Nature Is Speaking

This is my Nature Is Speaking project that we have had to work on recently.  We had to use images and videos about an aspect of nature; ocean, soil, sky, etc, and then put our voice on top reading a script about how humans are destroying that part of nature.  Mine is on Mother Nature, it has taken me a while to get it right, so I hope it is okay.  My voice is a bit soft though, and might be hard to hear.

Week 7 Term 3

Bonjour Everyone!

I know it's been a while since my last post, and that's because I keep forgetting 😂.  I'll try to recap most of the stuff that's happened though. 

A couple of weeks ago we had Inter-House/Inter-Class Cross Country, and I did pretty well, for me anyway.  I came 20th for the Year 8 girls, which is actually pretty good for me because it was out of over 80 Year 8 girls.  My house didn't win the shield for Inter-house Cross Country though, which is sad because we kind of needed it, as we're coming last 😭.  My class did get the shield for Inter-Class Cross Country though, and that REALLY good!😆  From like 2002 to 2010 (it was either that or 2000 to 2008) my class won the Inter-Class Cross Country shield, but then Room 7 came back, and took it off us for a couple years, but now we've got it back again!🎊

Last week I went to Murray's Bay on Wednesday, and Thursday with most of my school band.  The school band takes a trip to Murray's Bay every year, but I wasn't in the band last year so it was new for me.  I was very fun though.  On the way to Murray's Bay, we stopped at Waiwera Hot Pools, had lunch, swam, and went on the hydroslides.  On the long green hydroslide, I hit my head twice!😫 It was very sore, and then I hit my head twice the next day, but I can't remember what on, and mum took me to the doctors this week, and they said that I've got mild concussion, and so I had to stay off my device for a while, and take it easy on sport, and stuff that involves concentrating intensely for a long time😭.  Anyway, after the hot pools we kept going till we got to Murray's Bay Intermediate School, and it was a very fun time.  

All of this week people were away at AIMS which is a really big sporting thing, and there are over 9,000 competitors, which is about 2,000 less than the Olympics!!!!!  So it's a pretty big deal.  I hope lots of the people from our school did well!

Au Revoir!

A Bientot😂

Week 3 Term 3

Bonjour everyone!

We had band festival on Thursday, and it was very bust at our school.  All the Jazz Bands, and Symphonic Bands from other schools came and played, and it was very cool to listen to.  Our schools Jazz Band preformed at 9:40, and our schools Symphonic Band preformed at 11:50.  I'm part of the Symphonic Band.  Everyone did SO well, and should all be proud of themselves especially the Symphonic Band who got a gold award!

We had our cafe on Friday, and it was so much fun!  Sadly Mrs Fynn wasn't there, but luckily we had a cool new substitute teacher, Mrs Germann!  She helped us with all the things everyone was making.  I had a bit of trouble with my cake pops, as I made the icing WAY too runny, and so it just ran straight off my cake pops and all the icing left on them was clear because there wasn't enough icing to cover it.  Since the icing was WAY too runny the eyes kept sliding off, and it made me really sad because I wasn't sure how to save them, but I still decorated them and put them in the fridge.  I kept checking on them, and pushing the eyes back up, and at one point I just pushed one of the octopus's eyes up, so they overlapped, and they stayed, so I did that to all of them, and they turned out just fine.  I've got a picture of one of my practice lots that I did on Tuesday, so I'll put that on here soon.

A Bientot!

Week 2 Term 3

Bonjour!!
I can't believe it's week 2 of term 3 already!!!!!  This year is going so quickly, and I'm so not looking forward to leaving, but at the same time I'm SO excited for college.

On Tuesday at tech arts we figured out the theme for our cafe.  We were stuck between under the sea, and beach themes, so we decided to do beach, and rope under the sea in with it.  Then we began to make our invitations.  I'm inviting my mum, but that's all.  For my card I used a yellow piece of paper and cut the back so it would be a pop-out, then I put some blue paper on top of the hole to cover it.  On the inside for the pop-out part, I made an octopus with googly eyes, and stuck it on.  It looks really cool.  After making invites, we had to decide what we were going to make, and I'm making octopus cake pops, that why I put the octopus on my card!  I haven't told mum what I'm making though, I want it to be a surprise.  Here is a picture of what I want it to kind of look like:
On Friday we had our first go at making our dish, and mine looked nothing AT ALL like that picture.  I made my octopus orange, because I didn't want purple, and the eyes look really big because I used white chocolate buttons, and milk chocolate drops.  But I didn't put smiles on, maybe that's why it didn't look good last time?  I'll try with a face next Tuesday.

