Last week of Term 3!!!!!!!

Ramere 27 Mahuru

It's finally the last day of term!!!

The highlights of my term were...

Harold.  He was funny and we got to sing stay fit get healthy.

Another highlight was planting at Mohiki gardens.  I planted with Isaac and we named our trees.  But the planting doesn't stop there.  Simon and I (and the rest of the Batten team) did planting at Centennial stream.  We planted six and named them Jimmy Jimmy-bob Joanna Germy Patricia and Helen.  Jimmy-bob is Jimmy and Joanna's son.  Germy is Patricia's son and Helen is just Helen.  We saw so many worms it was amazing.

Oh there was market day where I wasn't there but as a group we made ice cream and we each made 2.00 profit.  We were so proud of us it was amazing.

OH I just remembered about service day and that I did bird houses.  There were so many that my group made.  I don't know where they are now but someones was upside down and that was funny.

What else did we do?  We finished winter sports.  That was good and my group came second.  We were happy but some people weren't.

The lowlights of my term were...

Athletic day training.  I really dislike athletics.  I'm very bad at high jump and I'm ok at the rest but still I really dislike it.

Having to do blogs on Fridays.  It's very very very boring and Fridays are supposed to be fun.  Blogs take up so much time and having to get them checked is a big pain.

I also didn't like math tests.  It's not that I'm bad at math it's just that I don't like having to do tests.

I also don't like that our student teacher Miss Jamieson is leaving today ☹️😢


The lights in the distance are...

The Holidays!!! 2 Weeks of doing nothing.

I'm also looking forward to villa maria.

I'm looking forward to seeing my sister Emily in the holidays.

And Last but not least I'm looking forward to spending time with my friends.

Thank you for reading and have a great holiday.

Weekly update Second to last week of term 3

Friday 20 September

This week has been very dramatic.  Literally.  We had our production yesterday (Thursday 19 September)  My voice still kind of hurt from me practicing the songs for the production on Wednesday.But turns out I didn't even need to.

The highlight of my week was being able to draw a massive version of Maui's brother.  He is very very very big.  I based it of one of the characters in a book called how Maui found his mother.  Why I drew a massive version of Maui's brother is because we have been studying maori myths and legends.  I have learnt a lot about what the maori people believe and that sometime the stories don't always make sense.

Something I am looking forward to is the school holidays!!!  Next week is the last week of school for term 3.  In the holidays I am going to my kayaking south islands and also having a playdate with Lexie.  I'm also excited because next term I start canoe polo and at school we are doing swimming lessons.  But there is no way I'm looking forward to athletic day.

What I thought about the production.  I wasn't there.  I was sick.  Even If I wasn't sick I wouldn't have been able to do the night show because I was at a Villa Maria thing.  So since I wasn't at the production I'm going to talk about what Villa Maria was like.  So first we said a prayer together and then me and all the other girls who are going to Villa Maria next year and the religious education teacher said the floor was lava and we had to stand on a mat.  They were really a bunch of mats put together and the teacher kept taking them away and we had to stand closer and closer together.  Then some year 12 and 13 students took us out to the drama room and we played some games.

That's about it for this week so I'll try to write next week but I make no promises.
Oh wait I forgot I'm planting some trees on Saturday 21 of September (Tomorrow)

Update Week 1-6

Ramere 30 Here-turi-koka

Sorry I haven't updated for a while we have been doing a lot and I haven't had time to do my blog.  This is what I've been doing.

Planting at Mohiki gardens

At Mohiki gardens we did some planting.  I was in a pair with my friend Isaac.  It was a learning experience because that was one of my first times gardening.  We planted eight plants and we were really proud of ourselves.  I was really good at the digging and Isaac was great at packing in the plant with the dirt.

Life education

Life education was really cool.  We learnt about empathy and how we judge people just by looking at them.  It was interesting and I learnt a lot of new things and we also watched videos about a boy named Alex and about the choices he made and what his body was trying to tell him.  Harold also told us some Dad jokes and at the end we had a little karaoke party.

