At the moment we are learning in our inquiry about Tibet, China and the Olympics. We have watched many interesting videos and have all got different point of views. I think that China isn’t showing the truth and is making everything looks beautiful. Even though most of the videos are the people who made there point of view. It still shows you heaps. You may have heard that in china there is a one child policy. But actually you can have more than one child if you live in an rural area. Also if you can have more than one child to help out on the farm. So the one child policy has major bends. Also about the one child policy. The male has to be 22 and the female has to be 20 to get a birth permit and gave a baby. Otherwise you have to sell your baby or pay the fine. We have also watched a video about the stolen children and how some people in china risk there lives to find other peoples children. There is heaps that people in the world don’t know about china so go onto you tube and you could learn something new.
Last night I played basketball for my team the Fruitloops. We were facing my cousins team The Tylers. At the start we were pretty even then The Tylers broke out and were up 24-2 at half time. We were fitter than most of their team and could run down the court faster but we couldn’t shoot. Soon it was 34-4 and we were getting toasted. I was the first person to be pulled up for three seconds in the keyhole and a foul on the shooter. In the end it was 64-11 to them and we didn’t care it was fun to play against them and I’ll beat their team next year after all we beat them last year.
On Saturday our netball team the TAI Soldiers were fighting to win against TAC 9C. They started off with five players so we should of took the lead but at quarter time it was 6-3 to them. It was then that we stepped up and shot into the lead. We were in the lead but then there came the contact. There was lots of contacts from the other team and our shooters after half time. We were still in the lead when it was three quarter time and we keep pushing our selves to get a higher amount of points even though the highest is three points. In the end we won 22-16 it was a really hard game and we are lucky we had good shooters that day. Now about the points you get 1 point if you loose between 3 points so if the score was 14-12 you wouldn’t get a point but if it was 14-11 you’d get 1 point. Then if you draw you get 2 points and if you win you get 3 points. We have won 2 games lost 1game and drew 1 game so we are looking forward to the other games this season.
Last Friday I trialed for the Belmont year seven girls netball team to go to Belmont for two days to play netball. After the trial the teacher who was taking it miss Hagen said she would put the names up on the notice board for who got through to the second trial. It was Friday so on Monday when I got to school I checked and saw that I had got in. The next trial was on Tuesday which was tomorrow at lunch. However the next day it was raining so we couldn’t trial. On Thursday we trialed again and again she said she would put it up on the board. So today I looked and I had been put down as a reserve so if somebody pulled out I would be in. Unfortunatly I hadn’t got into the traveling team but I’m happy that I got into the second trial.
On Friday night I went to the shoemaker and the elves with my mum and sister Michelle. It started off at 7:30pm and Slipper the leader of the elves was the first person to come onto stage. Then on came the elves. I noticed some of the people’s faces. There was Holly, Georgia, Cassie, Hayley, Hannah and Lydia was a little girl. There were alot of dances and singing in this play. They had one song that they sung alot and it was about happy shoes. You saw all the characters in the first act and the elves came in Mr. Buckles house at night and made shoes for him. Then Miss Silver the other shoemaker in town got suspicious because Mr. Buckle was selling his shoes to her customers and Miss Silver didn’t like that. One night Miss Silver went around to Mr. Buckles house and caught the elves making the shoes. She decided that the whistle slipper had was the secret to the magic and she grabbed Slipper and locked her up in her country house. The next day the elves went to Mr. Buckle and asked him if he had seen slipper Mr. Buckle, the elves, Lydia and Jingle( miss silvers worker) went out to find Slipper and they walked through the audience to find Slipper. Then Jingle suggested Miss Silver’s house in the country and the elves rushed over to it. They called out Slippers name and there was slipper, they found her. Holly and Hayley tied up Miss Silver and Naughty Nevel her other worker. Then the elves; Lydia, Nr. Buckle and Jingle sang the song about happy shoes. The
On Monday the 30th of June I came to school with my science fair project. It was about metal and it’s ability to bend. On that Monday we were peer assesing our classes science fair boards and on Tuesday we were putting them into the ALC to get Judged. I was all ready on Tuesday. I had my metals that I used, my log book and science fair board with my information on it. We were the second block to put our boards in fist up was 10, 11and 12. A runner came and everyone took their boards to the ALC. I was one of the first people up there and got told to put my board on a table near the end of the row. Then I went back to class. I was hoping my board would get a placing or at least get looked at to go into the final. On Wednesday afternoon Mrs Tyson came into our class and announced the placegetters. Unfortunately I didn’t get a placing. On Thursday after interval our class went to see the display and stuck onto the table underneath my board it said Division Finalist. I had actually got into the finals just hadn’t got a placing I thought. That got me in a really good mood and next year I’m going to try harder to get a placing.
