Swimming Sports

"On your marks, get set... GO!" Mr Robertson's voice filled the room. Swimming Sports had started. The children dived into the freezing cold water. The last row stepped onto the diving board and prepared for the next race.
"Girls non - competitive freestyle, please come and line up!" Mrs Dennison called. I was shivering. Oh no, that's me.
As soon as I stood on the diving board, I regretted everything.
"On your marks," Mr Robertson called once again. I slid into the pool and prepared myself. "Get set... GO!".  I set off and immediately felt the coldness sweep through me. I stared down at the blue ground beneath me.
How long is this going to last?
Before I knew it, I was there. Slowly, I climbed out.
"You came 5th" A parent said. Excitement flushed through me.

The Senior Syndicate had swimming sports on Monday. I entered Non - Competitive Freestyle and Flutter board. Flutter board was fun. Hannah and I went slowly "comforting" each other.

What's On Top

Yesterday on the 8th of November I went to the College Street School Spring Gala. This happens once a year. I had swimming first but after that I went to the gala. Swimming wouldn't stop me from going to the gala! My favourite was the candy floss. It was big, pink and very puffy. It was quite fun watching buckets of water get poured onto the teachers. There were all sorts of stalls there like candy stalls, food stalls, bead stalls, mystery jars... almost everything! There were performances and raffles. There was a bike raffle and one person from each syndicate gets called up to win the bike. All our names are put in the draw. If a name gets called and the person that got called doesn't come up or isn't here, the people that draw the names out draws another person. In the senior sydicate I didn't win but Sophie Palmer did. Although I didn't win the bike, it was still great fun going to the Gala because there were lots of stuff there and friends. I look forward going next year and I reccomend going to the College Street School Gala next year. 

Graphic Design - Everybody is Different

This is my graphic design that I made about everybody is different. I really like the background that I made out of shapes and the colours I used. I think it is very bright and colourful.

My School Holidays

In the school holidays I went to china with my family. We met lots of friends and went to a lot of places. My favourite part of the holidays was I got to meet some new friends. We went to some new places. They were very fun and interesting, different to New Zealand. There were always people filling up the streets and traffic jams. It was actually quite fun while sitting in the car during a traffic jam because I got to see a lot of different things like the buildings and the shops. It was a very fun trip because I was with my family.

Hannah and Wendy - Stop Motion Animation

On Tuesday GRi11 went to The Mind Lab. We learnt a lot of new things. We did 3D Printing, Makey Makey, Car Making, Stop Motion Animation and Scribble Bot. My favourite was the Stop Motion Animation because Hannah and I failed a lot because the camera kept moving so it wouldn't match up. But then we added random stuff to it because there was a lot of cool stuff we could use. We had to try several times and keep the camera still so it would match up with the screen. It is short and random.

Here is my Stop Motion Animation I did with Hannah.

The Lost Coin

The Lost Coin.

‘ 1 Dollar, 2, 3, 4… hm, where’s my other 1 dollar coin?’ I said to myself. I went on my knees and started crawling around the floor in my room. I slowly slid under my bed and searched in the dark. My hand patted the ground slowly. I wish I had a coin machine that could find coins. * Sigh *. ‘ It must be here somewhere I mean I just earned it a minute ago. Maybe I dropped it on the way upstairs? ‘ I thought to myself. ‘ I wonder where it is?‘ I needed to retrace my steps.

It was a hot summer afternoon. I’d just come in from watering the plants and planting some new ones. I was in the kitchen getting a glass of water. I was sure Mum had given me the dollar for my chores.

I crawled up the stairs and stared at every little spot that the coin could possibly be.

‘Well, this coin really hates me! ‘I muttered. I moaned to myself loudly several times.

‘Hey, what’s with all this moaning? Is there anything that I can help you with? ‘

My mum had heard me moaning. Suddenly a great thought popped into my head… Mum might have another coin.

“Well, after I did my chores and collected my money from you, I went upstairs to count it and add it to my Piggy Bank, but one dollar was missing… ‘.

I stared at her hopefully.

“Oh. So that was what all the fuss was about! I was searching in my pocket for the other 1 dollar that I should've given you but you ran off so quickly! I found it in my pocket, but then got busy cleaning that I forgot all about it.

“Anyway…” she said digging in her pocket.  “Aha! Here it is. There you go.”

The coin shone in her hand under the sun.

“Haha, thank you. I should've asked you first.”  I still had that hopeful look on my face hoping Mum would have another coin in her pocket for me…

“No need to look at me like that!” She grinned.

Creative Candles

We are Creative Candles. We make homemade, crayon candles that smell of vanilla. We are preparing to sell the candles that we produced soon. If you are willing to buy one, the information is below:

Where: We are selling our candles via College Street Normal School.

What: We are selling our home-made scented candles.

Why: We are making these to fundraise for our class trip to Mind Lab in Wellington.

Price: 2 Small candles for $5

        Small candles for $3.50

        Large candles for $7

Small candles have a variety of colours bright and dark.
Big candles: In one candle we have turquoise/green, brown and blue.