Speech

They people who reviewed me said I was good but could of slowed down. It was the nervous kicking in. Also cause I was the first one to go in the whole class so I felt a bit scared. I think I did well by having good information and sticking to the main points of my topic. I also thought I did well by having cue cards if I needed them  that only had a maximum of  7 words on them.

What I think I could of done better was to memorise my speech more, slow down while talking, to act normal while standing and not moving side to side and last but not least to speak LOUDER!!!!

Did anyone moving side to side and couldn't stop fidgeting while saying your speech?

Achieving my Goals

From the beggining of term 4 my goals were to improve on my writing skills, R.E , Spelling and sports  So far I have achived :

Writing skills- I have learnt of all the different kinds of language features and I'm starting to use them more often when I write things.
Sports-  tryied my hardest in sprints and came 3rd  so not last
Spelling- I'm starting to use more longer and harder words with silent letters in them


The main one I need to practice more for term 4 is:

R.E- I  need to listen more and take notes down about things I don't know and participate more in group discussion.

Some goal that I want to achieve for this term is to become quick thinker in math and to read more books so I can get ideas when it comes to writing my recounts and having to make the reader feel what I was feeling.

What goal is the one that you need to achieve the most?

Maths

The five points of math that I'm confident is to
 Add and subtract numbers, fractions and decimals.
Multiply and divided numbers, decimals and fractions
Area, perimeter and volume
Name of shapes
Coordinates

The two points of math that I'm not sure how to do is
Ratios and Measurements

If anyone knows how to do Ratios and measurements please help me

From NICOLE

What I learnt

This week I  learnt several things about Ancient Rome they are:
* they had 22 letters in there alphabet
*girls at the age of 12 left school to get ready for marriage
*Greek slaves were there teachers
*They added 22 or 23 days every year for the Roman calendar
and lot's more. It's really exciting and now I want to visit Rome and see all the cool buildings and what is still standing!

What is something that you found very interesting about Ancient Rome?

Holidays

During the holidays me and my family went to Nelson. To get there we went on the Interislander. It is one of the biggest fairy` I have been on. While we were on the fairy we saw some of our friends so we hanged out with them until we reached our destination, Picton. When we arrived we thought that Nelson was only an 1 hour away turns out it was 4 hours away so I was pretty annoyed about that.  When we reached Nelson we went to this Motel called Tahuna Beach Resort. In the Motel there were two playgrounds, mini putt and a beach. 

We stayed there for 3 nights and 4 days and had heaps of fun just relaxing and having fun. My favourite thing during the holidays was going to this special place where it had golden sand it was beautiful and the water was nice and warm. While we were on the beach we decided to play volleyball and me and my dad won. It was a great holiday but it was time to head home to our dog, Milo.

On the last week of the holidays me, my brother and my sister went up to Liven and went white baiting with my nanny. We went to our tribes river and caught about 4 shoals. We were out at 8:00 am and went home at 12:00 in time for lunch. It took 5 hours just watching the river to see any whitebait but we had a fun time with our nanny.

Have you ever gone White Baiting with your family?

Passion Project

For my passion project I am going to make a website.
I am doing this with some help from Anna. 
Since she wants to be photographer I was thinking if I could put her photos up on my website,and she agreed with that. 
Each week I am going to try my best to make a great website and have bright colours for the layout. For the web there needs to be a name so I was thinking of calling it (Cool photos.com)

If you were making a web what name would you call it?

My Poem

The Beach

As I watched,

The waves rolled in and out,

Spraying sea salt.

The sand tickled my toes

Crawling up my feet

The breeze from the cool air

Lifted my hair

And the seaweed

Rising and dropping,

In time with the waves,

Seashells clinging in my ears

As the sun shined on them

As I watched

The waves roll in and out

The reason why I based my poem on a beach is because when I first arrived here in New Zealand we took our suitcases to the house we were staying in, and then we went straight to the beach in Seatoun. It was a sunny Wellington day and the ocean was calm. When I first stepped onto the sand if felt like the sand was tickling my toes. That’s how I got the line” The sand tickled my toes” There was a Warf there so me my brother and my sister decided to jump off it.  After me and my family had a swim we sat down on the sand and watched the waves roll in and out. That’s how I got the line “As I watched, the waves rolled in and out” It was a nice day but it started to get cold so we started to walk back home but then we saw some  beautiful seashells shining in the sun.  That’s how I got the line “As the sun shined on them.”

TV Show

Shortland Street

Shortland Street is on every week night at 7:00 p.m. on TV2.  It's about a hospital where everyone knows each other and looks after each other. It is placed in Auckland, New Zealand so it's famous through out New Zealand.

Shortland Street has been running since it was first broadcast on the 25th of May 1992 and is still running. There are also some characters who are still in Shortland Street from the first episode. Dr. Chris Warner (Michael Gavin, On the Left)

My favorite character is Roimata Samuels (Shavaughn Ruakere). She is married to TK Samuels(Benjamin Mitchell) and is an excellent nurse. She is very loving and caring and seems like a lovable person.( Bottom is 

                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                               Roimata Samuels on the left              

                                                                                                                   TK Samuels on the right Do You like watching Shortland Street?                    

