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 * Wednesdady 28th November**

Last Friday there was no reliever so we had to split up! Our whole class was split up into different classrooms. I was in Rm 5 with Anita Ethan and Rachael. I was a bit nervous when we walked in because all he said was find a spot and do your work. But it all turned out fine. We played non stop cricket for P.E. and I got a easy bowl to hit and got 4 runs. This week I've started writing my report. My report is on the man of war jellyfish. This week maths workshop was back I thought it was going to be really hard but infact it turned out that we were earning about graphs and tally charts. It was pretty easy and I enjoyed it alot. I've also started a brand new seris for creative writing and I'm hoping to publish it soon. This morning we've got Miss Walters. The last time I met her she was relieving for atletics day so I didn't see much of her. So far she's been great!
 * Friday 23rd November**

On Monday my class went to the beach for a trip. It wasn't the best day but I enjoyed most of it. Why I didn't enjoy it: Since we got there until 10 minutes before lunch they kept talking about how to keep ourselves safe, sure it was informative but it wasn't very fun. However the afternoon was fun except for the part where I got the really bad headache. So in the afternoon we learnt how to save someone and use a boogie board. My partner (Madison) and I where the life saving champions. It was a good feeling. plus to end the day we got a lollipop and played storm the fort! On Wednesday I went the cluster athletics day. It was great except my lucky number was 4. Why because etime time I raced I'd always come forth except for the relays because I bet one of the fastest girls from murrays bay and made it easier for our team to come first! But overall we came 3rd.
 * Thursday 15th November**

On Tuesday We had a maths test on Addition and Subtraction. I got 100 for both test which meant I got advanced for both tests. Today we continued our maths test except with multiplication and division, I got 100 for multiplication and 99 for division. Today we also did a spelling test and when I got my score I couldn't believe my eyes! My score was off the chart literally I got the spelling age of 15.5+ the plus means I'm above 15.5! I'm very proud of myself even though I could've got 1 more word right. We've started special project. My group (Fiona, Anita and I) are making 2 trays of chocolate fudge mmmm......... I love chocolate fudge! We've already planned it and it looks like a success (looks like it) I'm really excited because we're going to give it to all the teachers in the school IF it works. All the teachers except Mrs Smith and the other Mrs smith. Why? Because they didn't want to help us out they said "We'll only help you out if you give us 2 pieces each, two BIG pieces" Of course they'd be hogging the fudge so we declined their offer and now they're not getting anything!
 * Wednesday 6th November**

BREAKING NEWS! In the post below I said I only got into the 200m sprints, however one of the girls got into too many sports so I got to fill in for her in the 100m and I got chosen for the relays. I've had my first relay practice this morning. It was great. Except for the part that there were only two people in our relay team (Year 5 girls) I was devastated because that meant I had to run all the way to the other end of the field while everyone else ran about 15 meters (not a lot) I ran about 50 meters. Oh well at least I was in the team. I've finished most of my character study. By the way "Character Study" is something we're doing in our class. You have to create and draw a character of your imagination and make a poster of what your character likes,your character's profile, your characters family and home, your character's friends and many more. My character's name is Octny and he is a octopus. He's a weird Octopus with big dreams. Anyways tomorrow we are going to the cinemas to watch all our movies we have been creating in the past month and a half. I'm really curious about what the other team's movie looks like! We've started learning about reports. For our follow up we had to make a lesson about reports. My team decided to take a different style of learning. We used puppet pals instead and I was the fairy god mother (otherwise known as the teacher)
 * Thursday 1st November**

This week we had athletics day. Not the best I've had I got into the 200m sprints but that was it. But I'm a reserve for all the other sprints.I was close to getting in for discus and long jump, but in long jump I could have come 4th but I stepped forward by accident ( just with one foot) and for discus I lost against a girl who got just in front of me. Although I know I tried my hardest and never gave up.(well maybe just a little) Oh and I finished my calendar art (finally) Miss McCauley is really starting to freak me out, because she keeps starting suprise maths quiz. P.S. I HATE MATHS! Today we ACTUALLY finished our movie for real now, because Miss McCauley sent us back for numerous mistakes.


 * Thursday 25th October**

You won't believe it but we actually finished our movie! THE WHOLE MOVIE! I can't even believe it. I guess all that hard work paid off! However we did finish our movie two days before it was due. But I'm just glad we finished. Today I have started training to be a road crossing patroller. I really enjoyed it because a actual police officer taught us how to do this. I'm always nervous when it's my turn to shout the signals but I'm sure I'll get use to it. This week we had a fire conversation in our class. We learnt how fast a fire can spread and what to do in a fire. But my bedroom is upstairs so I'm very unsafe if there's a fire in my house. But if a fire does start all I have to do is keep calm and do the following: Get down, get low and get out fast.
 * Wednesday 12th September**

This week we've started our calendar art, I'm doing mine on My name with everything I like as in 1D lover movie lover and much more. As usual I had my spelling workshop on Monday. My spelling words were based on silent G and C. On Tuesday I started a book called Thea Stilton The Abandoned Treasure. It's a great story I'm really enjoying it. You can see my summary on my reading log. I had my Maths Workshop as well we were learning how to add decimals and subtract decimals too. It was lots of fun and quite easy I was proud of myself when I had finished all my questions correct. On Wednesday my movie making team had finished our storyboard (finally) It was a long tiring process but I'm glad we finished it in the end. Now we're up to setting up the background and set. This week I've decided to be a blog reporter. A blog reporter is a person who does something to show what their class has done this week. The people in my group are Madison and Marianne. Madison is going to interview me about my calendar art.
 * Thursday 6th September**

It's getting closer cross country (cluster) 2 weeks away. Mr. VB has trainned us desparate for us to run that on Tuesday he made us run 1 lap in the hail! Yesterday we ran for 23 minutes straight. Anyway on Tuesday Miss Templin was filling in for Miss McCauley because she was "sick" But I don't think so because she came back awesome! I got a prize from Miss Templin because my table got the most points and I got eni myni moed! (P.S. I know the previous 3 words aren't real words) On Wednesday we played ghostball the game kept going on and on and on and on! So Miss McCauley decided to have a sudden death round. MY team won and I was one of the only 3 from my team standing. The other 2 were Tara and Isaac. Today we have electives Im really looking forward to it. Because Ethan always brings something cool in


 * Friday 31st August**

This week Cross-Country training has been hard core. I've been sweating so hard that my shirt feels like a snail's slime.On Wednesday I had the beep test. This time I was versing half the people who got over level seven. At the very end I was short by one level and two steps to my upgrade to level ten, but unfortunately I didn't make it and ended up with a score of 9.9, but hey at least I broke my record! On Monday I had Music ( like I do every second Monday) I got a bit confused during recorder. But I got through it in the end with the help of my friends and music teacher. Guess what! I finally finished a library book that I actually got out of the library. This week we've started pre- storyboarding for our I CAN MAKE MOVIES competition.
 * Wednesday 22nd August**

This week I'm very happy with myself. Because I've just found out a got a distinction in my icas writing test. I'm happier than anybody in the whole world. Anyway last Friday I had a spelling test (like we have every week) and they were probably the hardest words I've ever had ! But I got them right! On Monday I had my spelling workshop. We were learning about the words: debris (which is pronounced debry) and chasis (which is pronounced chassy) well that's all I can remember! On Tuesday I had my Literacy Workshop, we storyboarded it out. Oh wait I forgot to tell you the movie we're making is a legomation. A legomation is a video made of images but all the people and things are lego.
 * Thursday 15th August**

On Monday I had my first Spelling Workshop it was lots of fun. We learnt some words we didn't even know infact the only words I new were raspberry, cupboard and physic. On Tuesday I had my ICAS maths. I freaked out there was only 10 minutes left on the clock and I was still on my third to last page! So in the end I started guessing some hopefully I guessed RIGHT! When I came back I had missed my Literacy Workshop. So I had to go to the next Literacy Workshop. We were learning to use I can animate. I can animate is a app on the ipad that let's adults and kids like me make a movie using images. Now you may be thinking a video made of images What! Well I can animate has something called a onion skin. It means that picture you jus took will still be in there but a bit blurrier so if someone bumps you than you can just look at the your previously taken picture and take another. On Wednesday I had my Maths Workshop it was lots of fun and a bit confusing but my peers and Miss McCauley helped me get through it. Today we have cross country I'm freaking out! My heart beating faster than normal like I'm about to die. I've never been this nervous in year 5! But I know I have to face my fear and get on with it!
 * Thursday 9th August**

Last Thursday we had the class speeches. I, unfortunately didn't get in. But Marianne,Isaac and Bridget was lucky enough to get in the semi finals. On Monday we had the speech semi finals I thought everybody did a great job especially Nick with his speech on chocolate. On Tuesday we had to make a movie using someone else's script. My team ( Amily, Ethan,Deanna and FIona) got a movie called what's lurking in the office. It was lots of fun because Mr. Lesuer ( Our Principle) was starring in it as a monster! Our cast was Ethan as a boy named Jake, Fiona as a girl named Sarah and ME as a ghost. Unfortunately Deanna got sick in the middle of the day. SO I filled in for her as the ghost. Oh, and Amily was the filmed it. It was great fun and at the end of the day I was very proud of what my team had accomplished. That activity really improved everyone's team working skills.

**Tuesday 31st July**
‍This week could be the scariest week of all the weeks of the year! Because...... I've got English icas test today, class speeches are on Thursday, we finished our spelling test yesterday ( if you find out the definition of buoit and dypres please let me know, because I'm to lazy to do it myself) and to top all that off I've got 3WC tomorrow ! What a week! Yesterday we had Music class. We were learning how to play recorder and the music style "jazz" I am learning a duet with some of my other friends who can read music notes. Hopefully next week I'll be able to play 4 songs on the recorder! ‍

**Thursday 26th July**
On Monday I started on the making of my que cards. All I had to do was highlight the keywords in my speech ,my draft speech of course. I finished it all in one go! So know I have que cards! My speech is all ready to go, I've memorized most of it! On Tuesday we got t go to Kelly Tarltons, because we had to make some movies on activities in the sea. The highlight at Kelly Tarltons was touching a real starfish and watching the stingrays get fed. On Wednesday we went swimming! It was a AWESOME ride there because the bus had comfy seats, a arm rest, a footrest and... A T.V.! So we watched Mr. Bean through out the trip! However the swimming lesson wasn't the greatest because we spent about 15 minutes on learning how to do a backstroke tumble turn! Plus I only got 3 turns! But today is the scarest because there, teacher from another school to watch how we learn. It's almost like I'm being stalked! But she seems very nice andshe has a hp laptop, in our school we only use apples. It's only 12:20 and I can here the sound of class dojo points as Miss McCauley is talking to the teacher watching us.....

Thursday 21st June
Today is my Dad's birthday! we are going to have a tower of yellow rice noodles and chicken!Anyway on Tuesday my basketball team (The Pinehill Timberwolves) played for cluster team B. It was very scary. We only won against Pinehurst school, we nearly bet Murrays Bay but Browns Bay crushed us! In the end we came 3rd. We've also started using a new writing site. It's called writers Club. I find it very fun. It's kind of like this blog but you can write about anythng and you get points for your writing! I've got 240 points at the momment but I'm trying to get the 20 blog posts award! which gives me 100 points. Then I can get on the leader board! Some of my friends are alreeady on the leader board I'm aiming to beat them! A link to my writers club is on my homepage!

Thursday 14th June
Last Friday we went to the Museum. We were manly there for a t-shirt expedition. I had loads of fun in the volcano room. All the boys in my group (Deanna's mum's group) didn't want to go inside. Inside the volcano room there were only the girls in my group (Fiona, Deanna and Erin) It wasn't that scary I only got a little fright. When it was our group's time for the expedition we walked into the room with amazement. There were probably a 100 t-shirt designs and two cinema screens reflecting off each other. We had to make a t-shirt design on a piece of cloth it was a rough start because the cloth kept moving. But I got there in the end. My t-shirt had in big graffiti letters BRING IT ON! It was probably the best t-shirt that I've ever designed.On Wednesday our classroom split into different classes because Miss McCauley was going to the cluster netball game. Overall our team came 3rd. I thought it wasn't that bad after all they did try their best. But anyway I was split into room 12 along with Bella,Josh,and Paula. I reckoned my table was the quietest, Paula and Josh's table kept talking. on my table there was Bella Jamie came and went Irene and Se Yeong.

