Reuben's Blog

Hello, Last week we went to Centrals for rugby. I was very exited and couldn't wait to play when we got they we were all looking around at the other teams and they were huge. But we stopped looking at them and just focused on our game. First we had a bye so we could watch some other teams play. It was finally our turn to play and we were playing Te Waka Unua, they were some big boys but we new that if we just went around the legs we'd have a chance. We then ended up winning by one try. Our next game was against Ashgrove and also ended up winning that too. Our next game was against Lincoln and sadly we lost, they were a really good team and I think deserved to win. Our next game was against St Martins, this team is the team that we beat in the final of winter sport, so we new how they played and ended up beating them again. Miss Hansen told us after the game that we were in the quarter final against the Kaiapo North Stags. Like Te Waka Unua these guys were much bigger than us,

Hello, For the next couple of weeks we are writing a narrative and to write a narrative you have to have a plan. Everyone in Kaupeka are doing a narrative about problems in the future. The problem I chose was about world war three and about how if we build robots that the might want to turn on us. Everyone had to make a plan last week and this week we are writing the narrative. Here is my plan I hope you like it. Have you ever written a narrative before?

Hello, Last Thursday we had our rugby finals for school, against St Martins I was so nervous because they bet the team that we kept losing too ( Hillview ). When we got they, we just did our same routine, same process and when it was time to play we were ready. It was a tight game but we were ahead. Suddenly Miss Hansen said last play and we new that we had won, we didn't stop fighting until that final whistle went. Finally Miss Hansen called a knock on and that was the end of the game. We had won everyone was staying humble by not cheering until we got on the bus. When we got back to school Miss Hansen said that we where the first ever year 7/8 rugby champions. Have you ever played rugby before ?   

Hello, This week for reading, we were given novel and for the next 3 or 4 weeks we will be basing our reading tasks on our novels. My novel is Outlanders. This weeks follow up was to create a chart that had some sentences of the text and convent it in to some questions. Have you ever read Outlanders before ?

Hello, This week for reading we read a book called After the spill, it was about a boat that crashed on a reef and spilled heaps of oil killing lot's and lot's of animals. Then we had to a answer some questions about the story. Here is my answer sheet I hope you like it. Have you ever read this book before ?

Hello, This term, every Tuesday we split into our homebase's to do science experiments. We have alone done 3 and so far it has been great. But my favorite one so far is with Miss Powick. It is all about building bridges and who can build the strongest bridge. I did it with Oliver and Connor. Our bridge was not very good, because we run out of time to finish. Have you done this challenge before ?

Hello, This week for our reading follow up we had to read a story on Epic books. We read Hubots, we then had to look for five complex words. After that we had to make a google drawing with pictures of the complex words.

Hello, For the past term we have been doing the Stanford University Online Course. Everyone in Kaupeka signed up to a math's course. This math course has 6 different lessons, each lessons had a certain amount of videos and questions. I will explain each lesson, I will start with lesson 1.      Lesson 1: We were introduced to the program and started to talk about how people felt about maths. We also start with a survey about where do you think you are with math. Their were videos discussing myths and showing people what maths really is.  Lesson 2: In this lesson, their were videos explaining how important it is to have a growth mindset and what the benefits are of having a growth mindset. Lesson 3: In this lesson, was all about making mistakes was good. It was showing when you make a mistake it is good because you are learning. It is also showing in maths that it isn't about speed it's about doing your best and that lot's of big mathematicians were the slowest