Word of The Week

Word:

SPECTACULAR!

Definition:  

Google: beautiful in a dramatic and eye-catching way.
My Definition: Amazing, beautiful.

What type of word is it?

Adjective

Image:  

Synonym:

Extravaganza

Antonym:

Unexciting

My Weekly Reflection

Plus:

My plus for this week is sports rotation on Thursday. This was the plus for my week because I learnt how to play a new game. Capture the ball, (capture the flag but with a ball). 

Minus:

My minus this week is that people aren't treating me nicely. They are saying things that don't need to be said. 

Interesting:

An interesting thing that happened this week was cheerleading. Miss Williams has organised all the girls into two cheerleading teams I am super excited to start. 

My WW2 Narrative!

Recently I have started a Historical Fiction Narrative. I have based it around WW2. My narrative is a series of letters between a Father and Son. Here is a taster of my story:

5th September 1939,

My dear beloved wife and son,

As soon as I stumbled off of The Black Prince, I inhaled the fresh sea air and struggled to stay balanced. My body was still swaying to the rhythm of the sea, after being stuck on the ship for so long. The first thing I noticed was that there was a rugged landscape covered in bombshells, soldiers, tanks, every war machines and weapons you could possibly think of. Unfortunately, this is the lonely place I will have to call home for the next… who knows how long?

My ears are still ringing from the bomb that was dropped on the Brandenburg Gate. I just can’t get the picture of the innocent people who got caught in the blast. We could see the blast from a mile away. I am lucky to say that we were heading to base camp when the bomb was dropped.

I hope you enjoyed the start of my story! I hope to post the full story on here!

My Book Bash Role

My Weekly Reflection

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My plus for this week would be cheerleading. The year 7&8’s have had the opportunity to createa cheerleading routine and do a set gymnastics routine! I am super excited to start!	My minus for this week would be nothing! I think that I have had a great week this week.	An interesting thing that happened this week was I started my narrative story for Elise Locke.

My Weekly News

Super Sized Cat

Have you ever heard of a super-sized cat? Well, I certainly haven’t. Omar that cat was the same size as all of the kittens in his litter when his owner Stephy Hirst in 2013. But four years later Omar is 120 cm and weighs 14.5kg! Omar the cat from Melbourne, could be the biggest cat in the world! He is too heavy to pick up regularly and has to be taken to the vet in a dog crate.

Omar usually gets up at about 5:00 am and eats a couple of scoops of dry cat biscuits for breakfast then lounges around the house, plays in the backyard and lays on the tramp. He then has kangaroo meat for dinner. Omar has a special talent for opening doors, kitchen cupboards, shower screens and wardrobes.

Stephy started a social media account for Omar two weeks ago and one of the posts on the account has already been shared 270,000 times! Guinness World Records contacted Stephy and asked for the measurements of Omar. The previous world record for the largest cat was 118 cm cat from the UK.

Book Bash!

Marama has officially started book bash! I am reading the Sheep On The Fourth Floor. This is what the blurb says:

Anna is a well behaved and obedient child, who is horrified when she organises a school trip to her mother's laboratory and discovers they experiment on live animals.

A sheep is being held on the fourth floor of a secure building, away from all the things that make life good for a sheep and he will be killed and dissected when her mother's experiment is finished.

Sick at heart with what she now knows she is further rocked to discover her father has his own secret. What follows is her way of dealing with her own moral dilemma - exciting, funny poignant and probably illegal.

I am super excited to read this book!

My IE Reflection

Reps

Hauraki Plains Netball Rep Team

Last Saturday, Hauraki Plains Netball Centre had their annual reps trials. This year I was trialling as a year 8, there were around 20 year 8 girls trying to get into this team. I thought that my trial went really well. I was placed in the two positions that I play the best in which was great. We had two mini games and I was on for both. We were lucky enough to have Alex Macleod-Smith ( A player in the Waikato Bay Of Plenty Magic Netball team!) At our trials to warm us up and play games while we waited for the other teams to finish. I had a lot of fun! Today when I came to school everyone came up to me and said go and look at the notice board, so I went and looked and saw that I got into the rep team!

SCIENCE

Winter Sport!

The Netball Season Has Started!

Finally, the netball season has started! A few weeks ago Ngatea Primary School Junior Netball held their netball trials. I managed to get into the A-Team, which is called Ngatea Magic. The coach for the team is Ange ( Lara's Mum ). She was my coach a couple of years ago. I think that she is an amazing coach. We have our training on Mondays and our games on Wednesdays.  For the first two weeks, the teams from all over Hauraki Plains are being graded. Our team is aiming to be in the top grade.

This week for training we did lots of pushups, ball skills and running around. At the end or our training, we played a mini game against Ngatea Force ( the B Team ). We won the game by far. Our first game of the season was against Combined 2. It was a great game; we won 23 - 0. In the second game

My Weekly News

Ed Sheeran Look Alike!

There is a baby girl in the UK who looks exactly like a young version of Ed Sheeran. Her name is Isla Walton and she is two years old. Her mum, Zoe Walton said that family members had always pointed out how much she looked like Ed. Isla and her family have no relation to Ed, but they would both love to meet him because they are big fans! The Walton family live in Exeter, Devon, England. Here are a few picture of Isla and Ed:



I hope you enjoyed reading this weird and wonderful news! 

Source : http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/ed-sheeran-look-alike/

Chasing Great

Key Points:  Identify and explain at least 5 key points/ideas/notions/thoughts about leadership and learning from the movie:

1. If one way doesn’t work try another

2. Set goals and push yourself to achieve them

3. Learn from your failures - celebrate them

4.  Make a plan

5.  Work hard

And MORE...

If you met Richie McCaw… Draft in your Writing Journal and post on your BLOG!

1. What OPEN question would you ask him?

What traits do you think makes a great leader?

2. What would you thank him for?

I would thank him for being a great leader of the All Blacks and being a leader of our country - a role model.

3. What else would you say to him/ask him about/tell him…?

I would tell him about leadership at our school and how he shows great values of a leader and has taught many students at our school how to be great leaders.

Describe Richie McCaw with 3 words

Camp Reflection

My goal for camp was to have a go at all of the activities and have a go! I think that I definitely achieved this goal because at Rockin Ropes I stepped out of my comfort zone and gave the giant swing a go! I really enjoyed it. I went to camp so I could build positive relationships with others in my class. While I was at camp I learnt lots about myself and what leadership qualities that I have and how to use them when I was working in a team with others.

I am so proud of myself for doing the swing at Rockin Ropes because when I was looking at it from the ground I could see the platform at the top of the 15-metre high pole swinging. It was really intimidating but as soon as I started climbing up I knew that I couldn’t go back down. But my least favourite thing was getting a hugeeeee wedgie from the harness. The swing was by far the scariest thing that I did on camp.

My favourite thing I did at camp was kayaking down the Huka Falls river! For the kayaking, I was in a kayak by myself. We started in a lagoon and then kayaked off down the river. We had the coolest instructor, his name was Robbie. He took lots of photos for us. He even splashed us while we were kayaking. Half way through the kayak we stopped a little hot spring. The best part of it was going down the rapids at the end and quickly turning off before we go on an unpleasant journey down the falls!

The funniest thing that happened on camp was probably when I went to visit Ayisha, Aly, Lara and Emma’s cabin and they told me about “Jimmy” the ghost who stole the tv remote and kept turning on the tv. Everyone thought it was Ayisha! I really enjoyed making lots of positive relationships with others and doing activities with people who I don’t usually work with.

When we went to the Huka Prawn Park I found out that catching prawns is actually really hard. First, we went for a walk around the park, we fed the trout and did the water activities. Then we went for a tour of the park and got to see where the prawns grow up, we got to feed the baby prawns and the tour guide showed us how to catch the prawns. I thoroughly enjoyed catching the prawns. I ended up catching four (with the help of Finn).  It was really funny because I had a little bit of bait on my rod so I left it in the water and went to go get some lunch. When I came back I had a pleasant surprise and there was a prawn hanging on the end!

My favourite parent helper was Rachel Barker because she was super encouraging when we were doing the amazing race even when we went the wrong way and encouraged us to step out of our comfort zone in the activities that we did. She was a great driver and cabin mum. I was impressed by Dilyn and Josh M for putting up with our music in the car! And at Rocking Ropes they stepped out of their comfort zone and went on the swing.

Overall I had an amazing camp experience, I wish it was longer though! 

Here are some photos:

My Leadership Hero

My Nana is my leadership hero because she has great leadership qualities such as an open mind, positivity, originality and much more. I look up to my Nana because she has the willingness to help with anything and help the community. My Nana is a part of the local Lionesses club. They play an active part in the local community, helping those less fortunate, as well as enjoying a social life with others in the community. I am very proud to have a Nana who is so involved with the community and is always happy to help