Queen’s Birthday

Queen’s Birthday

The Queen of England was born in 1926 on the 21st of April at 2.40 am and she turned 90 years old. She celebrates two  birthdays each year one on her birthday the 21st of April. She celebrates her birthday because she is special person and the Queen. The Queen’s birthday is celebrated on the 6th of June this year in New Zealand. We celebrate the Queen’s Birthday in New Zealand because she is Queen of the of 12 countries and the United Kingdom. For the long weekend I am going to go shopping for Summer’s Birthday present.

Sports Report

Last weekend I played soccer and versed the Tairua Marlins at Ngatea. We lost sadly but it was a fun game. After the game I got a blister but it has gone now. The position that I played as is attack and midfield. I think midfield was the hardest because we have to go forward and backward. But attack was hard too because the Tairua Marlins stole the ball off of us. Next weekend we are versing Mercury Bay, but they are coming to Ngatea.

iDrive

iDrive Gardening

Plus	Minus	Interesting
We got to get the pot plants ready for when we are going to plant somethings. We got to see how the garden was doing. That we worked with different people I don't work with that offen.	That it started to rain and we had to go back. That we had a small group to weed two gardens. Sometimes people were not listening to what other people have to say.	When we went back we started planning what to plant. That we had to see what plants we could plant in winter. Most of the time all of us were getting along with each other.

Celebrate your learning

For book club I did a role and the role was Illustrator. It is my favourite role because it is the best one I have ever done. The book that I did this picture on is how I alienated my grandma so far it has been a funny book. This picture is the one I did:

My holiday recount

In the holidays I went to see the Hunt for the Wilderpeople in Hamilton. Before we went to the movie we went shopping. We went to the Warehouse to get me a jumper because I had none. The jumper that I got has a leopard pattern on it. The background is white and the pattern is a golden colour. After that we went to see the movie and got some lollies before we went in to the movies. It was a good movie to go and see in hamilton.

In the holidays we went to Rotorua to see some New Zealand falcons. Before we went to see them we had a little look around Rotorua. First we went to the water side and the playground. At the water side we saw a jet boat, air force plane and a cruise ship that goes around the lake. After that we went to get something to eat. I went to burger king and got a burger, ice-cream sundae and a frozen LP. After that we went to see the falcons that were doing a show. I got to hold one that's name is Ozzy. Then we left but when we got to Matamata we had something to eat at Mcdonalds.

My Flag Debate

Which flag design did you support and Why?	I like the new flag because it looks different to all of the other flags in the world. It would be good to have a change.
What are your opinions on the flag debate?	I don’t like that there was no change to the flag. It was just a waste of money and they could have used it for other things. I think we should have changed it because it looks like the Australian flag.
How did you feel when the resolve was announced?	Sad because they used a lot of money on the flag debate and the flag didn’t change. I feel happy as well because our parents don't have to vote any more.

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.

Maths refection 2015

For maths this year I am in the FOZZIES and my teacher was Mrs Taaffe. Every Tuesday and Friday we have meetings and we have IXL activities to do with the work we are doing. Every Tuesday we get one or two AWS pages and mark one or two. This week we did a tessellation worksheet and we had to fill the hole square box with all of the five shapes that is on the sheet. Every week we have to do MDR. MDR is a worksheet with 20 questions but on Friday we have 25 questions. I have enjoyed doing IXL this year because it is new to me and sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is hard. I have improved heaps in maths especially in telling which triangles are which. At first triangles were hard to tell which one is which but now the challenging thing is the decimal numbers. My goals are to get all of y questions right in my post test. Here is a photo of a IXL activity.

iDrive

For iDrive I finished my face today. All I had to do was do the outline and we had to go round it twice. Then when I had finished my outlines I put glitter on it. The colours of glitter I put on was purple, sliver and red. I used purple and sliver of the hair and I used red for the lips. Summer and Olivia finished to. When we did the outline it looked way better than before because it made it stand out more than before. We had to be resilience because sometime we made a mistake with the glue or pen but we carried on. The best part I enjoyed was putting the glitter on because we could put the colours together. Here is a photo of Summer and my art.

High jump

A few weeks ago we started to practice high jump for athletics on Monday. I need to improve my scissor jump not really the running. I made it over for my first time this year. Here is a video of my first time doing it.    

iDrive PMI

Positives                            Minus                                  Interesting

What I found positive is that we can choose what to do and who to work with. I liked doing the sand pit the most because we made big volcanoes and we put baking soda and vinegar in and then we put them together in a cup and made the volcanoes explode. Another positive is that there are not 1 2 or 3 things to pick out of. You can go to a house on iDrive Street more than once.

