Yay reading EL3! Our goal was to compare information within and between texts. We were doing a Matariki text, we had to do a venn diagram, a venn diagram is when there is 2 circles and they cross over, the middle of the cross over is what is the same, and the other circles are for what is different in each text. We had to do ours about a Matariki text one online and one on paper, and I have the photo on paper so I will show you that and I will show you my venn diagram so...
Oranges!
My favourite workshop is Strand. I like strand because we get to do these really cool things; measurement, math, predictions and so much more. But today, it was about measurement and oranges! I will tell you why.
Last week we learnt about a man called Mr. Archimedes and his bath. He would fill the bath to the very top with water then hop in, and it overflowed, he didn't know why? We had a vase in our class that we put water in, we then put in an orange. We figured out why the water came up, because the pressure of the orange pushed the water up! This is what I had to do, (it's a picture by the way)
Our Relievers
Yay relievers today, I love when we have relievers because we normally do art. This time we did do art, Room 1 did Picasso and Room 2 did Sandra Silberzweig art, but I'm in Room 1 so I will tell you about the picasso art.
We grabbed a piece of paper and a vivid we weren't allowed to have another piece of paper or use pencil. We started with the face, the face that I did was a weird face but I was fine with that. After the face we had to draw a line that looked like it was the side of a face. Then we had to choose a nose, lips, ears, eyes also for the eyes they didn't have to be the same eye, that was all for our face. After all of that we had to do the hair mine was good until I wanted to do a beanie and after the actual hat of the beanie I decided I didn't like it. But I had to roll with it and just made it into hair, you can hardly tell. Then we had to colour the face and hair, put the paper on the back of the black paper, then do the background and were done.
Now I will show you a photo of my picasso art...
That was our reliever day!
Beach clean up!!
It's Enviro Action day today! I wonder what we're doing. If you don't know what action day is I will tell you. Enviro Action day is where we do some action for our community, I like it because I do it with the class and my friends, also I just find it fun to do. Now for the story!
Dinnggg the bell went for school, I felt so excited. Koka Pip said we were going to the beach and we were going to pick up rubbish. We had to get into groups of 3, I was with my friend Lila and my other friend Betsy, we had to grab Lila's bucket for the rubbish to go in. We walked down to the beach and off we went.
I found out that it was a competition so I was excited! We walked from our beach that we normally go to, to the Surf Club, we found so much. Then we walked to the path under the bridge near Hamanatua and we found a bit of rubbish, so I was happy because it meant more rubbish in our bucket and Hamanatua was more clean.
We walked back to school and we got a sheet, it was to check off how much rubbish we got. The group that I was in got quite a lot of rubbish. Then we put our rubbish into the right bin and we went to morning-tea. At the end of the day we found out who won, it wasn't our team,😒 but I was fine with that, I'm just happy we found heaps of rubbish!
That was our beach clean up!
Callbacks/day 2 of gym fest
It was callbacks and if you don't know what callbacks it is when you get called back for something. We got a callback for our rhythmical and I got a callback for my beam too!
I had to do my beam first. The man called my name for beam. Everyone went silent, I got on the beam and did my mount and off I went. Then I did my dismount, presented and I was done. I was so proud of myself because I was the only one at the gym club for an apparatus. We had to wait a little bit for our rhythmical but I was fine with that.
The man said WBS rhythmical we got in our posies and off we went. I felt good about the chuck and tuck. All of a sudden I realized it was time for the chuck and tuck. The chucker and me said... " Testing, testing 123 " and we went, it was so high. I felt super duper proud of myself for going out there and doing it.
That was the callback night of gym fest!
GYM FEST!!
I was so nervous for the gym festival. Oh and if you were wondering what the gym fest is it's a cool festival for gymnastics. Boys can do it and girls can do it. Obviously I wanted to do it, gymnastics is my life, and my 3rd home.
I was the only one competing in our entire school, but I was excited. I went in to the trampolining club ( waiting room for gymnasts ). Then I waited for all the other A-graders. Once we got there we practiced some of our moves on the floor and did a bit of box. After about 30 minutes we had to line up in our lines for the school. They told us where we were going first box/vault. But I'm going to tell you my two favorite. Beam and floor.
We walk out into the gym club, we moved onto our apparatus that was beam, one of my best. It was my turn, I presented and I got on the beam and off I went. I got a 9 out of 10 I was so happy. It was time for our next apparatest floor and I was so excited we had to make our own routine with music my song was Bom bom! It was time for me to do my routine, I started with a round-off flick-flack and ended with a pose. I got another 9 out of 10 I was so happy!
I got changed for the rhythmical, I was so nervous my friend and me had to do a chuck & tuck, it's where I have to do a backflip while my friend chucks me in the air. It was our turn for rhythmical I was so nervous. We all got into our posies and off we went. It was time for the chuck & tuck, I just said that I was going to throw it, and after we did it I was so happy but I did land low. We did our ending and I felt so proud of myself.
That was day 1 of gym fest. I'm going to write another blog about the callbacks on day 2!
Kawa of care 😊
We have 30 minutes to complete our poster, but you may be wondering what is our poster about. Well it's about our kawa of care. There is 5 big thinks, but my friend and me did big think 3, that's about how we work on our chromebook. The picture below shows it.