Market Day

We also had market day but sadly I had canoe polo.  We made 28 dollars but our profit between us was 2.00 each.  Because I wasn't here I'm going to talk about my canoe polo.  Canoe polo is a mix of netball and Kayaking.  We won 2 games out of 6 games.  I am very proud with our effort and happy that we won 2 games because we were playing against kids from high schools.  Here is a link to a canoe polo website.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_polo

Winter Sports

We have finally finished winter sports and I am so happy.  My team was playing for first overall.  Sadly we lost and came second but I'm really happy with our result.  We played well and I enjoyed playing winter sports with all my friends.  I learnt new warm ups for netball and I also learnt a bit more about netball.

Service Day

For service day I made bird houses.  I helped Lewis and Lucano with their birdhouses before I did mine.  I only had 5 minutes left to do mine but I had help from the person from Miter 10.  Miter 10 was the one who gave us all the bird houses.  At the end we took a photo with all the bird houses and I got a little tool kit for putting others before me.  I'm considering buying my own bird house for me and my Dad to build because I enjoyed it so much.

Production

For the production we have been practising our song.  My song that I am doing is called Sats blues.  It was originally Pats blue but because the production is from britain they do Pats blues.  So Mrs Campbell changed it to Pats blues.  Also for the production I got a role for child 3 in scene 8.  It is a minor role and I have to speak in a very unusual voice.

We also have a new student teacher called Miss Jamieson.  She's really nice and fun.  Thank you for reading and sorry I haven't been on blogger for so long.

End Of Term Reflection

Weekly Update

Ramere 28 Pipiri

Hello and welcome to the second to last blog of this term.  This week there has been quite a bit happening such as -We won free pizza from the PTA, we had a welcoming ceremony today and there was a sausage sizzle on Wednesday.

The food topics

This week Room 5 won a pizza party from the PTA.  We won it because we returned all the money for the spelling bee first.  On Wednesday there was a sausage sizzle.  The sausages were delicious and since the Hillary Hub were away doing something room 5 had to put the sausages in the baskets and give them to the classes.

Whats been going on in the school

Today we had a welcome ceremony to welcome all the new people in our school.  We all lined up outside and sang E te Ariki then we all went inside the hall and did some prayers.  After that we had a really long morning tea.  We also had a spelling bee a couple of weeks ago.  It was good and I got all my words right.

Whats been going on in the Batten team

In the Batten team we have been doing financial literacy.  My group is doing Ice-cream and smoothies.  The ice-cream flavours are crunchie bar (hokey pokey) and strawberry.  For the smoothies flavours it is going to be a DIY type of thing, where you get a list and you write down what fruits you want and whether or not you want juice, milk or yogurt (you can have the all).  We also had community time and I was on with Emila and Katelyn.  Community time is where the Batten team comes together in a classroom and the people who are on do the slide.  There is a prayer a song and time for the teachers to talk.

Whats been going on in room 5

In room 5 we have had R.E.  It has been about the holy spirit and the different symbol and what they mean.  We have been doing a slide about oil.  I never knew that oil was a symbol of the Holy Spirit until now.  We have also been doing this new game about science and the earth.  You can win cool prizes for your class so room 5 spent some time playing the game and getting points.

Thank you for reading.  Come back next week when it's finally the last week of term.

Sparkly update

 

Hello!  Today is sparkle day! Sparkle day is about being kind and putting a sparkle in someone's day.  This is a link to room 5's favourite song(well not everyone likes it but I do :D) Video

We have also been doing new prayers.  It's mainly about colouring while listening to God.  I really enjoy doing the new prayers and I can't wait to do it next year.

Winter sports was good we tied with Thorington Golden.  It was a really good game and I enjoyed it.  I can't wait to see who we play against next week.

Production is coming up soon to and the sign up sheets were out on Tuesday.  I chose to do a main role for the production.  I don't know what happens now but I'm really excited to audition for the production.

