The power of Positivity

Once upon a haystack, there was a lonely farmer who lived in the middle of a thriving countryside. He was getting old, and although he was a hard worker, he felt it was nearly time to give up the farm and retire.

One day, he was feeding out to his livestock as usual, when he saw a group of school children coming down the road. When they reached the gate to the paddock, most of them just glanced at him and hurried off, not wanting to dwardle, but one young girl stayed behind. She hung near an old wooden post, and held out an apple she had been eating. One of the old sheep in the paddock hobbled over and took the offering, then nuzzled up to the girl’s hand. For a moment the girl just sat there stroking the sheep, then she looked up at the man with her sky blue eyes and dazzled him with the most beautiful smile he had ever seen.  She said one last goodbye to the animals and skipped off, humming to herself.

From then on, every morning the old man got up early to have a look around the lane for the girl before he feed out, but he never saw her again. Eventually he turned the farm into a petting zoo, and people come every day to pat the animals and talk to him so he was never lonely again, but he never forgot that girl with the smile.

Maths Visme Presentation

For maths, over the last few weeks my friend Holly p and I have been working on a Visme presentation about Winnie-the-pooh. We hope you find this informative, and please give us some feedback in the comments. Hope you like it.

Matariki

For reading this week, we were asked to find out what Matariki was, and then put all our info together in a slideshow. I found out some very interesting facts about this topic, and if you want to learn about it too, then click on the link below. Enjoy.


Matariki Slide Show

High Ropes

Before I say anything, I will just tell you I have a fear of heights. So when Friday rolled around, I was extremely nervous, because for the William pike challenge, we would be spending the day at the high ropes course at the Groins. Yes. So anyway, I heard the word “high” and knew this day would be a bit of a challenge.

When we arrived at the course, I took a moment to have a look around. On the far side of the field, there was a massive wooden structure, about 25m high, covered in ropes, ledges and other pieces of equipment. It looked pretty spectacular.

Once everyone arrived, we all gathered on the grass and waited until a lady and a man came over to talk to us. They introduced themselves, and then they played a few quick games with us, one of which involved us splitting into two groups, and we found out we would be staying In these groups all day. We then got to play a few fun but challenging teamwork games in our groups until morning tea time.

After we had eaten, we then headed over to the ropes course to await our instructions. We would be climbing two courses before lunch, and then after we would be doing another three courses. At first when I was climbing, I struggled a bit, but then eventually I got a bit more confident, which helped me through the day.

My favourite part was was the flying kiwi. This is where you would be attached to a piece of rope that went through a clip at the top of another rope strung up in the air, and everyone else in your team would be holding the other end. Then when everyone was ready, you would run one way and then all of a sudden you would be rising up in the air, it felt amazing.

At the end of the day as we were heading back to school, I felt really proud of what I'd achieved, and I would be more than willing to do it again.

Clubs

A few weeks ago, the teachers announced that from now on on Friday we would be having clubs afternoon. Basically, there would be lots of different clubs based in different rooms, and we would each choose one, and then do it for the rest of the term, or, however long it would be running for.

There were lots of different choices of clubs; Scrapbooking, Coding and Robotics, Green team (an enviro club) Junk Modelling, the list goes on. When I heard all the choices, at first I was a bit overwhelmed. Finally however, after much strategic planning ( sort of ) I managed to narrow it down to three choices, Coding and Robotics, Scrapbooking, and Animation.

About a week later, Friday rolled around, and it was time for our first club afternoon and I still wasn't sure what club I wanted to do. In the morning, I finished all my work early, and my teacher asked me to trial an app called MyStopAction for the club she was running, Animation.

As I was doing this, I realised how much I enjoyed it. My friend Piper and I were trialling the app together, and we created a short movie. Since I still had time to pick a club, I chose to do ... Scrapbooking. Just kidding, I picked Animation.

When I walked into the Animation class, I knew I had made the right choice. We started off by watching a quick slideshow, followed by the movie Piper and I had made, and then we were free to start experimenting.

After that time went quickly. I joined up with my friend Derrin, and together we made a movie about a blob. Yes, a blob.Anyway, I had a great time doing clubs and I can't wait until the next session