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.

hooooolidays

in the holidays i did a few things but my favorite thAng i did was

GOING TO ADRENALINE FOREST

WITH EVAAAAA. M

We went with my dad and my brother and my brother brought his friend Aidan

harry almost got rescued on level 2 because his harness got stuck but i really nice girl called Erica undid it for him. but Erica disappeared when we were about to start level 3.

level 1 & 2 were really easy but level 3 was defiantly the hardest

i ALMOST screamed thats how scary it was :(

my favorite obstacle was the flying foxes because you FLYYYY

i cant wait to do it again!!!!!

last prouduction of our lives :'(

the last production eevvvvvvaaaaaa is ooooovvvvvaaaaaaa
I'm really sad cause it was real fun and I'm gonna miss hanging out with the year 8's :((((((
that one night were all the intermediate peeps can bond and laugh
but then it all back to normal
blehh




but ill be comin to all my brother and sisters productions in the future years
XD

PPRRROOODDUUCCUUCCTIIONN

OMG the school production is tomorrow. wow time has flew quickly!
im in 2 dances, if that counts the last scene.
Im in the Chair dance and we're dancing to the song take a chance on me. And im alos in Let it go- the final scene.

my mums gonna take me and my other siblings on wednesday night and my dads gonna take us on thursady night :D

my character in the production is agent 1 and i get 2 lines throughout the whole play...
Im really excited for tomorrow but im scared im gonna freeze and forget my lines... and im also scared im gonna forget my coustume! oh well... ill try my best

Parliament and Elections

this week we've been talking bout elections and parliament, ya. I didn't know that much about that kinda stuff so, ya I've learnt a lot.
I learnt that every 3 years (in New Zealand this day is on a Saturday which is convenient) you go to a pooling booth and cast your vote.
I learnt that you can only vote if you are- 18 years of age. Also all New Zealand citizens and permanent residents.
I learnt that new Zealand is divided into 70 special areas.


I also learnt quite a lot more! :D
but ya

reading challenges

this term we have a new bunch of reading challenges and ive read 5 books this term including in the holidays.
 some of the reading challenges ive done are..

•  family challenge - my mum recomended a book for me
• ... thats all

im reading the divergent series at the moment though.. im on the second book so when im finished the third book thats another reading challenge completed :D 

favourite sports...

I have lots of favourite sports
i cant go with 1 so im doing all of them

SWIMMING
i swim for TAWA swimming club and FYI its WWWAAAAYYYY better than karoi pirates
i wim at least 3 times a week for an hour and a half

NETBALL
i play netball every saturday
im in the A team - the thistles XD
in my team is Aisling, Ashling, Veronica, Xara, Kelsey, Aimee
we have practices every Thursday and Wednesday

TUMBLING/ GYMNASTICS
i do tumbling every Saturday afternoon with Ashling
tumbling is like gymnastics with flips and stuff
i've really improved since i first started!
i really enjoy it

i love all these sports and want to continue them for as long as possible!

production stuff

i only have a small part in the prouduction
i only have to say 2 lines
im agent 1 :D the number 1 agent


Im also in the chair dance and im in the dance elective so I have to help a lot with the other classes dances
im also in the ending scene for the le it go song
i have to sing the chourus
uhhh

im also helping room 4 with their dance- everything is awesome

MY SONG

"Somebody to you" by the Vamps ft. Demi Lavato


 - one of my favourites :D


I couldn't think of a song to do...
But I really like this song because its got a nice sound to it and the lyrics are nice :P






I've had this song stuck in my head for aaagggggggessssss


its a really really awesome song u should listen to it
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egyptian art!!! hieroglyphics

OMG we did art and this is my favourite one so far except the dye went all weird and kinda ruined it

We did this piece quite a while ago but we had to chose a piece to post on our blog.
I just chose a whole lot of random symbols and some I copied off a book.

This picture is of a mummy being prepared for the opening of the mouth ceremony.

hieroglyphics are actually really hard to do...

Egypt stuff XD

EGYPT BLAH

I actually really liked learning about Egypt. At first I thought it would be terrible, but i was surprised at how much I enjoyed it :D

I chose to focus on the Afterlife, and i really liked that topic.
I learnt about what you but in the coffins,
the journey there,
I also learnt about other things by just catching on from others topic,
like, Pyramids, Pharaohs, Mummification, The Sphinx, Gods, Houses+ lots more.

 

Ancient Egypt was said to be founded 3000 years ago! :O Wow that's a long time ago!              

 Did you know that when a new Pharaoh was crowned the Egypt calender was set back to 0 so its impossible to refer to dates!

 

In simpler words

Ancient Egypt was fun!! :D

Nairnville :)

FUN AT NAIRNVILLE :) :) :) :) :)

 

Every Thursday this term rm12 and other classes have been having Gymnastics classes at Nairnville.

Every time we have the air tumble track out (which is my favourite!!!),

most the time we have climbing frames,

the rings, only once we had the big trampoline out,

and then we have the teachers station.

My favourite parts were when,
we did bridges on the air tumble track,
handstands on the wall,
and also when the big trampoline was out.
I also liked when we did the floor routine last week on the air track.

What I improved on was
1. my strength
2. my confidence
and 3. my handstands
and also stretching myself out properly

:)

i made a stupid mistake

WHAT I'VE LEARNT

DO NOT leave your science fair to the last minute like I have,
Especially when you planting, like me,

So for my science fair project im doing,
Does music effect on plant growth,
And I only just planted my plants two days ago !!!
So it probably won't end up as a very good experiment after all.

I learnt it by relising, only 2 days ago, when I finally started
that I should have started way earlier
because I said to dad,
"Dad, my science fair is due in 3 weeks so can you help me ?!"
He totally laughed at me.
I think the way that I will remember to start early is by the,
notices we get or
maybe I just might magically remeber!
I don't know what helps me remeber things
I have a terrible memory! But it maybe might just magically happen!! haha

All I know for next time is that, next time I need to get my science fair started ASAP
Especially if i'm going to plant again.
I hope no one else has done this stupid thing as well
Because I regret it already,
I probably won't get anywhere with it....

Oh well
At least I know for next time :'(

JOEY PIGZA SWALLOWED THE KEY

 

JOEY PIGZA

SWALLOWED THE KEY

 

If you're ever going to read the book I do recomend it but theres the biggest giveaway right there in the title!!

 

This term we took a test to see what book group we would be put into. We had some books held up and  were told a quick summary about them, then we had to write down the top 5 books we wanted to read. The teachers then put us into groups.

 

I was in a group with Anthony, Will F, Eva, Oliver, Imogen and I.

we were all reading Joey piza swallowed the key!

 

What went well was being to hear what we found good and bad. We also came up with heaps of good ideas and they never stopped coming! What didnt go well was being able to talk one at a time, we all just wanted to blurt out our ideas.

 

What I gained from the experince is being able to pay more attention to reading the book and acually being able to stop and understand what everthing means.

 

I give this book a 8/10 rating! its such an amazballs book!