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Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Holidays have begun!

December 17th was the day when our school year for 2013 had ended. Holidays had begun and my holidays aren't that great so far, so far all I'm doing is chores, chores and more CHORES. Doesn't sound that great, aye? Luckily my hopes aren't yet dead my hopes are waiting for Christmas! I love Christmas because it's not only the birthday of Christ it's also a time when we come together with family and friends a spend the day together. Hopes are now waiting for Christmas, soon we're gonna see wrapping paper lying all over the place.

Friday, November 8, 2013

Narrative Writing - Squash.

The morning began with the sky being cloudy, grey and cold. It wasn't the best day to play squash even though the sport is played indoors. The speed in the game goes faster and faster as the players challenge each other. Squash is a sport that is very similar to tennis but instead you’re hitting the ball to the wall.

Balls flying, cheering happening around the room, smiling and sulking spread across the friends faces. “Are you ready?” Ivy says as she questions her opponent but their facial expression tells her that they just wanted to start the game. Ivy serves the ball then Chris goes to hit the ball but misses. Instead of the ball hitting his racket it goes flying past. Ivy jumps for joy as she defeats her opponent, but Chris throws his racket onto the ground and walks to the sideline.

Next opponent is John. “Ready to go for a walk of shame Ivy?” John asks with a confident expression. Ivy just keeps quiet and keeps her eyes focused on the ball as she waits for John to serve. John hits the ball into play. Ivy runs to the side and swings her racket with all her might and success goes her way as John fails to hit the ball back to Ivy. John was so frustrated that he caused an argument to break out as he picked himself up and said “NO! You got in my way, that’s why I couldn’t hit it.” Ivy sniggered and said “Well you might’ve just tripped up on your own shoelaces since you don’t know how to tie them!”
“I do know how to tie my shoelaces thank you very much! I would’ve won that match if you hadn’t stuck out your big legs and tripped me” replied John with anger. Moments later Ivy had apologized to John for what she had said before and made peace with him with a hug.  

Last opponent, also the last match of the competition, was between the friends Andy and Ivy. Andy and Ivy had already begun their match. Their friends watched with silence as the ball went back and forth and back and forth. But when it came to an end Queen Ivy had lost to Andy and had to pay for his lunch.

Title Page - Communion of Saints

 

The image above shows the title page that I have created. The first image which is shown above is an image of Saint Anthony of Padua and the second image shows Saint Mother Mary.

Testing week

This week was testing week. I was prepared for most of the test, but I was very nervous.I am hoping I will reach my expected level. My goal was to make sure I am at national standard before the end of the year.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Holidays! - Evaluation Week 1

The first week of the school holidays had ended two days ago and gosh it flew by! Last week wasn't so bad because 3/7 days weren't boring. On one of those three days my cousins, Leotina, Dorian, myself and my uncle Petelo attended a Roots prize giving that was held at Unitec. 

The first event of the day was held at the Unitec Marae. We were first welcomed into the Marae and then was given a quick tour around the Marae that was followed by the meanings of the carvings. Moments later we moved on to another part of Unitec. While we were driving over to the next area we went past the Auckland Blues Team and Tina (Leotina) is a big fan so while we were in the car she stuck her head out, then waved and screamed "Hi!" like a fool but she was really happy because one of team members waved back! After we had arrived we moved on to a short prize giving and lastly ended our day with lunch. 

Later that week I thought we had an awesome time at the movies but not only because we went to the movies but also because it was our Nana Tinas' birthday! First of all myself, Leotina (Tina - younger), Emma and our Nana Tina went to the movies and watched our favorite band, One Direction! We watched the movie One Direction : This is us. In my opinion it was hilariously funny, sad at times  and awesome throughout the whole movie! After all had settled down our Nana was asking for our concert tickets!? I started laughing and saying that she had caught "One Direction Infection!". When we had arrived back home Tina, Emma and myself had bought Nana a present and had a lovely dinner with the family at home. 

On the last day of the week my aunt and I stayed at home and just rested while the house was quiet without the boys around.  

     
      

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Creating images using tan grams

For the past two days we had been given an activity. With this activity we had been given 7 shapes and with the seven shapes our challenge was to try and create the nine different pictures.
While we were doing this activity we also learnt how to make different shapes with only seven smaller shapes. With this challenge I had only accomplished six pictures and here they are...  







