Pool day

For the end of term treat at our school we get to have a day out at the pool, which is really fun.
The good thing was that is was an average day temperature. The teacher made sure that we had sun cream on and put some more on every two hours.

One of my friends Samantha, brought her to small water guns and it was fun to play with we even got a raft for about 5 mins before some one else took it. Soon the hydro slide was opend me and my fiends went down it. I was really slow on it Tamera liked to go after me so she could bash in to me. We both had a good laugh.

Do you like swimming ?

Memoir

Hello, at school we had to write a memoir about the most specialist moment at school. Hope you enjoy. 

Today I was excited to go on to the bus that was awaiting for the next three days of fun and tiredness. I walked on to the bus all excited. My Hub have been waiting a long to to go to the Koru games. The PALS have been doing sausage sizzle to raise up money to go to the Kour games. The Bus was a caterpillar bus, it is very big, it is the bus people travel on to far places. I was sitting next to my friend as we all were getting ready to play soccer together. They were all excited because they had never played soccer before. I was the only one in the team that had. The team I was in, was a girls team, there was two other teams that were boy team.

When we arrived to the opening of the Koru games, we sat down on a netball court with all the other schools that where there. The people that run the Koru games introduced themselves and welcomed everyone to the games. They had some people there that were athletes and one was from Australia, they all did a little speech about how they became athletes. Then they announced that the Koru games will begin. We went back on to the bus and we went to where the games where being held.

When we arrived to where we are playing we went to are field where we would be playing in an half an hour time. Our helper was a girl named Maddie, she helped us get around and find our fields to play on and do drills with us.

Our first game we were versing Cashmere. I was playing in defence and are goal keeper was Samantha. We did a good job at defence and we had a few close calls. On attack we got the ball up sometimes. The end of that game we tied nile all. We were all pretty tired and we had two more games to go for that day.

On the next day we arrived and we played well we lost all of these games then we vs Cashmere again and we still tied nil all but they were really close to getting a goal. It was getting hotter each day and we all were getting really tired.

Then on the last day of the games, we came close to winning some of our games.

But then we had to vs Cashmere for the third time to get ninth place, we all played hard and our goalkeeper was Roza and she did some good saves and was brilliant.

No one could score so it went down to penalties. I did rock paper scissors with there captain I won so we decided to take the first shot. I was up first, I was nervous that I would miss. I took my chances and I swung my foot, I thought I had missed, but the goalkeeper failed to save it. Then it was Cashmere they shot but Roza deflected it.

Cashmere couldn’t score against our goalkeeper, Roza.

Later on it was two goals to us and they had none. So if Samantha scores we win the game. Samantha shot and it almost hit the top post and went in. We were all happy that we had won our first game and our last.

Those three day at Koru games was a lot of fun I hope my school can do it again.

Music at school

For part of this term my hub have been doing music. The first thing that I did in music was playing the ukulele, we had to go in to a group of two and practise together. Then we put all the keys we lent in to a song.

On the second week we did rad rhythm. Rad rhythm  is when you have trash cans and drumstick and use the trash cans as drums and you watch a video and tell you what you can do, you practise with the whole class and you can do cool rhythms.

For the last one we did body percussion. First of we did clapping in rhythm, then we went in to groups of four and made and a rhythm and show it to the whole class, in my group, one person was clapping with there hands and the rest of us where on are ankles.

I really enjoyed doing all of these different type of music.

What is your favourite music ? 

The thing I'm most proud of.

There are a couple of things that I am proud of that I did in St Francis of Assisi.

This year I am proud of coming third in cross country and for the zones in that coming 11th in that. 

But the thing I am most proud of is. When it was term one, we had to write a recount of an event that has happened in New Zealand, I did mine on the Mt Tarawera eruption and that happened in 1886.
In my Recount I had a boy that was named Kauri and his mother told him not to go the the school, but he was bold when he heard a cry from the school.

In my recount when Mt Tarawera erupts, his family try to evacuate the village before the lava flows and hits the village, but his family never returned to him.

All of my class did a recount to, we did it for PBL.

What is your most proudest moment ?

Zones for Athletics

After Athletics it was about a week later that the Zones were for it. I got into Long Distance. The Zones was held at Rawhiti park, where my school did Athletics. It was really hot and it was supposed to reach 24 degrees.

Like it was my school did it the same way. Boys where doing field first and girls where doing track, which was good because it wasn't so hot in the morning as it would be in the afternoon. I had to wait a while to my race was up. So I went under some trees with my friend, but I was also watching some of the other races.

When my race was coming up I was nervous. I was only versing five other girls.
When we lined and the clapper went off, I ran telling myself not to go to fast. I was fine to the last lap I started to fell really tried, Claudia was right behind me, and I was a bout 10 m away from the finish line, so I sprinted as hard as I could, and I got fourth place, which means that I am a reserve for place one and two.

I had no more events to do so I went back to school van.

Have you ever been to zones ?

What is your favourite thing to do ?

Athletics

This term at school we have been practising for Athletics. But we finely had it at Rawhiti park. 

When we arrived to Rawhiti park, it was spitting, they told every one where to go, the boys where doing the field events first and the girls where doing the track event's like, Sprints and Long Distance. 

