About Me 2020

Welcome back to my school blog!
We were learning about polylining, learning how to create GIFs and more! I found it really fun, and I attempted polylining but found out I wasn't the best best at it.
I found it easy to publish my drawing to the web and function the resources. I also was able to help others with my advantages of this being my third year of Manaiakalani.
I found it hard to cut out my picture, so I got help from Quinn. She had to edit it in another app, and then import it to my drawing.
I really enjoyed making it and seeing what my friends did as well. It was cool to see the different designs people thought of.
Next time I need to take a picture with more light, and make my name bolder. Except, it is quite difficult to take quality pictures with my camera. 

This Is Me 2020

Smart Relationships!

Hello again! Today we made posters on https://www.postermywall.com. Here's mine:

Supreme Squash!

Last week I was in a squash tournament. It wasn't a serious one with a humongous audience but we just faced people from our school and we had a few parents. Despite the fact that I lost all three of my games, I still had lots of fun. I had a few relays and good serves. Most of my serves were really bad, as in rolling on the floor. My bad serves let me down the most because every time I did a serve like that a point would go to the person facing me which was inconvenient for me because the people I was facing were far better than me. But it's ok. If you didn't know what squash was and you are really confuzzled, think of it as tennis against a wall. Squash and tennis are really similar so if you know how to do tennis squash is a good way of extending that knowledge. I was hoping I'd have some photos of our tournament but I don't think they took photos and my dad probably forgot to. This is what a squash court looks like:

Book Club!

Usually in sharp reading, we unpack sentences and read a story in group together. This worked very well in our class but our teachers took it up a notch and started book club! We've been doing this for a while. They started with one group but since that was pretty successful they did it with three other groups. Basically, they choose a book and we get one each to read at school. There is about six people in each group, and everyone gets the same book. For example we start reading from page 88 on Thursday and have to be on page 139 by Tuesday. It's a good way to ensure we do reading mileage. My group is reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, it is a interesting book. This is what it looks like if you are interested in reading it:

Power Play!

Have you heard of a quick write?
Well, If you haven't, it's a piece of writing with as many words as you can fit in your story. Of course it has to make sense but you only have 10 minutes to write. Anyway, I'm going to tell you what power play is. At the start of any literacy session we have to do 20 minutes of silent reading, then, we move on to our quick write.

Write That Essay!

In our class we do this programme called Write That Essay. There are different chapters and in order to move up a chapter you need to complete the following in order:

• Read the module
• Do the activities to a high standard
• Get 100% on the quiz relevant to the activity

Once you have done that, check with teacher to see if you move up. The idea is to improve our knowledge for writing to prepare us for the future. Write That Essay also allows teachers to give assignments for students. Also, in our class we have been going over the 12 sentence structures and doing fun writes with WTE. At the moment, I'm on Preparation, the second chapter. I have done the module and I'm close to finishing the activities. As you can see I don't do the activities in order but that is fine. This is what it looks like: