..+*Weekend Reflection*+..

 -Weekend Reflection-Week 4-

Something I found Challenging this week probably our All Saints Presentation, Since it is November and we had All Saints day on the first of November. For this Task we Had to make a copy of a slide prepared for us with some questions and then we had to decorate it and fill in the questions about our chosen saint, the Reason I struggled with this would be because  I couldn't find any Saints! there were just too many. 

We learned a lot this week, we had gone over some of our math, with median, mode and mean.

We also learned how to stitch! that was really fun.

Something I enjoyed was Probably the sewing we did! we are making a collage, first we got to choose a colour fabric and cut out a hand print, then we got to choose a square fabric between the colours of either green, or blue. Then the our teachers helped us put the thread  in the needle and sew the hand onto the square, THEN we also had to draw a picture to cut out in fabric that represents us. The stitching was probably the hardest to do, because the threads would pull out and get tangled. For my Picture I had drawn a budgie, (because I like budgies,) We often poked our fingers by accident with the needle. It was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot so far.

Something I feel I have succeeded in is probably When me and my Friend Tiana made scones at tech! it was really fun  I think it was a success. The scones were really easy to make and easy to travel back to school with. 

Something I am looking forward to is.. Whatever next week has to bring! its going to be very sad because one of our teachers is leaving. 

-Aroha-

this weeks value is Aroha, Meaning love.. we try to be kind and caring towards our friends and family and to those around us.

..+*Weekend Reflection*+..

 -Week 2: Term 4-

Something I found Challenging this week is Probably the feelings wheel, the feelings wheel is where we had to draw what we think looks like a certain emotion in these triangles that all turn into a circle. I struggled with this because I had re-done a lot of my pictures because I wasn't happy with how it looked, I also didn´t   have the write colours to do the pictures, I may of found it easier to do if I  tried and do it with some paint, though painting is hard, you can have unlimited access to what ever colour, I could try it digital on the chrome book but then its harder to add small details. Another thing I struggled with was rap//song we had to write in a group, our group struggled because the lyrics couldn't help but be embarrassing and I couldn't bare the thought of recording myself singing

We  Learned lots of things, we learned more about  Paratene te Manu, a famous Maori Warrior who´s family and himself got Evicted from their home island Huataru, Now known as little Barrier island. Our other teacher has read us a book about Paratene te Manu  and we have written a letter, pretending we were Paratene te Manu´s Nephew writing to the Government about  why Paratene te Manu shouldn't leave his island.

Something I Enjoyed was writing the letter we did (which I had explained about in the last paragraph) because We were all really Passionate about arguing  for him to stay on his Island. and it really fun pretending to be a lawyer. I also enjoyed Mahi tahi, for those who don´t know what mahi tahi is, its where the year 8s, 7s, 6,s and 5s join together and complete a crafty task, this task we did was were we had to get into groups (as always) and we had to tape some balloons so the all stack up but they have to be free-standing, the tallest balloon tower wins, we were doing pretty good but it the height  of it didn't count since it leaned to the side, making it shorter.

Something I feel I have succeeded in is some of my Emotions wheel, I haven´t finished it just yet though.

Another thing is probably my letter, I do want to add a bit more but i´m not sure what else to add, so for now I think it is complete.

Something I am looking forward too is.. what else we will be doing next week, Hopefully  I can get more things finished. I also am looking forwards to finishing my drawing in tech, I really hope I can finish it and hopefully I can succeed in that as well, we have been using a burn tool to draw in stuff on a small piece of wood, and now we are ingraining another drawing we did in some copper. 

-Aroha-

This weeks Value is Aroha, A way I have seen Aroha shown is in the playground where some people were helping these little children across the monkey bar. that is showing Aroha because they were helping and caring for others by making them feel safe so they can develop the skill of doing the monkey bars.

||=Weekend Reflection=||

 -Week 1: Term 4-

it is our last term! we have been very busy this week since of athletics coming up and have been doing that nearly every day, (athletics Is a school event where there are different thing to partake in, -Sprints, High jump, Long Jump, Shot putt, discus.) and we have the rosary since it is October (the month of Mary.) every morning we go outside or into one of the spare class room which is empty and do whole school rosary there. one thing that is really cool this term is that we have another teacher joining in with us in class! 

One thing I found Challenging is probably athletics, I´m not very good at anything in sports really.. I really don´t like high jump and I am bad at it without the excuse of being short. I can´t sprint either.. and I don´t really understand the  shot putt, long jump is okay, but I´m not good at that either. Another thing I have found challenging is finishing my work on time, I take really long and I try to fit in art into as much of it as I can. 

One thing that I learned was  in maths, we  are currently learning words relating that are often used in maths. We also are reading about a Maori Warrior and some of things he´s been through and who he is.

this last term we are really focusing on all of the learning we´ve done before and making sure we are all on the right track and we have been clearing things up so everyone can hopefully be on the same level before we leave.  

One thing I have enjoyed Is.. R.E doing the rosary is really peaceful and quiet, and enjoyable when you understand what you´re saying and what it means. I sometimes enjoy doing Athletics?.. I know I´m not good at it but there has been times where I have surprised my self with thinking that I wouldn't make it over the high jump bar but then did, when you successfully jump over the bar its really quite satisfying, and especially today where I thought I had made it quite far, and I didn´t think I was going to make the jumps but I did, once it got too high and everyone started to sit down, then I did. But I gave it ago and tried, hopefully I can try harder and maybe even do better. 

One thing I feel I have Succeeded in probably some of the times I had done Athletics, like just before I had talked how It was challenging and I didn´t like it and then I talked about how sometimes I actually had fun doing and the only time I had fun doing it was when I felt like had done well with it, therefore I felt like I had succeeded in it couple of times. 

Some things I am looking Forward too are more arty stuff we could possible be doing later this term, I hope that we year 8 can step up and get a start on stuff we like to do, for me that would be art, I am hoping there can be more drawing and art involved so I can be more productive and hopefully have fun and do well in it. I hope I can post more blog posts about my learning (and hopefully art).

_.-Aroha-._

this weeks Value is Aroha, meaning love. love can be in friendship and other positive interactions with others, Love can be shown in what you say, what you do, and what you think and how you treat others, love is enjoying being around someone or something, or admiring another thing or person. Love can be caring for others and can be shown through support and positive words. 

..+*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.)  

..|| 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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