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Wednesday 21 September 2016

Technology Reflection - Term 3, Week 9

WALT reflect on previous sessions.
As you can see on my image, today was the last session for technology for Term 3, 2016.
I am currently at my last and final station with Karen ferguson. She is a graphic teacher. This term and also next term we are making decorations for special peoples in our lives. But there are not just decorations.....they're flying decorations.
Here is my reflection.....
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Monday 19 September 2016

St Petersburg

WALT research and reflect on different places in the world.
Today for SSR, we were researching about St Petersburg.
Here are a couple of facts about the famous city, also a couple of images of some of the places in St Petersburg.
I hope you enjoy.
If interested in this country, just click on NEW TAB then type in St Petersburg and a bunch of links will come up.
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Many Thanks.

K I W I C A N

Today was our last session of Kiwi Can for the term. We watched Wreck-It-Ralph with Room 10. even though it's a bit young for us, it was ultra squad goals for us. There were moments where we laughed and there were moments where we nearly cried. Even though we've seen the movie more than a 100x , it was an emotional time. Hopefully next time we watch another squad movie. 
I hope Mr.M and Miss Latoia have a good holiday.
All the best for them.
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Many thanks x

Sunday 18 September 2016

~M~A~L~A~Y~S~I~A


WALT research and collaborate on information.
Today for SSR, we were researching about Malaysia.
Here are a couple of facts about the fascinating country.
If interested in the country, just research the word Malaysia and it will come up with a bunch of sites that you can look at.
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Thursday 15 September 2016

...Imaginative Writing...

WALT improve our writing skills by focusing on Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling.
This week we've been writing imaginative stories.
We were giving a range of options of what topics we want to write about.
Here is what I chose.
Here is my story below:

...Imaginative Writing…
! Boss !

Today I was selected to play as principal at tamaki primary school because unfortunately, the real principal was in an accident and cannot make it in for a while. I was so stoked when I heard the news. I was going through my wardrobes and drawers looking for the best outfit to wear. I just couldn’t choose. “Ahhhhhrrr, here we go, the PERFECT outfit”. I chucked on my outfit and started on my make-up. As I was looking in the mirror, making myself look “PERFECT”, I looked into the reflection of it and spotted a beautiful, bright blue dove sitting on the edge of my windowsill. I dropped my contour brush and just smiled. I closed myself and said to myself “It’s going to be okay”. When I was ready, I walked out to my car and remembered that I left my keys on my dressing table so I had to run back in real quick. When I entered my room I walked over to my dressing table and my keys were not there. I was going crazy, I couldn’t find them. I looked under my bed, in my drawers, even in my toilet, they were nowhere to be seen. Finally, I found them.They were in the pockets of the jeans I wore yesterday. I ran out to my car and started it up. It was 8:49am. I was so worried. I didn’t wanna be late on my first day. I rushed so quickly. When I entered the gates I gave it my biggest sigh ever, i “AAAAHUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”. I was so ready. I walked up the door thinking to myself, “I wanna create a fun environment, I wanna create new things & new projects for all students, but mostly I wanna create memories that’ll stay in these school grounds forever”.The paintings were so nice & bright, what a happy,loving school. NEKK MINUTE.

When I entered the room, all I saw was 2 rugby balls flying in the air. There were students running around and throwing stuff at each other. There were banana peels and apple cores on the floor and there was graffiti everywhere. I didn’t really understand how people could work or learn in such a horrible environment. I went straight to the office. “Good Morning, how can I help you?” Says the lady sitting at the desk. “Oh Kia ora,I’m the new acting principal while Rhonda is absent”. I replied. “Oh yes, follow me through here” she said and off we went. I was expecting a trashed, messy office but suddenly, it felt like I was in a room of heaven. There was a glass table with bright sparkles reflecting off. The desk was pure white with no dirty marks or fingerprints. The walls were full of pure beauty and everything was just HOH. I was so speechless. “Thank you for bringing me in, you can leave now”. “Uh yes, but remember, your speech is in 15 minutes”. I was so nervous about performing a speech at assembly. I set myself up for my day and made my way to the hall. I was so scared. I didn’t know what to do…….

