A&P Show work

Last week, Rimu had a task of doing eight activities about the A&P Show. Last week I posted my photo book and that's part of the activities. I only got four finished. I am very disapointed that I didn't complete them all. I'm not a really fast worker with some things, so it was quite hard to finish it all. Next time I think that I need to work harder, and be more creative with the way I present my work.

We orignaly made most of our things on paper, but since we are putting it on our blogs, we had to make them digital. Some of my work was already digital so that makes things easier.

Here is my Alpaca's booklet:

Here's my photo book:


Here is my History work:

Here is my recount:

On the 16th of November my class went on a trip to the A&P Show. We were all put into small groups to go around the show. I was in a group with Bella, Base and Laura. The adult in our group was my mum. I was really pumped about going to the A&P show with my friends.

On the way there, we talked at listened to music. I couldn’t stop laughing, everyone was making me laugh so hard. But on the way there we passed a really expensive car yard. And at the very front there was… my dream LAMBORGHINI! I was starting to hyperventilate and I nearly fainted. But luckily I had some water just on time.

Finally after sitting in A LOT of traffic, we finally got to our destination. We all got our bags out of the boot and headed to the entrance. Since Mrs Spragg saw us all she let us head off to look around. We saw a bunch of cars, so of course we had to go look at them. They all looked so clean and sparkly and all I could do was dream about owning them all. We went over to look at some Range Rovers. I of course had to open the door look inside. It was so cool! There were so many buttons! But there was one car that was a race car. It looked like one of the cars I race on my racing games on the Xbox. It was awesome.

After that we found this little area that had tiny little cars that you can ride. We weren’t technically going in the banned area, so we got two tickets and had a ride. I drove Bella in a yellow car, and Base drove Laura in a blue car. When first got moving I drove right into the blow up wall the had. Bella and I cracked up laughing. After a bit I finally got used to it and I was zooming around the corners, it was so much fun (but I feel like we nearly tipped over). When we started heading over to the dirtbike races, Base realized he lost his phone. But luckily Laura remembered where he left it. It was on the ground right next to a Porsche.

We went over to look the dirtbike races. The track was so cool. But there was a bit where there are a bunch of big rocks that they had to ride over, but every time someone tried to over they got stuck. It was pretty funny.

After that we went to look at the big tractors. At the start they were pretty small but as we went along, they got very big. We walked over to this massive harvester, and I went up the ladder to stand on the platform. It was pretty high up. I was too scared to stand up so I just crouched.

We didn’t do a lot after we had lunch, but I had a lot of fun for the rest of the day. I can’t wait ‘til I go another time. I will definitely look at the cars again.

A&P Show Photo Book!

Last Thursday, Rimy went to the A&P show. We were all put into small groups to go around the show. I was put in a group with my mum, Laura, Bella and Base. I had a lot of fun. The main thing I wanted though was a big pink alien, and I got one! For our projects that we're doing in class, we had to make a photo book. Here's a slide full of photos from our trip!

Uru Manuka Logos

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great holidays!

This week all of Rimu has been creating their own logos for the Uru Manuka logo contest. If you don't know what 'Uru Manuka' is, it's basically a cluster of eight schools in Hornby. What we had to mainly do is create four logos and change them to see which one we like. I had a lot of fun doing this because I found a new website which makes making logos really easy and fun. So I made a slide with all my logos that I created. I would really appreciate it if you gave me your feedback in the comments.

Here's my slide:

Adding Fractions!

For the past two weeks I've been learning how to add fractions with different denominators together. It was quite challenging but I got it in the end, and turns out it's actually really easy! So today I made a DLO explaining how to add fractions yourselves.
Next time with my DLO, I might use something different to explain my learning because I always make a slide and/or a screencastify.

So, has this helped you understand adding fractions? I hope it did. Bye!

Choir

Yesterday, the YMS the year 6 to 8 choir went to Avonhead school for a practice with the other school choirs. It was really fun. It was great to run through some of the songs I didn't really know. My favourite song was 'Africa'. It's really catchy. Also while I was there I saw a few people who I knew. I was very tired afterwards, and my thumb starting hurting a lot because I had to hold my book for a very long time.

Here is a photo of us at the choir practice:

I'm Back!

If you were wondering, where I've been, well I have a broken arm.

Straight after school, on Tuesday the 15th, I decided to go on the trampoline. Usually I can do cartwheels really well, but... not on that day. I was bouncing and bouncing and started my cartwheel. As soon as my arms were straight, I started coming down. Just before I landed I knew it wasn't going to end well.

I landed and then... SNAP! Yes, I heard my arm snap. With a high-pitched scream I quickly walked inside to my dad. Eventually when ambulance arrived they gave a whistle which was full pain relief. But when I opened my eyes it felt like I was in a dream because everything looked funny. But of course, before I got into the ambulance I had to say goodbye to my cat.

