Term 3 Highlights and Evaluation

Here's my Highlights and Evaluation for Term 3.

Term 3 Writing Evaluation

My Writing Evaluation for Term 3.

What writing Level are you at? Level 5
What level should you be at? Level 4

What goals have you achieved this term? -Be used as a proof reading expert- I achieved this because I became one of the writing mentors, to look over other children's writing in the school.

- review my writing to ensure that it meets its purpose.
use a range of strategies for editing and proof-reading my text to check meaning, accuracy, legibility- I think i have achieved this because I have gotten better at proof-reading my writing, but also editing my writing as I write.

What goals do you want to try and achieve next term?I want to try and achieve all of level 5, so some of the goals are...use vocabulary that includes subject –specific and/or technical terms.- I need to use more advanced vocabulary, so use vocabulary.com more often to help!
And I also want to achieve- use my writing to explain concepts, processes, theories, beliefs and opinions relevant to my purpose across the curriculum.

Art

This term we focused on Lino Prints. Here is my self assessment, and also a photo of my finished product!

Printing Self Assessment

	: - (	: - I	: - )
Investigate and discuss printmaking processes.		✓
To research artists and complete an artist study to enhance understanding of printmaking.  (Art Analysis)			✓
Use line to create shapes and convey tone on their images.			✓
Use tone to show light in portrait drawings and polystyrene prints and lino prints.		✓
Use the printing process to produce a clear print.		✓
To learn how to use printing tools.			✓
Understand the importance of line, contours and texture to create a successful print.		✓

Summary of my Lino Print

Making the Lino Print was harder than I expected it to be! I learnt how to use the Lino Cutters properly, (All though I did cut myself once, the very first time...!) I learnt how to properly cut the lino, using different strokes to give shape. While cutting my portrait out, I made sure that I left places un-cut around my face, to show positive and negative areas. If I were to do another Lino Print again,I would cut my hair out better, using a smaller blade, and add more finer strokes to better show which way my hair goes.  I would also try and leave the frame of my print clean, because it has ink all over it.

My Print

Speechs and Arts festival.

Tuesday Night was the Hauraki Plain's Speech Finals! Oscar and I represented Ngatea for the Seniors, and Zoe and Tom for the juniors. There were 24 speeches, and lots of them were really interesting! I was nervous to present mine, but once I got into it, I was fine!! Tom came third for his division, Oscar came third for ours, and I came first! 2 years in a row, I am so proud! Everyone said that they loved my speech and it was very entertaining! I won a certificate and a $30 book voucher to Carsons.
I also had to say my speech at the NPS Art's Festival last night, and I performed in Jazz Band, Choir, and Luke.D and I hosted the evening. It was a really good night, Only a few things didn't go to plan, but I think everyone enjoyed it!
It has been a very busy week- I also found out that I came 3rd in the NIE Poetry competition, throughout the whole of New Zealand!!! For my Poem "The Face of Confusion!"
Next week is the last week of school, Disco, Pet Day and my Birthday! Can't wait!

Impact Update

An update on my impact progress- Last week we filmed our very first cooking show, along with Rose Douglas! It was a great success, and we made some delicious pizza in the process! We started editing it yesterday, it is taking longer than we expected, and we are about half way through. I can't wait to see the finished product, so make sure you check out our blog- http://deliciousdiners.blogspot.co.nz  when it comes out!!

Speeches

On Thursday, I said my speech in front of Marama. My topic is "The Evolution of Language." It has the different 'Slang' language that each decade used commonly. My speech starts of with my generation, and how use use the word 'like' a lot and also text language. It then goes into the 90's, and also the 70's. I then go all the way back to the Shakespearean era! I am really proud of my speech, because it is informative, but also humorous! I made it into the Hauraki Plains speech finals, as well as Oscar!
Mr Fraser also got me to say my speech in front of the school at Assembly, which was nerve wracking, but I managed to get through it!!
I can't wait until the speech finals which is on Tuesday!

Paeroa to Thames Fun Run

On Sunday, I  participated in the Paeroa to Thames Run, for my school. There were loads of other primary and collage kids, and also a few adults. Our school entered 3 relay teams, a year 7&8 girls, a year 7&8 boys and a year 5&6 team. The total distance of the run was 30km, but we broke it up and did about 4-5 KM's each. Some adults ran the full 30km by themselves!
I ran about 4.5 k's, but it felt much longer! We ended up coming 4th out of all the primary schools, which is still pretty good!
It was a nice sunny day, and I had heaps of fun participating!

