Waka Ama

Last week I went to Waka Ama with the rest of the Marama Students. We got to have a go in a Waka, go mountain biking, learn a song and do army marching. I enjoyed doing the Waka the best because I haven't really been in a Waka before - (Apart from last year at Waka Ama) The event was heald at Huntley college but we mountain biked at did Waka Ama at the lake. I also enjoyed doing mountain biking because there was heaps of puddles and it was quite a long ride. In the Waka we had to cheer along to the Haka and we mixed it around to make it our own. I recommend this day because you learn a lot about the Maori culture that you might not have already known.

End of the alphabet

Since the start of this term my Reading club group have been reading a book called the end of the alphabet. It's a bout a fourteen year old girl called Ruby Yarrow, that a has really annoying/naughty brother called Max, Two little brothers and her Mum plus Step Dad. Her Mum used to spoil Max when he was younger and now he has turned into a nasty kid. Ruby's Mum always relies on her to cook the dinners, clean the house, look after the little ones plus a whole lot of other jobs. Ruby can't read or write, so Max always gets to have his own room so he can 'Consecrate' on his homework while Ruby is the one that is with the little kids, and she actually needs a desk so she can learn! In the end Max is so sick of living with the rest of the Yarrow's so his Father send him a ticket to go at live with him in Australia, mean while Ruby has a job trying to save up to go to Brazil, and Max soon decides that we wants to come home but her parents can't pay for the ticket home. Ruby ends up paying for her horrible brother to come back to New Zealand but she stands her ground and keeps her own room which causes  more trouble in the house. So Calvin - (The step Dad) Has a great idea to build a sleep out with Max so he can have his own room and so can Ruby until he goes to counseling and his counselor says he shouldn't get the sleep out, he should be inside with the rest of the family. He continued to build the sleep out but it actually became Ruby's. In the end everything was good and Ruby had book her tickets to go to Brazil! Also at the beginig Ruby was like a door mat but her best friend Tia told her to stop letting her family walk all over her and stop being so shy. Now she is going to Brazil, she has sorted out Max and her Mum doesn't spoil him anymore, and she might have won a boyfriend over....

Read the book to find out more!!

Floor Planner task week 5

Over the past two weeks the Marama syndicate have been designing their own class room/learning spaces on a website called Floor planner. As part of the task we had to make a creative poster, this is mine:

And this is a snapshot of the dream classroom I designed:

It has different learning spaces, like a reading and independent room, A teacher conference/group room, A big art room and a partner room. I enjoyed making this because I got to use really different furniture, like glass desks, a chair called and egg chair and heaps more! The space up the top is the art area so that space would have lino in case of spilled paint or anything else like that.

I think that making this floor planner was really fun an I hope that on day my classroom really does look like that!

NYLD - National Young Leaders Day

Last week on Thursday I went on a school trip to Auckland were we learnt what quality's a good leader needs. There were five speakers and my favorite speakers were, Cam Calkoen, Dave Atkinson and Erin Simpson!! The theme of the day was called heros. I enjoyed this day because I heard a really great inspiring story from Cam Calkoen. He has a disability but he said that he didn't let that stop him from doing anything, Cam has been and represented New Zealand in athletics, he also was scared about speaking live in front of people but now he speaks all over the world sharing his amazing story to people all ages. He says his favorite word is 'Awesome!' Cam said that being awesome is awesome. I also liked a guy called Dave because he was really funny and he talked about his life when he was younger. And my third favorite speaker was Erin Simpson, off the Erin Simpson show! She told us that if she wasn't a T.V presenter she would be a tattoo artist or an artist! Erin made me think about how much fun it would be to have your own show and now I sorta want to have my own show. I enjoyed National Young Leaders Day because it was fun, funny, inspiring, and I learnt a lot from it!

Proud of my Maths

Over the past two weeks my Maths group have been learning about how to work out questions using a formula. At first I didn't know how to use a formula or how to create one so I went home and asked my Dad because he is really good with maths. Now I know how to use formulas and I think that they are a really fun way to work out maths equations. In the first worksheet we done I got all my questions right apart from one, and on the second worksheet - (Witch was a little harder) I got just over halve of them right! So far this is my favorite maths task I've done this year. 

Zentangle art

Since the start of the term we have been doing Zentangle art with only sharpies. Zentangle art is a relaxing hobby where you can just sit down and draw patterns all over a piece of paper. It's different to drawing because you have to make it really really detailed. Lots of lines and lots of different patterns. We first had to practice on a little piece of paper then we went onto doing it on a big piece of colored paper.

These are my two Zentangles so far.

My practice 

My second practice

I'm onto a third Zentangle art and it's my name in block letters. I'm zentangling the inside of my block letters.

The first Holidays 2013

Over the holidays I invited Lucy to come to the movies with the rest of my family, and one of my brothers friends. We went to the Pukekohe Cinema three theater to watch The Croods in 3D! The Croods is about a young caveman teenager who hates living in a cave with the rest of her mad family. Shes always running away and hiding, and one night she sneaks out of the cave and follows the light from a fire. When she reaches the fire she realizes that there's a human camping out there and then the human called Guy tells her that the world that they are living in is going to end. Her over protective Dad doesn't believe her until a huge earth quake happens and their cave is crushed. The teenager is called Eep, and Eep and Guy end up liking each other. Eep's Dad decided that the family needed to move away from the area so they start to walk to a high mountain, and Eep convinces her Mum and Dad to let Guy come along, so that he can use his human skills to keep them safe along to journey. Thats when the adventure starts and eventually the caveman family finds a place really awesome to live!! The best part about watching this movie was that I got to watch it in 3D with a really cool friend! We got to have a drink, M&M's, Skittles and popcorn while we watched the movie! After the movie we went to Rebel Sport, and the Warehouse, and at the Warehouse I got Geelez, they are these stickers that you paint the you can stick them anywhere, and the best thing is you can re-stick them again.! At the moment my favorite movie is The Croods!