Choir Recital

                     Choir Recital

 Hello Bloggers. Tuesday the 26th of November was the big day. If you have read my old blog about joining the school choir and going for choir rehearsals to other schools you would know that I've been practising for this day for a long time. We were performing at the Town Hall in the city. There were 13 other school choirs that were doing it with us. My school was part of the B side. We had to get to Town Hall at 6:45 and our show started at 7:30. All the time I sat there I kept thinking "Soon I will be out there, in front of a huge crowd and I have to sing 14 songs." The 14 songs that we were singing were:

• National Anthem 
• Donna Nobis Pacem 
• Eye of the tiger
• What about us 
• Les Miserable Medley
• I'll be there for you
• Phantom of the Opera
• Ke manuia te aho
• A te tarakihi
• Rocking Robin
• O moon 
• In Winter
• Choo Choo Chabogie
• Don't cry for me Argentina.

My favourite was I'll be there for you. The place was amazing and we had a lot of fun. We sang all 14 songs beautifully and I never stopped smiling once. This was an amazing experience and I would recommend you all to join your own choir. This is a life changing experience. Well that's all for today. Check out the photos of town hall. Blog You Later!

Haiku

                           Haiku

 Hello Bloggers. Yesterday on the 21st of November we started something fun for writing. We were supposed to write a Haiku. A Haiku is is a poem that has only three lines. The first line has five syllables. The second line has seven syllables and the last line has five syllables. Since I love Harry Potter so much I decided to make a Haiku about what my personality would be like if I studied at Hogwarts. I made mine in a Google Drawing and added some photos. My house is a Slytherin and my second favourite house is a Ravenclaw so my background is green and blue. We had to highlight the syllables in each word so that we know there are the right amount of syllables in the sentence. On the side is a photo of my Haiku. There is a link on the purple Haiku to get a closer look on my Google Drawing. Well that's it for today. Blog You Later!

Creative fun

                   Creative Fun 

Welcome. This week on Monday the 4th of November, the senior syndicate of our school (including me) started a new activity. The teachers had given us nine activities to do and finish by the end of the week. The nine activities were:

• Origami Frog
• Making Butter
• Paper Plane 
• Play dough insect
• Pavement art
• Plasticine character
• Cutting patterns 
• Lego scene
• Marshmallow maths 

At first the teachers put us into groups of eight. They asked us what groups we wanted to be in and we had to put our hand up for which one we wanted. My first activity was Origami frog. I was with one of my friends, Neeve. We did all our activities together but we didn't have time to finish all. We finished everything besides Plasticine character. My favourite activity out of all of these was creating a Lego scene. Me, Neeve and Ama, our other friend, created a house all together and it looked a bit like a Chinese house. We were going to put our Plasticine characters in it. I was going to make a cat, Neeve was going to make a panda and Ama was going to make a squirrel. Here are some photos of our house. Well that's all for today. Blog You Later.

MIndfulness

                     Mindfulness

Hello Bloggers and welcome back. On Wednesday, the 30th of October I went for a one day Mindfulness programme. At first I thought that I was going to be alone because none of my friends were doing this program. I had been chosen for this along with some other people. I soon found out that some people who had been chosen had said no and that my friends Abigail and Chimay were doing it with me. We had to take our shoes off before we stepped onto the mat. 

We started by introducing ourselves to each other. Then we did some kinds of breathing. We first learned how to do candle breath in easy pose. Easy pose is when you cross your legs and sit with your hands on your knees. Then we did Balloon breathing. Then we had to buddy up and I was with Abigail. We had to make eye contact with the other person for a long time. I laughed the most. We even made some glitter jars that represented our thoughts, feelings and urges. Later we got to take them home.

At first I thought I would hate Mindfulness but I loved it. Mindfulness is great. I especially enjoyed doing it with my friends. I would recommend you to try it too. It was a great experience. Well that's all for today. Blog You Later! 

Futsal

                        Futsal

 Hello bloggers. Every term we have a sport that we learn. This term it is Futsal. Futsal is basically indoor football. Our first session was on Wednesday. 

