Final Blog For 2019

Today is the last day of term 4 which means that it is the last day of the school year. I think this year was a lot better last because I have many more friends and many more people to support me. I also enjoyed all of the awesome opportunities I had like Kids for Kids, National Young Leaders Day, Authors Workshop and the Student council. I really liked this year and I hope next year is even better.

Summer Learning Journey - Introductions

Hi Emma,

My name is Hayley from HHS. I'm year 8 and I will be participating in the Summer Learning Journey for 2019. I am looking forward to participating in this because I want to keep my learning up for the school holidays. At school I like learning Literacy and Writing because I think they are some of my strong characteristics. I like the SLJ because of the way it helps with your learning. I hope that the SLJ will help keep my learning strong and sturdy for when I become a year 9. 

I really enjoy you commenting on my blog and giving be feedback.

Creative Writing - Bridge In The Woods

Yesterday we started a creative writing story. We had to choose from some different photos and the one we chose is the one we had to write about. I chose a bridge that was in the middle of a forest. Enjoy!

This is the story of Emma Smith. She is a twelve year old girl who experienced the most wonderful thing in the world. But first it was anything but wonderful. Her father and mother decided to get a divorce when she was eleven and it didn't help that she was also struggling at school.She had to live with her mum which was fine until she had to move to a completely different place.When Emma got to her new house she asked her mother if she could go and explore the the forest surrounding the house but her mother said " I have to tell you something" Emma felt worried. " Your father has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and was only given a year to live" Emma was shocked. She ran outside crying and being in disbelief. After running for what felt like an eternity she reached a bridge that looked like it went on forever. She was still very upset so she ran across the bridge. Then she saw it, a forest covered with leaves hanging from thousands of tree branches. The leaves made it so dark that there were fireflies everywhere. There were also thousands of flowers coming from bushes and some of the trees. Then she walked down a path made of the greenest grass she had ever seen. When she reached the end of the pathway she found a golden well that was full of crystal clear water that shimmered with the light of the fireflies. She was still crying a little bit and a tear fell in the well. The water rippled as the tear fell. Then all of a sudden a face appeared in the well. it was her father face, she smiled. The face said...

Stay tuned for part 2 :)

Writing Conference

On Friday this week myself and a group of students from school went to the Turanga library in Christchurch. We went to the library because there were some authors coming to speak to groups of students from different schools. Our teachers picked us because we either liked to right or liked reading. There were two authors who came, Eileen Merriman and Mandy Hager. They were each talking about a specific book with other facts in between. Here are some notes I wrote down for each author.


Eileen Merriman : Invisibly Breathing.


Also a doctor, Blood specialist. ( Haematologist )

Took writing courses / Classes.

Rejected by many publishes.

Published her first short story, Pieces Of You.

Her second book was Catch Me When I Fall.

Main Book:

Characters: Felix, Socially weird. Bailey, Struggling with life.

Both characters get bullied and share similar personality's.

She finds young adult books more interesting to write.

Between novels and books she writes short stories.

She said always write what you enjoy reading.







Mandy Hager : Ashes to Ashes, Series of two books.

Her parents both were troubled as kids.

She turns ideas into master pieces.

" Writing is a constant balancing act"

She thinks as a baby you learn how to read people.

Always speak up when you hear something wrong.

First / Main book.

Book set in New Zealand future.

She read out a part of the book that was very traumatising. " Two police came up to my door and instantly he knew what he was going to say. " Your father has been killed in a terrorist attack"But little did he know the government wanted to kill him and his father."

Hurumanu Art

Today for art we are working on our narratives for our stop motions. We had to pick a buddy from the other class and work with them to edit their writing and my own. Here is my finished narrative.

The three excited girls walked to school that morning. It was the first day of school for them,

they were starting middle school. Sylvie, the girly girl of the group, loved clothes and make up,

and she was also SUPER rich! Meadow was the sporty one out of all the girls. She liked playing all sorts of sports and she was sort of rich because of Sylvie. Amber was an average girl who had no

special talent. Ambers family was poor but Sylvie supported her. But one day everything was going to change…

After class had finished all the girls were going to hang out but then Amber said “ I have to go

to a study group” The girls said “ Ok bye” Sylvie and Meadow went to the field and had a picnic. Sylvie had a surprise for Meadow. Once the girls had eaten her yummy snack

Sylvie had a present for

Meadow. Meadow said “Thanks Sylvie” “Your welcome” said Sylvie. Meadow was about to open her present but then the bell rang. “ I will open it when I get home” Exclaimed

Meadow. When period 5 had finished everyone in the school went home. Meadow wanted to run home because she was excited to open her present. When meadow got home she ran

straight to her room and went to her desk. When she opened the present she gasped. “AIRPODS!!!!” she shouted. The next day when the girls were at school Meadow ran

up to Sylvie she gave her a hug and said “ THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!” 

The next day Sylvie had gotten a present for Amber. It was in a similar pretty box, like

the one that she got Meadow. Amber was so pleased when she found our that Sylvie

had gotten her a new car! Amber was so happy she wanted to thank Sylvie, but

she was gone! Amber asked Meadow if she had seen Sylvie but she hadn't. They looked everywhere

for her but by the time they started, it was time to go home. 

