My Best memories

Tena koutou Katoa my name is Michael, this is about my memories at this school. One of my favourite memories was when we went sailing through Can Sail in Lyttelton. The Can Sail Programme was great fun because someone from my class lost their hat overboard and we had to sail around for a long time to get the hat back.

On my first day at Richmond school I felt excited. I came to Richmond school when I was seven years old. I still remember my first day at Richmond School. Richmond School has been a fun and awesome school to go to. It is amazing. 

Another memory from Richmond school is when we went to swimming lessons. Swimming lessons were great fun because I learnt how to do backstroke and other hard swimming skills.

Another great memory and fun activity we did at Richmond school was cycle safety. Cycle safety was great fun for me. I wasn't scared of riding because I had already ridden a bike before. I learnt the rules for riding a bike on the road. 

This year felt so short but I can't wait for the year ahead of us. 

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Richmond school gala

On Friday 8 November Richmond School held their Gala Celebrations. We were celebrating and thanking our community for all their support over the years. It was held at Richmond School. The twilight gala celebration started from 4:30 and finished at 6:30 pm which means that the gala was only 2 hours. 

We set up an outside cafe. There were a lot of people at the twilight gala celebration, some people that came were even in their seventies. They were old pupils that used to come to Richmond School. I came with my mum, my sister and my two brothers. 

 At the twilight gala  we had some exciting activities, they were  skateboards, ramps and cheap skates, two bouncy castle and jeeps, the bouncy castle that was an obstacle course it was even bigger than our class. The  foods were meat pattie sandwiches, bacon butties, sausage sizzles, candy floss, popcorn and fruit. Everything was free because we were thanking our community for their support over the years.  

Richmond school is 138 years old. When Richmond School hit nineteen hundreds (1900) it had stood here for twenty five years old. Which means that the school started in 1875. It used to be across the road at the park before it was moved to this site.

In my opinion I thought that the twilight gala was magnificent and awesome

Top Team Challenge

On the twenty ninth of October we had a sport challenge called the top team challenge it is made by sport Canterbury. Richmond school were hosting the top team challenge. 

There were fives schools at the top team challenge. The schools were Linwood North, Shirley primary, Banks Avenue, Seabrook Mackinze and us Richmond school. In my group there were Jakita,Ashleen, Riley, Alize, De- Ellah and myself Michael. 

We had activities they were Hoop Throw, Sack Race, Egg and Spoon race, Jigsaw Puzzle, Memory Maze, Two water challenges, Catepillar race and the building a tower race. 

I didn't enjoy the Top Team because I was very cold at the end.

Flick It On Challenge

I am going to tell you about our Flick it on challenge. For our Flick it on challenge my class and I have been working on a silent movie about how schooling has changed from Pre European which is the Maōri times all the way to the future school time. The Flick It On Challenge is a student collaborative film making challenge! The information was shared in October to our class. After we have finished our movie making we will send it to one of the schools doing the Flick It On Challenge and they will record what they think we said then they will send it back to us.

We chose a theme our theme was how learning has changed from pre European school times all the way to the future school times. We had one week to write our story and one week to film our videos and do the rest of our work. There are two other schools involved with our collaboration they are in the north island of New Zealand and in America and last of all us, Richmond School. 

Each part of our movies were 20 seconds each. We worked in groups of 4. We had to include the time which was 3:15, a magic trick and a Rubrics cube. We filmed in Ferrymead after that we filmed at Willow Bank then we filmed in our school I.C.T Room and we filmed in Room 1 and 2 as well.

In The Maōri school time they learnt by talking to each other and singing songs. In the early European times we have classrooms that were wooden and they had fire places. In the present time they have iPad , iPods and all the electronic devises. In the future they may have to wear white overalls and google glasses to school everyday. 

I was in the future part of the movie. The movies I filmed were Pre- European, Early European and the present. The only movie I didn't film was the future because I was acting in the future one. In one of the movies we filmed that class ended at 3:15 so we had to get the clock that had 3:15 on it. There were two time travellers acted by Hannah and Noa who went from one time to the other times. One school will add the music to our movie and the other school will add the dialogue which is the talking and we will do the same for their movies. I was excited. I learnt that school ended at 3:15 in the early European times

Mine craft classroom design

Today I would  to tell you about My awesome mission that I have already achieved this term.  We have been commissioned to design a MineCraft classroom.

 After we all finish our classrooms all the classrooms will be combined into one whole school. MineCraft is a fun and awesome place that you can explore and anything is possible. MineCraft has more than twenty blocks.

A thing that I like about MineCraft is that you can make anything.Another good point about MineCraft is that you can make nearly everything their is on MineCraft. 

In my opinion I think that MineCraft is awesome.

