End of Year

Sup peoples! It's 7 and a half days away from the end of the school year! Wow, I never expected this  year to go so fast... It's Wednesday and next Wednesday is the Poroaki and the day after that is the last day! It only goes for half a day, the last day of... of... GRi11? Oh and primary school of course. I never expected this day to come. Actually, I did. Next Tuesday, the day before Poroaki, we have a Year 6 disco and the theme is 70s Disco. Ohhh no. Then, the day after that, is Wednesday and it's the Poroaki. I have to wear a dress?! My friend Isabella, might get picked to say her speech as she is in the finals for it. Two are going to be picked. I hope she gets picked! The next day is the last day and we only go to 12:30pm. Wow, I will miss GRi11. *sighs* Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this blog post and maybe I'll keep posting next year? See ya in 2016!!


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! =D

Party + Gala = AWESOME!!!

Well, well, well. I sure had a busy weekend. *strokes imaginary beard* PARTY!!!!! Oops. That's already been. GALA!!!!! Oops. Also, that's already been. Let's just start with the party. It was my BFF's birthday party, her name is Alice. She actually already is 11 but it was just her party. It was at the amazing place. FLIP CITY!!! But, I can't do flips, so it's more like, CITY!!! Still. It was very fun. I arrived at her house early because we were bringing a mattress over for the sleepover. At 3:40 we left and headed for Flip City. Everyone was already there and waiting. We jumped on and raced around. In 15 minutes I was exhausted. I jumped around, nearly making it up the challenge wall. After that we went back to her home and played Go Home Stay Home.

At 9 pm most people left to go home and Alice, Nadia, Mia and I stayed for a sleepover. Well, Alice lives there so she didn't really stay for a sleepover. I fell asleep quickly. The next day, I woke up ready to go to the Gala. Turns out I had to wait till 1pm cause we were going then. I waited, bored. Then my Mum called me. "Sweetie get ready for the Gala!" I jumped up and shut my computer lid with a loud SNAP! I was standing at the door in a minute and waiting for Alice to come round. She did at 1ish and we walked to the Gala.

As I stepped out the Alleyway, I was immediately surrounded by sweet smells and singing. Alice and I explored the whole Gala, walking around arm-in-arm. I saw Jaweria and sprinted over to her. She said that she had already been here for an hour because of her little sister. Alice and I quickly bought some delicious lolly cake and, um, that lolly cake now no longer exists. We waited in the line for Hot Chips for about 10 minutes and as we were second in line, they sold out of Hot Chips and Hot Dogs. I sighed and bought a can of Fanta. Then, I bought some Candyfloss. And that's also gone now.

That's all I did in the Weekend. It was really fun! Thanks for reading this post! :D

I'm sorry it's a bit boring then others but that's because I'm tired.

#DoTheSprinkler

Sprinkler, shuffle, turn round on one foot, jump, do the worm/caterpillar, finish by sliding on the floor. That is the... GRi11 DANCE OFF!!!!!!!!! We had a GRi11 Dance Off yesterday on the 27th of October. We had to get into groups of four with a mixture of boys and girls. I was with, Tiaki, Josh and Ben H. Well, we had three minutes to come up with a dance. We had things prepared to do and they were pretty cool! Tiaki and I were going to cartwheel on while Ben and Josh shuffle on. Then we would do a sorta lunge and come back up, then the other way and turn around on one foot, hopping.

After the short three minutes Mr R called us to come around the circle in the middle of the Hall. Jaweria, Isabella, Odn and Aaron's group was first and they were versing Alyssa, Sophie, Jacob K and Sam B's group. Jaweria's group won.

We went third and were versing... hmmm, I can't remember. When we saw the circle we had to dance in, we abandoned all our previous ideas of cartwheeling and things. The song started and we were going to do the sorta lunge thing at the chorus. So while we waited for the chorus we did the sprinkler. Then the chorus came. "3, 2, 1." Tiaki whispered and we started the lunge thing. The other team just stared at us and kept shuffling and doing the sprinkler. I think we did about 8 before the song ended. We just stood there when the song ended and listened as the audience cheered. It was a close one though but we won. WOOH!

 But that's all we've got for now, so see ya!

The Learning Pit!

