Easter

Easter is a Christian tradition celebrating the resurrection of Christ and is considered the most important celebration in the Christian calendar, but for a country like New Zealand that over the past few years Easter has become less about faith and more about chocolate eggs and bunny rabbits! It is simply a lovely long weekend with plenty of sweet treats!  Good Friday is the Friday before Easter and this year Easter is on March the 25th. On Good Friday It is a public holiday so there is no school and work.

Easter is when you get some chocolate from the Easter bunny and some people have treasure hunts. The custom of giving eggs at Easter celebrates new life. Christians remember that Jesus, after dying on the cross and the cross is on the hot cross bun. For Christians the egg is a symbol of Jesus. For Easter we have a Easter egg hunt and we get lots of yummy eggs when we compete it. The Easter bunny does vist our house and gives us very yummy eggs for breakfast.

Alexa's all about me

Dear Mrs Lindsay

I am ten years old and I have a younger sister and a older brother named Tayla and Matthew. My Mum's birthday is four days before my sister. Was born on the 17th of August 2005 at Hamilton hospital. My favourite things to do is play the saxophone, read books and take care of animals. In my spare time I like to read. My favourite animals are owls, bunnies and turtles.

My three favourite subjects at school are art, writing and music. They are my favourite

because you get to be creative in all of them while having lots of fun. This is the only school I have been to I started when I was five and my first friend was Holly and now my friends are Ella, Elizabeth and Stella and some other people.

My favorite sports are soccer, athletics and swimming. In summer I do swimming club I started in the beginners group and now I am in the confident group. In my group I have some friends Ella and Summer. In swimming club we learn how to do the storks properly so we don't get disqualified. Sometimes we have points night at point nights we race our times and if we beat our time we get ribbons.

When it is winter I like to do calf club at the Pirie’s farm. I have had three calves and they are all jersey calves. My first calves name is Rosie, my second calves name is Nixie and my third calves name is Smudge. Smudge was my best calf because she got me lots of ribbons. At home I have a lot of ribbons from my calves. My goal for calf club is to get a champion ribbon.

                                                              

My PMI for the week

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This week I did jazz band on Thursday and I learned to play some new songs and some more notes like E and D. On Tuesday it was Thames Valley swimming sports and I was in three races. I came 9th, 12th and 13th in all of them. On Thursday we went for a swim and the pool toy was up and I got to go on it one time.	This week I did not really have any minus but this week I had Thames Valley and I had less time to get all of my work done.	This week we did some rhythm thing like make beats and we had to make a beat to a song and make our own beats. What I found interesting is that you can make rhythms to music. I found jazz band interesting because there are lots of different types of notes.