If you do who's your favourite character?

Production is Over

On Wednesday the 29th and Thrusday the 30th of Auguest we had our school production. It was called " Not another Fairy Tale" It took us a long time to get it ready and I think it turned out great

 We all did our best and we all had a fun time. I really enjoyed our dances because they looked really cool and awesome. My favourite dance was the  King Midas dance because we had colourful capes which made us stand out and made us look like we had swag..

Backstage everyone was taking lots of photos of people in their costumes, here are some:

Something interesting that had happened!

*Something interesting that had happened was at Tech at Mount Cook School. I am now in Sewing and I am making a pillow. I'm not sure what I'm going to put on it but I was thinking of a dog paw since I have a dog.

*Something that is interesting is that I made it into the Northen Zone for swimming. I got in to 25m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 25m breaskstroke and the relays so I made it into all the strokes I made it into.

Production- What to do

For the production I have to get my costumes ready and to practisce the sword twirling in the Hero Dance.

For the costumes I have to wear theses three costumes and so far I have a little bit of each
Cleaning Lady= I need to wear a blue dress with a white apron.
Courtiers= I need to wear black fatpants white long socks and a white school shirt
Major Domo = I need to wear a suite


I need to bring in the rest of my costumes

Fav Olympic Sport

My favourite Olympic sport to watch is both men and women Gymnastics. 

In Gym the men have to compete in: High Bar, Vault, Still Rings, Pommel Horse, Parallel Bars and Floor Exercise and Women have to compete in: Balance Beam, Floor Exercise, Uneven Bars and Vault. They do different objects because the men have more strengths then the women so they get given harder equipment to even it out.

New Zealand didn't enter into gymnastics so I went for China to win. In the end America won the team final and the women all around individual final. 

I like watching gymnastics because it's amazing how they do flips and make it look really easy also. I started to get interested into gymnastics more when Rosie showed my some of her videos that she did during her gym class. I have also seen Rosie in real life doing a cartwheel with no hand on the ground for school production.

If you were a judge in a gymnastic competition which equipment would you most be excited to watch?

Obsession

My current obsession is playing Netball. Its a sport where your on your feet for the whole time and calling for the ball. It's a fun sport to play with team mates and against other people.Netball started in England in 1895 and is played from all over the world. 


On the right is Maria Tutaia  who is my favourite Netball player in the Silver Ferns

Major Domo

Major Domo

For the production my role is the Major Domo. What this character does is invites everyone that has been in a speaking part of the play back on stage so the audience can gives them around of applause.

To make sure my role is successful is that I will practise more often and to perform in a big crowd to get more confident so I'm more comfortable of standing in front of people .

To make sure I practise my lines enough I will manage my time by finishing my tasks as early as I can and to do less talking in class and more concentrating in class

What do you think you will find hard during the production?

My answer:  Getting everything ready in time and changing into different costumes at a fast speed.

Holidays

During the holidays I spent the first week with my nanny up in Levin. We had so much fun together and I even started a small business with the help from my nanny and aunties. I had to put different categories into different folders and to sort out GST and Student Loans stuff. It was stressful at start but I manage to finish early so the reward was to take me to the Levin park.  

 During the holidays did you do some paper work?           Did you enjoy your holidays?
Did you got to a park for a reward?

Kowhaiwhai

This is my kowhaiwhai pattern. I used korus as the main pattern.
I also used the colors black, white and red.


What did you use on your pattern?

Reflection on Master Chief

Two weeks ago we had a Master chief competition between both classes. The core ingredient was apples. It was optional is you wanted to do it or not. I chose to do it but with my two friends Caitlin R and Anna. 

We had lots of fun making 3 different apple cakes and they all tasted really nice. During the competition both of the Bolgers would taste all the food we brought in and write down what they like about it. There were really good apple recipes which tasted really good.

At the end of the week the Bolgers would announce the winners of the best apple recipe. Unfortunately it wasn't our group but when we were making all the cakes we had a lot of fun together and ate the left overs from school.

If you could do your recipe all over again wold you change your idea or keep it the same?

Reflection of Leo

Leo

In my group which is Rosie, Hannah and I we have chosen the constellation of Leo. We chose Leo because it seemed very interesting and had lots of galaxies near by.

In our group the skills we used to corporate were Caring and Respect. We used these skills so that we could agree with each other and that it was easy to do research.

When it came to the research we chose what questions we wanted to do and it worked out fine. The tasks I was responsible for were to find out Myths about Leo and what Leo looks like.


In my group I think Hannah did an EXCELLENT job. She has made the slideshow and has put all the information together that me and Rosie collected. Hannah also would helped me when I would get stuck on something.

I also thought Rosie did a great job by doing the art stuff and saying what looks good and what looks bad.

