boats

Today the year 6's had to make boats out of tinfoil. The only resource we got was obviously tinfoil. We had to see how many blocks we could fit inside the boat. My group only got 10 blocks inside. The best group got 137 blocks! They won because their boat was wide and deep. Maybe your class could try it.

Noah Barleywater Runs Away - Book Review

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Author: John Boyne

4 out of 5 Rating

I would recommend this book to Year 5 and up.

This book is quirky and crazy.  There are a lot of twists and turns. Overall it's just a really cool book.   The story is about an eight-year-old called Noah Barleywater who decides to run away. On his adventure, he meets a tree that can move by its self, a talking dachshund and a talking donkey. He also meets an old man who runs a toy shop and shares some stories with each other. Does Noah go home or stay with the old man?

My film festival movie

This is Me and my friends film for the film festival. We have spent most of this term doing it. If you want to you can put a review in the comments. Hope you enjoy.

Reading - Noah Barleywater runs away

Last week we started reading Noah Barleywater runs away for our reading groups. It's about a boy who runs away. He gets hungry on the way. He grabs an apple off the tree and it starts grunting. He meets a talking dog and donkey.  Noah also goes into a toy store and meets an old man. Some things about the old man is, he was born without a mother and he can run half a mile in under 5 seconds.

My Blog stats

Today we had to go on our blogs and look at how many blog posts we do every month and year. In 2016 I had 27 blog posts. In 2017 I only had 6 blog posts. In 2018 I had 25 blog posts. In 2019 so far I have 20 blog posts. I'm going to get more blog posts by doing at least 1 or 2 a day. Maybe your class should do it.

Bike Track Project Progress

At our school, we have a bike track. Our class has been assigned some jobs to make the bike track look better. My group is making some signs. We have some real give way signs. We also have some normal signs which we're going to paint over. Here is my prototype for the signs we are going to paint over.

This is in Maori because it is Te wiki te Reo Maori.
I to matou kura, he ara pahikara to matou. Kua tohua to maatau akomanga ki etahi mahi kia pai ake te ara o te pahikara. Kei te hanga e taku roopu etahi tohu. Kei a maatau etahi tohu tino tohu. He tohu ano noa ta maatau e peita ai. Anei taku tohu mo nga tohu ka peita ai matou.

Baking- Chips

Walt: Determine which method makes the tastiest and crispiest chip.

This week for Food Technology, we made homemade chips. We had to be with another group. We made oven chips and the other group made microwave chips. We all said that ours were the best.

Here is the recipe.


Thinly slice two potatoes.


Put the potatoes on a tray and pour oil over them.

Salt them

Put them in the oven For Ten minutes  then take them out and Enjoy



Credits to Epicurious for the image

Baking - Hokey Pokey

Walt: Explain the Science behind Hokey Pokey We made hokey pokey for Food Technology last week. Now we have to explain what we did. This video explains it all. We had only three ingredients, Baking soda, White sugar, and Golden syrup. I enjoyed eating all the hokey pokey afterward but I had a sore tummy because it was so sugary. It was challenging stirring because it hurt your hand after. To be BTB we could add more baking soda. Hope you enjoy the video. :)

Baking cookies

Over this term we have been Baking Cookies. Near the end, we didn't realize you couldn't see the photos. This video is to show you what we did. Hope you Enjoyed. The person next to me is called Carter and the person standing up is Called Harley.

Filmmaking shots

WALT: Take photos of different film shots and explain them

Today My friend Dion and I had to take photos explaining different film shots. I enjoyed taking the photos. I hope this helps you when you make a movie.

Transformation using Grids

Last week we had to copy an image on to a 5x5 grid using polyline. I only got the chance to do a koru. It was challenging doing the curves on the koru. Have you ever tried doing To be BTB I could make my lines look better.