The highlight of my 2020!

 On Thursday the year 8's had a night over at the Belfast rugby club rooms for their graduation. Some people showed up in a fancy car. When you got there you would walk up a blue carpet where all the teachers, teacher aids and assistants would be standing to clap you in. When you first walked you would get a picture with your parents and then you could go find your table that you want to sit at. Georgia Swale, Georgia Barratt, Maia,Carma and I all sat aft the same table along with our parents. We then got a bunch of group pictures with each other, I got a picture with Georgia Barratt and then we got a picture with Georgia swale and Carma and then we all got one with Maia and Jemma. We then sat down at our tables and we listened to a speech by Jeremiah and Georgia Swale. We then got called up table by table to go up and get dinner. There was so much good food, I think it was safe to say i enjoyed the food there.  After dinner we went to the dane floor and looked at the graduation sides people had made and we grabbed dress up props from a table and took more pitures, this time the girls got a couple pictures with the bois ( Toby, Archie, Connor ) And then I also got a seperate one with Toby for my mum. After more pictures we then had desert, After a while everyone finished desert and we chilled out for a bit then we did our dances. We started off with dances with our original partner from pre dance practise, I had Jeremiah as my dance partner, After the first 20 seconds we had to get our mum or dad and we had to dance with them. After a thousand years we did our footloose dance and everyone had so much fun. We then had our disco and all the girls gathered in a big circle and Jemma, Bobbi and I were doing the worm in the middle while we were all singing, it was heaps of fun. They then turned off the disco and announced the gifts. They went from class to class and we got a certificate along with a card with what we were. My card said loyalty. we then all got a Pounamu and all of them were blessed. after the presentations Georgia and Amy did another small specch together and then we all said our goodbyes and left.  

Here are some pictures from graduation!

This is Georgia and I again but at graduation.

This is me and Georgia before we arrived at graduation.

This is my mum, dad and I.

This is Georgia B, Georgia S, Maia, Jemma, Carma and I toger.

Georgia B, Georgia S and I's funny picture together.

This is a picture of half of  our friend group ( Toby, Archie, Troy, Georgia B, Georgia s, Connor and I.

Here is the picture from the end of footloose ( our fun dance).

This is a photo at the start with Georgia S, Georgia b, Carma, Amy, Sophie, Maia and I.

Overall the whole thing was so much fun and an amazing night.

Can you spot the difference !?

 

Today for Manaia Kalani we had to do the start of a summer learning, The first project was to go onto a website called art colouring book. It had heaps of famous paintings or pictures and we had to recreate it in our own art. I did a piece of art were everything is all swiggely, I took a screenshot of the original copy and the one i made, try and spot the difference !

make and create

 One our reading activates this week was to choose small activities throughout a page and one of the activates was to create a song that reminded us of a cartoon theme song. this is mine. it reminds me off a cartoon called bubble guppies from when i used to watch it when i was younger.

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Make your choice !

 This morning we went out to sports with Nick, He introduced to us today a new game called make your choice. It is when you could choose between baseball and cricket. I was in a group with Rihanna, Amani, Laykon, Carlos, Moana, Darion and Tiare. It was me, Darion, Rihanna and Carlos vs Amani Laykon Moana and Tiare.  For the sports if you hit the ball you had to run around 3 orange cones and if the pitcher had the ball and was back in his place ( the white cone ) he would put down the ball on the cone and say stop and you would have to stop running. Each cone was worth one point. In the end everyone had heaps of fun and we all enjoyed ourselves. Here are some pictures !

Grad slides !

 Since i have been at Belfast it has been a pretty interesting experience. This year is my last year at Belfast and for graduation we have to make a slide of our highlights and add some of pictures to it.

Here is mine, I have updated it due to changes made slightly.

Dumpling for days !!

 Yesterday we had Sally, Amy's mum come in and make dumplings an wongtongs with us. 

Most of us have never made dumplings before but yesterday was the first day! 

It started off were Sally showed us all the ingredients and how we make it, then we got the dough out of the bowl and split it into 4 and had to turns at rolling the dough around to stretch it out, after it was all stretched we put it on the table and cut it into small thin pieces of dough, after that we used rolling pins to flatten them all out and put small piles of beef on the flat surface, we then folded one side to the other and pushed the sides down with our finger and put it on a trey. with the wongtongs i didn't learn how to make them so i couldn't tell you how they work, but basically they have pork in the middle and you have to do special folding techniques. I then helped Sandy with cooking the dumplings and learned how long to cook them for and what to look for as a sign they are done. After the first batch of dumplings was made Sally asked me to taste if they were good or not so I was the taste tester in the class to make sure they tasted alright.  Well Bill ( Am'y younger brother ) and some of the boys were in room 20 cooking the wongtongs me and Chloe cleaned up the table as it was a very big mess. After cleaning it up we got all set up ready to eat them and we all got 6 dumplings and 2 wongtongs each. They were so good and i would definitely recommend them for a lunch or snack. 

Ingredients:

- pork   - beef    - flour ( 1 kilogram )   - water ( 6 kilograms )    - chives   - wongtong pastry    - oil

Here are some pictures from the successful morning we had !

I hope you enjoy your dumplings and wongtongs !!!!

spelling to the highest

 Kia Ora, This morning for reading we are back into interchange which means im back in room 20 for reading. One of my reading tasks this week was to do some vocabulary work on a google sheet. You had to read a sentence and there would be a list of words and you would have to go to another page and figure out which word matches with what sentence and match it up with the number the sentence is in. As you complete the task slowly

if you get word right then it starts drawing something on a blank page, This time it drew out a witches hat with a moon sitting on top of it. I think this was hard and challenging but fun. What do you think ?