We had to pick a ball each and we had some activities. Our instructors's name is Kingsley. We had to dribble. When you dribble you have to kick a ball lightly and make sure that the ball is not out of your reach. Then it got harder. We had to kick the ball around and whenever Kingsley called freeze we would have to freeze with the ball under our foot. Then soon Kingsley added another thing. Kingsley would call out a random number and we would have to get into groups of that many people and we have to take the ball with us without using our hands. If you didn't get into a group of that number or you didn't freeze then you have to do 5 star jumps. Then Kingsley divided us into two groups and then he gave each member of the group a number. Then he would keep the ball in the centre and call out some random number. If you are that number you run to the middle and try and kick the ball in the other teams goal. 

In our second session we did the same thing but instead of just freeze and number calling there was a new one. We still had to kick the ball around but then Kingsley would call a body part and we have to stop the ball with that body part. For example if he called nose we would have to stop the ball with our nose. The as the main activity we did something super fun. Again we got divided into two groups. This time there were two instructors. 1 was Kingsley and the other one I don't remember. My group was with Kingsley. Our activity was we had to stand in a circle and Kingsley would stand in the middle. Kingsley would call head or catch and we have to do the opposite of what he says. If he called head then we would have to catch the ball and if he called catch we would have to hit the ball with our head. If you did the wrong one you sit down. We played it two times and the second time I won. So I had to go in the finals and I won that too.

I am really looking forward to more Futsal. You should try it too. I really enjoyed myself. Well that's all for today. Blog you later!

Beach Clean

                          Beach Clean

Hello Bloggers and welcome to my first blog of term 4. On Friday the 27th of October (which is also the last day of school) the seniors in my school went on a Beach Clean. We were going to Waikowhai Bay. Our job was to clean as much of the beach as possible in the time that we had. In my old blog about the Climate Change March, I had mentioned that we had made signs. Before we left for Waikowhai Bay we grabbed those old signs and stood on the sidewalk in front of our school and chanted. Then we walked down to Waikowhai Bay with some teachers and parent helpers. 

Once we got there we had to get into groups of three. I was with my friends Abigail and Neeve. I also wanted to be with my other friends Ama, Zoe and Chimay but we could only be in a group of three. Then we had to buddy up with another group so of course we went with our friends. Then we were assigned an adult. I'm not sure who exactly my adult was but I do know that they were the father of one of the girls in my class. Two boys didn't have a group so they were with us. Our adult carried a huge bag for us to put the rubbish in. We walked along the beach picking up plastic. More than plastic we found glass and beer bottles. We found a lot of fishing rods and broken bits of fishing lines everywhere.

As we were picking up rubbish Ama called me over to where she was. She had found a small statue of two Indian gods. She wanted to show it to me because I was also Indian and might know who they are (which I did). One year ago when I had gone to this beach I had lost a statue with two Indian gods. The statue I had lost had a scrape at the bottom and so I looked under the statue and there was a scrape there too. That was the statue I had lost. Ama gave it back to me and for that I was grateful. We spent the rest of the time exploring hidden areas and trying to find rubbish until it was finally time to go back to school. WE walked back and enjoyed the rest of our day.

Rubbish is taking over the world. Please stop throwing here and there and put it in the right place. We all want a clean world to enjoy not a rubbish infected one. Hope this message reaches you and you do the right thing. The rest is in your hands. Well that's all so have a look at the photos below and blog you later.

Enlargement

                      Enlargement

Hello bloggers. This week, for maths we have been working on Enlargement. Enlargement is when you draw something on small squares and then draw the exact same thing on bigger squares. You have to make sure that when you are drawing on the big one that it looks exactly like the small one. We have to make sure that the big one is drawn the way the small one would look if it was enlarged. In Enlargement we had to x2 on the big copy from the small one. Only we had to do x2, you could do times any number you like. Our challenge was to make a face. It didn't matter if it was a human face or an animal face, as long as it was a face it was good enough. I drew a Rabbit along with it's body because I had enough space. I created a brown Rabbit with cute eyes. At first I thought I wasn't going to like this activity but once I started doing it I really enjoyed it. I was a lot of fun. Once we were done drawing we could colour. It was a lovely activity. Here is a photo of my small Rabbit and my big Rabbit. That's all. Blog You Later!