Year 8 Challenges 2016

School Concert last night was awesome all the acts are good.
Good luck to the next year School Captains
Kaia: ICT (Taking my spot)
Mya: Events
Mac: Sports
Sophie: Environment

All I can say is that it was be an awesome Year next 2017 at Paroa School

Year 8 Challenge: Tramping the Mikonui

I Woke up not sure what to think I got ready then went down to the school where I had to show Mr S-W Some stuff in my pack then Calder helped me fit my pack. Just after that, we did the roll and then we hit the road down to Mikonui. When we got there we had to wait for the farmer to move his cattle which was like an hour or two. After that we could finally start the tramp its self it was easy at first but then when we got about halfway it started to get really hard I got sore shoulders and sometimes it was just like can we stop.


When we got to the campsite we had to put up the tent my tent group was Me, Isaac K (His Tent) And Cameron. After we had put the tent I had some stuff to eat than me and some other people went into the bush to get some firewood. A lot of the wood was wet because it had been drizzling in the day when we got back from firewood hunting we could go for a swim in the river if we wanted. I couldn't be bothered going for a swim because we just had a massive tramp so I just watched and recorded some jumps for Mr S-W. For Dinner, my food group and I had Sizzlers they were good because I used a roll and made it into a hot dog so that was awesome.


We did a solo it is where we got put in the bush for 20 minutes by our selfs with our torch because it is dark and a book and pencil it was boring (That's what I think anyway) We did some riddling some of them I had no idea what people are talking about I was completely lost. Then it was time to go to sleep I think that I had a pretty good sleep which was a surprise.

For breakfast, my group had pancakes they were a bit hard to cook because the pan we were using had lost it's non-stick that made it so you had to be very careful when you were going to flip the pancake. Overall it was an awesome trip


BRING IT ON!!

Weekly Reflection

This week was a lot different than a normal because as you will know that there was a massive earthquake I woke up just before it started because my dog started barking then it all started the whole house was shaking not long after it started my Mum came in and said it might be time to get up I leaped up and went under the door frame (Yes I know that's a bad place to be) On Monday at school the whole day was about earthquakes. We made Kahoots about it mine was pretty random and weird. Overall, I hope there is not another earthquake like that in my lifetime

Famous Movie Quotes

Awesome Ski Trip (Temple Basin)

When I woke up I was nervous and pumped to go skiing when we got to school I loaded my stuff into a car and we went to temple basin goods lift and we loaded up our stuff then we had to drive a bit more down the road and we started walking up the mountain it was a really hard walk up because it got really steep. When we got up to temple basin lodge we went in and had some lunch and put our stuff in our bunk rooms then it was finally time to go skiing! at first, we had to get our boots and skis I was amazed how heavy ski boots are then we went and played on a hill that was just outside the lodge I walked all the way to the top and slid all the way down doing 180s and 360s it was really fun by this point everyone had got into their ski boots and we got to try start skiing at first I had no idea what so ever I was doing I got told how to do a pizza and I went down the mountain and crashed I knew this was a small crash and I had bigger crashes to come but luckily I Liked crashing I found it funny and cool. We had to walk up the mountain and ski down falling over at least 30 times I found it really boring at first.



The next day Grace helped me learn how to ski because we got some people that could already ski helping the people that could not ski I learned a lot from her after lunch we had to do the dishes we had so many dishes it was funny it took us an hour I think all I wanted to do was get back out there and ski because my friends were starting to go on the tow rope when I got back onto the ski field I got to go on the tow rope at first I was really nervous because I knew it was going to be hard skiing down the mountain I got up to where I wanted to be and I got off the rope and falling over I got back up put my skis on and tried to ski down the mountain I got almost to the end and I crashed going really fast I slid really far down the mountain then after I stopped sliding I got back up and got my skis that were 10m away from me. After about 15 runs down the mountain I could finally ski better than what I thought I can the next day ski was totally different in the morning because the snow was really slippery and I was falling over a lot at first then I started to get better later in that day I got a turning season with Steve (Kate's Dad) And it helped me a lot it was putting my weight on the other ski and little things like that but it helped a lot this made me be able to turn around markers and stuff like that.

