Friday 29 November Week 7

Hello,
This morning we did the marshmallow/spaghetti challenge which you had 1 metre of sellotape, 1 metre of string, 20 spaghetti sticks and a marshmallow. You had 18 minutes and you got to choose your group of 4 and I was with Pera, Pippa and Emilia. We decided to do a triangular prism with some sticks pointing upwards but then we had a flat square that we didn't know what to do with so we put that upward so that you could look through the square. It was all good until we put the marshmallow on and it fell off so we kept the bottom and took off the top and just put the marshmallow on the triangle, It didn't fall over but then we got another two minutes so we made a couple of changes but it fell over and we only had like 30 more seconds so it fell on the table. We didn't get ours judged but I think the tallest one in room 5 was about 27 cm.

Bye!

Tuesday 5 November Air force Museum

Hello everyone!

I have had a wonderful experience today at the Air-force museum there were lots of fun activities like a scavenger hunt, behind the scenes that included jumping out of a plane onto what was meant to be an ocean but was a mat like the one we use for high jump. The last thing we did was learning about the person that got the Victoria Cross award, he was called James Ward and he put a fire out in the middle of the night during a storm when the plane was flying. The thing that I liked seeing most was the plane that the queen flew in, it had a velvet path into it and I could see that it had little curtains to block the light out. Another thing that I liked was looking at the old and new workshops and the storage place that they keep the planes that they can't fit into the museum. In the storage space, there was a plane which you could see the cockpit and it had a couple of the old seats, the plane was also on a very big lean just like one were we could jump out. The other interactive plane was something like a helicopter and it had about 9 seats, not including the two seats in the cockpit The seats were old and creaky when you sat down in the seats. The Air force museum was very fun and interesting and I am very happy that we went there.

Bye everyone!

Weekly update Friday 20 September

Hello everyone!

On Thursday the 19 of September, we had our production and it was called "Goodbye My Friend" and it was about 4 year 8's on their last day of primary school looking back at their school life while waiting for the bus to arrive at the bus stop. There were 81 speaking roles and the main role had 367 lines to learn. The number went up to 9 for scenes but there was no scene 6 for some reason. The song that I did was in scene 5 and was called "The Pats Blues" and we had to wear our full school uniform with a dressing gown for the start. My favourite scene was scene 7 the nativity scene the called Jesus Chesus and Joseph Jovush. The production is every second year so I only have 1 production left which is sad but every other year the years 5-8 go camping so I am really excited for next year.

Thank you for reading, Millie.

Friday 30 August Weekly update

Hello everyone!

A couple of weeks ago was our market day and I was with Bella making bracelets. Our company's name is BB standing for Bead Bracelets. We had about 40 bracelets to sell and they were $1-2 each. We had about 10 left at the end. We made about 60 dollars and once we had sorted it all out we had 16 dollars in profit. This is our stand and what it looked like:






Last week we finished Cantamaths so I will tell you about it. So we have problem-solving groups and we used them for our Cantamaths groups. I was with Eilish, Justin T and Xander for the first group and for my second group (which I still have) is just a group of three who are Isaac B and Nicholas. We are a good team. But there is not a picture of it.





This term we are doing the Production and I am doing a song called The Sats Blues but Mr Grant changed it to The Pats Blues so now it is very confusing. The play that we are doing is called Goodbye My Friends and I only know a few songs which are called Hey TA, Yucky Stuff and another one called something like My Daily Routine. I am in the front row of my song next to Pippa and Molly who are both my friends so that is good.

Goodbye!

End of Term 2 Reflection

Weekly update

Hello Everyone!

For inquiry me and Bella are making rainbow pottery. So our plan is to make pottery by hand an paint it just before it dries. It will be sold for $3 a small thing, like plates and bowls. There will be sets so one will be red one will be orange one will be yellow etc. 

But now I will tell you about Middleton Grange.  So they came on Wednesday and there was a BIG drum for the orchestra and then there was a jazz band with a drum boy called Cameron that came. The last time they were here and everyone really liked him and once they touched him they said that they will never wash their hands again.

Goodbye!

Weekly update week 4

Hello Everyone!

Today I will be showing you my Inquiry about saving the eels. In this photo it is black and white but we have changed the pictures to coloured ones. I did it with Amy and Bella, Bella printed it out, Amy laminated it and I made the sign so we all participated in it.

But since this is a weekly update I will tell you more about the week.

So yesterday we did Winter sports (I played Netball) and unlike last week we had good weather finally which was very good. We won by 3 I think. In my team there were Lola, Bella, Milan, Mira, Pippa and Hannah.

Goodbye!

Weekly update week 3

Hello everyone!

Today (Friday 17 May) is Pink shirt day! Most people have come to school in a pink shirt to try stop bullying. I think I know the story so I will tell you what I know. So this boy got teased for wearing a pink shirt to school. When the teachers noticed they set up a thing that on May 17 people have to wear pink shirts, this became famous so now most people wear pink shirts on this particular day to stop bullying. Yesterday the people that had a bye for Winter Sports made signs for pink shirt day but the people that had to go to Winter Sports (me) had to play in rain and have leaves chopping at your feet from the trees.

Goodbye!

Weekly Update Term 2

Hello everyone welcome to term 2!

On Wednesday 8 May we did Cross Country. Me and Bella made a plan to run together at all times so we came third or fourth to last I think. We had to run 2 K's and I did not like it at all.

The next day (Thursday) we did the Catholic Sports tournament. I played Netball and Emilia, Maddie, Ruby, Reagan, Greta and Milan were in my team. We played some really tough people like somebody punched Greta in the mouth!

There was also a team we didn't play them but it was meant to be a fun day but this coach if you dropped the ball or anything you would give the ball to the other team.

