Kia ora! My name is Graziel, I go to Saint Patrick’s School. I am in Year 6 and my teacher is Mr Bell. My favourite subject is reading, maths and writing and I enjoy learning new words and multiplication. I am good at swimming, guitar, drawing and cooking. My goal for this year is to learn and get better at sports, I also want to go over my stage fright. In my spare time I like to talk, read and sleep.
This is my coloring that I did for this summer journey 
At the beginning of the term we created potatoes for our characters for our movie. Mrs Agnew brought potatoes which were growing roots and were disgusting to look at. When I picked my potato it was dirty and it felt rough. I used four sticks for the legs so it could stand; I got two three eyes and glued them onto my potato; I used coloured material for the clothes, and a ribbon for no reason and last of all I got pipe cleaners and cut them into little pieces for hair. They were pink and blue and made my potato look trendy. I enjoyed making my potato.
After we made our potatoes we went into groups and we had to try making our own stop motion movies. We were making slow motion movies, and there were Director, Camera person, Scene manager and last of all Editor. My group and I made a few movies and we had lots of fun making our movies but we didn’t get to edit it all because we ran out of time. Making movies was hard because the camera kept moving and moving because sometimes when we were moving the ipad, it would sometimes fall down or we would move it too quickly and not small moving.
After we finished making our own movies in our group, the whole class had to vote on what we wanted to make. I wanted to be the evil layer so I put my hands up. When we finished voting we had to go and make our backgrounds on what we wanted to be in. First we had to go and get two cardboard boxes and we had to tape them together, we got a big sheet of black plastic and put it on both of the cardboard boxes but then we realized that two cardboard box won’t fit to take a picture so we had to rip off the other cardboard box so we only had one cardboard box. We taped the big sheet of black plastic on the cardboard box, and then Theo made skulls and bones and stuck them on the evil layer. When we finished sticking all of them on, we had to paint the ground of the evil layer. We decided to paint the ground grey, so we had to mix white and a black to make grey. While we were painting the ground Theo went up back to the class room and made a moon. When he came back he painted the moon grey and when we finished painting the ground Mrs Agnew gave us black and told us to paint the outside black. When we finished we had to let it dry.
When it dried we brought it up and placed it on the table and then we had to sit back down, and think of some names for our movie. We had to vote and first we had to call out the names of the movie we liked and Ms Toland wrote our answers on the board. When we finished picking we had to vote. Mostly everyone picked the Stolen Princess so now our movie is now called the Stolen Princess. This is a brief outline: the spaceship went to space to try and save the princess from the aliens because they wanted the crown. They had kidnapped her at her own birthday party but it has a happy ending.
We had great fun making our class movie. I’m excited for next term because we get to see it on the big screen. Hope everyone enjoys watching. 
We were learning about Legit or Fake.
When we are online it is important to never trust a notification so we don’t scammed.
In our story, the moral of the story is to never trust any notification only if it looks Legit. 
Last Thursday there was a visitor named Chelsea who came to teach us a new game called Ki o Rahi. First we watched a video of a Maori legend. The names in the video were called Rahi and Tiara. When the video was done coach Chelsea asked us questions about the video. Ion and Grace were the ones who knew the most about the video.
Next coach Chelsea told us to go outside. We played a game and it was like two teams and the names were called taniwha and kioma. Coach Chelsea would call a name and the team has to run and the other team has to try and catch them. Next we played octopus and this is how we played it. So there were two taggers and the other people would have to run but the two taggers had to say something and if we had it we had to go and run away to the other-side. Then coach Chelsea had to go so we said bye. I had so much fun that was the best. Now we have to wait till Thursday.
When we started building I didn’t know what to start with. Then I knew what I was going to start off with. I started off by cutting the door. Next I found a rope and started to make a ladder. While I was putting glue on to make a ladder with a rope I accidentally put too much glue on and I started laughing so hard. Then my teacher said we had to tidy up so we picked up all our stuff and put it on our tables and picked up our stuff off the ground.
The next day on building my tree hut I had to stick my toilet paper roll on the bottom of the tree hut because tree huts are built off the ground. I asked my teacher if she could. At the end of last term we had the best last week ever and if you want to know why it’s because we made our own tree huts. I was really excited when my teacher said we were going to make a tree hut. When I went home I was looking for stuff to bring. First I found one toilet roll. Next I went to the garage and found some craft sticks. When I found all my stuff I needed I put it in a bag and was really excited. On Monday I was really excited to bring my stuff to school and build my own tree hut.
During the afternoon we started to build our tree huts. I poured my stuff on the ground from the toilet paper roll on the bottom of my tree hut with the glue gun. After a while I finished my tree hut. After I was done I started painting my tree hut. We had to leave it because we had to go home and it had to dry.
The next day I started to put on a second coat. A little while later we did the testing. The first one was to see if our tree hut would fall down in front of the fan for ten seconds. I thought my tree hut would fall down but it didn’t fall down. The second test was to see if four scissors would fit inside our tree hut. My tree hut could fit four scissors inside so that showed it could take some weight. The last test was to see if water would come inside our tree hut. I was really scared because there was space for water to come inside. So I covered the door and windows with plastic wrap. When the water came down I was scared it would come inside.When it was done I came and looked inside and there was no water. To be honest my favourite part was painting because my hands looked like a zombie because it was all green. My least favourite part was nothing because I enjoyed everything.
This is my fishbowl. I made it in google drawing. I really enjoyed making my fishbowl. I also learned how to copy paste and everything else.
Kamusta everybody. My name is Graziel and I live with my mum and dad in Manurewa which is a long way from my school in Panmure. I have one brother who is younger than me. My school is St Patrick’s and I am in Year 4 in Room 6.
St Patrick’s School is a cool school. I love school because we learn lots of stuff and also the teachers are so kind and nice. My teacher is called Mrs Agnew and she is kind and nice. I have lots of friends at St Patrick’s and they are all so friendly. My culture is Filipino.
I’m pretty good at writing and reading but I really want to get better with maths and problem solving. My challenge is to understand the problem and work it out. I’m good at reading and writing. I enjoy going to school because I get to play with my friends. My other goal for this year is to share my ideas with others.
My teacher inspires me because we learn new stuff everyday. I really want to achieve getting better at drawing because I don’t like my drawing at the moment. One thing I’m looking forward to this year is to go to Rainbows End.
