Week 4 Term 2

Hey guys,
So this week has been really fun.
On Monday morning, I arrived at school at 7:10am to head to Rotorua for National Young Leaders Day. I have been to a couple of these before but this one was definitely the best one I have been to. There were a lot of very motivational things that were said and I'm sure everyone that went will take something out of the day. After arriving in Rotorua we took our seats and we were ready for the day. We were given a notebook so we could write down notes and quotes. There were about 6 or 7 speakers that had some awesome things to say for us. Everything they said had a meaning about some type of leadership. We all learned lots about leadership, and will hopefully be able to use some of the tips with our roles around school. A quote from one of the speakers Valentine, that is really cool and has a really good meaning is “You don’t have to be a leader to be a leader” In other words you don’t have to have a role to be a leader at home or at school. One really inspirational person that spoke was Brylee Mills, she was in a car accident at a really young age and had to have her right arm amputated above the elbow. She is a dancer with a message to never give up. There was a lot of different messages that we all took something out of. The speakers were Billy Graham, Brylee Mills, Valentine Taumiti, Pio Terei, Marina Alefosio, Emily Muli, and we were very lucky to have Avalanche City sing to us. I would like to thank Mrs Shaw and Miss Turnbull for giving us this great opportunity and all the parents that help with this amazing day.

On Tuesday morning, we had Tech Arts in the first block. We are in music at the moment. We learnt some new chords on the guitar, played an Irish Jig on the keyboard and learnt some more about different types and styles of music. For the rest of the day, we did maths, reading, and writing. I am nearly finished my Hectors dolphins report I just need to finish editing. I think I have done my editing really well I have done 3 pages of editing trying to change some of my simple sentences to compound or complex sentences. I have done a little bit more on my reading. I have finished the vocabulary for this part and I am up to summarising the story and doing a character analysis.

On Wednesday, we learnt a new routine at Jump Jam called Freaks. The competition team taught it to us. It's a really fun routine to do, but at the start, it was a little confusing to do. Like Tuesday, we were doing our reading and writing as it is due next week. I think I have done well but I still need to work on some of reading. That's all I did on Wednesday, It may not seem like much but it was actually quite a lot. 

On Thursday, I had band for the first two blocks, It was really fun as we were with junior band for the first block. That was quite cool getting to play with junior band and some of them will be moving to senior band next week! After Jazz band, we had house meetings to figure out which sports we wanted to do for Interhouse Winter games on Friday afternoon. I am doing basketball. I haven't played in ages but ill try my best. In the afternoon we had student assembly, I was a part of this week's assembly doing the game and a National Young Leaders Report. The game that I helped organise was the chocolate fish game which is where you have chocolate fish on a stick and you try and eat them as fast as you can. Then as part of the NYLD report, I taught the school how to do the heads and tails game. This is basically where you flip a coin and choose whether it will be heads or tails.

On Friday, we did a small decimal test then I was on the floor with Mrs Crowe on how to order fractions. I found it hard at the start but then I got the hang of it and I now know how to do it. When you order fractions you usually change them to decimals if they are too hard to figure out just as a fraction. So if you had some fractions that were too hard to order by themselves you change them to decimals then that helps you order them but you still have to order them in fractions, not decimals. Then we had tech arts we learnt more about the blues and started making our own blues song. It was really cool nut we didn't quite get it finished. We were supposed to have Winter Games but because of the weather it didn't happen. So our day went back to normal. Our class played volleyball against room seven we went into it thinking we were going to lose as they are a very good class, but we came out with the win 41-33. This means our class is now undefeated. Maori was quite cool today as we were working on our short stories about the Waikato River.
Thats it for this week guys,
see you next time.
Bye