I Improved By 3 Percent!

Today, our class performed a prototec timed assessment for term four, week three. On this day, I have improved from last weeks prototec timed assessment. Last week, I received a score of 97 percent and this week, I achieved a score of 100 percent. I improved by concentrating on the work that has to been done and by calculating quicker. I hope to constantly get 100 percent until the end of the year.

Food Festival

This week our class each chose a country to study the, foods they eat and the festivals, I chose India. The pictures you see above, are the four foods that Indians eat on Diwali.

I Dropped Down By 3%!

Today, I performed a prototec timed assessment on stage eight and I have dropped down three percent. Last week I got one hundred percent, but for today I got ninety seven percent. I dropped down to ninety seven percent by, not calculating quicker and not focusing like I usually do. Next week, I hope to get one hundred percent until the end of the year. By doing this, I will focus more and learn to calculate quicker.

Hip Hop Dance Lesson 2

Today, was our classes turn to participate in the hip hop dance class. Our hip hop conductor taught us new dance moves, new games and her name was Izzy. Last week, Izzy mostly taught us new games and this week was the same. We first got into two or three lines, then we warmed up so we wouldn't pull a muscle.

Izzy taught us how to play rock, paper scissors, but the unusual thing about it was that, we had to use different styles of showing rock, paper and scissors. To show rock, you'll have to crouch down like your Spider Man. To show paper, you'll have to spread your arms out like you're about to hug someone. Finally, to show scissors you would have to cross your arms, like your hugging your invisible friend. Playing this game will need an even number of teams and we only used four groups.

Then, Izzy amused us by allowing us to play follow the leader and that was a game that we knew. Every child in the team had a chance to be the leader and control what the others do behind you. When I was the leader, I just ran around the hall side stepping and making shapes as I ran around.

Finally, Izzy showed us how to perform actions while saying your abc's. At the end of the lesson, every child enjoyed dancing and thanked Izzy for the lesson.

Stavros Kyriakides

Stavros Kyriakides is a scientific artist who creates sculptures that don’t use any nails, glue, concrete or wires. Stavros prefers to rely on the laws of physics to balance his sculptures. Stavros created the sculptures to balance in the wild, windy south coast of Wellington. For the past four years, Stavros has been creating sculptures using different objects in all shapes and sizes. His first creation was made after Wellington’s storm. After a storm had happened in Wellington, he noticed a piece of driftwood lying on the shore of the beach. Off the cuff, he picked a few interesting pieces and he attempted to balance the pieces. He gently placed the those items on top of the other. As it was standing, the wild wind started moving the sculpture, but it didn’t fall over. From thereon, he made many more sculptures by using the laws of physics. To help his sculptures balance, he needs to find the centre of gravity. Mathematicians use calculus to to figure out where the centre of gravity is, but Stavros uses another method, time and patience.

Earthquake Drill

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Prototec T4W1

Today I did my very first basic facts assessment for term four. Today I have remained on the same exact score, although I remained on the same score, I have received the highest percentage. I am really overwhelmed with my result. I received this score by calculating the problems as fast as possible and by focusing. By the end of the year, I hope to constantly get one hundred percent.

Time For Dinner!

“Can we stay over at Noah’s house, mum?” My siblings and I asked, “Okay. You can go,” my mother replied. My siblings and I urged to spend the night at our uncle’s house, and our mother allowed us to go. We wanted to visit him because, we barely see him around anymore.

First, we played board games, watched movies and played video games in their living room, but it was more like an apartment. If you go outside onto the deck, you can see almost the whole city and it is a really good view. My mother texted my uncle if we were fine, so he replied yes. He then asked if we could stay a little longer, my mother said accepted his request. After she allowed us to stay, deep inside of me I wanted to go with my mother to church but since my siblings stayed, I just remained with them. Then my father used my mother’s phone and texted that, we had to make dinner. My uncle agreed to my father’s request to make dinner.

Next, my uncle, my brother and I went driving around Glenfield looking for mitre ten mega, but before we went searching for mitre ten. We first went to gilmours to buy the food we needed, next we found mitre ten and bought a grill. As we were there my brother’s fingernail had slightly come off, but don’t worry about him he’s alright. We eventually arrived at countdown to buy the rest of the food.

Then, we were ready to prepare dinner. As we arrived home, we had to manually assemble the grill. We then placed a table outside and rested the grill on top. My uncle placed pieces of charcoal inside the grill and used a lighter to set the charcoal on fire, it took a few minutes but we eventually got to put the food on top. Then we placed the first piece of food which was chicken, after we finished grilling the chicken we placed about five pieces of lamb on the grill. After it was ready we placed pork ribs on the grill and it tasted like something I have never tasted before. My parents then arrived just in time for dinner. The aroma of the food smelt so good that I’d use it for perfume.

The ribs were so delicious, if it was the end of the world I would just eat those ribs until I am dead. As we were eating, we watched highlights from the New Zealand vs South Africa game. After eating dinner I was so full, but I urged to eat more. I really appreciated that, my uncle made dinner for us and I hope to go back to his house again.