Our Inquiry

Ki Ora, This blog post is about our class inquiry. I hope you enjoy! Now sit back relax and read!

In class we are doing a inquiry in 3s or 4s. I am in a group with Piper and Ariana. We are inquiring on how snow leopards have evolved thoughout the years. We have about 16 questions and we are starting to research about them. I am starting to get exicted about it. I will let you in on more when know a bit more too.

Hope you enjoyed!
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Our GRi11 Dance Off!

Cartwheel on, do the shuffle, do the worm, do the sprinkler, down, up, down, up and turn, now finish in a awkward position. It was the GRi11 Dance Off!!!!
We were in groups of 4 and we had to come up with a quick dance routine in 3 minutes. I was in a group with Emma HB, Josh B, and Ben H. We quickly came up with the idea for me and Emma to cartwheel on while Josh and Ben shuffled. We would then do the sprinkler 4 times, after the sprinkler we would bend down, reach for the floor and then pull up our arms into fists and jump up. We decided that we would do it for about 6-8 times. We rehearsed it a couple of times then Mr R blew his whistle. Everyone troupes down to crowd around him. He explained that everyone had 30 seconds to show off what they had done in the circle that was in the middle of the hall. As soon as he mentioned the circle we all knew that we would not be able to cartwheel on. So we all shuffled on and then went with the original plan after. After the music stopped we froze in mid jump. Mr R walked up to the circle and firstly pointed to our opponents. Our classmates cheered and clapped. Ohhh. That will be a hard on to beat I thought. As Mr Robertson turned around the ground around use erupted into loud cheers, claps and wistles. We had won!!! I will tell you more about it when we verse the other winners.

Birthday time!!

Saturday. I have to wake up early for one reason and one reason only. It was my little sister's birthday! She was turning 8 and she is really excited. In the morning she woke and nga, my mum, and I wait patiently for the rest of my family to wake up. When they finally did we opened her presents, they were mostly toys. We had pancakes, strawberries and chocolate fountain for breakfast. I then went to play tennis. I won my doubles and lost my singles.
When I got home nga and mum had gone to guitar lessons, so my dad and I tidied our house. When the birthday girl got back we prepared for the party, I wrapped the pass the parcel, helped with the cake and did many other things. We went to Flip City. We jumped around for a hour and then went into the party room called a glow room.
The glow room is a dark room with a single white light. There was writing in the table that said... Happy 8th birthday Ngataria. On the wall it says happy birthday! When you turn off the white light you can choose to have a purple light or no light at all. When you have the purple light on it illuminates the writing and it glows. We put some of the chalk on our faces so we glowed too. Also our white tops glowed. We played games and ate.
When we went home we got ready for we were going to the speedway. With warm clothes and food we headed to the track. We got covered in mud. Not everything went to the shedule so it ran a bit late. When the fireworks started I had earmuffs on but in the end I found out that I didn't need it. I was amazing!! We watched the derby and it was sooooo funny! There was this one car that was orange and had this funny honk I think like from a video game or movie.  When going home everyone had dragging feet. We got home and nga kept on saying sleepily "This was the best birthday ever. "
Also on Sunday I went to the gala and worked from 11-4 and performed in Kapa Haka.
Did you go to the Gala? If so what was your favourite thing. I will love to hear from you guys.
Anyway I have probably said enough.
See you next time.