2018 Year reflection

2018 reflection

This year has been the best year of my life apart from when I was first born. This was the best year of my life meeting new people , making new friends , trying new things , going to camp and going to new places.

This year I have got to meet new people that I have seen before just not gotten to know them. Like some of the room 9 kids from last year I didn't get to know any of them well because I was happy  with my own circle of friends. But this year being in a classroom mixed with all those room 9 kids from last year made me change, they helped me to be more active not that my old circle of friends wasn't active they just weren't as active as my new circle of friends.  I also got to make and be friends with all of those kids from last year, I got to find out that they were actually pretty nice people and they were and are really really funny.

I got to try new things. Well we went to our camp I got to try new things like abseiling and

kayaking. When started abseiling ( climbing down waterfalls ) I was a bit nervous I could think of a

million different things that could go wrong like the ropes snapping or me falling. But then I

\started to climb down and when I got half way I was pretty confidant with climbing down and I

was more relaxed.

I also tried kayaking for the first time. I didn't like it at first because I like land more than water

but I did it anyway. When we started out it was pretty fun paddling with one of my friends and

then half way through we both got tired. We got tired at the right time though we stopped right

next to the side of a small cliff and it was an amazing view seeing all the plants hanging of the

side. Then I had to get into a kayak by myself it was fun at first being able to go my own speed

( which was as fast as I could go ) and then about five minutes going as fast as I could I got tired

I had a lot of fun though.

If I could pick and three words to describe this year they would be amazing and fun. This was an amazing year for me we got to do some really amazing things like going abseiling and doing a confidence court.  Both of these two activities were fun and amazing we did both of these activities while having fun and spending time with all of our friends wich made it amazing.

The achievement that I am most proud of is being able to represent our school at the after school

basketball tournament. I was proud to represent our school because last year we didn't get the

chance to go to the basketball tournament i'm not sure why but im not going to question it. It was

fun doing this because I got to play against a lot of different kids my age that loved to play

basketball and that are from our community.

I discovered that I am better at talking in front of a big group of people than I give myself credit for. I have found out that I am good at talking or presenting in front of a big group of people. One week we had to write something ( can't remember what it was ) and we had to present what we learned in front of the class and I found out I did better than I thought the more and more we got to do it the more confidence I built up.

I enjoyed spending time with Mahara, Timeus , Aumau , Monita and Aja this year. I enjoyed

spending time with all these people because they were all the people that I liked to spend time

with throughout the year because I thought of them as my own siblings because of how close we

were and how much time we spent together. My favourite memory with all of them was being able

to play at least one game of basketball with them each this year.

Someone that had the biggest impact on me this year was Aja. Because ever since she started coming back to school our friendship has changed a lot more. We started of not as close friends but as the year went along we became more and more closer to the point now we are best friends. I have a lot of great memories with aja butthebest I think that I have is one of usat camp when we went orienteering and we were pushing each other through the mad that we saw or through the cow poop.

I am going to miss a lot of people next year but I know that I will be able to see them again

sometime and some sooner than other because I've been to their houses ( hopefully they don't

move out ) and I will try to visit as much people as I can throughout the year.

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Dine and Dance

Dine and Dance.
WALT : Reflect on Dine and Dance

I had a lot of fun last night at our dine and dance even though I wasn't dancing as much as other people last night I still had a lot of fun.  It was fun seeing every year eight last night having fun hanging out with each other and with the year sevens.

The first thing that happened was that all the year eight that made it to the dine and dance on time got to go inside and eat with each other formally for the last time.  It was fun to see all of the people that I got to know throughout the year having fun and just hanging out with each other. My favorite part of the night was when all the year eights got to sit at the table have dinner with each other and talk about all their highlights of the year. I wish that I wasn't so tired and danced with aja but I was to shy.

Athletics

Last week on Friday 16th of November, T.P.S (  Tamaki Primary School ) had their school athletics day.  Every year T.P.S have their school athletics as a fun way for all their year eight students to leave and students from the past to come back and support their house.

There are four different houses Tobruk, Benghazi, Alamein, Tripoli and they different colours to help represent their houses a bit more Tripoli is blue, Tobruk is red, Benghazi is green and Alamein is yellow.  I am in the Red team Tobruk, I think that my house is the best because we are one of the only two groups that have two recorded wins.  We had this event at the TPS field which was fulled with kids and parents running up and down it ( including teachers ) . We had four different sports that we did before running they were Standing jump, long jump, shot put and discus. My favourite sport out of all four was long jump because it involved my two favourite things running and jumping.

