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Thursday, 8 June 2017

Narrative Story

For the past two weeks, we have been creating Narrative Stories. I had a lot of fun doing this. I think planning my story challenged me because I wasn't really sure what to write because I had so many ideas.

We haven't finished just yet, so this is not a finished product. But here is what I have done:

The Missing Hat

The shimmering sunlight shining onto the tall dry grass, a nice warm breeze passing through. A young lady, called Kayla was having a picnic. She was wearing a short summer dress with a straw hat resting on her beautiful long blonde hair. As she was eating a sandwich, it became really windy and her beloved hat flew away to the other side of the slim grass.

Kayla rested her sandwich on her plate and searched through the grass to get her hat. She pulled back a clump of grass and found wild animals. Why would there be wild animals in the middle of a field? But Kayla still couldn’t see her hat so, she climbed through the grass to find even more animals. Zebra’s, Giraffes, Lions.

Suddenly, Kayla could here fast pacing footsteps coming closer and closer towards her. She looked to her right, and saw that a wild boar was charging at her, and it seemed to have a hat on it’s head. Kayla looked closer at the hat, it looked exactly like her hat. But there is no way to get it back.

Quickly, she jumped back through the dry grass to escape from being pushed over by the wild boar. She scurried back to her picnic spot, and sat down to catch her breath.


Then Kayla could hear rustling from the grass. She started creeping away from the grass. Suddenly, a ginger chicken came through the brown grass, with Kayla’s hat on. “What? A chicken?” Kayla said, with a confused look on her face. Kayla grabbed the hat off the chicken and put back on, and continued her picnic.

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Screencastify

This is me showing you how I can use Screencastify to show my learning.

Thursday, 1 June 2017

NYLD

On Tuesday, the YMS Student council went to NYLD (aka National Young Leaders Day). When we arrived, two people in onesies greeted us. We took a quick photo and found some seats in the arena.
We got some pretty awesome seats. We weren't close to the stage but no one was in front of us, so we could see. I had a lot of fun, the hosts were really funny. There were a lot of people that we knew. Aaron Jackson from Shortland Street and the band Nomad that sang the song 'Oh my my'. It was awesome to have Nomad there.

We did a lot of fun activities I had such a great time. We laughed a lot, listened to lots of cool stories, and I even saw someone that I haven't seen in years.  Here are some photos of our fun experience:




Friday, 12 May 2017

Cross Country

On Monday, we had cross country. I was nervous and excited at the same time. I was kinda scared because I was the only year eight girl running, but luckily the year 7 girls were running with me as well.

When we started running, I could hear people already cheering for us. The year Seven and Eights all had to do, three laps of the big field, twice around the domain, and then twice around the big field again. It was so exhausting. I ended up walking a lot of the run.

Since I was the only Year 8 girl running, I automatically won first. I was sad that I didn't really compete anyone, but at least I got a gold medal!

Here are some photos of the cross country:




Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint. 

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

 Reflection

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Holidays

On the last week of the holidays, my dad and I went to Hanmer Springs for three days. And we stayed in a really nice house with a fireplace. 

When we unpacked everything we decided to bike to a mini golf. It was really challenging, because the ball kept on rolling back down the hill. And unfortunately I lost the game, but I still had a lot of fun.

The next day we went to the pools in the morning. I went on the waterslides a lot, especially the dark slide. At lunchtime we got out and went on an awesome bike track, it had beautiful scenery.

After dinner we went back to the pools. It was so cool. The pools had awesome lights in them. It looked even better in the lazy river.

On Friday we pretty much packed and went home and relaxed. I can't wait until we can go back again.