Because I broke both bones in my arm, I had to have surgery. All they had to do was put in three wires to straighten up my arm. This surgery was my first surgery I've ever had, so before I fell asleep I was petrified. I couldn't even control my body. It was really weird.

But now, I'm finally back at school. I'm so glad that I'm back.

Bill Nagelkerke

Yesterday a New Zealand author came to our class for a visit. His name is Bill Nagelkerke. While he was here he talked to us about his books and some tips if you want to become an author. One of the books he read was 'Emily's Penny Dreadful'. I really liked the start of the story, I really want to read the rest, it sounds really cool.

My favourite part of the visit, was when he read his book he made when he was 8 about an old kids tv show he watched when he was younger. Before he left he showed us a magic trick. It was really awesome.

I really enjoyed his visit, it was interesting to listen to him and discover new books. Here are some pictures of our experience:

Term 3 Timetable

This term we have started our timetable's again. I am still enjoying it but I find it hard to think of what I could put in my timetable because there's not a lot. So here is a screenshot of my timetable this week:

William Pike

Today at 2:00, William Pike came to our school for a quick visit. While he was here we asked him some questions and talked about what we've done so far for the William Pike Challenge Award. It was good to see him again, since the last time I saw him was last year.

I'm really looking forward to doing some more WPCA and learning new things. And I hope we do surfing again because it was a lot of fun. If you want to check out my blog post about my surfing experience click here.

Book Awards

Today, Rimu went to St Margaret's for a special event. Children and adults book awards! I was really excited to see some NZ authors, and learn about them and their books. When we got there, I wasn't really sure what this was, all I knew was that we were meeting NZ authors. But once we got into it, I realized we were just listening to the authors reading out a bit of their books and talking about themselves.

My favourite two were, Jenny Cooper and Leonie Agnew. I like Jenny Cooper because, I really like her drawings and all the facts she gave us that inspired me. And I like Leonie Agnew, because when she read the back of her book 'The Impossible Boy' I really wanted to read. And I love how she got the idea for the book.

Here are some photos of the event:

Netball Zones

Today, the YMS netball team went to zones at Rolleston College. Unfortunately we lost three games and we tied one. But after the 2nd game it started raining a lot, so they cancelled the last game. In the last game the courts were really slippery, but the good thing is, no one got injured.

I had a lot of fun. It was great to learn new skills and meet new people.

Dream Timetable

This week, we all had to make our own dream timetables. Trying to figure out the times kind of confused me, but I figured it out eventually. In my timetable I put a thing called 'Creative Time'. Creative Time is, a time in the day where you can work on your creative skills, like drawing, piano, etc. We also had to write a paragraph explaining our timetable.

Here is a screenshot of my timetable:

  

School Holidays

On Tuesday, on the last week of the holidays I went tobogganing, with my dad and some friends. To start off the day, I packed my bag full of warm and fluffy clothes, my gloves and my hat. I put my jacket on and waited for our ride. While I was waiting, I sat by the fire playing with my cat and watched some tv. 

But when our ride came, I rushed out the door and jumped in the car. It was a pretty long ride, but I daydreamed through most of it. 

Finally when we got to our location, I got out of the car and looked at the snow. It was really sparkly from the sun beaming onto the ground. So of course I had to pick it up and throw it at my dad, then he got some snow and threw some at me. 

After going to the frozen lake and having a massive snowball fight, we got back to the car and had some food and water. Once we all finished we got back in the car and drove to a hill to toboggan down. I was so thrilled.

We all chose a spot that had an awesome drop at the end. I was the first up the hill. When I started using my hands to climb, I realized the snow was really icy so it kinda hurt my hands when they dug into the snow. But when I went down for the first time, I was really scared, especially when I got to the drop. THUD! I fell off the toboggan and landed on my side. It hurt A LOT! But of course I went up again and again and again.

After maybe an hour I decided to climb all the way to the top of the mountain with my dad, and then our friends joined in. My dad had to help me with some parts because the snow was really deep and I kept on falling in massive holes. But once we finally got to the top, I fell in the snow and sat there. It was so nice. A while later I felt really thirsty and grabbed some snow and ate it. It was pretty cold. Once we decided we should go back down, we sat down and slid all the way down. After that, my legs hurt a lot.

On the ride back home, I had a long nap.

Interland

Today at Cybersmart, Mark showed us Interland. It's a website Google made. It has four worlds, Mindful Mountain, Tower of treasure, Kind Kingdom and Reality River. I had a lot of fun playing the levels. They were all very challenging but I still had a lot of fun.  The hardest one was Mindful Mountain.

My overall score was 985. I'm proud of what I got.

It taught how to keep myself safe while I'm on the internet. I think it's a great way to teach people how to be safe on the internet.

I would definitely recommend going on the website and have a go.

I think my favourite game was Kind Kingdom. On Kind Kingdom, you have to compliment the sad people because they were bullied. Then you have to get the speaker and report the bully.