Five facts about Lorde

Who is your favourite singer?

Pool Day

Hello

So we left school around about 11.00. It took not to long to get there at the pool. ( Our whole school is getting to go to the pool because it is like an end of year thing that we get to do.) By the time we got there is was about 11.12. We all had to have sun cream on and there was even a water slide there. We had something to eat and them we were allowed to go into the pool. The weather wasn't that nice for an out side pool. The temperature was about 16 degrees and it was cloudy. The pool was pretty cold. Around lunch time we all had to hop out and eat. I was freezing I got changed so I could get warm. I was a bit warm after. For the rest of the time I was there I was talking to a friend. 


What is the coldest day you have been to the pool or beach?

My new poems

Hello

We have been writing poems. I have written two poems one is when you have to read between the lines and the other one is a limerick. The one when you have to read between the lines is you have to read carefully because the person doesn't really tell you what is going on. So you have to kind of figure out what each line means. A limerick is a poem that has five lines and they have to be a little bit silly and the last words have to rhyme. But the third and fourth line do not rhyme with the second and first one but the third one and fourth one rhyme with each other. Then the 5th line and the word at the end rhymes with the one at the first and second line.

Here are my poems.



(Read between the lines)

Butterfly's explode 

Butterfly's flutter inside the waiter. 

Sound rips through the air. 

Without waiting any more.   

Sounds of deep rumbling go through the ground. 

White spreads through the air as they are panting. 

The sounds of cars wiz by. 

The stopping sound is like a rhythm. 

They go to the front but slowly come back down. 

Some stay in the lead. 

They lead the way. 

Kids push past trying to get to them. 

Soon kids start to fall behind, well others keep there place or take another's.

Cheers start to rise. 

Swelling of joy ran through the kids.

There spirits were high, all there pain was gone as they reached near the line.   

The lead kids were no longer seen. 

But you could hear them cheering you on. 

As you crossed the line the butterfly's exploded they were no longer. 

( Limerick )

Splashing in the ocean breeze. 

 Where are, the busy bees. 

Clip clop pop. 

As the crabs hop. 

Scattering, like knives to the open seas.  

What is your favourite type of poem.

Top Team

Hi again

At school we had Top team. Top team is a thing where you are in a group with people and there is all these activities for you to do. You and your group have five minutes on each and there are 12 different activities. You try to get as many points as possible. For the first activity my group had was a sling shot and if you caught it it would equal 10 points. My group caught three so we got thirty points.

The second activity was  when you has this thing that your hole group could get in and it covered your head and your feet at bottom but the sides were open. If you made it to one side with out falling over or one member of your group fell out you wouldn't get a point. I don't know how many points we got on that one.

There was one when you had to through a hula hoop and try land it on a thing. Another one was a kind of mase where you don't know where to go and the person will tell you yes if that was the right step or no if it was wrong. There was one where you had to build a tower of block's as high as we can and be stable so it wont fall. One that I really liked was a water one when you had a pipe with holes a you plug the hole so the water doesn't leak. Well some other people get water to fill the pipe. I took the bottom to plug all the holes and that was a mistake because all the pressure on my finger so when it ended I had rings around me fingers.   

Do you like doing activity's in groups? 

Tough kids

Hello

My school singed us up to go and do tough kids. Tough kids is some kind of run where you have to crawl underthings and over, you also get to go into the ocean. There is some muddy patches where you get muddy but to be honest on the run I did there wasn't that much mud which was a bit disappointing but it was fun. Me and my friend ran all the way together. At the end there was a water slide you know the one on the ground and you put soup on it to make it slippery. It was pretty fun and I would do it again. 

Would you go on this run?

Reading

Hello

I have read a lot of journals at school and my favourite one so far is one about robots and technology getting built toady. Although I found it a bit scary, it was quite interesting so see what is going on and what has been made.  I found it interesting because of how we can make robots.  We can make them to seem like us.  There was a test so a person was communicating with a computer but he didn't know and he thought it was a really person just from the messages it was sending him.  It also had some really cool stuff like there was a computer at some bank and it had a human face on it and it called talk to you and smile at you.


What do you think about the involving technology? 

Trying new sport

At school they have set up for different sport for us to play. The names of the sport are.
Korfball
Lawn bowls
Softball
Cricket

Out of these sport I think my most favourite is korfball. It is a game from Netherlands. It is has some rules similar netball and basketball. The hoops are near the end of the court but not at the end. You can walk behind it with room to spare. So when you get selected in your team, you will either be on the defending side or attacking. And you cant cross over to the other side. When you get the ball you cant move so you have to pass to your teammates. To defend you try intersect the pass. You also can not rip the ball out of some ones hand and you can't touch them either. How you block there shot is by standing in front of them and you have to be in line with the hoop. Also boys can only defend boys and girls can only defend girls. And the ball can not touch your foot. So that is pretty much the game and I really enjoyed it.

What is your favourite sport?

Attitude

Hello everyone

Not that long ago we learned about attitude. We learned about our spiritless felling grow as we get older. Our relationships between people and are change. So basically we learned about puberty. Surprisingly it was okay. We basically learnt that it is all normal and every human being goes through this stage. Through Puberty we grow fast as in height. We have more responsibility and we have to look after our self.   


How tall are you?

( Wings of fire ) FAVOURITE BOOK SERIES!!!!!

If you have not heard of Wings of fire I am a little bit disappointed in you. I know the series isn't that big but I still love it. The book is about dragons so if you don't like them just give it a change. The book is not about dragons ( Well it is but..) It is from the dragons point of view. There is prophecy in the book and a big war going around. If you also like adventure this book has lots of it. If you ever got a chance or you don't have a book to read I recommend this one.

Here is what the first book looks like. ( If you do read it I recommend starting with book one and two then three then four. Just read the books in order otherwise it gets really confusing.)

  link from where I got this picture.  

( They also have a graphic novel so if you like comics get one!)

Would you read this book?

If you have read it what do you think of it?

Oceans method

For our reading we have been reading about how people take notes of the reefs and what tools they use to do it. They also take notes of what life is going on at the coral. For our reading task we had to write about the four different methods an say what one we think is the best was of calculating what is going on in the underwater life.

Click here is you want so see what I have done.

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Would you want to live under the sea?

Wainui school camp. ( YMCA)

Hello every one,

And i'm back from camp. The camp I went to was up at Wainui and it was called YMCA, which I really don't understand, why there theme song isn't (Y M C A you can do anything... ) but the camp was really cool, my brothers went there when they were year 8 or year 7 and they really liked it, so I was pretty existed to go myself. All though it it was a long drive I really liked it, apart from tramp to camp, which is a three hour long tramp through a hill side all the way to camp, let me tell you that is not fun when you got a heavy back pack on you and you are walking up hill.

these are the activities I got to do.

1. Tramp to camp
2. High ropes
3. Camp fire
4. Archery
5. Kayaks
6. Orienteering
7. Raft build
8. Coasteering
9. Outdoor living
10. Break out edu and sport
11. Search and rescue

There were a couple things I found challenging in camp. The first one would be tramp to camp, but that's only because I was walking up hill and it was slippery! Another was high ropes but I probably chose the worst one to do because it  was all wobbly and dose not help my confidence. The thing I was climbing was like a huge wooden ladder and i'm the mouse trying to climb it and it's wobbling every where, but i'm pretty proud of my self because I made it quite high on it. Another one was Archery because I was using the the wrong had for the bow, then I tried the left handed bow and I did the same thing. The last one is Kayaks, this one probably wouldn't be here but I was doing it in a double, and I was sitting at the back of the kayak, and let's say I almost tipped the boat a few times. ( almost!)

There were a few things I learnt on camp and I'll start that off with kayaks. I learnt lots of things in Kayaks, although I went Kayaking when I was younger I forgot all about it, I learnt how to paddle  back wards how to turn and how to stop. 

My favourite thing in camp was costarring because we got to climb up slippery rock and jump of a high one into the ocean.

How to make Donates

Hello

Recently I have been making a recipe about how to make Donates. We had to write a recipe of food from a country wee pulled out of our hat. I got Tonga and they have donates there so here is the recipe.


Click Me !

Do you like donates?

Refugee

Hello at week one on term four I was reading a journal about people that have experienced war and came to my country to stay away and they became refugees. For our task we had to do some things like what was the main idea of the story and all that kind of stuff. We also had to put some information about a country we pulled out of a hat.

This is my task. 

What do you think about this?