Wednesday 6th May
On Monday it was the Queen's birthday. I had a wicked time at this japenese buffet. Anyway On Tuesday we had to bring in our favourite t-shirts and submit why this was our favourite t-shirts.(On the mueseum website) since we are going to the museum on Friday. I was the first to finish. But suddenly disaster struck. I used Miss McCauley's email first since, I did everyone else who used Miss McCauley's email turned into the name Jennifer it was a awkward moment when we found out. So Miss McCauley is sending a letter to the museum to ask why this is happening. Now we get to design our own t-shirts. My t-shirt looks like to halves one side is a thunder storm and the other side is a sunset setting with a reflection on the surface of the sea. It's looking pretty good!

Wednesday 30th May
On Monday we had a horrible test on Mesurement I was so disapointed with Miss McCauley. But for pay back Kalib gave Miss McCauley a cold. So as you guessed she didn't come in on Tuesday. Instead we had Mrs Paul again. Even though Mrs Paul had a small voice her actions showed what she was saying. For assembly room 16 (my previous class) hosted assembly. It was all about ROE (Roots Of Empathy) and at the very end of their that they made was a picture of Baby Macsen and I. Ireally enjoyed year 4 but I'm enjoying year 5 more! Today we are started to plan our speeches. Our speechs have to be 2:30 to 3:00 long. I'm planning to do my speech on my name JENNIFER! June is coming up fast it's a big month for me I have piano compitittions, my dad's birthday(It's gonna be a big one he's turning 40) I have ICAS Maths, and my basketball team has been chosen to play for our school in the interclubs against Pinehurst, Murrays Bay, and Browns Bay. It's really exciting because we're going to be the only year 5 team playing for our school!

Thursday 24th May
On Monday morning we had Music with Mr. Marston we were being hot seated. Hot seating is when an interviewer asks questions and the person who is answering it can't just sit at think they must keep the audience entertained. For my Literacy workshop we were learning how to take notes while researching about how a camera works. Maths workshop was all about area. I now know how to calculate area using times tables. For our writing workshop since we finished all our VOCP we had this sheet we had to swap with someone on the sheet there were wow words but not all of them were being used by me. I swapped with Marianne. Marianne had a lot of punctuation and wow words but most of her wow words weren't there on the sheet. Oh yeah On Monday and Wednesday afternoon I helped out the year 2s on building mechanical structures. My group first made a jiggling bug. Then a car Then a Beach it was lots of fun helping them.

Thursday 17th May
Today Miss McCauley is not here she sick. Theres a good thing and a bad thing, because the good thing is yesterday Miss McCauley got us lots of fake money, and you have to pay for everything! These are the things we have to pay for:Toilet $1.10, Lateness( Late to class or workshop) $2.90 Not Listening $1.80 clean up fee( if someone cleans up after you) $5.90 equipment rental(borrowing something from Miss McCauley) $1.50. This sis how to earn money: Get to your workshop on time with the date) $3.00 tiding up after someone $5.90. We have to pay for our seat I paid $21 others paid 20 cents but my seat has a nice view. Some people even paid all their money($67.10) Just for a seat.We only get a ruler 1 pen 1 pencil and that's all the rest of our equipment was on sale we had to buy it from other people! It was chaos I tell you at the end of the day I got 68.20. Others had 60 cents.In writing workshop we were on the last letter of VOCP which is punctuation.

Monday 14th May
This week I'm going to do 2 blogs because I've just finished a easttle test on reading.I think it went well,but after pretty much each question It came up with an error, so I kept having to click the space click Next Questions. Any way tomorrow we have our assembly so it's finally Room 14's time to shine! We're doing a movie based on a story that Marianne made. But I don't want to spoil it for you guys. Last week on Tuesday afternoon my class was split like a banana all over the school. Deanna, Issac, Marianne and I were in Room 18. Now here's the freaky part Room 18 were doing exactly what I was doing even the words! That was the weirdest! I hope we get split again though it was so much fun.