I have Saturday netball on tomorrow as well.  I really hope that I'm a defence player because that's my favourite position.

In R.E. we have been learning about the holy spirit and the different symbols of the holy spirit.  This is my R.E. slideshow ------->

Thank you very much for reading my blog see you next week. Isla

Weekly update

Friday 14 June

Sorry for the long wait.  I haven't been posting lately because of chapter chat.  This week has been pretty so so but it was kind of fun.

This week I have enjoyed financial literacy.  Financial literacy is something we're doing for inquiry right now.  So we pick groups (I'm with Simon and Isaac) and we decided that we are going to make smoothies candles and bath bombs.

One thing I need to work on is my narratives.  I really enjoy writing narratives but I'm finding this quite hard.  I like to write random stories about crazy things but I'm finding it difficult because now I have to think about what's going to happen.

An interesting thing I've learnt is 7 aside netball.  On Thursday my team had a bye for winter sports.  We weren't the only team with a bye though, one of the year 7 netball teams had a bye as well.  So my team got random positions and we learnt how to play 7 aside netball.  I was goal defence.  I really like goal defence because it is the exact same as normal defence.  I really hope that I'm goal defence next year for winter sport and Saturday netball.

I also really liked the visit from Middleton Grange.  I saw the orchestra and the jazz band.  It was really loud but really cool and I really enjoyed it.  The orchestra was good but the jazz band was my favourite by far.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Weekly update

Friday 24 May

Hello, this week has been very interesting.  I've had a lot to do but it was so much fun.  I did quite a bit (In my opinion) and I'm happy to do my blog today (for once) because I have so much to say (write).

Winter sport

On Thursday we had winter sports.  For winter sports I play netball.  I'm in the O.L.A bell birds.  We played against Selwyn school.  They won 15-6 but we still enjoyed the game.  Some of the people in the netball team weren't very nice but other than that it was so much fun.  I can't wait for next week and I hope we can get all the goals.

Mary slideshow

The last two weeks we have been learning about Mary and the major events in Mary's life.  I was in a pair with Xander.  I really enjoyed working with him.  This is my Mary slideshow that I have been working on.

Chapter chat

This week we have also been doing chapter chat on a book called fish in a tree.  Chapter chat is when you read a book chosen by the creator of chapter chat (this term it's fish in a tree) and you have to read a certain amount of chapters each week.  Then you have activities to do.  Then on Friday (Today) you get questions that you answer on twitter.  You can also post your work on twitter.

Inquiry

For Inquiry my group did flyers.  It took us a long time but it was worth it.  We still haven't handed them out but we were going to do that on the day of the teacher strike (Wednesday).  I'm still annoyed at myself that I didn't fix part of it but it's okay.  It took my group awhile to write on by Batten team O.L.A because we forgot to but other than that it was pretty easy.

Thank you for reading.

Weekly update

Friday 17 May

Good morning.  This week has been very exciting! On Monday we had chapter chat and a values assembly.  Our values assembly was about anti-bullying and also about responsibility and how we should be responsible for our actions.  On Tuesday my friend Simon and I stayed in at morning tea and learnt how to make a brochure using Google docs, but other than that it was pretty normal.  On Wednesday it was a pretty average day as well.  There was no lit club on but I did ride a unicycle at Hoon Hay Primary School for the first time. On Thursday we had winter sports.  For winter sports I played netball.  It was the O.L.A Bell birds versus Sacred Heart.  My team won 12 to 6.  Today it's Pink Shirt day.  I wore my pink nike shirt.  Pink shirt day is all about anti-bullying.  All over the world people are wear pink shirts.  Today is also the last day of doing our eel action plan.  I really hope that we can print and hand out all the flyers.

Thank you for reading.

Photo ------->  

End of term review

Friday 12 April  (LAST DAY OF TERM!)

It's finally the end of the term!  I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for this day.  Here is a list of the things I really enjoyed, didn't enjoy and thought was pretty interesting for this term. 

