Great Work Agueer And Joanlisi!

Room 10 was taking the lead at this week's syndicate assembly. The syndicate assembly was introduced very smoothly which made me even more overjoyed to watch it. First up were the students who have been working hard in their classroom. Well done to Joanlisi and Agueer for receiving a certificate!


Then it was time for the activity. The activity was musical chairs. For this game in particular only the prefects and the teachers had to participate. I was cheering for everyone on stage but mostly for my class. Surprisingly it ended up being Frank winning the game. Good job Frank!

Report On Data

Room 10 collected data from the survey that we did on all the school subjects that we do at school. Everyone in room 10 had a paper and rated the subjects with a dislike, okay and like a lot. It was very interesting because most students would prefer P.E than writing. Here is my report on the data that room 10 collected. The three subjects that I chose were, home learning, maths and music. I chose those three subjects because, for home learning it was the most disliked subject, maths had the most answers that were okay with maths, and music was the best subject lining up with P.E.

Harry Potter Reading!

Tennis Lessons

Every Tuesday room 10 has tennis lessons with our Coach Peter. I was so excited because I've always wanted to play tennis I just...always didn't play it right. When we were hitting the tennis ball with our rackets, it was hard for me to hit the ball with the racket I was holding because, we had to hit the ball soft because we were standing close to the net. As I hit the ball it softly flew over to the other side. The person that was standing on the other side (Kymani) hit the ball very hard and it went over the fence. Other than that tennis was a fun experience and I hope that someday we can play a game of tennis. 

Last Toi Toi!

On Tuesday this week. Room 9 and Room 10 came together for our LAST Toi Toi book for this year of 2018. When the people that were going to read with us came in, most of us recognised some of them because, they came to our school last term. One of them introduced the cover of the new Toi Toi book. It was very interesting because, she said that the dog at the front cover of the book, was called "Lucky" and he came from Tonga. 

Once she introduced the cover of the book, we all got divided into six groups because their were six of them. My group went into Room 11 since there were already groups in Room 10. When we all settled down, we all had to introduce ourselves. We read a couple of stories that our reader/leader bookmarked for us to read each. My favourite story that we read was "The Hospice" because, it made me very hungry. I had an amazing time with the Toi Toi people and reading the last Toi Toi book. 

The Last Volleyball Lesson With Renee

Every Tuesday some classes learn to play volleyball with "Coach Renee". I learnt a lot of things from volleyball. I learnt how to spike, how to do an overarm and other amazing things. On the last day of volleyball with Renee we played volleyball games such as, elimination, tournament and ''Girls V.S Boys". Room 10 decided to do tournament for the first game. Girls V.S Boys and the tournament together for the second game. Finally for the last game we play elimination. My team for volleyball was a very good team. We won the whole match. It was a great time. It was very sad to leave volleyball because I had a fascinating time learning how to play because, ever since my sister played volleyball. I always wanted to learn how to play.

 I had an amazing lesson, learning how to play volleyball with Coach Renee!

Daffodil Day!

Last week on Friday, Ruapotaka school had a special assembly to remember the word "Hope" for those who have suffered a bad illness called "Cancer". Hope can mean a lot of things but some of them are, hoping that the people that have cancer get better. Hoping that they'll live another day. Hoping that the researchers find a curer to cure people that have cancer. Cancer is very sad and emotional to look at.

That's why "Ruapotaka School" decided to have a donation so that the Ruapotaka students can donate, $1 or $2 for the researchers to find a curer. I donated my $1 so that I could show respect to those who have cancer. In this picture, you can see that mostly everyone in room 10 bought a daffodil. In the first picture you can see that the prefects are holding up a word called "Hope". On the word Hope, there is daffodils that Ruapotaka School made to glue it on there.

Land Past & Present

Maori- Past and Present

For inquiry, room 10 have been learning about Maori past and present. We had to write facts that we knew about in the past and facts that we knew in the present. Here is mine that I did for the past and present.

Kiwi Sport- Hip Hop with Jess

Today room 10 had Kiwi Sport with Jess. Also it was the first time that room 10 had Kiwi sports. For this week we did Hip Hop.

I had so much fun dancing to the songs that Jess put on and I enjoyed playing musical statues. I learnt a lot of hip hop dance moves when Jess was teaching us. My favourite dance was the shoot dance. I had an amazing time!

An Amazing Trip To The Auckland Museum!

 On Wednesday this week, room 10 and room 9 went to the Auckland Museum to look and learn about ANZAC and war. I was very excited to go to the Museum because I could see what soldiers used to fight.




When we arrived at the Museum, it was amazing. I saw a tower that was made with Lego and other cool things. Before we explored the Museum, we had to hear the rules about the Museum. After that we could go look at World War one & World War two.
When we went exploring in World War one, I saw a lot of soldiers who went to war but they died. It was interesting looking at the soldiers who went to war because, at the bottom I saw why they died. 

Then we headed over to World War two and explored there. I went through where the sacks were, and I saw something I'd never seen before. It was the first time that I saw a grenade, all types of guns and some knife that soldiers used when they went to war. 
While Kate !and I were exploring World War two, we came across a letter that the soldiers used to sign up for the Army. Also we found letters that soldiers wrote at war. Their handwriting was hard to read because it was fancy and very neat. 

