Alicia

My introduction: = Hi, my name is Alicia. I am in year 4. I do not know many children in my class, but I hope I can make lots of new friends this year. =

At home I like playing computer games such as Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils. I also like watching TV programs like iCarly and Spongebob. I also like doing music videos and uploading them to You-Tube. Here are some of my old favourites I did the year before last: = =

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=This one is called //So Many Cats//=

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=This one is called //Poor Piece of Rubbish//=

=See more of my vidios at [|www.youtube.com] and then type in peterblynn=

I don't have any brothers or sisters to play with, but my Mum and Dad give me lots of love and attention. My parents also like to travel and so I am very lucky to have visited many countries and places.

When I get older I would like to be a vicar or a pastor and have my own church. I would love the chance to be able to change people's lives in a nice way. :) = Garden 2 table: =  This week my class had garden to table. Garden to table is when some kids in a class do gardening, and the other kids in the class do baking. This week, my group and I did baking. We made sponge cakes! It was a little hard to make but it was very fun. After all the baking groups finished, the gardening kids came into the kitchen. Then we all ate. The other baking groups baked other things, so we all ate sponge cakes, coleslaw and vegetable salad with eggs and pineapple. - It was a very tasty meal!
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= EOTC Week: =

This week year 5 had their EOTC week. It was a great opportunity for me given I am only still in year 4. =These are the activities we did:=

__** MONDAY: **__ On Monday we did rock-climbing at Extreme Edge. I enjoyed it very much but I have to admit that it was very tiring. We took a bus to Extreme Edge. At the end of the day, after all the rock-climbing fun, we took a bus back to school at 3:00. __** TUESDAY: **__ On Tuesday we did Orienteering. I enjoyed that a lot, but it was tiring too.

__** Wednesday: **__ =On Wednesday we climbed up Rangitoto Island. I loved being like a grown up on the big ferry.=

= = = Watz up in School??! = =In class, we made a flip book called; 'The Mischievious Muddled Up Monster!'.= **LOOK AT MY FABULOUS WRITING!:** = =

=__ Term 2 week 8: Matariki __=

In the Maori language, Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and also of the season of its first rising in late May or early June.

The constellation was important for Maori navigation and timing the seasons.

The actual time for the celebration of Matariki varies, some iwi (tribe or gang) celebrate it immediately, others wait until the rising of the next full moon, or the dawn of the next new moon.

This was the time each year to prepare the ground for the coming year. They also made food offerings to their many make believe gods (that we are forced to learn about at school, and I believe this offends God as this breaks the first & most important commandment in my religion).

In very recent years there has been a revival to celebrate Matariki.