End of year Blogpost

1. What is something you have really enjoyed this year? The open learning environment and the three different rooms (Quiet,Creative/Individual, Collaborative.) And our impact this year (Garden 2 table and Treehouse).

2. Is there something you need to improve on? Time Management and organising my own learning.

3. What is something new you tried this year? Cooking Impact/garden 2 table

4. What was a challenge for you this year? Our Treehouse impact because we had to change our idea and sadly we didn't end up finishing it.

6. What is something you are proud of achieving this year? Meeting all my standards for Writing, Reading and Maths. 
7. What have been the best things about our learning space? The three different Classes and the words that Describe them for example (The Reef).

Learning Dispositions

Last  week on wednesday we had Learning Dispositions On (I'm STUCK)
We split into little groups of 4 or 5 And thought about how we would recover ourselves if we were stuck in a situation, I learnt a lot about how you could recover and am going to use some of the things I heard in situations of my own.
Then we went into a big group and talked through our ideas.
Then went back into the same group as what we started with and had a few questions to answer
(I'm not good at this.)
(This is too hard.)
(I can't make this any better.)
(I made a mistake)
(He's so smart I will never be that smart.)
(I give up!)
We answered all these questions and talk it out in a big group it really helped and I will Definitely use those suggestions when i'm Stuck....
My three strategies are...

• Think it threw...
• Use my different qualities......
• Think back......

Calf Club 2014

Last week we had Calf Club I took my calf Socks and my friend Helena bought her calf  Milky Helena did really good and I did pretty average I got 2 merits one 6th and one 3rd
over all I am really proud of socks and can't wait til next week for Thursday (Group Day).
At Lunch we got a sausage'n'bread and I won a 2 hats, vest and a umbrella.

Music 2014

This term my P.E group did bands, the people in my band are Julie,Sheree,Bradley and I, we have decided to play our song on the marimbas, JBCS is our name for our band we made up our song after

we listened and picked out the notes to put our song together  and it turned out quite well we still need to practice more and we should turn out brilliantly. 

Flash Back to netball

Courtney's Piktochart.

Teachers vs Students Netball Match

Today we played the teachers in a game of netball, 
the final score came down to 14-3 to us, 
my partner was our principal Mr Fraser I was playing GA and him GD 
he was very pushy the whole way threw but I enjoyed it so now we have a total 
of 5 trophies altogether including our 2 goaling and 2 championships. 
This was our last game of the season and it came out a cracker one. 

Gymnastics 2014

A few weeks ago we started gymnastics at P.E. For a start we laid out some mats and focused on 

forward and backwards rolls as well as handstands and cartwheels. Then Miss Coles put the spring board out and we  did some jumping. It was a bit of a challenge for me at the start but now I have the hang of it.

• What have you found a challenge? Why? Probably for me the most challenging thing would be the handstands and cartwheels because I just can't get my legs up high enough to balance my self.
• What have you got better at? How/why? I have got better at my landing skills because I have been practicing my balancing.
• What are you loving about gymnastics? Why?Probably learning new things and experimenting. As well as experimenting with the string board. By experimenting I can get better at things.
• What are your next steps? Why? How are you going to achieve them?, To keep on working on new techniques and practice my handstands and forward rolls.

Impact :)

This week we went down to the 

college for the first time in ages 

we started of in the hub where we talked to Mr Davies 

about our treehouse so far. 

Then we went into the computer room and figured out stuff we didn't even know. 

We showed him our drawing of our treehouse and what the walls look like etc and at the start he didn't get it although he did like our brief and thought it was well set out, but after a lot of working out we started putting the pieces together. He still thinks we need to do a lot more working in our books. Next week hopefully we will start building. 

My first Infographic.

Scratch

Last week we started scratch, scratch is an online website that  you make little
Animations on and play with them I have made a Monkey, Elephant and a Dinosaur
It is a really fun game to play This is sprite the cat you can make.:) we did this for our writing task
this week I really enjoyed making my animation (I called it Spice).