Good bye!

End of Term Reflection

Hello everybody!!

It is the end of Term 1 today so here is what I have loved this term:

• We did the Caritas day challenge
• Half faced portraits
• Koftball
• Miss O'Donnell birthday 
• Science in a Van
• Global play day (and carried on)
• Swimming sports
• Long fin eel trip
• Spheros
• Treaty of Waitangi learning
• Walk or Wheel day
• Mr Grant's birthday
• Webinar for water
• Water relay
• Tidying the good life
• 2 minutes of silence
• Phil and Janet's visit from South Sudan
• Don the eel man
• Blake's last day

The highlight for me was the Caritas day challenge because we got to be creative and build houses out of cardboard boxes and Global play day because you get to bring toys or something in to play with.

That is some of the things but this year has been amazing.

Goodbye!!

Here is the farewell slideshow we made for Blake.

Holy Week

Hello Everybody!!

This week we have been learning about Holy week and what Jesus went through when he was crucified. 

I have learned that the last Sunday in Lent is now called Passion Sunday and not Palm Sunday. This is because it is the beginning of Passion Week and we are remembering the Passion of our Lord.

Goodbye!!

Here is my work from this week: 

Caritas Challenge Friday 5 April

Hello Everyone!


On Thursday we did the Caritas challenge, what we did was we had a small portion of rice for lunch and we made box houses out of cardboard. I was with Bella, Mira and Amy and what was really surprising was that we could all fit in there at the same time! Amy kept on pulling the roof down because she was leaning on the walls so we had to keep on fixing it. The bad thing was that the wind came and was blowing our hut down so someone had to sit in it at all times. Here is a link of my scratch that I made about it: My Scratch

Goodbye!

Koftball Weekly update

Hello everybody!

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we were playing  Koftball which is basketball and netball together.

We started playing it with Youri and then on Thursday we had Ben I think it was but they were from the Netherlands it was bacillary netball except you could dribble the ball. It was really fun and I would definitely play it again.


Goodbye!

Don the Eel scientist

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Today Don came in and he told us about Eels so here are so facts that I have taken:

• Slime lets them through small spaces
• Long fin, short fin, moray and Australian astir are different types 
• That Eels are actually fish
• Eels can grow up to 2 meters 
• They can go backwards and forwards
• They are cannibals  - t hey eat almost anything
• Long fin Eels spend a lot of time hiding
• They grab on to their prey and spin around about 10 times per second
• Eels come up from under and sucks up food
• Eels evolve  from other types of eels
• Eels can breath through their skin
• They use ear bones and cut them up to see how old they are
• Eels get another ring each year
• Eels can grow up to 112 years old
• Females are bigger than male
• Males grow up to 50 centimetres long
• Females have 7-20 million eggs each year 
• A big female might have 40-50 million eggs each year

Thursday 21 March Missionary vist

Halo (hello) Everybody,

Today we had Phil and Janet come and speak to us.  They are two New Zealand missionaries who's job it is to work in South Sudan.  They were so interesting to listen to!

Today we learned:

*65 languages in South Sudan 

*In the middle of the day it would be 42 degrees

*There is a lot of rubbish in the Nile river

*They have to crouch to go toilet

*They go to the toilet on long drops!!

*If they travel on the roads you will get robbed

*That there is crocodiles in the Nile river

*$100 dollar notes for them are  only 30 cents in NZ dollars

*They get second hand notes from America or just rags

*1 doctor looks after 10,000 people

*They like to fly around better than driving

*It is very dangerous to drive around.

*Their most common food is flour and water mixed together

*Planes break down because of the heat

*The $1 dollar note has Dr John Garang de Mabior and on the back is a Giraffe 

*The $5 dollar note has Dr John Garang de Mabior and on the back is a Bull

*The $10 dollar note has Dr Garang de Mabior and on the back is a Moose

*The $20 dollar note has Dr Garang de Mabior and on the back is Gazelle

*The $50 dollar note has Dr Garang de Mabior and on the back is Elephant

*The $100 dollar note has Dr Garang de Mabior and on the back is Lion

LEARNZ Conferences Tuesday 19 March

Hello Everybody,

Today we did a live Webinar about water. Here are some things that I have learned.

I learned that Fossil water exists and we can never run out of water. Turning salt water into fresh water is called desalination.  Special food for cows and animals are better for our waterways. The people who told us about it was Elizabeth, Mark and I cannot remember the rest but anyways  here is a photo of the Batten team doing it.

Friday 15 March

Hello everyone!!
It has been raining today but that will not keep our spirits down! It is Saint Patrick's day for school today and most people brought a green hat to school today!!  We are also having another Global play day today so it will be really fun! Here is a picture of R5 with our green hats. Today will be a amazing day like the rest. Good bye!

Weekly update Friday 8 March

Hello,

This week has been amazing!!! The highlight for me was our Eel field trip on Thursday. We learned about the bugs that are not in our rivers that are not there to help the Eels survive. We also did a walk or wheel day which if you did it you might win a prize and I got one!! It was a key-chain with a bike on it was green on the back. My favourite part was when I got to touch one here is another picture of it.
By Millie.

Global play day 15 Feb

On Feb the 15 we had a Global play day with the whole batten team. Mira, Amy, Hannah and me put the blanket down and pretended it was snow and made snow-angels. once we finished we gave my blanket Magdalene and Abi and went and played shops this is a picture of us playing it but i'm not in that picture. It was really fun and I think we are doing it next week.

My First Post for 2019!

Ahiahi marea,

Welcome to my blog! This is where I'll put my work so that you can read it, and comment on it.
 Please enjoy, and comment.


Thanks for reading,

Millie