When Amber and Meadow got to school that morning they saw something they

didn’t think they wanted to see. Sylvie was wearing a paper bag dress, no shoes and her hair was in a mess. They asked what happened and Sylvie replied in a weak voice “ I ran out of

money to buy food and clothes” So Meadow and Amber made a plan. “ We should give back the gifts that we got from Sylvie to the store she got them from and give her that

money” Said Meadow. “That’s a great idea!” exclaimed Amber. So after school

Amber and Meadow walked to the shops where she got them from and got over

$100,000 for Sylvie to buy food and clothes. So after school Amber and Meadow walked to the shops where she

got them from and got over $100,000 for Sylvie to buy food and clothes. They

ran up to Sylvie and gave her the money and said “ We thought you needed

this to survive” “Thank you!” She whispered. 

This was the story of the Kindness Boomerang.

Integrity

Hello, today we had to talk about integrity. We had to talk about what it is and why we use integrity in our everyday lives. Here is what we learnt about integrity. Enjoy!😁

• Having Integrity means that you have to try your best, tell the truth and to be truthful and honest.

• You can show Integrity at school by doing the right thing even if the teachers not watching.

• Three ways I have shown Integrity are...

1. Joining the student council by being a leader.
2. Standing up for my own actions.
3. doing the right thing even if no one is watching.

Athletics Day Recount

Yesterday we had athletics day at school. We had the choice of social or competitive athletics, I chose social because even though you get more house points If you do competitive but you still get them if you do social.I am in the yellow house called Turner . I couldn't do much of the events because I sprained my wrist on Tuesday while I was at my brothers football training. First, when I got to school the competitive people went to their sports while the social people stayed in class for the first two periods. Next, when it was our turn to start our athletics the yr 7 & 8 girls went to discus. I could not do discus because of my wrist. For the rest of the day we played sports, ate lunch and played with our friends until it was time for our house relays. There were relays for every year group. My house Tuner won every relay race except for one or two. Overall athletics day was a really fun day. 

Procedural Writing

Last week we made a DLO to show what Procedural Writing is. Procedural writing is when your writing is step by step like if you put first, next, after that. Me and my partner Danielle made a Piktochart to show our learning. Enjoy.

100 Word Challenge

WALT: engage our audience through our writing.

For this weeks 100 word challenge we had to write a story using the picture and 100 words. This is my story and the picture. Enjoy :)




One day a girl rode her bike down a path and chained her bike to a tree while she went to the store. When she left the store she forgot her bike and walked home. 20 years later she walked down that same path. But, when she looked around she found something that she was sure to remember. She had found her bike from 20 years ago. Although it was the same bike, it was different. It had grown into the tree and become a murder weapon for a murder 15 years ago. So the bike was haunted and cursed for eternity.

Tuna/Eels

Reflection:
Since I don't like Tuna that much I didn't really enjoy this work that much.

100 Word Challenge No.2

100 Word Challenge

No. 2

How Did He/She Get Up There?

For this weeks writing we had to do another 100 word challenge about " How dis he/she get up there." Here is my writing!

Once upon a time there was a little girl who always explored. One day she came across tree, now this wasn’t any tree it was the tallest tree in the world. So being an explorer she started to climb up, and up right until she got to the top. Then some kids walked past and said “ But how did she get up there!” She replied “I climbed up” and the kids walked away. Then she climbed down and carried on with her day. When she got home she told her mum how her day was and she said “It was interesting”

100 Word challenge

My Writing:

100 Word Challenge

Once upon a time there was a little man and he wanted to change the world. So he went into his tool shed and got to work. He thought he was creating the best thing ever but when he finished and looked at it he was gobsmacked. It was a… GIANT TEACUP! He was so disappointed he wanted to cry. Then he put it on to the back of his truck and went to the ocean and chucked it away. The teacup was never to be seen again... Or was it?

To be continued…

By Hayley

7DS

Reflection:
I think writing this piece was really boring I wanted to stop but I had to do it.

Christmas around the world

WALT:  celebrate Christmas in different country's.

We learnt how to celebrate Christmas in France,Italy,the Netherlands,Sweden,mexico,Poland. They are all similar and all different at the same time.

We also learnt about how Santa and the reindeer get different foods from different country's'.

Alarm call

WALT: Predict what is going to happen next

This week we had to write about a monster and a kitten. we had to include an unexpected twist. we had to do it in five days and make sure we got it done. Here is my work.

ALARM CALL

“YOWW” said the monster as the kitten scratched the Monster in the face.

The Green, Yucky  monster was hungry, he wanted some food. He crept along and found a Sweet, tasty, cute kitten Asleep. “This Kitten Looks like mayonaise” Said the monster.

Meanwhile, The kitten was dreaming... or was she? Just Joking. She was awake, and listening to the monster and let out a fake snore. NgaaaaaaMeow NgaaaaaaMeow.