Overall, I think this is the best challenge and I want to go skiing again for sure!

My French Learning

The school teachers  speak french and also teach french in some parts of Belgium  

Belgium also has a lot of french bakeries and shops such as Wax.  It is a bakery frituur snacks which is a snack shop.

Belgian French is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois and Lorrain

In France, the number ‘seventy’ is ‘soixante-dix’. This literally translates as ‘sixty-ten’. This is particularly confusing for a non-native speaker of French as one hears the number start with ‘soixante’ but in fact it is ‘seventy’ and not ‘sixty’ as would be logical. Fortunately, Belgians say ‘septante’ instead. This is easier to learn as ‘septante’ comes from sept seven

Week Reflection T3 W2

This week we the normal. For maths I got as many yellows as I can I am up to the Year 7/8 Stage now and I want to be able to smash them by the end of the year. We have started a new debate that is Superman will always defeat batman I'm on the CON Side that means I am for batman and I am happy about it because I like batman. I think that batman is a better hero because if superman did not have the sun he would not have his powers because his powers are made by the sun. The ICT Team and I started our training people with iMovie and we could not do much training because most of the time we had to spend updating and downloading IMovie

Mid Year Reflection

At the beginning of the year, I made some dumb decisions. And I think that I have stopped doing a lot of them. By the time I get to the end of the year I hope that I don't do a lot of the stupid stuff I did at the start of the year like not doing the full run that time and I hope I don't do anything like that at the end of the year. These are some of my goals for the end of the year


1. For the run I want to get into the low 12 and I want to be able to get that every run that i don't have a cold because that messes with my breathing and it makes be feel like that i am going to die when I am running

2. Make sure My Team and I (The ICT Committee) Do our best in helping with the film festival and make sure the teachers our happy with what we are doing for them and they get what they want at the end of it.


3.   At the end of the year I hope that I where i should be with my Maths, Reading And Writing before the end of the year

So these are my goals that I want to have done by the end of the year.
Thanks for reading these and I will see you in the next post.

Sea Kayaking Challenge #3

When I woke up I was scared and excited. When I got to School it was wet cold and raining I was really mad that it was raining because we got wet really quick. Mr. S-W Checked my bag to make sure I all the gear that was needed for the trip. After the bell rang it was almost time to get in the car and get going to Mitchell's. We finally got to Mitchells it was still raining and it was bad because it was time to pack our sea kayaks since you could not take a full bag you had to unpack your stuff and put them into we compartments in the kayak it was hard for me to get my stuff in. After we finished packing the kayak we got to have some lunch. When it was time to get into the kayak Isaac And me Where in a double so it was a bit harder to get into the water when we finally got it in the water we went out a bit dropped down the rudder and went to test out our kayak our rudder was pretty messed up we went really fast at the bay and I turned it the wrong way we almost went into a bush I was lucky I could just turn it out of the way. With the double kayaks, the person in the back to move the kayak (Turn the rudder) That was me I was in the back of the kayak It was fun driving it the back part was that since Connor P Was in the back of his double he licked crashing into me and Isaac. It had taken us an hour to get to Bain Bay the first thing we had to do was unpack the kayaks. We set up the tent that was a bit of a challenge for us the pain was after we set up our tent people went inside it and made it all muddy. All I can say is that this trip was awesome

BRING IT ON!!!