Wednesday 2nd May
This is the week we are having our first tennis, lesson it's going to be so much fun! I wish it could happen for the rest of the year! Because I do tennis and it is so much fun! Anyway on Monday we had Mrs Russel as our substitute teacher, but Miss McCauley was still in school but she had some extra work to do. We played a spelling game at the end of the day. How you played: We would pick 9 letters 1 being the main letter, now with the main letter you always have to use that letter in every word you make and you can only use 1 letter once in a word unless there are 2 letters of the same letters. I know it's confusing but that's how you play. We had a great time with you Mrs Russel! Oh and I have updated my Media page so go check it out!

Tuesday 24th April
ANZAC day is this week so this is why I'm doing my blog on Tuesday We had a scavenger hunt today to do with math. We had to measure the main places around the school. I'm currently on a streak I have not go one spelling word wrong. So as you may know I've made 2 new pages ICT and Goals. In ICT there are the instructions to properly search what you want. So far the weather here has been pretty good. In the holidays I went to where I've always liked to be Waiwera hot pools I had a wicked time. I especially loved the waterslides One slide was so curvy and fast! It was called the black hole I probably went down it 50 times!There was a green and a yellow slide too. But the green one was so slow but the yellow one was so FAST! I had the greatest time at Waiwera hot pools I hope to go there again.

Wednesday 4th April
First week of April and the news says that a cyclone is coming It's a good way to start April isn't it. Anyway I'm sure that all the workshops have ran away to a different place because there are no workshops this week, but I guess it makes sense because it is the last week of term 1. Call me a weirdo but I love school and I'm really upset that we have to leave school. My special project is just about done 1 more page and the tittle page too. I've been working really hard on this special project. We have these cool activity book about easter and it's so much fun! Oh yeah and if you want to see a cool poem I made during spelling it's on my spelling page. Nothing really to blog about this week but maybe next term. Remember even though school will be over I'll still update this wiki!

Thursday 29th March
This is the last week of March! Wow time flies. Once again there was only reading workshop. But however just now at about 11:52 I had a reading test and I moved up a level which is AWESOME! Miss McCauley is going to test e again some time next week. I'm going to upload a reading video so keep your eyes peeled because it's gonna be good. But don't blame me if it's not in by next week because Miss McCauley has a lot of people to get through uploading the video from the flipmino onto her computer/laptop. Next week I have a 3WC( 3 way conference)and it's the last week of SCHOOL next week. YAY! Right about now rooms 10,5,7 are at camp about now they should still be hiking.

Tuesday 20th March
‍Just came back from camp. I Need more catch up sleep really badly. Anyway I've had lots of fun there, BUT it's a 1 hour drive. But to make it fun Amily my friend and I counted cars I counted the silver and white cars, and Amily counted the black and grey cars. We got over 1100 cars not counted together. When we got there we had morning tea on the deck. Then we finally got to see our cabin. But I wasn't impressed at all the floor was grey, stiff concreate like the concrete in your garage. And the bunk beds were stiff wood, plus my bed had blood on it YUCK! I WISH I WAS I WAS IN THE NEW BLOCK! Because the new block has metal beds the floor was the same but not dirty. On Thursday we went for a 5 hour hike it was tiring but when we got to the top its a b-e-a-utiful view. Just to add this week we only have reading workshop, I'm not sure why but at least I don't have Maths workshop. ‍

Wednesday 29th February
I've just come back from P.E. we played ghostball and we won. But the other team was quite a handful.I have done problem solving which is math but its just a whole lot of writing. One of our caterpillars are hatching into a butterfly. Next week I am going to represent Pinehill school at the swimming competition. I can't wait till camp! I'm looking forward to do everything at camp. But it is a 1 hour drive! I have a feeling I'm going to doze of on the bus.

Wednesday 15th February
Today is a blue day it keeps on raining! There was nothing to do so I continued on my creative writing. The tittle for my creative writing is the haunted necklace. It's about a mermaid, and if you ever saw her face you would live forever. One day there was a teenager who saw the mermaid's face, so he lived forever. During his long life he fell in love with the mermaid. He made a necklace for her but she didn't want any gifts at all but the teenager just kept giving her gifts so she cursed the necklace and threw it into the sea 50 years later a girl found it....... and the mystery began.

Monday 13th February
Today we learnt how to make a blog. It is Awesome! I can now talk about what I do at school from my wiki. Stay tuned for another blog comment and keep those comments coming through. This blog wilt make everyone proud I guarantee it