Celebration of Unity and coming together to learn in room 8

On a very rainy morning Room 8 started our class mass in our class room with Father and Mr Coakley as our special guests. We did not have morning tea break at the regular 10.30 time as there was going to be a school assembly before lunch and we wanted to have some relaxing time together as room 8 before the assembly started.

First of all we started with the introduction which Dorothy read so clearly that I heard every thing she said. After awhile a song called ‘Morning Has Broken’ started playing, this was our gathering song but...opps....the projector wasn't working so we had a whole heap of papers that had the words on it that we had to share. Father explain that now it was time for the liturgy of the word, Robbertana reading from the Act’s and so we got onto the second part of our class Mass. Next Emanuel and Nayan read the Gospel, and they did it like a conversation which cool!.

Father then spoke to us about the readings and the gift of the Holy Spirit as well as our place as learners. Now stage three of the mass took place and after the blessing the people that normally had Communion passed it around the circle. After that we had another song and we sung ‘Alleluia Alleluia’ (Guy Sebastian - Receive the Power music & Lyrics).

Well our mass ended, it was time to share fellowship before our school assembly. What a special experience.

Celebration of Unity and coming together to learn in room 8
On a very rainy morning Room 8 started our class mass in our class room with Father and Mr Coakley as our special guests. We did not have morning tea break at the regular 10.30 time as there was going to be a school assembly before lunch and we wanted to have some relaxing time together as room 8 before the assembly started.

First of all we started with the introduction which Dorothy read so clearly that I heard every thing she said. After awhile a song called ‘Morning Has Broken’ started playing, this was our gathering song but...opps....the projector wasn't working so we had a whole heap of papers that had the words on it that we had to share. Father explain that now it was time for the liturgy of the word, Robbertana reading from the Act’s and so we got onto the second part of our class Mass. Next Emanuel and Nayan read the Gospel, and they did it like a conversation which cool!.

Father then spoke to us about the readings and the gift of the Holy Spirit as well as our place as learners. Now stage three of the mass took place and after the blessing the people that normally had Communion passed it around the circle. After that we had another song and we sung ‘Alleluia Alleluia’ (Guy Sebastian - Receive the Power music & Lyrics).

Well our mass ended, it was time to share fellowship before our school assembly. What a special experience.

What I Think About Learning Goals

It is clear to me that learning goals are great for learning. I think this because they give you a focus to your learning.

Learning goals are especially good for the things you are not so good at, for example I’m not so good at my times tables. My main goal is to work most of the time independently and I know this is important as it will improve my ability to develop as well as learn my timestables.

Many people also agree that learning goals are great for learning. Learning goals can be either big or small here is an example of a big one: To get an honours badge in year eight, that is very hard to achieve. Now here is an example of a small goal: Learn more things this year, that isn't that hard to do.

Imagine yourself in a position with no goals at all, with no goals then there would be nothing to work towards or nothing to work on and then you won’t learn much. Yes you would be a lost sole drifting.

Another reason why learning goals are good is that they give you a warm feeling and it shows you have ambition, something to work towards and that can be fun if you have a prize at the end. Guess what if it was a prize or something you really like, for example we have something called a ‘Marble jar’ at home and every time we do something wonderful we get a marble added and when we full it up we get to do something like get something or go somewhere special.

That is my opinion on learning goals.

How To Make A Kite

Here are the things you will need:

Materials
a piece of string, a piece of paper shaped like a hexagon, two sticks,
k
Equipment

a strip of sellotape and some colours.

Here are the instructions of how to make a kite:
1. Get the piece of paper and the two sticks, then sellotape two sticks onto the sides of the paper.
2. Next design or decorate the kite with the colours, colour on both sides.
3. Next attach the string to the kite with some more sellotape.
4. Take it out side to test it out.

And this how you make a kite.

Littering Poem

Littering is bad,
If you litter to much there will be no room for the plants to grow.
There will be no room for us to grow.
Littering is bad.

I was just walking to school one day when I spotted some litter,
A few bottles of Mountain Dew .
I asked myself “I wonder if someone will pick it up?“
But everyone just walked by ...do people care?
Littering is bad.

When I got to school I saw some more litter.
It was a potato fritter.
It makes me feel a little bitter.
Who can help?
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Is Our Net Book a good learning tool?

Yes our net book a good learning tool as I know from what others in the class have told me it is benefiting them as well.

We do most of our reading, writing and some of our maths on our Net Book. It helps me lots and it is very useful and I am getting used to. It is clear that the net book is not a tool for playing games or anything like that. Many people agree our net book is for learning but we are allowed to play educational games like tux typing and tux maths.

Everyone uses computers in business and so by me learning with a netbook it is allowing me to build up my computer skills and allow me to experience the benefits when I go out into the work force.

That is my opinion on weather or not our netbook is a good learning tool.

Mothers Day...a special day!!!

“Shh” my Dad whispered back to us “ tip toe” he whispered again, today is a Sunday but not any Sunday today is mothers day! You’re probably wondering why my Dad and my brother and sisters are whispering and not talking so loud well I’ll explain it to you, on mothers day or fathers day we have a tradition that when it is either day we give them breakfast in bed, we carried on our journey down the hallway.

