Reflection on the Senior Primary

When I first came into the Senior Primary I was SUPER exited to start a new year, meet new people and learn a lot of interesting, new things. I had so much fun and I really did enjoy being in the Senior Primary. I really enjoyed the fact that in Grade 6 we started to move around in different classes so we got a taste of each teacher and how they teach their subject. It was definitely a big change compared to the other years when we all just stay in one class, with one teacher the whole year. these past three years went by so fast and I can't  believe I will be going to High School next year which is practically in less than two months.... For the 2018 grade fours I will tell you that this is a very important, exiting and fun part in your life. You will meet new people in the next few years in your life... The ILTs are very fun.   

Integrated Learning Task - Growing up

We have a ILT every year. ILT stands for a integrated learning task. This year our ILT was about growing up and all that type of stuff. I found it very fun and interesting. The boys and the girls were split up. The girls spoke about a few different things like - friendship, peer pressure, personal hygiene, self image and we had a chat about social media. The talk I least enjoyed was the talk about social media because it was long  and that it went on for a little to long and that it dragged a long. We had to choreograph a physical theatre dance and perform it in front of the grade. This was a very fun ILT and I  definitely learnt something.

The fair

We were at the fair. The sun was shining. Everyone was happy and cheerful but then the weather changed dramatically... The rain was pouring and the wind was blowing. The tents went flying, poles were falling, people were SCREAMING. It was chaos! Bill boards were falling over. I was scared but so was every body else. I could feel my heart racing as I ran of into the open.There was lightning and thunder. I saw a pole flying towards me and I felt it hit my head. I fell to the floor.... I woke up in a hospital bed. Everything would be just fine..

Email Etiquette

We were learning Email Etiquette in IT. I did enjoy this project. I think using the hyperdoc the first time was a good idea. It was fun exploring this new page. I did learn a few things about email etiquette and about using hyper docs. I enjoyed watching the videos, I found it a fun and creative way of memorizing the information. This was a fun project and I think next years students will enjoy it.

He's actually a WONDER-ful kid

We have been reading a book in class called Wonder, written by Raquel J. Palacio. It is about a boy named August who was home schooled his whole life and then he has to go to school for the first time in his whole life and meet a bunch of new people. Oh and what makes this story interesting is the fact that that boy is in fact deformed.

What stood out for me when reading this book is the fact of how much people will try make one little boy fit in. The children may not be very nice to him but the teachers and adults in the school actually ask other kids to be friends with him. They are kind and act as though August is normal and they treat him the same.

After I  read this book it has definitely changed me. I see people and things differently now. I understand the concept that people are different and you have no right to judge them on the way they look. I understand that some people will never understand that and there will always be rude people out there and no one can really change that. You just have to make sure that you, yourself are being as nice as you can be.

I think I would relate most to Auggie because i am NOT the most popular kid in the school and I'm not "perfect". I don't have a million friends and I'm not a super model, but that doesn't make me a weirdo, a bad person or a freak and I feel it's very ''cruel'' for people to judge you over these things.

Reading Wonder really has changed me and how I see things. I have seen the trailer for the movie and i am really looking forward to watching it. I really advise the book. It has changed me and it will change you too.

Ivy Rose

The stop-motion project is a project where we are put in partners and then we make our own super hero or villain and make a stop-motion movie about him/her. We created her as a ninja super villain who is always plotting schemes. We made her because we really like the idea of being able to create our own  character. If I had to change something about her it would be to make her skin smoother, because it makes her look untidy but we did not have enough time to finish her. For me the highlight of this project was when we made the background scenes in the movie because we had a lot of fun painting with different techniques. I had a lot of frustrations when we were making our characters eyes.

The artwork

Well that's great! A new art project due for tomorrow and I didn't have a clue of what to make. The  brief is to make something using newspaper. I was hungry and I wanted to get in bed,wait that's a good idea I could make something food related, like a hamburger. I started of right away plastering newspaper to form two hands and a patty, two buns, lettuce and cheese. It was done! It looked amazing and just looking at it made me hungry. Im so glad I finished and just in time! I am so relieved and proud.

The race

Nearly there! Now all I had to do was swim across the wide lake and I would win the race. I could see the orange trophy on the other side of the lake. Within a minute I found myself swimming  to the other side. Wait... is that a crocodile!?!? I swam as fast as I could and felt something " chomp " on my foot. Turns out my " crocodile" was just a little fish. My lungs were burning. Pushing through I swam to the other side of the lake. I walked out the lake and collapsed, I had won the race!

Mindful Messaging

Messaging can be  a bit of a problem sometimes as people misunderstand the emotion of some texts. You cannot see the persons facial expression as you cannot see their face or hear their tone as you cannot hear their voice, so it is difficult to know how the person is meaning things, because of this some people get hurt. In this case you can use emoji s or you must put more detail into you text. for a task we have been told to make a poster for our grade fours telling them more about mindful messaging. This one is mine.

Op elf jaar oud...

Rooi is so ń mooi kleur.... Dit is seker hoekom dit my gunsteling kleur is. En vir my is Taylor Swift se musiek die beste musiek en ek is ook mal oor Sushi. Dit is net so lekker! Mylaya hou ook van sushi ( sy is my beste maat ) en ons is baie dieselfte. Einklik hou ons albei ook van die selfte fliek: The Twilight Saga. As ek nie besig is met skool, huiswerk, flieks of om op my iPad te speel nie, hou ek daar van om te teken en te lees. En na skool hou ek van sport. Ek speel hokkie en sagtebal. En soos ek gesê het, ek how van lees en die beste boek wat ek nog gelees het se naam is " Ruby Redfort ". Ek het baie respek vir Nelson Mandela en my ouers. Eendag wanneer ek groot is, wil ek grag ń Veeharts word.( Ek is mal oor diere)

Ek hat vier doelwitte wat ek wil bereik wanneer ek 16 is. Ek wil baie graag eendag Frankryk toe gaan, so ek wil leer hoe om Frans te praat, so ek gaan maar ń app op my iPad aflaai. Ek wil graag beter raak in hokkie en ek gaan elke dag oefen. Ek wil Meer oor diere leer so ek sal ń noek oor julle koop. Ek wil ook ń bietjie fikser raak, so ek sal begin gym toe gaan.