I had a great time visiting the Auckland Museum because I got to learn more that I didn't know before!

Making Poppies For Art!

Today room 10 made ANZAC poppies for art. Miss Misela showed us how to create the ANZAC poppies before we got started.

When I was doing the ANZAC poppies, it was a bit hard because when we cutted out our poppy, sometimes the pieces that we cut out will fall into little pieces. The first instruction that we had to do was, fold the red piece of paper and cut it out, and then fold one of the red piece of paper.

Now we had to cut petal of a poppy on the folded piece of paper. When we opened up the piece of paper, it is shaped as a poppy. Then we did the same thing to the other half of the piece paper but when we finished cutting our petal of the paper, we opened up our paper and cut one of the petal's and glue one side to the other, so that it looked like tea cup.

Next we gave our poppies to Miss Misela to put the stick through our poppies. After Miss Misela put the stick through our poppy, we had to cut out a small strip of black and red paper, to glue it around the bottom of the poppy and for the top. Our poppies looked amazing when Miss Misela sticked them in a plastic cup to stand them up. 

I had an great time making poppies for art. It was a bit hard but I got better and made my poppy look beautiful!

How To Draw A Portrait Of Yourself

How To Draw A Portrait Of Yourself
Today for my procedural writing I'm going to be showing you, how to draw a portrait of yourself and how to make your drawings better than drawing two dotted eyes and a line for your mouth.

1. First draw the shape of what you think your head might look like. Also when you draw your face onto your paper, make sure that your face is big so that you can add in your eyes, nose and mouth.

2. Next draw little lines that come down the face and make sure when you do it that it's equal. After that draw the little lines across your face where your mouth will go and, draw it above where your eyes might be too.

3. Then draw half of your eye where the lines are and draw the other half of your eye, below the line. Do the same thing to the other side.

4. Now draw your mouth in the middle line and the line that is across. Start from one side and make the shape of your lip and finish at the bottom of the line that's in the middle. Then draw your lip on the other side the same way.

5. After drawing your mouth, time to draw your nose. Make sure that you make your lines a bit wide. While drawing your nose draw two lines below the eyes. Now draw two sloping lines starting from where you drew the lines under your eye. Then draw little C's at the end of the two lines that we drew that were under the eyes.

6. Lastly you can draw your hair and make it look realistic. For mine, my hair was in a braid so I did a pony tail and started doing cross's in the pony tail to look like a braid.

7. Finally you can decorate with colours or just leave it. Your portrait will look amazing!

Great Day At St. Kents

Today room 9 and room 10 took a bud and drove to St. Kents to play some fun activities. When we arrived we had to get into 4 or 5 groups.

After that we went with our St. Kent instructors and played the activities. The activities that my group played were the basketball game and another game but I don't remember the name of it.

I felt exhausting playing the games at St. Kents!

Swimming With Instructors

This week room 10 did swimming with the instructors. We had two instructors for each group to separate us into the two groups.

Once we were all into our groups, we began to swim. For my group we had to hold onto the boards at the top and, kick to the other side of the pool. It was very exhausting because my legs were getting tired but I made it to the other side.

After a few swim skills we went on our backs. I was very nervous because if I went on my back and kicked to the other side, I'll probably hit my head on the wall around the pool, and that would really hurt.

My favourite skill that I did with the instructors was when we did arm strokes to the other side. Also I enjoyed doing stream lining and diving to the bottom while we do stream lining.The skill that I want to complete before swimming is over, is doing laps with my arm stroke without touching the ground.

It was an awesome time swimming with the instructors because I got to learn more on swimming skills than I did before.

Amazing Experiment

This afternoon room 10 did an experiment that included a Milo tin, a pressure cooker and cold water. Before we started the experiment some of the class guessed what was going to happen when we put the can on the pressure cooker with the water inside without the can lid.

Firstly we had to take off the Milo picture that was around the tin can, so that we could see if the fire would burn the tin. Then we put a little bit of cold water in the can before we put it on the pressure cooker.

After that we all went outside onto the grass to be safe. The pressure cooker was already on the grass so then Miss Misela put the can onto the pressure cooker without the lid and waited to see what would happen. Nothing happened on the outside of the can but inside the water was getting bubbles inside. It looked like Sprite to me because there was bubbles bubbling in the water.

Now we wanted to see what it would look like if we put the lid on and put it on the pressure cooker. We waited for a while and the lid exploded! It was amazing because all of our reactions were surprised.

I think that the lid flew off the can was because the heat from the pressure cooker was putting pressure in the can and it was rising up, then it put pressure on the can lid so that's how it exploded!!

Risks, Insurance and Other fun Things!

On week three on Thursday room 9 and room 10 had Financial Literacy. At first I didn't know what Financial Literacy was but now I know.  There were three girls called Mona, Jordan and Michelle who did Financial Literacy. At Financial Literacy I learnt about saving money, trustworthiness, identity, risks, insurance and other fun things.

My favourite thing that we did at Financial Literacy was the skits, because it was really fun when some people got to present their skit. Also I liked it when we learnt about saving money and I learnt about insurance.

 I had a fun time at Financial Literacy and I had a great time meeting Mona, Jordan and Michelle.