Cross-country

On Monday we started Cross Country training I was nervous about it, we started of running to different points and then went to three points and we had to work on our phase so we spirited there and jogged back, then we had to run around the whole domain it was really tiring especially because 
we had netball training after. I really need to run more often haha 

Courtney's Goal

A goal I have already achieved	New goal	Workshops I will book into:	Writing Ideas or new things that you would like to try:
choose appropriate sentence structures, beginnings and lengths for effect.	Organizing my writing into set out paragraphs, craft and recraft my writing to ensure it meets it’s purpos	Paragraph workshops Recrafting	Writing scripts and Plays, As well as Picture books.

Science Project.....

Today Anna, Rebecca and I are all doing a science investigation together.
We have been planning for a while now and we are finally doing it today.
Our science project is how to make an egg bounce,
you have 2 eggs one raw and the other boiled since there are 3 of us we are doing
another egg 1/2 cooked, you get a jar and fill it up with white vinegar and place the egg
put them anywhere hot or cold, get them in the jar for, Open up the Jar after 28hrs, bounce the raw egg, it bounces then from higher up, It CRACKS!!!!, Then try the boiled egg it doesn't crack.


Lets see what happens to ours....:)??????

Writing

This week for writing we are doing biography on our favorite leader I choose Catherine Latu and this what I have done so far.

Born on the 25 October 1986, and lived in Auckland, Waitakere. Catherine Latu the 27 year old netball player has done it again, Catherine Latu has been signed up for the Northern Mystics and the one and only Silver Ferns, her favourite role model-Irene Van Dyk.  

she had a dream of being a silver fern.

once she got into the Northern mystics netball team late in her teen years she decided to work hard to get her moment. She has played for the Northern Mystics from 2008 through to 2014 (6 years in total) and from 2011 through to 2014 as well as 2 fast five seasons (won both) she has played a total of 81 test caps.

Catherine Latu grew up with 9 other siblings as well as her mum(Mary-Anne Latu) and her dad (David Latu) One day she decided to leave home and start her netball career.

The Catherine you know may come across as fierce and aggressive in her netball but she is not trust me I know, earlier this year I met her at an ANZ championship Match Mystics vs Magic, she asked Anna and I where we live and what we got up-to in the summer, we actually didn’t know what to say.

Impact 2014

Today Mr  Quinn came to our class to talk to us about what we have done since he was last here,
so far we have decided what length and height we want our tree house and what we want to put in our tree house  we have also designed a little plan.
Our next steps are to think about our house roles.  

NYLD 2014

NYLD

Thursday the 29th of april I wake up get ready and go all set for the big day, we arrive at Vodafone events centre,  Auckland at approximately 9.10,

and get seated, after a long wait the hosts of the day Gemma Knight and Dave Atkinson,

The day was all about 3D Which the three D’s stand for Dream, dare and develop.

The 1st Speaker Annette Fale

She talked about one little girl who had a feeling a tsunami was arriving she ran up and down the beach telling everybody to get out quickly a lot of people died when the tsunami hit but if that little girl didn't warn everybody a lot more people would have died that day.

The 2nd speaker was Jamie Fitzgerald,

Jamie one day had a dream and he chased and chased it and finally succeeded his dream he said to himself are we going to put the anchor out our keep rowing, after all this time why would he stop so he decided to keep rowing that whole time he rowed he had lost 32 kg that is a record achievement so just remember you either put out the anchor or keep going

3rd speaker was Cam Calkoen

He was my favourite speaker of the day he had a great background story about his childhood, he was born with a disability and he never gave up even no he knew he was different, but didn’t even care he chased his dream and achieved it and I reckon that is a great achievement.

4th speaker Frances valentine  

She talked mainly about the future and technology, what I learnt from the day is that the future is important so look after it.

5th speaker was Laura Langman

an account and a famous netball player she takes on a lot but still

achieve her everyday goals she has a little preparation thing before the game she has only ate the same cereal/breakfast for a long time, she was a great inspiration for the day shes cool, calm and collected and serious at the same time she was a great leader.

The Laughing samoans,

what a laugh the laughing samoans were hilarious that cracked

everybody up with there play.

The Final Speaker- Charlie Laumatia

He was a really great person what I learnt from him was if you have a best friend will you choose to keep them or leave them do you think the will

you become friends with you or turn your back on them.

overall the day was a great day and I learnt a lot about leadership.