Plant assignment... GONE WRONG!!!

First, I am suppose to have a picture of my plant on this post but I have tried every possible way but nothing has worked. This blog post will be about four interesting facts I have learnt about plants from our science unit.

First fact:
I never knew plants reproduced, I knew about pollination but not reproducing. I didn't know plants had ovaries, eggs and all of that stuff.

Second fact:
I never knew some types of vermin can pollinate some plants. That one I found pretty interesting.

Third fact:
Another fact I found interesting but surprising was that there are barely any native plants in New Zealand that have fruit on them.

Fourth fact:
The final fact is that there are two different types of pollen. One type has light and smooth particles so that the wind can carry them through the air. The second type has heavy and rough particles so they can stick and stay on the animals fur or hair.

That is my blog post for this week.
Come back soon for another one.
  

Term 4 goals!!!

This blog post will be about if I still need to achieve my goals that I set for myself this term and if there is anything else I would like to achieve. Just something I would like to say: I am sorry for not posting on Monday because I had to much other work to do.

me writing this blogpost.

I have already completed all my goals for this term like one was getting through to Wellington zone for Vortex and try to get 100% in basic facts every-time.

Other goals I would like to complete before this term end would be try to get a 50 for cricket and get 100% in a ratios test. Another one would be complete all my tasks this week because I still need to do a maths sheet:(

This was my blogpost for this week. Come back soon for another one.

Speeches!!! :(

This week we have to present our speeches in front of our class. My speech is about the History of Halloween. I will be writing about how prepared I am and somethings I need to focus on when I am presenting this speech. 

Me exiting the stage

I am pretty prepared to present my speech. I have memorised it pretty well but I could do a bit more practice. I usually practice my speech 4 times every afternoon so the words can be glued to my brain.

I have done cue cards but instead of writing bullet points I just wrote down my whole speech but I wont be reading my speech off the cue cards. 

Me doing my speech and the audience reacting

Some things I will work on is trying not sway while presenting my speech. Also I will try to do more hand gestures and also try put different tones in my voice. 

Books, Books and more Books

Last week was book week and we did many activities and other stuff which related to books in some way. There were book quiz's run by the House Captains, an author visited our school and she talked about her latest book and how much research you have to do if you want to write or illustrate a book. We also had to do one book week activity, we could choose from filming a scene from a book, drawing a map of a setting from a book, make a model
of something from a book or create 
a piece of art work which related 
to a book. I am going to reflect 
on my experience when I did these 
activities.

The author who came in was Fifi Colston but she also does illustrations and she also enters pieces into WOW. Fifi talked about her life as a child and when she was going through college, and how she just did art every spare minute she had. I found the talk really interesting on how much work and research goes into a small picture book.

The book character parade was fun and it is really cool to see what people have dressed up as and how much effort they have put into it. The only hard thing was trying to quickly write down who have won prizes but the class' go past so fast its nearly impossible.

The book swap was a good idea because you could get new books for free. I know that's what libraries are used for but you can keep these books for as long as you like. The school should do it next year.

The book week activity I did was the art. I drew different things from the book War Dogs. The drawings were a waist up drawing of Winston Churchill, a beagle, RAF symbol and a cross for a dead servicemen. 

That was my blog post for this week come back soon for another one!!!