AFL

So on Thursdays now we have to do AFL. I have to admit it's better than I thought it would be apart from the fact that we have to do it with room 10. We learnt how to do drop punts and we leant a bit about the actual sport. A few phrases to help with drop punts are things like arrow arms or something, I cant really remember. I'm exited for the next session and hopefully it will be better weather. 3 things I learned about AFL was...  the skills are kicking, handballing, picking up etc. the team rules are attack with the ball, attack without the ball,  defense ball neutral, one percenters. an AFL game has 4 quarters and each quarter last 20 minutes.

Favourite Book Series

So lately I have been reading the Cherub series and its the most amazing book series I've EVER READ! There are about 14 books in the series I think and I'm up to the 5th one. I started reading it because my friends Mercedes and Abby were reading it and they seemed to really enjoy it so I tried reading the first one to see if I was interested and it was really cool. Its about this boy named James and he joins this organisation called CHERUB were they use kids as spies to go on missions and stuff. I definitely suggest reading it!

Future Job

So my ideal future would obviously be like a professional soccer or netball player but that's never going to happen so more realistically I would be a physio because its kind of related to sport. If you don't know what a physio does basically they work to maintain and promote peoples health and if you are recovering from and injury or have an injury they help it and give you exercises to do. According to the website I went on you need to have your bachelors and some useful subject's to take are English, biology, chemistry and physics. NCEA level 3 is required . I've never really thought about my future before so a physio is probably not what I'm going to be..... whats your ideal future job???

My Holidays - A Day Out

So on the last day of the holidays Mercedes, Imogen, Abby and I went into town. We went to Café Eis and all bought ice cream, I had a double scoop of chocolate and coconut. In my opinion Café Eis has the best ice cream in Wellington. Afterwards we just walked around because it was really hot out, and went to this place where you an walk along these boatshed roofs. Mercedes pulled her very first needle with a completely straight leg!!! Then we headed down to the beach and did some tumbling and stunts. I got my standing back tuck on the beach (tumbling on the beach is really hard because the sand kind of slips from underneath you) and Mercedes got her standing side Ariel. We did lots of fun stunts like prep, cradle, straddle extension etc. Afterwards we got REALLY thirsty and went to Starbucks, Imogen got a candyfloss Frappuccino (which she didn't like), Mercedes got a double caramel Frappuccino and me and Abby got a hazelnut chocolate Frappuccino. It was a fun day.  

Favourite Art

My favourite piece of art work that I have contributed to is...

I like it because we did lots of blending and it looks really pretty and fits with our theme of Skyline!











My favourite piece of art from another classroom is room 12's astronaut! It looks really cool and I can tell it took them a long time. Its awesome how they hung it from the roof.

One more piece of art that I love is Mercedes and Abby's birds and tree thing! The background is really pretty and the tree and birds are really detailed.

POEMS....

I think the best poem that I have written this term is...

"there once was a small little duck,
who had the best of luck,
till one strange day
he lost his way,
and landed in a pile of muck.

I'm not that good at writing poems but I think this is the best one I have written this term, its a limerick. I like this poem because it rhymes and flows really well!

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh is the artist I have hosen to do this blog post about! Van Gogh was born on the 30th March 1853 and died 29th of July 1890 at just the age of 37. The type of art he is known for is drawing and painting. He has many famous paintings such as Starry Night, Sunflowers, Bedroom in Arles and  Sorrow. I remember when I was in room 8 a few years ago our artist that we based our classroom around was Vincent Van Gogh, one piece of art work we had to do was our own version of Starry night. I like starry night because its kind of abstract but you can still tell what it is and Vincent Van Gogh has taken something ordinary like a night sky and turned it into a famous piece of art.