This term for Action Stations I chose to do Quiz night. We were given a bunch of questions with a theme and were given five minutes to solve it. My team ( Paige, Pip and I ) won by one point. We got 61/62 questions right. I really enjoyed working together as a team as we all work really well together. I am excited for next week!
Today for my passion project, I wanted to improve on my line dancing. Daisy, Abby and I were in the small breakout room and we did the line dances to Achy Breaky Heart, the Bunny Hop and Cowboy Up. Next time I think we will need to be in a bigger area because we kept on crashing into each other. My goal was to stay in time with the beat but I got out of time one and forgot where in the dance we were but I quickly remembered and joined back in.
I decided to take a break from learning Spanish so I have started learning Latin. Today I learnt that ” Puella sum” means ” I am a girl”, ” Ego sum ( your name )” means “I am ( your name)” and that ” Ego sum femina” means ” I am a woman”. Do you use Duolingo?
For Mahi-a-tahi I have started to learn Hawaiian. I learnt that ” Lei ” means “Garland”, “Hele” means ” go” and that ” ‘ai ” means ” Eat”. Do you use Duolingo?
For literacy we were given a fake article about the government wanting to change the school hours to 9-5. My partner Caily and I made a leaflet to do a ” drop”. We got feedback on our work and were advised to get rid of a paragraph since it was small, long and boring.
As one of our literacy tasks, we had to write about something and/or someone going missing. I chose to add a little humour to my story by putting people I know and changing their names. Reflecting back on writing this, I really enjoyed it but next time I will try to use more poetic language.
Flandrew Greenmond was walking down the road when his eye caught sight of a group of darkened figures lurking in the shadows. “ Who’s there? ” he called out, his voice trembling. Four amazing, incredible, intelligent, fantastic, terrific, spectacular creatures emerged from the shadows. “ You know what you did, ” a voice snarled, edged with a menacing tone. Flandrew knew who that voice belonged to, for he taught her everyday. “ Aily Stalker, what do you think you are doing? ” he yelled. Elizabeth, Nina, Aily and Zia chucked a sack over his head and tugged him into a van. All the amazing, incredible,intelligent,fantastic, terrific, spectacular girls laughed about how he could never make them do maths again. Flandrew Greenmond was never heard back.
Today I had the privilege of going down to see the Rawhiti Science Fair in the hall. It was amazing to see all the work that everyone put in. I learnt that in bread when you add the catalysis to the glucose it releases carbon dioxide and that gets trapped in the gluten to make air bubbles. I was also told that sourdough bread goes stale in a few days.
Football
Goal: Today I am going to practice defending the goal by keeping a close eye on the opponents,
Reflection: I stopped heaps of people from scoring. I think I achieved my goal.
As a task in literacy I had to write a story on a magical piece of clothing. I chose to write a story on a town that was a magical watch that makes people hover. If they fall, then they are banished. I chose this piece of writing because I found it the most interesting. I think I did really well at finding more descriptive words using a Thesaurus. Next time I will try to improve on making sure my story flows correctly.
“ You can do this. Everyone has told us that we could” You whisper to yourself trying to distract you from the cheering below. A pigeon coos above you as you prepare to take the leap of faith. You jump. Freezing air rushes through your arms as you plummet towards the ground. Your scream echoes around the tall skyscrapers. You notice that the air around you is not rushing past as it was before. Your eyes open and you look at the watch in disbelief. A smile forms on your face. Shocked laughter erupts from your lips as you hover one hundred metres from the ground.
Suddenly the watch starts to ring.“ Get ready to catch them, they’re about to fall” A scream explodes from the heavily packed mob below. Your eyes flutter for a second as the person’s words register in your brain. BANG! You plunge down into the horde listening to them thunder about not letting the watch break. “ I want my turn” you hear a young boy groan as his mother tries to quiet him down.
You feel the impact of hands run along your back as you crowd surf back to safety. You mutter out an apology stating that you were sorry for wasting their time. Someone snatches the watch off of your wrist and gives it to the next person in line. The crowd stares at the new person climbing the skyscraper with hopeful eyes. “ Maybe they will succeed and stay up longer than me ”you ponder.
Tangaroa was given the opportunity to go to the Art Gallery and watch a documentary called Ice Maiden. It was about an incredible woman named Lisa Blair, the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica in her boat “Climate Action Now”. She set out to best Ferdor Konyukhov who finished it in 102 days 1 hour 35 minutes and 50 seconds. ON her second attempt in 2022 she finished it in 95 days. The documentary captivated my interest from the very start. The documentary made me feel so many emotions and by the end I was crying because of how incredible she is. After it had finished, Lisa and the director came and answered our questions. I told Talei that there was no work to describe how amazing she is.