_.->> Venerable Suzanne Aubert<<-._

 This week On Friday we are going to be Celebrating Venerable Suzanne Aubert!

(Aubert Pronounced-Aw-Bear)

One of our House Groups is named after her and this Friday we will be Celebrating her and all the amazing things shes done!

 for this Task we had to make a slide or google drawing, and then we had to write down the facts we have learnt about her, I had done some facts and a little blurb of writing giving a small description about her.

here is the my work

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´´To Love God above all things. to give ones heart and soul, mind and strength in order to make others better and happier: that is life, that is happiness, justice and truth.´´

-Quote from Suzanne Aubert 

..+*Social Justice*+..

_.-Presentation-._ 

Last week was social justice week, we all had to make a copy of a slide template with some tasks for us to do, we explored to understand more of what social justice is and what it means.

I enjoyed doing this task but it is sad because ,Social justice is something that hasn't been shown in some parts of the world at some times, which is really sad but we are really grateful  that here there it isn't as bad.

here is my filled slide,

..||Poetry||..

 -Literacy-

For literacy this week, we have worked on Poetry and finding out the technical side of Poetry.

For the task we had to Make a copy of a slide that had some questions in it that we had to answer them, but first we had to watch some of the suggested videos that were like speeches yet very poetic then we got to choose them and fill out the slide question based off  of  the chosen video

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I choose Nga Hinepukorero which is a Poem by 4 girls (one of the girls  present in the video.) I chose this one because it was really powerful and I think that the topic that they were talking about was also really important as well. this was a very cool activity that definitely open up your eyes about some of the things that had happened in New Zealand and how it has effected us. 

for the slide I tried to make it a golden theme by using golden-hour scenery and other yellow backgrounds, I struggled a little bit trying to summarise some of the questions but managed to get them done. 

..+*Week End Reflection*+..

<-._Week 7_.->

this week I was on disciples!  if you don´t know what disciples are they are a thing the senior class do in morning tea  and lunch time (so all break times) each week a group of people (specify in this week it was me, Tiana, Calista, and Will.)  and then we 2 of us put on the high-vise vest and walk around in morning tea, or Lunch time. What you do is basically what some of the teaches to at lunch when they are on duty which is you walk around the place keeping an eye out for anyone who need help, (mainly little kids.)

Something I found challenging was possibly the travel planning we did, we got got to do this really fun activity where we pretend to book a flight to some other country with the 12,000 in our wallet. we can bring 2 other people, me and my Friend Therese decided to go to Westminster in the UK! we got to find activities to do, a good hotel to stay and some places to eat our food! it was really fun but finding certain stuff and trying to work out the money was the hardest, it takes quiet a long time for us to do that, it was also quiet difficult to plan and Itinerary for our activities. Another thing I found Challenging was our daffodil day art (that was really kind of last week.) It was really fun to draw the daffodil and colour it with pastel. but I was happy with how it turned out its just I haven finished it yet. 

Something I learned was Lots!we learned lots this week and some of those things were about Rests, Deacons, and Bishops. we learnt the difference between them and what it takes to become one. I also learn lots more about Westminster since for the travel I had to research about it lot, I learned about the Westminster abbey and what it was like back in the old days and in the 15th century. 

Some things I have enjoyed were doing the travel activity, it was really fun to do with my friend! its so fun to plan a holiday like a true adult! I also really liked making the brochure for the place we are heading to, It was fun adding all my ideas into the travel brochure and I really enjoyed trying to make it look nice.

Something I feel I have Succeeded in is Possibly the Travel Brochure.. I am quiet proud of the vintage look with all the brown tones and little map and photos on it! I am also happy with the amount of information of it as well!  here is a picture of it, 

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Something I am looking forward too is seeing my sister! I can wait for her to come over for the weekend!

this week has been really busy (even though really the only thing we had to finish is our travel slide.)  

..<> Piktochart<>..

 _.-> Priests, Deacons, and Bishops<-._

Last week we had to make an info graphic using anew program called ''Piktochart'' 

-PiktoChart 

is a Program where you make all sorts of designs and cool Presentations, you can make Posters and Info graphic. Piktochart had all the Graphics and designs all ready for you to use and decorate, they've got cool stickers to put on and text boxes.

-Info Graphics

Info stands for information, and Graphics is like Designs, making things look appealing and nice. info graphics are like posters with more pictures while informing the person about what the topic is.