Academic
I will use more descriptive writing
I will do this by looking up a thesaurus and seeing what other word sounds better
I don’t think I have really achieved this goal.
I will get better at maths
I will do this by working harder and marking every exercise after I do it to make sure I’m getting it right
I have achieved this goal because I am now understanding maths better
personal
I will get better at dancing
I will do this by stretching and practising all my moves
I think I have achieved this goal because I am getting better at dancing and am doing an exam this year
I will get better at tennis
I will do this by practising hitting the ball and practising my serves
I think I have and haven’t achieved this goal I have in the summer when I play it, but now that it’s winter I’m not practising tennis
I will get better at netball
I will do this by practising passes and practising my goals
I think I have achieved this goal because my passes have got harder and I am now playing GA more
On Tuesday the 17th of June my Mum, brother William and I went to the Te Awamutu Event centre to watch the Waikato Pistons play the wellington Saints. We hoped in the car at 7:20 and speed off as we were meant to be there at 7:00. We finally arrived and ran in. Mum had brought the tickets earlier that day so we just went straight to the doors. Two girls were at the door collecting tickets and putting stamps on our hands. When we went in we couldn’t find a seat. So me and William sat in the aisle beside our cousins and Mum found a seat at the top. A girl came on and sang our national anthem then we were on with it. The game soon started with the Saints winning the jump but not getting the ball in the basket. Then it was the pistons turn and in went the lay up. Next it was the Saints who got it in. It went on like this for the rest of the half. At each quarter time the cheerleaders went on and a girl started to sing to the song the cheerleaders were dancing to. The game soon went on with Pistons throwing in from the side. We cheered everytime the Pistons got a basket and were having heaps of fun. At half time they through out balls and Te-shirts and my Uncle John caught a ball and my brother a Te-shirt. In the third quarter their were lots of time outs and it went on for a while but we were relieved to see that the Pistons were up on the score board. In the fourth quarter the game was all tied up and Pistons then broke out by getting three baskets in the last thirty second. Finally it was over and the Pistons will be playing again on Friday.
On Friday the 13th of June. Mum, William, Michelle, Kristen and I went to watch the Pistons play the Auckland Stars at the Te Awamutu Event Centre. It started off by Pistons winning the jump and scoring the first basket. Then it was the Stars turn and they did exactly the same. Soon the first quarter was over and Pistons were up by three. In the break the cheerleaders went on and each team had a team talk. Soon it was back on and Pistons got the jump again. It went on and the Pistons were not getting their shoots in so at half time Stars were up. The cheer leaders came on again. The third quarter started soon after that and Pistons got the jump. In this quarter Jason Crowe the captain of the Pistons and Brian Wethers got at least three three pointers each. Then it was the third quarter and Stars were up again. Pistons won this jump and Crowe fired it down the court, he passed it to Puke Lenden and the lay up went in. Pistons won that quarter and the game. As soon as the buzzer went my cousin Kaitlyn, William and I went down onto the court and got heaps of autographs it was a really good game. I am going to watch the Pistons again on Tuesday.
On Sunday the 15th of June. My Netball team the TAI Soldiers went to Minogue Park for a netball tournament. Everybody meet there at 8:30 and we started with warming up and ball skills. Soon enough it was time for our first game. We were playing against Raglan Rebels and started off well. the games were twelve minutes each way with a two minute break in the middle. We won our first game 17-5 and said thank you and had a break for a game. Next game was against St Columbus Silver and we won that 17-3. We had a two game break and then were up against Paterangi Comrades. In the first half we were down but we fought hard and ended up winning 9-8. Everybody screamed, We were going to the Semi Finals. We sat down and had lunch. Then we found out we were going to be facing TAI Demons. The start of this game didn’t go very well and we were tied eight all at the end. The umpires then said that we have to go into extra time. We started off by getting in the fist goal then they did. It went on like this for a while. Then TAI Demons started shouting because they thought they had won. But they were only up by one point so we played on and in the end we came out with the victory it was a tough game and nearly everyone in both teams was crying. Our whole team shouted in victory and we were going on to the finals. We had a 15 minute break then played against the our final competitors. This time we didn’t need to go into extra time and we won in the end. Our whole team yelled in excitement. We had won our first tournament. We waited for prize giving and all went up for the prize. We each got a hat and a drink, we also got a drink holder for the game and a bag and ball. Afterwards we got a picture taken and went home.
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