* During the Science constellation have you had fun?
*Was there any things you found hard during this Science constellation?

What hve I learnt

This week I have learnt how to write out a method for ingredients and for our science fair projects. At first  it was a bit frustrating to write what is happening but then I got use to it and my instructions turned out exactly what had happened during Mrs. cooking class.

I have also learnt how to calculate angles by not using a protractor. At first it seemed very easy because we were doing simple things, but as we got more experience we started getting more harder work but then I kept on practising so know I have learnt how to calculate angles.

Did you find calculating angles easy or hard?

Did you like Mrs. Bolger's cooking? 

Fav Hobbies

Well I have lots of favourite hobbies but the main 3 I like are:

            
 Swimming = I like swimming because it's enjoyable when you are playing games with your friends or families and even people who you meet at the swimming pool. I also really enjoy swimming competitions because it makes your work hard and also so that you can get an award. 

Touch Rugby = I like touch rugby because it really fun when you play it with friends and famiilies. You get involved alot in the game and most of the time your running or passing the rugby ball. I started playing touch rugby when I was 9 and I still enjoy playing it.

Netball= I like netball because its fun playing with a team. There are lots of competistions and lots of teams who sign up. Netball is a fun sport for girls and is very agressive.  

Are  you hobbies agressive? Do your hobbies includes team-work?

Book Review

Cliff Hanger

Jacqueline Wilson

This book is about a young boy named Tim and he doesn’t like sports. His Dad tries to teach him how to play different sports but for starters he can’t even catch a ball so his Dad gave up. One day his Dad was reading through the newspaper and saw an article about an adventure holidays for kids. Tim’s Dad was really interested and was trying to persuade Tim that it would be really fun but all Tim’s Mum was thinking about his safety first. 

“ Don’t let go of the rope, right?” said Jake.

“This couldn’t be real. It couldn’t be happening to me. If I closed my eyes maybe it would all turn into a nightmare and then I’d wake up in bed at home with Walter Bear,” thought Tim.

Tim arrives at the holiday program and people start teasing him but then suddenly he became a hero.

This book is a short novel but really funny. It is also a very interesting book which would make you laugh.  It is recommended for children from the ages of 8 to 11. If you like humorous books this a a great story for you to read.

An Amazing art work

This is a piece of art work that we have been doing in class recently. This is my second copy because my first one was terrible and I also messed it up. The reason why I chose this was because I really like the color and it looks really cool. I also really like how just by using a straw and blowing can make the branches.

When you did your art did you mess up your first one? Do you think my is cool? :)   Do you like your art?

 

My Holiday

Hi, how was your holiday? but first let me tell you about mine....

On the first week of the holiday I was really happy because I got to sleep longer in the morning, but also because my Dad was at home. During the week the weather was great so me and my family would run down to Nairnville with our puppy and we would play lots of different sports. We did this so me and my sister had some practice for the cross-country coming up.

During the 2nd week of the holiday me and my sister went to a netball program at the ASB Stadium. It was from Monday til Friday and the time was from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm and it was really tiring. We did lots of drills and games to help us improve our skills. In the afternoon we had lunch and then dancing. We did all kinds of dancing like: Jazz, Zumba, Cheer leading, Funk and Hip hop.  My favorite one was Jazz because the teacher we had was really nice and chose a really good song to dance to.

On the Friday we had a big netball tournament. My team came 2nd which was fine. Then they gave out awards of most improved player and I was chosen. I was given a poster of the Pulse and a certificate. I was really proud of myself and hope I use my skills in netball at school.

After the Netball tournament I had soccer practise. I was really sore but I got to see my friends Anna, Caitlin and Gabby and got to know what they did on the holidays. 

On the last day of the holiday I had my first soccer game in New Zealand. We drew with another team but we should have won. I felt really proud of myself and can't wait to play another game.

Thanks for reading about my Holiday and hope you enjoyed yours as much as I did.


From Nicole

Achieving My Goals

Hi!!! This week we had to write if we have achived our goals from what we wrote back on the frist week of school. So let me tell you about it.

From the beggining of school my goals were to improve on spelling, reading, sports and R.E. So far I have achived :

Reading- I know read more books often than what I use to
Sports- Getting involved more and now I'm in the netball, Soccer and Basketball team
Spelling- Not so much but my spelling is way better than when I started school so I have improved a little bit
R.E- I still need to improve more because I don't know alot about all the bible's and special occasion things.

What were some goals that you have achived and they ones that you haven't achived?

Thanks for reading my blog and hope you achived all your goals!!!!!!! :)

Welcome to Coley's Blog

                                                        Welcome and Hi

Hi this is my blog. My favourite hobbies are Touch Rugby, Swimming, Soccer, Basketball and Netball. My favourite author is Jacqueline Wilson I have read almost all her books. My favourite food is home made pizza from my friends family in Singapore. I have lot's of best friends and I miss them so much. I have a puppy who's name is milo and he is very cute.