Rock Climbing and Abseiling

Yesterday I woke up so pump to get to school so I could talk to my friends about the rock climb half of you went yesterday and the other half is going today. When we got there I really wanted to just get into the climbing we had to do some abseil practice when we first got there so we know what we are doing when we go down the hill. Then it was finally time for my group to get to go rock climbing I went third Grace C, Connor P. Then I got to go I made it all the way to the top it was easy for me, When I was coming down I fell and hit my hand on rock and cut the side of my knuckle up and some we marks on the side of my hand, when I got down my hand, was so painful. The worst part was that I had to climb up out of the cove so I could get some plasters. They did not have any normal plasters they had they did not have some simple plasters it was kinda funny and bad at the same time, So they had to give me some plaster stuff. I Just sat down and tried to get Isaac K To abseil down. I was so mad that I had hurt my hand because it went all numb and I could not move it or get a grip on it so I could not abseil. One of the best parts of the trip was watching Connor P He went to go down the hill he was over the edge he could not do it he came up and he was just like YOLO and went right over the edge and all the way over and down nobody could not believe that he had just done that. Isaac M Done the same thing he was on the edge closed his eyes and had a breath and just went for it.

IT WAS AWESOME!

Lilly my dog

This week she is way better she was running around like crazy. This morning when I was asleep Mum let her outside because she thought she had to go to the toilet. She heard a bark and she went outside and she saw Lilly run through the fence and she ran outside after her and she was gone out the front over the fence chasing my Nanas cat After about 2 minutes, Kerry knew it was not right so he went out and Mum was going crazy saying she could not find Her and then Nana And Grandad came out (The whole street was outside at this point) Mum, Kerry, Kyla, Nana And Grandad were all looking for Lilly And then Mum said that Nana yelled out found Her.All of them ran over to the farm that's down the road from us Mum got her and got Her to come home. As you may not know I was still in bed asleep and I hear them all come in going this bloody Dog so I got up to find out what had just happened and this had happened when I was eating my breakfast they were talking about how She had been bad and Lilly is just looking around like what did I do. She has got all these treats that they will last forever because since she is a small dog she can only have one a day.

My First D.L.O (Decimals With Grace C)

Make sure you check out Graces blog!

http://paroagreygracec.blogspot.co.nz/

Getting My Dog (Lilly) Reflection 2.6.16

Yesterday as some of my friends may know that I got a dog named Lilly. When we first got her home she was scared she just sat with Mum and Jack she did not really do anything she just sat there and looked around and smelled the place. After tea she was happier she was starting to walk around a little bit she got off the couch and went over to her bowl and had some tea than after that we gave her a smacko (It's a Dog treat) then after that she done a loop around the couch and just went straight back onto it and sat there and done the same thing as before. Then Jack and Kerry walked Her outside she did not have a lead (Random Idea) And she just ran around the backyard our cats Patches and Eclipse they tried to outsmart Lilly Patches went in front and Eclipse went behind Her then Jack scared the Cats and they ran away so they got Lilly and put her inside. This morning we put the lead and the collar on her and Kerry and Lilly went outside she was so happy she was running around with her tail wagging all over the place then she came back inside and sat on the couch and watch Jack and I get ready for School.

I might blog more about Her when we have had her for some more 

W4T2 Reflection

This week was awesome apart from the rain because we could not do basketball at breaks. I did West Coast cross country that was awesome and really muddy I lost my shoes when I was running so I had to do one lap with no shoe and that was cold my foot went numb, I'm really excited about basketball tonight I want to get a point this week its hard when I'm the ball carrier. We have done some writing for the paper about why Greymouth I'll link that now.

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My Gif

My Boomwriter Chapter (I Won)

MY MOUTH IS ON FIRE, I'm running around in circles because I don't know what to do.

"Water" I Scream, My mouth is the hottest it's ever been!

I run back out of the tunnel I have eaten. There is nothing there. I know that there is only on way out - I have to eat my way out! I run back into my tunnel. I see a bit of the Carolina Reaper. I pull it out and put it behind me. I keep eating and eating and eating. I feel like I am going to explode. My mouth is just getting hotter. 

"It must get hotter over time" 

I take a couple steps back then jump into the pizza. I'm swimming in pizza cheese. 

"Yum pizza cheese" 

I'm falling. 

I start to freak out. 

I land in the pool of pizza I get out and get my radio .

"Hello, Can you hear me" I Radio.

Nothing happens, I find the main path. I see a sign that says forbidden (pizza ^̮^). I go down the road because I know that I can find out more about the pizza gang. I get to this hand print thingie me bob. I take off the panel. 

"I can finally use the hacking device" 

I get it and turn it on. I get a sound. "Beep, Beep". The ground opens up and I walk in. 

"I need to found some water" 

I find the kitchen first and turn to the left.

"There is no need for a glass" I shove my mouth under the tap and turn it on, "Oh that is so much better" 

!BANG!

I wake up not knowing what just happened and how long I have been out.

"Aghh, what's going on" I blurt out.

How did you get in here?" he shouts.

"WITH THE POWER OF FREEDOM, or my hacking device, wink wink" I yelled back at him. 

"Do you know that the pizza gang wants to blow up the world?!" he screams. 

"Thanks" I laugh back at him.

"WHAT!" He screams, he flips a couple of chairs.

"Arghh, nothing" I cried, as he walks closer to me.

I look at my handcuffs, they are made out of pizza. 

"Yummy" I eat away the pizza that makes the chain so it looks like I still have them on. He steps in front of me. He is massive! I jump up and smash him in the face. He falls over, I grab the stick he had and I smash him in the face and walk out of the room.

"Not very strong for a tough guy" I say. 

"I need to find a rocket ship" I continue down the path. There is a hand pass lock. I take the panel off and put the hacking device on it. The door opens..."Too easy again". I get into a rocket ship and put earth into the GPS.

"Hey what are you doing up there" Says the Guy I smashed before.

"Bye!" I shout

I start the rocket for take-off.

5!

4!

3!

2!

1!

Take Off! "Back to earth we go!"

24 hours Later...

"Yes I'm back at Earth" 

"How was it?" asks the manager.

"Weird and AWESOME! They want to blow up the earth" I Say.

Then we will have to be ready...

Challenge #1-Caving @ Cave Stream

Challenge #1-Caving @ Cave Stream

When I got to school I was pumped to get to the cave, When we got to the cave I got my gear on then had something to eat, It was time to go to the cave I could not wait to get into the cave, Mr Sinton-White gave us a briefing before we could go into the cave He told us about the lime stone and how the cave became the cave it is today, It was finally time to get into the cave we had to do this walk done a track nobody cared about that because we all just wanted to get into the cave,We got the entrance was so big Mr Sinton-White went down to the first corner to see how deep it was it was deep we all did not want to get in at first, I Just jumped in and Isaac said to me is it cold and I said no its really warm (As I was joking) He jumped he and said you Liar it's freezing then George and I ran into the cave after Mr S-W, Nobody could no fell there feet they were numb, Being in the cave was really fun there were a lot of side paths that you could that but a lot of the time I stayed on the main path, When we got to the end I Was so happy to see daylight the end of the cave would have been the hardest because we had to climb up a ladder Then bum shuffle a bit then lay on our stomach and pull yourself across to the end of the cave, It felt so good to get my cold shoes off I could feel my feet again, The cool part at the end with me and all my friends were running in a circle to try get our feet to warm up because we could not feel nothing

Reflection of the run

Today with the run it was not the same nobody ran their best they just walked to the short run and did nothing (This is me too) I do the full run, But sometimes I run at the back with my Friends and help them get a better time because you all know that when you have someone helping You You do a lot better, I really do not have much to say about myself I'm sitting here now not knowing what to do with myself, I know that I have a cold and that gives me asthma But really that still does not mean anything because I've run the full run and beat my time with asthma, I got told (Not going to say any names) That we could do the short run and since I had a sore chest from the asthma I turned around thinking that it would be fine because as I said I was told that we could do the short run, I should have done better our Teacher (Mr S-W) His mate just got to the top of mount Everest and he said he is going to use him because we do a 2.6k run and he has climbed over 800 k's into the sky with hardly any air, Since it is not a hard run I'm going to start to do the best I can and I want to be able to get 11m mark by the end of the year, I'm not going to worry if I feel like I'm going to be sick at the end of the run because that is a good thing it means that I have made myself run my very best

Introducing Room 8!