Yay today is Tech at Tamaki for the year 7's. The year 8's stayed back at school, they have their Tech day on Tuesday's. This morning we did Button Bass mixes, if you want to check it out, you can have a turn on the cube that is on my blog. Have a try you'll be hooked!http://www.buttonbass.com/

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Hey there, I haven't said anything about me yet on my blog. Although I just started being able to use my blogger yesterday. So here it is, a little bit about me!

 Ok, lets get started!

Hey there my name is Alexis. I am 11 years old, and I am the second youngest out of all of my brothers and sisters. I am Maori and Niuean. But some of my friends keep saying that I'm Australian and there's one in particular that keeps on saying that.

I have 7 siblings from both my mum and my dads side. My brothers and sisters names are... ( I'll name them in ages.) Well first I have my youngest sister Ava, Ava is 3 years old and turning 4 in July she is such a little cutie, especially when she is singing her kindy songs. Next I have my two brothers Lachlan and Taylor they are my dads partners kids. I don't get to see them very much because they both live with their dads... Oh and to be completely honest with you I really don't know their ages although the upcoming siblings I do... I think? Then I have Tyson who is at University down in Otago, so I only see him when he comes up to visit he's very quiet but he's cool.He is 18 years old. Then I have Tessa who lives with her boyfriend Jireh at his place. Tessa is 22 years old she's really awesome I like her style. Then I have Stevee-Rae who is in London. I have only met her once but she was cool. Then I have Dominique she is my only full sister she is 25 years old so she is the oldest. My brothers and 2 sisters Tessa and Stevee are all my step siblings. Ava is my half sister. Pheww, I have finally blabbing about all my crazy siblings.

I have 4 cats and they love to play and hide around the house.

Hey now that I think about it that's all I have to share so yeah... Pretty much. No! I have enjoyed blogging, even though I only have a few posts I have really enjoyed it. Remember to leave a comment on my work, thanks!

This is my recount about the ANZAC memorial assembly we had last Friday on Poppy Day.

Last week on Friday was Poppy Day. On Friday the whole school had a memorial assembly. When the bell rang everyone started to go to hall. Mr Burt changed up the assembly, but I really wanted to go to the field of remembrance that we have outside by the hall. 

When assembly finished all of the children went in groups moving out of the hall so that there wouldn't be a traffic jam of kids. It went from year one, to year two to year three, all the way up to year eights.

Once we all gathered around the memorial Mr Burt and the other prefects said prayers. But Mary did the ode and spoke it maori, it was amazing. It was also very sunny that morning so that was great as well. After a few prayers had been said everyone stood around where we then had a minute of silence. 

Then afterwards everyone made their way back to their class where we then carried on with our day that had a beautiful start.

Here is what Room 2's Math class has been doing. I may not have gotten all the answer right but I tried my best... OK!

My writing from last term. This piece of writing is about a really really awesome day that day that had happened. Enjoy!

The day I got the Writers Cup!!!

Last year was the biggest year of my life! At my graduation I won my very first trophy! It was also the biggest trophy at graduation and I was really hoping that I would get that trophy, mostly because my teacher said I had improved so much in my writing. Then when I heard my name get called out I was stoked! After I went up and shook Mrs Martin’s ( the principal ) hand I couldn’t wipe the smile of my face that came up faster than lightning. Plus I was smiling even before I got the trophy, when I got my certificate I got given 7 lolly necklaces everyone else kept on staring at me and asking for lollies. I never knew that people voted for me. Now I’m going to explain a little bit about how I got there.

At the start of 2014 I wasn’t a very strong writer. My teacher Ms. D, encouraged me by giving me work sheets during writing time and just told me to keep going. Then I quickly I started to progress more and more. Going through writing tests and even doing small things like writing out passages from books and editing peoples work, helped me out a lot. Mz. D always said that I was one of the best editors in the class. So if I finished my work early she’d say that anyone else that had finished their work would have to conference with me before going to her… I loved it.

At Riverina ( My old school )we didn’t have our own netbooks we just used books, but there were also times when we used the class laptops. When we used them we were either publishing our work from our books or going on Studyladder for maths. The times when we were publishing our work I’d always try to make the most of the time I had, because I did enjoy going on the laptops. I was learning plenty of new features on the laptop that I didn’t even know existed!

The trophy was really heavy, and it was so big that it could barely fit under my chair so I had to shove that big trophy under my chair. The trophy was a shiny golden colour and has a big block at the bottom of the trophy with a plaque that says, Riverina School Writers Cup Presented By Annette Shields. One of the meanest teachers that had ever been at that school.

