The William Pike Challenge Award Recount!

On Tuesday, it was meet the teacher night, the whole class cooked dinner for all the parents, all the children and for William Pike. William Pike was here because he was telling us what happened to him, we needed to know because the year seven and eights are participating in the William Pike Challenge Award.

After we all finished having dinner we all headed to the Wharehui where we learnt about what happened to William Pike. It was so interesting learning about William Pike’s leg. Looking at the picture of his leg when he was in hospital was so disgusting but cool at the same time, but I reckon it would really hurt.

Near the end of William Pike’s talk he asked one of the student’s to come up to take off his leg and clean it. William picked Jacob and I must say he was pretty confident about cleaning his leg. After Jacob finished cleaning William’s leg he got one of his books and William Pike signed the book to. I had such a good night, apart from all the rain, it was so awesome learning about William Pike.

'Wonder' Point of view writing

Our writing task last week was to write a short essay explaining what point of view R.J Palacio used when writing ‘Wonder’. We also had to find examples from the text, also I found quotes to back up what we thought. It had to have an introduction, 3 example paragraphs and lastly a conclusion. I’m really enjoying the book, this book is way more interesting than the book my teacher read last year. Here is my short essay about ‘Wonder’.

‘Wonder’ is a story about a boy who feels ordinary on the inside, but he is always reminded of how different he is by how people respond when they see him. This is R.J Palacio’s first novel and it is written in the first person.

August is speaking in first person because at the start of the book he says,

“I know I’m no ordinary 10 year old I mean sure I do normal things like eat ice-cream, I ride my bike, I play ball and I have a Xbox, stuff like that makes me ordinary.

August is speaking in first person because at the start of the book he says, “If I found a magic lamp and had one wish I would wish that I had a normal face.”

August is speaking in first person because at the start of the book he says, “But I know other ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in the playground.”

Therefore, I think that Palacio has used the first person point of view in her story ‘Wonder’.

My visual mihimihi

In the first two weeks of school, Rimu class learnt how to write and create a visual mihimihi. We also made a video of our visual mihimihi, but before we started making the video, we had to make sure that we could say the Māori words correctly. It was very hard to find an Ipad that was free because everybody else was using them. Each visual mihimihi had to have 3 parts to it:

1. A photo or self portrait.
2. Things that are important to us.
3. Symbols or picture that represents our culture.

Here is a video of my visual mihimihi:

2016!

           2016!!!!

Ice cream disaster

I have not finished this yet, but I will very soon.

Choir Festival

Yay it was the night for singing, we were all excited and a little bit nervous.

It was very tiring because we sang a lot, moved a lot and we sang until 9.00 at night

but it was still super fun. My friend Hannah told me that I was on T.V and I was super amazed.

I had a great time but the problem was my index finger started hurting because the day before the

choir festival I shut my finger in a car door!

Grip Leadership Course

On the 12th of November the year five’s went to manual, but the year six’s and year seven’s  did something even more interesting. We went to the Grip Leadership Course! There were over 400 kids there, it was amazing. We learnt loads of things about leading and standing up for yourself and for others. We played games, watched some videos, listened to loud music and met some new people. It was so fun and it made me laugh. That was probably the best school trip I’ve ever had.