Cultural week

This week was Cultural Week. You got to choose which language you get to be in so I chose French. At the assembly your language had to do a performance. For french our group were going to hold up Banting and sing Frere Jacques. When we sang I was very anxious and nervous. In the French class we learnt how say Ja m'appelle Henri -  my name is Henry. bonjour -hi ( most of us already knew that ).
I think French is a cool language.    

Schedule

All Blacks vs South Africa

The All Blacks were off to a good start by scoring a try but not kicking the conversion.  Doooooooooo the buzzer went for Half time. The score at half time was 24-17 to South Africa. I was trying to stay awake. Rieko Ioane scores a try the commentator says in the background. Full time the score was 36-34 to South Africa (sad). But at least the All Blacks have got three wins in the Four Nations. I learnt that the All Blacks can't win every game they play.

Crosses

In class we have been spending our time art to do crosses.  But it has to have something to do with our school GSS. My cross has red stripes on the left, yellow stripes at the bottom, red stripes on the right and orange stripes at the top. The GSS symbol and a Heart in between the GSS symbol and the orange stripes.

Raymond Huber

The author Raymond Huber came to our school to talk about his published books and non published books. The first book he talked about was Sting. He talked about how bees have a weapon but can only last once. He talked about how bees work and how hornets invade bees hives.  He had other but he didn't talk about his other books as much as the bee books. There was a book that didn't get published because the publishers thought it was just weird.

Cloak of feathers

The whole class did a feather for Social Justice Week. Each of the feathers had a word on it I put Respect as my word also love.  Once you've written the word or words on your feather you can decorate it any way you want. I drew love hearts with arrows pointing through the hearts 2x.  My feather is the one with the big O and a white background. All the words on the feathers can  help people.   




 

Informative writing

In class we were writing informative writing about reptiles.  I chose the Komodo dragon. The Komodo dragon lives on only 5 Indonesian Islands - 4 of those  Islands have Komodo Dragon national parks. The Komodo Dragon is the largest lizard in the world.  Hope you enjoy my slideshow.

Hauora Hands

In class we did hauora hands. They show us who we can go to when we feel down, for example. friends, teacher, adult and parents. All of these could help you to feel better and help you to be better at being resilient. Maybe you could make one? To remind yourself to go that person when your feeling down, so that person can help you. So try it out!

Winning the ruby trophy

Winning the rugby trophy

Today I was playing my rugby game at cox's bay. Since Ponsonby owned the grounds we were playing Ponsonby. Surprisingly It was a good game and it got better. I had the ball somebody was blocking me  and I could tell by the expression on his face that he was thinking “you're going down”. So I barged the guy who was 2x bigger than me and he fell to the ground hard. Then somebody tackled me, which was sad. But then I did a staple to protect the ball. At the end of the game we shook hands and announced the player of the day... drumroll please... Henry! "Yes!" I said in my head because cheering for myself wouldn't be sportsmanlike.  

Turtles Namuana

In reading we were studying pacific legions.
Tinaicobga and her daughter Ruadlice go on Journey. Then they meet kidnapping fisherman the sea gods aren't happy with the fisherman and turn Tinaicobga and  Ruadlice into to turtles. This story originated Fiji.

Abram and Sarai

This the story about Abraham and Sarah. God promised them a baby if they moved to a different country. Imagine how hard that would be. It would be like leaving Auckland and moving to a different country. Will Abraham and Sarah get a baby or will they choose to stay were they are?