The monster had a problem. The house was made of wood so, there were old floorboards that creeked! He could not get to the kitten. “Dam It, Dam It Dam It” Said the monster “i’m Just too hungry to walk away”

The kitten had been listening and had a plan. She was going to give him payback. “He He He” Said the kitten. 3… 2… 1… Leap! “YOWW” said the monster as the kitten scratched the Monster in the face. “That teaches you for calling me mayonaise” Said the kitten. “I’m Sorry” Said the monster “ I’m just really hungry. “Well I can get you a jar of mayonnaise from the fridge” Said the kitten “ok” Said the monster and ate it all up.

So the kitten may have scratched the monster in the face but they still  became best friends and lived happily ever after.

SHS Learning Journey Day 7

SHS Learning Journey Day 7

Activity 1:

For activity 1 we went to Taupo and went for a walk along side the lake in the forest. When I look at the lake there was lots of rubbish floating about. We have to write a list of three things of how to keep the lake rubbish free.

• We stop having picnic's in the forest that involve rubbish
• Do a daily rubbish check every day
• Put Rubbish bins around the lake

Activity 2:                                                   

For activity 2 I had to take a photo of our self's doing something relaxing.

Bonus Activity:

Didn't finish

SHS Learning Journey Day 6

SHS Learning Journey Day 6

Sorry I Didn't Finish :(

SHS Learning Journey Day 5

SHS Learning Journey Day 5 

Activity 1:

For activity 1 we had to go to the mountain range of the Southern Alps. Then I find this really cool tree and then when I turned around my group was gone! so then I had to write a 8-10 sentence story about me being alone in a strange forest.

Alone In The Forest. 

Oh no! my group is gone what shall I do? should I stay where I am or go and find the group. I stood there for 10 minutes trying to make a decision and then I went to find the group. "Curious Kiwi " I called "Where are you?" He heard my call. Then I realized that I was in quicksand and I was sinking! "Help, Help" I shouted "I need some help! The group came rushing towards me and pulled me out. Then we all hoped back in the van and shared a sigh of relief.

Activity 2: 

for activity 2 we had to make a DLO about one Famous New Zealander and write about them. We had to put the name of the famous person, Where they were born, Why they are famous and two other interesting facts about them. I chose Lorde.

Lorde's real name is:                                                           

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Conner

Lorde Was Born on:

7 November 1996 Takapuna, Auckland

Why Is Lorde Famous:

Lorde is famous for her Singing and Songwriting

2 Other Interesting Facts:

1: She LOVES Peanut M&M'S

2: Her nicknames in school were Dusty and Casper

Bonus Activity: For our bonus activity we had to put on our blog if we would like to ride on the Otago Trail one day and if it would be fun and Why or Why not. The Otago Trail is a trail in Otago. Otago Is a little south from Dunedin.

I would like to go on the Otago Trail one day because it would be fun and it would be nice to get outside for a day. 

SHS Learning Journey Day 4

SHS Learning Journey Day 4

Activity 1: For activity 1 we had to go to this Farewell Spit Link and learn more about all their beached Whales.Then we had to describe what the people did to try and save the Whales.

This morning when I got out of bed I went to open the curtains and when I looked out the window.... what a sight! There were 16 beached Whales!. I couldn't just stand there I had to go do something! So I went and put my gumboots on and a tracksuit? Then I went outside. I had to go get loads and loads of buckets of water to keep the Whales hi-dratted. lots of other people called the Police to keep track of what happened and the Firefighters to get more water. 

Activity 2: THERE IS NONE TODAY!

Bonus Activity: DID"T FINISH

SHS Learning Journey Day 3

SHS Learning Journey Day 3

Activity 1:

For activity 1 we had to visit the Adopt A Critter Page and "Adopt An Animal" I chose to adopt a Kea.

What type of animal are they?

This a Bird called a Kea.

What do they eat?

They eat a of things and bugs and leaves are only some of them.

Where do they normally live?

                                      Keas live in the country in the South Island.

Activity 2:

For Activity 2 we had to go to the Predator Free 2050 Website and read more about there work and what they do, We were focusing on the possums. Then we had to think if we would like to make New Zealand predator free or not, then put three reasons why we think if they should stay or go. 

I chose for them to go.

Reason 1: A lot of people trap them anyway so they are almost all gone.

Reason 2: People say that they put illnesses in the air and make people sick.

Reason 3: They eat all our native plants and all our native species.

Bonus Activity:

For our bonus activity we had to go to the Wild Eyes site and complete a Moa discovery mission. We had to draw something about a Moa then post it to our blog and the wild eyes site.

My Picture is great!

SHS Learning Journey Day 2

SHS Learning Journey Day 2

For our learning journey today, we had to learn about the Volcano's, Beaches and bushes.

Activity 1: 

Volcano Of The North Island

Karekare Beach Of life

Rangitoto Island The Tree awaits

I would go to Rangitoto Island because the view is amazing and it has lovely greenery to look at and enjoy.

Activity 2:

Question 1: What is it like if you get sea sick?

Question 2: What is it like to sleep?

Question 3: How do you take a shower?

Question 4: What food is essential?

Question 5: What are your hobbies?

Bonus Activity: