German- Deutsch

Guten Tag!

In class we've been learing german every Thursday with Ms Rodgers. I've learnt heaps and I really enjoy it. We have learnt greetings, farewells, how to say you name and ask peoples names, number to 100, how to say how old you are and how to ask, how to ask how you are and replies and lots more. I might continue German in college because I really enojoy it and its fun. German could also be useful if someone goes travelling when they are older and they either visit germany or see some german family friends etc.

persevering

So on Saturday I had a swim meet which I was super nervous about because I entered myself into 800metres Freestyle. And I had never swam that long in a race before. It also didn't help that at tumbling 3 hours before I was practising my round off back-handspring backtuck and obviously at least on of them have to fail and I land on my middle finger which comes out as a purple bruise. So anyway that meet was held at the worst ever pool to swim backstroke in but thank goodness there was no backstroke; Coastlands Aqautic Centre (Kapiti). Previously I've done a few races there so I was quite familiar with the pool. You could choose to swim 400metres Freestyle, 1500 metres freestyle and 800.

It was time to race, the butterflies in my stomach were flipping and I didn't feel good. My googles also felt too tight on my head so I took them off and loosened them. They still didn't feel right but the whistle to get on the blocks had blown so I had to forget about it. The race had started. Oh no. My googles. They slipped a little bit off my head. "Thank god they actually stayed on!" I thought, but I had to do something about it. So as I pulled my hand out of the water to go into another stroke I grabbed my googles and pulled them down. Slowly it took a few more strokes for them to be back in place. Everything was going smoothly now and I was super happy I fixed my problem

Just as I thought nothing could get better I slipped on the opposite wall (it was really, really slippery!!!) and again and again! Oh no. But I got over it and finished the race with actually pretty good times which I was super surprised about.

I showed perseverance when I pulled my googles back into place and had to get my head back into the game and when I slipped I thought about it and how I could prevent it next time. Perseverance is probably easiest for me and the most challenging is maybe creativity because you have to think of a new and different way of dong something

awesomesauce books♥

Over the past few weeks I've read lots of books that I've really enjoyed. I found that I really like David Walliams, so I have read most of his books. The one that I most vividly remember and liked the most was the boy in the dress.

Its about a boy who wouldn't mind being a girl for a day or being put into a glamorous dress and being made up. Dennis (the main character) becomes good friends with a girl Lisa (who he has had a crush on for quite a while even though she is 2 years older than him) who invites him over to her house and thinks it would be "funny" to dress him up in a sparkly, sequined dress she recently made. She then coats his face with make up and puts him in high heels which makes him look very much like a girl. Lisa encourages him to go with her to the local shop and fools the shop owner - a good friend of Dennis's that "Denise" is a french exchange student who speaks very little English. After the shop owner is fooled Lisa wants Dennis to come to school as "Denise", which he does. But he tried to kick a football and reveals that he is a girl, the headmaster finds out and Dennis gets expelled.

If you want to find out what happens next, read the book! By tomorrow lunch time there will be a David Walliams display made by Grace, Olivia, Ethan and I and you can get it out and see for yourself.

What I liked aout this book is that sometimes you don't need to be afraid to express how you feel and that there is a happy ending (you will have to read it). I  would recommend it to ages 10+

galapagos/ evolution topic

this term we watched a lot of videos about the Galapagos Islands and how animals that are living there evolve to survive in certain climates. we also wrote 2 essays (the 2nd one is due on Wednesday) and yeah learnt a lot.


I liked the videos we watched. They really helped me understand the meaning of adaptation and the creation of the Islands. I also liked doing work on human evolution and how we how evolved over millions of years till what we are today. My favourite animal on the Galapagos was probably the tortoise. Its really interesting how it got to the Island. Although there are very few left running wild on the Island they are still the main animal. I loved learning the stories of Galapagos and Evolution but next term I would like to learn about different countries.

responsibilities etc

This year I've been elected a Librarian and a House Captain.
I'm still a road patroller (spelling?) but I haven't been put on the roster for a long time.
In the role of a librarian I've helped people find where to get a book and how to get a book out. I've also helped by putting book reviews for people looking for good books to read.
I enjoy doing all the certificates with help us learn more about being a librarian and where books are found throughout the library, but sometimes the questions we have to answer are quite challenging at the same time.

As a House Captian, I organise special days to get together as a house and have a lot of fun. I also get to say the house points Ngatoto earned over the week in assembly.
I really enjoy making everything we do as a house lots of fun and making the little kids happy. I've learnt that collecting house points isn't as glamorous as I thought....

As a Road Patroller, we would go out every morning and afternoon when children and coming/leaving school and have signs that we open and close and stop traffic from running over small children :)
I enojoyed going down early/before the bell rings to get the signs out before the rush of children also getting a yummy hot chocolate from Coralie on a rainy day. what I found challenging is getting up early if your on in the morning.

ASB money management thing

today a man from the ASB getwise thingy came to school (he's been here for the last few days teaching the other classes) and talked to us about how to earn money and how to save money and what not
He talked to us about how to earn money first he gave us some examples like doing some chores around the house or doing neighbourhood jobs or you could also Trade and Sell(e.g.) Lemonade stands, Bake sales, Garage sales.
Then he said stuff about credit cards and eftpos cards and how they work, pins and how to keep your money safe.
I forgot about when he gave us about 10 minutes to think of a new way we could make money with arts and crafts. Olivia, Eva, Mercedes and I said we could recycle pump drink bottles and re-design them with duck tape and sparkles and cool stuff like that. Our name was Deisgn a' bottles
Lastly he told us about a CAT goal! And he gave us something to write in our books about how to save up our money and how long it will take to save the money so we can buy the thing.

1/5/15 mission fair

☼LAST~MISSION~FAIR~EVER☼

Mission fair is always so much fun! I love being with my friends and food.

I was in a group with Eva, Catherine, Olivia, Siena, Kelsey, Tyler, Ethan, Amelia, Charlotte, Grace and I. We had a Carnival theme and our name was the carnival express. We all worked together and everyone was doing something/ no one was left out. Also everyone got time to go on a break and look at other stalls as well as handling our own.

Next time we need to bring lots more bags of fruit burst... we ran out pretty quickly so there weren't any prizes for the throw the ball into the cup game thingy.

ANZAC Day/ celebrations

For the past week our main topic has been the ANZAC's and WW1.
I learnt that the war started in 1914 and finished 1918. I liked watching the videos, seeing how the soldiers lived for 4 years in trenches with rats and diseases. I also liked seeing the medals and learning what they were for and who received them.

On ANZAC day- 25th of April. I went to a netball game (Pulse vs Swifts- NZ vs Australia) at the start of the game everyone stood up and were completely silent whilst a guy played the special trumpet sounding and a women said a speech about the war.I also went to the light show at the new national war museum it was really beautiful. It showed clips from the war and an on going slideshow which showed the medals and everything. It lasted about 15 minutes but it was really amazing.

I think its really important we are commemorating the world wars and remembering our soldiers who went and fought. Is good that we know that it wasn't a nice place to be in Gallipoli and lots of men died.

camp ♠

CAMP

WAS AMAZING!!! It was so much better than I imagined ! It was just so perfect! I couldnt ask for anythng better I will never forget it!

things i found most difficult: hm I wasn't very good at keeping my area/ suitcase very organised and i found the canoeing to the campsite hard and tieing up my boots

what was easy: flying fox, bridge jumping 

was it what I expected?: NO! i thought the lodge turned out much nicer than i thought.  
what was my proudest moment...: completing the high ropes with Eva!
Describe my favorite moment...: probably on the flying fox, we had got strapped into the harness, then we had to walk a few steps until we flew at 50km/ph (probably not idk) it was so high at the view was absolutely beautiful!!!! so many green trees and looking under my feet was a gushing fresh river and to my left were bare brown mountains. It was so perfect.

