Tessa

=Reflections =

Term 1

**Week 1 **
**Wow! What a week! I am so happy that I have Mr barrow as my teacher. We have done heaps of cool stuff this week, my favourites were, spelling test, fitness, maori, name tags and the beep test. Our class is in charge of the P.E shed again, this is my third year at doing the P.E shed. ** **I am looking forward to doing more work in the class. **

**Week 2 **
**Hello again! I am having so much fun this week! On Tuesday, we went to Tree Adventures and acted like monkeys, swinging from branch to branch. ** **I did all of the courses except for number 8 and 10 because they were closed. I really enjoyed my week and hope that next week will be even better. **

**Week 3**
**I enjoyed this week because we started on our Pepeha which is where we have to write about stuff that is important to us. I also enjoyed doing the** **maori art and learning maori songs. I have put in my name for the sports swimming and am going to compete in Backstroke, Breaststroke,** **Freestyle and Butterfly. It is going to take place at the Leisure Centre on** **Wednesday, I hope that I do well.**

**Week 4**
**This week was swimming week and I was so nervous. All these thoughts were rushing through my head, diving properly, not getting distracted and many more negative thoughts.**
 * On the day, I ca me first in every event and am EXTREMELY proud of myself. My fastest event was freestyle, my time was 16.84 seconds. I beat my record of 20.21 seconds by more than 3 seconds. Yay! **<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**That means that I am going into inter schools. AHHHHHHH! Well, thats another day! That's all for now. I'll tell you more next week. Bye.**

<span style="background-color: #5112bf; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Week 5**
<span style="background-color: #5112bf; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**This was an interesting week because we went to a Marae. I got to learn about different chiefs and heard different stories. I also enjoyed the shared lunch. It made me hypo. On the way back we played sweet, sour and pig as well as corners. I also did more of my maori art and am happy with my progress. I am enjoying the term and hope that I keep up the good work.**

<span style="background-color: #130c0c; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 6 <span style="background-color: #130c0c; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This was a pretty good week and I enjoyed getting started on the waharoa design. I am happy with my value symbols and maori art. we also did a P.A.T test on Friday and I am feeling pretty confident. We have gotten our mathletics and are now getting better at fast thinking maths thanks to live mathletics. I am having so much fun in this class and cannot believe that it is already week six. I am enjoying doing lots of sports and am improving in my soccer and dodgeball skills.

Week 7 This week, we finished all of our P.A.T tests and I am proud of my results. I have finally finished my pepeha recording and it is now up. I am also enjoying the Waharoa designs and making up ideas for the symbols. We still have a long way to go and I am looking forward to finishing the Waharoa.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #4a13aa; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Term 2

<span style="background-color: #f26706; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 1 <span style="background-color: #f26706; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wow I had great holidays! Did I mention that it was my birthday? This week, we had the arts festival. I had lots of fun and enjoyed the entertainment. We have finished the prototype and are happy about how it looks on the back gate. At the festival some of the teachers danced on the stage. Mr Barrow and Mr Ross danced to a One Direction song and there was lots of screaming from the girls. All in all, I had a great weekand am looking forward to the next.

<span style="background-color: #130c0c; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 2 <span style="background-color: #130c0c; color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week, Mr Barrow is going to be a dad! He is going to spend time with his wife and newly born daughter, Katherine. So this week, we had a reliever, Mrs Hart, and on friday, we had Mrs Morgan. We did lots of sports with Mrs Hart and did oil pastel tiki art with Mrs Morgan. I really enjoyed this week and look forward to hearing from Mr Barrow about Katherine and seeing some pictures of her. Congratulations Mr Barrow

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<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #6815f9; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Term 3

<span style="background-color: #130c0c; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 1 <span style="background-color: #130c0c; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Guess what I did in the holidays. I went to a farm in Te awamutu! I did lots of jobs and really enjoyed myself. I am also happy about coming back to school but am going to miss the farm animals. This week, we did another spelling test and I got 100/100! I'm extremely proud of myself and am really enjoying my first week.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 2 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hello again, this week we found out what we are going to do for homework this term. We are going to be doing a science project, what we have to do is think of a question, for example, what will happen when you mix coke with mentos, something like that, then you have to make a hypothesis and conclusion etc. So I'm going to have my hands full. We also did cross country and I got extremely muddy, but I came 3rd place, so I am really proud of myself.

<span style="background-color: #5112bf; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 3 <span style="background-color: #5112bf; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week I did an english Icas test, I forgot lots of things like what metaphors and synonyms are. I hope that I did well. We also did some more work on volunteering, I am in the animals group. I love animals, that is why I chose that group. My group is going to try and volunteer at Animates. We are waiting for a response from them, I hope we get to go there.

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 4 <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Good news. I found a question for my science project: Which chocolates sink and float in water and why. The cool thing about this is that I get to eat the chocolate after I've finished with it. Yay!!! I also did another Icas test, maths this time. I don't think I did very well, the questions were very hard, I was half asleep and was very sick. I hope I get better.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #5503aa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 5 <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #5503aa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not any better than last week, and I had to pay for it, this week was Interschool cross country, I wanted to go but I couldn't because I was sick. Some of the people in our class got in the top 50 people in their year. I also got chosen to go to the cross country championships, which only four boys and girls from each of the year sevens and eights get to go to. What I don't understand is why i'm going, because I didn't go to interschools, but i'm honoured all the same.

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #5503aa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 6 <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #5503aa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week, we had Japanese students from our sister school come to our school for two weeks. I am really looking forward to having them in our class. We also have been working on proposals, I am doing one for Auckland Zoo. I am really looking forward to doing the cross country next week. Yay!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #5503aa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week 7 <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #5503aa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week I did the cross country. I got it wrong, it's not championships but coast cross country. I am really proud of myself because I came ninth place out out about forty girls. I had no idea what I was coming while running because the year eight boys ran with us, so I thought I was at the back. It was a really bad day to do cross country because it was raining really hard and while we were running down the beach, the wind was against us and the sand got in our eyes. Despite that, I really enjoyed myself.

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