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A few days ago, room 1 & 2 entered a fascinating adventure of Beach Ed. We waddled over from New Brighton Catholic to North Beach and entered the Lifeguard area to learn about Lifeguards and the troubles that they experience day by day. First of all, they gave us a tour through the building, and then told us what we would do in the day. I was most excited for “WATER TIME.” First, we started with what we used for the first aid. Then, we moved over to the area where they show some of the surf boards and the boogie boards. They told us how many people can fit on one board and showed us where our knees went. We had to paddle with our legs, and with our arms, but we didn’t get to enter the water to try it out.

Next, we went to check out a cool IRB, standing for Inflatable Rescue Boat. We got to see what it held, what it was used for, and why Lifeguards would use it. Later in the day, we had Beach Ed’s Got Talent, where we had to dig a giant hole in the sand, then fill it up and make a giant mountain out of sand. Then, we built a really cool sand castle. This was really fun, but it got really crowded, so I just went into my whole new world and built a mini sand castle. Well, until it got stomped on by someone.

After that, we got ready to go into the water. I was super excited, but my wetsuit was really hard to put on. I thought I was going to miss out, but it turns out that I was wrong. We did a safety brief, and then entered the water. The water was cool, but VERY fun. We got to go on boogie boards, and when I caught a wave, I nearly hit them. So I made sure they were okay and continued my trip. We only stayed in the water for about 20 minutes, which was VERY disappointing, but everything has to come to an end. We got changed back into our clothes, then waddled back over to school.

Thank you North Beach for allowing this amazing experience.

Do you like swimming?

What is your favorite sport?

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Today, room 1 & 2 are learning about Copyright and Attributions. I will explain them all starting with attribution. Remember when you inserted that one image onto google drawings that had a link? You probably removed it… That link is part of an attribution. An attribution is pretty much the same as copyright. Now, onto the copyright.

Copyright is an online law that gets automatically applied everywhere. Say that Bill was borrowing Bob’s lawn mower. Margret asked Bill to use it and politely agreed. Margret later made a cake for Bill, but it was Bob’s lawn mower? Who should she give it to? Drama can be instantly started if you break the copyright rules/guidelines. Here is the slideshow of some information about Copyright & Attributions. & a poster that I made.

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Today, some of room 1 learned about Stewardship. We learned how to show it and why it is important. Here is an example of some ways to show Stewardship.

Have you ever been a steward?

What do you think I could add?

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Yesterday, Room 1 started writing on this Google Document about writing creative, and complex sentences and training our vocabulary. Everyone wrote really cool, creative, and complex sentences. For this sentence, we had to choose 1 out of 3 words. I chose to do all of them. Here is my sentence!

I was shimmying my way to the Dance Party. As I saw the tree’s swaying, I looked to my left and saw that the Dance Party was just 1 block away! How fun! Once I arrived, I saw everyone jiving to the music. While I was confused, I started to join in and create a sync. As I was syncing to the music, the lights turned off. I got the heebie jeebies and started crawling all around the ground. Once the lights turned on, I saw… A LIVING JACK-O-LANTERN!! Everyone screamed and attempted to leave but the door locked before anyone was successful.

I know this is a few sentences but I got kinda excited…

What would you add/change about my sentence?

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Yesterday, Room 1 went to Alice In Putterland for their class reward. Alice In Putterland is a golf area based on the movie, Alice In Wonderland. Alice In Putterland is run by some parents of a person named Brooklyn (Room 9/10). To get there, we walked down Lonsdale Street, down past The Switch, and walked left until we arrived. I really liked this trip because we got lollipops and I got to show off my skills to my friends.

Do you like golf?

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Today, I finished a narrative about toys taking over. The toys takeover was a template and task set by Mr Gray and partially completed with 14 paragraphs. I thought this task was super cool and fun because my favorite type of writing is narrative. Here it is!

(Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JpkCfhGgQBEoieWO2dDj3l28o7aQ63B6-4FZ-aI3_ss/edit)
Do you like writing?
What is your favorite type of writing?

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On the 14th of September, NBC had a Resilience Art Show. It is where all of the classrooms are open and you can go looking at their art. Every classroom’s art was jolly amazing with lots of portraits, animals, landscapes etc. Inside the church, we all gathered for a behind the scenes look of Mary Goulding (Ex Tall Fern Player) & Katie Stevenson (Ex-NBC Student & TVNZ 1 Reporter). I really enjoyed this event because we  got to meet new people. Here is a photo of my art.

Do you like art?

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W.A.L.T: write regularly on a range of topics

Yesterday, we started a daily 10 about our favorite meals. Lots of people decided to do a lot of exotic foods but some people did normal foods. As you may know, I am part South African so some of these foods may seem odd and exotic to you. I really liked this activity. Activating my writing skills, I wrote around 6 foods that I like. Here they are.

• Burger
• Mum’s Spaghetti
• Salty, Warm chips
• Avocado
• Jelly Tots – African sweet
• Biltong – African meat

Here is a photo of some of the foods I enjoy the most.

What is your favorite food?

Are you from another country than New Zealand?

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A couple days ago, I partnered up with a friend of mine called William and made this Kiwiana, device-made art about New Brighton. I really enjoyed this task and found it quite intriguing. Here is the image.

Have you tried anything like this before?

Do you like art?

Greetings!

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At the beginning of winter, the NBC year 5’s and up went to Winter Sports. I chose table tennis. Here is the reflection of Table Tennis 2023.

Table tennis, the winter sport that I haven’t gone to before. I expected it to be fun with lots of amusing content and it was, slightly. We went to grace vineyard and what I saw was magnificent. A RING DOORBELL. I pressed it and it went Boing Ding Plop. This was such a cool first look. I entered and it smelled like a candle from BB&B. I walked forward and saw air hockey! Another great sighting. I kept walking and found some more games like Jenga. “This place is amazing” I thought.

I walked into the lounge and saw a video playing with many card games like Uno, Battleships, Chess, Cluedo etc. I grabbed my lunchbox and started to eat as I was doing the second game. When it was game time, I put my stuff away and entered the gym. It smelled and looked so clean. It was like a dream. I was pretty new (and bad) so we lost the game. We had practices on Wednesday which helped me improve a LOT (and when I say a lot, I mean a lot.)

A humongous thank you to our coach, Pearl and Eastern Sports Recreation INC. It was amazing to meet Pearl, but I didn’t meet anyone from Eastern Sports Recreation. Pearl was super helpful, and funny. This was an amazing first impression on Table Tennis.

Here is the Eastern Sports Recreation INC Logo.

Do you like sports?

What sports do you play?