Blog of my choice

Today I looked across the table at Violet, she stared back at me with confusion also flipping me off 3x, shes my friend.

She broke a fork and made it the middle finger so I guess I can count that as a 4th time flipping me off. Now shes looking at her computer shouting “CHARLOTTE, CHARLOTTE” because I’m reading this out loud as I’m typing it and violets face when confused made me laugh.

SHE JUST BURPED NOW SHES SWEARING SOUNDS AND TYPING AS SHES YELLING AT JOEL.

SHES SO MAD AT ME OH MY GOAUD

She wants to hurt me so much to the point shes not looking at me anymore, I’m so sad my friend hates me like so totally.

OMG SHE JUST TOUCHED ME, SHES ASSULTING MEJIJIUFIIOFIJNDOINFIUHIUNIJNIRU Shes ok now, we’re friends again frfr. Hi Violet, I know you’re reading this pookie, were good, correct? correct correct (Needed to say correct and that random blog for my task so I didn’t get yelled at again)

Ratana Visit

RATANA

Early on Monday morning, we went in the school van to head to Ratana, a small town 15 minutes out of Whaganui.

 

When we arrived at Ratana, we parked next to a big church, later finding out it was a kind of temple.

When we hopped out of the vans, we were greeted by our tour guide, his name was Tutere, he would be the one guiding us through the town.

We were then shortly after given a sheet of paper that had boxes that needed to be filled out slowly as we went throughout town. When we were given the pieces of paper, he told us a story of his upbringing in Ratana and how he found it quite enjoyable, also explaining how he brought his kids up there.

After his story, he led us to a really old house, the first house to ever be built in Ratana, the person who had owned that house was the person who the town was named after, T.W.Ratana, he was a icon and famous person in that town back in the day, he was said to be a man of God, he had visions sent from God making him really famous among his people.

Or so we were told by Tutere as he explained from his perspective of what he was told at our age.

 

My favourite part of this trip was getting to be able to go to the part and make an extremely long daisy chain that I handed to my friends.

My Weekend

My weekend went somewhat boring and slow, just me, waking up at 12pm and playing games all day til I got bored, on Saturday I went out for a while with my mum and we drove around catching Pokemon from pokemon go, it was fun but also very mad-inducing being my mum caught a legendary when I had been trying for months(It was her 2nd time playing)

 

The rest of the weekend was boring just gaming and what not.

A time I disobeyed my parents.

Last night, me and my sister got into a fued, staring at each other menacingly, my Mum told me to cut it out, me being me, I didn’t. I kept trying to be menacing to her by staring at her and what not.

After that staring war and my Mum telling me to stop staring at her, I walked over to her and said I wished she would just disappear to never be found ever again (I know that was wrong but I was pissed off,) When that had ended, I went to walk outside only for my sister to charge at me, not fast enough for me to turn around and chase her back to her seat, of course.

My Mum heard it and came running in, immediately yelling at me because she always thinks I do something bad in her eyes, no matter how hard I try.

I ran outside to my room , my Mum chasing me telling me to not run away from her and her almost resulting in taking my phone away.

Reading

Journal work

 

Title of story: Cook Strait Kate

Pages read:6 (All pages)

 

  1. Complete this table by writing questions about the text before you read the text, during reading and after you have read the text.    

 

Stuck for what questions to ask?  Click here for help.

 

3 Questions before reading (at least three questions)
What’s the story about? -Kate being the youngest person ever to swim the Cook strait.

Whose kate? A young girl ever since she was 7 dreamed of swimming the Cook strait. And she did.

What does this story mean?

That if you keep trying and believing, you can do it.

 

  1. How does this text relate to your own life? Pick one ‘text connection’ and explain:

 

Thats she tried so hard, I relate to that by practicing everything i’m good at until I am noticed, that’s how I relate.

 

3.Write a summary of the story/article 

The story is about a young girl from ever since 7 years old had dreamed about swimming the Cook strait and being the youngest person to do it, which she was, she had to train for 6 days a week for 2 hours straight! In the end, she did it and was the youngest person to beat the harsh challenge, even breaking the world record for swimming it by just 8 minutes!

4.Who are the Characters in the story/article 

Kate, Mum, Dad, Couch, Philip.

 

  1. Word Map – Select the topic words listed for the text. Complete the table below.  There are two examples to help you with the task.  

 

 

Topic Word Definition in your own words. Words that mean the same (synonyms) – minimum of three Use the word in a sentence.  
Studio The workroom of an artist. gallery, salon or workroom The artist was so busy in her studio painting that she lost track of time.  
Photograph A picture produced by a camera. picture, image, portrait “Everybody say cheese!” yelled the photographer as he snapped a photograph of Room 7.  
Swim an activity that involves moving through the water using your arms and legs Exercise, bathe, dive “Hey Mum, I’m going for a swim in the pool.”
Achieved To succeed in something, whether that be a goal, award, etc Uptain, reach, fulfill “I achieved my weti-weti ana at Rutherford Junior highschool for filling out my sheet.”
Navigator A person who navigates Sail, cruise, lead “I was hired as a navigator at my new job that pays 0.02c per 3 hours!!”

