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This term was full of learning. One of the learning is about factors and prime numbers. We learned how to tell which are the factors of the numbers and we also learned about all the prime numbers up to 100. At first it was a little bit confusing,but at the end I got it.

I also learned a few new words this term, like exalt means to praise highly. The other words are inquire,retrospect,brouhaha and manipulate. Everyday we have a contest whoever finds it first on the dictionary gets a point. I find it okay because I am good at looking up words in the dictionary.

This term I improved my maths skills focused on Prime numbers and factors, it helped me remember all my multiplication basic facts.

What I have to work on next term is fractions and decimals on maths. For reading I might read more different genres and authors. For spelling I will still go on with my goal about learning a new word everyday and use it on my writing.For my writing I want to use interesting words than the normal words.

That’s my learning reflection for term 1!

On the day we did our dance, I got a bit nervous. Before the bell rang everyone in our class got organized. Mrs.G was sorting out our lava lavas. (Lava lavas are skirts that Samoans use). Some people are practising the dance moves. When it was time to go to assembly. We were in front of everyone, and we were about to start the dance. When we got started with the dance, I was a bit embarrassed. Then I forgot about being shy and just dance. After we finished our dance everyone cheered and clapped!

The whole experience is really fun. From learning all about Sasa and performing it was really great! I guess our performance at the assembly was good, but we could’ve done better. I am really excited for next term because our class will learn a new dance! I can’t wait!

This book really got me engaged and entertained that I can’t put the book down.

Gingersnaps is about a girl named Ginger Brown. She had a hard time at primary school. She was bullied for having no friends,her baby fat and her name. She felt like she can’t do anything, but everything changes when she started high school. She ditched her pigtails and her puppy fat for straighteners and make up. She never regretted it, until now.

Ginger finds a cool, popular and confident girl called Shannon and they have been best mates ever since. Everything changes when they decided to be friends with a loner called Emily. The cute playing saxophone boy that Ginger falls for was part of the problem.

Will Ginger and Shannon stay best friends?

To find out the rest of the story, read Gingersnaps by Cathy Cassidy.

Other books by Cathy Casssidy:

Dizzy, Indigo Blue,Driftwood,Scarlett, Sundae Girl and Lucky Star.

St. Patrick’s Day was a blast! Most of the stalls was set up on the field. There were lots of stalls, like the caravan that sells sweets,food and drinks. There was also a cake stall, a face painting stall and even a mini truck that gives people rides! I was managing a stall with Mary E and Stevie.

Mary, Stevie and I were hosting a game stall, organized by Bree’s mum. The object of the game was to try and hit Stevie’s face with a water balloon, 50c for 1 throw and $1 for 3 throws. In our stall we also had cups of lollies for 50c and lucky dips for girls and boys for 50c. 

When we were all organized we waited for people to come and play the game or buy lollies and lucky dips. After a while, people started looking at our stall interested. We told them about our stall. That’s when the stall got really crowded and we had a hard time keeping track of people paying.

After a few hours we were exhausted. There wasn’t any water balloons left and we finished 3 packs of water balloons. There was 100 water balloons in one packet, so our game was a hit! There were barely any lucky dips or lollies left either.

While we were waiting, Bree’s mum appeared and told Mary and I that we have to go because the musicians will be onstage in 5 minutes! Mary and I ran to the hall with the other musicians and practiced the songs. When  we were done we all walked to the stage and played our our instruments. In no time our performance ended and the guitars and the ukuleles only played one song. We thought it wasn’t fair so we told Mr. Elms if we can play the song, “Mrs. O’ Leary’s Lantern”. He told us to go ahead, so the guitars and ukulele played the song and sang it by ourselves! After we finished the song everyone clapped! I was so happy! St. Patrick’s Day was fantastic! 

Here is the words for the song Frere Jacque.

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques

Dormez vous?, Dormez vous?

Sonnez les matines, Sonnez les matines

Ding , Dang Dong.

Repeat it as many times as you like! (:

I read this really good book and I decided to  do a book review and a book talk on it.

Big Trouble in the Big Apple by Thea Stilton.

Are you into finding clues and solving mysteries? If you are then this is the book for you!

This book is about Thea Stilton and her friends called Thea Sisters. The Thea Sisters travel to New York City to cheer for Nicky (one of the Thea Sisters), as she runs for the Big Apple Marathon. While they were there at New York City, they decided to visit Pamela’s family. (Pamela is another Thea sister). The Thea sisters had a delicious dinner at Pamela’s family restaurant. Everything was going as planned until someone threatens to burn the restaurant down. Can the Thea Sisters catch the troublemaker and solve the mystery? To find out more read The Big Trouble in the Big Apple.

I chose this book because it’s very interesting ad the book has great pictures.

If you liked this book, you will love the other series about the the Thea Sisters. Here are some of them, Thea Stilton and the mystery in Paris and Thea Stilton and the mountain of fire.

Thursday 16th of February is the day I went sailing. Year 7′s and 8′s in our school have the opportunity to go sailing. Only 12 students can come, and I’m one of them. The sailing took place in Awatea Lagoon. The water is 6 meters deep. When everyone got there we all had to change in two very tight clothing that keeps us really warm. We also had a life jacket on since the water is really deep. Our instructor Dean told us all the rules and how to keep safe.

We had six boats to use, so we all had to go on twos. I partnered up with my friend Mary. I did the steering and she took care of the sail. Dean our instructor let us wander around with our sailboats for a few minutes and get the hang of it. After that we played games like netball and we had a water fight.

A few hours later we parked our sailboats and ate our morning tea. When we finished eating, we had a few minutes to spare. We jumped on the lake and it was really fun! We did that for a few minutes, until Dean called us. We all got bck on the sailboat, Dean told us all to capsize our boats. Capsize means tipping our boats over. We all tipped our boats it was really fun. Getting back on the boat is a challenge! Dean told us to get back to the shore and change, because it was time to go home

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Sailing is a fun, exciting , tiring experience for me. I’m glad I went sailing!

Every Tuesday our class have French  lessons. Our french teacher is Madame P. She taught us the basic greetings, how to count in French, where France is and the best ways to go to France. She told us which countries speak French and she showed us which part of France she lives in. I think French is a must learn language, because alot of countries speak French.

How was everyone’s holiday? Mine is really well. How was Christmas? I got lots of presents and I enjoyed spending time with my friends and family. I’ve been noticing that it’s getting really hot here at where I live, so it means its summer! Yay!! I can go to the beach now and I won’t get really cold.  I hope everyone had a great holiday!  :)

My best learning experience is the Life Education because they teach you about making good choices in life, smoking,body uses and organs.