This game was a real challenge to get through!!

“Students don’t learn much playing this
game called Astria – Countdown to Impact:
Their time could be better spent doing other things”.

After playing the 'Astria - Countdown to Impact' game,
My partner and I learned to stay focus and concentrate
on the important information in the text we read in the 
game. It was really challenging for my partner and I, 
but we managed to get through it and finish the game.
We had some struggles on what the text was trying to
say, but we had to read it again, and again and again
until the sentence sounded right to us. I disagree on how
students don't learn much by playing this Astria - Countdown
to Impact and that their time should be spent on better things.

Now I know a strategy to finding out how many days there are in all the months of the year!

Today, Summer and I learnt a new rhyme which reminds us of how many days are there in each month. We were wondering how many days there were in November because we were trying to figure out which day the 1st of December would be on. The cause of this was because St Patrick's School was preparing for a party on the 1st of December. We were going to probably play ukuleles during singing carols in front of a HUGE crowd. Summer was saying there was 30 days in November and I kept assuming there was 31 days. So Summer searched up if there was 31 days in November. It didn't really help us when we saw the results, so she searched up 'Month rhymes'. The results was really interesting, so we memorized the rhyme so that we would always know how many days there was in every month of the year. Here is how the rhyme went:

30 days has September, April, June and November. When short February's done. All the rest has 31..

There was also another month rhyme, but we didn't memorize it. If your curious about what this rhyme sounded like here it is:

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, all the rest have 31. February has twenty-eight, but leap year coming one in four.

If you don't understand what the last part of the rhyme meant, it means that usually, February has 28 days, but after every four years, there will be 29 days. It was really fun saying the rhyme! Our teacher Mrs Dines suggested to blog the rhyme and what you were arguing about, instead of saying it out loud so much. We figured it was a good idea, and started blogging. It wasn't something the whole class was talking about, it was something that just came to mind. I guess I was wrong about November having 31 days. Now I know...

My 10th birthday celebration was a special time I spent with my friends and family!!

On Saturday the 18th of November, my family,

friends, next door neighbors family, my friends

from church and I celebrated my tenth birthday

at Grace International church.

First, we all woke up with excitement to celebrate

my birthday. It was going to be a really big party

because loads of friends and family were invited,

like my grandparents, my cousins, the next door

neighbor's family, my best friends from church:

Elizaly, Jackson, Eden and Lily and my best friends from

St. Patrick’s School: Anamaria, Angelina and Summer.

Next, we got dressed in our most finest clothes.

We didn’t wear dresses or high hills or earrings

though. We were wearing nice casual clothes,

like jeans, shorts, tops, jackets, sports shoes and

sandals. After that we all gathered around the table

and started to eat breakfast. Then, my mum and I

drove to pak’n’save to buy the cake, the balloons

and the party bags. After that we drove to Grace

International church.

My mum and my Sunday school teacher, Cecilia

helped sort out the room we were going to use for

my birthday party. While the party was getting arranged,

two Chinese men started to pump up a bouncy castle

outside of the room. It was so huge that it nearly touched the roof!

After the bouncy castle was pumped up, my friends

that lived inside the church played inside until my

family and my friends from school arrived. The first

to arrive was my grandparents and my two cousins

who came along, Fano and Margret.  I happily greeted

them and hugged them. They put there presents they

bought for me in the room on a small table in the left corner.

A while later, my friend from school, Summer arrived,

then Anamaria and then Angelina. I introduced them

to my friends from church. We all played, talked and

laughed in the bouncy castle.

After a while, we were all called to come inside the room

because the party was starting. Firstly my dad gave a

speech. Then my grandpa said a prayer in Samoan and

in english for the food we were about to eat and for all of

the people that was in the rooms blessings. Then we all

sang happy birthday and ate the food that was spread

across the tables we were sitting at. There was chicken,

chocolate sticks and bluebird chips. Then we cut the cake

and served it out to everyone of people that were in the room.

After we all finished eating, my friends and I went out to

play in the bouncy castle, while some adults stayed in the

room to talk to each other. Then it was time for my friends

and family to go home. I handed out the party bags and

thanked everyone for coming to my birthday. My mum,

dad and Cecilia cleaned up the room while some adults

took some of the food home.

My favorite part of celebrating my tenth birthday, was

when all my friends and family came to celebrate it with me.

Also because of the yummy food my mum bought for us.

I can’t wait to celebrate my next birthday.

Should we treat the animals that are called pests with more respect?

The task that we did independently was based

around the idea that other groups, including the

Department of Conversation are working to take

action that NZ is predator-free by 2050.

Today, the whole class participated in a online based

about how I felt about the decision of a group called

Nature Watchers, who think that ‘animals that are called

“pests” by the predator free group should be treated with

more respect.’

I was asked to agree, disagree or express my thinking

based on the information provided and supporting

information I found online. I partly agreed.

I partly agree with the Nature Watchers group because feral cats eat the rats and mice. It is not their fault that

they kill some of NZ native birds. It is because they do

not have an owner to care for it, feed it, or train it in any

other way. I think cats should get more respect because

some of the cat owners around here do not fix their cats

because it is too much money, so they start to multiply, causing

most of them to make themselves feral cats, who roam around the

neighborhood.

I partly agree with the Nature Watcher group because

rabbits, who are so called ‘pests’, can be fixed at the pet

store so they can stop multiplying. It’s a lot of money, but

you can start saving. If you still don’t have enough money,

you could start being generous and give away some of the

young rabbits to your friends and neighbors. If they don’t

want them, you could give them up to the pet store. Rabbits

also have predators themselves, such as eagles, hawks, owls,

falcons and kestrels. It’s surprising that birds can also be a

predator to those who people call ‘pests’.

Where do you stand on this issue?