☼ EGGS AND NUTS ☼ plus old blog posts

I cant remember what day it was last week but Lottie told us thatches like really really badly allergic to nuts and eggs....
I guess that's kinda lucky because I don't really like some nuts or eggs and whenever mum gives them to me I never eat them. But then its sad BECAUSE YOU CANT EAT CAKE!!! LIKE WHAT
so she told us if she ever eats a nut/ egg she will blow up (waait no) I think her tongue swells up and she has to have all this special medicine!
Also today she demonstrated (on a orange!) how to use the epipen which is a thing that Lottie would stab into her thigh if her allergy got really bad!
so yeah that's what I learnt this week ☺☻
something else that I wanted to talk about that REALLY annoys me.
looking at your old blog posts in year 7
oh
my
gosh
I like deleted everything when I got back to school this year!
coz it was just embarrassing to know I wrote that and thought it was cool.... ugh
anyways that's what I think ...
comment if u like totally I agree with me ♪

something I'm interested in...

i actually have no idea…..
none…..
my brain is blank….

my brother told me that I'm into gymnastics and swimming
yeah i guess i am but i really don't want to talk about that…. hmmmm
OOOOOOAAAAAAA I JUST HAD A BRAIN WAVE

I am very very very very in love with TNS!! (the next step)
The Next Step in a TV show on disney channel and it is usually on every friday at 5-5:30 (unless its changed somehow)
whenever i can't watch it like i have a netball game to go to i record it to watch it late but IT ALWAYS FAILS!!!!
UH
Its a show about these dancers and (its really hard to explain) they have all these dramas between friends and relationships and blah its very intense as you can tell.
the thing I like about it is that it always ends at the most interesting part and it makes you want to keep watching!
i advise you all to watch it the week ;)

New Yearrrrrr

I don't really know if this is gonna be seen by everyone or anything… i don't think Room 8 is a part of the intermediate blog yet

oh whale

So school started back about two and a half weeks ago because the first week was only 3 days caused by a teachers only day on Monday and waiting day on Friday.

But lucky for the year 7's the tasks were super easy and small and we don't really get many on the first few weeks, but I've got them done in a nice time with good presentation! yay

wow okay I'm blabbing on way to much…

I really like the task system. It prepares us intermediatians (whatever we call ourselves) for college next year ! (years 7's=2 years)

I also think its really sad that Room 8 is miles away from any humanity, (hehe don't even know what that means) I'm not saying that Rm8 is baaaaddddd or anything but just ARGH THERES SO MANY YR 7'SSSSSSS BLEH

 okay that was way too long bye

Bye

Christmas Blah

4 Christmas this year my family and I are going up to our cousins house in Auckland. I'm kinda excited to go because they have a new house and it looks really cool!
every year we either go to our grandparents house or our cousins house. We hardly ever have it at our own house.
Our family Tradition is we put up the Christmas tree.... there's kinda no point in putting it up because we won't be here but anyway. It looks cool
Ill miss all the year 8's especially Nayeli and Ashling and
omg alisters gone. he wont be at camp bleh it will be very quite without him

                            I think that's all

Whet, wow its the end of 2014!!!!

It really doesn't feel like Christmas!
It doesn't feel like December!
IT IS SO UNREAL THAT ITS 2015 NEXT YEAR!!
so one of our tasks this week is too do a highlights page filled with all of the exciting memories we've had this term/year. Some you may use are:

• Speeches (not my highlight :0 )
• Tech
• PE- Softball & Cricket
• Space Research topics
• Japanese
• Athletics
• Art- Our cool space wall!
• And probs more but I can't even remember heh

I've started my highlights page today but I don't know how its gonna turn out like ekk

I'm sure everyone's will look amaze!

