My Favorite Thing About Learning In GRi11 2.0!

2/06/16

My favourite thing about learning in GRi11 2.0 is how many devices we have and that we use them everyday for our learning. I really enjoy having a blog and following fast track.

Fast track is a document on a device that the teachers set us tasks on. We have our names in a list down the left hand side of the page. and the tasks up the top. we copy and paste our links from the task that we did under the task on fast track beside our name. It sounds confusing but it'sreally easy when you know what you're doing.
Here's a photo of Fast Track!

Computers are really fun to use because you don't have to lean on anything to write and you just press one button to delete instead of having to get a rubber then rubbing it out. We also have enough devices in our room for everyone to have one each and at my old school we only had 10 to share between 240 kids (4 classes.)

I really enjoy devices and hope we use them a lot in the future!

Sign language name - finger spelling video.

Last week for GRi11 2.0’s home learning, We had to spell our name in sign language. Sign language is the third language in New Zealand (Maori, English and sign language.) I really enjoy learning sign and I know almost the whole alphabet in sign language!

this is me signing my name.

The Last Cookie.

19/05/16

This is a story I made up! Kylie and Kendall as 12 or 13 year old's .

One day Kylie and Kendall Jenner both went to Kim's house and Khloe was there as well. The Jenner's got a plate of cookies placed in front of them and were both so excited to eat them! 

They scoffed them all up in seconds, until there was one left. The Jenner's fought over who gets the cookie for hours. Suddenly Kim and Khloe walk in, Kylie and Kendall both pause Kendall explains what's going on and Kim suggests to do a contest on who should win the last cookie! The Jenner's both agreed to do it and decided to have a boxing match, whoever wins the most rounds will get the last cookie.

They made a ring out of boxes and mattresses. Kendall had the blue boxing gloves and Kylie had the red boxing gloves from Toy world. ''ROUND 1'' said Khloe. Kendall and Kylie ran at each other pushing, punching, hitting and defending. Finally round 1 was over and the winner was Kendall! ''ROUND 2'' said Kim. They repeated everything they did in round 1 except this time Kylie won!

''ROUND 3'' said Khloe, Kendall won! ''ROUND 4'' said Kim, Kylie won!

''Looks like it's a tie'' said Kim. Kendall and Kylie both raced to the cookie to find that the cookie wasn't there! Their dog cookie monster was halfway through eating it! Kylie and Kendall both screamed.

''Don't worry we can just buy another packet at the super market'' said Khloe. ''O Yeaaaaaa'' said the Jenner's. So they all drove to the super market to buy cookies and they all lived happily ever after well for now anyway.

THE END.

Traditional Teaching Style🚶

17/05/16

It was a normal school day, until GRi11 2.0 all got to the classroom and that’s where it all started from there.

Signs saying do not enter until 8:50am and only half a class to work in. No technology, no mini fridge, no doors unlocked and nothing from this decade anyway.

“Sit down and be quiet” a voice screamed. We sat but my chair was only ⅓ of my table so all the person sitting across from me was from my chin up. Dictionary skills and dictation was “fun”.

Suddenly a ringing sound went off in my head I sighed with relief “do you think it’s over yet?” My friend asked me. We lined up and marched and marched and marched. I wasn’t very happy with my play group and what we played. Another bell rang “ugh”.

Sitting down in lines and sitting up tall and everything folded. “Hahahahahahaha” all of a sudden the teachers start bursting out in laughter it was all fake and we all guessed it!

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The Adventures Of Songerella - Pick A Path

Last week we created a pick a path slide in our class

When you are doing my pick a path slide please click the arrow/heart/thought bubble

otherwise it wont work.

My Favourite Sports Rotation

5/05/16

At my school we do sports rotations, sports rotations are on one day of the week where at the end of the day we get assigned two sports and we get to be coached by student coaches in both the sports that we got assigned.

Student coaches are a couple of students from the senior team that get chosen to teach the senior team sports their are around 10+ student coaches.

My favourite sports rotation is hockey because I play hockey so it helps me be accurate and I also really like the circuits because you know that you're getting fit while your doing it and I love hitting the tyre and the cone ten times each with a baseball bat.

