This week was a hectic week because the matariki disco was coming up and most of us had a job to do with that. Monday through to Wednesday I was working on the rosters for people to sell stuff like food, drink, and glow products. I had to change a lot of people around. They either didn’t want to do that job or they forgot to bring their permission in so they couldn’t go. When the disco got up and running, it was really fun and we had games throughout the time like spin the bottle, limbo and Dance comp.

I showed the RISE value success because I took charge in sorting out people for selling at the matariki disco. I was struggling a little but pushed through and showed quite a lot of perseverance. Also it is the last week of term and the thought of going to high school is hanging in my head. As each term ends my rawhiti days are coming to the ends and the high school years are coming closer.

This week was a normal week, nothing really out of the ordinary, the only thing would probably be winter sports starting up for the term. 

The challenge for this week was not really a challenge, it was making my bread in tech. I was quite happy that I finished it because I had nothing for lunch and didn’t really feel like eating the school lunch. 

This week’s highlight is winter sports. I really enjoyed last year’s winter sport. I am in a team with my whole friend group which is quite nice cause I know most of their skills. I think for today we are versus another Rawhiti team and maybe another, I don’t know. 

My goal for next week is to get most of my literacy work done so I don’t have to stress when I’m asked to turn it in, and for inquiry it’s to get my diorama finished so I’m ready to make it when I am allowed to. I am looking forward to next week and what that brings.

This year we have been learning with something called Oxford Maths. Oxford Maths is something that the national party put in place for the majority of the schools around NZ.

So far I have been learning about: Whole numbers, Decimals – Fractions – Percentages, Factors & HCF, Prime numbers and prime factorization, Surveys and data sources and types, polygons and circles. I think that I really need to work on my prime factorization.

How the Oxford Maths works is you start with a pre test, to test your prior knowledge, then we do the teaching stage, where we get a bit more in depth of the topic and find out more what it means, then finally we do the post test, it’s like all of our knowledge from the teaching comes in and it scares us on how well we did. The ranks were, A, B, O. A means above, like your above some, B means your below where you need to be and O means your on track and heading in the right direction

My opinion of Oxford Maths is pretty decent I might say. It definitely needs to improve on filtering things like what assignments you have and have not done. Overall I think that Oxford Maths slightly improved my mathematical knowledge, and it doesn’t talk as much as my teacher.

For this terms action station I did friendship bracelets with some of my friends. For the past 4 sessions I help hand out the strings to make the braclets. I found most of it fun and enjoyable but there were some challenges like working out how to make a backwards 4 knot. Sometimes I did the knots wrong but I eventually got them right. I used the RISE value Succsess, because when I was confused I eventually figured out what to do. Overall I really enjoyed this action station.

Today in literacy we learnt about different types of timelines. We all got separeated into 3 groups, and got seen 1 group at a time. I was the 2nd group work with sharon,  we worked on the different type of layouts for timelines, when some are easier to read than others. Once we had finished that group we had to go off and make our own timeline, so I made mine about what the army dogs did in the wars. Here it is –

For the past couple of weeks we have been making a peace of creative writing. I was working on improving my gramer and in the sample below I think I have improve, quite a bit. I enjoyed writing this because it just takes my mind off everything and my head disappears into its on little world. The next thing that I want to work on is my punctuation. 

