My Year in Gri11 2.0

To Older Me,

What new technology is there, Am I pretty, Do I have a Appaloosa Gypsy cross Horse. Well……… DO I. Oh sorry. I am going to tell you about the amazing time I had in Gri11 2.0 (your class) with Miss G and Mr R (your teachers). As you walked into your class you saw that it wasn’t a really….. normal… class that is because you used, one to one computers instead of books. You were used to using books from all the other past classes you’ve been in. But hey One to One computers (you were always trying to get Pros or Airs because the Chrome-books aka Crap-books were like useless. I still do not know why people don’t use them). So you got taught how to use this weird…..umm…..thing called Google Classroom. in your head you were thinking (how…. Just how do you use this). But now you knew how use it and you pretty much used it for the rest of the year (I know right).

You sorta had a few friend complications and you just ignored them all and it worked (WAHOOO). Well now it is close to the end of the year so you were very sad and you missed all of your friends.

From 11 Year Old YOU.

Athletics

On the 9th of November 2016 College Street had Athletics day. Each class had different activities like my class had Long distance first then High jump, Throw, Hurdles, Sprints, Long jump, Relays. I didn't get in the relay team but that was okay because that meant that I could cheer on my team. WEKA...WEKA....WEKA...WEKA. Our team for the Senior and Middle relays won. But sadly not in the Junior. but hey 1st in 2 races. Wahoo!

The World of Wonders Food Festival

For The Festival we are having at school on the 16th of November 2016 I am making Traditional Asian Food. For our integration we are learning about Cultural Diversity. Cultural Diversity is the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. I am in a group that is making Dumplings, Fried rice, Sushi and Tropical Jelly. There are other groups doing Food like the Arabic group and the German group. I am making the Dumplings for the Festival. They are going to be Beef dumplings and Yutong is making Lamb. We are doing this because our class is learning about all the different cultures in the world. They are going to be FREE! We all wrote letters to our parents to help us make the food and we made poster. Here is my letter. My letter. And this is my poster.

Bike safety

On the 4th of November 2016 the girls in Gri11 did a bike safety lesson with a police officer. He taught us what the road rules, why we were helmets ,giving way to people on the top of the T in a intersection and your right while at a round-a-bout. And most importantly signalling with your arms. After lunch we got into 2 groups and did a quick recap on all the things we learn't before hand. Then we had a competition to see who was the best biker. First group 1 got on there bikes and started. There were arms everywhere, it was like a jungle. I was in the first group. I was biking around the outside a couple of times trying not to speed then a turned to go into the round-a-bout. I put my hand up so everyone new I was stopping then I put my arm out the direction I was going. There was no one on my right so I went. I did that cycle for a while and then Me, Juliette and Sarah were the last 3 standing for the competition. The next group went and you know how that goes so then it was the end of the day and I asked my mum if I could bike home and I did.

Q & A

You can ask me any questions you like in the comments and I will answer them. My mum says that I have most British accent in my family when she was born in England! I know right. So get busy asking me about my life.

My Birthday Horse Riding

On the day before my birthday my dad drove me and my sisters to the Bridge cafe in Ashurst. I was so excited when I saw the horses. " I dibs the brown horse!" I shouted excitedly. We ran up towards the horses and jumped up and down. The instructor came and told us all of there names and the Bossiness of all of them. My biggest sister got the bossiest horse. My other 2 sisters got on there horses after me and we started on our journey. We walked down a road with lots of turns and bends. We stopped to let our dad catch up because he was walking behind us, then we walked into a bush and past a river and we found other horses, wild horses. My horse was walking above heaps of rocks and sticks and suddenly......... My horse pooped everywhere. After 1 hour of horse riding we got back and had a big lunch. It was the best birthday ever!

My Calendar art

Argument writing about global warming

In my class these past few weeks. We have been writing an argument about our topic for or inquiries. Mine is about how humans can reduce the effect of Global warming. I think my writing for you and others is good so I can persuade you to stop Global warming.

Global warming is a major worldwide issue. I think that Global warming needs to be fixed and people should try that. Humans could try and reduce the effects of Global warming. Other environmental issues make global warming like Deforestation and Air pollution.

Firstly, Global warming is causing the sea levels to rise and countries and cities will get flooded and it will sink under the water. Plus people will have less drinking water because of all the salt water rising.

Secondly,Transportation and Factories are causing the carbon dioxide  in the air to get too hot and that warms the earth. The carbon dioxide is unbalanced in the air because of the lack of trees. It also makes Air Pollution which is another issue.

Thirdly, Humans are creating all the different effects that are causing Global warming. Humans are making heaps of the greenhouse gas effects which make global warming.

Finally, Global warming brings countries and cities together to help stop this environmental issue to plant trees and nature. People are making the greenhouse gases from the simplest of objects like a charger, if you put it on standby or turn it off and it will help a lot to stop global warming.

If people reduce the effect of the greenhouse gases then the global temperature will drop. If we do these things then we can save the arctic life and the environment around them. Let’s stop making all these useless gases and help the earth out. MAKE A CHANGE!

