In the past few weeks, Sharon’s literacy group has been writing their own stories. A good story has to include: A main setting, characters, a plot, conflict, and resolution. My goal was to describe the setting well enough to make it so the reader can picture what’s happening in their mind. I think my story is well structured and it gets a little exiting at times. I really like my story and I think its pretty good. Next time I would like to make my story a little more exciting because the reader could enjoy it more if it’s more intense. Here is a little sample of my story.

One day the family were all sitting on the couch watching the news, it was very windy inside and dark clouds were rushing in. “It’s very cold out there” Kiara shivered as the weather came on the tv. The local man that lives in the small township looked very worried as he began talking “The weather is not looking good for the little township, it looks like there is extreme weather heading towards you folks. There will be severe thunderstorms, and a chance of tornadoes that will be here close to morning. Make sure if you have animals, they need to be under a sturdy shelter, otherwise they are at risk of getting injured when this thunderstorm arrives.”

This week on Thursday we had Tech. For food tech, we made waffles. We made them without sugar. We put flour, baking powder, salt, milk, egg, and dark chocolate chips. We put them in the waffle toaster, and when the light turned green we got them out. We had to work in pairs, I worked with Mackenzie. We got 2 and a half waffles each. They were pretty big so I was fine with that. They were very good, I gave some to my friends and my brother. I really enjoyed tech this week.

On Friday, we had assembly. My class was running assembly and we had a surprise for everyone. Everything was normal, and then music started playing. Our principal was wondering what was going on and she said to stop the music. We did a flash mob. 2 people started dancing in the middle of the hall. Slowly people started to join. In 1 minute the whole Tangaroa was doing the Fireball Line dance. It was really fun. After about 3 minutes the music started to fade out and everyone sat back down like nothing happened.

We also had icy slicey’s this Friday too. Icy slicey’s are ice cream sandwiches. They cost 2 dollars each and I got 2. We usually have them once or twice a year. They are very good and I’m glad I got them.

I hope you liked hearing about my week!

Today in maths we gathered data and used Google sheets to create a graph. Out topic was, drinks people like the most. It was out of Fizzy, Water, and juice. Some features are title, labels like the numbers, and the key. it’s out of boys and girls and the number of people that chose their drinks. I noticed that Juice had an even amount of boys and girls. There were no girls that chose fizzy and Juice was the most popular drink by 1 vote.

This week I had office duty on Wednesday. I did it with Harper. Office duty is when the office lady goes on her break and we have to manage the reception. You have to answer calls and help kids who have hurt themselves. No one called the phone this week but someone did come into the sickbay. Me and Harper do office duty every Wednesday.

We also had dodgeball on Wednesday day, I was able to go because I had enough points from mahi – a – tahi.  You have to have 3 points on Wednesday to play dodgeball, and you have to have 5 on Friday. Dodgeball is always really fun, but it was very annoying when people targeted me and my friends.

On Thursday we had tech. I am in cooking and I made pancakes. I knew I would be good at it because I have made pancakes at my house before. We had to make them by ourselves. Our teacher told us what equipment we needed and what ingredients. It was really fun making big pancakes and little pancakes, you could make them any shape or size. I gave my friends some and they really enjoyed them. I also gave some to my brother and he said they were very good. Next week we are going to make healthy waffles.

I hope you liked hearing about my week!!!

This week I went to Tech, Kapa haka, Pasifika, and I also had swimming sports.

On Wednesday we did pasifika and we practice our sasa. The sasa is really fast and it’s really confusing. I like the sasa, because it looks really cool when you watch, because everyone is in sync. We also learnt a new song.

On Thursday, we did Kapa haka, we learnt a new song called “Ko Te Waiponamu”. We also learnt the actions, it was pretty easy because we only learnt the 1st part of the song and it was pretty small so we got it done pretty quickly. We also did a song that we had already pretty much learnt, it was called “Ko tahi kapua” .

We also went to Tech on Thursday and, for cooking, we made french toast. We had to make the french toast without eggs, because some people are allergic. The french toast was really good and I really enjoyed making and eating it.

Today we had swimming sports and I raced in 3 things. I did Backstroke, then Breaststroke and then I did freestyle. For backstroke, I came 2nd, because I accidentally crashed into the rope. In breaststroke I came 1st. Last of all in Freestyle I came 2nd. I am pretty sure I got into zones for the 3 things I did, but I will need to make sure.

I hope you liked hearing about my week!

Today we did 100 division questions in 10 minutes.

I got 83 correct in about 10 minutes. Next time I want to  get the test in at least 6-7 minutes.

I really need to work on my speed. To do this I will practice my division skills and get it in less time than I did today.

This was my 5th week in Tangaroa. On Thursday we had tech and I did cooking. We made kebabs on rice. Our cooking teacher taught our group to mix sauces, and we also had to cut the sausages we put on the kebab stick.

We also had Kapa haka, in Kapa haka we are learning some new songs. Kapa haka is mainly every week on Thursdays.

This week was the usual except we had assembly. This week Rongo Ma Tane ran assembly. Because I’m a year 7, I was able to sit on the chairs at the back of the hall, this was my first time. I hope you liked hearing about my week!

Today I did a Haiku poem. A Haiku poem is where the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5. This continues for every line. I did mine about our Spencer park camp we went on last week.

I hope you like it!

For swimming safety, we had to make statements about these graphs below. They show the amount of drownings that happened in 2018-19. I made 3 statements for each graph.

Today in maths we did a Time stable test, to see if we knew our multiplaction facts.

We had to answer 100 questions in 10 minutes. I got 96 out of 100 in 10 minutes. My goal is to work on speed, so I can finish quicker. Next time I want to complete the test in less than 6 minutes, and maybe get 100%.

To achieve this I am going to work on my 9 and 8 tables, because those are the ones that I found hardest, while doing the test. I also will practice getting the test done faster.