Gis Int Orientation Day

On Tuesday 27th, all the Yr 6's bussed to Gisborne Intermediate School for their Orientation Day. There was 6 of us girls and 9 boys I think. Their school is very very different to Makaraka School! But it's cool and fun. I really like Gis Int. In the morning we went off in groups and filled out a form, but there was no right or wrong answer so it wasn't that much of a form. After we did that we went to one of the hubs and got an ice block each. Morning tea came and that was about 45 minutes. At lunch, and morning tea they lock the classrooms and you can only take out the food that your going to eat. After lunch (which was 1 hour) the whole school did tabloids sports. When we just started our rotations, the rain started coming down and thunder started rolling in. We had to stop d at about 2 o'clock or somthing to get dressed and ready for the busses to pick us up and drop us off back at pour schools. We were in a bus with 2 other schools. 

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Guy Fawkes Night!!

On Saturday the 1oth of November, my family and friends had our Guy Fawkes night. I invited over my friend from school, Hannah and then my other friend from Gis Int Kate and I had then stay over the night and we slept in the tent outside my house. I then had my friend Natasha and my other friend Sophia. We got to roast marshmallows over our big bonfire and ate sausages for dinner and had amazing dessert! We then let off lots of fireworks and we got lots of sparklers each to play with. It was an amazing night and then me and my two besties got to sleep outside in the tent. We stayed up to midnight talking to each other and doing other stuff. I think we only got like 7 & 1/2 hours of sleep that night. We packed lots of things to do and had heaps of midnight snacks.

Weekend Getaway @ Grandads!

On the first day of the holidays (Saturday the 29th) Me, my little brother Campbell, and my big brother Blake got driven over to Whakatane by our Mum and stayed at our Grandads house for the weekend. On Saturday at about 2-3 o'clock, me, my brothers, Grandad and Julia traveled to Kawerau to go walk around their annual Woodfest Competition. It was really fun there me, Campbell and Julia went on the bumper cars and I was soooo good I even got stuck 2 times, (And also bumped into Campbell & Julia like 1000 times!) I also played the "Laughing Clowns" game and won a blue sticky hand but it didn't last long. After that we went and walked around the rest of the competition, and we were there for an hour or two. After seeing everything there, we walked back to the car and travelled back home for dinner. That night we had KFC for dinner and it was kind of yummy, but I still ate lots of it. 

The next day we woke up and had breakfast and stuff you normally do in the mornings, and a bit after that me, Blake & Campbell rode our bikes own to our Aunty's house witch wasn't far from our Grandads house. It was only me and Campbell that rode our bikes because, we were going down their to see our Aunty and also to get our Uncles bike so that Blake can ride his bike when we go mountain biking in the redwoods. So later on the day, when five of us were all sorted to go mountain biking in the redwoods, we loaded up the car with all our gear and set off to the free entry mountain biking place. We spent a while there but it was worth it, because it was sooooo fun. After mountain biking, we wet to the spa pool place in Taupo somewhere, and it was kind of close to the redwoods. We also spent about an hour at the spa pools and then got changed and drove back to Whakatane. 

The evening came and my Uncle and cousin came over for dinner at my Grandads house and we set off only one firework because we only had one, then my Aunty set off lots and we started cracking up laughing. I had a really fun time at my Grandads for the weekend. I'm not sure if I would like to go over again or not? 

Student Teacher Mr Hocquard

This slideshow shows how much Tawhirimatea student teacher really fitted into our classroom while he was with us. I learned so many new things and also he made my work fun! He played games with us and so much more! I hope he comes back next year to Makaraka or even better I hope he goes to Gisborne Intermediate next year to teach for a bit. I hope you like this blog post!

Me & Hannah's Genius Hour Slide

This is Hannah and I's 'Genius Hour' slide show. It has all of my information about my Genius Hour slide.  I hope you like this blog post about my Genius Hour blog post!

My Genius Hour Evidence Slide

This is my own 'Genius Hour Slide'. I need to put most of my information  into this slide. I really like doing Genius Hour this term. I hope you enjoy looking/reading my genius hour slide show. 

Literacy Week 3/4

This week and next week we are working on a narrative for booktrack me and my group. We are working with Mrs Hall to create a narrative to put on booktrack for others to read. I really like working on booktrack because there are lots of sounds to work with and lots of books to read. I hope you like reading this blog post!

Makaraka Athletics Day

On Monday the 23th, we had our Makaraka School athletics day. I competed in all of the races I could, and that was the 100m and the 200m races. The 100m was my first race of the day, and we had to have two heats for the Yr 6 girls races. The clappers went bang and we all raced off, I felt really nervous and excited. I ran fast and when I reached the finish line I saw my mum right before me looking happy.              Mr Hocquard handed me an orange rod and congratulated me for coming first, I was really proud of myself. The second heat ran and the judes got the top three ready for the final 100m race. Again I was excited and really nervous, again the clappers went and we all ran off round the corner to the finish line. I came first again with both me friends coming second and third. The 200m race was next, so Mr Milne called the Y 6 girls over to the lanes to wait for our turn. Again we had to go in two heats, I was in the first heat, so I got into my lane and waited for the starting sign. 'BANG' went the clapper and we raced off like lighting. I came first again in my heat, then the finals were after lunch. For lunch I had an ice-block and half a container of last night's dinner. During my 200m race, when I near the finish line I got the stitch so Hannah speed up and just passed right by the finish line so she came first by a few centimeters. So altogether I got a first and a second. I had a really fun day with the tabloids sports after the running. 

Week 1/2 Literacy Work

We have started a new rotation of literacy work in the classroom. The first two weeks of doing the literacy, my group was on Pm cards, so we had to read the PM card and then we had to answer the questions on the back.