How to grow a watermelon

Hi

At school we had to pull a country out of a hat and I got Tonga. We had to find something about this country. We had to write instructions about their traditional sport or dance, those were ideas the teachers gave us. I thought I could do one on how to grow a watermelon because they use it to create some kind of watermelon drink. And that is what I did.

Here is a link on How to grow your very own Watermelon in your back yard. 

Click Me! 

Do you think this is a good help?

Exspres your self ( PBL )

Hello everyone

I'm back from school holidays although I was back a while ago. This is the last term I'm going to be here at St Francis and that means the last PBL. For term 4 PBL we are creating an art piece or dance about our self or show what we can do. We also have to create a piece of music about our self.


What do you think about this term's new PBL?

Phishing

Hello

Today I will talk about phishing. We learnt about phishing in cyber smart. It is when you get scammed and people steal your money. They type of scammers is when you get an email from a so called your bank saying for example click here to get five thousand dollars and when you click it you are transferring some money of your own to that scam. Other types are hacking, online dating, online shopping, threats to life, arrest or other and so many more. 





What do you think about this?

Main artefact for PBL

Hello everyone and today I will be sharing with you my main artefact for PBL. I have created a tree sanctuary out of clay. How this is supposed to help the earth is we take all the farms and make them into a tree sanctuary then we would plant healthy trees for the plant like the natural trees of New Zealand. The cows and other animals would be allowed to roam the place. This is supposed help because all the tree help get rid of the green house gases.

On my creation, there is a part where it is yellow and that is supposed to represent the drought. The idea I have is to take the extra water from the glaciers and water the drought slowly so it has time to sink in, we would water the ground at the coldest time.

Here it is.                                                                               

What do you think about the world today? 

PBL Sub Artefact

For PBL we have been doing our main artefact which is how you are going to solve the problem, but today I an sharing with you.......................................................................................................  My sub artefact which is basically explaining my main artefact, well that is what I did. I made two posters explaining two parts of my main artefact, they also had some ways of explaining what to do.
Here I will just show you.  

Invitation to see my Model

It's that time again, PBL show case, come if you want but I will be telling you about what I have done and what the rest is about, but for now here is my invitation.



What do you think about PBL?

PBL Plan

It's that time again if you ever read this you will know that I have been like posting like 5 blogs today, so you know I may be behind again but hey more blogs, any way on topic Today's blog is about PBL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So yay, well I am going to show you my plan of how we can save the world from over flowing and getting to hot. It has my question and my ideas. So I hope you like it because I am creating it, ( Not literally I mean yes but like a clay model of it.)

Enjoy reading the hole thing I mean you don't have to               






What are your idea to save the world ?

RE Sacraments advitise ment

Hello every one hope you are having a good day.

Today I will share with you what we have been doing for RE, we got to chose what sacrament ( For any of you that don't know what the sacraments are, Anointing of the sick, marriage, baptism,
 holy orders, holy communion , confirmation and reconciliation. ) we would want to it into a poster  or a play. We decided to do marriage and we were going to do a play but it kinda failed so she made a poster. It involved all of our research that we were going to put in to the play. Here it is.



Have you had any sacraments?

Science investigation

So not that long ago we had to go through four sessions about different things that involve science, then we had to do our own experiment, we could do it in a pair or by our selves. I was in a pair with Monique, and our question was.  
 If we do the same exercises ( Wall sits, star jumps, push ups, skipping, and plank)  each day will we be able to do more of it for longer, and hold it for longer?

Well I wouldn't say I did it every day but I still got a result it was really weird because me and Monique got different result. As Monique improved I didn't I kind of wavered, I mean I did improve but them I would go down again example, I could do 50 star jumps one day then next 80, then 50! I went down, the last and finale time I did 100. So I don't really now but I did improve on that.
Here are all the results.

Well this is what we could do at the start.


This is our progress.



Do you like doing experiments?

Helping Curtain Bank

Hello

Just recently at our hub we got to chose what company we could like to help out. There were 3 options of what you could do. Number 1 removing graffiti by painting over it. Number 2 Food bank, Food Bank is where you help the company order donated food into there pile. Number 3 Curtain Bank, where you put donated curtains and put them into packages.

The one I was put into was Curtain bank which was really fun to do, there was a huge pile of donated curtains and we had to try find pairs of each curtain, we measured to curtains and labelled them and put them in package's so people can buy them but they are free.

Have you ever volunteered before if so what for ?

