America's Cup 2021

This is my Wordle about the America's Cup, the words that made the wordle are words based on the America's Cup, some of them are the countries that are involved, the date it starts and ends, what it is, and where it is being held this year.

 

Mercy Values

 

Week 2 Reflection

The highlight of my week was becoming House Captain of Marcellin.

Something I found challenging was trying to finish my work in time.

Something that I found successful was our Mercy Values videos and slides.

Something new that I learnt was facts based around Waitangi, and the treaty puzzles that we were doing.

I am looking forward to learn more about Lent.

Week 1 Reflection

 At the start of this week I felt nervous of being in another class, excited to start school and make new friends.

The highlight of my week has been helping our priest by alter serving at a funeral, learning new prayers in class, making new friends.

Something I found challenging was alter serving, starting in a new class with a new teacher.

I am really looking forward to learning māori cultural things, doing more collaborative things with other classes, being involved in more leadership rolls this year.

Angles

 In class we have been learning about different angles, we have been learning the names of them, why we have different angles, and what is the difference between each of them. We have been doing whole class lessons on them and have been doing worksheets to understand them more.

Mrs Cutler found protractors for us to use to get the correct measurement and to figure out what it is, the 3 we have been  mainly working on is Acute, Obtuse, and right angle, the teacher taught us what the differences were, an Acute is an angle that is less than 90°, and Obtuse is an angle that is larger than 90°and less than 180°, and a right angle is  exactly on 90°.

How we use protractors is to measure from the the center semi circle and out, make sure that the 90° line I your middle point, if it isn't you would have incorrect measurement.

The symbol ° means degree, a degree is something you use when measuring angles and temperature, if you don't add the degree symbol then you would be marked wrong because if the answer was 50° people sometimes just put 50 and that could pretty much mean anything so you have to have the symbol when dealing with angles.

The worksheet we had to fill in looked kinda hard but once you knew how to use a protractor properly it became more understandable, the worksheet was a mix of Acutes, Obtuse, and Right Angles, so that is why we need to use the protractors, we then had a little break from angles.

Later on we went outside and Mrs Cutler  then told us to point out angles that we could see, the ones we saw we measured, she then told us to take a protractor and got around the school and try and find different angles and figure out what the angles is, Holly and I were buddies and we went around the school and we were mostly finding Right Angles, but we did eventually find a few Acutes.

Local Legends

 For the past 2 weeks in Kakapo we have been learning about NZ local legends, it was one of the tasks on our contracts. My local legend that I chose was Valerie Adams, the reason why I chose Valerie Adams was because of her determination for what she is famous for, also in 2014 a class from our school went to have a fun day with getting to know Valerie and also setting goals for ourselves.

We did some research on the person who we chose, we had to fill in a document about the person who we chose, some of the questions on the document was, birth date, place of birth, early life time, what are they well known for, and what are some significant moments in their life.

After we filled in the document we made posters showing our legend and we could add anything we would like, I draw a picture of Valerie Adams and the NZ flag to show where she is famous from, I then attempted to draw a shot put because that is what she is famous for.

Mr Hobson had an idea that he was going to make it into a local legends book, the entire class had to do one and they all picked different people, we had a template of 3 boxes and some writing space underneath, that is for significant moments in there life, significant moments meaning special moments in there life that the have either witnessed or been apart of.

Mr Hobson printed the document and glued it on the back of our posters and glued our significant moments at the bottom of the document, he then laminated them and put them into a ring binder, he made a cover for the front of it and put every ones in it, Here is the finished result of mine.

X-Counrty

Yesterday on Thursday was our PCS X-country, all the year levels ran for year 8-0, the year 8's, 7's, and 6's and 5's ran 3km and the rest ran  1.8km. Some kids got rides out with their parents and the rest went to school and caught the busses out to the Cutler's farm where it was being held.

When we were getting ready to go we had to line up in our house groups and follow a teacher out to the bus, on the first bus was Marcellin and McAuley and on the second bus was Aubert and Channel. We then got there and the teacher told the seniors to buddy up with a little kid and help them walk to the farm, we got there and put our bags with our house groups and started to get ready and warm up. 

We have had a couple X-countries at the Cutler's farm and every year it gets better and better, looking at the farm I felt like I was looking at a jungle jim with all the trees surrounding us and the hills as rock climbing fences as our surrounded area to keep us safe, hearing all the parents and kids cheering us on and the wind howling, the sky as blue as the ocean, I smelt hot dogs being made, cow poo being demolished and mostly the smell of body odor 

The years 8's were running first then it was the year 7's which is my year level, the boys went first and then a couple minute's later the girl's went, then the teacher called all the year 7's to get ready for our run, the teacher showed us the course and said that we would have to go across a bouncy piece of wood, used as a bridge and duck underneath a tree that had fallen and also go under fences, the teacher then told us to start jogging and then she said '' GO ''  and we all started running. 

About halfway through I started to get a stitch so I started slowing down and then eventually walking around the coroner then passed the first water trough I felt like dunking my head in it but I didn't, I then came along the part where you head do the hill and I couldn't stop running and I ended up falling over about 3 times, I then got to the bottom and walked for a bit, I then ran from another water trough and then had to go through a gate with a little water on the ground, there were pieces of dry dirt and grass in it but I decided to walk straight through.

I then could see the finish line from where I was and started sprinting to it, once I passed it I felt relieved that I had finally finished, Mrs Watson was there to congratulate us when we finished, I was very happy to see her there, so happy that I hugged her and I don't really like hugs but it felt good, I came 5th and I could have done better but I'm happy that I placed.