First of we had was Sprint's, which I got forth in 100m sprint, then it was on to Long Distance. 

We had to run three laps around the track, we all lined up ready to go, waiting for the sound of the clap. Off we went, I wasn't going to sprint at the start because I wanted to save my energy for the end. I moved in closer to the inside of the track, so I would have to run less of a distance, so far that I could tell is that I was coming fifth place, soon some of the front girls where getting tired, so i went in front of some of them. Near the end of the last lap, I tried to spring as fast as I could but, I had no energy left. I crossed the finish line in second place. I was pretty proud of my self. 

On the field events I didn't do as good, in shotput and discuss. One of my favourite field events are long jump, I came fourth in that two witch is good. Near the end of the day it started to pour down with rain, witch was lucky considering that we where done. We waited in shelter, till the bus arrived. 

What do you like doing in Athletics ?

RE

In this term in RE we have been reading of the bible and it was based on Mary's life and we had to answer some questions, about what we had read. Then we had to do a dairy entry on Mary, to chose what reading to do it on. I did mine on the birth of Jesus.

We also watched a video, about Saint hood and we got a sheet, to write all the tittles before they become a saint.

Now we are doing a slide of some one that is inspiring. My group is doing it on Mother Teresa, because she helped all the sick children and the poor.

Do you know about Mother Teresa.

Here's the slideshow I did

Culture Food

To day I will tell you about the Culture food.

Every one in our hub pulled out a name of a country. I got Japan, in my group there was Katie, Kayla, Micaela and Josh. We all had to choose a food from Japan. The food that I made was fried rice. We could all  cook our own food but some people brought theirs.

On the day of sharing all the food we waited in line, first we had pastry food, then we had the sweet food. I found It interesting where all the food come from. One of my favourite foods where rice, donuts and sausage rolls.

What is your favourite food?

Swimming

Week 7 and week 8 we have been doing swimming.

I am in the third group to go swimming. We leave our hub at 10:10am, to go to year 1 and 2s hub, which our where are buddies that we take to swimming everyday (apart from Saturday and Sunday) and we look after them as well.

In swimming I am in the first lane. In my group most of the time we swim to half way. But sometimes we swim a all the way to the end. We have been learning to do survival backstroke. One time we had these floaty things just above the knees, we had to do freestyle with is and we could only use your arms. You couldn't kick with your feet, if you did it would float up.                     

                                

Do you like to swim ?

What is your favourite stroke ?

Last game of soccer

Last week was my last game of soccer, on the weekends.

The team we were versing was Nomads. There striker was really good. I was playing in centre back.  (defence) I was playing at 9:30 in the morning, It was a cold wind but otherwise it was warm. The first few minutes of the game they took a shot at goal, luckily our goalkeeper saved it but three of her fingers got pushed back.
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All most when the half was finished we got a penalty and we scored. It felt great considering that this was one of the top teams.  By the time it was the second half it was one all. Later on in the game a girl was chasing after the ball but I got it first I tried to kick it up, but she stepped on my left foot and I fell over. When the game was fished it ended up being 5-1. Sadly we lost but it was a fun game.

Do you play soccer?

What is your favourite sport ?

Teachers strike

A few weeks ago the teachers had a strike.

The reason why there was a teacher strike. Was that the teachers didn't like it how they had 60% of paper work and 40% teaching. They wanted this to change this because, they wanted to have more time with us, instead of a lot of paper work to do. All the student at primary school had the day of and so did the teachers.

What did you do on the day of the teacher strike?

Would you like to have more paper work or more teaching? 



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Our novel

This Term we have been put in reading groups.

In the group I'm in the book we our reading is called 2much4u, by a New Zealand author. So far in this book unfortunate events is happening to a boy named Davin and his family. First thing that happens is, Davin blows up his Mums car then he embarrassed him self in front of the girl he likes. 

After we read the chapter we share back what we can remember from the book.

This is a picture of the novel.      

Book report on Infinity Ring

Hello I am going to share a new book that I like to read.

The book is called Infinity Ring and I am up to the third book out of 8. There are all different authors of these books. My favourite book out the series is number two when they travel to the war of the Vikings and the french. 


These books are about going back in time and saving these breaks of war, also there team in called the historians, there enemy is the SQ. If they fix the berks they save the future from disaster. 


This is the book i'm up to right now. 

     

Caritas Challenge 2018 ( Timor-Leste )

May the 18th was the day that my hub did the Caritas challenge.

We arrived to school in mufti, with our over night bags. Some of us was staying the night and other weren't, it was about half and half. We all put are over night bags in the break out space. After that we all called the roll we did Mass. I was one of the Altar Servers. After mass it was morning tea time.

When it was morning tea, I was playing a netball game with my friends ( I thing soccer is better ) and we got asked to carry some cardboard boxes. Not long  after that it was time for us to go inside and eat. After eating, the hole school went to an assembly about bullying, we had a meeting with the city mission, he was talking to us about the homeless in our city and kids are age don't have a home.