 






Monday, September 16, 2013

Greece questions and research

- Did anyone live in the Parthenon ?The Parthenon was a temple for the Athenians.

- When was the Parthenon built ?The Parthenon was completed in 432 BCE.

- When did the museum open ? The museum was established in 1865


Friday, September 13, 2013

Book Review - Stranded

Choose a word to describe your book.




                                    
Title: Stranded    Author: Jan Thorburn
Date started: Monday 2nd September 2013   Date finished: Not yet finished

This book was...
Mysterious - I think it was mysterious because you never know are they gonna survive or die?

What was the book about?
This book is about two young boys named Toby and Sam. In my opinion I don’t think that this two boys aren't the best combination because, Toby is from England (city boy) and Sam is the opposite. Toby and Sam set off on a fishing trip and have been hit by a huge wave, and have just drifted away to a deserted island. While they are there they imagine all the things they could be doing if they were still back at home. Will they get back home? Will they survive? Will they die?

What did you like about the book?
The mystery, will they survive?

What was your favourite part of the book?
Favourite part was when they woke up at the island

How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.
(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)

I give this book four stars.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Cross Country



Children flooding into the tennis court, some were very eager to get started but others just didn’t want to be at school. Today our school, St Pius X, had CROSS COUNTRY! Cross Country was for everyone, as in everyone has to participate in the race but if you had a good enough excuse then it’s your lucky day! We had some collaborators from St. Mary’s College coming to help with the races (direct us to where we had to go). Moments later they began the races... First race was the students aged 12. Majority of my friends were in that load of racers. After the 12 year olds took off they continued on by age going down, 11, 10, 9 etc. Smiling big and getting ready to be released... “Get your mark, Get set... “ *BANG*


Jogging down the hill with two of my friends Zheiyna and Latanoa, starting to go a bit faster. Later we had gotten in the front of our heap we weren’t exactly in the front but we were in 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Three quarters of the first lap and exhausted Zheiyna had gotten so exhausted she sat down for about 20 seconds to catch her breath back. Starting our second round and I was huffing and puffing so much that I had gotten dehydrated. Completed the hill and passing some of the St. Mary girls with one of my other friends, Maxine. Maxine and I had slowed down and walked for a quarter of the race.


Jogging up the hill with Maxine, smiling big as we take our last few steps... ACCOMPLISHED! FINALLY we had accomplished the course for St Pius X Catholic Schools’ Cross Country. Our accomplishment had led us to dehydration, sweating, puffing and huffing but it had also led Maxine into 2nd place for her age group and for myself 3rd place. For my other friends Genevieve had come 3rd after Maxine, Catherine had come first in front of Maxine, Zheiyna had come 5th not far behind myself, and Julia had come 4th after Genevieve. Minutes later the rest of our syndicate had completed the course and now it was time for us to kick back, relax and watch the juniors race.


Again we had heard the words “GET YOUR MARK GET SET... GO!” *BANG* the juniors had sped off to begin their course.Moments after the 5 year olds had left they began starting the 6 year olds then 7 year olds etc. After we had finished all the races we all got straight back to class, tidied up and gotten ready for road patrols.     
        

Friday, August 2, 2013

Evaluation - Term 3 - Week 1

This week at St Pius I think I have had a pretty good week. Because this week I had learnt how to greet in greek, how hard it is to learn a new language and that if you work hard you can achieve many things in life. Although that’s not the only reason why it was a pretty good week. Happiness was spread across school, How do I know?, because all of the students were smiling plus the teachers (very rare). The downside of this week which was the sad part was that we were losing one of our most awesomeness teachers, Ms. Leaupepe.    

Book Review - The Unknown Zone

Choose a word to describe your book.


                                    
Title: The Unknown Zone.  Author: Phil Smith.
Date started: Monday 29th July 2013.   Date finished: Not yet finished.


This book was... Entertaining.


What was the book about?
This book is about a young girl named Hemi Ratana. Hemi Ratana is a fifteen year old girl who was traumatised by a humiliating incident. Climbing a giant Kauri on the Coromandel Peninsula in a do or die test of courage. In the back bending branches of the Kauri, Hemi finds a human skeleton. Around its neck is a key chain, what may the key be for? 160 years earlier, on the West Coast of the South Island was a group of Australian sealers. They are  taken captive by Ngai Tahu, marauders. In a desperate offer for survival one of the captives join up with another Maori group and they all travel to the Eastern Coromandel.  


