Central Otagos

Out the corner of my eye I saw Ang waving me over from the other end of the hill.
I ran over to Niamh and we made our way over to shot-put .
When we arrived Astrid greeted us with a smile , ticked our names off and then we lined up with the other kids and waited for our turn.
There was a bit of waiting because so many of the kids were at other events, so we had to start without some of the,.
"Christy it's your turn to throw". Astrid said looking up from the score sheet.
I walked over, picked up the orange specked shot-put and held it against my neck.
1, 2, 3... Push!
The shot-put flew through the air and landed with a thud.
My next throw was unfortunately a no throw and my last one was not my best.
But i'm  super excited because Niamh got second so she got through to Otagos!
Overall It was a great experience.

Our Native Bird Inquiry.

Last week we were working hard to produce amazing work to enter in the 2016 Thyme festival!
I decided to do mine on the Haasts Eagle.
I learned a lot of really interesting facts about the Haasts eagle and I think it was definitely worth putting alot of hard work into it.
For the competition you had to choose a native New Zealand that could be extinct or alive (mine was extinct).
These are some of the things on the posters;
Pictures, text boxes with facts , drawing , habitat ,appearance and things like that.
If you get the chance to enter in a competition like this one I think you should definitely give it a go!

 

My Unfolding Story

This week we have been doing the CHOICE program (formally known as the DARE program).
We learned things about how to keep safe around drugs and make good choices.
With the CHOICE program we did an unfolding story about things we enjoy and what we have done so far in our life.
It was lots of fun and a good opportunity to share things about ourselves that other people might not have known.
The unfolding story's can be never ending and we can keep adding over time!

Arts Trail

I arrived at school all ready to start my art adventure with all my friends.
Our first stop was at Allan Waters a very creative painter that inspired us all.
He uses water colour to paint most of his painting (obviously, Allan Waters) his paintings are so creative and trick the mind into thinking other things.

The next stop was Robert Franklin, a Potter.
He showed us how he used the pottery wheel and shaped two bowls so we could see what the process of making pottery was.
Robert told us about how he went to the West Coast and put some pots in a hole at the beach, lit a fire and left it over night. He came back the next morning and there his pot were. Unbroken and looking amazing!

We stopped at lots of inspiring places but one of my favourites were Les Riddell the jeweller.

Current Events Quiz 2016

I walked into the Collage auditorium and a rush of excitement came over me.

When I got to the front I started scanning the room, trying to find one of my team mates. Out the corner of my eye I spotted Oliver sitting by himself over the far side of the auditorium .

I started to make my way through the tables of nervously laughing teams.

As I sat down at the table I noticed Oliver was humming the same song as me... We sang louder "one little piggy two little piggy". It was our team song!

After we had stopped jamming out and Grace was sitting with us Miss Gallagher stepped up to the microphone.

She said something along the lines of " Welcome to the Current events quiz 2016!"

All of a sudden I felt sick.

As the quiz went on my nerves faded until we got to 'A Time in History'. It was really confusing but we managed to hand the sheet in on time.

The Current Events Quiz was coming to an end and the winner was being announced . " Now this team has got an amazing score of 99 out of 100!" Miss Gallagher excitedly announced.

We knew it was not us but we hoped it was a Goldfields team.

The winner was... Goldfields 1!

Although we didn't win I am super proud of my team and Goldfields!

This is Olivia, Trent and Flynn. They won the Quiz this year. Bragging writes!

Rat The Cat and His Throne

I was sitting on the mat staring into space, as the teacher was marking the roll, when I caught a glimpse of Rat the Cat slipping through the gap in the door.

He strode into the room, confidently brushing himself against the tables and making his way to the front of the class. He had his eye on something.

As Rat slowly came closer to the front of the classroom his tail was up in the air twirling around, his head was held high and his ears twitching at the sound of whispering children.

We all left the mat and Mrs Lees got off her seat... This was Rat's chance to make Mrs Leesś throne his territory.

Soon after the patterned cushion was tugged from underneath his fluffy behind. He reluctantly slumped himself off the chair and made his way out to find a new throne!

Rock sliding in Fiji!