 

6: Draw a picture using google drawing 

Taha Tinana

At taha tinana today, matua burnz told us all to get a partner, I didn’t end up with one so I got to help with the game calling. The game was 1’s and 2’s, others know it as cat and mice, or cat and dog, it’s basically a game where the caller yells a number and whatever side that number is on has to run to the wall while the other chases them, I got to call a couple numbers before I finally got a partner due to someone getting hurt and I obviously won because i’m so awesome like damn. Anyway, after doing that game we played seaweed, I lost at that game because it was so dumb and what not. When we were done with seaweed we moved onto multi-sport, everyone was arranged into groups, me obviously getting the weaker and slower group (Minus Poppy and Zion), most of the time everyone was always in the court, not many games played really, I got a point during hockey though and that was pretty cool, I kept almost falling over during the game but I refused to take my socks off. The game lasting the longest was netball due to everyone either sucking at the game or being too competitive.

My Weekend

My weekend was superb, first of all, I woke up with a mad hairdo, I had to get up really early due to my mum banging on my door to wake me up for softball, As I climbed down my ladder I groaned as I slowly got dressed getting ready for softball, I ended up getting distracted by my phone and picking a song to listen to while getting ready, wasting most of my time, I couldn’t find my pe uniform, shoes, or shorts; We got my step-dad to look as well, then he ended up finding them in my bag.

 

Rushing out the door I forgot I didn’t have breakfast so I went to my game hungry with nothing but a chocolate up and went in my bag to have after my game. Halfgame, my Mum and Sister turned up to watch the rest of the game. It did not last long so after the game we cheered for the other team then left to go home.

 

When we arrived home, I went to my room to play games, still sitting in my PE uniform until 7pm when we had dinner and dessert in advance to get changed, having a 3 hour call with my friends then going to sleep.

 

On Sunday, I arose out of bed at around 12, laying there on my phone for 2 and a half hours, firstly walking inside greeting my Mum as I made breakfast to eat before heading into our living room to eat, talking to my sister whom was playing on our xbox while eating her breakfast also, after a while, my Mum came in and asked if we’d like to go to town, we agreed so after getting ready, we were pushed out of the door into the car to head into the town to get late lunch (The time was currently 1:30pm)

 

When we got to town, we drove to a noodle canteen to get lunch. I got honey chicken noodles with Fanta as the drink. As we put the food in the car we drove down to the park near a hill to eat our food, savoring the taste with every bite. After eating we headed back home where I played more games and called with my friends for even longer.

My week so far

MONDAY

On Monday, we started the day with maths, learning a new topic- Adding and subtracting fractions, after that section of learning, we did 2 laps around the field as a brain break, as usual, I walked most of the way, after walking, we came back and did code, boring as ever, anyway, after code, we headed out into break only to be disrupted because of the rain making everyone come back inside.

When the bell went, we did reading, the book we read this week was- Beans on toast, it was a pretty eventful book full of twists and breaks(Pun intended) all we got was reading that block. when the next bell went, I stayed in class doing art as usual waiting for the bell to go again.

As the last block came around it was sex ed, that day we learnt about the girls bodies, as they pulled up a picture of a females vagina, lots of kids ran into the other room, to read. Those kids were: Ayaana, Noah, Gemma, and Slayde, they didn’t like that block very much. Halfway through the block, Me, Poppy, and Jeremiah went to the community room to continue doing mathex training until the bell went. I then went to the bus, heading home.

 

TUESDAY

On Tuesday, we started the day with maths, still doing addition and subtraction, I was quite bored but worked with Annika to do so. As my brain break rolled around, I only did one lap due to walking so slow. We did code after that, doing the same things, writing exactly the same we did the previous day. people went out, and I stayed in, doing my art like I do. People came back and we did literacy for a while before heading to do Taha Tinana with Matua Burn doing a new sport I don’t remember the name of, as usual, I didn’t even get to touch the ball so I felt left out. We headed back to class and did writing for a while before being let out for break again, I stayed in class again as usual doing art again before bell went and everyone came back in and we did writing for the rest of the block and headed home.

 

WEDNESDAY

Today, we did Math doing exactly the same we did the past 2 days, adding and subtracting fractions,  still, as boring as ever. But today, we had Mrs Rina as a teacher aid, shes pretty cool so I was happy about it. Brain break came around and I did 3 laps, a little bit of running, jogging and walking all combined, when we came back into class we did code before heading out into break again, I still stayed in class doing art, doing details to finish my artwork that I was really proud of so far. People came back in and Matua Joel was telling stories to try and entertain us before we went to the gymnasium but it was already booked out for volleyballers so we went out to the grassy patch next to the gym and were told more stories while we sat in the sun to relax. After a while, we went back into the gym and joined the game of volleyball going on, it was confusing how they set out the players but I did really well said by one of my teammates. After that, we headed back to class to sit there for a while before going out to break, that time I was forced out of the class to “get some sun” anyway, after that break, we came back in and now we’re caught up to the present of me writing this.