Yesterday on Tuesday me and my classmates had a ki o rahi tournament with coach Trey and the other children from rooms 7 and 8. He has been our coach for the whole kia o rah i training this term. We had to be in our house colors the houses are rimu, rata, totara and kauri. I am in Rata. We all got a turn to play and some lost and some won. It was really fun and it is a cool game. It was a great experience and good to watch too.
Pelicans
Today I learnt to create and share a screen cast. Listen to my screen cast about pelicans.
Tangrams
Today I learned shortcuts to move tangram shapes to create an object. I made an airplane. It was fun.
St Patrick’s 175th Jubilee Celebrations
On Friday our school and parish started to celebrate our 175 jubilee. This means it is 175 years long since we started. Also we had some more celebrations on Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday after we had been to Mass and dug up the time capsule from when the church turned 150 years old, we had morning tea.
Then the principal said come and sit under the canopy so we can play some games. They split us into groups. At the start of the groups, my team was going to vs my brother’s team but he wasn’t here so we just vs his teammates. I had so much excitement in myself that I looked like I was a clown out of nowhere.
After everything was finished the teachers started to hand out ice lollies. I was boiling like I was in a desert. They were very nice to eat then.
On Sunday my mum and siblings came to church with me. When we got there I thought all the seats were taken, but when we got inside I went and sat next to my little brother before Angelina arrived“
We had a long mass but there was lots of lovely singing and it went fast. After that we all went to the hall and did things like singing, dancing and other stuff. It was fun and great to see my friends.
Learning shortcuts
Today Mrs Grant came to our class. and showed my classmates and I how to make shortcuts on our Chromebooks. We also started to learn about how we can use our own touch pad. My favorite learning task was taking my time to learn about the new shortcuts. 
Talofa My name is Annamaria
Kia ora! My name is Annamaria, I go to Saint Patrick’s School. I am in Year 5 and my teacher is Mrs Agnew. My favourite subject is Math,art,reading,history. and I enjoy learning about Dinosaurs,body part,sharks.. I am good at cricket,kind to people ,art,cleaning,sharing.. My goal for this year is to making more friends to others.. In my spare time I like to read books ,watch on my laptop,pracitce time tables.
My Manaiakalani Film Review
Today we were looking at different movies and this is the one I picked it was about making sushi. I really enjoyed this movie because I like eating sushi and other people like it as well. Click this link to watch.
Preparing for Athletics day
After morning tea my classmates and I met coach Bart on the filed. He taught us how to sprint and it was a hot day as well. We started to get ourselves warmed up and we all got excited. At first we ran on our heels and then toes.
Then we were playing a game and it was called ‘sheepdog’. We used some noodles to round up the sheep and it was so much fun. Later it was time for us to do our sprints and we had to run as fast as we could from one side to the other side.
After that we had some foam animals that we had to put on the ground in front of us. We had to try to jump past them.
Finally at around twelve o’clock we got so so hot and tired we went back to class. We had learned something new about athletics skills and we all had a lot of fun today.
Making our class movie
At the beginning of the term we started to make our movie. I was so excited to make my own potato person. It was lumpy and round. First I used toothpicks to make hands and feet and then I began to use some fabric to make a dress for her to wear. I also used some pink wool to make some hair and it was a bit hard but Miss Agnew helped me. I had so much fun making my potato person and being with my classmates using all the exciting art things.
Ms Toland shared the different people who make a movie. They are the director, the scene manager. the camera man and the editor. In class I liked being the camera man because I could take the photos of the potatoes moving slowly across the table.
When we mad our movie with Ms Toland in the library, we had to make backgrounds first. I was in the ‘party’ scene and we had to make the castle look like fun for the princess’ birthday. It looked really cool. I made a voice over of Princess Lizzy’s friend.
I am looking forward to going to seeing the movie next term. I think we will be a bit embarrassed even though we tried our best.
