Book Review - Playing to Win

 Hi guys today in reading since we have basically finished we are writing a book review. The book I read was called Playing to Win. Here is my Review on the book and I hope you guys enjoy.

The book I was reading was Playing To Win, the author of the story is Fleur Beale. I thought that the book was interesting because basically something new happened in all of the chapters even though they were short there was a lot of things going on. My favourite part in the book is when Alice, Clara, Zak, and Denny are at the beach walking around and they were talking about singing because Alice and Clara are in a band together, so then Zak starts to sing in a very out of tune voice. The characters that were in the book were Denny, Todd, Alice, Clara, Zak, Sally, Pete, Coach, Lucy, Rose, and the rugby boys. I would probably recommend this book to someone who was interested in reading a book about high school and looking for a book that was a bit short. I would probably rate the book 3/5, it wasn't bad but it wasn't that good.

EOTC - Extra for Experts

 Hi guys today in wga we are working on our eotc task board. I finished the ones for the Adrenalin Forest, Going around the city, and also jellie park. Since iv e done all of those i'm doing extra for experts the one i chose was you had to look through some art on te Christchurch Art Gallery page and then write about what it makes you think of and how it makes you feel. Here is my work and I hope you guys enjoy.

When I look at the art work I think that i'm in a forest in the water chilling with some friends. The green leaves from the trees are falling to the ground while i'm floating on the water. The piece makes me feel calm.

When I look at this piece I think of the antarctic and a lot more penguins around but some photographers took a photo of the penguins in specific. The piece makes me feel happy because they look happy lol.

 When I look at this photo I think of someone in a car looking at the bridge and the hills near it and be hide it. I feel calm looking at the photo because you can tell what it is.

EOTC

 Hi guys today in WGA we have been doing more of our EOTC task. This is my task for Jellie park. The task that I chose was create a DLO with 5 facts on it. I read a book and found some facts and now I finished. Here it is hope you guys enjoy.

Gymnastics - PE

Hi guys today in PE we  have been doing gymnastics. Here is my work.

Trampoline - Front Flip, Knee Flip, Back flip, 
Beam - Walking Backwards, Hop, Leap, Frog jumps
Parallel Bars - Hand walking, holding self up, Circle around bar, Roll around bar
Bar - Roll off bar, Hanging off bar with legs up, roll around bar, circle around the bar.
Floor/Mat - Cartwheel, headstand, handstand, log roll, 
Mini Trampoline - Barani, Crash dive, flip, tuck jump

Something new that I learnt this term is how to do a flip.

EOTC Tasks - Adrenalin Forest

 Hi guys today in Wananga we are doing more of our EOTC task. The task I did was creating a poster or a brochure for Adrenalin Forest, I chose to make a brochure. Here is my brochure for Adrenalin Forest I hope you guys enjoy.

EOTC Week - Margaret Mahy

 Hi guys today in Wananga we did a task for EOTC week, EOTC week is when  you have some trips. You had to chose an activity and do it for one of the places you were going. The task i chose was to make a biography for Margaret Mahy. Here it is and I hope you guys enjoy.

Margaret Mahy

Childrens and Young Adult author

21 March 1936 - 23 July 2012
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Facts about Margaret Mahy

• She wrote 100 picture books, 40 novels, and a collection of short books.

• The park Magaret Mahy was named after her to honour her after she died.

• Margaret Mahy’s first book was “A Lion in the Meadow”

Margarey Mahy was a New Zealand author who grew up in a town named Whakatane.

She wrote books for young adults and children. She went to Whakatane High School,

University of Canterbury, and The University of Auckland.

Margaret Mahy died in 2012 because of cancer at the age of 76.

She started writing at the age of 18. She then trained as a librarian and then worked at School Library

Service in Christchurch in 1967.  Later in 1980 she became a full time writer.

How she creates characters is that she thinks about things that she does all the time like driving,

Gardening, Shopping. Sometimes when she’s writing she used to think it became more interesting than

real life.

Playing To Win Fast Finisher.

 Hi guys today we finished reading all of our chapters. Which means we only have to do fast finisher task. The fast finisher task I did was writing a letter to the author. Here is my letter and I hope you guys enjoy it.

Dear Fluer Beale, 

I have a question for you. What inspired you to write Playing To Win? Did something like this happen to you in school? Or did you see something happen and it gave you an idea in your head. I enjoyed reading the story, it was kind of interesting because in nearly all of the chapters something new happened. I would think that Pete or Zak would be favourite characters because they are funny, like one part where they're at the beach and Zak was singing in a horrible out of tune way. There was something that you could’ve changed. Maybe next time you could make the chapters a bit longer because they were a little short. Our school and their school have some differences and things that are the same. That's all I have to say.

Sincerely from Alexia.

