Mapua Recap

    Have you ever been to Mapua, Nelson? If you have been to Nelson, or are going to Nelson, than you should check out Mapua. Mapua is a really cool place to live if you like to live in a place that is just off a main city. As you have probably guessed, I am going to be telling you about Mapua, seeing as I have lived there for three months.

    

    The first thing that you should know about Mapua, is the activities that you can do there. There are so many activities that you can do there just in town, but you can also go into Richmond for going to the gym, swimming, and heaps of other things. In town you can go to the tennis courts, and play tennis, you can go to the skate park - although that is not a sport - and hang out with your friends, skate, scooter, or ride your BMX bike. 

    The second thing that you should know about Mapua is that there is an amazing school, and yes you guessed it is called Mapua School. If you decide to move to Mapua, you should definitely go to Mapua School if you are a Year 0 - Year 8. It is a primary school, but it also has - in a different syndicate, the Year 7 & 8's. Another thing about Mapua School, is that each two year group has a different syndicate. The youngest kids have their syndicate name as Juniors, then the Middles, thirdly the Seniors, and lastly the Intermediates. 

    The third thing that you should know about Mapua is what there is to do over the weekends. There are lots of things that you can do on the weekend. For example, you could go to a market. There are markets on both Saturday, and Sunday. On Saturday there is the Nelson Arts Market, and on Saturday there is the Motueka Farmers Market. Those are just a couple of things that you can do on the weekends, beside the other things that you can do for your activities.

    Those are only some of the things that you can do in Mapua. Now I will be telling you about what thing I did in Mapua. The things that I did when I was in Mapua, was I went to Mapua school Monday to Friday, went swimming at the Richmond Aquatic Center on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. I also went to the Saturday and Sunday Markets. I loved going to the skate park and hanging out with my friends and skating and scootering, as well.  I also made some unforgettable memories with my friends and with what we did in Mapua.

    I really enjoyed living in Mapua for those three months, I think that it was the perfect amount of time to spend there, and I hope that you, whoever is reading this, will some day visit Mapua, and see all of the wonderful things for them selves.

Term 3 Recap

My Term 3
By: Zofia Burke

Changes:
One of the biggest changes in a classroom is that we started doing priorities. We have at least five priorities, -depending on how much time we have during the week- that you have to do each week, and you have to get them done before the end of the week. Another change that happened is that we have Maths, Reading, and Writing groups. We also have a times table so that we can know when we're gonna have our next group.

Holes:
For the WBS has got talent we are performing the song dig up, from the movie holes. During class, we have read the book, and know we are doing a performance in front of the whole school. Practising for the performance is fun, is because there are always new things for everyone to work on. Also, practising for the performance is fun, is because everytime we practice, it is always sounding better. I hope that  on this friday, the last day of term - or the last day of my first term - that we do a great job with not a bunch of mistakes.   

New Games:
  During this term we have learnt a lot of new games. The first one is Medics. The rules to this game are… well it is like Dodgeball except for that there are two people, the medics, those two people can tag the people that are down, and then those people will be back up. Medics is sort of like Annihilation too. The next new game that we learnt is called Ultimate Rounders. This game is sort of like baseball except there are obstacles, before you can get to the first, second, third, fourth, and home base.

Speeches:
We had to write a speech and present in this term. I really like this but getting up in front of the entire class was a little bit nerve-racking at first, but then after a couple people went I got less nervous. My speech was on; The Difference Between Living in New Zealand and the US.

Marae:
During this term we went on a trip to Marae. At the Marae, we had rotations. the rotations word, handball and skipping, going up kaiti Hill with Koka Rosie, transitional Maori String games, and a bunch of other fun Maori traditional games, if I told you it would always take at least one more page writing.


Tabloids:
During week 9 of term 3 on Wednesday we have tabloids day. It was really fun. I got to be the leader of my group. Each group went around to 10 rotations. my girl pointer Apple bobbing, three legged race, sack racing,  and a bunch of other really fun games. I can’t really remember them all because there are two days till the end of the term.

Rap Up
I think that this term was really fun. One of the hilites for me for the term is going to the Marae, and having tabloids day. They were really fun and I really enjoyed this hole term.

Zofia Cybersmart Learning

Today I was learning how to delete the background of pictures using Remove Image  Background. Click here to know what I used
I enjoyed making the My Digital Life Collage
I found it challenging to get the correct pictures for the Collage because at first I was not quite sure what pictures I was going to use.
My digital learning object shows that
Next time I would change

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