-what was our task?-

we had to make an info graphic about Priests, deacons and Bishops, including facts and what there role is.

here is mine

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This task was really fun to do, it was quiet hard though, I found it challenging to find a good colour palette and design and it was hard to find lots of information but instead I only found some.  I did the colours based around blue and orange and I had  each of the different information squares with some little stickers piktochart provided. 

..◤ 5 senses Poem◢..

 This is Our 5 senses Poem,

We had to write about a special place and describe what you Hear, see, feel and taste. then we had to cut out the ''I ,  at, am,'' and other words similar to those. I used Google draw and drew with polyline to match the show what I saw

This was really fun to do, I did the poem about my house, because We have just moved into our new house but I still miss my old house so I had done this and drawn the view.

..+*Pebble Point of View*+..

 <:>Personification<:>

Just like yesterday, we had posted a piece of writing based on the perspective of objects or things in nature, Yesterday we did the perspective of a table and focusing o giving it a personality by Personification, and today we are writing the perspective of  a small pebble in world war | 

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In the pitch black night fading into blue, the sun has yet to risen.. 

The moonlight glistens on the ocean water, the soft sound of crashing  white wash is all I hear, 

the blanket of shallow glittery water splashes upon me, soon the tide runs further down and I dry up.

The light fades in into the sky as I see I tiny glimpses of sun rise, the cool air breeze slowly flows. A black silhouette of a ship emerges as the colour of things start to show up and the birds start to fly, leaving this land.

A long time it took for these people to jump of the ship and into the water, peace is soon disturbed. They slash closer into shallow water and soon I hear the crunch crunch crunch of pebbles getting twisted and crunched underneath their  bulky shoes, Slap! The shoes walk right over me and it feels like I'd been punched in the stomach, I watch as they walk over all of us and up the hill where the morning light touched.

As soon as they walk up I hear a BANG! They all are falling down and tumbling around as they shot fire to others, I gaze as I see one run out to sea to retreat, then fall into the water, he never gets back up, I feel still and powerless as so much problematic mess is around me. Falling soldiers, smoke and more, The big blue sky  looks over the land and the sun starts to fall down, the remaining solders continue to walk over the hill, the blue sky turns to purple and reflects on to the water. I lay here trying to relax once more from the tension and distress from the battle and all the pollution left behind. 

The sky turns, as the night starts to rise again, the moon rising and shining upon the ocean once again. I sit still and try to sleep, the crickets keep me up, my thoughts are still pounding and racing,  I focus on the stars above and the far noises of thunder-like shots in the distance and slowly drift away, the cold water washes upon me.

I snuggle in with the other pebbles. Sad that I couldn't help the humans, but glad i'm not one of them.

I am a pebble. 

..|:|Personification writing|:|..

 Today in literacy, we learned about ''Personification" 

Personification is something used in writing to describe a thing, nature, object, animal anything. but you describe it with human actions or features, like for example..

"the tree had long arms."

tree's don't have arms, it's describing about the tree's branches that appear like arm to us humans, so therefore we have used personification by describing this tree with human like features. Another example can be

"The grass tickled my feet."

Grass can't tickle, but humans can, it is describing how the grass feels like its tickling you.

With out task, we had to write a Piece, Expressing the perspective through our table we sit on, and describe it as if it is a person, me and my friends table is a small, short, chair-less table in the corner.. it is a bright Peridot green with a matte texture on the surface.

here is my Writing.

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I awaited patiently.. keeping my thoughts to my self, listing to the conversations of others.. I looked out the door, to hear the muffled voices of children, and then the click clack of keys, they rumbled around getting a seat.. as I looked at those in front of me, they sat down, but I realised I haven't been cleaned! the gross gray glue made me stick to the books they have left of me, the tingly presses of pencil and paper make me want to sneeze, they tap their nails on top of me and accidentally scratch me, then they move onto the keys, ''click clack clee." I fall asleep to the chattering of them and then awake to something rumbling, I feel the weight plunge off of me as they all get up and leave,

Peaceful silence floats in the air, as I await once more.. then I hear trouble.. some children barge in and dance around me. they hear up their food, that now stinks the air and then just leave without a care,

I silently observe getting filled with information, I don't speak or even make a peep. I just sit there, Unappreciated and bored. they walk back in and lean in on me and I can feel their heartbeat. I feel their fear,worry and annoyance, their joy and pride, they don't know it, because I hide.

the day ends as they say goodbye, I live my life through them, but as the soon as they leave, reality strikes back at me, at the end of the day I am just me, a second choice table quiet as can be. 

