My Speech

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My speech is about communication. I choose this topic because I like to talk. I started off by getting all my ideas and then deleting some until I had a manageable amount. I hope you like it!

Book Review: Splintered

This book is about a young girl, who like all females in her family is cursed, with the ability to talk to plants and insects. Because of this her her mother in now in a metal institution. Alyssa is now worried that she may one day end up in there to. The curse and the family's curse having a connection to the Alice and Wonderland story. Alyssa ends up getting more tangled into their family's curse that she realizes that she must go down the rabbit hole just like Alice did all those years ago.
Alyssa is a bit of a tom boy, she like skateboarding. Her life long companion and crush, Jeb is currently dating a girl named Taelor. Taelor is always teasing Alyssa for there family's apparent insanity.

Alyssa does everything that she can to not end up in the institution like her mother and gran-mother, including trying not to look like her. Alyssa currently goes to the institution every week to visit her mother. On her last visit there it starts normally, but Alyssa accidentally her mother the she is crazy to. This leads to her mother to go crazy, and shortly after she get sedated.

Alyssa starts doing some researching into her family's history. She starts hearing a familiar voice in her head, from her childhood. Saying that she needs to go down the rabbit hole, to fix Alice's mistakes. She believes that it must be in London. In the process of getting a fake passport, Jeb some how finds out about what she done. Jeb and Alyssa get into a fight, but Jeb only thinks she is trying to go to London and doesn't know about any of her strange curse. Jeb storms off to got to the prom with Taelor. Alyssa listens to that voice some more and finds out how open the portal to Wonderland. After the fight with Jeb, she is starting to wish that he was here. At that wish he appears.

They find the rabbit hole and fly all the way down. They nibble cake to shrink. They meet lots of kinds of unfriendly creatures, that ain't like how Alice's said. Once the dry up all Alice's tears. They find their way to the mysterious Morpheus, the voice in her head. Alyssa is charmed by his mystery, but Jeb immediately hates him. Alyssa remembers all of her childhood time with Morpheus. She can't decide who she like more the protective Jeb or the mysterious Morpheus. . .

Quote: 56

During class we have been trying to say no negative things to anyone. 

As I haven't posted many quotes recently I decided to post a POSITIVE one! 

I hope you like it!

Brooklyn and My Maths Presentation

For Maths our topic has been, MOVIES!
Brooklyn and I worked together, we decided to do a big topic, Winnie-the-Pooh.  We used a website called visme. It is a infographic designer.
Please give us some feedback.
I hope you like it!

Clubs

Last week we started clubs. Every Friday afternoon we go to the club that we chose to participate, I chose Coding and Robotics.
Last Friday it was our first session. We got in groups. I went with Noah, Emma, Harry and Guy.
I decided to go to Coding because I can already do some HTML and Java script. Emma and I are going to the only girls.

I expected that we would do some scratch and guess what.... We did! I did the proper scratch and everyone else is doing scratch junior.
I am creating a shooting game, were you hover your mouse over the screen and when you press the space the machine gun fires. The point of the game is to shoot down as many balloons as you can. I am going to try get a scoring method to come on the screen.

I am going to keep updating this as I progress.

Jess's story about her weekend

On Sunday I went down the back to light the fire and toast marshmallows.

Great job Jess, you are starting to form your letters perfectly, and write them on the lines.

School: Cross country

Bang!
Sprinting off, my heart was leaping out of my chest. Would I beat Piper or not? The question was racing round head. I was quite surprised as I was running beside Holly, suddenly Holly sped up. Falling a little behind her.  After completing the first lap I was well ahead of everyone except Holly. As the hill came nearer and nearer I started to wish that I hard practised more. Taking short, sharp strides, I power up the rise. With every step I am closer to the finish. As I reach the top of the hill all I  can see is a big paddock. I run down the first straight. Round the far corner. Round the next. Suddenly I am aproching the hill, this I get to run down down it! As I fly down the hill, picking up momentum, I trip, catching myself before I would eventually tumble to the bottom of the hill. When I start the long, sheltered forest. This is my favourite part of the run! Running out of the forest, round the next lap. The finish line is in sight. I sprint. My legs are going on fast forward. There's no stopping. Done! I had finished in 2nd place!

