Summer Leaning Journey ( practise )

Hey Blog Buddies, today I am going to be Practising for my Summer Leaning Journey using the 2016 - 2017 Archive. We had a lady called Megan come in and tell us all about the Summer Learning Journey.
Activity One - You have to pick a country and tell them why you picked that country,

• The reasons I picked South Africa was Because South Africa Is a lot Bigger than New Zealand and I wanted to see what the population was. 

• Another reason I wanted to Pick South Africa was because I wanted to know there national Flower Which Turns out to be The Protea Flower 

• And the last reason I picked South Africa was Because I wanted to learn about there languages, They have 11. ( and South African English ) 

This was the second activity - Now I have to tell you some facts about the country,

The country I picked was South Africa, Here are some Facts :

• The population of South Africa is 55 Million however South Africa is 5 times bigger then New Zealand. 
• There National Flower Is the Protea Flower. Which looks like this 

• The currency in South Africa is Rand 
• The national sports Are Soccer, Rugby And cricket 
• There are 2.2 Million foreigner's in South Africa.

I hope you liked My Practise Blog post for the Summer learning Journey, Remember to keep on checking my blog over the summer holidays for new posts.

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Blog you later, Bye 

Adventurous Athletics Day !

Hey blog buddies, A few weeks ago our school held our annual athletics day. We were separated into our age groups. We started at 9:15 AM. Our first event was Shotput. Have you done athletics before ? My favourite event was High Jump because I came 4th place jumping 1 meter and 3 centimetres. Here are some photos of the day !

What photo was your favourite ? At the end of every Athletics day we do a House Relay, I was in Tui. I think our team came second! We had a sheet of paper that tracked our house points, We got house points for moving at rotations and for individual people. The points are added up and the year group with the most points get's an Ice block. My least favourite part of the day was probably the  sprints.
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Blog you later, Bye.

Ako Hiko Film Festival (Term 3)

Welcome back blog buddies, in Term 3 Te Waka Ako was part of the Ako Hiko Film Festival. The Ako Hiko Film Festival is when you have to create a movie that is 3 minutes long. During that process we needed to learn about the different shots and camera angles, like An up shot or wide shot. We also had to plan, so we used a storyboard and planned each shot/scene. We started off small by doing a knock, Knock joke.

We also had to make another one about Change, when we had finished the teachers picked the best one from each class then they entered the video. I did mine with Shabeera, Flynn and Sam. Here it is (it was not finished),

 

I think our group did alright with the movie, but I think we could have worked on cooperation. We tried to use as many shots as possible. We could have done a little bit more planning. Have you entered into the Ako Hiko Film Festival ? If you have please let me know in the comments ! Please feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment. Blog you later !

- Abby 😀💗💜

Moment In Time Writing !

Welcome Back Blog Buddies, In week one we did a 'Moment In Time' writing. We had five photos to chose from and I picked two and I made a story with both the photos. I chose the  'Roller Coaster' and the 'haunted house' photos. Here is the writing and the photos.

As the water whips my face I see another mountain we have to climb in our old rickety cart. "This water park has been around  for so long I am surprised that we haven’t been killed by ghosts of something," says Zell“Yeah I was thinking the same,” follows Jane, "maybe there's like a haunted house around here that we could go to after we get off this old piece of wood..."

As the four children slowly approach the haunted house they see two eyes peer out the entrance, it happens again but this time it speaks.       

"What are you doing here", the children are flabbergasted to find out that it could speak.  " We are here to save the lost spirit" Announces Zell. "No We Aren't" declares Lilly. " anyway, we want to explore this place" exclaims Joan !

Then the peer of eyes said Creepily " come on in children, you will be just fine " To Be Continued.......

So did you like my description?
If you did, please feel free to comment down below and tell me what I could improve in next time. My favourite part of the writing was being able to come up with a story based of the photos we had! Have you done 'Moment In Time' writing before? If you have what was your favourite part. I like Narrative writing because there are no limits as to what you do, where as in moment in time you're stuck in a certain time.

Please Feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment. Have a Great long weekend. Blog you later, Bye!

This Is Me Performance By Waikowhai Intermediate !!!!

Hey blog buddies, this week we went down to Waikowhai Intermediate to watch their dress rehearsal of  ' This Is Me ' We went down to the intermediate on a bus which the school provided. ( we were very lucky as it rained )  As we are doing our show on the same stage it made me a little bit nervous.  We saw some of our good friends from last year like, Hame, Izzy, Joyce and Dorothy.

We made De Bono thinking hats to think more deeply about the show. Here it is - 

My favourite part of the show was all of the dances!
I liked it when we saw our friends come on stage. They did really good remembering their lines too. They had a Kapa Haka, hip hop Group, band, contemporary dance group and an Island mix. The show was about diversity, differences and personalities, And how it is Ok And Good to be different. Here is the Intermediate School link - Link. Feel free to leave a Positive, Thoughtful and helpful comment.
Blog you later !
- Abby

Super Saturday Netball

Hey Blog Buddies, On Saturday we had netball PRIZE GIVING. We entered two teams, an A team and a B team. The A team was called  the ' Waikowhai Thunder '.

On the 15th of September we went to Waikowhai Intermediate to find our placing and to go to the Prize Giving. We ended up placing second behind New Windsor School.  Here are some cool pics -

What was your favourite photo ? Mine was our group photos. By the way if you want to go and look at any of the netball players' blogs they will be at the end. I think our hardest game was Dominion Road or New Windsor School. I would like to thank all the parents, umpires and coaches for making this netball season possible.

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Blog you later, Bye. 

Here are the blogs -

Shiya.V

Skye.P

Lavinia.C

Jaeda.A

Brooklyn.L

Tipiloma.A
Amaya.P

Fun On Interland

Hi blog buddies a few weeks ago we discovered what Interland was, we had to make a presentation of our choice on what Interland is. I decided to make a slide for each activity. I have showed how to play two of the games. Have you played Interland? If you have did you get an award ? 

Here It is :

What was your favourite part of the slideshow ? 
My Favourite part of Interland was figuring out new ways to solve the problems, and try help people. My favourite part of the slideshow is the Characters because they all have different personality's. My least favourite part in Interland Is Tower Of Treasure, I don't like it because trying not to hit things is hard.
So now I have said some good thing about Interland will you like to play it ?
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Blog you later, Bye.
-Abby