Pool day

Hello this week as an semi end of term reward we got to go the pools as a big school activity if we got all of our work done. Luckily for me I had finished all my work a couple of days a go so I was allowed to go. As we arrived at the pool I couldn't help but notice the kind of big water slide that was in the back right corner of the pool. After we got our safety briefing we all raced to the changing rooms so we could get into the pool. The pool was super cold so it took me and Reuben ages to get in. We were playing around in the pool for about 30 minute and the n we got out for the rest of the day. 

Summer learning journey

Hello, This week we have been doing one of the tasks from the summer learning journey which his something that you can do in the summer holidays to increase your learning and you can also win prizes. We had  to do some research and find out all that you can about a singer. Once you have finished your research, please create a Profile Page for her. A profile page is a digital info graphic or poster that shares information about someone. I did mine on Stan Walker 

Are you doing any learning activities in the holidays?

Sport reflection

Hello, Term every Thursday we have been doing sports rotation in our home bases. My home base home base two play lawn bowls. We learnt how to play and what the point of lawn bowls is. next we played korfball which was my favorite because it is a lot like basketball which I am very good at. Next we played cricket which was probably my favorite out of all of them because it does not involve much running. Last we played soft ball I enjoyed soft ball because it is a team sport and involved everyone in the team.



whats is your favorite sport.

my haiku

This week in our writing workshop we have been writing poems. First we watch some videos to show us what type of poem that we can write and I chose a haiku. I chose to do my haiku about basketball because it is one of my favorite sports. Here is my haiku.

Basketball is fun 

Basketball is a great sport 

Yay for basketball

I like to play guard 

It a skilled position 

I hate playing big

The position sucks 

You don't get the ball that much

I like basketball

Have you wrote a poem?

Attitude

Hello, This week a guy name Rory came into our school to speak to our Kaupeka hub about puberty. He talk about the changes that are going to happen in our body and what emotion we might feel when we are going through these changes. The next He came back and split the girls and the boys up to talk to us with more death.

Top Team

Hi, this week on Friday we had top team. Top Team is run by Sports Canterbury to try keep people active and enjoying Physical activity. There are 12 different station that each requires different abilities. there were water activities running activities and thinking activities. I was in a group with my friend max and a couple of other people.

Tough Kids

Hello this week we went to New Briton to compete in tough kids. Tough Kids is a noncompetitive race that involves lots of different obstacles including bouncing castle water obstacles and more. I ran with my friend instead of going sweaty try hard and coming first. The course is 2.7 km and over 2000 kids competed.

Athletics

Hello, this week I went to zone for high jump and long distance. We had around 90 people from our school compete in Zone including myself. You could only take two people for each event in there year group. My first event was high jump and I came 3rd. Then in long distance I came first which was a easy race mainly because I made Canterbury cross country team.

Recipe

Hello, this week we have been making recipe for some food that we have to make on Friday. That food has to be a food from the country you got given. Here is my Recipe.

Bought sponge cake

Icing
100g dark chocolate
¾ cup water
2 cups  Icing Sugar, sifted
1 cup cocoa, sifted
½ cup milk

To make lamingtons Cut sponge cake into  pieces. Put coconut into a bowl. Make icing by mixing together chocolate and water in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan. Stir until chocolate has melted and is smooth. Move it from heat from heat.

  Sift  Icing Sugar and cocoa over chocolate mixture stir until smooth. Add milk and mix until you think its combined. Work quickly as chocolate sauce will thicken while it cools down.
 

tennis instruction

Hello,
this week we have been making instructions for a skill or sport from a chosen country. Enjoy Things you need  

-racket 

-court 

-opponent 

Rules

- you can not stand over the baseline when your serving but you can jump over it.

-You can not double hit the ball.

-You can not play the ball once it has gone out.

- If the bounces on the line no matter how slightly it is it must be called in.

- You can not touch the net at anytime during a rally or else your opponent gets the point.

-You can not let the ball bounce twice.

Even if the ball is going out you have to leave it until it has touched the ground or else its the other person's point.

Tennis is played between two players, this is called singles or two teams of two players, four in all, this is called doubles. Play starts when the player whose turn it is to serve attempts to hit a ball into the opposite small box at the front of the court. If the opponent hits the ball back into your court the Play will then continue, This phase is called a rally. This rally will continue until either the ball lands out of play or hits the net without managing to land on the opponent's side or bounces twice before a player can hit it . Another rule is that you can’t double hit the ball. The point is won by either player who does not do any of these things. Point are played to Three  sets of six games. A game is four points won but you have to win by two points 

W5 A reading

Hello,
this week in our reading WS we have learning about the sea our goal for this Workshop was Identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text. This is a diagram I created.

School camp

Hello, this week we had school camp and we stayed at Powell village in Wainui. We did lots of activities like archery, coasteering and high ropes. 


A challenge for me on camp was probably high ropes because I am not much of a climber and it pushed me out of my comfort zone. I was one block away from the top but not tall enough to get up to the top but I still enjoyed it.


My favourite activity was coasteering because we got to jump off rocks and swim in the water even though it was freezing cold cold. Although we didn't get to jump off the biggest rock I still really enjoyed the experience and would love to do it again.


Something that I learnt from camp was how to belay on the high ropes course. It was very easy but you have to have a lot of concentration because you are keep someone from falling and badly hurting them selves or you.


What I am grateful for this camp was be able to spend time with my friend on camp and doing new activities on camp. I am also grateful for the people who organised the camp and help run it.
 what did you do when you went camping?

W1 Reading WS

This week for our reading workshop we didn't have have a goal but we instead we work on the countries that we were a signed. This is some info a bought my findings in this workshop.

PBL driving question

Hello, as you probably know each term we have a PBL driving Question and this term it is how can I celibate who I am. We have been talking about what this means and some sub questions that we could use on our project. We also have to add some sort of music element into our final project.
                                                

Volunteering

Hi,
This week we have done some volunteering for the Christchurch city council. My group did graffiti remove all even though we didn't take down any graffiti we just painted a fence. We each painted two rows of the fence It took ages. Me and Sam did our rows together so we could talk while we were painting. 

Narrative writing

Hello,
and welcome back to another blog post. This week we have been Writing narrative about the future. I did a blog post recently about my narrative plan and what I was going to put in my narrative. I mention that it was about cannibalism which is when people kill each for food but change what my narrative was about because I didn't like it. Instead I did It about aliens taking over the world. Here is my opening paragraph.

T3 W5 Reading

For the past 2 week we have been reading a book that the teacher give us. I am reading good night Mister Tom, it is about a boy who has to leave his home because where he live is getting bomb. The boy has to stay with mister Tom who was an old grump man but further in the story we find out that he was just lonely.

Narrative plan

Hello this week we have been planning to write a narrative about the future. my narrative is going to be sort of bast on cannibalism. Cannibalism is when people start killing other people for food.

Winter sport final

For the past two term we have been doing winter sport on Thursday we had to choose between rugby, football, hockey and netball. I chose rugby because it is my favourite sport. we won our Thursday sport tournament which was the first time a year 7 and 8 team from st Francis had won this tournament. We play st Martins in the final who we had never lost to and won quite convincingly Max and I scored the Majority  of the try me with 4 and max with five 5.  Overall i really enjoyd play Thursday sport and its been a lot of fun.

Reading WS W4

This week for my Reading workshop we have been learning to Independently predict, interpret and analyse text, 'reading between the lines' to gain a deeper meaning. For our create task we had to Predict what is going to happen by looking at the cover and Read the first chapter and find 3 sentences and writing what you think the reader means. 

Are you reading a book?