In class today our teacher Joelll, his son Moata and another student Gio  played some christmas songs on their brass instruments. Joel had a tuba, Gio had a trumpet, and Moata had a trombone. They started playing songs like Snoops Christmas, Frosty The Snowman, Oh Christmas Tree, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Jingle bells and many more.

Another Christmas thing we are doing in class is Secret Santa. We will all bring one present for a person without knowing who that person has or anyone else.  I think we should have a five dollar limit an make a card for the person about what we like about them.

I am very excited for Christmas this year because my family is going to wellington to stay with my mums step sisters. They are both very nice and give us lots of presents. My sisters birthday is on Christmas Eve so we will go up on the 23rd and spend her birthday and Christmas in wellington.  We usually go shopping, swimming and bush walking with our aunties and it is so fun.

In ICF today we made our own “Where’s Wally?”.  We had to make our own avatars and hide them in a setting. Can you find mine?

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Today we had Taha Tinana, which is just Physical Education. To get to the gym from our classroom, our teacher Matua Joel made us line up and put our hands on the shoulders of the person in front of us. Then we had to walk to the gym and not break the chain. Right before we got to our destination, Joel saw someone take their arms down to fix their shoe. We didn’t make  it, but at least it was better than last time.

When we got inside the gym, our sports teacher Matua Burn was waiting for us. We started by playing a game where we faced our partner and waited for the teacher to call a number. If he called 1, then the people on the right side of the gym facing the left side, would have to turn around and sprint to the wall without their partner getting them. The same would happen to the other person who was facing the other way.

After that we played seaweed and I won in the second round. It was really fun.

Next we play multi-sport. When we played football I did really well, but everyone was just kicking the ball randomly. That went on for a while, but everyone was trying really hard and some people ended getting kicked in the face with the ball. 

We had to listen to a podcast twice and then answer the question about it.

What I Did On The Holidays

On the first day of the holidays, I had a football tournament in Ashhurst. I play representative football for the Under 12 girls team. In the first game we lost 4-3 to Gisbourne . In the first half of that game, we were losing 3-0. Then in the second game our midfielder Morgan scored three goals in 15 minutes and tied up the game. It looked like we had a chance of winning. Unfortunately, in the last second they scored and easy shoot and got it past our keeper Emma and ended up winning the game. I don’t remember much of what happened in the second game but I know that I didn’t play as well and we ended up losing to Taranaki.

In the second week of the holidays on Saturday and Sunday we went up to Rotorua to celebrate my mums birthday. On Saturday we did the Luge Which is like go-carts down hill and then you had to take a gondola back up the hill. It was really fun. Then that afternoon we went to this place called Motion Entertainment. It had an arcade and mini golf and bowling and a trampoline park and rock climbing and a obstacle course. My family and I spent 5 hours there. We did basically everything except the trampoline park.

Then in the last day of the holidays I was helping out at the Lego show and stamping peoples hands. It was really fun helping out and I saw a lot of my friends there.

What I Have Done This Week.

Hello my name is Poppy and I am going to tell you what I have done this week.

MONDAY

On Monday we had maths. We were learning about fractions and it was really fun. After that we had brain break and me and my friends Alijah, Sophie and Violet walked around the field twice. Then we had the code which is a spelling and handwriting thing where the teacher calls out a word or a sentence and then we have to write it. At break, my friends and I started playing tackle bullrush and I think I hurt my wrist and I got a scratch on my stomach. Then we had 2nd block and we did reading and taha tinana which is PE. During second break we played tackle bullrush again. Last block was interesting because we had Sex Education and some people left the room because they didn’t want to look at naked pictures of people.

TUESDAY

Tuesday was very similar to Monday. I had all of the same subjects except for Sex Ed. I still played Bull rush with all of the same people. And our teacher aid Matua Anthony wasn’t at school that day as well. Our lunch was different too. On Monday we had wedges and chicken nuggets and Tuesday we had meatballs and rice.

TODAY

This morning we had maths and I worked on some fractions again and it w

What I learnt In Class Today.

This morning we had maths first up. We were learning about statistics. We each had a dice and had to roll it 120 times and what were the chances of  rolling each number. After that we had brain break and had to walk three laps of the field for exercise. Next we had the code and wrote sentences that had specific words in them Then we had morning tea and me and my friends stayed in class and it was really fun. After morning tea we had reading and I worked with Jeremiah and Annika because they are in my group. Then we had Taha Tinana which is P.E and we played benchball. In the fourth round of the bench ball I was the goal keeper. Then we had lunch and my friends played tackle bullrush. My friend Telissa got me a lot because she is really strong. Then we had to go back to class and now I am writing this blog and Jeremiah won’t stop talking😖

Today in ICF we were working on posters. The posters had a saying in English and in Maori.