Sundials

This week on Thursday (23-8-18) half of the Kaupeka hub went to the Canterbury winter sport tournament, the other half of the hub was at school making SUNDIALS! Making the sundials was so  much fun, now at home I can look at the sundial and read the time easy Here is the link to the instructions of how to make one:  Create a sundial.pdf

Have you very made a sundial?

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Teacher’s Strike

This week St francis of Assisi teacher’s went on strike on Wednesday.

This is because the teacher’s are not happy with the government. The government is not paying the teacher’s enough money, and a problem with this is that there a less people becoming teachers.

The teacher’s are also stating that they want more time in the classroom. They have said that they want the time to talk with the student’s about things like their weekends. Teachers have also said that they have 40% in the classroom and 60% on paperwork. They think that the government should give them less paperwork so they can do things like talk with the student’s about there weekends.

So on Wednesday the teacher’s refused to work, so the government refused to pay them on that day. That is why my school and maybe your school if you go in New Zealand would have had Wednesday off.

If you had Wednesday off, what did you do on Wednesday?

New Zealand Book Awards

New Zealand Book Awards

This week I went to New Zealand Book Awards for children and young adults. We went and listened to Sophie Sires, Gavin Bishop and Alison Balance. We listened to them talk about one of there books and I enjoyed it very much.

Sophie Sires talk about a book she wrote called “The Gift Horse”.

Sophie said that she lived on a farm and that was where she based the home of the main character Olivia. How she came to right this book was she went to a library that she goes to so she can sell her book and the lady and that worked there said something like this: “Sophie could you write a book about grief. There has been no books about grief lately”. She tock on the challenge for it was hard to make a book about grief and she made “The Gift Horse”. It is a good book at I recommend that you read it.

Next was Gavin Bishop. Gavin wrote a book called “Aotearoa New Zealand”.  He talk about how he came to writing this book and he said that there were some people that wanted him to write (and draw) a pitcher book, but they didn’t want it to be the normal size pitcher book, so instead of it being 32 page's long the wanted it be 64 page’s long. So the next day He started to research and sketch the beginning of the book. Something that he said to do was to do the title and front cover last witch was a really good idea because when you do those things it could the opposite of your story which would not be good.  

Then the last person we listened to was Alison Balance.  The book she wrote was “New Zealand's Great White Shark’s”. She talked about how a Great White Shark was born. For the first half of its time in the mother's womb it would eat eggs, lots and lots of eggs. Then in the second half it would digest all the eggs.

As we in New Zealand thought that the Great White Sharks like cold water, and that was why New Zealand had Great White Shark’s they were wrong! The Great White Shark’s went to australia and back!! She also said that The long’s Great White Shark was 6 feet long!!! A Female Great White Shark are 5 and half to 6 feet long, and the Male Great White Sharks are 5 feet long, so the female where bigger Shark than the male!!!!  

I really enjoyed listened to these authors talk about their books. And I do recommend them to many people.

Have you ever read an Award winning book?

Novels

This term we are doing novels. For novels we were put into our homebase where we had to choose out of three books which one we would like to read. The four books that I got to choose from where: Greyhound Of A Girl , Oracle, Jenner's wave  and Drover's quest.

I choose Drovers quest, the book is about a girl who's father found a nugget of gold as big as a man's fist. one day her father went missing, so she went on a drove to find her father. so far it is a good book and I can't wait to start reading it again.

I choose this book because when I read the blurb the story really stood out from the others. Also because I like a good adventure book.

Hear is  Summarise of some of the part that I have read:

CHAPTER ONE

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The main point the author is making is that Joseph is from America and has come to New Zealand to get away from the war. The Chapter is mostly about  Joseph coming to New Zealand and trying to find a job so he can stay in New Zealand and not go somewhere else in the world because he doesn't like boats.

If the chapter had a name I would call it “My first friend in New Zealand”    

The bit of information this story couldn’t be without is “But even as he drifted off to sleep he’s last thoughts were, as always, of gunfire and war.

The book has started of ruefully like I thought. I thought that when her dad went missing she would go looking for him as soon as possible. Then I thought that she would meet Joseph and feel comfortable around him. That was sort of what happened.

This term we have been using a Literacy circle method. The method is when you choose a book (I choose drover’s quest) and you are in the group and you discuss what you think about the book and and more. For the Literary circle we do a job for the week. The jobs that you choose from are:

Word Master, Summarise, Illustrator, Discussion Director, Connector and Passage Picker. At the end of the term you should of down all of them at least once.

I can’t wait to do Illustrator and Connector, and can’t wait to finish the book.

What type of books do you read?

My Holidays

For the Term 2 holidays I had a great time! For the first week it was a bit boring and I was at home either watching TV, playing my iPad or reading my book. But in the second week was much  more fun because some friends from Australia came and visited us hear in New Zealand. Some of the places that we when to were the Antarctic Center, Cocopellis, on the tram and punting on the Avon River. 

In the Antarctic Center we when into the snowstorm, which was so cold!, on the Hagglund ride (the ride was scary and my and my friend screamed). We saw the 4D movie of  'Happy Feet' (where you have the 3D glasses and the seats move and you get sprayed with water!) and we learnt some things about the Antarctic which was COOL!

For dinner on one of the nights we went to Cocopellis which is at The Palms. It is a great place and I do recommend that you go there. They do great food (especially the pizzas). Cocopellis is a great place and can't wait to go there again.

The first day that they were here in Christchurch we went on the trams. We showed them some of the old buildings and important things to Christchurch. We hopped off the tram at stop 12 and walked past the museum and past the Gardens all the way to the Avon River.

When we got to the Avon River we walked down to the boat shed to go punting. When it was time for us to get on to a boat, we hoped on to a long boat that had four seats and each seat could fit two people. As we sat in the boat waiting for the punter to come we were handed a blanked to share and a hot water bottle. I sat next to my friend and my sister and her sister sat next to each other in front of us.

I had so much fun while they were here but then they left to go to Queenstown and then they went back to Australia.

What did you do in the holidays?