Finally we reached my mums room suddenly we started to sing “ Happy Mothers day to you happy mothers day to you”, I finally got in the door with the tray filled with her breakfast on it. Next Mum said “that she wouldn't eat all of the food” so she told “Ana to go and get her an other plate”, so Ana raced to the kitchen and got a plate from the cupboard and came back. When Mum had got the the plate she started scraping with her fork three pieces of bacon and three eggs onto the spear plate then she said “here is your breakfast”, “yes” Ana then said. We all of the children except for me ran to the kitchen . I wanted to stay and talk, when I had finished talking to mum I went to the kitchen to have some bacon and eggs but when I had reached the kitchen Dad had just shoved the last piece of bacon and the last egg into his mouth so I ran back down to Mums room and she gave me some. “ Time to go to church” my Dad yelled so we all hopped into the car and went to church.

After church we went to the sushi bar to get our lunch! We bought three packets one for Mum and the rest we shared, at the bar we saw a lady making sushi she was so fast it actually looked like it was fast forwarding. Once we got our sushi we carried on home, in the car Mum asked “so what’s for desert?”she asked mysteriously “ cheese cake” we all shouted at once “should we go and get it now?” she asked “sure” Dad answered back. Mum chose a Jamaican chess cake, “I wouldn't of minded a marble chess cake” Mum said while looking at it with delight.

Once we got home Dad said “who's hungry” “me” everyone shouted as they all ran to the table. Once we had got to the table, we started to eat. We all got three pieces of sushi each except for Mum she got a whole box to herself.

After a while it was dinner time, so Dad, Jedida and me went to get our dinner at roast world! We got two packets of family packs and one lamb roast covered in mint gravy. “yummy” Ana said at the table.

That was my 2011 mothers day!

A stroll around and old volcanic cone!

I awoke on a lovely Monday morning, today wasn’t any Monday today was the Queens birthday and it was a holiday! My Mum and Dad decided that we would go for a walk around the Panmure basin. “But I don’t want to walk around the basin” I complained to my Mum “it'll be fun” she said trying to make it sound fun. About one minute latter I walked downstairs to the car waiting for everyone else to come, I saw the skateboard and started playing with it. After I had been on the skateboard for awhile I fell over and landed on the ground. Ana heard the big bang and came down to help me up but instead she came down and hopped in the car Mum heard it and came down and helped me.

Soon it was time to go to the basin. At first I had no idea what the Panmure basin was, hence, I wasn't very excited about it either. When we got there I realised I had been there before and it had an awesome play ground. Maybe I would like it. Before we started Dad taught us some exercises while we were waiting for Mum to get the pram out of the car. After about four minutes we finally started. There were two poles stuck together so I asked “what are those things Dad?” I asked mysteriously “those are exercises” he answered ,“can we do them please?” I replied, “that's were I was just heading” he said. For this exercise we had to climb onto both of the bars walk across them with our hands. I got the second highest out of the whole family and I only walked across two times it’s very, very hard. Then, we started to walk again this time I walked with Mum, Jedida, Dad, Talita and Ana.

Awhile later we spotted the next exercise, I figured out that you lie down on a plank of wood which tilted like a slide and you had to pull yourself up as well as pulling your feet up in the air. There were three levels, the first one I got to do twenty of them, the second one I got to do nineteen and the third one I sadly only got to do one. After that me and Ana went and sat on the edge of the wall that held the water away for awhile, then it was finally time to go to the next exercises. This time we crossed a little cute bridge.

After we had crossed the bridge the pram came running up towards Mum and me so we started running. We turned around and Dad called out “you two run very similar” we turned around and laughed with big smiles on our faces. Not far ahead was a playground and I asked if we could play, Mum responded back with “why not!” and a little laugh at the end. When we got to the playground there was a man and his two children already there, but they headed on to the boat ramp. Me and Ana followed them, they spied a beautiful white kind of bird but it wasn't a dove it was bigger than a dove and it wasn't as white as a dove, we continued our journey. Next we came across our next exercise was “Monkey Bars” Talita shouted out very loudly. She ran up to them but she couldn't reach the bars so “Daddy I need help” she said in complaint, “I’m coming sweetie” he answered back in a sweet voice.

When it was finally my turn Mum then called “time to start of again” “but..but..but” “no buts” so for that exercise I didn't get a turn. After running up a steep hill and seeing a massive house we got to the Panmure Basin bridge, I was pretty scared because this sounds impossible but my eight year old sister Ana was shaking the bridge and it felt like it was going to fall down any minuet. I ran off the bridge and Ana ran off and started laughing at me as well as clapping her hands “you should of seen your face” “ha ha ha very funny” I shot back at her.

Once Mum had got across the blue and white bridge we started jogging again. Next we arrived at another bridge, but this time it was smaller and it was wooden and from this one we could see people fishing and there was fish jumping out of the water it looked really cool. Unfortunately my Mum took two videos and nothing came up she also took two pictures and she just missed them so we carried on jogging. Dad and the girls were far ahead and we finally caught up to them.

There was another play ground, it was Ana’s favourite play ground in the entire world so we stopped and played for a while. Ana and Talita were having a fantastic time but I complained because I couldn't do much on the park so after about five minutes we were heading back on our journey around the basin. Next we arrived at our next exercise it was when you had to jump up onto the planks of wood with one foot at a time really fast, my legs were to sore to do it so I stayed back and watched them. Not long after we left, there was one more exercise but it was on a hill so we didn't go and do it, but then we spotted the white house that we started at “yeah” I shouted “we’re nearly there” Ana shouted. In the park we played a game that we made up a long time ago. After a play on the other park it was time to home again.

What a great memory I have of Queens Birthday Monday 2011.