Narrative completed

Hello

And Today I am shearing with you the finished story. Well I won't share it all with you because it's a couple pages long, but I can tell you the highlight of the story.

Every one in our hub had to write a story about the future and what the problems would be. I chose mine to be about Global warming and what would happen in the future. The story I wrote was about a young girl called Clara and she tries to think of ideas on how to save the world and for the world to be habitable for humans. But there is some really strange things going on, like for instance she uses a teleport to go to school, because no one can be bothered walking, well shes in it she feels like she is being ripped apart. There is a girl at school that seams to be afraid of every thing and one. In the end they solve the problem of heat and rising level of water by making ice cubs that can not melt. 

Do you like writing stories?

Thursday sport

Sup everybody!
So in winter every year we have winter sport, this year I am playing football ( Or soccer) here is an update of how our team went. We won a couple of our games about three or more, but on our very last game of the session we won the game, so we were all pretty proud of our selves, we came third in our division. Our coach Emma was really fun and good to have, but she always brung lollies to the games and was very supportive. 



What sport did you or are you playing ?

Writing Narrative about the future

Hello

Lately our teachers got us to right a story about the future and what the problem would be, first we would have to do a plan about what the problem would be, and how the characters would solve it. How new problems would come and new ways to solve the problem. 

My plan had a whole lot more to it but I don't want to show you it because it will probably bore you but lets say not all of my plan made it into the real story.

Do you like writing?

Reading task

Hello every one

I have been looking at my reading task and recently we have been reading a novel that we choice to read, we had a limited section but there was a lot of books, we got to read the first few pages of the book, then when you had read about five books of the first couple pages, you rank those books from 1 to 5, my top choice was You've Got Gut's Kenny Melrose and I got to read it, I have finished the book and I really enjoyed it, then we would have to create a reading slide about that, but I will tell you guys about that another time.


Do you guys like to read?

what type of books?

Novel study slides

Hello

So on one of my earlier post I said about a bit of my novel and it was called You've Got Gut's Kenny Melrose well now it is time for me to share my slides hope fully it will give you a bit of information about the book. In the slide I answered questions like where was the book set what problems did the character have, what do the characters look like and we got a chance to do a D.L.O, the means a Digital Learning Object, so I created a slide about the main points that happened in the story, so here it is. Enjoy.

Do you like reading?

Maths is good for you ?

Hello

I am a Stanford student in america, that's right, well digitally so I m basically telling the truth. Are teacher put as on a course for Stanford, the course was all about maths, but not in they way you would think so.

The teachers made are hub ( or class) to the course every Monday before tech. One of the things I found interesting was that they went around and asked people if they liked maths, a lot of people said they didn't like maths. I also learnt that maths is really good for you because your brain grows. You may think it is good to get questions right all the time,  wrong well it would be cool but they said it was good to get questions wrong and you can learn how to fix it and that is how your brain grows. You need to have a positive mindset so you can believe you can grow and get better and learn new things.

 So what do you think about it? 

Science Testing heart rate.

We have been doing a little bit of science this term once a week. We do a rotation so each week we change the experiment.

For the first experiment was building a bridge, out of popsicle sticks, tape and paper, we only had limited items. First we had to search up strong bridges and, then we had to chose one how we would make it. We found out that the strongest bridges in the world were triangles one.

 We  did one about matter with an ice cube. So we had an ice cube floating in the water then when the ice cube melted to see if the water had risen.

 The third thing I did was testing out heart rate. I always wanted to know how you test your heart rate. I always wondered how people could tell there heart rate and they would always do some thing with there wrist, but I learned a different way. Yes that right you don't have to waste you time fiddling around with your wrist, because all you do is take to fingers and press them against your neck just under your jaw bone, it is really cool to hear your heart beat, if you can't find it maybe try a little higher. Count your heart beats while you have a ten seconds timer going on at the same time. When the timer has reached ten stop counting, then time your beats by 6, example, 6 times 12 = 72  and there's your answer.

Do you like science?
Do you want to do it as a job?
Do you do it for a job?

Spelling Blends

Bula


Today, I will be sharing. Spelling blends! I did do this a while ago but I thought I might just share it today. Although I am not the best speller or punctuation person, as you may tell. I still like to do writing, like blogs, creative writing and more. ( I don't know what else ) So spelling blends is when I had the start of the word and I finished the word, they all blend together take Plane then it could be sleep, snake. So they have slimier things. 

