These few weeks we have been doing passports. Passports are these activities we do to get 200 points and so far I have 110 points. And there are about 28 activities to choose from and 6 topics. And from each category line there points to earn 10 points, 20 points, 30 points 40 points, and 50 points. are,Verbal/Talking,Visual, Doing History and Culture, Knowledge and Music. The rules of the passport are
. You must attempt to get 200 points
. You must choose at least 1 activity from each category along the side.
. Teachers can deduct points if work is not completed to high enough standard.
. Bonus points will be given out to students who have worked well.
The past few weeks we have been doing science. Our science subject was on Spud Guns. Spud Guns are a type of potato gun using straws and square sticks to pop the potato out of the straw. We also did one about on forceps that was fun. The Spud Guns didn't even work I was sad😢. The materials we used were four different types of straws from McDonald's, Starbucks, these weak plastic straws that were easily breaking, and thick paper straws that worked well but they would get soggy. So we also tried peeling the potato's but even that didn't work. But when Mrs Drummond tried it in her own time and worked. think it didn't work because some people were using the pointy side of the square stick.
Today we learned some about Anzac. Nathaniel and I got a poster and a piece clothing. The poster was about a the last dinner for the 40 soldiers. The cloth was a Hallensteins brand clothing it belonged to Harold a NZ soldier. The war was at 3pm 5th August 1914 in Gallipoli it started on April 1915 - December 1915. 100,000 New Zealanders soldiers served overseas in the war, 41,000 were wounded or fell ill 18,000 died and funny enough 5 soldiers were soldiers. Recruits had to be 162.5 cm tall less than 77kgs and physically fit minimum age of 20 years old. Dental health was poor that a separate Dental corp was formed.
Today we went to Three Kings Reserve in a bus but it was horrible! I thought I was going to eat the competition, but I sprained my foot really badly on my first race. I missed out on most of the activities at athletics because of this incident. I was also supposed to run on the relays for my house Cowley. My friends were there to help me out and a very kind lady helped me when I was hurt. She gave me a pair of crutches that are from our local hospital. I had fun sitting down talking to my friend's Ethan and Nathaniel who are very kind man. Then I came back in my Principal's car.
Today we went a Travelwise celebration it was fun. The people that went to this amazing celebration was Otis I, Lucy, Nathaniel, Ethan and me Frankie was supposed to come but she had to go to the dentist to get her braces in. We did challenges like toss the the wheel, treasure hunts and more. This painting was from a exercise bike that has this spinning platform where you put a coloured piece of paper I choose red paper with white paint, blue paint and red paint it came out really cool. It was Captain Americas shield but paper. I had so much fun😝 we got free ice cream it was very delicious. We also won free pizza we will be having pizza on this Thursday 6th December. The five pizza flavors we choose were Hawaiian, Pepperoni, Beef & Onion, plain cheese and Italian Beef and Sausage oh I can't wait.
Today we did comic strips with Mr Drummond and Mrs Drummond. This is my comic. It is about a merman named Andrew and he is trying to keep his title of being king of the sea by fighting a shark but sadly he loses the fight. Mr Drummond said I was an amazing artist and I should keep up drawing so well. I felt really proud. I like drawing in my free time.
This is my page for All Souls day/All Saint's day and a written message that it is hard to see and a drawing in memory of my Grandpa from my mum's side. He was a funny caring grandparent but he has past away we had his unveiling 3 years ago it was in Botswana in Africa. My Grandma from my mum's side is still alive but very sick. We pray for her at home all the time. But my grand parents from my dad's side have past away we still pray for them. My grandma from my dad's side died a week before we got to Africa for a visit her funeral was the day we arrived. For All Souls Day we had a mass father asked us a few questions like who is Jesus's grandparents were Saint Anne and Heli and another question was who is our Australian NZ Saint and the answer was saint Mary Mackillop. The mass was great. I can't wait for the graduation mass cause I am a year six so I will be performing a dance with the other year sixes.
