For the last 2 weeks we had swimming lessons.We had swimming lessons at QEII. We all were in different groups. I was in a group with Saffron, Isabel, Sophia, Elisa, Koby, Cassie, and Zoey, it was pretty fun being in a group with some of my friends. We learnt how to do freestyle, backstroke, streamlining, skulling and much more. My instructors names were Sam and Jess they were amazing! My instructors helped with everything and they explained mostly everything. On the last week of swimming on Wednesday we got to go in to the deep pool and buddied  up with someone. I  buddied up with Saffron and everyone had to put life jackets on. After that someone in that pair had to jump in the water I went first of course and Saffron filled this bag up with some water that was attached to a rope she threw the bag in so i could grab it and she pulled me in. and on Thursday we learnt how to make a huddle and also went on to this inflatable boat and fell backwards off it when we fell we made a huddle with the people that were already down there. After that we made a huddle we all got into line to go under the boat it was a lot of fun and on Friday we swam in our pajamas its felt really really heavy. We swam through a current that all the instructors made its quite hard to be honest.

This is a picture of my swimming group!

In room one everyone has been working on some writing activities to do. I choose to write about my dream house which is an amazing mansion! It is expensive to buy which I can’t buy but it might happen if I work hard! My mansion is beside the beach so I won’t need to buy a Jacuzzi, a hot pool, a huge water slide for fun! By the way I think you will like my amazing, magnificent and lovely mansion!  Here is my lovely mansion!

Would you like to do this type of writing?

My Dream House

Last Tuesday and Wednesday . we got to visit Harold the giraffe and Jo. As soon as we walked in Andie Rose said “can we have  a disco because its my  birthday?” And of course Jo said alright we can BUT in one condition.You have to sing along to Harold’s karaoke, everyone agreed, well I think they did anyway. Jo put the music on and we all started to dance and scream the karaoke lyrics out loud! Everyone made the Life Education van shake! Then in no time the disco was over so we had to learn, we learnt about what to do and how to act in these situations like you are a friends house what do you do? Well you would be polite and not bossy. After we learnt we played a game called “flinch” if she said 1 you would clap once, if she said clap 2 or 3 you clap 2 or 3 times but this is why is its called flinch if she says 0 she will clap to try to make you clap. the winner got to pick some friends to do the catwalk with but she didn’t want to  so she picked Isabel, Zoey, Elise, and Tegan. I liked Isabel’s moves the most but sadly we had to go back to class and that was really fun!

Welcome to my term 4 round up! In term 4 we did a lot of things so lets get into them.

Firstly, we had winter sports! It was one of the most coolest experiences in my life. Guess what I choose as my sport we had multiple options like soccer, capture the flag, rugby, and lots more and I picked.Capture the flag it was awesome most of my friends did capture the flag and netball. Getting our winter sports uniform was cool too. But this was last term.

Secondly, the fun run. Let’s now talk about the fun run, the fun run was another great experience . We had different stations to go at like this obstacle course. You had to kick a ball into the goal and jump over hurdles.And a lot more !  But last but not least! We got to run through chalk! It went all over me including in my mouth yucky!

Thirdly, pet day! Pet day was a cool experience because everyone got to bring pets someone even bought a chicken! We all got to stand with our pet but I didn’t bring a pet sadly.Then we went into a line and walked across the court petting dogs, chickens, and cats. We all went to different classrooms for different activities. My favorite activity was in the domain with bouncy castles and cool cars like a tank and a fire truck. That was most of the stuff we did this term.

How was your term?

On Thursday at school we had beach Ed. My dad came for parent help I was in a group with my dad and some of my friends. My friends are called Elisa and Summer their were some other girls that were a year younger than me, their names were Lizzy and Ava I didn’t know them that well.

As we got into our groups we lined up at the gate by the domain. My dad was one of the backstops so I just stuck with him really. As we walked we reached the road some of the teachers even sacrificed their lives for us to safely get across the busy road. But they were fine at least, we were nearly at the North Beach so just a tiny bit more walking to go!

