End Of The Year Reflection 8-)

My funny, weird but awesome, creative friend Ocean!! I know we have been through some melt downs together, but I will always remember you forever being that kind, amazing friend, xx.

My quirky, funny, creative, beautiful friend Cherry who I will always remember forever, xx

This year has been an incredible, interesting

My smart, lovely, caring friend Amy xx You always have awesome ideas and is always kind to one another.

and fun year for me. It was my first and only year at HSS. I am going to miss it so much.... but I enjoyed every bit of it and that is what matters. I loved this school so much, and now I am sounding all negative. Anyway, there have been a lot of fantastic memories at this school and I am going to tell you some of my favourites! And also just a message to my fantastic friends that I will miss you all so much and have fun at intermediate or have fun with another awesome teacher from Hampden Street school! Lots and LOTS of love from Elly Mae to everyone who has come along on this amazing journey with me at this crazy, incredible, creative school! :)

Carla you are one of the most incredible people I have ever met. You were shy once I met you, but when I got to know you, you really have a beautiful, funny personality xx

Meg you are a true leader and a great friend. You were the one that showed me around the school on my first day and  introduced me to everyone, thank you Meg you are a true, fantastic friend. xx

Charlotte

Ariana I will always think back to when we laughed and had a lot of amazing
fun being DJs
on HSS 107fm, I love you so much!! xx

Athletics !!

Lately we have been doing athletics training. A you may or may not already know I am quite sporty in a way and love running. We have been doing practices every Tuesday for about 4 weeks. For athletic training we have been doing.....sprints, long distance running, discus, shot-put, high jump and long jump. My favourite sport activities out of all of these are sprints, long distance running and long jump. And basically they are my favourite because I am good at these sport activities! But surprisingly I did come second it discus, haha.

Now this year was the first time I had ever done high jump because for some weird reason when I was living in Australia, at the sports day, they didn't even HAVE high jump!! Anyway it was the first time I had ever jumped over that high jump bar at the first practice. I did miss a few practices and that was because I was quite sick (sore head, lots and LOTS of tissues). But my friends explained it to me what we were doing at the practices. 

I was so excited for the actual athletics day to come I couldn't even get to sleep on Monday night! But to be honest I think everyone couldn't get to sleep that night. 0_0

It was the day! he big sport filled day! I got out of bed, got ready and RACED out of the door! 

When I got to school I saw everyone is their sporty clothes, shorts, singlets, t-shirts. I was all chatting with my friends about how nervous and excited I was and we were all jumping around like crazy! After Mr Ashby called out the roll, he asked us if we had everything we needed, then we lined up with our partners that we were going to sit next to on the bus. I decided to sit with Ocean, and we talked on the bus and looked out of the window, and sometimes we would play a bit of sweet n sour. 

When we arrived at Saxton Oval place thing, we stepped out of the bus and thanked the driver. We saw other seniors from other buses stepping out too.

We walked around the corner from the car park and there were a bunch of of seats and places were we can sit. I was SOOOOO excited!

Everyone took a seat on the grey, concrete chairs, as Mr Mackenzie spoke and a bunch of other teachers spoke with him. They were all talking about what we were doing today and to put on LOTS of sunscreen! So we did and then we got sorted for the 800 meters. I was so nervous. It was 2 laps around the big running track! As Mr Mackenzie yelled out for all 9 year old girls to go race first, I cringed. I was so scared. Georgie was so nice and kept on reassuring me and I made sure she wasn't nervous too.

After the 9 year old girls race and 9 year old boys race, it was then the 10 year old GIRLS race. I tried to stop the butterflies from flapping around in my stomach, but I kept on being a nervous little 10 year old! All of us lined up at the starting point. Mr Ashby held out this gun and shouted, "ON YOUR MARKS! GET SET!" BANG !! We were off! I went quite fast at the start ( not like a sprint or something ) and a few seconds later I was in front with Lili Fenwick behind me. We kept on running like this for the first lap.

On the second lap, I began to get tired and my throat felt like it would split open. I tried to stay in front, but I couldn't and Lili ran around me and I let her pass. Then when we were close to the finish line I tried SO hard to get in front, but all my energy had just run out and Lili crossed the finish line with me tagged behind. I felt good for coming second, but I knew I could of tried sprinting harder at the end. After the race I kept on wheezing and finding it hard to breathe. Lili came over and congratulated me and I did too. I like it when that happens. Your friend comes a place and so do you and you all just give each other compliments and congratulate each other.

After that there were the 10 year old boy's 800 meter race, and then the 11 year old girls and so on.
After those races it was time for the 10 year old girls to do high jump. And like I said earlier
at the athletics practices it was the first time ever I had done high jump. I was super scared about high jump and I knew I probably wouldn't get a place.
Mrs Pilcher told us all of the instructions and to be careful and all that. We got into our right places like right and left. Of course I was in right like most of the people there.

After a few girls had their jump, it was finally my go! I gave a really fast run up and made it, yay! Even though it wasn't very high.
After a lot of girls had their jump it was time for my second jump. The bar was a bit higher than before, but I was sure I could make it. I had my run up and then jumped over the bar. YAY!! I made it again, but I knew once the bar had gone up a bit higher, I probably wouldn't make it.