Lunch time came fast. But it all so ended quick for me because I was in the sweat it group, for our second hand market. That people from our school gave in things they didn't want any more that we could still sell. The price that the things could be sold for is $1 $2 $3.

 It took us a long time to sorter every thing out. By the time everyone else was doing the move it challenge. After we all set up it was time for the parents to come in. We had lots and  loots of books to sell that were $1, there was some jewellery that was for a lucky dip for one dollar but that turn to be what ever you wanted to get, toys, broad games. We made about a bit over $100.

After the sweat it market we got told our groups, I was put in a group with my friends and we started to build our hut to stay the night in, Our hut was a triangle shape, for the door we made it like one of the cat flaps. We put are bags in our huts and got changed in to warmer cloths.

 It was tea time, my Mum helped cook the rice we were having for tea. We got given one cup of rice to have for tea, just plane old rice. After tea we were getting ready to play some games, two of my friends had water polo, when the games started. The first game we had we go home stay home, that game was okay, we did hide and seak, last spot light.

 After the games it was time to do the reflection of the day, it was a bit hard for me since I was tired, from the big day. By the time we got changed in to all our layers and put a thin yoga mat to sleep on it was 9:30, no time to chat. in our hut I was sleeping next to the door, Tamera had put this light up that said her name, so we could have light and see. When I was about to drop of to sleep two of my friends came back from water polo it took them a bit to set up there sleeping bags. in the night my feet were sticking out the door when I woke up in the morning. My back was all sore and I woke up a few times in the night.

In the morning we had bread with butter for breakfast. We smashed are boxes apart and mad a pile of them to go to the dump soon I went home and got ready to play soccer.

Me in the market. I'm the one in the blue shirt.



Me and my friends Hut.

Zones

16.5.18
Zones
Zones was a miserable day.  We left school around lunch time. When we arrived it was pouring down with rain, every one had to where a jacket or a jersey but I had both on. 

The people in charge lead us around the trace once. It wasn't straight, we had to go in to trees, there was even this bridge we had to go a cross which I found very slippery.

 My age group had to do three laps around this track, it was about 3.k. At first I didn't think that was much but it was. I was the 6th group to go. It was year 8 boys first then the girls, year 6. Then my year.

I thought that going 6th wouldn't be a long wait in the rain. But it was, considering I was third to last race. When it was are turn, we lined up in our schools in a line of places we came. So I was third in line.

They told us to get ready. Then I hear the wood slapping aganset it self. I sprint with all the other girls, I started to slow down a bit in to a fast jog, I could fell my self losing breath so I go to my normal pace. I was behind Kayla and Claudia was behind me also Casey was about four people in front of us. I got tired on the second lap. I slowed down a lot when I got up to the brig I went slower, I didn't wan't to fall over. Nere the end Claudia was right be hind me so I sprinted as fast as I could.

I got 11th which is good, so I could be going to Centrals.

 Are you a fast runner ?

Cross Country 2018

Cross Country

Today we did Cross Country the 3 of May.
Our school walked down to Walter Park, to do the cross country.

 My year group was the forth group to run. We had to run three laps around the park. When it my year group to go we lined up getting ready to run. When it started every one sprinted, as I went straight into a jog. I saw one of my friends at the front in the lead, I was cumming close to last soon I passed a lot of people.

 My friend that was in the lead sadly she went to fast for her pace and slowed down. in the first minute or two I was cumming fifth, I was trying to over come the fourth place I was very close to caching up to her. Sometimes she would slow down and I would be in front of her for a second then she would come back in front of me.

 On the second lap I went in front of her I kept up my pace half way on the second lap I looked back to see if anyone was close behind me, no one was. I felt relived, now that I was cumming forth, not far up ahead I saw a few more people near they end of lap two and going on to there third.

On the third lap I started to catch up to them more, I passed one person which means I was cumming third place. When it was close to the end, I saw the person that was cumming second, I was almost out of breath. She finished about 30 seconds or 20 maybe even 15 seconds before me. When I was at they end I sprinted just to make shore no one was behind me. When I sprinted it was a light sprint because I was so tied.


Have you done Cross Country?
Are you a fast runner?
If you have done Cross Country what place did you come?

Since I came third in Cross Country I will be going to Zones and I will have to do more training. I hope I won't be sick on that day :)

Who are the arrows pointing at ?                                   

me

My Goals for team two

My goals for next year is to work hard in work.

One of my things I need to work on is, doing my blogs more often and work harder on them and remember to do them more. I also have to do my jobs for cleaning the windows. My last one is to get better at maths by doing times tables and also to do spelling at home. I also have a goal of get up early to get ready for school in the morning, so I don't sleep in.

I'm reading Diary of a wimpy kid

  This is a book that I am reading called Diary of a Wimpy Kid, in this series I am up to book 8 which is called Hard Luck.


This is a photo of the book


There is 12 books in this series. The author is Jeff Kinney. The main charter is Greg Heffley. He has a beast friend called Rowley Jefferson, but in this book Greg feel all lonely and fell like Rowley has been taken away. Cos Rowley has a girl friend. Greg fells like she has taken all his fun away and taken control of him.


What book do you love to read?
What author do you like by reading there                                                                                                                                                        books?