When I walked in everybody started clapping and it made me feel a bit more confident. I walked up and I felt my feet shaking. I had the biggest urge to scratch my foot. It’s like the devil was biting on my leg. I wanted to throw my heal at it. My hands started shaking and my face started turning red. “Kia, kia, Kia ora kids, My name’s Miss……...BLAHHHHH ! It was so embarrassing. I vomited on all the kids in the front row. I didn't know what to do.I ran out of the room, got in my car and went straight home. I jumped in my bed and started crying. How did this suddenly perfect day end up to be the worst day ever. I just sighed and fell asleep. I woke up in the morning and called the school. I left an apology but suddenly the lady on the phone says…..”It’s fine dear, every new teacher is nervous at our school, especially with those wild animals looking at them. We understand if you cannot make it in but it would be nice if you did”. It was such a big relief to see such a positive reaction from somebody. I thought to myself for a little while and made my decision…..I put an outfit on and made my way back to the school.

When I entered the school, it was spotless. Everything looked tidy, there were no balls in the air, no food on the ground and all the graffiti was gone. I went into the office and had the biggest welcome from all the staff members. It was such a relief. I got into my office, did all my work, every break time, students would come up to me and welcome me in the kindest way possible and by the time it reached 3 o'clock the same smile was on my face as I entered the doors.

When I got home, I jumped in my bed and thought to myself “Woah, perfect does suck, after all this time, I was trying my best to be perfect where I forgot that whatever you do and wherever you go remember……ALWAYS BE YOURSELF because nobody is perfect!

The End x
By Frances

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Office Area Expectations

WALA the expectations around our school.
As you may know, I have been selected to help with  student council challenge.
HEre is another expectation poster for around our school.
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Toilet Expectation

WALA the expectations around our school.
For the past 3 weeks,I've been selected to help with a student council challenge.
The challenge is to make a short 3 minute film that shows expectations vs reality. In the group I am in, the student council Is Hereani. We're doing great. There had been a lot of great ideas been out into our movie. We also had to make posters for around our school that represent some of the places in our movie. Here is one of our posters. It is some of the expectations in the bathrooms / toilets.
I hope you enjoy our poster we made for the bathrooms.
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Thursday 8 September 2016

Music Reflection - Week 7 , Term 3

Today in music, we watched our 12th lesson with Rad Rhythm. the drum style of the day was Tango. Tango is a type of Music and also a type of Dance originated in the 1880s. We played a couple rounds of "DON'T CLAP THIS ONE BACK", it was a blast. We had a revision on our performance piece and what we've been doing. This is the order we're doing our item in:
1. Lid Spin
2. Lid Slam
3. Play the Beat
4. Gimme Five 
etc
It's going to be fun when we perform at our school market. 
Lastly, we tried to put it all together. 
It was really fun, I really enjoyed it.
Maybe next time we could get to learning more about our performance piece.
Well, I hope you enjoyed reading my reflection,
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Wednesday 7 September 2016

Swimming


WALT practise our swimming skills.

Today in swimming, we practised our Backstroke skills and our freestyle skills. Our instructor was not present so somebody else took us for lessons. I did not catch her name unfortunately. In my group is James, Jason, Hereani, Sifa, Irys, Ana, Vuni and I. Our main focus was backstroke. We used the boards to support us. We also tried to do backstrokes with our hands by our sides and only using the strength of our legs. I kind of struggled at the beginning but I got the hang of it in the middle. I really enjoyed freestyle because it’s one of my swimming strengths. I also enjoyed doing dolphin dives. To be very honest, I didn’t really enjoy doing all the backstroke because the water kept on going up my nose and I could feel people looking at me and it really put me off. Hopefully next time we could have some free time and doing some of our own ways of swimming. For example, I really enjoy doing dolphin dives when going down and then going right to the bottom then swaying side to side with my arms. It helps me breathe under water.

Here are some photos of our previous sessions.




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