Book groups!!!!

This term we have been doing this thing called book groups. Book groups is where you get put in a group of 5 or 6 people and the teacher assigns you a book to read. The groups meet twice a week and decide which chapter to read to. The teacher comes around to listen to the conversation and if it is good enough your aloud to bring chippies and lollies and crackers to school to eat during the meeting. The group I'm in is reading the book hatchet. So far its a really good book and really interesting. I think our group has been having good conversations and only a few times we've go off topic. I think discussing the book and asking questions is interesting because you get to see the book from other peoples point of view.

Green eggs and ham!!!!

When I was 6 or 7 I loved to read the book Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Suess. This book is about a character named Sam who tries to convince another person to eat green eggs and ham. The other character  does not want to eat them so Sam keeps trying to get him to eat them and after a while  he finally says fine I will try them. He ends up liking them a lot. I like this book because it rhymes and I like how Sam keeps trying to get the other person in the book to eat green eggs and ham.

HOLIDAYS

In the holidays we got our very first trampoline!!! I had wanted one for a really long time. I LOVE trampolines. We set up the trampoline on Saturday an d it took about 4 hours to set up. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The trampoline we have is a jumpflex trampoline and it is 12 feet big. It is a really cool neon green colour and it came with an attachable mini basketball hoop and a ladder. I think I will go on it every day I can - rain or shine. In the holidays we also saw the Lego movie. I wasn't really looking forward to seeing it because I thought it was for boys but it actually was really good!

Mission Fair!!!

Last week was the mission fair. The mission fair is where the year 6, 7 and 8's form groups and sell stuff or do other fun things to raise money for Solomon islands. I was in a group with Siena, Mercedes, Abby, Millie, Grace, Caitlin, Sharon, Katherine and of course me. We sold a variety of stuff like sherbet, jelly, popcorn, bracelets and we also did hairspray and  face paint. something that I would do differently would be to have more people in the group that could make bracelets because I had to make all of them. the whole school raised over $1900 dollars which is $400 more dollars than last year so congratulations!

What I enjoy doing at home

Recently I visited America and one of my friends there introduced me to something called a rainbow loom. Its a plastic machine that you place rubber bands on and then get a hook and loom it. After you loom it you pull it off and it makes a bracelet. I really enjoy making bracelets whenever I have some spare time. There is only one problem with a rainbow loom, the more bracelets you make the more rubber bands you have to buy! I like the rainbow loom because its something fun to do when your bored and the bracelets look really cool. What is your favourite hobby to do at home?

Statistics

In the past couple of weeks we have been learning statistics. At the beginning of the year we had a statistics test and then today we had another one to see if we had improved. I think I did improve. I learnt how to use a protractor to draw in the angles on a pie graph. I also don't think I will be forgetting how to work out the mean, median, mode and range for a while to. I think I still need to work on working out the angles of the sectors on a pie graph using data. I know how to do it but sometimes I forget how to. I think something that helped me learn effectively was probably completing all the sheets for our follow up activity and then marking it helped to because if you look at the answer and if your answer is wrong looking at the correct answer makes you realize what you did wrong.

EOTC Week!!!

Last week was EOTC Week and it was really fun!!! On Monday we went to Nairnville and played field games, on Tuesday we went sailing, on Wednesday we went to this place called  camp Kaitoke and did 3 different activities there, on Thursday we went to Capital E and we made a video or we got to create a game, and on Friday we climbed up Mt Kau Kau. 
 
The most challenging day of the week was probably camp Kaitoke because we went orienteering and I still had a broken foot so it was really tiring hopping around trying tofnd things. I also found sailing really hard because there was a lot of new things we had to learn.
 
My proudest moment was kayaking with a broken foot because everyone was telling me I should do it but I was nervous to get my cast off but in the end I did it and it was actually really fun.
 
My favourite day was Thursday because I was someone who was getting filmed and it was really fun to try and learn the lines to say or watch someone mess up. My favourite part of the day was watching our video at the end.