Anzac Presentation

For four weeks we have been researching about our topic that we chose. Annabelle and I decided to look at the food aspect. We researched about what food they ate and their cooking facilities. Once we had done that we started to create a tin cooker, sometimes called a hobo stove. Go to the link below to watch our final product!

Anzac Presentation.

PAL's

Last term 10 students got selected to become PALs, PALs stands for Physical Activity leaders. We went to Ashley school to participate in a PAL's leaders day. We played lots of leadership games, such as this soccer one where we played 6 v 6. There were always 2 of us referring each match. Then he stopped us and we had to come up with some new rules to improve the game, we came up with having it just 4 v 4, so the filed wasn't so crowded, another one was that we couldn't have goalies, this was because the fields were quite small and the goal boxes were only about a meter wide. After having gone to the leaders day I think we could all now take a group of little kids and be able to play controlled games.

Now we have established the PAL's program you might have seem that on every Tuesday and Wednesday 2 PAL’s have been out on the back field organizing and playing games.  

If you want to come and play the games we have organised, feel free to join in.  
Some of the games we have run so far are: Killer ball, Rob the nest and using the parachute.

Last week Annabelle and I did our 3rd session of PAL's with the juniors. We played lots of different games like Cat and Mouse, Cops and Robbers, Duck Duck Goose. I am really enjoying being a PAL and I am looking forward to playing more games with the seniors and juniors next time and the times afterwards. 

I strongly recommend that if your school isn't already doing the PAL's program that you should encourage them to give it a go. It give students that might not have very many friends or like t be alone to do at morning tea and lunch time, they can interact with others in there class and school.

Statistics

We have been doing a little bit of Statistics. This is one of the exesisis we have done.  we had to write out all our Spelling scores for our pre-test and our post-test.  Then we found the Mean and the % of them. Here is my working out

Unwind, by Neal Shusterman

During class we have been doing silent reading.  Derrin and I are reading Unwind, by Neal Shusterman. I have read up to page 33 so far. I am enjoying his book because it has a lot of different concepts. I will proberbly read it again in year 9 because this book in social study's. I diffenatly recommend this book to other readers.

Book review, Tangi

Tangi is the first novel of Witi Ihimaera's that I've read and I found it extremely hard to read, while at the same time, I enjoyed every minute of it.  It's not a difficult read, and actually is repetitive throughout. But it has an almost hypnotic quality.  The book itself weaves two strands: the return of Tama to his home after his father's death, and Tama dealing with his father's death after it has happened.  Maybe there are even more strands in there.  I think it's this quality that makes the repetition interesting, rather than boring. It's a hugely emotional book, and made me pretty sad at times.  Not many books cause me to express such emotions.  It took me about 1 day to read, but it was worth every page.

Jess"s story about her holiday

In the holiday I went Daddy camping at the boys high hut. I went to Grannmas house. I went to the park to see my friends and I went to my friends house for tea.

Great job Jess, you had a very busy holiday.

Capacity explain everything

Last term the teachers gave us 3 major topics to become experts in, Mass, Capacity and Length. I got paired with Emma. Have a watch below to become an expert too.

Waiata

Every morning we having been singing a Maori Waiata and a song that we get to pick!

Here are some songs we are getting good at:

Maths- Capacity

This is my Pic-Collage on measurement. We had to get into buddies and take pictures of items and estimate the capacity. Then we filled then up with water and found out what the actual mearsurment  

This is my Pic-Collage on measurement. We had to get into buddies and take pictures of items and estimate the capacity. Then we filled then up with water and found out what the actual measurement was. 

Buddies

Jess's Story about her weekend:

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Tri-School Swimming Sports

Today we had tri-school swimming sports.
There were quite a lot of kids from Loburn School competing. In my age group, 11yr olds, there was Annabelle, Zoe, Kate and I.

We got in the car that we were going and took off for Dudley Pool. I was in Kate's car with Kate, Annabelle and Zoe. We talked a lot about previous swimming sports. Finally we arrived. We jumped out and headed off to the foyer. We went and got changed and sat in our year groups area.
With even more people sitting on the benches we were more than squished! The 12 year olds went first and then the 11 year olds and so on. BANG! the 12 year olds were off!

Swimming Sports

On Thursday we had swimming sports!
All the 8yr olds and up went to Dudley pool. We competed against all the other children in our age group.
I chose to do all the races I could: freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and medley.

In the morning Anna, Marcus and I were franticly writing numbers on the Makerikeri children hands.