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!!!!!  

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.