The running races were really tiring, we started of with the little kids first from five year old's all the way upto me and a couple of other boys who are thirteen as the age
went up so did the length of the race it started at 15 meter and ended at 100 meter .  My first race of the day was a bit funny because all the thirteen old boys tied in the first race and were all laughing at the end because I was running with a cape on and it looked funny.  After our 100 meter race we started on our 400 meter races the year six's all the way upto year seven and eights. When the race first started I was in last place because I was only jogging and when I saw everyone else starting to get tired I started to sprint and ended up coming second place.

At the end of the day we had our final races for all the people that came first, second and third and our house chants. When we got to our house chants we were all putting 100%  effort into chanting as loud as we could, this was my favorite part of the day because people were happy and dancing.

Follow up reading tasks !

Today we had to do some follow up tasks for reading because this week for reading we have been reading about three men that mad a possum trap. They made the possum trap because they saw the damage that the possums were doing to the wilderness.  Here are some of the questions that I answered. 

Identify the qualities of an" innovative designer "

1.  They have to be patient, because if they are patient they will get more facts and knowledge to be able to solve a problem with their invention.

2. They have to be on task, because if they are not on task they will never get what they need to build their invention and solve their problem. 

3.  They have to be hard working, because if they aren't the problem won't be solved in the end.

4. They need creativity, so that it  

  What do we mean by " native bush " . 

When people say they are going to the " native bush " or they are talking about the " native bush "  they are just talking about the forest. " Native Bush " is just another term for the forest. And when they say the " native" part they mean the native plants of the forest and the native trees and animals. 

Is it important to look after the bush ? If so, whos job is it to look after it ? 

I think that it is very important to protect the native bush because is we dont some of the people and kids in the future wont get to see the bush or any if its animals. I also think that it is very important to protect the native bush because its not only for us because its some animals home. And some of the animals that live in the native bush you cant find anywhere else.

I dont think that its only one person's job to look after the native bush but everyone that wants the next generations and the generation after that to see the bush and the animals that live in it. 

Which animal species were introduced to New Zealand ( three animals ) .

1.  Cows - Cows were introduced to New Zealand in the 1814's.  

2. Sheep - Sheep were introduced to  New Zealand in 1773.

3. Deer - Deer were introduced to New Zealand between 1861 and 1919.

Thinking about Bias

Today Room 9 was with our teacher Mrs Komor and we were learning about the world bias. The first thing that we got given was a sheet of paper with all the things that go into M&M's and the differences between normal M&M's and peanut M&M's.  When I say things that going to M&M's I mean the sugars and sodium that going to to and how much goes into it.

Then we got another sheet of paper that had someone else's opinion about M&M's on it like how they think that they are the best treat and how they think that they are healthy.  In my opinion I dont think that they are the best treat ever because I feel like there are better treats in the world or that have been made, and I like other lollies that are far more cheaper than M&M's.

Then we started to learn about the word "bias " and what it meant.  The word bias means rating something on how reliable and credible it is.So if you got any information from site that sometimes has true facts but it's not always true so you wouldn't want try it. Or if they have got any other information to back up what they are saying most of the time what they are trying is false not true.

In the moment ... Hail

I can hear the sound of a million tiny pieces of ice battering against the  roof.  I can hear the sounds of hail getting louder and louder, as if the chunks of ice were getting bigger and bigger. I can see millions of little chunks of ice splashing into the puddles as if they were bombs being dropped on a town. I can see birds and people  trying to find shelter anywhere they can as if the ice were bullets piercing their skin.  I can see giant dark clouds surrounding the world as if they were trying to get rid of all the light within a matter of minutes. I  see magnificent clouds surrounding the world as if they were going to attack their prey as fast as a cheetah running for it's life.

The large amount of hail stones are followed by a giant BOOM !! As thunder starts to creep its way into the mixture as more and more, heavy rain starts to pound down on the tin roof.  The rain starts to fall down from the sky more and more each time, as if it were a giant waterfall letting down all its water in a matter of seconds. The rain sounds like water rushing its way down a giant waterfall to freedom, ready to be reunited with the rest of the rain as if they were family.

Maths

Today for maths I worked with my two friends ( Alo and Aja ) to work out some of our questions that we hadn't finished.  One of the questions that we helped each other to work out was " Paul has five different ways to get to school from his house. The length of each way is different the length of all the ways to school are 0.6 , 1.2, 0.9,
1.3, 0.3, 0.6 and 0.7 " .

The first thing that we did was plus 0.6 and 0.9 we decided to start with these two numbers randomly. 0.6 + 0.9 = 1.5 + 1.2 = 2.7 + 0.6 = 3.3 + 1.3 = 4.6 + 0.3 = 4.9 + 0.7 = 5.6 . This is how we solved " how far does paul travel within a week. We choose to answer the question like this because it was the easiest way for us to understand the problem and the easiest way for us to answer the question / problem. Something that I think we should do next time try and see how many different ways we can get the same answer just to try and double check that we got the right answer.