My Holiday

My Holiday

On the first school holidays for this year, I spent my holiday with my Nan in Whangarei. I spent the holiday with her because I needed to help her move more of our stuff back down to Auckland. I spent the most of my days up there going to her job and helping her with the clients. My Nan works with people that have Alzheimers and Dementia.She takes her clients to Dargaville and Waipu.

So I went to her job for 3 days and helped her by setting up their activities and making them cup of teas. After he 3 last days of work her staff members held a ‘farewell’ party for her last day. There was a big “We will miss you” sign. On the table there were chips, dips and sandwiches.

After the party we went back to my Papa's house and her friend Angie came over with her and they did a crossword in the Woman's Day magazine. She brought her baby over and I played with her while they were doing their crossword.The day after that we packed our stuff and we said goodbye to the rest of our family in Whangarei and then we left to Auckland.

When we reached Auckland we unpacked our stuff and put it in the house and left it. My Nan left it there because she wanted to celebrate my Aunty Charmaine's birthday. Later that night all her friends came over and they had a party.

After that my Nan and I went and picked my brother up from Mangere and we had him for the weekend of the holidays. After that my Nan took him to Burger King and we went straight home and played on my cousins PS3.

The day after that me, my nan and my brother went shopping and had Pizza. Then we took him home. And this is what I mostly did for the Holidays.

Badminton

On Thursday morning at nine o'clock we went to the hall and we had Badminton. We walked to the hall as a class and we sat on the floor and waited for our lesson to start. When we walked in there, there was a lady and a man standing next to all the equipment. We sat on the floor and waited for our lesson to start.

The man introduced his self, his name was Robbie. Next he explained what we were going to do. After that we lined up to get us a racket. We stood around Robbie as he explains the different ways to hold the racket. The first thing he showed us was backhand he told us to hold the racket so the thumb was underneath the racket.

Then he showed us forehand he told us to hold the racket like you were shaking some ones hand. After that we lined up to get us a shuttle. We had to see how many times we can hit the shuttle while using forehand, later we had to see how many times we could hit it using backhand, and then we had to see how many times we could hit it doing both!

After a while we partnered up and we had a competition to see which pair could stay up the longest. I was paired up with Serenity. The winners were Taniela and Jabez.

Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly

This first day of term we had an assembly. We talked about a topic and that topic was “I like to move it, move it” Each team had a different thing to research about the topic. The first team to present their thing was team 1. They showed us a movie about the teachers from team 1 going to Auckland Zoo, and tomorrow the classes from team 1 are going to the Zoo tomorrow to find machines at the Zoo that are like things in our homes.

Next was team 2 and they talked about how planes fly and stay in the sky. They danced for us and on the projector behind them was a video of hot air balloons and jet planes flying in a V shape with smoke coming out of them.

After that was team 3 they talked about colors, the teachers in team 3 were wearing different colors. They explained how we can see colors. They showed us an example of how it works, they told Mr. J to put a green cape on. She told all the colours (teachers) to run to Mr. J and she said that all the colors soak into the cape except green, green bounces of the cape and thats how we know the cape is green.

Then they explained the color black, they said none of the colors soak into anything black so there is no color for us to see. Thirdly she explained  the color white. She said that all the colors soak into anything white and thats why its that color.

Lastly she asked us a question and that question was ‘What color is a Banana when its in the dark?

Fourthly was team 4 they explained how things float and sink and the keywords they said were ‘Displace’ and ‘Buoyancy’.

Last was team 5, their focus was sound. They had instruments they made themselves and they made a video clip of them playing instruments and dancing. And our class has to make our own instruments and our own music video.

So this is the topic for this term. And I hope I learn more about sound.