TD: Today we we were asked to complete this slideshow about Famous artists and their paintings. The history behind it. To find out the name of the painting we had to use ¨Reverse Search” and learned the history of the different paintings.

I walk through the freezing cold on a path that is rough.

The light shimmers on the grass that the dew left, sparkling like pretty diamonds on ice.

The trail feeling endless, and the cold spirals in the atmosphere like the clouds came down to the ground.

The trees swayed like marimba dancers performing a dance.

The chill coming up my spine as fast as a cheetah hunting its prey and staying there like a koala stuck to it’s tree.

TD: Today we had to post comments about each other’s blogs. Here is the 4 comments I left on 4 different blogs.

Term 2 Reflection

I have enjoyed time with my peers and the different people I have met. I’m thankful for the different opportunities [ going on trips given by the school ]. A highlight of this term was probably doing the stem class with a teacher named Mrs Van Wyk. The rocket challenge was a great teaching of newton’s first law called “Inertia”. In English I have enjoyed the books I have read. Dawn raids was such a brilliant book. It felt like it was a diary of a kid who is my age, the same race, in this country who had gone through something unfair and unjustified. I can’t even imagine what it would feel like. Then obviously, maths, I learnt different/better strategies on how to solve the equations. This term was really just focused on Fractions. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, converting, simplifying,. This term the entire school was focused on arts specifically. My class split up into groups to create art out of bottle caps. It was supposed to be a way to show people how recycling everyday wastes into something beautiful. The team I was in created a sunset. Even though it looks like many things I thought it was nice. This term has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Sometimes I felt like I wasn’t doing enough work and sometimes all I wanted to do was do anything but work. Next term I’m really hoping I will learn the skills I need for the start of highschool. I feel like I’ve only touched base of what I should have been learning or what I should have learnt. I feel like I have the ability to work with people I wouldn’t work with often. I have really gotten to know some of these children over the past two terms. Although I prefer my own group of friends I feel like I know how to talk to all my peers. Next term, the goal is to learn what I need to learn for next year’s start.

Td: Today we were commenting on the different blogs in the manaiakalani cluster. Here is all the different posts that I checked out. It is good to learn the different things student in our area are working on. We learnt the qualities of a blog comment. It has to be thoughtful, helpful and positive. Positive is when you say something nice about what  you have seen. Thoughtful is when you mention something that you have seen specifically in this blog post and want to acknowledge it. Helpful is when you give some good feedback and advice for the person next time. One is someone from my school [ Yaunne @ Ruapotaka School] and Pt England [ Victory @ Pt England ].