A New Beginning Poem

Hello bloggers!

Today I want to share you a poem about one of my new beginnings.

It's supposed to be about when I leave the driveway to go start a new adventure and a new beginning. This was a very exciting beginning for me because I had two school terms to prepare for this and I may have found a new hobby. :)

Here it is:

As I drove out of the driveway.

My body began to shiver.

As I reached my destination

I could see the contestants ready to deliver.

Practicing their moves and gliding across the floor. 

I could see my partner ready to go.

The judges eyes were were focused

The dancers grinns were wide

The chandeliers were shining

But not as bright as the contestants eyes

Everyone practicing and everyones ready

It’s time to hit the floor and make sure I stay steady.

I made sure my shoes are gripped

And my makeup is on

Then the music started playing

And me and my partner started to walz along.

Can you guess what new beginning I am writing about?

Reading Task #7

Kia ora everybody, welcome to my blog.

This time I am going to talk to you about one of my reading tasks for this term.

Our goal was:

How can we use a range of strategies, such as inferring, to work out more complex words?

Here is my follow up:

How to make inferences

Read the excerpts and write your inferences in the box below. Think about . . . • Who the character might be (old, young, sporty, brainy etc) • What kind of person the character is (kind, thoughtful, nasty, selfish, etc) • How the character is feeling at that moment and why • Where and when this action is taking place

Tom clenched his fists until the knuckles were white. He sighed deeply, stood up and stormed toward the door without saying another word. He opened the door and slammed it behind him. His ten teammates sat staring at each other in stunned silence.

I feel like something tragic may have happened to Tom during the past of this story that made him mad but now he is trying to calm himself down and stop himself from doing something nasty. I think he withheld his anger because he didn’t want to make it a big deal and instead walked out of the room. I feel like he was the so called leader of the pack and his teammates feel too intimidated by him to talk. He also could have just lost his game or he may have even just been put as a reserve and again he is trying to withhold his anger.

Hannah’s eyes grew as big as saucers and she began to clap her tiny hands together. As soon as the present was within reach, she grabbed it and began ripping off the paper. She was giggling and squealing with delight.

I think that in the past of this story that Hannah was desperate to have something or buy something and now she got a present that she thinks is shaped as what she wanted. It could be her birthday, it could be Christmas or even she may have just had done something that was extraordinary and gotten a reward.

Fred hobbled toward the counter. He reached into his pocket and with a shaking hand pulled out his old leather wallet. As he got his money out, he noticed the picture of his wife Molly. All of a sudden his eyes became sad and after paying for his chocolate he quickly put his wallet back into his pocket. Thanking the shop assistant he left the shop and headed home for a lonely night in front of the television.

I think that his wife may have passed away in the past and now he is missing her. Or another idea is that he may have just gone  through a divorce or something sad like that. He seems like he is an old man because they said he hobbled over to the counter. I think the setting is in a dairy. He also would have been feeling very sad at the time because they said his eyes became sad.

What do these stories make you think about?

Athletics 2019

Hello everyone, for this post I would like to talk to you about pour schools athletics.

Now for starters, I love athletics, every year I look forward to it because I like a challenge. This year I was very proud of my efforts because I get to go and represent my school in zones and I have just found out that I am now going through to Canterbury's/Centrals, I am going through for long jump and 60m sprints.

We all participated in seven events, Long distance, 60m sprints, 100m sprints, Long jump, high jump, Discus and shot put.
On the first day all the girls only got to do the track events and the boys only got to do the field events because it started raining really badly half way through the day. So then the next day the girls did all of the field events and the boys did the track.

What's your favourite event and why?

Camp Reflection

Today I'm here to talk about my school camp.
First of all  just need to say that it was SO fun, we had so many fun opportunities and I don't remember any of the activities that were let downs.

I really liked Kayaking because I think it was a good experience to do with a partner and it really built up my teamwork skills. This is the same with orienteering, because it was fun to work as a team.

What I found challenging was the raft building because it was challenging making sure everything was safe and sturdy. It was hard making sure that all the ropes were tight enough so it could hold the whole thing together.

With raft building I also learnt a whole heap of knots to do with ropes and I think it'll come in really handy in the future.

I am grateful for having this opportunity to even just go on camp and having a fun time during it.

I loved jumping off the rocks on coasteering and I found learning about the rocks really interesting too. I also like looking in the caves a during kayaking.

This experience has been sure fun and I'd love to do something like this again someday.

Have you ever been on a school camp? And if so where did you go and what did you do?

How to make Hagelslag

Hello everyone, today I would like to show you how to make Hagelslag. 

Just like my Hul Gul instructions this is based from the Netherlands. I think it is a cute snack to have ready for a party or even just when your out and about.

Hagelslag

Hagelslag

The name Hagelslag comes from the dutch people because the refer the chocolate sprinkles to looking like hail. Hagelslag is a very easy and quick snack to make up, and it’s delicious too. I think it makes a good we party snack or that it’s even good for just a get together with family or friends.

Ingredients:

Slices of bread (As many as wanted)

Chocolate Sprinkles - enough to cover your bread

Butter/Margarine 

Materials:

Bowl - That’ll fit your bread

Shaped Cutter or knife (If wanted)

1. First of all grab some slices of bread and prepare your toppings

2. Now you need to take your butter or margarine and spread it on top of the bread so your toppings/sprinkles will stick.

3. Next you need to get your sprinkles and put them into a bowl, make sure the bowl is not too small just incase your bread doesn’t fit inside of it.

4. Now you need to take your piece of bread and stick it face down into the bowl with sprinkles so the butter/Margarine will make the sprinkles stick, when it’s in the bowl make sure you shake the bread around a bit so it gets as much sprinkles as possible on it.

5. Finally if you want you can cut the bread into different shapes and sizes but that part’s on you (Usually it’s not cut).

Have you ever made something similar to this?

Something Alive

Hello readers, at school I have read a book named Something Alive and we were asked to write about it in our own words, we wrote something different, something similar and three key points. We also were asked to make a google drawing like it and find some facts about the countries that we pulled out of a hat (Mine is the Netherlands). Enjoy :)

Click Here
Here is where you will find some great facts about the Netherlands.

Any Questions? Just put them down below.
How much time do you spend researching about your ancestors?

How to play Hul Gul

Welcome back, for this post I would like to show you a simple game from the Netherlands, it is called Hul Gul.The reason I am doing this is because all us kids had to pick a country out of a hat and then write instructions on how to play one of their games or do a skill that was created there. As you can see, I got the Netherlands, so here is my game.

Hul Gul

Summary of the game

This game is basically an easy, simple, guessing and theory game where you could play
with any small object that you can find.

You will need

Two or more people

Buttons - or any other small objects

How to play

1. Every player that is currently playing the game get’s ten buttons each. 
   
   

2. The first player takes a certain amount of buttons from there pile and holds it in their hand.
   
   

3. Next, the person to their right has to (Without looking) try and guess how many buttons are in
   the person's hand.

4. If the second player guesses it too high, they will have to give the difference between the number
   they guessed, to the number that was in the first players hand back to the first player.

5. If the second player guesses too low then he will have to give half of their own buttons to the first player.

6. But if the second player guesses the right amount then the first player has to give them the amount
   of buttons in their hand.

7. Then it’ll be the second persons turn to play with the person on their right.
   
   

8. This game will proceed until one person is out of buttons, then all the remaining players count
   their buttons and the person with the most wins.

I hope you like this game and would like to play it sometime with your friends or family, just remember, you can play with any small objects.

What other games do you know of from the Netherlands?