Life Education Truck

 This week we went to the life education truck. We went on Monday and Wednesday. My old teacher was the person inside the truck. His name is Matua Beau. We lined up up by the truck and he told us to get into 3 lines.

We hoped into the truck and sat down surprisingly it looked very cool inside. There we led lights that change colours when he wanted to. We he made it red it meant we had to stop look and listen. When it was blue or white it was just normal. He talked about change. Like if you had to move to a different school. 

He showed us a video about a kid called Billy and how he went to a different school and his old school only had about 30 people in his school. Now he was at a school with about 200 kids. Nobody was being nice to Billy and then a kid came and asked if he wanted to play rugby with them. After that we met a puppet called Harold. He told us a joke.They were sooo funny.

Cross Country

This week Wednesday 15th September we had cross country. We had to walk to the course in Wainui. It wasn't that hard though. When we got to the course the year six girls lined up. When they started the year six boys lined up. Which was me so I got ready and then the starter person said take your marks get set go!

I sprinted off and I had a pretty good start. The people behind me were Jaxon and someone else I couldn't see. We went around the first corner, Jaxon was right behind me he past me I thought it was over but it wasn't because I was only about a metre behind. I felt I was going to trip up and lose it all. Surprisingly I kept a steady pace. We finished our first lap and I was exhausted. It was the second lap and I was still just behind Jaxon. 

We came around the last bend I slipped but still kept my balance. We were coming to the finish and we were neck and neck. We came up to the finish line I sprinted so hard and so did Jaxon we both dived to the finish and I felt so dizzy. I didn't know what I came, but it was over I was drained.

Cookies

Since lockdown has started I have been doing a lot of baking, but my favourite baking was the chocolate chip cookies. It is a very simple dish but it tastes so goooood! I will tell you the how to make them.

Ingredients

200 g butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup soft brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla essence

3 cups standard grade flour

Pinch of salt

1 tsp baking powder

2 cups chocolate chips

1.   oven to 180°C bake and grease or line two large baking trays with baking paper.

2. 
   Melt Butter, then add White Sugar and Soft Brown Sugar and cream these together. Beat in the eggs and vanilla then use a spoon or spatula to mix in the dry ingredients.

3. 
   Roll into medium sized balls and place on prepared trays. They shouldn't spread too much so flatten slightly. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned around the edges.

4. 
   Leave to cool on trays for a couple of minutes, before transferring to a wire cooling rack.

This recipe will make about 50 deelishis cookies.

  

Lockdown Learning😱👌2.0

 This year covid is back so that means lockdown. I never saw it coming. My mum got an email from the teachers it said lockdown learning is back. I thought to myself NOOOOOOOO!!!Trapped with my family for ages! It couldn't get any worse.

The next day my mum got another email that we could pick up our chromebooks to work on. It also meant we would have google meets. I could finally see my mates. I logged into my chromebook and got onto a google meet and saw all of my classmates. The teachers talked about what we where going to do this week.  

There were some new tasks it was interesting. My week felt pretty normal except it was at my house. Everyday me and my siblings and dad would go on a massive walk to the end of the beach. It was hard But there was a plus side to it all once we got to the end we saw a seal. he looked pretty cool. So over all I have had a pretty good time so far.

Rugby Game!

 It  was a Friday morning and I had a rugby game at 12:00 Pm. We were going to face Awapuni and Cobham school. We weren't so sure if they were good or not. At about 11:30 am we had to leave to Awapuni school. We had the first game. We were going to face Cobham.

I did paper scissor rock with their captain, he had won. He said for us to kick off. My mate, Vinnie, kicked off and it landed, bounced back and forward. Finally one of Cobhams players caught it and they ran. A person from my team tackled them. The ball got lost backwards. My friend Momo grabbed it and ran off, he got to the end and got a try. We had to kick to them again one of their players caught it and sprinted down the field, he stepped me and I missed the tackle and then he got a try. At the end Wainui had won the game.

Next we had to face Awapuni. They kicked off to us, I caught it and ran. One of their players tackled me I fell back and tumbled to the ground. One of my teammates took the ball and also got tackled, we lost the ball they picked it up and got a try. We were losing, but we didn't give up. Cory picked the ball up after they kicked he ran a got a try. At the end they had won the match. I was so tired.

We went back to school and then had to do more running because we had cross country in a couple of weeks. At the end of they day it was quite fun.

Chess Tournament

 On Tuesday we had a chess tournament. It was my first tournament in my life. I was very nervous. We had to wait for the games to be drawn out. I had faced a kid from my school. The organiser said to start our timer. I got to start first. If you won you got 1 point if you lost you got none, and if you tied you got half a point.

I did my first move and he did his. We had a 15 minute timer on. I did four moves and then I one won. I felt so relieved that I had won. I had one point. I went over to my friends game he was facing a kid from another school. I think they were tieing I wasn't to sure. The next game I won and then I won and then I lost and lost and then I lost and then won. All my games didn't take to long.

I had 4 points in total and a kid called Nathan got 6 points which was pretty good. I got 2 badges one was for a quick knockout which was for under 10 moves and I got another one for checkmate under 30 seconds. Overall It was kinda fun.

Orange Project

 This week we did an orange project. We had to do measure how much it weighs and capacity and so on. As you can see it shows in the picture below. 

We split into groups to do all of these things. My group had to do the liquid and how much one orange could contain I can't exactly remember how much there was but it was quite a bit. The other groups had to do the other stuff. In my group we had about 5 to 6 people in it. After we did the weighing and stuff we had to find out what what all of the words meant.