2 successful jumps later, I gave it my best run up ( a really fast run up ) and jumped as high as I could, but my clumsy leg had hit the bar. I landed back first on the big, puffy mat.
Mrs Pilcher told me that I ran too fast for my run up. And she said I could have a second go after everyone else had gone.
When my second go came, I tried to go a bit slower. I ran and ran then jumped with my hands in the air and knocked over the bar. ARGHH!! Oh man! Anyway I had to sit with the other people who hadn't made it.

With the next event I was very happy because it was SPRINTING!!! YAY!! And as you can tell I absolutely love sprinting, I am really fast too ( not bragging or anything ).
Us 10 year old girls walked over to the sprinting tracks. I was jumping around with excitement! Mr Ashby told us to all sit down and he put us into groups for sprinting. I was in the fourth part of the line. All of the people in the groups went first and then finally when it became my turn I got in my starting position. Mr Ashby shouted out "ON YOUR MARKS! GET SET!" And then BANG!! I sprinted as fast as I could going hard on the ball of my feet. My arms pushing me forward! An amazing feeling flashed through my body. I ran as fast as I could, I was in the front then the finish lines were in my view and I swiftly passed them. I came first I was really proud. And I congratulate my friends in the race and they congratulate me back. The parent helpers told me I was in the sprinting finales!!

The next event was discus! I really wasn't too keen on it, but oh well. I lined up with all my friends. We were all in a big line and while we were waiting we were just chatting about the day, and how much fun athletics had been so far. We started singing and laughing, telling goofy stories and all that. Then finally after Ocean's turn at discus it was mine. I walked over to the discus thing were you stand and Mr Mackenzie handed me a discus. He told me how to hold it and then he said to shuffle up and then swing it and throw the discus. So I shuffled forward and gave it my best shot as I threw the discus roughly through the air. And oh my GOODNESS!! My discus was way in front of everyone's! I was very happy and REALLY shocked and surprised haha!! Some people said well done to me and everything and I smiled and said thanks.
Then when it was Lucianie's go, her discus went speeding through the air and was like 2 meters away from like MINE!! Well so much for being in front for discus. I was amazed though and happy that my friend had won discus, I gave her a hug and said WELL, WELL, WELL done!! We both laughed and went onto the next activity.

The next activity was LONG JUMP!! Yay I love long jump, and I relatively good at it. Mr Marsten told all the 10 year old girls to line up. So we did, I was third in line and kept on asking people to go in front of me, but they all whimpered and said no. It was obvious everyone was really nervous. First was Lucianie then Vaaloa then ME!!! Ahhhh! So I breathed in and out then ran as fast as I could. I jumped and flung my hands up in the air, my teeth gritting together. Then I land on the soft, golden sand. Mr Marsten says well done and says that my score was 3 meters 62!! I was very happy with that. I went to go join my friends for a lunch break.

Later on we all got the results for our long jump. And it turned out I had come first!! I was very proud and happy. I congratulated my friends and so did they.

The lucky last event was shot-put! I wasn't at all keen to do shot-put. I really am not that good at it and it definitely one of my least favourite activities in athletics. So Mr O was there at the shot-put place and all of the 10 year old girls lined up in a long line. After everyone pushed their heavy ball in front of them, it was my turn! I was really nervous, I didn't really know I was that good at it or not. So Mr O called me up to have my turn with the incredibly heavy ball. I put the ball next to my ear and shuffled forward. I pushed it firmly out and it landed at quite a good distance. I wasn't at all that proud, but oh well.

So that was my reflection of athletics and it was absolutely an awesome experience. I also got into interschools athletics and am really happy about it. I hope you enjoyed this super, super, SUPER long post about my athletics journey!



  

Tiny Houses!!

So our maths project at the moment is really cool. It is called, yep you guessed it, TINY HOUSES! I bet you are thinking, what??? Well the tiny houses project is when we design a tiny house and measure it and all that and find figure out the volume of the tiny house you have done or are doing. My tiny house design is just a basic little, quirky, country house. And oh btw......I HAVE PET LLAMAS!! The app we use to make our houses is on floorplanner which is really fun and useful for these sorts of tasks. I am mostly done I just have a few bits to fill in. The house is quite small and I would never live in it to be completely honest. I still haven't really done the measuring because I haven't quite yet finished the house. But straight after I finish it ( I will probably finish it in the next session of the project) I will measure it and put a screenshot of it. I will take a screenshot for you now of the house so far.

And if you want to go to the site floorplanner and create your own house that can be as big and as funky as you want, then go to www.floorplanner.com
And there you have it. By the way I will edit this post to put in the measurement when I am done, so keep a good look out!!

Actually screen capture is not working and I have tried and tried so sorry I can't get the pictures, but I will try as soon as possible.

