St Pius X Autobiographical Poem

St Pius X

Humble, Holy, Caring, Poor

brother to 6 sisters and 3 brothers

Loves God and helping people

He feels happy when he’s with the people he loves

He needed people to love God just as much as he did

He gave his life to God

His fear was dying

He wanted to see Pope Pius IX

He was born and raised in Italy.

Sarto

David Copperfield

This term I am reading the classic novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. As part of understanding what we read my group had to summarise chapter 2. This is our summary..... 

Chapter 2 is about Davy observing his childhood. He remembers the times his nurse/housekeeper, Peggotty used to take him to church. She also used to look after him when his Mum was out. One night his mother came home with a gentleman. The same one that escorted them home after church. His name was Mr. Murdstone. Davy did not like him.
2 months later Peggotty asked if Davy would like to spend a fortnight at her brothers, away from home. Davy was excited to leave but at the same time he was sad to leave his home and his mum.

Olympics

This week for Integrated Studies I had to find facts about the Ancient Olympics, History of the New Zealand Olympic teams and facts about the Modern Olympics. This is what I found out....

Ancient Olympic Games

• The ancient Olympic games were held in Olympia.
• The athletes competed nude.

History of the New Zealand Olympic Teams

• The first 3 modern Olympics New Zealand did not compete. Due to money and distance. 
• In 1908 New Zealand joined with Australia and they formed a team together called “Australsian”. New Zealand sent an independent team in 1920.

Modern Olympics

• The first modern Olympic games were held at  Greece, Athens in 1986
• The Olympic games are held in different countries every 4th year.

French Week 1

This week in French I learnt how to understand and greet someone in French. Here is an activity I did, where I translated an English conversation to French. 
English
Roller: Hello Mimi
Mimi: Hello Roller
Roller: How are you?
Mimi: I’m ok, how are you?
Roller: I’m good.

FrenchRoller: Bonjour Mimi
Mimi: Bonjour Roller
Roller: Ca va?
Mimi: Comme ci, comme ca, Ca va?
Roller: Ca va bein.

Toby

I could hear screaming coming from outside the house.  It was my little brother, John, he was screaming, and when I ran outside, I could see why he’s screaming so loudly.

There he was. "He's going to attack me, he's going to attack me" yelled John. “He won’t hurt you” I said to John. “He will, he will” John replied.

I picked him up, cuddled him and took him inside. I named him Toby.

“We’re not keeping him” mum said. “WHY!?” I yelled. Even though I knew John was afraid of Toby, I tried to make John realise that Toby was not harmful.

While John was sleeping, little Toby started licking his face. John started giggling and woke up. As soon as he saw it was Toby making him laugh, he gave Toby a cuddle. John was no longer afraid.

OH NO!

OH NO!
Annie and Angelica were getting ready for their school camp in the forest. Orienteering was their first activity. Their teacher, Mrs Jolie gave them their orienteering gear.

They started at the starting line. They made their way to the 1st and 2nd control, out of 10. They were alone in the forest. Walking past the trees and bushes they heard footsteps. They were frightened. They dropped everything and ran off.

They tried to find Mrs Jolie. But she was not in sight. Scared and Nervous were Annie and Angelica as they were lost. Annie looked across at Angelica and saw that she was upset.

It was getting darker. “OH NO”! They held each other hand-in-hand and both said “everything will be alright”. All of a sudden they saw a bright light shining from one direction. They ran towards the light and saw that it was Mrs Jolie. “Mrs Jolie, Mrs Jolie” they yelled, with relief. “You found us”, they said. Mrs Jolie wrapped them up in a blanket and took them back to their tents.

THE END!

Maths Reflection Week 5

This week for Maths I have learnt the name of 3 different strategies: Place Value, adding using tidy numbers and subtracting using tidy numbers. I also learnt how to use the most efficient strategy to solve a number problem.

Place Value strategy
Example: 75-39=?
75-30-9
75-30=45
45-9=36
Adding using tidy number strategy
Example: 247+98=?
247+100-3
247+100=347-2= 345

Subtracting using tidy numbers strategy:
473-146=?
+4   +4
473-146 = 477-150=327