Year 8

Its almost 2014 and I am really excited and nervous at the same time. I am really excited about becoming a year eight because of everything we can do. We can sit on chairs at assembly, be the oldest in the school and tons more stuff like that. I am going to miss this years current year eights when they leave at the end of the year because I have become friends with many of them and I have been in in their classes a few times ( rooms 1,2,7 and 12). I am most worried about the house captain voting. I am very excited but I am feeling really nervous. I hope I get in because I have always wanted to become Ngatotos house captain. I think i would make a great house captain because I am very responsible and fun. If you are reading this and are in vote for me as house captain. Next year is year eight came and I think that will be really fun and I cant wait!

I have done these

Have you done them? Comment if you have.

Book Week

This week was book week. Everyone had to do something that a book character did for a whole week. I wore a mood ring. Judy Moody wore a mood ring in Judy Moody Predicts the future. I forgot to wear it on Thursday though. We also did have a book character day which was today (today is Friday). I decided to dress as Judy Moody. I even had two different shoes on. On Book Character day we had a book quiz. I was the year 7 representative for our house Ngatoto. Even though Ngatoto came last I still had tons of fun. We managed to get 5 out of 5 for one section beating everyone.

Guy Fawkes Day

Guy Fawkes is the day were we celebrate with fire works. Many people do not know why we celebrate Guy Fawkes day so I will explain it. Many years ago there was a man called Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the English Parliament. Someone told on Guy Fawkes and he was stopped and executed. We celebrate with fireworks because he didn't blow up the Parliament building. But why celebrate with things that blow up? It doesn't really make sense why we use fireworks. It makes as much sense as having Easter eggs at Christmas. It would be awesome if we could have fireworks available to us in stores daily. That way we could buy Fireworks for our birthdays. People would know if someone was having a birthday. They could sell fireworks with numbers on them so everyone would be able to tell whether it was a 5 year old or a 15 year old celebrating their birthday. If you could create a fire work what would it look like. Mine would be a cat face.

When I grow up

When I grow up I want to be a game designer. I really like making programs on scratch and making circuits with my circuit making kit. I hope that one day I might work with Nintendo to make games for things the the Wii U and the 3DS.The graphics in the games I play (especially Okamiden's graphics) are awesome and I hope that one day I can design games with really good graphics too.

Outside of school I could work on this by working more on my programs on scratch so I can get better at painting my graphics. At collage i would need to take art (for the graphics), Computers/technology and maths.

 If you could create a game what would it be about? I would probably do a game where you could create a world freely by earning money and fighting. Like a mix between Final Fantasy, Animal crossing, Fire emblem and harvest moon

Holidays

During the holidays i didn't do much. In the second week of the holidays I had Swimming lessons from Monday to Friday. We did a different thing each day. On Monday it was free style. On Tuesday it was back stroke. On Wednesday it was breath stroke. On Thursday it was butterfly and on Friday it was assessments. I managed to move up to Gold Sharks. This Term the most interesting thing was the School Fair. I had to head to the fair early to help my mum set up the book store. We hung up the sign and started sticking stickers to some of the books in really good condition. When the fair started I started by looking around. The most awesome thing i bought was this cool little crochet picnic set I got from the craft store. At about twelve O clock I had a lunch consisting of two hotdogs, an egg roti, a afghan and a bag of candyfloss. Once I had finished my lunch (leaving about 2/3's of a bag of candyfloss remaining I started working at the bookstall selling books. When the fair was done I helped by carting the books upstairs and bringing the empty boxes up to the big orange bin. There was lots of rubbish on the floor so I vacuumed it before moving the tables and chairs back. Did anyone else do swimming in the holidays and did anyone help work on a stall at the fair?

Lion Face

This is my favorite piece if art i have done this week. Its a lion face. Its made of paint for the mane and jovi for the face. It was made on a piece of brown paper. Its based on how Henri Rousseau painted a lion but my one looks quite alot different than his because mine is on its side. What do you think about my lion? What would you suggest that I should of done?

Obsessions

On Saturday I went to West Field shopping center.  I went to the EB games there and I bought a game for my 3DS called Animal Crossing New Leaf. I have been playing it everyday so far. The game works on real time so 2:00pm in NZ time would be 2:00pm animal crossing time. In this animal crossing game you become the mayor and make a town. Then new people move to the town depending on what you build and how you run your town. The games NPC,s (non player characters) are animals but your character is a human. You can design your character so it can look like whatever you want. Then you get a house and you can buy furniture for it to decorate it. Then there are the tools. There is a bug net, a fishing rod, a shovel, a watering can and a slingshot. They are all for different uses.
This game is very addicting and if you have a 3DS you should buy this game. What do you think of this game?

Minecraft Medieval Times :)

We have finished our medieval times villages here is a screen shots of the water mill I

made. The water mill is used to turn grain into flour to use in baking. The mill was near the water so the wheel attached to it could spin around. inside it has chest full of wheat and a table and chairs (made of stairs, pressure plates, fences and signs) Since the people in medieval times don't have windows i didn't just put gaps I put fences in the gaps. I worked on the water mill with Samantha.

Reflection about Electives.

We have been doing electives all term. I have been doing creative computers for my elective. My Teacher Miss Bolger has been teaching us for creative computers. We have been doing two projects. The first project was a minecraft map. We had to created a fun yet challenging map to play on minecraft. We called it victory island. In my group I had Sofia, Katy and gabby. The aim of our map is to get to victory island. To get there you need to find the teleporter to teleport to victory island then you win. The other thing we are doing is filming movies. We haven't started yet but we will start on Friday. When we planned it out we sort-of agreed on a action movie. But when we started to draw out what would happen in each scene it kind of became a battle movie. This is what we have been doing for Electives this term.

Picture

My pipe painting

Painting

Recently at school we have been painting. I am pretty good at painting thick and thin lines and i can use the paint brush correctly. I am can blend colours into other colours. I am not so good at painting a clean line. I am also not very good at painting straight lines. I think i have done ok and i have learnt alot over these few weeks and i hope i can get even better at painting.

Pipe Painting

This week we painted This is not a pipe by Renee Magritte. It was really hard to get the right colour for everything. I liked doing the background best because it was pretty easy and it looked nice. I wish i didn't drop the paint brush though because black went everywhere. It took a while to cover up the black but the colour still doesn't look right. I practiced painting the pipe for a couple of days before i finally got the courage to start painting it. The hardest part was the writing at the bottom it said this is not a pipe in french. I couldn't get the writing to look small enough or fancy enough.
Doing the painting was pretty fun even though it was hard to do. I hope we do more art like this because i like doing art

Basic facts

We are doing basic facts tests to test our knowledge about the times tables. I have been getting one or two wrong while doing them so i should practice my tables more. If i practice them i will be able to do them in a flash. The one i am the worst at is the 7 times. If i practice one question in the 7 times table every day i will learn them faster.

Cathlic Schools day

We went to st Bridgid's school the other day. I saw some people i knew there and i made some new friends. At the beginning of the day we took the train to Johnsonville. We then walked to St Bridgid's and a lady told us to head to the church for a liturgy. Once we finished the liturgy it was morning tea time and everyone got a free sausage. After morning tea we learnt how to make electronic things with kits. My group made a electronic fan and a electronic car. The car took forever to make but we finally finished it. When we were done everyone crowded into the room and we had a talk and we sang a song. Then it was time to head back to the train station and then we got back to school.

Were going to St Bridgids tomorrow

Tomorrow i'm going to St Bridgids. I wont be there the whole time but i hope during the time i'm there i can learn some stuff. I hope i can make some new friends while I'm there and find out what stuff they do there at St Bridgids. I wonder if they go to tech like us and if they do I wonder if they go to the same tech as us. My teacher told us we would be put into groups and we will do some sports stuff. I bet we will have a liturgy at the church by the school and we will probably do some team building challenges. It is meant to be raining tomorrow i hope it doesn't rain though otherwise we wont be able to do some of the activities.

Finacial Literacy

We had a guy called Vani come from ASB to teach us about jobs and money. He told us about wants and needs and the difference between them. He also told us about how to pick the perfect job for us. We needed to think about our passions if we wanted the right job for us. If you liked swimming you could be a swimming instructor or a life guard. If your passion was buying cars you would pick a job that payed lots. Then he taught us to use our talents for our job and to do our best.
This is what he taught us when he came to our class.

Statistics

We have just finished our statistics. For statistics we went around surveying people about topics. My topic was what would people most like to eat for a snack. It turned out that boys chose healthier foods than girls. Little children liked mostly ice cream and carrots. Once we were done we did our reviews on the assignment. This was a fun thing to do. It took a while to finish but in the end i did finish. It was interesting to find out peoples food choices.

EOTC

It was EOTC week last week. On Monday we went up Mt Kou Kou. On Tuesday we went to the capital E film festival. On wednesday we went to nairnville. On Thursday we went around everywhere making vidios on Ipad Minis and on friday we went to a gallery and to poruia pool. It was a great week.

my comic reflection

Reflection

This is my reflection of my comic drawing. So far its going great i have gotten better at drawing and created a super heroine. My super heroine is called buttona she has a team, a super pet and a arch nemesis. i have learnt better ways to draw faces. I love drawing all the cartoon stuff in my art pad and i love making up stuff like the origin story in my draft writing book. i have improved my drawing especially when drawing poses and i don't have much more to improve on. This has been very fun to do and i cant wait for us to start drawing our comics.

welcome

Welcome

hello everyone this is my blog. My names Rebecca Anne Robson. I'm 11 and i was born on the 26 of September in 2001. i have 3 cats (a black one called Gizmo, a tabby ragdoll called tabitha and a black kitten named silky) i also have a fish called beach. i have a mum called tania and a dad called john i also have a sister called katherine.