Daffidol Day

On Friday it was Daffidol day for our school. We all got dressed up in yellow, and enjoyed the sunny day outside with the 'Blokes' competing in different challenges. One was a stretcher challenge, where we had to make an able stretcher out of paper, tape and string that could carry some weight, through and obstacle course. Sophie and I raced our stretcher, even though we thought it would break! Our time was 19 seconds.
We also played the annual Staff VS Students Netball game! The students have only one once, in 2008. Since I am in Ngatea 1, my team played the staff. Us, the students, broke the tradition- we won the game, 16-5!
I am so proud of my Ngatea 1 team, and it was such a fun-filled day!

Young Achievers Award 2013

Mr Fraser nominated both Sophie.M and I for the 2013 'Young Achiever's award. Around 15 others from  the Hauraki District also got nominated. The award ceremony was held in the Waihi Town Hall on the 4th of September. We accepted our award from the Mayor! We got nominated because of all the presentations Sophie and I have done throughout the year, to various schools, principals and community. Also for showing general leadership through the school. It was such an awesome night!

Made Awards

The Made Awards are coming around soon, so we have started to film! I am making a movie trailer on 'The End of the Alphabet' with my Literacy group- the Oreos. We started filming last week on Friday, and we will be continuing to film this week!
Here's Jesse, Yvonne, Sophie.M and I in a tree- We are playing a group of friends!

Art

This term for art, we are doing 'Lino Prints.' We have started practicing our printing, carving a fish into polystyrene, and printing onto a coloured background. Here is my fish!

Cross Country!

Last Friday, we had our school's cross country day! It was postponed from Monday, but luckily Friday was a reasonably good day! It was held at South Farms. The 11yr olds were first, and then it went from the 5 year olds. I helped Sophie.M film a little bit, which was cool, because the little kids are sooo cute to watch!! Our race was last, (12+) I was very nervous, but once I got into it, I was fine! We had to run up the little hill into paddock and around the creek twice, and also climb 'Killer' hill! It was heaps of fun, and I am so proud of myself because I got 2nd place, behind Erica!!!
On Monday I went to Hauraki Plain cross country, at Spence Farm. Our race was last again, this time we had to climb an even bigger hill then the one at South Farms! I ended up coming in 7th place, out of 18, I just missed in going to Thames Valley by one!! Oh well, I am still very proud of myself!

My Term 3 Goals

This term, I want to achieve my Digital Design Milestone. I can do this by using lots of digital skills in the process of making our Delicious Diner's Cooking Show for Impact.
I also want to achieve my careers pathway milestone. To do this, I have to use my initiative and start planning my 'Careers Pathway.' I need to think of a suitable career, and find a place to 'work' for 6 hours, to get job experience!


My Learning Goals...

Maths- My goal is to reach level 5 for geometry, because at the moment I am on Early Level 4.
Writing- My writing goal is to constantly make my writing exciting and use lots of language features to paint a clear image in the readers head. Reading- To try new of book genres, and not stick to my usual!

Maths

This week we focused on "Vectors" in maths, which is a way of describing how a point or shape has been moved. I am really proud of my work, because I understood all of it, and I think I did a good job!

Adrenaline Forest

Finally, it was holidays! A time to relax and spend time with my family! We went up to Mt. Maganui to stay with my Great Aunt for a night. While we were there, we climbed up to the top of the mountain, went for a swim in the hot pools, and also went to Adrenaline Forest!! Adrenaline Forest is located in between Rotorua and Tauranga. It is a high ropes course, with lots of different obstacles. Instead of having a long rope hooked onto your harness, with somebody down on the ground directing it, we had to completly rely on ourselves to be hooked in safely. We each had two "Carabinas" On our harness, that we had to hook onto the ropes around the course, as we moved along.

It started off easy, about a metre of the ground, but then it got higher- and harder! There was 6 levels in total, but we only made it to level 4, before we HAD to stop, because the challenges were really physical, and our arms were getting sore! Some of the obstacles included a flying fox, a 'rope bridge' where you had to walk across different pieces of looped rope, and a Tarzan jump. 

