my visual mihi

My visual mihi.

Welcome back...

Welcome back to my Blog...
Have you had a good holiday? Because I have...
This year I am a year 8, then I am off to high school.
This year I have been  put in Mrs. Prendergast class.
I have had a very good start to the year so far.
1 of my goals I would like to achieve at my last year of school is to complete all my work in the  time the teacher gives me.
So far I have been doing all my work in the given time frame.
I also want to stay out of drama with others and focus on my work.

Maths Buddy

During Week 5 I have been doing Maths Buddy. The task I have been doing is Term 4 week 4. It is basically a set of questions hat the teacher sets for us. I am 1/2 way through the task. I have gt 5 questions wrong but I am learning how to do them. There are questions like 1/3 of 120. I am hoping I pass the tasks.

Reading

Today, we did Reciprocal Reading. Reciprocal Reading is where a group of people come together to read and analyze a piece of writing in a school journal. We did the poem named “Early” written by Rachel Bush.

Here’s the poem:

“The Darkness wears a quiet sound

of fires died down and people who stir

in sleep. Soon they will slip on

their daily selves, button them up.

A rooster knows the time, says

it out loud when the day is less

than a light line above the hills 

A car hitches its shoulders,

decides to keep going.

It's lights make holes in the night.

One ruru calls

its own name.

It's wings are invisible.

They make no sound.”

This poem is about nighttime, and all of the things that happen in the night. The first paragraph details the day turning to night. The second paragraph details a rooster, telling us about how the rooster clucks when the night comes.

Paragraph three tells us about a car, driving in the night. The car turns on its headlights, illuminating the dark road. The last paragraph talks about an owl hooting, and how the owl is nearly silent in the dead of nights.

Dressing up on Halloween

Yesterday T4 were put into groups. One of the activities was dressing up. Did you know that we dress up on Halloween so the evil spirits dont recognise us? For example a mask or disguises is pretty good. The practice if dressing up in costumes and begging door-to-door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle ages. Costumes really took off with the rise of trick or treating. I am the girl in the green wig. I dont even know what I was but I think it was very creative and it was really fun.

Halloween Story

Today is Halloween and T4 spent the first block doing Halloween activities in my group I have; Jake, Riley, Taylor, Junior, Niah, Me and Nova. We had to write a story based on the book: The Hollow Woods.

Rugby World Cup

During the end of Term 3 and the start of Term 4 we have been looking at the rugby world cup. We had to do some tasks about it. We had to make paper sushi display, a Japanese slide, try on kimonos which are Japanese dresses that they wear. I had completed all 3 tasks. I would like to look around more kimonos and try more on. I have made a blog post about Kimonos. Go cheek it out.