There are not very many minuses  but I don’t like it when people are doing it their way and not in a group and when they are ignoring you. Sometimes you finish early and you don’t know what to do. Sometimes people just take all of the stuff and don’t share. There could be more stuff to do because some people have done everything.

What I found interesting with iDrive is that we can choose what we want to do and who to work with. In iDrive we use lots of the Learning Powers. The one that I used the most is Resilience and Being Me. Each Thursday that we do iDrive you learn something new that you didn't know. We had to work together as a team to make one big thing.

Labour day

In New Zealand, Labour Day is a public holiday held on the fourth Monday in October. Labour day is an acknowledgement of the eight hour working day. Samuel Parnell refused to work more than eight hours a day because some people worked more than 8 hours each day. On Labour Day each person gets a day off school and work. Happy Labour day.

iDrive reflection

This week for iDrive I did art. For art we did our paintings from last term and I have finished painting it now but I still need to go over it with black pen. The hardest part was making sure all of the edges were tidy and the blending was quite hard too and one of the easy parts was painting the background. The learning power I used was Resilience because you could not get the right colour all of the time and sometimes you mess up. Sometimes we had to problem solve because sometimes you paint in the wrong place like over your lines. The best part I liked so far was painting because we get to make new colours that you did not know how to make. Here is a photo of my art.

Learning In The Making Conference

Last Friday it was the Learning In The Making Conference. The first thing I did was claymation it was fun we had to take photos of us moving the thing that we made Stella, Freya and I made three polar bears two little ones and a mother and Icebergs and they float away on them and them came back together and it looked cool when we saw it together. Then next thing I did was hot dog spaghetti we had to put spaghetti into hot dogs and then we had to cook them when they were cooking we did some colouring in. Then we ate them. The next thing I did was hand knitting. For knitting I made a flower badge. The flower was white and there were spots on it and we had to do it by our self but if we got stuck we could get some help and I got stuck so I needed help. The the last one was science. For science we had to try and lift a paper clip with a battery, copper wire and nail and we did it. Then when we did it we lifted lots of other things. Here are some photos of what they would look like.

Knuckle bones

This week for iDrive Elizabeth, Kate, Brooke and I played knuckle bones. This is how you play knuckle bones in the  1, 2 , 3, and 4 zies. You through it in the air and try and catch as many as you can. Then you keep on throwing it into the air and picking it up off the ground. I wasn't really good at it and it was my second time playing it. Elizabeth made it up to scatter 3 but I only made it up to 1 zies. Brooke and Kate did random levels. The levels go like this 1 zies, 2 zies, 3 zies, 4 zies and then scatter 1, scatter 2, scatter 3 and scatter 4. But Elizabeth only got up to scatters that why I went up to scatters. The learning power that we used is resilience because we keeped on dropping them on the ground.

The life of Princess Diana

Diana, Princess Of Wales, was the first wife of Prince Charles. She was born on 1st July, 1961, and died in a terrible car accident in Paris, on the 31st August 1997.

Diana was born into a family of British nobility with royal ancestry as the Honourable Diana Spencer. She was the fourth child and third daughter of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer and the Honourable Frances Shand Kydd.

Diana’s wedding was held on the 29th of July 1981 and she married Prince Charles. Diana had two children their names are William and Harry. Princess Diana helped ill people that had cancer and had probable been in a crash. She also gave charity to people who need it.

iDrive Refection

This last week for iDrive Elizabeth and I did carpentry. The thing that we made was our names with nails, but we did not know what to do before. The first thing we had to do is to get the right size piece of wood. Elizabeth needed a big piece of wood because her name is longer and I had a smaller piece of wood because my name is shorter. Then we had to nail in the nails in the shape of our name. It was a bit hard because we need to get the nails the right size. Then we painted it I painted mine pink and blue and so did Elizabeth. Now I have to put the wool on it and here is a photo of where I am up to.

iDrive Refection

This week for iDrive I did playdough with me and my friends. I made a bunny, a baby bunny and two carrots one for the baby and one for the big bunny. One of my friends made a bunny and turtle. Another of my friends made a penguin and another one of my friends made a tiger and we called the place The Magical Zoo. We called it The Magical  Zoo because the animals were different colours they were blue, green, yellow and white. All of the animals were cute and colourful. Here are some photos of them.