2018 School Year Reflection

                       2018 School Year Reflection

This year has been a great year for me. We did lots of fun activities and learning this year!

Here are some of my highlights from this amazing year!

-Athletics

-Science activities

-Passion Play

-Cross-Country

-Speeches

-Basic facts (every Friday)

-Camp

-Production.

This year was a great year and next year I will be a year 7!

Being a year 7 will require me to step up and be a role-model. I will also be changing the colour of my shirt to white instead of green which I currently am!

Highlights From Our Senior camp!

               Highlights From Our Senior Camp!

This year we went on a "Senior Camp" with the year 5's, 6's, 7's and 8's. We stayed at Rarawa Campground up near the top of the North Island.

It was SUPER FUN!!!

We did all sorts of wacky and interesting thing in our camping experience and I would love to go there again

Here are 8 of my highlight's from this year's camp!:

  >The thrill of the CRAZY storm in the middle           of the night.

  >Going to Te Paki Sand Dunes And Zooming

    down them on a boogie board. 

  >Walking down to the Lighthouse at Cape                 Reinga and coming 2nd in the race back up.

  >Having a crazy disco party at 9:30 PM.

  > Doing activities with my friends Barnabas,             Markayla, Nevaeh and Ryan in the secret                 amazing race challenge that we did.

  >Kayaking down the estuary at Rarawa with            Koby and Alex.

  >Watching all of the funny acts in the skit that          we  did.

  >Playing games on the beach in our house                groups.

< This is where we stayed for our camp. We set up tents for the children and adults. Our teachers slept in              caravans.

Surf's Up !🏄

                                      Surf's Up!

At my school the year 6 through to year 8 students went surfing at Ahipara. We were being taught how to surf by the O'Neil Surf Club.

The instructors names were Keehan, Mark and Jack. It was funny because coincidentally, Mark looked a lot like Thor! There were 2 groups. My group got to surf after the other group went surfing so while the first group went surfing my group played beach games. When it was our turn to surf I got off to a rocky start but after a while I got used to it. I wiped out SO MANY TIMES! It was really fun!

What is Advent?

                                  What Is Advent?

Advent is a season Portrayed in many Christian churches, awaiting the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.

It starts on the 2nd of December every year and ends on the 24th of December. 

The word "Advent" is derived from the Latin word "Adventus" meaning "coming".

Some symbols of Advent are candles and a wreath.

There are 3 purple candles and 1 pink candle as well as an Advent wreath. The pink candle represents joy and the other 3 purple candles represent love, peace and hope.
One candle is lit every Sunday and sometimes a white candle is lit on Christmas day.

     

Knot Tying!

                                     Knot Tying

In my class we have been learning about knots ! The reason why we are learning about knots is for life/survival skills.

We are about to go on camp so we will be able to practice those knots just in case there is a real emergency that knots are needed for.

I learnt how to tie a Figure 8 Knot, Noose Knot and an overhand knot.

The Figure 8 Knot is a simple stopper knot.======================

The Noose Knot is used for catching / snaring small animals.============

The overhand knot is also a simple stopper, very similar to the Figure 8 Knot.======================

This activity was so fun!

Google Doc Ninja Challenge

                     Google Doc Ninja Challenge

Today in class we did the "Google Doc Ninja Challenge". I earned the Google Belt today. To do the Google Doc Challenge our class had to complete tasks that had to do with typing, layouts, fonts, colours and more! I found this challenge very fun and some of it was a little tricky! We have done the Google Doc Ninja Challenge because our buddy blog class at Matawai school, Room 4, did some blog posts about it and we thought we would give it a go with our Manaia Kalani Facilitator helping us along the way.We had 1 hour to complete the challenge. This is a picture of me completing the challenge! I am proud of achieving this award.

I learnt all about shortcuts and things that will help me with my google document work! Have you done"The Google Doc Ninja Challenge"?