What did you like about the book?
That no matter what this family did to this girl she never let that over take her.


What was your favourite part of the book?
The little girl falls into the river bank and nearly dies but then she gets saved.


How many stars would you give this book? Colour the stars.
(5 – Excellent, 1 – Poor)
I would say this book is a five star book.


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Reading Activity - Level 3

On Frog Pond
This task is about adding words to a  text so it makes sense -  This will also show comprehension and understanding of text.

Read the text and put in the correct word.
It's early morning on frog pond. As the sun rises, light sparkles on the water (1).    All sorts of  pond animals are waking up. A (2) busy day is beginning.
    At the edge of  the (3) pond, a little green frog sits on a lilypad (4) in the water. He
is hidden here among  the (5) floating plants. He keeps very still and very quiet (6).
His big, bulging eyes are watching. He's watching the (7) dragonflies. He's watching for
slugs and worms. He's waiting (8) for flies. This little frog is hungry for food.(9).
    Someone else is hungry too. A dragonfly hums high (10) above the water. She is a fierce
hunter, looking (11) for insects. She hovers near a clump of  frogs (12). She can fly in
any direction, even backwards and (13) sideways. Like the frog, she has very
big eyes(14). Suddenly she spots a fly crawling up a tree (15). She swoops down
like an arrow and grabs the (16) fly with her powerful front legs. Gripping it
as(17), she munches away at it with her sharp body (18) parts.
    The little frog has seen all this happening (19). He turns very slightly. He's ready to pounce,
but (20) he keeps very still. He hopes that the fly (21) will take off towards him
when she's finished eating(22). He hopes she won't notice him sitting

still  in (23) green among the pondweed. Soon she flies away(24).


My Answers:

1
Water  ✓
15
Tree  ✓
2
A   ✓
16
The  ✓
3
The ✓
17
Quickly  ✓
4
Lilypad   ✓
18
Mouth  ✓
5
The  ✓
19
Happening    
6
Quiet   ✓
20
But  ✓
7
The ✓
21
Dragonfly ✓
8
Waiting   ✓
22
Eating  ✓
9
Food  ✓
23
In  x
10
High  x
24
Away  ✓
11
Looking    ✓


12
Frogs  x


13
And  ✓


14
Eyes ✓



Reading Activity - Level 4



The following piece of writing has words missing.
Read the whole piece of writing first to get an idea of what it is about.
Fill in the gaps so that the piece of writing makes sense.
Write only ONE word in each space.
You can cross out and change answers as you go along.


The largest of all flying creatures is the albatross, which can have a wingspan of 3.5 metres.
The bill of this huge seagull is long and powerful.
The albatrosses home (1) is the southern oceans of the world (2) where it
may sometimes travel great distances (3). One albatross, found near the Chilean
area (4), had a special identification tag fastened from (5) its neck which
had been put down (6) in New Zealand only 12 days earlier. At (7) that
brief time the bird had  gone (8) 4800 kilometres, an average of 400 kilometres (9)
daily – an amazing feat of endurance.
They (10) are capable of flying at speeds higher (11) than 90 km/h. Their
outstanding ability to soar (12) and glide far better than any
____________ (13) bird has led to them being ____________ (14)
'the prince of soaring birds'.
They feed (15) mainly on squid, fish, shrimp, and
sea (16) creatures that are found near the bottom (17)
of the sea. They also swoop down (18) on scraps thrown overboard from ships.
Also (19) they will follow a ship for many (20) days.
Albatrosses will alight on the top (21) surface, but only when it is  (22).
They visit land in the breeding only (23) for a brief time. Adult birds go (24)
out at sea for two or longer than (25) three years.
Image source: T.Mattern, Department of Zoology, University of Otago




My Answers:


1
Home ✔
15
Feed ✔
2
World ✔
16
Small ✔
3
Distances ✔
17
Surface ✔
4
Area
18
Down ✔
5
Near ✔
19
Sometimes ✔
6
Down
20
Many ✔
7
In ✔
21
Ocean ✔
8
Travelled ✔
22
?
9
Kilometres ✔
23
Only
10
They ✔
24
Stay ✔
11
Greater ✔
25
Even


12
Soar


13
?


14
?