Share

This term we are learning about sharing.Sharing our resources stretches the boundaries and helps others take action. It starts with me after me it goes to friends, school, community, New Zealand, pacific then with the whole world. We have shared our resources by donating money to help others. We had a VSA  day because we donated, others can take action by volunteering their skills in other countries. We dressed up in our favourite costumes and brought a gold coin to help our friends across the pacific. We also donated generously on Red Nose Day. Because we have shared our recourses ,our money, we are helping other children get the medical treatment they need to get better. We all donated money the money will go to adults and children that have cancer. We all came to school wearing yellow on daffodil day. We had a yellow day. 

I have felt awesome and great donating money and wearing mufti. I really like sharing. 

Red nose

Hey it's me again this time with my red nose on Red Nose Day at Richmond School.

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Dress up For Change

Dress up For change was a fund raiser that was to help young people in the pacific. At school we sold wristbands for two dollars it was supposed to be three dollars but our school donated the extra dollar for each friendship band. On Friday we had a dress up day where we could wear our favourite clothes or costumes. I just wore my normal clothes I wear in the weekends. It was a mufti day because we were not wearing our uniform. We had to bring a donation some people forgot and others didn't. I forgot to pay for the donation.  The team who makes the wristbands are vsa. We raised 67 dollars. Vsa stands for volunteers service abroad. Everybody wore their favourite clothes and costumes except for Rodney and John. Rodney and John wore their school uniform. I really liked the dress up for change day.

Fractions

This term we are learning about fractions. Fractions is an activity you do in maths. I have already learned that "A fraction is a part of a whole." A fractional parts have to be even or the same. There are quarters and halves in fractions. 

Today we showed fractions using equipment, pictures and numbers.

Ukulele

Hi it's Michael again. During this term we have had ukulele lessons every Friday. Today we are going to have a concert at half past two. Our teachers name is Matua Paul. We have learnt how to strum three songs. They are We Will Rock You, Don't Worry Be Happy and YMCA. My favourite song is We Will Rock You. We used to be paired into two groups. The only song the whole school is doing is We Will Rock You. We have ukulele lessons after morning tea every Friday. I feel good about ukulele lessons because everybody gets a chance to use a ukulele.

By Michael 

Ukulele concert

Yesterday we had a ukulele concert at school where our parents, cousins and friends could come. We had it in the library, we were going to have it in the hall but we didn't because it was too cold in the hall so we had it in our cosy library. 

Room one started first then room two then room three. We were playing YMCA and Don't Worry Be Happy. Room one were playing "Row, row your boat" and " Wheels on the bus"

Room two did This Old Man and If Your Happy And You Know It and the whole school played We Will Rock You. My favourite song was We Will Rock You. The staff did I'm Yours" Let It Be" and The Show.

 After the performance the bell rang so everybody was allowed to go home. I hope we get to do it again. I felt good. The reason why we had a ukulele concert was to show off our skills that we had learnt during this term of ukulele lessons. I think we archived lots of things.

Reading

In reading we have just started the D.5. D.5 is a programme the whole school is doing now. Room 2 were the first class to do the daily five. D.5 stands for daily five. I really like the daily five. In the daily five we all have five choices to choose from. Some times we do guided reading that will make it six. The five activities are read to self,read to someone,work on writing,listening to reading and word work. Word work is when you go on steps 2. My favourite choices on the daily five is word work and listening to reading. We have to do read to self or read to someone everyday. On word work you have to get ten golds to play a game. First we use to get three golds second we had to get five golds and now we have to get ten golds because people only cared about their scores on a game called blocks.

ABL

This term we have been doing ABL with Matua Nicholas. We learned five games one is called gong chi fa chai. I love ABL. ABL stands for adventure bass learning. Now room two are doing ABL aswell. My favourite game out of the five games Matua tourt us was gong chi fa chai. Gong chi fa chai is a Chinese happy new year. One of the other games are called chicken head. In the past we have done falling of a table on the stage into other people's hands.

One learning topic

In maths we have been learning how to tell the time and place value. Place value is really easy for me. We use to do basic facts. We use to do addition and subtraction. We get five minutes in each one except subtraction to one hundred. I was not at school when we got ten minutes on subtraction up to one hundred that was because I was sick. I am the only one who finishes addition and subtraction to one hundred that is because I am really fast at it. In time we have been learning how to tell times like 9:45 and 10:15. As well in time we have been half pasts. Half past is when the big hand is pointing at the six. As well we have done o'clock. O'clock is when the big hand is pointing at the twelve and the little hand is pointing at any of the numbers.

My blog

Hello my name is Michael welcome to my blog. I was born in Lower Hutt in Wellington. I am eight years old. I go to a local primary school. I am Tongan and Maori. I moved to Christchurch when I was five years old.In my family I have three brothers and a sister.

My favourite song is "Cant Be Touched" by Roy Jones Jr.My favourite sports are rugby and rugby league. I love sports a lot. I like spending time on the play stations and x-box. My favourite colour is purple. My favourite t.v show is "Sport Alive" My favourite food is sushi. 

My favourite subject at school is maths because I am really good at maths.

By Michael