This week a few things I enjoyed doing was kapa haka, I do kapa haka every week on Thursday. And I really enjoy doing that. Another thing I like doing is playing dodgeball every week I have to get three mahi- a – tahi to play dodgeball on Wednesday and 5 points to play on Friday. I also really enjoy. And the last thing I enjoyed was tech every week on Thursday I go to tech, for tech I do sowing. I was so happy yesterday because I finally finished making my pillow. One thing that I don’t like but I think is funny is when me and Mr Redmond tease each other. I call him Mrs nerdy, and he calls me We’s ( short for Were’s Harper?)

My goal for next week is to make an easter basket next week for tech

Today in math’s we gathered data and used Google sheets to make a column graph.  Our topic was preferred drinks and our variable was gender.

The features of my graph are, the titles that tell you what the graph/topic is about.

From the graph I noticed That only two boys chose fizzy and no girls chose fizzy. I also noticed that seven boys and seven girls chose juice.

This week I really enjoyed doing surfing on Monday, on Wednesday I did office duty with Layla we really enjoy doing that. I also  like doing dodgeball. Every week I have to get 3-5 points for my Mahi-A-Tahi. And since I got three points I got to play dodgeball on Wednesday. The last thing I like doing is tech, every Thursday I go on a bus to tech. My activity I do is sowing. Lately I have been making a pillow. I am making my pillow for my mum. few things I found difficult were trying not to fall off my surf board and another thing I found difficult was trying to make my bone carving, without my clay breaking.

My goal for next week is trying not to fall off my surf board and trying to get my balance. And I am going to try and finish my pillow for tech so I can show my mum.!

Today I am going to draw a design for my bone carving. The symbol I chose was pikoura. I am making mine for Maniya. First I designed my carving on paper. Next I used molding clay to practice the way. I am going to make my necklace and put the hole in it to put the string through. Then I let my practice model dry overnight in my studio.

This is my reflective blog post for week 6.   

          This week the most thing I improved was swimming. Every morning Mr Redmond took all the kids swimming and I went because I wanted to do swimming sports. Today/Friday, I did swimming sports. I did Breaststroke and freestyle. I thought I was going to come last but for breaststroke I came 2nd and for freestyle I came 1st.

The second activity I enjoyed was doing dodgeball. Mr Redmond took kids down to the hall only if they had 3 mahi-a-tahi points. I went because I had three points, when I got in the hall it got so chaotic because everyone was yelling.

The third activity I liked was helping the little kids with their tryathlon. Me and Layla Poff helped direct the kids and showed them which way they were supposed to go.

My goal for next week is to practise swimming for my zones in 2 weeks.

Today in maths I did a division test. I got 54 correct in 10 minutes.

I did way better in my multiplication test.

Next time I want to get at least 70 right

I completed my test in over 10 minutes.

This week for Mahi-A-Tahi I did a duolingo and I chose to do learn Spanish. Some of the words were kinda hard to pronounce. At the end I ended up get 70%. Witch was kinda bad. I recommend you should try out duolingo. It’s pretty fun and you can communicate with friends.

This week I did office duty. When I was in the office I was a bit nervous at first but I started to get more confident  each time. One thing I am trying to overcome is answering the phone, I am really scared to answer the phone because I feel like I am going to giggle while talking and mispronounce words. I also went swimming, I was also a bit nervous but when I got in the water I was fine, the first things I did was breath stroke to one end of the pool and back stroke to the other end of the pool.

This year, I’m setting a fitness goal. First Today I ran two laps around the bike track, First I did one lap and I thought it was really easy so I decided to do another one, that was also really easy, I was gonna do another one but everyone was nearly finished so I didn’t do another one. So I am setting a goal, I am going to try and do 4-5 laps around the bike track without stopping.  The reason I am trying to do 4-5 laps, is because I am trying to get into zones for middle distance.

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This week, 3 good things, 1 challenge, goal for next week.

This week was my first full week of school. My first challenge I had to do was sowing. But that was at tech. So on Thursday all year 7 & 8s go to tech. We all get given groups, and then in the mornings on thursday we go on a bus and go to tech.

Three good things that happened was I learnt how to sow at tech, and how to make fugglers. Another good thing that happened was Mr Redmond was teaching me how to link words. One last thing that I enjoyed doing was kapa haka, I did kapa haka last year and I really enjoyed it, so I decided to do it again this year.

The goal I am setting for next week is getting better at sowing in tech.