Goal reflection

I have worked on this goal but I don't think I really understand it enough to have passed it. So next week I will continue to work on this goal.

Hauraki Plains Arts Festival

Goal Reflection

Collaboration - collaborate with my group achieve shared goals…

I think I have achieved this goal by working with some other students who I don't usually work with. During GE times we worked in a group I we got most of our stuff done and we didn't muck around as much. Overall I had an amazing week and can't wait till next week!!

My Mural

The plane is flying,

The stars are shining

The flag is floating,

The fish are biting

The boat is turning

The sky is sparkling

The poppies are soaring

The truck is whisking

The waves are unlimited

The crosses standing tall

The tent is swinging in the wind

The world is in my hands  

This is me, my family and life.

Labour weekend

On Thursday My Dad, Sister and Poppy went do too paraparaumu to get our new boat. They stayed the night down there then came back on friday. I rushed home from school but there was no boat. At around 4:30 I see a ute with a boat on it come past and then I realise that that we our new boat. I was so excited I ran around and helped dad back in p.s I only guided him 👍.

As soon as he turned of the ute I jumped in to have  a look.  I jumped on the seats and laid in the beds. Then I see this really cool window at the front of the boat so I popped it open and saw dad and we started pulling faces at each other.  I see all the cool features like a live bait tank and a cool sliding window that dad got put on special.

Not long after they came Mum turned up and so did my Grandad. It was my Mum’s birthday so grandad bought her some flowers and we got her a locket. Poppy left and we had Drew and Maria come over, they are some of our parents friends.Maria we kind and brought us around some food for the BBQ. Not long after Izzy and the kids came around.

Toki and I hung out in the boat trying to see where we could fit. I went inside for a while then when I came out I saw that Fraggile, Jodi, Adam  and Parky had came around. Izzy was manning the Barbie and Lexi was inside cooking some wraps. My Aunty and Cousins came around later on and we all curled up and watched a movie in the lounge.

We decided to watch Hunt for the wilder people. Once the food had finished cooking Jodi brought it inside and we had some. Not long after everyone started to fall asleep but I didn’t. Everyone started to leave and I went to bed. That was my main highlight of my weekend.

Reflection on my week

The best thing about my week was making the miniature garden. If you look at my previous blog post you will see all about those :). I finished all my work and just cruised over the finish line.  The hardest part was probably my Manga High. Some of my questions were really hard but there is an opportunity to learn more. Overall I had a really good week.  I can't wait for next week. 

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Diy Miniature Garden creations!!!

DIY Miniature Garden creations

Today we created a mini garden. You brought your own supplies in and then we got creating. We started off with a small plan and went from there. I decided to create a fairy garden. I got some small pebbles from our fish tank and some succulents out of the garden. I grabbed some fairy lights of my wall and some sting.

When we started of in the morning we did a quick plan and then started. I started by grabbing some sand and putting it in the bottom of my container. I placed in my succulents and spread some pebbles around them.  I went on a stick hunt with Emma to find some sticks for my bunting. I took my sticks, string and my triangles and hot glued them together. I placed them in and started taping some fairy lights onto the top of my container.

When I was all done I cleaned up all my mess and took my masterpiece inside. After morning tea Moana and whenua came into our class to look at our creations. We explained to them all the different parts to them and they seemed quite fascinated. I really enjoyed making these gardens and hopefully we can make them again.

My Masterpiece 

Learning in the Making reflection

Learning in the Making!!!

Last Friday our school got to have a create make kind of day. It was our 3rd annual Learning in the making conference. The conference is a day to explore new learning  and make it a bit funner. A lot of preparation went into the conference and lots of planning. We had to sell our workshop to everyone who had that booklet, Lara and I were running a workshop so we had to sell it and that took a bit of planning and hard work.

 We started our morning by having a 2 key speakers. The Yr 1-3 had Mrs Barker and she read a book and Mr Osborne talked to the year 4-8 about jobs in the future etc. After talking to Mr Osborne we headed to our first breakout. My first break out was Drama. I was in a group with Ayisha, Emma and Myself. We performed a couple of skits and then it was time to go.

We had morning tea then I headed to my next breakout. For the next breakout I was doing Fun with felt and buttons with Mrs Heaven. We all made flowers and we attached them to either a Hair Tie, Clip, bookmark or a bracelet. I choose to make mine into a bookmark. I cut out the felt then sewed it all together. Then I chose a button to put on to and sewed that one. Now I got some more felt and made a bookmark and sewed it all together.

When the workshop was over I had Lunch and got ready for my next workshop. After lunch Lara and I were making some cool 3D creations with the years 1-3. We did quite well with the first group but with the second group they just seemed to be mucking around a lot, so they didn’t get theirs finished. Some I took them home and finished them over the weekend.

Next year if we got to have some different workshops I would probably say an amazing race around the school would be awesome. The learning in the making conference is an amazing opportunity for all the students and teachers to learn new things. The best part about all of this is that we are the only school in New Zealand to get to do this so we are pretty lucky. I can’t wait till next year to hopefully have another one.

The Marama Way

What am I going to to ensure that I make the most of Term 4 2016? 

