On Tuesday 14th October we had athletics day, athletics was all day so we didn’t have to do any school work for the entire day ! Lets start off with my favourite rotation.

My favourite rotation would have to be discus or shot put, because they were fun and easy to do but of course I tried my hardest on everything and same did everyone else, my second favourite had to be long jump because it was fun but challenging at the same time ! My third favourite had to be sprints because I made it into the finals but oh boy that was challenging but fun as well.

My LEAST favourite had to be 800m it wasn’t that hard but still very challenging lucky my Dad was cheering me on so I boosted to the end. Then it was high jump because I could only get over the bar ONCE which is impressive but not that good at the same time.

Have you ever qualified in athletics before?

Me and Saffron versed in a game of battle ships for maths but it wasn’t any type of battle ships you play at home its a grid battle ships! So we had to call out a grid  like C4 and H6 The grid only went down to J10 and if that grid had a ship on you would say “hit”, but if you didn’t get the ship you would say “Miss” Saffron won the game so congrats to her !

Here is the grid    Do you like learning about grids?

Today we finished are art based on the rosary because its October and its the month of Mary.  This month is a special because it represents Mary and how much she cares for God. The mysteries for the rosary are joyful, sorrowful, glorious and luminous ! Here is a picture of my rosary art!Do you like praying the rosary?

Today me Bella and Saffron, we made a little news report on influenza and how it has effected so many Samoans ! The ship Talune came in 1920 carrying many sick people. When Talune arrived many Samoans died almost a quarter of their population.

I found the really cool learning about influenza! Do you like new reports?

Today in room 1 we learnt about viscosity, and what it is. How we experimented this was we went into groups of 5 or 6 and got some liquids and they were, washing up liquid, golden syrup, baking oil, and water. We got a board with number 1-8 and placed the liquid on it while the board was flat, and after that we titled the board slowly upwards and saw the viscosity. The highest viscosity was the water and the lowest was golden syrup.

In term three we have learnt a lot of stuff mostly aimed at reading, we have been learning about poetry and explanations. I will go over them all in just a minute !

Poetry

First of all, there are so many types of poems so here are  some examples, haiku, , and free verse. These were the main poems we focused on. The haiku poem is a japanese poem and it starts off with five syllables then seven, the five again, how cool right.

Then we have free verse, free verse is just do whatever, you can rhyme you don’t have to rhyme. Its technically just freestyle just be you! Here is my poem.

Explanation writing

Explanation writing is all about just explaining something not giving out instructions. You can pick heaps of different topics like how does popcorn pop? So use creativity and imagine what you know the most and explain it dont give instructions!

Do you like writing poems?

Today we went on a meeting call with some kids from Belfast School, and they showed us how to make a animation on Canva! It was so cool, their names were Poppy and Piper. Here’s what they showed us how to do !

I liked this because it was so cool because I had no idea how to do this it was a complete shock.  What I liked is that you didn’t need heaps of slide to just make something  move you just had to move an image !

Have you ever made a animation on canva before ?

Last Friday we went to Orana Park, and learnt about crazy things! At 9:30 we went on a bus to Orana Park it took about 40-45 minutes by bus to get there. When we got there we meet our instructors Michael and Elizabeth, they were very nice letting us take the shortcut way into Orana Park. When we finally got into the zoo we walked to the Gorilla/ Gibbon enclosure they were really cool ! We learnt about the Gorillas and there names, at their enclosure they have a little box to recycle your phone batteries ! I never knew you could do that how cool right. Next we learnt about the Gibbons and how the hands are cupped so they can grab onto things better, also their hands look identical to their feet also so they can grab on to tree branches/ ropes better.

Next, we went to the cheetahs ! But it was really windy so you couldn’t see them sadly because they were resting underneath a tree how relaxing, after talking about the cheetahs and how their back is the main part of the body that makes them go really fast Vanessa/ Elise’s Mum  spotted a cheetah looking directly at us ! So we all rushed up to get a better look at it,  and it looked viscous ! After that we went to the Rhinos and their horns were massive it was crazy, we heard them making such cool noises or it was just me, and even got to feel one of their horns, in my opinion it didn’t feel too nice..  Did you know that its actually illegal to own a rhino horn ? Because Rhinos might go extinct because people chop of rhinos horns, and the rhinos need their horns because its their defence.

Im skipping through some enclosures because there was way to many! After lunch, we saw the boulder copper butterflies and the habitat that the kind workers had built for them, how nice is that? We saw the giant plants that they lay eggs in too. Then we saw our nocturnal bird the kiwi ! Pests like stoats, possums, rats, ferrets are eating the eggs and the baby kiwis thats sad. Then we saw the wonderful keas and they were getting feed some grubs but they had to dig with their beaks to get to them.

Lastly we saw the adorable baby otters and Meerkats so cute ! They looked like they had little beady eyes, and fluffy skin. I would definitely go again it was so cool and interesting!

Have you been to Orana Park? If you have do think its cool?

Maddie Davidson came to our school ( The Olympic trampolinist ) I was so surprised that an Olympian came to our school. If you don’t know who Maddie Davidson is she is a Olympic trampolinist her full name is Madeline Davidson. She is 26 years and she went to the Olympics at Tokyo in 2020 but sadly only came tenth because she was so nervous she forgot her whole routine and started making up something random. You need to do 10 tricks to finish but she only did nine tricks and she didnt let that slide. So she came back NZ  and had a chat to her coach in the middle of a busy gym and said ” I think I want to become a champion…” Her coach was like “you think?  No you want to become one! Say it out loud!!!   “So she did and it was embarrassing. And that was part of her story not the whole thing.  She inspired me as well !

Do you know what trampolining  is?

This week in my discussion group that is Isabel,  Zoey, Sophia, Jack, Nikau, Tia, and me of course . We have talked about adults on the sidelines and their behaviour.  Some adults on the sidelines get too carried away and start yelling and shouting at the referees and players on the field especially in children’s games. This can make children feel sad and maybe wanting to quit playing the sport they desire to play.  6 out of 10 kids have been shouted at or got told instructions like they don’t know how to play their game. Our group thought was why do they do this and why do they shout at kids and referees like they don’t know how to play or run the game?

Something that they could do is calm down and stop shouting!

Do you think it’s appropriate or inappropriate that adults are shouting out instructions and yelling at kids ?