My Holidays

In the holidays I went to Australia for a week. I arrived on Wednesday and we spent most of our day at the beach and then went to get frozen yogurt. On Thursday we went shopping for new clothes at Westfield Miranda.

 Friday I went to my friend Jasmine's house for a sleepover to help her sort out her birthday party the next day. On Saturday I went to watch jasmine play her soccer game. Then we got back to house and got dressed for the party. Once all the people arrived we went to a place in the city called FX. Which is a place where there are rooms with trampolines! Trampoline floors, trampoline walls, foam pits and trampoline dodgeball courts. It was really fun. When we got back home, we had pizza for dinner. Then we went in her pool and spa. After that we watched a movie and then went to bed. On Sunday we woke up and had breakfast. Then we went on her trampoline for a bit.

After I went back home for a bit, before I had to go to my other friend Charlotte's house for a sleepover. When I got there we made some bracelets and played on our ipads. Then we went out to dinner for Thai, it was really good. We got to sleep. Then Monday morning we got up and made a videostar. Then we went shopping and got some new clothes and rubber bands to make more bracelets. Then I went home and slept for a while.

On Tuesday my sister, mum and I went in the city and did some more shopping for clothes. I went to my old school to say goodbye to all my friends.

On Wednesday morning we had lunch with my grandma and grandpa. We then went to the airport and went back to New Zealand.



Mission Fair

Last thursday was our school's mission fair! All the year 6,7 and 8s got into to groups and had a stall to sell stuff to raise money for the solomon islands. In my stall, we sold candyfloss and snow cones. We also had a lolly guessing compitition and a game were you had to knock cans over with a sponge. Our candyfloss sold out really quickly so then we made some from Xara's couldrin. I think next time it would be easier if we had more people helping with the store because we had a really long line and it was really busy.

Videostar

Something I like to do at home is make videostars! Videostar is an app that let's you make your own music videos. You can pick your song and add loads of cool effects to your clips. I like this app because you can be really creative and the finished video looks awesome! Normally I do a videostar on the weekend because I have lots of time and it gives me weekdays to think of an awesome ideas. I know a lot of people who have this app and it is really popular. 

Have you ever made a videostar?

Here is a videostar I have made!

Statistics

This term we have been learning about statistics. I have improved on many different areas, such as pie graphs, histograms, stem and leaf graphs, time series graphs and much more. There wasn't an area I got a low score in the test we had. So i don't really think i need to improve on anything. I've learnt so much in the past term. I didn't know how to even make a pie graph let alone understand them! But now I can do all of that. I think it this will definitely help later on in the year.

Camp Revision

Last week, the year 8s went to OPC! It was so much fun! We were able to do loads of fun activities and really got to know each other.

The most challenging activity was probably the high ropes, there were 2 people and they had to make their way across a really thin rope using teamwork 15 metres in the air. The kayaking was also really tough! Me and Elizabeth were in a kayak together and we were playing a game were there was 2 teams and they had to pass the ball to each other and get it into the instructors canoe. You also couldn't paddle with if you had the ball. I had the ball and I was trying to pass it to another canoe. I had to stand up because I couldn't throw that far sitting down. I went to throw but I lost my balance and feel into the water! Later on we swapped our kayak with 2 other people's canoe. We had to stand up and try get into each other's boats, and once again, I lost my balance, and fell in.

The the easiest thing for me would probably have to be when we had to walk through the bush. Even though it was pretty hard, it still ended up being the easiest!



It definitely wasn't what i had expected! The Cabins were awesome, the activities were super fun and we all got a lot closer.





My proudest moment was probably when my group was caving and our instructor and teachers had left us to find the right way back. It was a super tight fit so not everyone could go in at once and i was outside waiting to go in and nobody could find the right way. So they all came out and i went in with some other people. We looked around for a couple of minutes and we still couldn't find it! But then i saw a little gap in the wall and sure enough, it led us out back to the instructors.





My favourite moment was when Samantha and I were doing the high ropes and we managed to get all the way to the end with out falling off!

Diving

This term for swimming, I chose to do Diving. So far, we have jumped off the 1 metre and 3 metre boards. We have learnt to jump forwards, jump backwards, tuck jump, dive of the 1 metre, forwards roll off the side of the pool, backwards roll off the side of the pool and fall backwards in pike position off the side of the pool. I'm pretty sure I'm improving because I couldn't dive before diving lessons. I think next lesson I will be able to improve by really listening hard and putting in 100%.

Camp

I am so excited for camp!!! I'm really looking forward to spending time with my class mates and all the fun activities! I'm kind of worried about caving and being away from home :(  But i think i'll be fine! I haven't quite got all my gear but we are going shopping on the weekend. I think I'm going quite well with the fitness and practical tasks. :) :) :)