Week 5 Term 2

Hello!

It was Mother's day last Sunday. I've been practising making pikelets so I made them for Mum on Mother's Day. They turned out really well and weren't deformed unlike my last ones :)

My sisters also made cards and art pieces.

Ever since level 3 I've been doing mountain biking. It's waaaay more fun than doing rando bike rides here and there.

It's lockdown level 2! We just need to wait until Monday and then we'll be going back to school.

Anyway, I've been doing alot of work this week and I'm feeling good that I've got a lot of weight off my shoulders and I have more free time now.

Anzac Biscuit task

Hello,

There was an anzac task to make anzac biscuits, here they are!

I also made a picture showing what the soldiers would usually get in their packages!

Anzac Day Poster

Sooo,

A few days ago it was Anzac day so me and my class has been tasked with making an Anzac day poster telling people to remember the war and how many people died. Here's my poster:

My Poster

Term 2 Week 3

Hello!

This week I've decided to train for cross country.
It's really fun, and if I were to run around a 400m track, I can do it in 1.24 minutes!!
That's my best on 400m, but when I run 3km, I can only run it in 15 minutes. So that's been great.

I'd have to say reading is the most fun, because who wouldn't want to make a catapult out of lego or make a fake text between two characters in a story?

To stay in touch with our teachers, we have this app called 'Zoom' it's pretty much an app where you invite people to a video call and chat about stuff in / or not in lockdown. And I'd have to say it's a lot less laggy then some other video call apps. I'm looking at you Google Duos!!

Week 1 Term 2

Hi,

It was Easter earlier this week, so I just want to talk about it.

I woke up to be told that my Mum had hidden my Easter egg and I had to find it. Which was okay but the clue I got wasn't the best 'what do you use in summer?' is what I got. My brother; Jacob was a bit lazy so he just wanted his egg straight forward without having to find it. My sisters; Catherine and Hayley got extremely easy clues: It's under the tree near the elephant & near the tool box. They both found theirs in two seconds flat. Me however, had some trouble. I eventually found it on the bbq, under the lid. Which, doesn't really go with 'what do you use in summer?' as a clue. Well anyway, after that we went on a refreshing 5 km walk. Then we just enjoyed the rest of the day.

I've been kind of struggling with my work, since doing work at home doesn't feel very natural. Anyway, I'm kind of getting through my work so it's all good.

Week 8 Term 1

Hello,

For maths we've been doing something called 'Problem Solving' you get into groups and you get given a hard problem which you need to solve with your group. We only do that on Wednesdays and Thursdays though. On Mondays and Tuesdays we either do a Workshop to learn something new in maths, play Mathletics, or do Maintenance.

For R.E. we are doing a Lent strand. We have been learning about

First Blog of 2020

Kia ora!

Hi again, it has been a while. This is my first post for the year, so I hope you like it!

This years theme for the school will be change. So at lunchtime, the teachers go around giving 'changemaker' awards. If you get one, you leave it in a bucket so that in assembly, year 8s will dip their hand in the bucket and if they pull out your name, you go up and get a $2 dollar award. This could be a fancy pencil, a stationary kit, bookmark, stickers, etc. It's really funny because when the year 8s go up they're in a caterpillar or butterfly costume showing 'change' in how the caterpillar became a butterfly.

We started a reading activity called Chapter Challenge. It's a cool activity where we listen to a book or a read the book and then, from that, we do activities based on the story like; draw a mechanical horse, make a catapult, do research on old money called sovereigns, write a new song for a character to sing, etc. THEN once you've done that, on Friday you go onto Twitter and post all your work for a few other schools to see. Of course, the other schools post work as well for you to look at. And, that's really the gist of it. Here's a piece of my work:




It's a catapult made from K'nex bricks. It was one of the many activities.





We had swimming sports, that was a bit of fun although, I'm not a swimmer. Luckily I got to the finals in freestyle, but my streak of luck died and I didn't get to zones.