One Week In Nelson

 2/5/16

In the first week of the two week holidays, I flew to Nelson from Palmerston North with my sister Kate to visit my Dad. It was about a 40 minute flight and it was really pretty! When we landed in Nelson, my Dad and his girlfriend Anissa were waiting for us at this little Helicopter hanger, it was kinda cute.

We went on a drive to a hill so we could see the whole of Nelson plus the sea it was so pretty. After that we went to their house and sorted out our rooms, I really liked my room because it had an awesome view out the window.

The next day we went to a beach called Kaiteriteri beach and hopped on a boat that took us to a really nice beach, (forgot the name of it) when we got to the beach we went on a really long 2 hour walk through pure bush, to get to another beach called Bark Bay (yes I remember that name) where the boat was picking us up from and taking us back to Kaiteriteri. Unfortunately we were fast walkers so it took us an hour to walk through bush to get to Bark Bay to find out we still had to wait 3 hours until the next boat comes to pick us up! So we decided to lie towels down, eat lunch and sunbathe (this didn't go very well because their were mosquito's  landing all over us and just to make it even better we forgot to bring insect repellent!) Finally the boat came and picked us up.

A couple of days later we had a baking contest, I baked my mums amazing Brownie, my sister baked Banana cake, my friend Harriet made Corn fritters and my Dad made cooked dinner. I personally think I won!

Towards the end of the week we went to the movies to see The Hunt For The Wilder People, it was really funny and really cool cause it was a New Zealand film.

I really loved going to Nelson and I cant wait till next holidays.

Swimming Sports

13/04/16

On Tuesday the 12th April, College St Normal School went to the lido aquatic centre to do swimming sports. From the day you start at College St Normal school you get put into a team their are four teams Kea, Weka ,Tui and Takahe I'm in Weka we won the swimming sports with just over 100 points! I personally think Weka has most of the best swimmers at school.

I raced in the 25m Freestyle and 25m Breast stroke unfortunately in both my races i came second to last but I know that swimming is definitely not my biggest strength. In second place was Tui, third place was Kea and fourth was Takahe.

We were at the lido for around 6 hours and I only had to 2 minute races so I pretty much ate and talked the whole time it was really boring!

Once we got off the bus that took us back to school, we still had half an hour to spare before school ended so we played a game called why are you late? This game is an acting game and is really fun!

School Water Safety Swimming At The Lido

1/04/16

Every Friday GRi11 2.0 does school swimming at the lido, girls go on the bus first and at the end of our lesson the boys show up. We get put into 3 different groups, 1 in the little pool and two in the bigger pool. Each group gets assigned a colour, I'm in the colour Green which is the middle group my friend Sarah is also in my group and my friend Lola is in the red group which is the highest group, I also have a friend Siu who is in the Yellow group which is in the smaller pool. The pool is freezing when you first get in it, but after a while the pool gets way warmer. In swimming we learn how to tread water and we swam half a length doing freestyle, backstroke ,switching over from freestyle to backstroke and much more. Today is Friday so we have it again today in the middle block and i cant wait!

Written by Kristy

Womad 2016

18/ 03/16

This weekend was Womad 2016! Womad is a big music festival held in New Plymouth where i used to live. It's funny because when i was living there i never went but now that i moved to Palmerston North i have been to Womad. Womad is once every year and is only held in New Plymouth, New Zealand!

At Womad their is lots of food and cool hippie clothes to buy plus some hippie jewellery as well,you can also get a henna and a henna pen. My friend (Maya) bought a henna pen and tried to do henna on my hand but it kinda failed so then next morning when i had to go to school i looked in the mirror and saw henna all down the side of my face from my henna on my hand. I thought well i don't want this to happen tomorrow as well so i tried my hardest to scrub it off of my hand it came off of my hand just not my fingers so i had orange henna on my fingers for about 4 days!

One of my favourite foods at Womad is a Churos!This is my favourite food at Womad because they put chocolate sauce all down the middle of the churo and spilling out the top they are delicious you can also get caramel instead of chocolate.

I had sooooo much fun this year at Womad with all of my really good friends. I can't wait till next year!

This is around how many people come to Womad plus more!