Week 9 Term 2

I am still in Palmerston north! Don't worry it's for a very good reason!

On Monday, I finished writing the last two blogs, and started writing this one! I then went to hospice to to visit my Dadi (Grandma in Hindi) who was very very sick. We then went shopping to buy clothes because we didn't pack enough. After the second visit to Dadi we went back to the house to cook food for everyone.

On Tuesday, I went back up to the hospice for the rest of the day. We were there until 11 pm that night talking about random things like drawing and my Japanese student.

On Wednesday, Dadi past away this morning. I am very sad. She is not suffering any more and she is smiling. After the funeral people read quarn and prayed. We then ate dinner and went to bed.

On Thursday, I didn't do much. I played hid 'n' seek with my cousins and brother. My niece gave me empty sticker pack so I stuck that onto my computer and wrote her name on it. NYLA! 

On Friday, I E-mailed Mrs Crowe to see if there was any work that needed doing. She E-mailed me back and said" Yes Persuasive and Book Review" So I got on with that. We then did the same thing as Thursday, but instead of going to bed we started our journey home. On the way we started watching the temperature rise and lower. At one point it was -3°!!😜😜😜

On Saturday, we got up at 7:30 am to go to my brother Jamal's soccer game. My feet were FREEZING. I was wearing the thinnest socks and my gumboots are NOT very thick at the bottom. The score was 2-2. We then went home to thaw out a bit before heading of to my netball game. We lost 15-something higher!     

On Sunday, I had a rep tournament. We had to get up at 5:30 am and got to the meeting place at 6:15 pm. We had our first game at 9:00 am and one following at 9:30. We won both games. After this we won 3 more and lost won against Whakatane. 😭😭😭. We came second and they came first, but we still got medals!!!!!  

Week 8 Term 2

On Monday, we had assembly first up. I got my including other band and later that day I found out that I was going to get my honesty band next Monday assembly! YAY! After morning tea, we did volleyball. I was put into a team that was filled with really god players and medium players.

On Tuesday, we had tech arts first. Mrs Tyson made us write about forces on different things like balls rolling down a hill and a sled going down a hill. She had made shoe cleaner. This also works as lip balm. After shining my shoes I had to go to the hall so that we could leave to go to the collage to watch grease. It was really cool and I knew quite a lot of people. When we came back we worked on science fair! I really needed that time.

On Wednesday, we did science fair in the morning I came up with my title! Sugar ROSES. After morning tea I was on the mat to revise adding and subtracting fractions because I got some of them wrong in the test :(. After lunch we went to french. But Mrs Shaw was busy so we didn't have it so we went back to class for a couple of minutes before going to Jump Jam.

On Thursday, I did my science fair. I finished backing my work and sticking it on my board. I finished writing up my conclusion  and Data as well. Emma helped me cut out and stick on my photos. We also had R.I assembly.

On Friday, I had a Jump Jam workshop. We learnt how to cue vocally and physically. After that we took our morning tea up to the tech foyer. Emma and I attempted to build our structure out of straws, but it did NOT work. After lunch I went home early and then drove up to Palmerston north.

On Saturday, I didn't play netball because I was in Palmerston north and I had a rep tournament, but I was obviously in P.N!


Here's a photo of my science fair board!

Week 7 Term 2

This week was a great week again!

On Monday, we did a lot of things, but it started with assembly. After assembly we did maths. During maths time I learnt how to add and subtract fractions with different denominators. It is a lot harder than just adding across ways. You actually have to do 3-5 steps before you can get to your answer. We also went to volleyball to find our team that will play against room 5 on Wednesday. I wasn't in the team, but I wasn't annoyed or sad because I'm not the best volleyball player. After that we did more maths. After lunch we learnt about some of the features that are in argument writing. Some are, Emotive language, Exaggeration and the rule of three.

On Tuesday, as usual we had tech arts. We learnt about mass and different forces. We then started making Balloon cars. I am in a group with Emma. After morning tea we did maths I carried on with adding an d subtracting fractions. After lunch we wrote our draft argument about school uniforms. We brain stormed first and then we were allowed to start our writing.

On Wednesday, I finished of my draft, proof read it and filled out my criteria sheet then handed it in. We also went down on the mat to do some stuff on reading. We learnt how to identify the main idea in the paragraph and make sure that we weren't adding to much extra information. We went to french and learnt how to count from 11-20. Afterwards we did Jump Jam it was fun as usual.

