Summer Learning Journey Prep #1

Today for the summer learning journey prep we got the tak to look at countries and then choose one to write a blog post about. There were ten countries to choose from and I decided to choose Japan.

I decided to choose japan because I saw that there was lots of cool facts and it seem like a really interesting country.

Japan is a really large country and has a population of 127.1 million people that is almost 26.5 times the population of NZ that is crazy. Japan has lots of people but still doesn't have that much land. and because of this they are currently in a housing crisis. they are finding that each year at least 10 more percent of people are having to live on the streets and don't have anywhere to go.

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The capital of japan is Tokyo. Tokyo is the biggest country in japan with a population of 9.273 million which is almost two times NZs whole population and that is just one place in japan.

Japan is a country made up of 6852 islands that is CRAZY! The four largest islands are:

Honshu,

Hokkaido,

Kyushu,

Shikoku

The most common spoken language is Japanese and japan only has one main language.

japan has an average climate of cold temperatures mostly.

In japan they have 16 national holidays, that is a lot I wish NZ had that many.

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Thanks for reading bloggers!

Pet Day!

Today is Friday 30th of november pet day at Yaldhurst Model School. I always love pet day because we get to do things like:

• agro sports
• sand saucers
• veggie sculptures
• animal judging
• cute animals (except chickens in my opinion)
• home baking

This year because I am not bringing an animal I get to help with the judging of the animals.

For the sand saucer or veggie sculptures (because you only get to choose one) I decided to make a sand saucer. If you don't know what a sand saucer is it is a plate with sand on it and then you decorate it with flowers and stones and things from the garden. For my sand saucer I decided to get a bunch of flowers from my garden that we grew at home and put those in a really pretty pattern. these are the plants I used in order from the middle to the outside.

• dendrobium (purple)
• dendrobium (red)
• yellow roses
• rosemary and hoster flowers
• hoster leaves

and here is a photo

This is when a guy came in to show how a sheep gets shared

                     This was a really cool performance that we saw when a dog herded some ducks

                                                    These are just some photos of the day.

Astronaut

Hi bloggers,
each year at yaldhurst we have an end of year performance, for rimus end of year performance (i'm not saying what it is) we had to create an astronaut, robot or a martian.

I decided to do a astronaut. For my astronaut I decided to trace another picture on google drawing and then I changed it a little bit so that it is my own.

Here is how I did it step by step:
1. I found a picture to trace (here is my picture down below)







2. I zoomed into a certain spot using this magnifying tool.

3.  I then used the curve drawing tool and used that to go around most of the lines.

4. Once I had done that i went in and added all of the little lines to make it look real.
5. I added little details and designs that I wanted to make it look better.
6. I added by face to the mask piece and then you are done.

Once you have done all those step you can then add colours as you wish.

My book

So for hooked on books week this week we had a whole bunch of activities to do and one of the activities is to make a book where you are the star so I decide dto to a story which is a mix of little red riding hood and the three little pigs.

Once had finished I went and showed my teacher and she suggested that I could read the story to a younger class in the school.
So when she said this i thought it was such a great idea. But then I also thought that I could insert the video of me reading it onto my blog for a blog post so I will update later and put a video on to this post.

Hooked on books week

this week for week 6 we are having hooked on books week.
hooked on books week is when each day instead of class reading we read a different book every single day.

Day 1: on monday (day 1) we had a book called liar. now i'm not gonna lie when i first saw the book i said to myself "this book looks so dumb ughhh" but then when we actually started reading it i didn't want the teachers to stop reading it. The start of the book just really hooks you in.
the first part of the book goes straight into jarli and his dad in a car crash except this car crash isn't an accident an old man is deliberately trying to kill them.

Day 2: on tuesday i'm not exactly sure what happened in the book because I wasn't at school. but I am pretty sure that the book was a whole lot of different little stories and they were all funny stories but that is all i know.

Day 3: today on wednesday we had a book called goldfish boy. and so far we are not quite sure what happens at the end but so far all we know is that a boy called matthew and he has major ocd and he is a germaphobe. but so far the big changes is the next door neighbours grandkids, the older sister has pushed her toddler brother into the pond.

Tomorrow we have book character day and i will update my blog with photos from the next two days.
 but here are some photos from monday tuesday and wednesday.

Athletic Zones

On Monday 12th of november the qualifying people for zones at yaldhurst went to compete with the rest of the selwyn district schools.

I was in for:
100m sprints
long jump
discuss

There were quite a lot of us from yaldhurst going to zones. Me and my friend Ariana were the only year 8's going to zones.

when the bus got to school we all hopped on and we were all really excited.
Me and Ariana were really nervous but also super excited.
when we got there we saw all of the other schools had found there spots and set up their shade sales and poles saying what the name is of their school.

My first event was at 11 but they were running really behind so by the time I actully did my race it was already at least 11:30 I came last in that race.
then once I had done that i had long jump at 12:30 but it was more like 1 and I jumped 3.43 which i am really proud of.
after that I almost missed my discuss but I didn't. for my discuss I ended up throwing 19.7m with a 1kg disc.
overall i was really proud of myself for how well i did.

I hope you guys enjoyed my blog thank you for reading.

Novel study

Novel study

This term in rimu we have started to do a novel study.

Each reading group has a different book to read for
their novel study.  
For my group the book is; Enemy At The Gate By Philippa
Werry.

Now when we read this book we have a set task of things
that we have to do throughout
the book before we read the boom and after we read the book.

One of the activities in the slides is to do an about the author
study and find out as much
information as we could and then we had t present it in a cool
way.

I decided to present mine in a prezi.

Now for my author i couldn't find out much about her so I
actually ended up emailing her
and doing a questionnaire and she answered them all for me.

And here is the link to it. link