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this task was really fun and I really enjoy doing creative, and descriptive writing and it was really to add a personality to the table we use everyday. 

..|| Weekend reflection ||..

..+* Term 3 Week 3 *+..

this week was the week of cross country! 

One thing I found Challenging was cross country, It was quiet hard to run and I was very out of breath, but I came 3rd. Another thing I found challenging was our daily timetable, it's bit hard trying to get as much of my timetable done as quick as I can but It is quiet hard.. another challenge is when I was finishing by colouring the installation in my creative writing and I was having trouble trying to find the right colour for what I was colouring.

Some thing I learned this week is about graphs, we have been doing maths in the morning and learned about lots of new cool stuff! one those was graphs, we had to answer certain questions requiring to understand the graphs. another was were we were focusing on patterns and number sequences. we have been doing a lot of maths work sheets, and some were hard and some I found quiet easy. 

Some things I enjoyed was drawing my creative writing illustrations, I am a bit worried that they aren't going to turn out good, but I did enjoy drawing them and colouring some. I also enjoyed cross country, it was fun to run the track. 

I also enjoyed playing silent ball because it is fun to try and catch long distance, and I enjoyed playing one of the P.E games we did because I finally scored a try! 

One thing  feel I have succeeded in is probably one of the R.E task we did where we pick a word from our goal and explain the definition, put it into a sentence, find a synonym, and draw a picture to represent it.  I feel I have succeed in that because I am happy with how the picture came out and I am happy with the finished definition I have wrote for it. I also feel I have succeeded in how much I have got finished in my contract. 

One thing I am looking forward too finishing my creative writing, I hope it goes well, and hopefully I can finish it next week.

 

..+*Week Reflection*+..

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This Week felt really short, because we had Wednesday off due to a teacher only day and it that Wednesday felt like an actual full weekend, maybe because I was all hyped up on Tuesday night not having to worry about waking up early And because I felt I got a lot accomplished that day and I had the whole house to myself and I feed the budgies, did some work, drawing and some chores, so it felt like an entire weekend and then Monday and Tuesday felt like last week.

Some of the things I felt were challenging was finishing some of the work.. I took so long to finish my maths sheet because it took me awhile to add up some of the numbers we had to do and then it was kind of stressful when I was doing it and I had to also try and get it done so I could work on my other things, I also found doing the daily times tables challenging because I never competently finish the entire cube in the amount of time. another thing that was also challenging for me would be when we were making our group animation, it had to be done quiet quickly but  we were taking a lot of time because I was drawing all the characters. but I am happy with how it turned out, not that much but still glad that it had lots of effort in it and that was my first post with the new blogger update! 

some things I have learned this week were about the human body, we have been learning about the human body and we were talking about the brain and some names for the bone as well, and we learned about Saint Hildegard who I have never heard before but we learned about who she was and what her life was like, I also learned a more about algebra, we learned a new strategy that was assigned to us on prodigy that is a bit confusing but still think we progressed on getting a preview on what we are going to be learning in algebra. I feel I have learned a lot this week! 

Some things I have enjoyed doing this week are when me and my friends decorated our paper skeleton activity.. because it was peaceful just drawing on the bones and trying to add more shaded depth into the bones so it wouldn't look so bland, I also enjoy making the animation with my friends as well because it was so fun to work and share Ideas with my friends and I think we worked well together and the outcome was good. I also enjoyed working on drawing a place form our imagination task. 

Some of the things we did that  feel I have succeeded in are my contract, I hadn't completely finished it but I feel I have progressed with finishing this week, I am also quiet happy with the outcome of the group animation, and I feel I have succeeded in the paper skeleton because the order of the bones I think are correct which is good since they bones looked a bit confusing and we kept on overthinking where they went.

I am looking forward to hopefully doing the creative writing, I really hope it goes well with the drawings since I have finished writing it now I need to draw and format it. I also hope that cross country goes well, I am very nervous to run because I worry that something might happen or I will come in a very low place, I really hope that everyone can have lots of fun at cross country and be proud of themselves. I also hope that I can finish my speech and hopefully everyone can be proud of what they've come up with. 

.-+*|| Pono ||*+-..

Pono means truth, truth can be owning up for mistakes and taking action and responsibility for our mistakes we make. it is also being truthful and kind.

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