Would You Rather...

This morning my class started of the by completing a quick writing task. We had to... Create 'Would You Rathers!' I wrote 12 in total, after writing them we had to chose a favourite and share it with the class and publish it to our blogs! We did this writing so that we could start a good discussion in the class. Here is my Would You Rather...

So, what would you rather?

Athletics Day

Every year our school has an athletics day. I like participating in athletics because I like all of the categorises, I am not a very big fan of discus and shot put though. I really enjoy long jump, high jump and running. We do lots of events every year, which I try to blog about. We do many activities on athletics day like long jump, high jump, discus, shot put, sprints and running.

We were put into our age groups first, then we are taken off in our age groups to do different activities in a rotation. The 11 year old's (my group & I) were taken to sprints first, we lined up, Mr Knight said "take your marks, get set... GO!!" I ran all the way to the line at the end, I almost over took Liana but, she just bet me! We then moved on to high jump, the highest I could jump was 105cm (which is still pretty high!) Our next rotation took us to shot put then we moved on to ... Long jump, in long jump I jumped 3m something and I almost hit the wood at the end! We ran out of time on Tuesday so we didn't finish our last rotation but, we finished that the next day on Wednesday. Our last rotation was discus (the one I dread the most!)

I came 2nd in the sprints, 2nd in the 2 lap run and 2nd in the 3 lap run, 2nd in high jump, 1st or 2nd in shot put, 1st or 2nd in long jump and 3rd in discus. I had a super fun day, I can't wait for next years athletics day!!! My Dad took some pictures of me (Below)

Simile Writing About Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce currently holds the record for the 100m sprint and has been crowned “world’s fastest woman” a record four times! I did some simile writing about her (under picture) She is currently 33 years of age and was educated in Jamaica.During her college years she did well in athletics, winning the Jamaican Schools Championships at the age of 16. She went on to win many races at both the Olympics and the World Championships. Over the years people have compared her running speed to elite sprinters, like Usain Bolt, to many things, including animals!
(image attribution: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/natl-blade-runner-pistorius-makes-olympic-debut/2034566)

Here is my writing ... (below)

As fast as a shiny new gold super car with new rims and tyres,
As tall as a giraffe with an extra large neck that reaches the cloud
Is as small as a new born baby all wrapped up in a soft, warm cotton blanket,
Is as beautiful as a butterfly’s delicate colourful wide spread wings.

How To Find An Image Attribution

Today, I will be showing you how to find a image attribution. Watch this short clip on how to find an image attribution...

How To Find Labelled For Reuse Pictures

Today, I will be showing you how to find labelled for reuse pictures when doing a Google search. Watch this short clip to find out how...

Pepeha

English Version: My mountain is Mt Macedon, My water/river is Coliban river, My town is Trentham, My country is Austrailia, My mum is Robyn, My dad is Robert, My little brother is Tim, My grandparents are Fred & Karen, My pets are 2 dogs, 4 goldfish, 10 goats, 3 guinea pigs, I now live in New Zealand with my family

Maori Version:

Taku maunga ko Mt Macedon, Ko taku wai / awa he awa Coliban, Ko Trentham taku taone, Ko Austrailia taku whenua, Ko taku whaea ko Robyn, Ko Robert toku papa, Ko taku tuakana iti ko Tim, Ko ōku mātua koroua ko Fred & Karen, He piaku 2 nga kuri, 4 nga ika koura, 10 nga koati, 3 nga poaka guinea, Kei te noho ahau inaianei ki Aotearoa me oku whanau

Sorry if I have made any mistakes, as I said I am a native English speaker so I don't know much about Maori speaking or pepeha's.

Prize Giving!!!

Every Monday night my parents take my little brother and I to Gisborne (a one hour and 15 minutes from home) This is because my brother and I are enrolled in a St John Youth programme. I have been doing this for 2-3 years. The reason I enrolled is because when I was really little around the age of 3, I wanted to be a doctor and my Pa being a helper in the hospital got me a real doctors uniform and I loved it! Now, I want to be paramedic so ever since I was little my dream hasn't changed a lot because I've always enjoyed helping people, plus I don't squirm when I see blood and bones and that kind of stuff. St John Youth programme offers more than just first aid. At prize giving I received 1st for best first aid and 1st for best caregiver.

Lemony Lemon Cordial

Yesterday, my Nan and I made Lemon & Orange Cordial. We started by chopping lemons and oranges in half then squeezing the juice out of them. After we had a 5 litre pot full of juice we added 3.6kg's of sugar. After that we stirred the mixture until all of the sugar was dissolved. We carefully poured the syrup into bottles and let cool. Have you ever created a drink like this? Here is our final product...

