Mayor of Gisborne

Today the mayor of Gisborne came to our class and talked about the Hamanatua Stream and what we did. If you didn't know, our class looks after the Hamanatua stream and last week we planted some native plants and tested the water to see if it was health enough to swim in-it wasn't. Anyway, back on topic, the mayor of Gisborne Meng Foon came in and we talked about the Hamanatua stream. For those of you who don't know what a mayor does, a mayor is someone who signs all commissions, licenses, and permits granted by legislative authority. A mayor serves as the top conservator of peace in the City.

A class photo with Meng Foon.

Cross Country

This blog post is long delayed but I came second so I had to blog about it. 5 days after I came back from Israel, the Cross Country was on. Since I've never not come a placing I wanted to make sure I did every Cross Country with a placing, so even though I was jetlagged I still pushed myself to run the Cross Country.
There was dragons flying around in my tummy, parents were cheering, I was in pain. Sprinting as hard as I possibly could, I see the finish line, I fell to the ground. I see my friend Lani lying next to me, also in a lot of pain. I remember when we were waiting for our turn, Lani told me that he came 4th or 5th every time so he made it to interschools but never came a placing. But when he was running, he was coming first by miles. His face showed me that he was so determined to come a placing, and he came first. I just want to say good on you Lani and you were a machine.

Cybersmart-Replying to Comments

Today koka Maria came in and taught us about replying to Blog Posts. If you don't remember koka Maria from my last blog posts, every Wednesday she comes in and teaches us about cybersmart and how to use our chromebooks correctly. So today she came in and taught us how to write a quality reply to blog posts. We looked at 6 peoples blog posts that have already done this with koka Maria. Then we read there replies and wrote about what you need, what you should have, and what you could have. I wrote that...
-You need to reply to their question if they have one.
-Say a greeting like hi.
I didn't write correct punctuation because you need that in everything. For my should have, I wrote...
-Good structure to help your feedback.
-The same content as the writing or the replies.

-Make sure the reply is positive.

For my could have I haven't finished so I haven't wrote anything yet.

Bye Bye Israel - Tui Art

Bye Bye Israel

Last week on Friday our family came back from Israel. It was really hard saying bye to all our family and friends, the delicious food, playing football at night, the giant pool, and of course the heat. But when we came back it was really nice to say hi to all our family and friends here and all the ups of living in NZ. It was hard from going from 40 degrees to 10 degrees but it was nice sitting by the warm fire and stroking the cats. So yeah, you could say I'm having fun in Israel.

Tui Art

Yesterday we had a reliever so we did some really cool art about the Tui our native bird. I always find it really hard to know where to start but after I start I usually roll through it. We could use our chromebooks to look something up and copy it but we couldn't trace it because, well, that's kind of cheating because you're not really doing anything. For the color we used crayon and for the background we had a choice, we could use watercolor which is what most people chose, or we could leave it plain white and 1 person chose that which is original. It was really happy with end result

because I don't normally draw and I think it looked pretty good.