My Holiday In A Haiku Poem

In the school holidays my Mums car broke down. We tried to fix it for a few days then my Mum called over a Mechanic. He said we need a new car battery. So we went to Repco to get a car battery for the car. Repco was no help they gave us the wrong size battery twice so never go to Repco. The car is still a bit jumpy but at lest we can drive.

My production role....

College street normal school is having a school production at the Regent Theatre on Broadway. I am in a dance called the Time dance and we dance to Rihanna and Michael Jackson’s songs mashed up together. We have dance moves that we took about 3-4 weeks to practice on. We jump, Have our arms as straight as we can for clock hands and we twirl around from the air to the ground. And that's all i'm going to tell you otherwise I will ruin the show for others.

My favourite thing about learning in GRI11 2.0 is......

My favourite thing about GRI11 20 is choosing were you sit. It is my favourite thing because I don't work so well at a labeled seat and having to sit there no matter what. If it goes boy, girl, boy girl it just makes me feel uncomfortable and I cant do much work while feeling uncomfortable.
Most people would say DEVICES as their favourite thing about learning in my class. But I like sitting by myself and it is much much better than sitting in a labeled desk with books. I Love making choices about where I sit.

My name in Sign Language

A few weeks ago was Sign language week. It celebrates all the people that have problem hearing so they use Sign language to talk . This is my name in Sign language. I created it in Imovie to help me make the video. If you don't know what Sign language is it's using your hands to spell out words. 

My sisters first day of school

On Tuesday the 17th of May my sister Iolite had her birthday. On her birthday she got a swim and walk on land pink Turtle called Tenda. A mermaid, Clothes, Pug bag, Bubble gum dispenser and a School bag with little people on it. Then for a big surprise she was going to go to school on that very day. She jumped up and down and screamed for ages. Finally she calmed down, got her clothes on and packed her lunchbox, put it in her bag and got into the car. We were at school. Io started reaming and running towards her class. Her teacher is Mrs Munk and Mrs Wimms. She had a great day........

Tradtional Teaching Style

Tradtional Teaching style aka TTS if your teachers do this to you get ready because it is an adventure. You have to do marching chanting Dictation and lots of other things that hurt your hands.

The adventure of the mystery Toenail......

When you read it you just need to press the buttons on the screen. This pick a path is about a yeti called Betti (aka you) tripped on a toenail and went on an adventure....

Sports Rotation

On every Tuesday in the 4 terms of school the senior syndicate do Sport rotation. Sport rotation is an activity for all the seniors to play their favourite or a sport they like to watch. The sports are Hockey, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Soccer, Golf and Cricket. My favourite sport in sport rotation is Badminton. There are coaches for individual sport. The coach for badminton is Sandra she is from a international b
adminton club for the people in Nz. Sometimes when the coaches aren't at school teachers assign kids to take the classes. You have 1 hour for an assigned sport, you get to do 2 different sports

Adrenalin Forest

Adrenalin Forest is a forest of big Pine trees with a built in Obstacle course. Adrenaline Forest is in Wellington, Christchurch and Taupo. If you want to go do the obstacle course you need to check in. After that you need to check that your taller than 1.48 cm to do all of the course but if your shorter you get to do only 2 out of the 6 courses. You get 3 hours to do as much as you can but first you need training with the Pully and Hooks on the harness. You start by learning to attach the hooks on the metal wire for a few minutes.While your learning you get taught of the magnetic force on the Hooks. Now it's Pully time. The Pully is a mech that has two wheels on it which helps you zip on flying foxes through tree to tree. And now your ready to go. But don't be scared when you go up 20-30 feet into the air just look straight and concentrate on yourself, be brave. Good luck

Anzac Assembly and Gladys goes to war, Book launch

On Wednesday 13th of April 2016 College Street Normal School had an Anzac Assembly and Book launch of Gladys goes to War , Written by Glyn Harper and Illustrated by Jenny Cooper

Gladys goes to war is a children picture book based on Gladys the first ever woman to join the army in Australia. Gladys had 3 Sisters and 3 Brothers and her Sisters were dress makers and sewers, her Brothers were Soldiers in the Australian Army. Their mother wanted Gladys to become a dress maker like her sisters, but Gladys didn't want to be a dress maker but instead a Nurse for Soldiers that have been wounded from the bombs and attacks. One day in while she was working she over heard doctors saying they need a ambulance for the Soldiers out where bare handed people could not go. Gladys was so happy that this was her chance to prove ''Woman can go to war.'' She went up to them and said ''i'll be the driver.'' The doctors laughed and laughed no woman can't drive only men, but Gladys didn't listen she jumped into the ambulance and drove as fast as she could to the coordinates on the GPS. Moments later Gladys found the 3 wounded men loaded them into the truck and drove back to the Hospital. The men were revived and Gladys was waiting in the ambulance for another rescue. After the war she said to herself I want to fly a Plane, and she did. From that day forward Gladys was the first ever woman to have a drivers licence, to be in the war, drive were none have driven before in dangerous parts of Australia and to fly a Plane.