Here is what my task was. ( Some of it so you get the idea) 

 

What is your favourite thing to say?

I made a new fitness cuircut

Ola,

Hello, hello and hello hello. (:

Yes!!!!

The teachers have made us make a new!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fitness circuit, but this time, I promise it is better ,because we have stretches at the start and anaerobic stuff and aerobic fitness all in one. Just have a look and see for your self. ( I mean you don't have to, but it would be nice.) Ow and also I did it with my friend as well so you might see it on hers.
( Also do not do star jumps for over ten minets because it really hurts your calf's )

Do you like to do fitness?

Oil spill ( Reading Task)

Hello every one hope you are having a fantastic day.

To start us of for this term my first reading workshop. ( If you don't know what a reading workshop is it, when the teachers get us to read a journal)  The journal was based in 2011 where there was a boat that crashed on a reef near New Zealand. The Boat was carring craters and the oil spilled out. It spilled out 350 tones of oil in to the sea. So much of the sea life was endanger and dying. For my reading task, we had to memorise the story and put down the main ideas\points.
Down below is my Reading create task.

Would you volunteer if some thing  like this happened again? 

Are robots evil ( YES)

Hello I'm back from school holidays.

Well its a new term, you know that means. New PBL topic. our driving question in 'what will the future ask of us'. This means like what is the worlds problems, like global warming and sickness, Pollution, animal cruelty, over populated with humans, poverty and  so so so many more. We our learning all about the world problems and ideas on how we are going to fix them. What must be fix first like global warming and the deforestation, health, greenhouse gases and a lot more.


Now you may be wondering why is the title about robots. Well robots are steeling our jobs all ready, if robots take over most of the job there is no use for humans any more, I mean we won't have to do anything to earn money. I mean us humans are all ways looking for the short cut. We are becoming more lazy every year. We use them to work faster and do our biting, we are losing our patience. I say we should be making things to help us with our world problems not to do our dirty and boring work that we don't want to do. I don't know about you but I don't want robots to help us. We can do it on our own if we really try. 

What do you think about robots?

How can we stop the world problem?

Going live

Hello everyone. 

Here's an update of how our PBL showcase went. If you read my invitation one you would know that the year seven and eights of St Francis of Assisi went live. Talking, podcasting poetry and drama. As you hopefully all know that I was doing a talk. Our things were based on discrimination. I chose to do sexism. For going live all I had to say was my Ted talk to a camera and audience. So to be honest is was easy. Wasn’t as hard as I thought. A bit nerve racking. 

Here's the link to my video. 

Do you like public speaking?   

Drawing Myself

Hello every one today I want to share some art with you all that I have been  working on. I made a portrait of myself. We had to make it on google drawings we also had a tutorial to help us. To be honest it was quite fun, seeing it coming together, although it looked weird at some times. But here it is. 

Do you like doing art ?

Bingo Card

Hello everybody 

Today I will talk about a task that the teacher has set us to do. We had this thing called bingo card. It is where we do all of these tasks. One of the tasks that I want to share with you guys today is the fitness one. We had to make up our own fitness routine, have a look.

I really enjoyed reading this book

( Please read )  ( I mean you don't have to )

Me again, I know. I'm going to hit you guys with another post about reading. This other book I was reading in our reading workshop, was about global warming. Now before you click away thinking global warming doesn't exist or if you have heard of it so many times. Think about the polar bears and huge amounts of glaciers that are falling, where the polar bears live and loss of ice. The ice and glaciers melt then it adds more water to our world. You may think that is good. No. More water means huge waves, huge waves means loss of land as in covered underwater( Lots of us die ). The whole world will be turned into a furnace. There are too many bad gases around the world that are letting out like cars and fires, hospitals . ( Not the gross one. ewww no. ) Green houses gases are probably  the worst that comes from farms. Global warming is already happening and going to happen but we can slow it down by, planting more trees having electric cars, less farmland. By the way don’t kill animals that are in danger or at the brink of extinction because if they go extinct they're never coming back. ( Just so you know) ( If all most of the animals go were basically dead ) If global warming is going to be much worse, for animals and us. So that is what I read from my book. ( It is true. )   

What do you think about Global warming ? ( Sorry so long. ) (:    Link to were I got this cool as pic from