PMI about this week

Plus: This week has been awesome because we had a week off of school work. The thing that has been really cool for me this week is doing the team building at the end of the day. We do a lot of different activities like games with hoops and games that involve towels. I thought the team building was a really creative idea.

Minus: The thing that was my less favourite thing was doing the quiz that we did this morning because it was a bit hard at times, and some questions were a bit to easy. There were 20 questions on the doc to answer.



Interesting: The thing I thought was interesting this week was meeting all of the new people that came to the school. I meet a new friend called Riana and she is really nice and sometimes funny too!!!

This year I have enjoyed maths because it is my favourite subject. My maths teacher is Miss Sixsmith and she is a really good maths teacher because she teachers me things that I want to find out. I have learned heaps of interesting things like Measurement, Fractions, Geometry and much more. A website called IXL has really helped me a lot with my learning. The hardest thing I learned in maths was measurement because I had to measure things like the back court and class rooms. I have learned some new strategies and ways to solve problems out easier.

This is the link to IXL: www.IXL.co.nz   

iDrive this week

This week for iDrive I finished my art from last term. I got to do the black outlining and put some glitter on where ever I wanted. It was easy for me because I did not have to do much. We had to go around the face twice and make the vivid line really thick. I did it with Alexa and Olivia. Today the word that I did was participation because I was talking to the people around me and not ignoring them. I helped them as well. Then we went to the glitter part and put some glue on our art. I put the glue on the lips, the spots and the flower on her head.

 

High Jump Video

Below as you can see I did high jump. I am practising for athletics. I am not that good at high jump but I still try. My teacher Mrs Taaffe videoed me and sent it to me from her phone. I hope you all like my video!


Here is my video:

I hope I do well on athletics day from all that training and I will try my best to get into Hauraki Plains.

My iDrive PMI

PMI about iDrive

Positives: The positive things about iDrive is that we agree to do the same things not just random stuff. The other thing is that we don’t just do the same thing but we talk it through and make it so that we don’t fight over simple things. The things that I like about iDrive is sharing, making things in groups and making things with my friends like doing some art or maybe play a game of cards or something.

Interesting: The thing that was interesting was doing different iDrive sessions and learning new things like how to play knuckle bones and how to play cards and things like that. Sometimes the thing that interests me most is when we all work together and don’t fight.

Minuses: The minuses about iDrive are when we don’t agree on what is happening and we all fight. The other thing was when people don’t share. There is some things that I don’t like about iDrive and that is: doing things that I don’t want to do and people telling what to do and what not to do and having to do things that I don’t like and when people don’t give you a turn.

iDrive reflection

This iDrive time I finished my art. What I did for art was faces. They weren't just any old faces they were faces that were colourful and bright and had pattens. My skills were problem solving because when I was letting my art dry I did not know what to do so I ask people if they wanted any help and I helped Ryan because he needed to finish the back ground. The learning power that I used was resilience because when I was painting and wanted to mix a colour but I did not know how to make it so I keeped on trying and trying and I finally made it! When I finished the back ground I did helped him with his body. Then after that we packed up and went to lunch.

Summer's holiday recount

In the holidays I went to do my calf. Her name is Flicka. I did some leading and some brushing and we also did some washing because Flickas legs were muddy. I went out with Ella and some other people. When Flicka was leading she keeped on sitting down where the circle was. When she was getting washed she did not kick and we also put some white off on her. White off is for there white spots to keep them white. We had trouble trying to clean Flickas leg because there was a dirt mark that we can not get off. So we put a lot of white off on her leg and it has made her leg a bit better.

Then a couple days after that I went to my dads house. He lives in Dargaville. Dargaville have a lot of spiders because I is close to a forest. Me and my friend went to the beach while my dad was talking to someone. We sat and ate our lollies on the golden sand and watched people on there drift bikes and on there quads. Then after the beach we went and had dinner at my friends house. We had mince and peas. It was fun at Dargaville!

On the weekend Ella came over and had a sleep over. First we went to Thames and went shopping for food. Then we went and got a BBQ so we can have dinner. After that we went and had a look at the animals in the mall. There were lizards with blue tongues, a cat called Cutie, two turtles, some bunnies, two lambs, a goat, some dogs, mice and a couple of birds. We got to hold the blue tongue lizards and they were very cold. But first we had to put some hand cream on so that the lizards don’t lick your hand and get sick. The lady gave us some things like a cat toy, a balloon and some things for your dogs. Then we went to McDonald's and had something to eat. We went home after that and did some tie dying on a T-shirt. That night we played a game of Monopoly. We did not get to finish it in time so we decided to finish it the next day. The next day we finished Monopoly but I don’t know who won. Then after that we had a bike ride down the street. We took Ella home after that. The weekend was fun!!

Term reflection

Learning In The Making Conference day

Last Friday we had Learning In The Making Conference day. Conference day is a day we normally have once a year on a Friday. You can buy different coloured T-shirts of our house colours. The colours of the T-shirts were yellow, red, blue and green. There were four different breakouts. For the first breakout I did claymations. You had to make something out of playdough then you had to get an I-pad and take pictures of you design. After we took pictures and we put the pictures together and it was like a video.

For the second breakout I did sharpy tie dye. We got a piece of fabric then got a glass cup, put the fabric on the cup and tied a rubber band around the glass cup. Then you get some sharpy pens and do a easy design. After that you get some rubbing alcohol and drip some into the middle so it spread's evenly. Rubbing alcohol you don't drink so please don't try and drink it.

Then for the third break out I did little stitches. We made a badge out of fabric. You got to pick your designs like squares or triangles. Then you got to pick if you wanted to do a jelly stamp. There were a lot of things like owls and arrows. After that you cut out two shapes you like and put a little bit of glue just to make it stick a bit more on the bottom of the fabric. Then you hand stitch around the fabric with thread.

For the last breakout I did cooking. We made lemon honey for your toast and pudding. It has really easy to make. After we had finished making the lemon honey it was really hot and it burned my fingers. We got back early from our break out so we had a little play with a skipping rope on the front court. Then we packed up from our big day. The conference day was lots of fun!

        

iDrive refelction

In iDrive today I did cards with Ella, Alexa and Elizabeth. The games we played were go fish and last card. But there was a little problem, Alexa and Elizabeth wanted to play bull but I did not know how to play. So Elizabeth showed me how to play but I did not get it. We had a little fight. Then someone let them play knuckle bones. The thing that I achieved was problem solving.We solved the problem so Elizabeth and Alexa were playing knuckle bones and me and Ella were playing cards. My skills were playing fear and solving problems that were hard to solve. I won two games and Ella won two games too.

  

Princess Diana

Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris. She has two children, Prince William and Prince Harry. Princess Diana was born in July 1 and the mouth she was born in is 1961. Princess Diana is the youngest person in her family. Diana was married to Prince Charles. They were married for 18 years. Her birth name was Diana Frances Spencer. Diana was married in 1981 but sadly when Diana was about 6 years old  when her parents had a fight. She liked helping others when they were in trouble. Princess Diana grew up in a place called Park House. When Diana left school she got a part time job as a nanny and a cook.