Quote of the week

This week Brooklyn and I have been on team time. Team time is were we do some activities and sing a song at the start of school. We had to chose a quote and this is what we choose:

Matariki

At school we have been focusing on Matariki. I have been particularly interested in the myths and legends. This is one of the Maori myths:At school we have been focusing on Matariki. I have been particularly interested in the myths and legends. This is one of the Maori myths:

The Power of Positivity

Our focus in Team East is The Power Of Positivity. So far we have done a series of dramas and looked at how your body language affects people differently.

When I thought of positivity before we looked at the topic I thought that being positive was tied in with being nice. For example, giving someone a lollipop but as we have created scenes on how people can feel uncomfortable or unhappy I have changed my theory.

I know that for a fact everyone has shown bad body language or done something to offend somebody. They may have not meant to do it on purpose or done it just to hurt a person's feelings. It can be done discretely or it can be blatantly obvious. However you do it and whenever you do this it hurts another person's feelings and can make their life miserable.

After we had focused on this this topic for a week I have a new theory on being positive. If someone asked what it is to be positive I would say that being positive goes from smiling and having no negative thoughts. If you do have negative thoughts don't voice it,I mean why do people say negative things? After thinking about this the only answer I can come up with is,to make people feel bad which is horrible.

What I sometimes think to myself is:

-If you be positive to other people they will be positive back.

Clubs

On Fridays at school we have started club day afternoons. This is where we chose a club run by the teachers or parents to do for the afternoon. I chose scrapbooking because I like doing it in my own time and if I did it as a club I would be able to give and receive constructive feedback. I would also be able to expand on other people's ideas to make it your own and have more great resources to use.

When I turned up I was amazed to see how many people had chose this club. We all filed into the classroom like a mouse to cheese and sat down on the mat in front of Mrs Kennedy(the teacher that was running the club). She explained how to put a photo onto coloured paper making sure that you were colour coding and choosing some set colours so you are not over crowding your page. Then she sent us off to make either a card or a photo book.

Holly,Piper,Kate,Phoebe and I wanted to do a best friends photo book, so we got Mrs Kennedy's fancy camera and went outside to take photos. We focused on doing creative and good quality photos. Because I am definitely not photogenic I made sure I was taking most of the photos. After we had taken 70 photos we loaded them all onto Mrs Kennedy's computer and went through the process of deleting the ones we don’t like. 

As I was looking at the photos I decided to do a photo book one separately so I could keep it. Soon we were packing up everyone's mess. I am really looking forward to the next club day because we will be photoshopping our photos!!!!!!!!

ANZAC

At school we have been focusing on ANZAC. We got to chose a topic to work on and create a digital presentation on it. I chose to do The Frontline as a topic and I decided to do an explain everything and a Kahoot on it. I can't put the Kahoot on here because you need my password, but here is my explain everything(You have to watch it on a computer because it will not show up on a Ipad)):

Quote of the week

This quote made me laugh!!!!!!
Here is the link if you can't see it-Click This If You Want To See The quote

Cross Country

As I climbed into Rhianna's car on a cold,cloudy Wednesday I had two things on my mind:

1. I have approximately one and a half hours to break my leg.

2.Mother Nature please,please RAIN!!!!!

I was heading to the Domain to do Cross Country. As you can probably tell I am not very fond of it. 

By the time we had got to the domain I hadn't managed to break my leg and it almost looked like it was going to be a warm day!!! We got seated by the signs but that didn't last long because the juniors had started to race. We all raced to the finish line like bees to honey to cheer them on. Time was disappearing but the nervous brick in my stomach was not disappearing any time soon. 

After I had stuffed down a sausage the very organised Mrs Sutherland hearded us like sheep to where we were supposed to sit. I tried to calm my nerves but the fact it was boiling hot and we had to run 3km in a race wasn't really helping. Before I new it we were lining up, doing stretches and we were off.

We started with a lap of the rugby field. I was running with Derrin because she has the same pace as me. After a lap or so we were puffing ten to a second. We jogged into the forest and I was relieved to find that it was shady. We came out of the forest and we were hit by searing heat. We ran another 500m and then we sprinted like kids coming out of school to the finish line.

Even though I was exhausted I looked around for Haylley. She was just starting to do the last lap of the field so Holly P and I started to run with her(it probably wasn't a good thing to do on my part because I didn't have a drink). 

Overall I am very proud of myself and I am so glad I don't have to do it again.