Au Revoir!
A Bientot

Week 1 Term 3

Back to school!!!

The holidays flew by WAY to fast!  I got up to heaps of stuff, and barely had any time for anything else.  In the first week we worked on my mums Arapuni house from Monday-Friday.  Then Saturday I went to a funeral for Aleesha, which was really sad, and after that I went to my friends house for her birthday sleepover.  Then we got up really early on Monday, and went to Coromandel from Monday-Wednesday, and we relaxed the whole time.  On Thursday my mum had a dentist appointment, and we had netball practice that evening.  On Friday, we had a free day from running around endlessly.  Then on Saturday, I had netball and lacrosse, then went to my other friends house for her birthday on Saturday night.  I didn't get home until late afternoon Sunday.  I wish the holidays had gone slower, or there had been more:(

Week 10 Term 2

The last week of school!

We found out this week that we have speeches next term!!  YAY!  I'm really excited, but I need to find a good topic like the one I had last year which was 'Is technology affecting face to face communication?' It was a really good topic and I got 2nd place!  I haven't thought of a topic so far, but I hope I can think of a good one!  Even if it take me the whole holidays just to think of one I know I can write it fast because I'm a pretty good writer.  

This week is also Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori week, and each class went on a marae visit.  My class went on Wednesday, and it was quite a cool experience.  The marae we went to was called Mangatoatoa Marae.  When we got there there was a porhiri to welcome us, and then we were split into groups so we could do all the activities set up around the area.  The activities were singing, where we learnt a new sing, a maori stick game, where you each had a quite tall stick, and then stood in a circle, until someone called left or right in te reo maori.  I forgot how to say it though.  Once they called left or right you had to move the way they called and grab onto the next persons stick before it fell.  Then there was another game where instructions were called in maori, and you had to run, walk, fly, hop, or whatever they told you to do, to the place they told you to do it.  The last person to the place was out.  Next was capture the flag/ripper rugby.  This was fun, and there was no te reo maori learning about, but I'm not sure why.  Then there was the rako stick activty which was definitely one of my favourites.  We were taught each movement, and had to do each one four times each.  It took us a while to get it all right, but then after that it was really fun.  Then we learnt the haka with Raiha, who was a very good teacher.  I mostly remembered the haka from last year so it wasn't to hard for me luckily.  Then we did a colouring activity where we went around the marae and placed our te reo maori books on one of the carvings, and then ran a crayon lightly over top and it imprinted the pattern into it, it was very cool.  Last, but definitely not least we did fry bread, where we copied down the recipe for it and then got to try some, it was so yum.  I really enjoyed the visit to the marae I wished I could've gotten the opportunity to do it last year as well when I was a year 7.  

Also this week on Thursday I went to Indoor Bowls in Hamilton, and there were heaps of people!  There were four teams for the girls from our school, and four teams for the boys, but the boys were on Wednesday.  Each team played three games and then a final.  Me and my buddy Waiare got the top placing out of our four girls groups, our placing was 16th.  Really big thanks to Mrs Grace who tooks us to and from Indoor Bowls, and put up with us crazy girls.

Au Revoir!

See you next term!

Week 9 Term 2

Second to last week of school.  Yay!!

From Monday to Wednesday we had the Science Fair judging, and I was a finalist, but didn't get a placing sadly.  My project was on milk and pH levels and my question was 'How does the fat in milk affect pH levels?  It was an interesting experiment to do, and I learn quite a bit.  How I id my test was I had three different types of milk, trim, lite, and regular, and I had nine beakers, three for each kind of milk.  I put 100 ml of milk in each beaker, then kept them in a container in a dark corner, and tested their pH level every day, morning and night, for a week.  It was a lot if testing, and the milk started to smell quite bad after a couple of days which was not very nice.

Also this week we started a new tech art, and us year 8's are doing food!!!  I've been really looking forward to doing it.  On Tuesday for our first lesson we didn't do much but we did get to make cheesy roll ups, and dipping sticks.  It was quite a simple recipe so I should be able to make it at home.  Then on Friday I was supposed to make bread, but I didn't go to school because I was sick.  It's very annoying being sick all the time because I like school!  My sinuses have been playing up a lot from the cold, so I keep getting quite sick.  Hopefully I don't miss to many more days!

Can't wait for the holidays!
Au Revoir