I had heaps of fun, it was awesome to try something new, and also have a go at something that is really scary!

Ultimate Frisbee!

This week we started playing ultimate Frisbee for PE! It was so much fun! We got into 4 groups, and instead of playing a proper game of Frisbee, we just played a miniature "warm up" game where we had to pass the Frisbee around and try and tag the opposing team members out! I had heaps of fun!

Term 2 Highlights and evaluation

This is my term 2 highlights and evaluation!

Reading Mileage presentation Term 2

This is my Term 2 Reading Mileage Presentation, on the book 'Gifted' by Marilyn Kaye.

Floorplanner and Learning Poster

This is Kennidy and I's floor plan of the Marama classroom, everyone had to make a plan of what we think our open plan classroom could look like in the future!



And here is our learning poster, it is designed to help our peers concentrate on their learning!

J-Rock!

JRock was on Tuesday! It was a very long and busy day,we arrived in Claudelands event centre at 9:30, and found our dressing room. During the day we got our hair and makeup done, had 3 rehearsals on the stage and had a meeting in the event centre before the actual show started. Everyone got changed into their costumes, we all looked fantastic! Our school was up first, it was so cool seeing the light bulb glowing, and our glowsticks in the dark! I think we all did REALLY well,  and  the audience liked our performance! The others schools were really cool as well, especially the high school's stage challenges! I had such an awesome day and night, and I will definatley be doing the stage challenge at college!

Our Electricity group! I am at the back right!

Disco!

The disco last night was so much fun! Dancing to awesome songs, taking random photos and eating lots of chocolate! We played the jandal game and had a dancing competition! I didn't want the disco to end, time flew past really fast! Here are a few pics from the night(:

Preparing for J-Rock!

Our J-Rock performance is next Tuesday! We have been practising hard for the last term or so, and hopefully we do well on the night! Last Friday we had a dress rehearsal, not all of us got into full make-up though. My electricity group wore our silver tinsel wigs and our electricity costumes, but we haven't yet tried our make-up on. We will tomorrow, as we are performing to the school and a few parents! I cannot wait to get our make-up done, because we will have silver faces, sparkly lips and eyeliner! Hopefully the school enjoys our performance, and I am very excited for next Tuesday!

Waka Ama

This is a traditional Waka Ama boat.

Yesterday (Monday the 17/06) we visited Huntly College to participate in a few activities. They included Maori culture- learning a Maori song and some actions, army training- which was different! We had to listen to our instructor's 'commands' and be really disciplined! Mountain biking around the lake and dirt biking through a short track, and the last activity was Waka Ama, where we learnt how to row properly, and we learnt a traditional Maori chant to sing while we were rowing! My favourite activity of the day would have to be either rowing the Waka Ama, or learning the Maori song! I learnt heaps of new things, and I thank Josh and Huntly College for showing us these new skills!

The Face of Confusion

This week, our Oreos writing group decided to enter a writing competition. The theme was 'The face of....' It had to be written in 150 words or less, in any way you liked. I decided to write a poem, about the face of confusion. It is 147 words! Here it is below...


THE FACE OF CONFUSION

My eyes are closed, I’m lying down.

I open them up, and start to frown.

There's no fuchsia flowers, or any busy bees,

There is no green grass, nor any tall trees.

The sky isn’t blue, but a smoky grey,

There's fire in the sky, i’ve lost my way.

Down come the birds in front of my eyes,

  The bees fly away, back to their hives.

My face is damp with salty tears,

but I don’t think anybody cares.

The world surrounding me, starts to crumble,

I spin around, and almost tumble.

Where am I? I ask, and what is happening?

The clouds above me, start descending.

  I close my eyes, will it go away?

but when I open them, it’s still the same day.

Was this a dream? Or perhaps an illusion?

Whatever it is, I have a face of confusion.

Impact!

Wow! We have been very busy with our IMPACT lately! Last week, Rose Douglas came in to help us make our second pizza. It was DELICIOUS and everyone (including us!) loved it! We will defiantly be using that pizza recipe for our first cooking show- which we will be making soon! We have a blog, to update our progress, check it out here.

We have also managed to create our own youtube channel, so we can post our videos! You can have a look at it here!.
Here are a few pics from when we made the pizza!

Our finished Pizza!

The taste testers!

Chefs at work!

Us!