On Friday, we did maths in the morning. After morning tea we did tech arts. We were finishing off our balloon cars when the science fair boards came. We helped deliver them to the other classes. In the last block we had Maori. We learnt about the battles in Waikato area. We then had Friday sports I finally got to go to a Belmont netball training as Mrs Bayley was doing gymnastics.

On Saturday, we lost our netball game against the fourz. 😢 . I finally had my Birthday Party it was really fun.

Week 6 Term 2

This week was another great week at Te Awamutu Intermediate.

This week was only a 4 day week as Monday was Queens Birthday.

On Tuesday, in the morning, we had tech arts. Emma and I were doing really well until, at the last minute, 1 of the corners made the marble stop half way through. So our average time was 13.36 (I think). After morning tea we did maths. It was really fun because I learnt something new. RATIO! I have learnt it before, but I never understood. I do now though. It is just like doing fractions, but they are just written in a different way. During lunch I had Jump Jam competition practise. We aren't doing W.I.M.S Jump Jam because not enough teams entered, so we are hoping that we can just have a workshop. We also looked at a new song called " A Little Party Never Killed Nobody". After lunch we had SSR I started reading my new book "Turning Pointes" By Emma Freedman. We talked about how science fair is coming up and that we should nearly be ready to stick things onto our board or at least be typing up that information. After that we talked about all of the new tasks we are going to receive. 1. Book report- I am going to do the book "The Truth About Peacock Blue", and 2. Argument Writing- I am not sure yet what we are going to do it on yet but I think we will find out this week sometime.

On Wednesday, in the morning, we had indoor bowls. I found it really fun, but quite tricky to get the ball to go the right way. The ball curved so we had to aim more on an angle than straight. After lunch we had inter house winter games! I played netball. It was really fun and I got to play against some of my friends. Overall Puniu came 2nd! YAY!  We are sitting second on the leader board 2nd on the leader board with 37.5. Waipa is winning with 40 something😢.

On Thursday, in the morning we did anything that needed to be finished off. I did maths as I had nothing else to finish off. I did alot of ratio work that morning and finish 1-2 Learning Reflections. After morning tea we did...MATHS! But it was OK because I still hadn't finished all the maths I needed to do. I finished another 1 or 2 Learning Reflections. We also had school singing where we sung my favourite song "Sorry" . During lunch I had A.I.M.S Netball trials! To be honest I thought the trials were on Friday. We find out weather we got a call back tomorrow. After lunch we...did.....more..MATHS! This was fine because I only needed to do one more Learning Reflection that was about RATIO PROBLEMS! FUN(not being sarcastic)! We also had R.I Assembly.

On Friday, I did foyer duty. While I was at foyer duty I was writing this blog post. That is basically all that happened is I sat writing it and reading my book. I got a call back for A.I.M.S netball! YAY! I was sad because my friend didn't make it.

Week 5 Term 2

Week 5 has been amazing, yet very stressful for science fair tech arts, assembly and alot more.
Mr McCabe was our relive teacher for Monday and Tuesday as Mrs Crowe was away at a course.   

On Monday, at assembly, 7 people from my class received silver badges. AMAZING. It was really cool to see everyone focused on the stage. Mr McCabe wasn't taking assembly so it wasn't very long. We had writing after assembly. I had done some at home the night before so I was finished and ready to draft it. I decided that I would enter a science competition called Epro8 Challenge. I entered the challenge with my 3 friends, Emma, Bobby and Jess. We called our group Little Einstein's named after Albert Einstein himself. After morning tea we were all dressed in our P.E Gear ready to go to the A.L.C to play volleyball. We didn't go because Mr McCabe was talking about how greedy humans are and how we don't know or care about events happening around the world. When he said that we didn't know or care about whaling in Japan I was slightly annoyed because I did know and definitely did care. This went right through our volleyball time. Afterwards we had maths it was really good because I wasn't as far as I would have liked to be in maths. My learning intentions were, To Order Fractions and To Use Improper Fractions And Mixed Numbers(Fractions Greater Than 1). After lunch we had SSR and reading.

On Tuesday, we did tech arts. Emma and I got straight into working on our marble run. We started sticking our marbles course on after we did 2 or 3 we timed it. Surprisingly it was only 3 seconds. We were quite silly and stuck them on to much of an angle, so we fixed it. So far we made it to 8 seconds and it needs to be 20 seconds. Next we had maths and I continued with the Improper Fractions. During lunch I had Jump Jam practise. We did Uptown Funk. Turns out that we might not be doing W.I.M.S Jump Jam anyway. But we will still teach it to the school. After lunch we carried on with maths reading or writing I did reading.

