Summer Learning Journey 2020 - 2021

 

Thursday, 7th  January 2021 

This is just one of the amazing places my family and I like to go in the summer. We really like going to Holitika Gorge because is is really nice, pretty and peacful there. We also take our famikly there when they come over to becasue they really like it there. 

Summer Learning Journey 2020

Friday, December 18, 2020

Summer Haiku

This is the Haiku that I have made I picked this background because I thought it would look nice with what I have wrote. I learning that when making a Haiku you need to remember that it has three lines and the first line needs to have five syllables and the second one had seven and the last last one has five. I really liked making this because it reminded me of the outdoors. Also how much miss the sun in the west coast, right know we don't have the best weather.

Summer Learning Journey 2020

 

Rise up

Thursday,December 17,2020 

This is my part of the song. I put the photo as Jacinda Ardern because she is one of the leaders to New Zealand, I think that this bit of the song will go really well with all the things that Jacinda Ardern did for all of us when we were in lock down also just she is keep New Zealand very safe.  

The Jump

  

THE JUMP 

My heart was racing faster than anything in the world,I felt like I was going to just quit the whole thing and back out.I was fifty eight meters off the ground about to jump. I knew that after I had done this I would feel great but for now I felt like I was doing something that was way out of my league. The crowd was going wild like they were a heap of wild cheaters, they were really ready to see this jump. As I was about to jump I just imagined how proud my mum and dad would be if I did this and I tried and how much happier they would be if I won the whole competition.


I took a step forward and jumped, in no time I was in the air I did one front flip arch my back and I shot down into the water.As the water touched my face I felt so happy that I had done it and not backed out.When I came out of the water all I heard was I crowd going crazy clapping,I then swam myself out of the water were my sister was waiting for me with a towel in her and hand she had a huge smile on her face. I got out of the pool and went to a stand next to the bench where everyone was waiting for the next person to jump in.Once everyone was done jumping ( showing off as I liked to say) it was time to announce what place everyone came.There was twenty people jumping that day so I had some competition.As the man was saying who came third my heart started beating faster and faster.When he was announcing who came second I just looked at everyone in the crowd then just thought of my mum,the man said with a very loud voice in second place we have Olivia Mayhem! The crowd went wild, everyone was clapping and cheering and yelling out my name,I walked out onto the podium. I felt like I was the most awesome person in the world and that I could fly!When I went home and told my mum she looked like the most proudest person in the world.


And yes, that was the proudest moment of my life.

Rata

      

Rata

Rata trees have dark, glossy green leaves with beautiful bright flowers once they have bloomed. The flowers only bloom at Christmas time just like the Pohutukawa tree. 
Did you know that the Rata tree and the Pohutukawa tree are actually related?  Both Pohutukawa and Rata belong to the genus Metrosideros, the iron hearted myrtles, a reference to their hard, very heavy, dark red heartwood. 
Both flower in red around Christmas time or early summer and they belong to the myrtle family with Manuka and Kanuka.
The scientific name for Rata is Metrosideros Umbellata. 
There are three types of Rata, Northern Rata, B/artlett's Rata and Southern Rata. The Northern Rata is more likely found in the South island and in Westport. 
The Southern Rata is found all up and down New Zealand. The Bartlet’s Rata is very rare and is hardly found with its white flowers and pale, papery bark, which make it unique among New Zealand.  

 

PJ Day

This week on Wednesday Autumn and I organised a pajama day for our whole school. We first had too find out what we were gonna do then we found out what we needed,once we had done that we worked on the games we were making for everyone to play.We made two games and a pass the passel,one of the games we made was like a carnival game when you had to throw a ball and it would land on the number and the number and id you got a high number then you would get a prize.Our other game was a hand and feet hand we printed out a bunch of left and right hands and left and right feet.next we laminated them and fingered out were what hand and feet would go,there was three pieces of paper on each line and and there were about six lines.You had to put the same hand a feet on the piece of paper to get past.When playing the hand and feet game at the start we would tell you a number,colour or too make it harder we would tell them a sentence they needed too remember the colour or sentence when they are getting past then at the end we would ask them what the thing was that we told them and if they got it right they would get a prize.It was really funny too see everyone fall over,get tangled or even get stuck because they would not know were too put there hand or feet so they don’t fall over.(Don’t worry no one got hurt but everyone did get a good laugh out of it.) We also did pass the passel that Autumn and I had made. We put lots of layers and lots of candy in them.After lunch we watched a movie and ate waffles,muffins and popcorn that Autumn Oscar and I had baked the day before.The whole day was really fun and we all enjoyed it a lot.

Open Day At John Paul ll

This week on Wednesday there was an open day at John Paul ll Farihah,Isaac,Autumn and I were the ones that went. The reason for the open day was just for year 8 wanting to go too John Paul could see John Paul and how it was.
We got taken into the hall and we started off with a prayer then the principle talked to us. After the principal talked to us, John Paul's head Girl and Boy talked to us about some of the great opochintes we would get when we go to John Paul. Then we all got split into four groups. Each group had about ten kids and four high school kids too gave us a tour. We went to the music and drama room and played some instruments and by the way I realised that I'm terrible at playing a ukulele. After that we went to the science room and did learn to do some cool things. After science we went to the woodwork room and the teacher talked to us about some of the things we could do there and what some of the kids were doing.After that we got took the baking room and we got to decorate cupcakes. We made fondant flowers and iced out cupcakes. After we went to the library and had some food and after that we left.