"Are we almost there?" I complained as we walked up the hill with the hot sun beating down on our backs. "Almost". Replied the young Fijians.
We had traveled to a small village just outside of Rakiraki to go to the water slide.
While we were walking to the water slide one of the men jumped down and pulled out some guavas for us to try. The guavas had lots of seeds in it but it tasted so good, a little bit sour as well as sweet.
When we finally got to the water slide I saw a massive rock with a natural stream running down into a stream. If you looked further down the stream there was a big rock that dropped down into a huge pool, I was about to walk towards it but then I decided to conquer the rock slide first.
When it came to my turn I sat down on the surprisingly smooth rock and let myself slide down into the 12 foot pool... It was so much fun!!!
After I had done that a couple more times I went to jump of the cliff like rock.
Little Master (one of the local Fijians) demonstrated how to jump out to the middle of the stream, 3, 2, 1...
I threw myself out into the air I felt myself falling, falling, SPLASH! As I emerged from the bottom of the pool I had a massive grin of my face I was so happy I had done it.
I would definitely recommend doing something like this if you get the chance!


Here is one of the locals jumping off the top of the rock slide!

Derek Redmond

This is Derek Redmond.
He competed in the 1992 Olympics and voted to win his race, but half way through his race he pulled a hamstring.He was in excruciating pain but still he got up and finished the race. His Dad came onto the track and pushed his way through the security and helped his son, at the finish line he let him go to finish by himself.
This show true passion and determination like we have seen for a lot of this years Olympic athletes!

My Kowhiawhia

This term we have been doing kowhiawhia patterns.These are some of the rules for making this type of art.The main colours are red,white and black, so it is prefered to not use bright colours such as pink and purple. It also has to be symmetrical which means the shape is the same on each side and thery all have to be the same side and an even space apart.to make sure our shapes where the same size we cut our design out on a bit of card and traced around them a few times depending on how big we wanted to make them. A kowhiawhia is normally made up of a koru repeated to make a cool strip of art. This curtain type of art connects to maths a little bit because you are translating, flipping, rotating and reflect.

I had heaps of fun doing this and I would recommend trying this sometime! 

Sports Interchange

As our my school netball team proudly entered the court we got ready to play our first game against Cromwell Primary's B team.
I think that our team did really well considering we didn't have much time to practice. We worked really well as a team and everyone where really good sports towards the other team and our team members.
Playing against the A team was a bit harder. I felt really confused at some points because there were people that played in my out of school netball playing against me.I was super happy that my team won both of our games and it ws nice for both of the schools to draw!
Overall I think it was a really good experience and I hope we can play against the again! Vs   

Skunk Popplet

This term we have been focusing on animal adaptations.I read an article about Skunks and learned heaps of new things. I created a popplet to show what I have learned , popplet is a free app/website and is super easy to set up this is the link to the website : Popplet Website you should check it out!

I hope these Skunk facts are useful. :)

Spelling Quiz 2016

On Wednesday I went the Otago Daily Times spelling quiz. There were five teams that went from Goldfields school, in my team I had Olivia, Shayla and myself. We had to complete 10 rounds of different spelling sheets, two of them were straight spelling tests and the other ones were things like, dictionary skills, abbreviations ect. I had a whole lot of fun and I am so glad that I got the chance to go.
Thank you so much to Mrs Lees and Mrs Simmers for suggesting to go!
This is a link to the website Take a Look!
             

My Leaf Poem

My Netball Competition

This is me at my Netball Competition on Saturday.
I play for Cromwell Netball club.
The games were short so there were only two 6 minute halves.
My team won all four of our games and our highest score was 18 - 0 , we advanced to the semis and it was pouring down with rain. Sadly we didn't get to the finals but overall we were really happy with the final results.
I can't wait until our next game!!!

Leaves...

The leaves have started to fall (finally) and we have been waiting to... 

jump in the leaves!!! 

As the leaves have scrunched up and have fallen off it's a perfect time to pile them all up then jump in them and then, of course, get someone to bury you!

Some of our class were outside burying each other in the Autumn leaves it was so much fun and well you can't really bury yourself when the leaves are on the trees.

So while there still fresh on the ground if there are some trees near your house go out and start to pile them up!!!

My Wild Self

This is my creation that I made on Build Your Wild Self.
If you haven't seen it before you should definitely check it out this is the link: http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ .
This is why I chose what I put on myself:
Lion mane : It makes you look bigger and more scary so other animals will know to back off!
Turtle shell: So when Predators come near you can just pop in the shell for protection.
Tiger and Lion legs : These animals are both quite fast so it will be easier to catch prey or run away from predators.

My Anzac Learning

At the moment we are focusing on Anzac day.

We are completing a series of tasks related to Anzac's.

Everybody has chosen a MI (multiple intelligence)  task to complete over a couple of days.

These are the MI subjects, Musical, kinesthetic , interpersonal, linguistic, mathematical, naturalistic, intrapersonal and visual.