Erin-Jae @Ngatea Primary Scool

Term 3 Reflection What have you enjoyed the most this term and why? I have enjoyed the Whetu Choir the most this term because we all get to sing together. I have enjoyed Impact meetings and how Impact replaces writing meetings because we don’t have to worry about having  different group meetings in a week. I think I really like handwriting every Monday and Tuesday because we get to practice our handwriting skills. What has been challenging this term and why? It’s been challenging how my Impact group is doing mosaic and how we need to do a mock up before the tile mosaic. Handwriting is very challenging because we have to: slope, flick and do proper sizing. So far, having meetings every day is very challenging because I don’t have a no meeting day. What are you looking forward to next term and why? Next term I am looking forward to starting our impact project like starting our tile mosaic, because it sounds really exciting to find out how much teamwork we

My Impact I’m in the Whetu art area group. In our Impact project we are up to making a mock up mosaic for the wall. We have accomplished planning what we’re doing. We have been planning to make a mosaic in the wall, do a fold up table and do a chalk board wall. What we need to be doing next would probably be finishing the mock up mosaic so we can start our tile mosaic. I’m enjoying our mock up designing so far. I am certainly enjoying everything we’ve been doing. Our aim for our impact is to do our mosaic on the wall.

I got the idea from a tv show. The girl’s seat/footstool opens up for storage. Dad helped me with rounding the inside. He also helped fill in the holes. First, I shaped the polystyrene, when I painted the polystyrene, I put tape to make sure it doesn’t muck up the stripe. To make sure the ottoman opens and closes, I put two sticks on the sides and I put holes where the sticks are going to go. I  think the end project was nice and simple. I also think it was useful. I loved Alexa’s cake because it had real frosting and real berries.

Cross country I was glad that I wasn’t last in the 9 year olds race. I felt really nervous because I was thinking I’m last. But turns out, there were 4 more girls behind me. I was really happy because everyone was cheering for me in the end. I think if it wasn’t for my training I would've been last. If I got through HP, my goals would be to get to TV, and win ribbons.

My Speech Reflection What is your speech about? Why did you choose this topic? Was it easy or hard to write and research your topic?  Why?  Did you change your topic?  Why? How are you feeling about presenting your speech to your home room? What do you think is the hardest part of presenting and writing a speech?r This is basically just like an interview about my speech. 0r kind of like a behind the scenes. My speech is about “Are Zoos a Good Place For Animals? I chose this topic because I feel like people don’t know how animals feel. It was hard to write my speech because I had to research about how animals felt about the zoo. I also had to watch a few National Geographic videos to see how other people treat the animals. I did not change my topic because I was sure that my topic won’t be too hard or easy for me. I think presenting my speech to my whole homeroom because I am very shy and nervous about presenting my speech. I think presenting and writing my sp

My Goals What are your Numeracy and Literacy goals for the term? What other goals do you have? Are you on track to achieve your goals? What do you need to do achieve your goals? What has been your favourite part of the year so far and what are you looking forward to this term? My numeracy goals are: To learn Roman numerals by heart without a cheat sheet in MDR. To learn how to measure centimetres properly with a ruler in AWS. To learn whole number fractions properly in MDR. My writing goals are: Write blog posts without capitalization and punctuation errors. Improve sloping, letter sizes and spaces in handwriting. Get to level 3 or 4 in my writing matrix  by using speech marks correctly. My personal goals: Try to beat my time for at least 2 minutes in the block run. Do my best in my speech and reach the Hauraki Plains event. Yes, I am on track on my goals because I am trying my very best to achieve my goals. So far, my favour

The Olympics Tell us where the Olympics are being held this year. Tell us a few facts about this City (you may have to research!) How many sports are represented in the Olympics - list a few of them that are not that popular in NZ. What are you looking forward to watching and why? In the Olympics, New Zealand will be against other countries around the world.  The Olympics are being held in Rio. Rio is a huge seaside city in Brazil, famous for its beaches. It's Carnival festival, featuring parade floats, costumes, and samba is considered the world’s largest festival. Archery, Badminton, Table tennis and Boxing are some examples of sports held at the games. I am looking forward to seeing how New Zealand goes.

My holiday My holiday is basically not a typical out of town holiday. But my favorite part is when we helped my Dad on the farm. I also like the time when we went shopping for my Dad’s birthday and I bought him  pajamas. There was a freaky part                                              when we were in The Warehouse then the alarm went on and I wasn’t with my parents and that really freaked Mum out. We gave Dad his presents and he was so delighted.

Plus Minus Interesting I really liked the boat challenge because  I really like being creative and joining ideas in my group. I didn’t like  the egg drop challenge because  our headquarters got really messy because  of the sand. It was interesting how  my group was the first group to get the immunity idol. I really liked how our headquarters got to be the cave. I didn’t like the tic tac toe challenge  because  we had to run all the way. I think the  egg on the spoon challenge was interesting because  I could see people running while dropping the egg. I really liked how  our banner turned out because it’s crazy. I wasn’t impressed with our time 47 seconds  in the ball balancing challenge. I think the balloon challenge was interesting because even if we can’t do it yet, we were able to get 32cm.