Key Competencies - 26.10.12

 Courtney
 Using Language Symbols and Texts/Managing self
 Fantastic focus on your calender art and carnival craft – they look great and I always admire your perseverance with such tasks.

Cameron
 Using language, Symbols and Texts
Cameron, you continuously impress me with your progress in your Maths – you are able to confidently show your understanding fractions. You are accurate when solving number problems. Your recent Gloss tested wowed me – you were so confident and accurate with your answers. Absolutely wonderful!! I am proud of you. 26.10.12 -

Chloe
Using language,Symbols and Texts
Chloe your artistic ability and perseverance with your learning tasks in this area always impress us all. I admire your ability to come up with a unique plan and the way you work to ensure quality is achieved with your careful approach. Thank you for allowing others to view your work.

My exciting weekend!

On Saturday the 27 of October my family and I went down to Opanake for dads get together work thing where everyone that goes to dads work has fun at this mans farm, we played this game where you have to pretend there are birds flying in the sky. Theres this machine and it throws disks into the air and you have to SHOOT them with a gun and you have a partner to try and beat, and see how much disks you can smash. And how many you smash is how many points you get for your team.

(by the way I am talking REAL guns!)

And I had a little go with my sister but me and Gillian shot the disks,[ well tried to shoot the disks] with PAINT BALL GUNS!
That was fun.

But Gillian got to shoot against another dude with a GUN!
Then after we had finished with the shooting game we were packing up and the man that helped me and Gillian with the guns to get them ready for us and the paint ball guns (that I used) the man asked me if I wanted a go with a real gun :)

And I said yes.
So he said to everyone to step back. Then I had a go and hurt my shoulder (like mum when she had a turn)

So that wasn't good :(  but it was still fun.

Then we moved onto archery and Daddy got 8 points for his team and mummy got 13 for her team and Gillian got 5 points for her team and I got 7 points (and I didn't really belong to a team though because I didn't have lots of goes at everything because I was scared so I wasn't in a real team and I was also just having a go at everthing.

Overall we had a FANTASTIC time! :)

Meg's Voice Message

Today we got this voice message from Meg. Thank you Meg!!

active inspire _ Regan

These photos were taken by Janelle of Regan creating the art work for a story he will record - he is a very clever artist!!

Janelle birthday!

  This is my cupcake!

It was my birthday yesterday. Nikaela got me lots of presents and chocolate. I am going to share my giant cupcake with room11!

I am going to have a party on Saturday 27th October!

The Blue Duck -voicethread experiment

Scream!!! 

Adrenalin rushed through my bones as I felt myself zoom upwards. Why was I doing this?

I suddenly felt an abrupt STOP. It was time. My instructor made sure all my gear was fastened properly.

I watched as fate opened up before me. I was ready. Well at least I hoped I was. I closed my eyes and jumped.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the world around me rushing downwards as if fate was trying to run away from its owner. As I screamed, I wondered if I was dreaming. I felt amazing. So amazing that I almost forgot to pull my parachute down, this was essential.

When I landed, everyone was cheering. I had achieved what I thought I could never achieve.

Although it didn't last very long, this had been the most amazing experience in my entire life; and I’ll never forget it.

By Katy!!!