Visit Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta is the Maori god for the Forests and Birds of New Zealand. But there is also a tree forest in the North land called the Waipoua Forest which homes the largest Kauri tree in New Zealand, Tane Mahuta, of the Lord of trees. I think I would love to visit this tree because..........

• I love trees (mainly climbing them, but I won't climb Tane Mahuta!).
• It would be cool to see how tall and old it is.
• It would have been special to see the tallest tree in New Zealand meet Tane Mahuta. 

It would be really cool to see the special tree/god and it would be a great holiday. I hope we go there some day!

Hometown writing

For this activity on the Summer Learning Journey we had to write about our Hometown. Greymouth is my Hometown and here's some more about it !

Top 3 fun facts of NZ

Summer Learning Journey Activity 1:

For this activity we had to go onto a site that had cool facts about New Zealand on there. We had to choose our top 3 and post them on our blog. I tried to find the ones about New Zealand that I didn't know about, so I chose these:

1. To become a New Zealand citizen, you have to swear an oath to Queen Elizabeth II. 

2. New Zealand is part of the Pacific rim of fire and its most active volcano is Mount Ruapehu, which can be found in the North Island.

3. The most popular or watched films in NZ are "Once were warriors", "The Whale rider", "The Piano" and "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy. 

Personally I didn't know any of these and I've never heard of "Once were warriors", "The Whale rider" and "The Piano" ! I've only watched "The Lord Of The Rings", so I'd better start watching those other ones or I wouldn't be living up to theses facts at all!

End Of Year Christmas Concert 2018

On Monday 17th of December 2018 and Tuesday 18th December 2018, Grey Main School is doing the usual End of Year Christmas Concert. Last year our theme was countries and this year our theme is Grey Main Staff had talent! Each syndicate has a different time/style to do. Totara 2 and 3's time is the 90s and we are performing 4 songs, they go in this order:

1. Backstreet's Back. (Backstreet Boys)
2. Barbie Girl. (Aqua)
3. S Club 7 Party. (S Club 7)
4. We like to party. (Vengaboys)

We have been practising lots over the past couple of weeks, as we want them all to look very good! Monday 17th of December is the opening night and starts at 7pm, then Tuesday 18th is the matinee at 10am. I'm pretty sure that Rata is going first and then Powhutakawa, followed by my syndicate, Totara and then finally Mamaku.

There is also school singing, awards for the Year 8s, The Burgess Family trophy for any student in the school and 2 scholarship awards. The first scholarship is called the Preston Family scholarship for students who are studying the arts and wish to do more. I have applyed for this scholarship because I do Dancing and will be going on a cruise ship to preform next year. The other scholarship is a new one and is called the Jake Millar Scholarship for people who wish to start up a business to earn money.

I can't wait for the 2018 School Christmas Concert, it's going to be great!

Technology Week 8 2018

This week at Tech,  as it is coming up to Christmas we decided to make some Christmas Cookies. First we got a sheet of shortbread pastry and cut out some circles and then we put them on a tray and into the oven. While the cookies were cooking we made the icing which was a mixture of boiled water, icing sugar and food colouring. After mixing thoroughly we put the icing into a icing bag and got our cookies from the oven and began to decorate. I did some snowflakes, Christmas trees, presents and decorations as some of my patterns. I also wrote the words Merry Xmas on some of them. I really enjoyed tech this term and can't wait for next time!

Country Study Shared Lunch 2018

Last week, to finish off our Country Studies we decided to have a shared lunch with foods from the country we studied. As my country was Austria I decided to do an Apple Strudel. Apple Strudel is a flaky pastry with sour green apple and sultanas. It is a very sweet and tasty delicacy and goes great with whipped cream. Everyone brought food from their own countries and they were all really delicious!

Dance In Motueka

After school today I am going to be travelling in a car for 3 hours up to Motueka. I am going to Motueka for a day's worth of dance practice. I will be practising exam work, groups, solos, duos and trios for a Showcase Dance Competition that I will be attending in 2019. This competition is not and ordinary as we are going to be spending 8 days on a cruise ship around the Cook Islands.

It's going to be a very busy day from 9 am till around 5:30 pm!

Averages Week 6

This week in maths, Miss Power set us a task of finding an average of a time or number by doing things like shooting goals and running around the field/fitness trail. Caitlyn, Megan and I chose to run the fitness trail once a day. My times went like this:

Monday-41 seconds
Tuesday-35 seconds
Wednesday-37 seconds
Thursday-32 seconds
Friday-31 seconds

To find the average I had to add all the numbers together and divide them by 5 like this:

We divide them by 5 because we did the times over 5 days.

41+35+37+32+31=176
176➗5=35 r1

⅕ is equal to 0.2 so my average is 35.2 seconds to run around the fitness trail.