The War between the Teachers and the government

As you may know last week the teachers at my school and other teachers went on strike. This was pretty cool for the students because they weren't really involved but we got to have a day off school! Although the teachers didn't end up winning, I think that they were pretty gutsy that they were stepping up and going against the government for what they felt was right. 

Going on strike can be pretty scary because you have no idea what's going to happen, there were hundreds of teachers that turned out in Christchurch. Man it was a big crowd. I think that this strike was pretty cool because the teachers were stepping up for what they needed and wanted to become right. My teachers told us that they were striking because they do too much work and they don't get enough time for us. They want to have more time to teach the students so that they can help them learn.

I thought that this was really cool because at the moment I thought the teachers were just there to teach us and not to learn more about the students itself. It was really nice to know that the teachers care about us and how we are really feeling.

What did you think about the teacher strike??

Scoring again!!

Recently me, my team and other teams from my school participated in the Primary schools winter tournament. It was really cool to go to this tournament and play other teams that I don't already play. 


When we got there my team all grabbed a ball and started shooting hoops. It was a pain that we didn't have enough balls so the team all fought over to try and get a shoot in or even get the ball. I struggled with this because I am the second shortest in my team. 

I think that my team played very well through all the games and we played very fairly towards the other teams. I really enjoyed participating in the Winter sport tournament and the outcome of all the games. I would definitely like to do the Winter tournament again. At the end of the day my legs were really sore and I could not do anymore netball. 

Have you ever had really sore legs from doing any type of sport?

Frightening feeling you get when you do your speech

You know the feeling you get when you have your speech. Yeah that one! I know no-one wants to have a flashback on that feeling. I'm only talking about it because I've had the feeling recently because we had speeches. 

The thought of doing speeches in front of a massive crowd of people really freaks me out, the feeling I usually get is butterflies in my stomach can get really close to throwing up. You get really nervous before your speech but if you just breathe and get on with it, it's not so bad. I mean I did my speech and before I started speaking I almost fell over. My hands and legs were shaking, I started talking and it calmed me because what I was saying was coming from the heart and it was what I believed in. 

I finished my speech and man it was a relief, the annoying part was that I was selected for the next level in the speeches so I had to do that speech all over again. As you already may know I had the feeling again!!!

When you did speeches what feelings do you have before it started??

My Speech

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Term 3

I started Term 3 excited and ready to learn. Over the holiday's I had been chilling out at home and doing pretty much nothing. So when I started school I was ready for it, there was a few new subjects that we were doing throughout the Term. This Term we are going to be doing speeches which I'm not too excited for it but it happens every year so I'm pretty used to it by now. We are also doing a production, but I don't know too many details about it. A dance that we are doing in groups, I'm pretty interested in the results and outcomes we have from this dance because we are given groups with people we don't usually work with. At the moment in my group it is pretty much chaos.

It is now week 4 and it has gone very quickly, I didn't want it to go too fast because I have speeches just round the corner and I am very worried because I am practicing at the moment and honestly it's not going too great. Some of my friends are still writing theirs speeches and we only have about 4 days till be present them, I really feel for them so I'm giving them a few pointers to help with their stress.

This Term my school has decided to do the Koru games, I mean I'm not the greatest at sport but I gotta try something new. I signed up for volleyball but after I reviewed all the games of volleyball I have played, it's a really bad idea to play (i'll be a big mess, I really feel for the people in my team.)  This Term so far is pretty fun, can't wait for all the other exciting activities we will be doing throughout the Term though!!

What have you doing this Term at your school?

Novel study

In the Kaupeka hub this Term the teachers decided to incorporate in the learning a novel study. In each class we had a choice of 5 different books, these books were chosen from the teachers and there was only a limited number of books for each group. I chose Goodnight Mister Tom, when I was listening to the books from the summary at the back this book really caught my eye. Although it is a very long book, it sounded very interesting to me.

I chose this book because of the background behind it because it talks about what children lived like back then and the hardship they went through in their everyday life. For example Willie went to the new country with scars on his leg, he was afraid to show people. These scars were from his mum whipping him from all the bad things he did. Willie was one of the kids who went through a lot because his mum thinks that Willie's a sinner, so she always expects him to behave. It really got hold of me because most children now go through their everyday life with their parents loving them. I really felt for these people. On the picture at the front of the book it shows of a kid holding suitcases by himself with a background of a different country behind him. The cover of books always show and tell a lot of the book and I could tell that this book was for me.

So far I have read 76 pages, I was right in choosing this book because it is very interesting. This book is about a kid named Willie who lived in London but World War ll had just started over there. So his mum sent him over to another country. This story tells us about the man Willie lives with and the emotions Willie is feeling. 

The start of this book has been amazing, I loved how they describe where they are and how they are feeling. Although it is sad about Willie and how his mother treated him at home, this book has just kept me reading. 

With our novel study this Term our teachers decided that we should have literacy circles. At first when they told us this, I wasn't too fond on the idea. But as they described what was happening and how we were doing it in our groups. I understood and I thought that it was a really good idea. The books we had chosen to read over the Term would be done in groups of people who chose the same book as us. In these groups we will assign people into their jobs. These jobs will be for different things like answering questions with the group, illustrating a paragraph in the book or finding words that people don't understand. We would discuss this in our groups so that everyone in the group would understand. I have found that the literacy circles have been helping me because if I were to do this by myself I would've gotten confused with most of the questions. In this group we make sure that everyone understands the book and we are all on the same page. 

I am looking forward to finishing this book in reading this Term because I am really excited to know what happens within the book and the twists that go through it. Reading this Term has been a lot more interesting than last Term because we are doing something a lot different but it is helping me with my learning. 

What do you do as reading at your school or what have you done in the past??