Proud Writing

I was 7 yrs old and I had a competition. My hip hop group came first. I was bouncing with excitement. So were my mum, dad, sisters and my cousin. It was at the Zion studio. All of a sudden I see some year eight intermediate kids step up on to the stage and then they started to dance. We ran onto the stage in excitement and started to dance. 

I felt excited because it was the first time my group had came first against  year  eight intermediate kids. 

I felt normal on the outside but excited on the inside like a tomato exploding.

Term 1 reflection

Term 1 we have been 

Playing beat games like concentration,

We were learning about pumanawatanga, 

Jono came and taught us some musical term,

Mrs Bentall taught  us musical games at Monday meet up 

He waka eke noa,

A struggle for me was when we had to do it in time with the drum because  I did not understand the purpose of beat but now I do because of my two teachers Fiona and Kiri.

I am at a relational level

because I can identify beat in many contexts and I understand the purpose of it.

My next step is to able to reflection on my role.

Overall it was fun and I learnt the purpose of beat and pulse .

By Larrisa 

 

14-6-2016 Discovery time reflection

  

Today at discovery time I made oobleck

for 10 minutes. I made oobleck with Ruby, Jessika and Pippa. Brook, Lucy and Rosemary were leading it. Then after 5 minutes Will, Leon and Liam joined in. Then I had to wait for them to catch up. My struggle was when all the corn flour ran out I had to use plain flour and so it did not work as well. I could improve by getting more corn flour. I achieved how to make oobleck because I have never made oobleck before. My growth mindset was when it got too clumpy I was going to give up but I stopped and thought to myself I should keep going. I learnt that if i push the boundaries I can actually get somewhere in life.

Spotlight Cam

                                       

“Are you scared of the dark?”... because I am. Some people think it is funny but everyone is scared of something.

We played spotlight on the last night of camp. Before we went outside I was scared frozen. When Kiri and Fiona said “be quiet” all I thought of was I'm going to fall over and hurt myself. But do you know what, I did not even hurt myself one bit.

Kiri said “go”. I thought to myself where should I hide.? I looked around I ran to where a tall tall tree was, then I ran behind a plastic chair, and l just got there in time .

All I could hear was spotlight, spotlight ,spotlight, over and over again. I ran to a wooden table, spotlight got called I asked “me?”  and Bronte’s dad said “yes you”. I ran back to the start .

And I did it all again over and over again. At the end of the game there was so much blood it made me want to barf. When we went back to our rooms Ruby and I  started to laugh, that is how fun it was. I wish that you were there .

My Reflecting 

For this piece of writing I have used

a hyperbole. My hyperbole was “at the end of the game there was so much blood it made me want to barf”. I used a strong verb, instead of using “I was cold”, I used “before we came outside I was scared frozen.”