What I enjoyed 😃

I enjoyed learning about South Sudan and I had lots of fun doing the Caritas challenge day

I enjoyed science in a van and meeting Steve the chicken

I enjoyed korfball and running around catching and throwing the ball 

I really enjoyed going to the Heathcote river and touching the eels and right now I'm super excited about my action that I'm doing to help save the eels

I enjoyed doing spheros yesterday and coding and drawing

I also liked cycle safety and going on the road

My low light 😞

Something I didn't enjoy was having Blake's farewell shared lunch but I hope he enjoys his other school

This is Blake's farewell slide

Something else I didn't enjoy was staying in assembly until 6pm.

I didn't enjoy swimming sports because I'm bad at swimming.

Thing I'm excited for next term

I'm excited to do my action next term 

I'm excited for winter sports

See you next term!😃

Holy week

This week I have been learning about Holy Week and Jesus suffering for us. 

I learnt that the last Sunday of lent is called Passion Sunday.  It used to be called Palm Sunday now it is called Passion Sunday because it is the beginning of Passion Week.

This is my learning from this week.





This is my learning for this week.  Goodbye.

I made my house out of cardboard

Friday 5 April

Caritas Challenge

Hello weekly post time.  Yesterday we did the Caritas challenge.  So me, Simon, Rose, Elish, Julia, Hannah and Lexie built a house out of cardboard ( and duck tape and a tarpaulin).  It didn't take us too long we just had to find an area, put down the floor, cut the cardboard, tape it together and put the tarp over it.  I taped some cardboard to the edge of the house and then we had a long thin piece of cardboard holding up the tarp.  It was BOILING in there.  Then at lunch we had plain rice.  No meat, no veges, just rice.  We weren't allowed to use spoons or forks, we had to use our hands.  I had so much fun yesterday  but the highlight for me had to be eating rice with my hands mainly because I'm not allowed to do it at home.  An interesting part for me had to be building the fort while thinking but how the people in South Sudan do it.  I struggled to even build a small fort that had to hold 7 people (I got very frustrated with one of our walls).  But the people in South Sudan must get so annoyed with their houses.  Think about how they have to get the materials they have to build it ,then wait for it to dry.  If I could go over to South Sudan and help I would help with the food.  Plain rice would be okay but having it over and over again would make me sick.  Thanks for reading.

Weekly post

Friday 29 March

Kolf Ball

Hi, this week I learned how to played Kolf ball.  Kolf ball is a mixture of basketball and netball.  The rules are you can not dribble, you can not run with the ball, if a player is marking you you can not shoot and you might have to hand the ball over to the other team, you can throw the ball 5 metres away.  Our coach was called Youri and on Thursday Youri wasn't there it was a different guy called um I forgot his name but me and Lexie called him cool Youri.  

Miss O'Donnell's Birthday

On Wednesday it was Miss O'Donnell's birthday.  There were balloons and the juniors had pieces of paper with the number 30 on it and it was coloured in.  We all sung her happy birthday then went back to class.  It was also a kid named Joshua's birthday.

Thanks for reading.

A visit from Don the eel scientist

Ramere 22 Poutu-te-rangi

Hello.  Today we had a visit from a man named Don.  Don is an eel scientist.  Don works for The National Institute of Water and Atmosphere.  This is all the things Don taught me today.

• If eels have spots on their body then they are Australian longfin eel.
• Eels can swim forwards and backwards.
• You can tell if an eel has eaten a crab because their bottom is red.
• Longfin eels are cannibals.
• Eels don't have to eat everyday.
• An eels ear bone is used to tell how old an eel is.
• The numbers of rings on the ear bone is how old the eel is.
• Eels do not eat while they have their eggs.
• Eels have 7-20 million eggs.
• Big eels have 20-45 million eggs.
• Eels eat animals whole.
• Eels can sense prey and predators coming past.
• Eel can grow up to 2 meters.
• Eels can suck in their prey with their breath.
• Because of the eels slime they can squeeze in and out of spaces.
• Eels have 112 vertebrates.
• Eels are easy to catch if you have bait.
• Eels hate sunlight.
• Eels also hate it when soil gets into rivers because it gets rid of the food underground.
• If the ground is not to hot eels can 

Thanks for reading  Bye

Phil and Janet-Missionary visit from sudan

Kemis 21 Maret

Salma lako.  Good morning.  This morning was very exciting because we had two missionaries (Husband and Wife) who came to visit us and talk about South Sudan.  They told me some very interesting facts about South Sudan.  They are still living in South Sudan.  Here are some of they things they told me about South Sudan.

