Japan

Recently every Tuesday I have gone to a Japanese class. We have learn't some basic word and facts about japan. I made a drawing to show two main tourist attractions.

Rugby world cup

In the last couple of week I have been watching the rugby world cup. I decided to make a team made from all the players from around the world.

Writing

This week for writing we are learning how to write instructions. here are my instructions for my smoothie

INGREDIENTS

1. Peel 1 banana and put it in the blender
2. Pour 1 c. frozen strawberries into the blender
3. Add another 1 c. frozen blackberries into the blender 1
4. Also put 1 c. frozen raspberries into the blender
5. Add 1 1/4 c of any milk into the blender
6. Finally add 1/2 c. yogurt into the blender
7. Blend it up
8. Finally pour the smoothie into a glass or cup and drink

Work book

This week we got a workbook to work on during the week. 
 

Hockey

This week my West Coast hockey team are travelling to Blenheim for a hockey tournament against Moubrough and Nelson under 13 a-teams. We leave on Saturday and play on 1 on Saturday and the other on Sunday as well. We will play 1 game against each team. This is my third and final year of -13 and I am looking forward to it. 

This is a tournament to prepare for the big tournament in Omaru. The big tournament is against Cantubury and Otago teams as well.  

I hope our team does well because alot of our players ar eon their last year. 

Netball

This week I played Netball for Grey Main. We beat St Pats in the final 18-16. I played the whole game at GD and WA. I like Wing Attack the most because that it what I played the whole tournament in basically. 

These are the teams we played Awahono, Cobden, St Pats, Karoro (semi final), St Pats (final). We won all the games and the closest was the final. 

I enjoyed playing in the Netball but it was kind of weird. 

Maths balanced equations

This week we quickly looked at balanced equations. I already new how to do them and this is a drawing to show my understanding.

Netball

This term me and my friends decided to try out for the Grey Main netball team to play in a tournament that we one last year. We had two trials and a squad was selected to train once a week for two weeks. Yesterday a team was selected and I made it, only four from the squad of fourteen were droped.  I had never played Netball before and it was pretty confusing at the start but I have the hang of it now. 

I am looking forward to the tournament. 

Wearable arts

Recently we have started wearable arts. Wearable arts is a project where you have a theme and have to create a piece of wearable arts. Our theme is the future with a West Coast flavour. 

At the moment we are making small versions of our Idea and finding ways to make it interesting. 

My group might do something about whitebait and something. 

I am looking forward to seeing the final piece of art. 

Westa - Maths

This week 2 maths teams from my school (Grey Main) played against other West Coast teams. Last year it was hosted in Hokitika and we finished  1st equal. This year It was hosted at Grey Main and we came 3rd. We go to Canta Maths which is in Christchurch because we beat the other Grey Main team. I went to Canta maths and it was fun but hard. 

I am looking forward to going in a couple of weeks. 

The finals

This weekend I played and captained the Blaketown under 14 rugby team from fist five to beat Marist in the final. We played in very cold, windy and wet conditions.

It is my first year in the grade which means I am a younger player in the team.

We got of to a good start by applying lot of pressure ant trapping them in their own corner with the wind against them.  We go rewarded by the continuous pressure scoring two converted trys in a row. Then Marist bounced back and scored one of their own. I scored a try halfway through the first half. At halftime we were leading by 19 points. Marist in the second half with the wind behind made a slight comeback. The final score was 50 - 36 to us. 

After the game I made a speech to describe the game thank Marist and say how leading up to the game we tied both games. I also thanked the supporters, managers and our coach.

After the speechers we went and had a 25 minute hot shower to warm up.

I am so happy we won.

Argument

This week for writing we had to do an argument about animals in zoos.

I believe that animals should not be kept in a zoo. 

I believe that animals do not belong in a zoo. They are wild animals and it is bad for them to be baby fed their whole life. 

I also think that its not fair that the Animals have no say and no chance to express what they are feeling and what they want. Lastly how would humans like and cope with being kept in an enclosure with another species gazing at them like dolls. 

Animals should not be kept in cages and enclosures because if they are released they will not be used to be gathering food and finding shelter for themselves. They will not know how to survive in the real world. Imagine this, your parents make your bed, cook food, put your clothes on, do your homework and everything else. And suddenly send you to make a life for your own. Pay rent and cook and all the rest of it. 

Animals also shouldn’t be in enclosures because they never said they wanted to be their. They don’t have any say or influence in where humans keep them. How would you like to be taken to an unnatural and a unknown place. 

Would you like to be bossed around. My last point is how would humans like to be held in a zoo  with another species in charge of them watching them for hours. 

So in conclusion I strongly believe that animals should not be kept in zoos for these 3 reasons. They will not be able to fend for the self in the real world, they have no say in things and humans would not like to be bossed around like that so other species probably don’t either. 

Maths dlo

This week for maths we have to make a DLO for our Maths Geometry. Here is mine.

Maths work book

Term Highlight

The highlight for this term was all the sport we got to play like Rugby, Sevens, League, Basketball, League in Christchurch and Hockey. 

We did really well in everyone and we Hold the Rugby 15s, League and Hockey cups. 

I'm looking forward to term 3 but I'm just happy to have the holidays. 

Under 52s rugby

Last week I was again selected to represent the West Coast for the Under 52 kg rugby team.  I am vice captain and I play 1st 5/8th. I weigh 47kg. 

There is a tournament played between Marlborough, Nelson Bays, Golden Bay/Motueka, Buller and the West Coast in the school holidays. This a primary schools tournament with a weight restriction. The tournament is a round robin played over a week. The winner of this tournament is awarded the Seddon Shield. It is a very old and prestigious rugby tournament. 

Last year, I also played in this tournament. We beat Buller and we were very close to beating Golden Bay/ Motueka. Hopefully this year we will play well and win.

Stem and leaf graph

We have learn't how to do a stem and leaf graph. Here is my explanation.

Book Review

Last week I read The Recruit. The author is  Robert Muchamore. The Book is about a child who has no father their mother dies.

After he gets recruited to a agency called cherub, Witch is a child agency to stop people doing bad things. He does basic training and finally got through and get selected for a mission.  He does really well in the mission.  Find out the rest by reading the book.

Writing

This week we learnt how to make an argument. Here is mine. 

Children should NOT get phones until they are at least 13.  

In my opinion parents should resist the urge to give their child a phone. 

By giving them devices the first thing going through their minds when they’re bored is phone , phone, phone.  They also will become lazy and be too engaged in their device instead of being outside. Children in my opinion should play a variety of sports and at least 5 hours of sport a week. Also your kids will become antisocial. 

Kids that are on phones are paying attention to the screen rather than to outside things. By letting them go on their phone as a consequence you are making them less fit and lazy. Experts say that children should be doing an hour of exersise daily. So by giving them a phone you won’t get them doing the amount of fitness. One of nz main problems is obesity lots of people have it and by allowing them to play on a screen is making them more likley to get obese. Do you want obese children?

My second argument is that if they have a phone they will go on lots of games and be atisochial. They will get addictions and not engage in coversations. If you allow phones into your household your house culd sound like this, “ Toby get of your phone”, “But mummy I’m almost finished please a bit longer”. You will have arguments like this creep into the house.  Do you want antisocial kids? 

My last opinion I think that they won’t want to do chores because they are too engaged in their screen. They will be less inclined to do what their parents want them to do.  Do you want disobedient children? If not don’t give them a phone and you might have a chance. 

Finally I think that giving your kid a phone is a bad Idea and will make them lazy and unfit. 

Maths

This week for maths we did probability, here is my DLO on it.