We made it to the beach and headed to the Surf Life saving club, when we made it to the Surf Life saving club we all put our stuff away in changing rooms girls and boys had separate ones. When we had finished putting away our stuff we sat down where the lifeguards were at.They introduced themselves and  we got started with the learning part.

After all that was done we got to do a talent show thing called Beach eds got talent! We got a card to show what theme our play was going to be like we got “watch out for rips R.R.R.”That means Ride, Relax,and Raise. After we presented ours we went out to eat lunch and talk of course.Then we went inside and guess what ? More learning, After all that learning about rips and spotting rips , we got to  do something that invovled us getting changed into swimming togs and getting into groups. Group one got to body board and then group 2, got to do body surfing. After a while in the water we got to swap around, the people who had the body boards swap with people who didn’t have one. Before I knew it was time to get out of the water and get changed back into school uniform. We walked back to school and went home.

Would you go on a trip to the beach with your school?

On Monday room 1 , 7, and 2 drove up to Governors bay into different groups I was in a group with Andie-roses mum, Andie -rose, Sophia, and Summer it was awesome! When we arrived at Governors bay we had some morning tea and met our instructor named Denise she took us all the way up to the farm it was a long walk I wished we drove up there but it was a good exercise for me in my opinion.We learned about a bird im not sure what the name of it was.  At the farm  we met a cow named Evie  we got to pat her and the most unexpected  thing happened  we got to  feed her babies!

After that we got into are groups and went on the trailer it was so scary! But we got to see all around that part of the farm we also did a funny prank when we hopped off the trailer we said that are bottoms hurted after that trailer ride! I’m sure the other groups believed us after every group had a turn on the trailer we met up at the wooden pick nick tables and took off!  After we took off i kinda regretted how i said ¨but it was a good exercise in my opinion ¨ I didn’t exercise at all well maybe just a little bit.

then after walking up hill with a tiny bit of water and stinging metal (stinging metal we… made it ! When we arrived almost everyone was laying down  and resting for as long as they could then we HAD TO get up why couldn’t I just stayed laying/resting on the floor? We had afternoon tea and then put up our tents and got some yoga mats  and unpacked are stuff guess who I was in a tent with? My friend Summer! Oh and we got some free time and me and Summer were taming our dogs my one is called Ranger and Summers one is called Toasty they are super cute!

Then the camp was over I love camp! I would go on camp again.

For a couple of weeks in room one we have  been learning about music here  is my slide  that I took a long time on!

Who is you favorite singer?

This week was book character week! Heaps of kids dressed up!  It was really interesting what people came up with . I was Winnie The Pooh so creative right? Yeah so we went to different rooms  for different activities like quizzes or drawing. This is a picture of me! With Frankie and Saffron. whats your favorite book character?

For the past couple weeks Room 1 has been working on persuasive writing. Here is my writing:

In my opinion children should of course wear school uniform and this is why I think so. Read on to know why it’s  best to wear school uniform.

Firstly, children should wear school uniform to school especially on field trips to zoos,public pools, and other big crowded places. If you don’t wear school uniform and go missing it would be harder to get back.

Secondly, its polite and respectful wearing school uniform and  other people will think that your  clean and  wealthy. Also  that you go to a good school. Imagine what  some kids could wear ! Like the seniors if you don’t understand then let me put it this way. They might wear short crop tops, short skirts, stuff like that. They are revealing.

And lastly, what if a poor family joins our school any school! They might not be able to afford  clothes or their clothes are dirty because they don’t have much clothes. They can just buy school uniform and that’s done for them.

In conclusion this is why I think it’s best to wear your school  uniform!

  Its Te Reo week and I made  a really cool poster! Mine says ”E Kore te patiki e hoki ki tona puehu.” That means the flounder does not return to his dust. like how it will not make the same mistake twice.

Would you make a poster like this?