Labour Weekend

 I didn't do much on labour weekend if I'm being honest. But on Sunday my mum took me to the public tennis courts to practice. We were both pretty bad. She had bought a racket prior so she could play with me.

Apparently my dad couldn't come because he's 'too good'. Me and mum missed alot but she mised more thn me so that felt good. Once I accidentally hit mum!

At one point I hit is so hard and high that it flew over the fence and onto the road. I convinced mum to get it because I was to scared. She came back and we continued playing. I hit it on the road 2 more times.

Once we were done I realized how much time had past. What I thought had been ten minutes had really been 40! After that we went to the supermarket. I got bored in the car so I learned to juggle. 

The next day we went to the fruit & veg place in Manakau and to see and feed some our horses (Pauanui and Clover). Nui saw us first. She's pregnant with a baby that comes in 2 months or so. Nui called to Clover who came running and nearly ran us over despite her old age. We put down their feed and pat them before leaving. 

My Holiday

 In the holidays I took up a new sport with my friend Jess. We started playing tennis. On the first Tuesday of the holidays we got to tennis at 10:30AM. Me and Jess walked inside the courts and waited for it to start. When it began we got split into groups of -7 and 8-12. Jess is thirteen but she got let in. We started learning how to hold a racket. We also learned how to server, what the names of the lines were, and just a few excersises. My legs hurt really bad the next day. 

The next lesson was in the next week because of the weather. The next lesson we learned a little bit about backhands, but mostly the same material as last lesson. There was a competition to win a free racket but me and Jess lost.

The day after that we had another lesson. This time we had to play in the rain. It was bearable, but soon enough the rain got so bad we had to go inside the club house. Me, Jess and another older girl had to set up a new net inside. The older girl did most of the work but me and Jess helped with the net part. For the rest of the day we just did rallys.

On the final holiday lesson we did a lot of games and rallys. At the end he asked who would be coming for the free term 4 program, Me and Jess and a few others raised there hands (but they weren't there on Tuesday).

The next day I went out with my mum to buy tennis gear. First we went to Rebel Sport to buy some shorts and a racket. We came out with three tennis balls, a racket, and no shorts. Then we went to the warehouse to look a little further. I wandered off to look for a new book in a series I'm collecting (I'm only missing 2 books in the series). 

But there was a problem. The only book they had was a book I already owned. I was standing in an aisle of childrens books and was starting to get embarrased. But then I had idea. I began to check behid the book I had. But to no avail. It was the same book. I was beginning to lose hope. But I perservered. I checked behind the book again. As soon as I did that, my face lit up with joy. It was a book I wasn't aware even existed from the same series. I snatched the book and ran to my mum who was browsing clothes and present my newfound book to her. I said I wanted to spend some of my birthday money. "Are you sure?" She said I nodded. I was ecstatic. After that we went home and finished our holiday.

Mandatory Vaccinations

 It has been announced that in order for teachers to work with students in NZ, all teachers need to be fully vaccinated by January 1st 2022. I agree with this for a few reasons. The first being that in general if more people are vaccinated the less lockdowns there will be. The less covid that will spread. Yes, there is still a chance you can catch it but better safe then sorry. 

Another reason is that it is safer for the children the teachers work with. Being in a cramped room is practically begging for a highly infectious illness to spread. Especially if the children they work with can't get vaccinated. The risk of a full school covid is very high if the teachers aren't vaccinated.

My final reason I can think of is that it may encourage parents who aren't already vaccinated. It could make them think that they're endangering their children by not getting vaccinated and exposing them to covid. Therefore getting a small step closer to everyone getting vaccinated.

Fractions

 Here is some more fraction work I've done this term. 

Some of my fraction work

 I made this small slideshow to show an example of using fractions in the real world :D.

My pets

 I have lots of pets such as two dogs, more horses than I can count, but the one I love most is my cat Murray. He used to be a stray cat but one day when he was just four weeks old he came crying at our door in 2018. My mum opened the door and let him in the house. We fed him for a few days and then my dad said he would get adopted by someone else. I cried a lot. So much that my dad let us keep him. We assumed he was a domestic short-hair because that is a common type of stray cat.

He got to name him though. One time I went into the bathroom he was staying in and he was peeing ontop of Emma's potty. He loves eating meat and always jumps up on our bench and eats our food. He likes sleeping in my room and a box. He always scratches on my door really late at night asking to be let in and it wakes me up. He likes hunting birds and rabbits during the day. Something he doesn't like is being picked up when he's in a playful mood. Usually he's fine with it and calm but when he's playing he'll scratch your arms off.

Jean Batten Activities

 On Friday, August 6th, we dedicated a day to Jean Batten Activities to beat the record of other classes. My group consisted of Me, Jess, and Lilley. We were called GER pronounced j-er. The first activity we got was to find a picture of Louis Blériot. I think it was the easiest one of them all as we were the first ones done with a time of 2-3 minutes. The longest group took 20. We didn't really need any skills other than being able to follow instructions and clues.

When we did the morse code we got the answer right the first time but ordered the letters wrong. The words were 'Arrives Mangere' which is a place in Auckland, New Zealand. Then there was a code with numbers to solve what the time was when she landed. Eg. 123654 are not in the number, 789 three numbers are right but in the wrong place and so on. We had to use problem solving skills to figure out that she landed at 5:00PM. We got it after a while and then a group stole our answers. 

Making buzz planes was pretty easy because all we had to do was connect a few wires but the whole class needed help from next door to make them vibrate.Our group and Jorgias group collaborated because theirs broken. We decided to both our batteries on one car. I think that made a big difference. Our plane was the fastest by far. We needed a little bit of techinical skills and problem solving for this. 

Overall we came fourth with 2 first places in the activities.