Image Attribution

Today I was learning how to find an image attribution and how to find information and facts.
I enjoyed learning more about Lorde and creating a poster about her.
I found it challenging to create the facts in my own words with some sentences.
My digital learning object shows that I understand how to find facts, create a poster and find an image attribution.
Next time I would change the layout of my poster and I would also change the facts and images.
Do you know how to find an image attribution?

Rm 4 Is In New York!!!

In this image I used remove background to take the background off of a picture of us on camp to make it look like we were in New York!!! Here 'above' is the fake image and below is the real image.

Cook's Cove Walk

Camp Ground

Nervous, Falling, SPLASH!!!!

As you know, we have recently been on camp @ Anaura Bay. Everyone took many photo's, I was scrolling through the photo's when I saw a photo of Rylee and I jumping off the wharf, an idea suddenly popped into my head. Here is how I made it, I made a google drawings, then used shapes to create a wharf, water and sky. After that I went on to the Remove Background website and used that to cut the background off of the picture of, Rylee and I jumping off the wharf. I added some splashes to were my legs had hit the water and that 'above' is the final project.

Toilet & King

Every Wednesday, Graham from Poverty Bay Cricket Association comes to our school to teach us cricket skills. He teaches us games, throwing, bowling & batting lessons and great techniques. One of my favourite games was the Toilet & King. In the set of slides above I had showed a set of instructions and created an animation demonstrating how you play.

Here is my class playing cricket with Graham,

AMAZING ANAURA!

My class (Rm 4) went on a weeks camp to Anaura Bay, I had heaps & heaps of fun!!! And will have many up coming blog post about camp coming. Here is some places we travelled when we were on camp...
(P.S- Sorry that there are two videos, screencastify wouldn't let me film for that long so I had to do 2 separate videos. Hope you enjoy!)
 (play second video to finish off our trip!) 

AG Day 2019

A couple of weeks ago, our school held AG day. On AG day we bring animals, this year I took my 3 legged dog, Cindy, my baby twin goats Nutmeg & Sugar and my lamb Lulu (I wheeled Lulu around in my vintage pram.) My brother brought our other dog Pepper or Pip for short, and one of our other goats named Coco, who we hand raised as a wild goat. When Dad went hunting he came back with a baby goat! But, we didn't mind because we have a small goat farm so she was just another goat for the collection. She was even lucky enough to live inside for a while. This year at our school AG day we had a couple of home school children bring there animals along and join in with some fun.

We also had the challenge to create plant holders and wind chimes. We made sand saucers in class, and brought flowers from our gardens at home to decorate them. I had fun creating our sand saucers because I liked making all of the lovely symmetrical patterns, I used Roses, Daises, Corn flowers, Alison flower & more! I went home a very happy girl, as I had been awarded 2nd for best led lamb even though I pushed it around in a old pram and 2nd for best dressed animal. My brother didn't get any awards in the pet ring but he did get a place in the wind chimes and planters. I'm sure he still enjoyed his day though! Overall I had a great day, and can't wait for next years AG day.

Afterwards we did some sporting activities with Sports Gisborne. We firstly had get into groups, then we started our first activity, which was "How many people can fit into one sack" then we did the egg on spoon slippery slide race this is where you have to ... get a big mat and put lots of water and soap on then run with an egg on a spoon, it's very fun! We played Tug A War too! The next activity was how much water can you get into a bucket here's how you play - first we had to get into a long line with about an arms space between each other, at each end you have a bucket of water the aim of the game is for the first person in the line to soak up all of the water that they can get into the sponge. Then carefully throw the sponge along the line until it gets to the end person the end person then needs to ring out the sponge into a empty bucket then that person need to run to the start and go over and over again until the bucket is full of water. This activity made me a little wet, but I didn't mind because it was a hot day. Have you tried any of these games before? 

                                    Here is one of the home school students with her ducklings

                                             Phoebe & her dog dressed up as bee keepers!

                                         Another home school student with her unicorn lamb

                                     Me & Cindy look like we've just come out from the shower

                                          My brother & goat Coco are builders in this pic!

                                                  Here are the local bee keepers again!

                                              Home school student and her goat Giggles

                                                Some of the AMAZING!! sand saucers

                                              My friend Sophia & her friendly lamb Zoe!

                                           My parents & brother with some of our animals!

                                                Home school student with her baby goat

                                                                Best dressed category!

                                                         Charlie & his egg on the spoon

Tug A War with Kate from Sports Gisborne