Here is the sample text – 

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling droopy and under the weather, well I didn’t feel myself. I grabbed some headache medicine and a tall glass of ice cold water, I put the pill on my tongue and swallowed it down. I layed down in bed and stayed awake for ages and I couldn’t get back to sleep                                                                                                “Why me?” I said to myself, I got back out of bed a sat on the bean bag on the balcony, I hoped that fresh air would help “Hey, you alright?” I heard Val from behind me                                                                                                                            “Oh, uhmm, yeah fine” I was clearly not fine cause I was laying on the bean bag with my head drooped over the back of it.                                                                                                                                                                                                             “How did  you know I was out her” I looked at her confused                                                                                                             “I have ears you know, It’s not like I can hear you clanging around” She looked at me quite blankly, she looked at me, shrugged and walked off back to bed, I think I should do that too. So I stood up and closed the door behind me and walked back into my bedroom to continue my sleep. As the sunlight flooded my room, my eyes turned light, I knew that I had to wake up eventually.                                                                                                                                                        “Breakfast, Breakfast, what to have?” I said to myself, I grabbed some cereal out from the cupboard and a bowl, poured it in with some milk and sat on the couch eating my breakfast                                                                                                 “Save any for me?” Val said, letting a small chuckle. I heard footsteps outside the door followed by a knock.            “Who could that be?”  I walked up to the door and opened the door to see Mrs. Fallpawn, our principal.                   “Good morning, I have something to say to Valerie Kinsman” I let her in standing to the side, she told me to go into my room and shut the door, and I did exactly that. I waited for ages and ages until finally I heard the front door shut and Val opening my door with a red face and her eyes welling up.                                                                                                         “I got suspended” She crashed on my bed and I sat next to her trying my best to comfort her but while doing that I started to cry too.                                                                                                                                                                                     “B-But?” She said, Val looked up at me, a blank look on her face.                                                                                           “How long are you suspended for?” I asked, trying not to break down on the spot.                                                             “For two months” when she said that I just couldn’t hold it in anymore, I broke down and flopped on my bed making a big wet patch. Slowly but surely I got better and helped her pack up her stuff, I gave her a massive hug and then she walked off down the hall and down the stairs until I couldn’t see her. I wondered what to do with myself, Valerie was my best friend and now she’s gone it just feels sucky, but I have to get over it cause it’s only 2 months till I can see her again. I stood up and decided to change my sheets cause I dont really want to sleep on wet sheets tonight. I looked at my watch to see how much time I have until class started when I realised that I had missed class! I wasn’t really bothered because I was busy with my friend and helping her to pack. I made up my bed and washed Vals sheets. I wondered                                                                                                                                                                                              “Why did Val get suspended?” I looked down at the washing machine that was spewing out suds                            “Definitely needa get that fixed”. I wonder what to have for lunch, I looked through the cupboards and found some cup noodles on one of the shelves, I grabbed it out and swiped off the dust, let’s hope this isn’t expired. I looked at the top and peeled back the seal. When I opened the top I found some mold that was building up on the dry noodles.            “Yep, definitely expired” I put it in the bin and immediately took the bag out, tied it and left it in the hall, hoping that someone would pick it up and take it away                                                                                                                                  “That’s my lunch gone”.  I sat down on the couch with my head in my hands thinking about what I could do for the rest of the day, nothing came to mind so I just sat there, minding my own business, until Chile bumps into my leg and plops him bowl in front of me.                                                                                                                                                                  “Welp, guess I’m feeding my dog” I sighed, I grabbed his food and put it on his plate, then I poured some fresh water into his bowl. Pretty much sat on the couch for the rest of the day. When night came, I hopped into my bed and fell asleep, feeling awful, but hopefully I don’t feel worse in the morning.

This was a fun week, and I really did enjoy it. First up the highlight for this week, it was probably the flash mob this morning, it was super fun and I really enjoyed it and there were so many juniors screaming and I got someone who hissed at me, wasn’t sure why tho. Now the challenge, I would probably say getting everyone in time for the flash mob and we only got one proper rehearsal for it, and that was, well, interesting. I really enjoyed this week beausce we also got our icy sliceys which was tasty. Im looking foward to next week.

For the past few of weeks on Mondays and Tuesdays (not today tho), we have been doing Girls Self Defence, and now that we have finished I look back and realize that it has made quite an impact on my life. When I first started Self defence I thought it was just so I could get out of class time. Now that we have finished, I wish it could have kept going because I really enjoyed the learning and all of the different defenses that we could use if we were in dangerous situations. Throughout the session we lernt how to Kick, Punch, Strangle and get someone off you. Our self defence teacher was Linda and she was very good at teaching us all of these strikes and moves. I think this course was useful because now I’m very confident that I can defend myself in diffrent types of situations. I reckon my favourite move was when someone stood in front of you and you flicked their hands off and punched either their nose or stomach. I enjoyed it and I wish that I could do it again and again.

This week was a normal one to say the least. One highlight for this week was tech beacause I got to design a maori pa in Minecraft with Abby,Daisy, Pip and Tygah-leah, I really liked our design, we all had designated areas to work on, Abby and me were on the fence, Tygah and Daisy were doing the trenches, Pip and Eliza were on the food storage. Also another highlight was Action stations because I made a beautiful braclet.One challenge, well there wasn’t any challenge from this week. Overall this week was a good week, but I am looking forward to see what next week brings.

For the past few weeks we have been doing Drama and Theatre sports. Every session we started off with a game, and then we went in to our plays. I was with Dasiy, Pip, Malaya and Zita, I found our play was very interesting and fun. I really enjoyed this action stations. I look forward to the next round of actions.