My Draak...

My draak se kleure is donker en warm. Met haar massiewe vlerke kan sy hoër as die donserige wolke vlieg. Daar bo in die lug is daar nie so veel goed om te eet nie. So Alice ( Alice is my draak se naam ) sal gewoonlik maar net haar skerp kloue gebruik om bome te klim en om voëls te vreet. Sy het ń klein maar lyfie. As sy haar vlerke toe vou kan sy in haar ondergrondselêplek slaap vir die nag. Ongelukig is haar stert so lank dat hy by die lêplek uitsteek. Maar dit help partykeer want die klein haartjies op haar stert waarsku haar as prooi naby is. My draak se kleure is rooi, oranje en geel. Dit is dieselfte kleure as die sonsopkoms en die sonsondergangs. Vir hierdie rede is dit haar mees suksesvolste tyd om te jag. Die ander rede hoekom sy so suksesvol is in jag is dat sy die prooi uit die lug uit kan slaan met haar lang stert. Sy is ń majestieuse draak en ek is baie lied vir haar. ❤️

Interesting ILT

The last few days we have had ILT , fun and learning. We have done a lot of assessments ( but fun ones ). On the first day we did a math assessments, we had to tally bugs that were on a PowerPoint, then we had to draw a picture and a column graph. We also got a research task to do, we had to choose a animal or bug which lives in the soil and when we had the research we had to make a poster about it. My partner and I did a Fennec Fox and I think our poster turned out really well. There were a lot of other posters that also looked really nice. We also did a oral with our partner about our animal and i did not enjoy it that much, but it wasn't to bad. I really  enjoyed ILT. my partner and I did not have any conflict at all.

100WC Challenge 1 - My Guardian

 After driving all day, we arrived at our new house. Mom told me to pick my own room. Excitedly, I ran through the long passages and saw a closed door. The door opened and there it was ...there was a huge wolf. Strangely I wasn't scared. It turned its head to look at me with beautiful golden eyes, then disappeared out the open window. I wanted to tell mum, but she wouldn't believe me. That night the wolf appeared again. It slipped in quietly and laid down by my bed. In the morning it disappeared just as quietly. Alex now keeps guard every night...

Karmen

Grade 5

Cool camp

As we drove up to High Africa there were a million thoughts going through my head,imagine all the fun things that were going to happen and what about our cabin mates were they going to be ok? As we got there. We got time to pack out had the best food...... After that we did activities and every day a different group did different things. M" the walk to freedom" it was a opsticle course, then we got a break and after did the leap of faith, for that we had to get on a huge course and jump off! We also did a night hike. But those were just my favorites , but there were a lot more.

The Skype with North Carolina

To me the Skype we did with North Carolina, Wilmington School was very, very good. First they said a bunch of stuff and  it went on  like that. First we did a greeting then they asked how we get health care and clean water, after we told them how we would have solved our problems in the future... We told them about all that type of stuff. Our group had to answer how we can nurture the environment and the animals, we talked about the endangered rhinos, the SPCA and the fishing problem we have here. To me it was very interesting to learn about everything that differ in what we do, I would definitely want to do a Skype like that against n with them or someone overseas. I would also like if our class could do a Skypeathon with the rest of the world like they did...

Poetry ILT

we have done our first ILT for this year and I really enjoyed it. We were put in groups of three and I was put with Lynn and Luke. ILT stands for Integrated  Learning Task.
The theme of our ILT was poetry. Each group had to write a poem and perform it in front of the grade, our poem was chosen to be performed in front of the whole school. This is our poem:

    lost am I

      In this treacherous world

    but my heart is safe deep within 

behind a wall of faith

unable to be broken

The wall may shake but not crumble

An undrinkable river flows around 

Filled with laughter and drops of tears

Dreamy smoke overtaking the walls of the castle 

Poison Ivy fighting against the strength of the wall

         but not succeeding 

The crackling fire keeping my heart warm from the icy wind

There is a battle going on inside me 

Between my heart and conscious

My heart hurts

But on the outside '' I'm fine''

In two days we are going on camp and I am very excited. We are coming back on Friday and we get to choose our cabin mates, so I have a few people in mind...

Build of SA

I The build of a country refers to the physical features of the country, like the coastline, the rivers, the mountains and the shape of the land. In South Africa low land is near the coast. When it is further away from the coast the ground becomes more steep and forms mountains. A coastal plain is a area of flat land next to the sea. An escarpment is steep slope or a long cliff that separates high and low land. A plateau is an area of high land which usually consists of relatively flat terrain. The height of land is measured as metres above sea level.

The Beginning of 2017

This year I am in grade six. I  am very happy with my class. Most of my friends are in my class and my teacher is really awesome. I am sitting next to one of my very good friends and so far I am doing well with my schoolwork.  I am definitely happy with the fact that we have less homework. Now I have more time to read and do my own fun stuff.  I am definitely exited for our camp this year. We  are going to the same camp as in grade.3 and it was my favorite camp so far.  
I have a few goals for 2017 actually and I am going to try to achieve all of them, here are a few of my goals: 
1. I am very unfit and I want to change that, so I am going to walk 100 meters on the treadmill everyday .
2. I am going to work very hard in school and study a lot for my test because I want to get academic honers this year.
I definitely think I am going  to enjoy 2017!