Week 6 & 7 Term 1

The Japanese students arrived! Our Japanese students name is Tukto.

Mrs Shaw and Mrs Ellis held auditions for the production. I was one of the first people to audition. In maths I have been doing BIDMAS and integers. I also learnt standard form. I had no idea what standard form was until we learnt it last week. But it is quite easy. I am now onto the extension work for maths. I finished writing my S.L.C and I didn't have to add anything on which is good. Mrs Shaw wanted me to write a speech to say at the Farewell assembly. I was really nervous. I think I did well although I did stumble over some words. We did heaps of work on commas, and where to put them. I knew where to put them, but needed a bit of revision. You always put commas before FANBOYS, and after the first phrase of a sentence if it starts with an AWUBIS word. We are also learning about the Holocaust. I knew nothing about the Holocaust, mainly because I had never heard the word. When I started to read stories about the Holocaust, I learnt that the Holocaust was during WW2. The Germans wanted a "perfect race", and the Jews, disabled, homosexuals and Jehovah Witnesses didn't fit in with the "superior race", so they were killed.

In the weekend I entered a team in for the Junior Farmer Competition that is held at Pokuru School. My team was Bobby, Holly and I. We also went to raglan to show our Japanese student the beach. We met up with Emma's family and it was heaps of fun. While I was in Raglan with Bobby and my family, we went swimming, shopping and better yet built sand castles (Although Emma and I mainly just covered Bobby in sand😂!).

Bye! Have a great week💛!

Week 5 Term 1

Last week we did a vocab test. I am really disappointed in my score, but it was only one test. We did a spelling test which I think I did well in.

We also had our first student assembly for the year, and it was HILARIOUS at the start. All the Councillors were sitting in their seats, with their class, then music started and they got up and danced onto the stage. We had swimming sports, but unfortunately I had a spewing bug and was unable to participate 😭.

In class, we are still doing the explanation writing, and I am not to far through. Although I'm not far through, I think it is a good explanation, and not a report. We have also been doing heaps of maths, mainly rounding and place value. At the moment I am doing factors as I have finished the estimation/rounding.

Out of school, I am still doing lyrical. We learnt a new exercise, and it's quite weird but in a good way.
In my ballet class we were all very excited to go because we were going to get our pointe shoes. We had to wait from 5:15 - 6:30 to try them on. So mum took us out to sushi. Everyone in the class is super happy with their new shoes.
 

Thank you!

Week 4 Term 1

In sewing I learnt the difference between a sem and a hem. I am nearly finished with my jersey, all I have to finish is the side sems, sleeves and then hem it. So far I am really proud of what I have done on it considering I am not a very good a sewing. We also started explanation writing. I am writing about the Northern lights. I am finding it difficult to not write a report about them. We edited our asttle writing and I think I did alright with it. We went to French and learnt about names of animals and also did some revision from last years lessons.

Outside of school I learnt more moves in my lyrical dance class. In ballet we sorted out everyone's flat shoes and now next week we will be getting pointe shoes!!

Week 3 Term 1

Hello! The first three weeks have gone past so fast.

Mr McCabe has announced the head students for 2017. Unfortunately, I was not one of them, but Bryleella, Daniel, Stageia and Emma all got the head student position. I didn't get any leadership role but it was worth a try. I forgot to say that in my last post that I auditioned for rock band. I had a call back, but didn't make the cut.

On a happier note, we had swimming sports which was really fun. We also started cutting out our jerseys in soft materials tech arts. I am making an all green camo jersey. My friends are very angry because it is plain and "ugly". I think it looks okay. I learnt to use shears. Shears are scissors that are designed to cut fabric. We did asttle writing. I think I did alright. I think the topic was quite difficult to right about. The topic was "Sport is more important than music".

I have really enjoyed making new friends with the years 7s.

Outside of school I have started doing lyrical along with one of my friends Emma. We learnt a couple of lyrical moves and will hopefully learn more next Monday. I've learnt more things in ballet, and am getting stronger feet for pointe shoes.

Welcome to my blog 2017!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. I hope you all had an amazing holiday.

It is so different being a year 8. There are so many more opportunities as a year and so much more responsibility. in the first to weeks I have already applied for head student, house captain and class councilor.

We haven't done much work in class. Again like last year we are writing a letter and doing a visual language task. For the letter this year we had to write a business to Mrs Crowe applying for class councilor or house captain. For our visual language task we are showing our teacher (Mrs Crowe) 5 things she needs to know about us or things that are important to us. My five things are, my family, my friends, netball, music and dance.

Happy Valentines day❣💘

Bye! I will try and post all the way through the year, this year.

Week 10 Term 2

IT'S THE LAST WEEK OF TERM!!!!!

On Wednesday, I went to the Marae! My favorite part was when I learnt how to make fry bread. The ingredients are: 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 Tspoon Yeast, 1 cup water. Method 1. Mix water/yeast/sugar together, 2. Allow to raise, 3. Add flour, 4. Kneed dough to preferred consistency, 5. Deep fry till golden brown.We also did a range of a activities. When we came back I also learnt that birds need gravity to swallow.

On Thursday, I learnt how to find simple interest. I also was told to to do an essay competition.

 LAST DAY OF TERM!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍💩

Friday is finally here! I can wait until the holidays. I haven´t really done much today, so I was mainly trying to think of a topic for the essay competition which is what I am trying to do now. But I got distracted by my blog! OMG! We then had assembly it was hilarious. After school I then learnt new drills at netball practice. 

HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY EVERYONE!!😝😝😜😜😍😍😇😇🤓🤓😎😎😎😎

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!!!!!