Term 4. The last Term. This Term our unit is about... EVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!! On Tuesday, we had a challenge to make a balloon powered car. All we got was a piece of paper with our materials on it. I was in a group with, Jaweria, Isabella, Tiaki and Holly. We made ours but it failed. F.A.I.L. First Attempt In Learning. That's when we learnt about the Learning Pit. Have you ever felt excited then your mood goes down as you learn more about a challenge? "Wooh! This is gonna be easy!" You say at the start. "This is hard. I wanna give up!" This is what you are saying when you are in the middle. "I could maybe put this here next time I do this. Hmmmm, now I know what to do." Is what you will be saying at the end. So yeah that's it for now. I will give you more detail as we delve deeper into the Term. After all, it is only the end of Week 1 today!

Trip to Malaysia, Thailand and Australia in the holidays!

Hey guys! It's now Term 4, the last term! In the Term 3 holidays I went to Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. Kuala Lumpur, Phuket and Sydney. It was very hot there and in Phuket it was polluted. At a show in Phuket called 'Siam Niramit' was very cool. There were 3,000 people in the audience and my sister, Tayler, was the only person picked to go on stage. She humiliated herself. *facepalm* After she finished her embarrassing performance, we watched the rest of the show and it was awesome. There was an actual river on stage! Our resort in Phuket was really nice. There was this massive pool and we also got breakfast every morning. We stayed there for a week. On Saturday we left to the airport and flew to Kuala Lumpur. It's the capital of Malaysia. It was very hazy there and our apartment was on the top floor. 30th floor to be exact. Eeek! So high! That apartment was very flash. 3 days there. The flight to Australia from Kuala Lumpur was 8 hours long. Sydney was like home, New Zealand. We went there for my Aunty's birthday and my Mum's birthday. My Auntie is now 50 and my Mum is now 45, although, as I joke about it, Mum is 57 because she looks so old to me. Hehe! In Sydney we also went to the aquarium, zoo and wax museum. Aquarium was awesome. Zoo was amazing. But the wax museum bet them. They made famous people out of wax and the looked so real that you would think they were standing beside you. Too real, creepy real. So, I met the Queen and took a selfie with her. I don't know why she stays in the same position. How does she stand like that and stay there? Hmmm, maybe because she's made out of wax. Also met Barack Obama. Took lots of pictures of them. Went on the ET bike. My favourite was Taylor Swift because she is my favourite singer. Oh and yeah at all places I bought tons of stuff. I bought the most but spent the least. Oooh at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur there was 12 FLOORS. Nooooo too much shopping for me. 600 shops???!?!?!? Oh come on. And one whole floor was a theme park. It was awesome! Went on the rollercoaster 4 times. I LOVED MY HOLIDAY!!


 Wax Museum, Madame Tussauds:

 Sydney Zoo:

 Sydney Aquarium:

The Dream by Jaweria, Isabella and Emma

Here's our animation! It's the weirdest animation ever... It's about a girl who has a dream. She watches TV then suddenly everything disappears as well as her. An old man comes and then he falls. After that a shark comes and a bottle of slime falls on it. Then an elephant with a guitar. After that the old man comes back and again everything disappears. The girl wakes up and she flies up while her mother is in the room. Then everything disappears again! The End! (also it is called 'The Dream')

The Mind Lab...

MIND LAB IN PETONE!!!

Yesterday we went to The Mind Lab in Petone. It was awesome. First the long bus ride to Petone, which was 2 hours. I was sitting right up the front at the window seat with Tiaki beside me. Across from me were Jaweria and Isabella. We were special since we were in the front and we had seat belts. Soon we were there. We were almost blew away by the wind when we hopped out of the bus. We eventually go there and sat down in the main room. 2 people were waiting for us. They introduced them selves as Malcolm and Benedict. There were five activities waiting for us. 1. Get a paper cup with 3 felt pens and tape/rubber band them to the cup. Put a motor with a battery pack on it and try and get it to wobble around. 2. Make a car with cardboard, cds, skewers, straws, tape and motor and battery packs. 3. 3D Printing. 4. Stop motion animation. 5. MaKey MaKey, with circuits. So that was Mind Lab!!!!! Can we have one in school??