The Spaghetti Tower Challenge

Kia Ora Everyone,

Welcome to my blog, today I am talking about our Spaghetti Tower Challenge. In my team was Lola and Molly. Our materials were 20 spaghetti sticks, 1 meter of string, 1 meter of tape, a marshmallow and scissors. At the bottom of our tower we made a triangle then stuck 2 spaghetti sticks together (3 times) and stuck them to the base of our tower. Then, we made ANOTHER triangle to stick on top of the 3 (well, 6) spaghetti sticks then 6 more above the triangle and then put the marshmallow on top. It was a cool team building exercise and I would like to do it again.

Thanks for reading,
Lexie

Zones - Week 4

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog, today I am talking about Zones for Athletics!

Yesterday, the 5th of November, I went to zones! I went for Year 6 Girl Relay and the 80m Sprint.

We had our athletics day at Nga Puna Wai. For my relay I was with my friends Sam, Abi & Greta, we

each ran 50m. I went third out of the four of us, grabbed the batton from Abi (who went second) and

ran to Greta and then we came...... 4TH! In my second event, I went to my 80m sprint, once again,

with Greta, we got split into 3 heats and I was in the last heat, I got second-to-last in that, luckily not

last! We had a great time, rolling down hills, doing our activities and playing games with each other.

Here is a photo of us all:

Thanks for reading,

Lexie ☺️

Production - Week 9

Kia Ora Everyone,

Welcome back to my blog, today I am writing about the School Production. Yesterday, the 19th of September, we had our school production: Goodbye My Friend. Andrew Oxspring wrote "Goodbye My Friend". It's about the year 8's leaving school.

I had a role in it as an announcer in scene 4, School Trip Boogie, I was announcing a birth of a baby panda. My lines were:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. We have been informed by the keepers at the panda enclosure that Chi Chi is about to give birth, if you don't want to miss this historic event, please come to the panda enclosure immediately.

This is the final call for anyone wishing to witness the historic birth of Chi Chi's baby. Please come to the panda enclosure, we are moments away.

And there you have it! Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. A once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-missed opportunity. It's a beautiful baby for Chi Chi! What a spectacle, what a day! Now, out of respect for the special couple we ask that you leave the panda enclosure, calmly and quietly. Thank you everyone, and goodbye.

(for my acting role) I wore a white blouse and track pants. Then, in scene 5, The PATS Blues, I was dancing, at the start of our dance, we wore dressing gowns over-top of our full school uniform. We danced to a song called PATs Blues.

There were 9 scenes called...:
1: Monday Morning Routine
2: Hey T.A!
3: P.E Nightmare
4: School Trip Boogie
5: PATs Blues
6: No Scene
7: Silent Night, Not Quite
8: I Wish I Was an Infant Again
9: Yucky Stuff
10: Goodbye my Friend (FINALE)

We had a matinee one, at 1PM, then the evening one, at 6PM. When I was on stage it felt like I was doing a dress rehearsal because the production came so soon.

My Favourite scene was probably scene 7, the nativity scene, the year 5/6/7/8 were pretending to be 5 years old and acting out the birth of baby "Cheeses". All the actors were waving to their relatives and friends and fixing their hair. It was really funny.

Thank you for reading my blog,
Lexie 🙂

Weekly Highlights - Week 9

Kia Ora,

Welcome back to my blog, today I am talking about my weekly highlights.

Sparkle Day

Sparkle day is based on our theme for this year called "Let your love sparkle". We did this last week on Friday the 21st. We all went in sparkly (or bright) clothes. I went in a glittery tutu with a bright blue top, glittery pants & a top with a sparkly bunny on it.
We all had a sparkly day and enjoyed showing our sparkle!

Jubilate

Jubilate is a little 'concert' that the OLA School Choir went to on Monday 24th June - that I am a part of. We all went to St Mary's Pro Cathedral and sung about 15 songs. Me, having a sore throat still went. Bishop Paul-Martin was there and he announced that we all sounded lovely. Then on the way back I sat with my friends, Xanthe, Lily & Amelia.

Thanks for reading,

Lexie

Eel Inquiry - Week 3

Kia Ora Everyone,

Today I am talking about our Inquiry about Eels! In my group I had Eilish & Rose! We decided to make a play (videoed) with a rap at the end!

First, we made an action plan with all the details we need to get started. Then we did a 'Job Description' which said when we were doing what and who was the leader. Then the interesting part, recording and practising the play and rap! On Wednesday we recorded the play part, Today we recorded the rap part. We had to include lots of information to help people know what we are doing to our eels. I was a 'bad' person (doing things you shouldn't do to eels), Eilish was the good person (telling me off) and Rose was an eel! We had lots of fun recording it and spent A LOT of time on it! The end result was actual quite good considering it only took a week.

Thanks for reading,

Lexie

Weekly Highlight - Week 2

Kia Ora Everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. Today I am giving you a highlight of my week.
This week we have done cross country and catholic schools sports tournament.

Cross Country

On Wednesday, we did cross country. We had to run two point something kilometres and I was super tired. At the start I sprinted and then pasted my speed, from sprinting at the start I got at the front. There was 15 of us, so I got really good but keep reading to see what I got. On a downhill part, I went streaming down and I nearly got past my friend, Sam she was just in front of me. I didn't end up getting past her because I started slowing down, sadly. But at the end I tried going as fast as possible as I tried smiling for a photo. I got..... 5th!


Thanks for reading,
Lexie

Chapter Chat

Kia Ora Everyone,

Welcome back to my blog, today I am telling you about Chapter Chat. Chapter Chat is
where we read a book aloud. This term we are reading Fish in a Tree and you read a
certain amount of chapters (from a book) and then the organisers create questions to
do with the book. Then we have to make up a creative answer to the questions and post
it on twitter. Also, there are some activities that we do for example, this week we had to
do what Ally (main character) describes herself as.

For our questions we are put into groups of 3, in my group there is, Manu & Adele.
We all like it very much and it is super enjoyable to post on twitter, for some of us, it
is our first time. Last year the year 6’s did chapter chat, It was very exciting too. I was
super happy that we are able to do it this year!

Here is some more information.

1. Book: Fish in a tree, a book by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
2. Chapter #7 (What chapter we’re up to at the moment)
3. Hundreds of schools in NZ are participating.
4. Thousands of children are doing this.
5. Every week on Friday we all post our answer to a particular question on twitter.

Hope you enjoyed my blog post. I am excited to tell you more about chapter chat.

Thanks for reading,

Lexie