I am going to make sure that I drink lots f water. I seem to get dehydrated so I need to keep on drinking my water and filling up my water bottle.  It just keeps me healthy and ready to learn! 

I also need to make sure I am using my brain breaks because sometimes you just need a healthy snack or a quick run around outside. It helps me when I am feeling bored and when I get stuck on a question.  

Quick Write

My holiday

Avatar of Aunty Baillee 

In the holidays I spent most of my time hanging out with family and going to work with my Dad. My favorite part of my holidays was going to the movies with some family friends. Aunty Baillee came to our house early in the morning with Alex and Zoe. We went back to her house and meet Bridget, Justin and Blake. We spent some time mucking around and then we loaded into different cars and took of to Thames.

When we first got there we got Pizza from Pizza Hut and then went to the Grahamstown Train station and had our pizza. We headed of to the movies to see Pete’s Dragon. When the movie was over we headed back to Aunty Baillee’s house. Bridget, Justin and Blake went home, so we decided to have a war. We got some of the old fruit that had fallen of the trees and began to stock up. It was Alex and I against Zoe and Jayde.

We spent about 2 hours mucking around and then it was time to go home. We piled into the Ute and headed to Kopu to meet Mum. We said goodbye and then we hopped into the car to  go home. That was probably the best part about my holiday

Volley ball down at HPC

Volley ball down at HPC

Today we all walked down to the local college to take volley ball with some of the year 12s. When we got down there we piled into the gym and listened to Ange talk. After she had finished talking we split into our groups. I meet the leaders of our group and they were called Rihanna and Daniel.

We played a quick game of line tag and then got straight into it. We got split into pairs so Edell and I went with each other. We just did some serving to the wall and then we starting serving to each other. We kept switching partners so we could work with others. We had a little time left so we played some real volleyball.  

We were split in half and we started. When Liam had the first serve you could hear the big thud. When the ball came at me I whacked it as hard as I could. Then after a little while we swapped around so I was now a server. My first serve wasn’t that good but after awhile they started getting better. We heard the final school bell go, so we knew it was time to leave.

On Thursday we have another session and I can’t wait. I had lots of fun and I think other students did to.

Goal reflection: Never give up !!!

Never give up

This week our goal was to never give up even when it was hard. I really tried to challenge myself this week. I have been learning all about square and square roots, i'm slowly improving and getting the hang of it. When I was completing my maths PAT. I found some of the questions difficult but I still tried and never gave up. This will be my goal throughout the year.

Current events: Golden day for paralympians

 New Zealand Paralympics have received more gold medals. 

Track sprinter Liam Malone ran to victory in the 200m final. He  broke the record of South African Oscar Pistorius in the T44 classification for athletes running with the aid of prosthetic.

In the pool Sophie Pascoe and Cameron Leslie smashed  their opponents in finals.

Pascoe received her third gold of these Games. Which means Pascoe  is now New Zealand most successful Paralympic. Her latest gold means she passes Eve Rimmer, who won eight golds in different track and field events from 1968 to 1980.

Swimmers have won five of New Zealand’s six gold medals in Rio.
Source:Kiwi Kids News 
My opinion: I love that we go and attend these games and do well. I think not as many people care about the Paralympics as the Olympics. 

I wonder......

  Is it better to be a child or a grown up? I think that it is better if you are a child because you can get away with things.   And when you are a grown up you have to pay bills at least once a month and you'd have to go to work. I like being a kid and I hope that one day they will make an ageing spell so I don't have to grow up. 

I wonder.....

If you could be an animal for a day what animal would you be and why?

I think that I would be a penguin because I love swimming and I think that it would be really cool experiencing the different living situation. It would also be cool to see how they survive in the wild and not in the zoo.

Money Week

I normally spend my money rather than saving. If I won 1 million dollars I would by myself a Suzuki swift sport, Boat and a house. I would leave the rest of the money in the bank and receive interest of it. If I found 50 dollars I would take it to Mum and ask her what to do. If Mum wasn't around I would take it to the police station. My money role model will probably be my Dad because he is so cautious with his money and I am not so I have to be a bit more Cautious with it.  Here is what I would buy with it.

Languages Milestones

Blokes Day

On Friday at Ngatea Primary School we had blokes day. Blokes day is a day when you invite a special bloke in your life to school. We had an assembly and then we went and spent some time with our blokes. My Dad and Poppy came. We went into Jaydes classroom first and then went into mine. In Jaydes classroom we looked at her learning and some art. In my class we made a cork launcher. Our cork didn’t launch the furthest but we tried so that was OK. When I went home I washed Dad’s Ute for him. Then I just chilled. One Sunday we had a special lunch. We had Hash Browns, Eggs, Bacon and Mushrooms. We just chilled and it was a lovely day. Happy fathers day Dad xx  

Father day

My Dad likes to go fishing even though he isn’t the most successful fisherman he is the most successful dad. My Dad

He is your own personal handyman and when I want stuff put on the wall he’ll do it for me. I enjoy our rides in the truck and our long semi boring discussions. I like that you are patient with me when I break you tools or when i’m grumpy. I like the way that your eyebrows are not on fleek. You're the best Dad ever.

Love your favorite daughter Alyxxxx