Thank you all for reading this post ( if you even did read it) and have a fantastic day and week and weekend. :)))))))) 

Book Club :))

Book club term 4 HSS 2015 is GREAT!! But once again we use a progression sheet, and this time it is not an Art Progressions sheet, Literacy Progressions sheet, but a Reading Progressions sheet! YAY!! My goals are to when I am reading, I need to skim and through and figure a situation better in a story. Say I am like reading and sometimes I actually read it over and over again for like NO reason!! And I am a very slloooww reader. It's weird because my mum is like the fastest reader in the world. She'll be reading a massive big, chunky book and in about a day she'll come to me and say 'finished!' Anyway enough about my mum being a fast reader. Everyone has a few tasks for them self to choose from. I am doing (because I am reading the book series Warriors) I am doing a description of the main character of the book I am reading. He is an orange, brave, wild cat named Fireheart. I really, really, REALLy recommend these books to everyone out there that likes cats, is into action and fighting and stuff, and likes reading- the books are quite big.

The other task I am doing is called fanmail. It is when you write a letter to a character in your book that you love and is a big fan. Even if their not a real person or cat or whatever, you can write a letter to them. I wrote a letter to Fireheart. And I say how much of a brave and awesome cat he is. I think that all of the book week tasks are AWESOME!! Thank you all of the teachers that made these tasks. And also I am currently doing the task to ask questions to the author that you are curious about. And the author that made a warroirs are ACTUALLy more than 1 person !! And they made just a name for their group to write books. So one of questions are definately going to be, "Why did you choose to have a group of people write books?" And I am still thinking on the other questions, you know, I don't wanna seem dumb and ask stupid questions!

Thanks for reading my Book Club post (if you even did that is) and here are some drawings I drew of the characters of my book. :p

Dance Progressions

WOOHOO !! Dance progressions is in DA house! For dance progressions I am making a hip hop dance and to learn how to dance hip hop. I am kind of struggling because I am a bit behind. I missed 2 sessions of it because I was in Aukland for a few days. I think I have had about 5 or 6 sessions of dance progressions because of S.L.L and it's all gone confusing. But I can fix that by working hard. I have a song FINALLY yay! It is a song called Higher by Ta-ku but it's the Flume remix. I think it is quite a cool song so yeah. 

I am going to make a video with Imovie and that's how I will present it. I'll feel embarrassed if I actually dance in front of the class. 

Here is the song if you want to hear it and I will put the dancing video on the blog when it is finished. 

I am learning how to dance hip hop and research hip hop. I am going to make a routine as well and video it, yeah, yeah. OH! I just remembered, my goal is to......

 Prepare and present dance, with an awareness of the performance context. 

Thank you for reading my blog post and have a fantastic day :))))))

Inspirational People Project

So this term one of our school projects is an Inspirational People Project. And in this project we research about an inspirational person that has faced challenges in their life, and has faced challenges to get up to where they are now. And if your thinking, "Well my mum is inspirational so yeah, I will do her for my project," that is totally not it! What I mean is we have to research a famous person. So what I am doing is researching John Lennon for my project. I think that he is truly an inspirational person, since he did face a lot of challenges and heartbreak in his life. Like when he was very young his dad died and his mother couldn't look after him, so John had to go live with his aunt.
Then later on in his life when John was a teenager, he actually realised that his mum was living in the same town as him. So he met up with her and got to know her a little bit, but then she got ran over by a drunk driver. John Lennon was of course very sad about that, but he kept on believing and being positive.

There are also a lot of other fantastic projects that people are doing in room 5. Like Carla, she is doing someone I have never heard of before and apparently was an Olympic runner and won gold medals, his name, Louis Zamperini. And Amy, she is doing Stephen Hawking. I researched him once in the 'Does History Matter' project, and Amy has found out a lot of things about Stephen Hawking, such as how he got a very terrible disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. And the doctors told Stephen that he had only 2 years to live. Stephen did not believe that and he kept on doing cosmology (finding out about stars and how the universe was created). And it turned out Stephen Hawking lived for way more years that 2, and he still is alive TODAY!

I really enjoy doing this project. I find it quite interesting and fun to research incredible, inspirational people. Here is just my presentation so far of John Lennon. It is not quite finished, but it will be soon.   

Passions !!

So I came to Hampden Street school this year so I have never done passions before. I am really excited for passions because I am leading a group with Amy. I bet you are thinking (if you are reading my blog from another school) that what ARE YOU talking about?! Well passions is when all the teachers have a skill so they make a group with that skill and kids in the school learn that skill. And also the cool thing is kids can actually teach a skill to other kids TOO! And that is what I am doing, with Amy. Also my mum is coming in to make a film making group because she edits and makes movies. So basically teachers, kids, parents come and teach other kids a skill. And today is the first session of it!

Amy and I have a 6 people group and the skill is for this group is art like drawing and stuff. We figured that we (Amy and I) are quite good at art, so we are going to teach it to a bunch of people! Mr Ashby, he has a group to make haunted house props, because, the school gala is coming up and we need some scary things in the haunted house. It sounded pretty cool and I really wanted t do and ( same with Amy) but in the end we decided to have our art group.

There are a lot of cool, interesting groups for passions, like we have, gymnastics, architecture, baking,cross stitch, and more.
I think I will really enjoy passions this year!