• The transport there is very dodgy and people usually steal from you if you are in a vehicle.
• There is one main road and the rest are all gravel or dirt.
• One hundred Sudanese is actually thirty cents
• The Nile river is the Sudanese main source of water.
• When they use wells the water is salty.
• They use sticks to brush their teeth.
• Their houses are made of mud , bamboo and straw.
• They have no toilets just a hole.
• They have to squat over the hole to do their business.
• The capital of South Sudan is Juba.
• The population of Juba is 400,000.
• Juba uses generators for electricity.
• At 11:00 pm Juba switch off the generators.
• Not all Sudanese families celebrate Christmas.
• No Sudanese families celebrate Halloween.
• Sudanese people do not celebrate their birthday.
• Most Sudanese people do not know what day they are born.
• The Sudanese people do know what time of day they are born.
• Most Sudanese people say they are born on the 1 of January.
• The most popular sport is soccer but they also play volleyball and a little bit of basketball.
• There are not very many hospital.
• There is not much medicine.
• Their most prized possession is their bull and their cattle.
• They love their bulls so much they write songs about them.
• Most children do not go to school.
• They don't go to school because it is either to expensive or they don't think they should go.
• Most girls stay at home and keep the house while the boys take care of the cattle.

Thanks for reading.  Ningali anjeun waktos salajengna.

LearNZ Web Conferences

Ratu 19 Poutu-te-rangi

Hi everyone.  Today we had a live chat with LEARNZ.  Their names were Fiona , Elizabeth , Andrew and John.  It was about water.  There were lots of questions from children.  I learned that there is this water that is stored so deep underground and that if you take water out of it water can't go back in.  It's called fossil water and I think it sounds really cool.  I also learnt that you can turn seawater into freshwater.  This is called desalination.  This costs a lot of money and electricity so that is why it is not done often.  They also talked about the water cycle and that water will never run out because of it.  I really enjoyed today and having people talk to me on a live cam about things I didn't know.  Thank you for reading.

Green Hat Day Friday 15 March

HI.

Saint Patricks day is soon so O.L.A did a Green Hat Day.  I wore one of the sparkliest greenest bowtie you will ever see.  Oh and a green hat.  It's raining outside so I'm trapped.  I'm excited for global play day though.  I have an idea of what I can do.  But I think I'll just hang out with my friends.  School was boring this week.  Nothing interesting really happened.  Learning's boring but I can't wait until the weekend.

See you next week.(When something exciting will hopefully happen).

Weekly update Friday 8 March

Hi,

This week has been the coolest week ever!!! My favourite part was my eel field trip on Thursday.  I LOVED it so much.  I really LOVED the picking up the Galaxiids. But I also LOVED making the ephemeral art.  But my FAVOURITE part was touching the eels with my own two hands.  It was amazing!  They were slimy and they were wriggling on top of each other.  One was just lying there like my cat.  I can't describe how amazing it was to see and touch a long finned eel with my own two hands.  I Loved it so much.

Tidying The Good Life February 1

Met petuna> 

That's what I named her she the very scary scarecrow in the good life.

This is us pulling out a big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big weed in the garden because over the holidays the weeds got big big big big big big big big big big big big big super 

BIG

Thank you 

Isla

Term 4 week 2 Weekly reflection

Ramere 26 Whiringa -a -nuku

So This is my weekly reflection in a video the person helping me and also doing their weekly reflection is Simon one of my best friends and there's also a special guest.

Here's the video    >