being a Year Eighttttt

next year me and all the other year 7's will be year 8's
I'm kinda and kinda not looking forward to it
i am because we are gonna be the leaders of the school and we have so much more opportunities to take. I'm not looking forward to t because, it just so scary! its gone so fast! like seriously im gonna be a year 8! *shiver*
things im looking forward to is  like i said up there, we will be the oldest in the school and have lots more chances to take. AFTER THAT WE WILL BE GOING TO COLLEGEEEEE
i dont know what might be challenging. maybe camp, tasks. i dont know :P

how terrible i am at speeches

OMG I ACTUALLY JUST DID MY SPEECH AND IM NEVER GONNA DO IT AGAIN
well until next year
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I felt like the whole entire world was staring into my eyes
my whole body was shaking I could hardly hold my cur cards
I kept stuttering
my words were jumbled
I couldn't speak English
my face was burning hot
BUT NOW IM DONE
NO MORE STRESS FOR A WHOLE YEAR
WOOHOOOOOO

I think my favourite speech was far has been bens
he did it on why I will beat Xara at the speech competition
I also like katerinas
she did it on dreams

next year I need to go over and over my speech thousands of times. I also need to get it sorted sooner, I kept on changing the topic. and it was about week 4 or week 5 when I finished writing it !

the great chocolate bake off

the book that I have juuuuuust finished reading was
ya.. The Great Chocolate Bake Off
I cant remember who its by
oh wait its by someone like Stephen pavis or something I don't know




this book Is about a guy Nicholas who comes from a poor family and lives with his dad and little brother, Zac
he was useless at everything until a family of 2 moved into the shabby house next door
a mum called bella and daughter called Ruby
Nicholas thinks ruby is the most annoying person ever yet tries to make her think hes an amazing cook, ruby makes him cook dinner a few times and Nicholas gets the hang of it and
keeps practising
he tries making muffins and ruby told him to try cakes
turns out hes amazing at making cakes and enters the great chocolate bake off.
but is he good enough to beat oliver billigton who wins everything? dun dun dun


I thought it was a good book because it just kept me reading it was so interesting. it was also about chocolate! haha
I didn't really have a favourite character :\


siena is cewl bai

speeeech

I'm doing my speech on sugar :P
er at the moment I'm not going so well
it needs to be done by the end of this week and I've hardly done half
and on sunday a did heaps on mums computer and now its just disappeared! ARGHHH

when i do present my speech to the class..
i need to focus on standing naturally and not looking so awkward
i also need to speck loud clearly and slowly
and eye contact, i need to focus on practically EVERYTHING
yeah just being natural with hand jesters

Im really nervous for week 6!!

SPAAAACE

this term our topic has been space
we have been doing lots of activities and lots of reading about space
so I have been finding out a lot about space recently


one of the things I've found most interesting was...
hmmmmmmmmmmm
probably space travel and the first mission to space
it makes me wonder when they're next going up again and one day will NASA have enough money to take humans further than the moon?
maybe even further than our solar system!?

MICHAEL PHELPS

MICHAEL PHELPS

For one of our tasks this week we had to choose a famous person to research... I choose Michael Phelps;

Michael Fred Phelps is a well known swimmer for his amount of world records broken and new times set. He is also know as the most decorated Olympian of all time from where he won 22 medals at the 2012 Olympics. He is currently 29 years old and was born June 30th. He competed in his first Olympics when he was 15.

Michael has been retired since 2012, but has said that he will possibly come back and compete in the 2016 Olympics. He is a very strong swimmer but his best strokes are Backstroke, Butterfly, Freestyle and individual medley. He's the long course record holder for 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly and 400m individual medley, and he used to be the record holder of 200m Freestyle & 200m IM, until Paul Biedermann and Ryan Lochte beat him.

He was brought up in Baltimore, Maryland, with 2 sisters who are both older than him. His parents divorced in 1994 but his father remarried in 2000.At the age of 15, Michael was the youngest American male swimmer to compete at the Olympic Games in 68 years.

Michael is such an amazing swimmer. I hope one day I could maybe be successful like him.