My mum, dad, step dad, sister, Aunty, Uncle and Nana came to my graduation, and they didn’t know about me getting the trophy. My mum said that usually a member of the staff will tell the parents if your child is going to be given an award so then you can get ready to take photos, but this time they didn’t. But my family did catch some photos… Lucky!

After graduation my family were still taking photos of me and were congratulating me and eating all of my lollies. I also took a few photos with my best friends LiNa and Lavinia we just talked and talked until we had to leave. The night when I got my first trophy the Writers Cup was the best night of my life! Then it wasn’t until a couple days later when I then noticed that my name was engraved in the trophy I laughed and laughed my name and Travis’s name were engraved in small letters by the handles on the trophy. So I kind of get why I didn’t see them in the first place.

PolyFest 2015

                                                 

Yesterday was a very exciting day. Most of the people in the intermediate block at Point England school got invited to ASB’s Poly Fest in Manukau Auckland! It wasn’t a super sunny day but that was also good because then we wouldn’t be tired and restless while we were going around the grounds, its also good that it didn’t rain. Or else those fire safety people would have had to have a plan B to light that fire, wait I’ve said too much…

In the morning everyone came to school on time packed and ready for the long day ahead. My mum came to school not so long after me she was one of the parent helpers for the trip. The buses arrived a bit early so they just had to wait outside the school until it was time for us to get on the bus. Although they may have given us pay back for us making them wait, because they dropped us off at the wrong entrance! We didn’t know that we had been dropped off at the wrong entrance so we just waited until Mrs Tele’a’s bus got there. We waited, and waited and waited! We were all thinking where her bus was, then one of the teachers got a hold of Mrs Tele’a. Then that’s when we found out that we got dropped of at the wrong entrance! The security guards tried to make us walk around to get to the other entrance, but then the teachers worked a bit of their magic and we were then allowed through the entry closest to us.

We all were so happy to have finally got in through the gates but the fun hadn’t begun just yet…

We all ran over to the group that was with Mrs Tele’a and where a few other schools were sitting. We ran over to them and took a seat down on the not so green grass. Another lady was talking out to all the children, she told us a special guest was coming. I was really hopping that it would the one and only Stan Walker I once saw him live at a wedding you know! Then the “Special guest” came out… and it was… John Key the prime minister of New Zealand. GO LABOUR!!!! I wasn’t really fussed about seeing him I just wanted to have fun!

After we got told what we were going to be doing for the day we went to our first stop the Fire Safety guys. When we went over there, there was a part that was blocked off I was wondering what that was all about, but then after the big boom I knew why. There was almost like half of the back of a van that had a pot that had cooking oil in it, the pot was on a stove like thing but not an actual stove. We just stood there and waited for around 10 minutes until the smoke that was blowing out of the pot died down and turn into a fire! When the fire came alive it slowly started to grow a bit larger. I stood there in amazement just staring at the fire. The men were asking us questions about what to do during a fire e.t.c. The men then told us never put water on a fire or else… Then he put the cup of water on the fire, and it came roaring at us! It felt burning hot on my face. But it was so amazing! I ran to the back of the group I jumped out of my skin.

Afterwards my group went a few other activities and we had a blast the Flava activity was pretty fun. We played a quick clapping game then we got into group of 5 and took a photo together in our group, it was kind of like a big selfie except there was no one holding a phone.

Everyone then got back together at the same place that we met and had morning tea. I kept on begging my mum if she could get me something from one of the stalls, but the answer was no. Until lunch time when I stole her chop suey! That was a pretty good chop suey too.

My mum shouted her group ice creams and I was lucky because I was in that group as well and it was my idea to get ice creams for the group, so they can thank me.

Everyone then met up around by the maori stage which is where we got packed up and ready to get back on the bus for the bumpy ride home. The teachers shuffled us kids along and waited for the buses ( we did a lot of waiting that day, mostly half of the day was waiting around ) All other classes hopped on the bus before room 2 ( that’s my class ) While we waited for the next bus to arrive. Boys were in the back carpark playing games with some of the stuff that was in the gift bags that we got from the ASB tent, well more like the big yellow sponge tent. You could see the big blow up ASB tent from anywhere in the grounds.

On the bus ride back to school I was tired and just sat with my mum I was not really talking to her I was too tired to speak. I just sat and enjoyed the bus ride back to school.

When we finally got back to school I fell off the bus but I caught myself. We met back in the street where the helpers then got some gifts and that’s when I gave my mum a look that told her those Easter eggs were mine! After all I had a pretty awesome day.

Last weekend was ANZAC weekend. So last week our main focus was ANZAC, and this was one of our literacy tasks.