Mrs Crowe is back from the course! :)

On Wednesday, we did the science ICAS Test. I finished the test and think I did reasonably well. After morning tea we did some finishing off. I edited my writing and handed it in, did my reading and then the bell rang. I got changed into my P.E Gear ready for Jump Jam after lunch. After lunch we went to French. We did  quiz about buildings in Paris and had conversations that included, Hello my name is....... what is your name and how are you. We were late getting to Jump Jam because we went to long at French. When we got there they were doing the song Freaks.

This is a 4 day week! :)

On Thursday, I did more maths and handed in my reading. I finished all the maths that I was allowed to do. Luckily I didn't have to do the ratio's because I don't understand them.

Anyway that is basically all that happened this week at school.

On Friday, I went to the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB). They performed the Wizard Of Oz. My Grandma bought me a ballet shoe signed by Lucy Green (Picture of her Below). We got home at 12 pm.

On Saturday, we lost our netball game! :( Then I went to a friends house for a party. I am really tired.

Week 4 Term 2

 This week has been great!

On Monday, at assembly Mr McCabe talked about bullying and walking on the grass. Mr Denize talked about all the sport opportunities at the moment such as AIMS, WIMS and interclass volleyball and dodge ball. Mr Ellis invited all the students that were receiving a S.H.I.N.E Band and told us what the focus was for the week. It is We include others- We show kindness.

On Tuesday, we had tech in the morning. We did more P.O.E.W's. We did a balloon rocket race. We had to design, build and make it work. I was in a group with Emma, Bobby and Jess. We took longer than expected because we were trying to it our own way and not like everyone else. Unfortunately we had to change our idea to be like everyone else's :(. For reading my group learnt about all of the different points of views that a book is written in. You can have First person, Third person, Third person limited, Third person objective, Third person omniscient. The Third person views are quite hard to tell the difference between because there are only small differences between them.


On Wednesday, we did Otago Problem Solving. Some of the questions I found really hard and I didn't know how to work them out and some I thought that some were quite easy. I got 2 out of 5. We had Jump Jam leaders at lunch time to do our new routine Uptown Funk for W.I.M.S. After lunch we had a French lesson. We learnt how to say how we are feeling and ask how are other people are feeling. We also did jump jam where I helped teach the new jump jam song, Freaks. The team picked it up really quickly. It was really fun to expirence what it is like to teach a new song to the team.

On Thursday, we had a house meeting for inter house winter games. I am doing Netball. In the morning we did a word puzzle. I found it really fun, yet really challenging. Apart from that the day was really relaxing.

On Friday, we found out that there was going to be no sport happening as the weather was a bit on the cold side. Anyway, tech arts was really fun we learnt about forces like gravity. After learning about this we started making a marble track. I am working with Emma. We have a really good design planned. Crossed fingers that it works!!! 

On Saturday, I had netball. We had our first win since grading. YAY!!!



Thats pretty much it for this week I hope that you had a good week as well.

Week 3 Term 2

This week was another great week at Te Awamutu Intermediate.

On Monday, we started note taking for our new writing task that is report writing. We had a choice out of 6 different animals. I chose  a meerkat. For our reading task, we have to read a small piece of writing. Group 2 is reading Mrs Flowers by Maya Angelou. I learnt the meanings of many different words such as Aristocrat and inedible. After interval we did volleyball. It was really fun because it was my first time playing and I thought I was pretty good. We learnt how to serve, scoop and volley. I had rep netball practise which was really fun but was also really cold as we were practising in the rain.

On Tuesday, we had tech arts it was really fun as we had our first science lesson with Mrs Tyson. She is a great teacher and she is really funny. We learnt all the rules of her science room and learnt what P.O.E.W (a scientific method) (pronounced pooy) stands for. It stands for Predict Observe Explain What if.  

On Wednesday, because of band camp, we had no Jump Jam or French:(! Everyone seemed to have a really fun time at band camp, but I think that the kids left in class had a fun time as well because we only had about 10 kids in class for two whole days. At netball practise we learnt new drills and skills to use in our game on Saturday.

On Thursday, we watched a movie called Jamanji. I love this movie because it is really random and crazy. At ballet we learnt a new move.

On Friday, everyone was back in class and ready to work again. Again we had science it was really fun as I got to work with my friends to do some P.O.E.W's. We had to light a teabag and make it float into the air.

On Saturday, we lost our netball game, but it was a good game.

On Sunday, I had a rep tournament. We got 2nd place!!