Another Short Day!

I had my swimming competition this morning called Southland Champs where we race people all over Southland. I have made it into the final for 100 backstroke which I am pleased with.

I walked from Splash Palace to Enrich exhausted. I came in and we were into passion time which was good because I really wanted to get my lino-print finished. In the end it turned out great thanks to Darryn. He just did a few touch ups and afterwards it looked pretty great. I will probably have to do another print next week so I can learn and keep improving. I have really enjoyed doing lino-printing because I got to learn something new and it has been so much fun! Thank goodness we still have another week left at Enrich!

Another Choice!

Another choice had fallen on me. This was even worse this time. Maths/Art and writing 201! My two favourite subjects. I really want to improve in my writing and learn new things or maths/art which is my all time favourite. But when it came down to it I chose writing because I just love it so much and we never get to do this much writing at school a day.

Writing 201 has been awesome! I am so glad I chose it now. The first thing we did was get a computer and login. Next, Nicola gave us a notebook and pencil to keep. She then spun some writing ideas and then whatever it landed one we had to use in our writing. We had to have chosen our setting, starting phrase and four words that we had to use in our writing. Here were mine:

Setting- Super Bowl

Starting Phrase- The postcard said "Greetings to you all."

Four words I have to use- Moo, wrist, tumble and burp.

At first I wasn't that excited about my Setting when I found out my story had to be at a baseball game! My interests are swimming, music, maths and writing not baseball! I then thought that this is teaching me a lesson and how to be a better writer so I felt happier later on.
Here is some of my story for you(without being checked Nicola)

The postcard said “Greetings to you all.”

I felt so excited knowing that I would be going to The Super Bowel in California, America. The postcard was from my friend who lives in California and said that I could go with my sister Rue to the World Cup. We all love baseball and can’t wait to go watch the game between the billers from England and the pillars from London.  We all want the pillars to win because they are from our hometown and they are just so incredible to watch. 

Moo! Our cow Millie started to interrupt us from the very lovely postcard from Mila. Whenever our cow does that it means that she is hungry and wants food. Of course we couldn’t just leave her as cows need to be fed as well as us. Rue and I started to argue about who should go feed Millie because we both HATE doing it. In the end I had to do it because I’m the older one and Rue said that I have to be a good role model to her. My shoulders lay low and I dragged my body off the couch. I felt exhausted from completing a marathon earlier in the day and walked as slow as a tortoise. Millie continued to moo but became even louder. I rushed out to feed Millie as fast as I could while she kept on mooing. 

When I got back inside Rue was still reading the postcard as she is so slow! I snatched the  card of her and finished reading it. Rue kept on going on about how I  should be a good role model, but I didn’t take any notice of her because she is old enough to make her own responsible decisions.

You really think you know?

I start running to Enrich and was nearly at the stairs when suddenly I tripped feeling very embarrassed. It was  spitting with rain and I felt so excited to come into the Enrich door and then that just had to happen; I must be SO clumsy! The reason I wanted to get into the door so fast is because I came in at ten to one. You're probably thinking why I was so late, why I wanted to miss so much learning time, why I wanted to miss my favourite time of the day at Enrich, which is chess!

Well you're all wrong, I was actually going to James Hargest (the school I'm going to next year) for my new entrant day where we did lots of fun activities and got to know other people from other schools and what they're like. My favourite part was getting to throw chickens around!!! Not real chickens of course because that would just be mean - it was a toy chicken that looked like a turkey. The point of doing that was to learn other people's names as before we threw the chicken we had to say the person's name. Anyway, when I got to Enrich I got big hello's from everyone and then we started to learn about digital citizenship. This is about how we can be safe on the internet,  and what we think we know about the internet when we really DON'T! But the best thing about coming into the Enrich door was finding Nicola as she has been away for the last few weeks and I really missed her! Thank goodness she's back now! I can't wait 'til next week where I can finish my gifted study on Leonardo da Vinci and start Enrich at the NORMAL time which is 9:00am!

Blog you next week, Clara!