Orienteering!!

Hi bloggers of the world, last term some of the Year 5's and 6's went to Orienteering. We went to Block House Bay Park to participate in the competition. while we were waiting we had a quick play on the Park and fitness trail. Most of us were really scared. Soon it was time to line up to find the marks we had a map to read. It had no words so it was like finding gold. We had to fill in a piece of paper for the run.  

I liked doing the orienteering because using a map was a real challenge. But with the map you had to turn it around lots. Over all I think I would like to do it again. 

Here are some photos of the orienteering people!!!

I have learnt that orienteering is good for your brain, because when you look at the map you have to find out where you are and where you going to. 

A big thanks to  super Mrs Sands for organizing orienteering and for letting us have a chance to try.

writing with creativity week 9

This term the seniors have started creative writing. We have made a google slide to show how creatively we can write. We do it every school day. This creative writing is to help us think and write more. Our teacher makes the start of the story and we write the rest.  

I think creative writing is fun and helpful because you can make it up if you want and you have to think about the story and there is a story starter.

In this slide show is my favourite writing from this week because, on Tuesday, we made a tongue twister.   

My character discription

                                         Hello blogging world
Last week Room 8 had to do a character description we went on a website called build your wild-self. We had to try and be creative about our character. We had to write a y chart in the y chart we had to write things about their actions looks and personal traits.  Below this text is my y chart. 

I think I did really well at creating my character. I still found it hard to use descriptive words but over all I think it was fun and easy. 
   
                                                            

Eagle high girl

Eagle high girl is a combination of six things. She has long brown and white eagle wings. Two pointy sharp horn’s curve on the sides of her head. Jiggly jellyfish tentacles that are light blue hang on the bottom half of her body. There appears to be a colourful beak that sticks out of her face. She has human arms and hair. She has a  swishing long black horse tail that pops out from her back.


With her light blue jellyfish tentacles she can sting people like criminals. Her short normal arms help her to grab things more easily. With her swishing long black tail she sometimes hits things or smashes things on the ground but can whip people. The long brown and white wings help her fly high and find criminals all over the world. With her sharp horns she can strike criminals at incredible speed  .

Normally she is serious when she is fighting criminals and practising to fight but she sometimes can be goofy and cheeky. Most of the time she is Happy when flying and confident to try new things. She does laugh at jokes but she thinks that she’s better at making other people laugh.   

                                                      

Building a tent model !!

 Yesterday for maths, Te Waka Ako had a task to create a small tent model out of some tooth picks and one stick of modelling clay. We were allowed use any shape and any sizes to create it. I used two cubes for my tent. 

During the  making of the tent I had some problems. One of them was that my model kept on falling because the wind was strong and the modelling clay wouldn't hold the pieces together really well.  
This is my work!      

I found it hard because it was not really stable or strong which made me really frustrated. I still had lots of fun! I found out that  you needed good concentration / focus and lots of patience. I think I did really well. I would really like it if you could give me a helpful and positive comment.
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