Playing To Win

 Hi guys today in reading since we don't have our discussion questions and we didn't read anything there wasn't much to do. Since we didn't have much to do we moved onto fast finisher tasks. The fast finisher task that I am doing right now is getting some information on the author of our story. The author's name is Fleur Beale, she isn't just an author she is also a teacher. The school she used to teach at is Canterbury University. The school's she went to was Victoria University and Christchurch Teachers College. I don't think that this helped her a bit to write a novel but her family inspired her to keep on writing. Also did you know her mother was also a writer? Fleur Beale published playing to win in 1999. And it came out to New Zealand in 2006.

100 Word Challenge

 Hi guys today in wananga we had to write a story about a live size bubble coming to take you to the country you want to go to the most. The country that I chose was japan. Here is my story and I hope you guys enjoy it.

I was walking around and then I saw a life size bubble floating towards me. I was obviously confused who wouldn’t

be if a random huge bubble was right in front of you without explanation.

I was tempted to put my hand in the bubble so I did… I regretted it. The bubble sucked my whole body into it.

I was confused and scared, why would I be sucked up into this huge bubble.

I was suddenly in japan. I could see beautiful cherry blossom trees.

There were people underneath me looking right up at me. I was still confused.

Shoe

Hi guys last week  in Wananga I created a shoe. I created a shoe because it was an activity to do because of the Fun Run that we are doing. For the shoe I put wavy rainbow lines. You couldn't create a shoe that was always created. Personally I wouldn't wear them anywhere.

Playing To Win - Week 6

 Hi guys today in reading we didn't have to read anything, because its a catch up week. Since I have finished my tasks from last week so I'm doing fast finisher tasks for this week. The fast finisher task that I'm doing is making a new cover for the book that we a reading. The site I used to make this was canva. Here is the cover I made for the book hope you enjoy.

Playing To Win

 Hi guys today in reading were doing a fast finisher task. The fast finisher task wasn't really one made by our teacher but we just made a fast finisher task because a few of us were finished. The task that we made was making a movie trailer, what we did was we deiced to do a scene with all of us. Ashton as Alice, Shanaya as Todd, Carla as Clara, and me as Denny. The scene that we did was where Alice was doing her performance. We deiced to make all of us do a introduction of the character we were. Here is the video and I hope you guys enjoy!

Playing To Win - Independent task

 Hi guys today in reading I have finished reading chapter 8 - 9, for our task we have some questions that w need to answer. We had to do these questions because there is no school on Friday and that means we don't have our discussion group that we always do. Here is my answer to the questions and I hope you guys enjoy reading this.

1. Denny has lots of responsibility's in his life, he helps his mum with fiances, has a job, he takes care of his sisters and is part of a team. Do you think these are reasonable responsibilities for a sixteen year old? Why or why not? I think this is a bit too much for a sixteen year old to do. Denny having a job and looking after his sister could be a good responsibility for him but helping his mum with fiances and also being apart of a team could over work him, he could be doing too much things and that could affect the way that he acts and how much sleep he gets. 

2.What responsibilities do you have in your life? How do you manage them and make sure you are completing everything you are trusted to do? Think about what you do at school and at home or in your spare time. Some responsibility that I have are just cleaning my room, doing the dishes, and sometimes helping my mother cook things. For school I don't have any responsibility just getting my work done at the right time.

3. Denny feels pressured to drink at the party, but he still says no. Why do you think the boys were pressuring him? Why do you think it is important to stand up for your beliefs? What values do you think he was showing by saying no to underage drinking? I think that the boys were pressuring him because they drink, if they didn't drink I don't think they would pressure him as much as they did. I think it is important to stand up to your beliefs because you shouldn't change what you believe in because someone else doesn't believe in it.  I think he is showing respect because he isn't drinking while he is currently underage.

Fast finisher task - Playing To Win

Hi guys today in reading I have finished my main task to do so right now I'm going to do a fast finisher task, the fast finisher task that I'm doing right now is that you chose a past discussion question and right a paragraph on what you think. The question that I'm choosing is "Why do you think Mrs.Winter wanted to thank Denny? How do you think he felt meeting her?"
I think that Mrs. Winter's wanted to meet Denny because Denny made him live for a longer amount of time, if Denny didn't do what he did then that means the guy that we saved would've been dead on the scene so I think that Mrs. Winters would've enjoyed seeing the person who gave her husband a few more minutes of his live. 

100 word challege

 Hi guys today in wananga we did another 100 word challenge. The picture was some footprints in snow ( I think?), So I deiced to do a Halloween themed story, here is my story and I hope you guys enjoy.

Today was the day. It was Halloween. My friends decided to throw a party at my house. Only my group of friends were invited though. I was dressed up as a witch this Halloween. I had everything planned out, Lollies, Drinks, and games. After a few minutes my friends arrived. It was Ben, Heather, Luke, and I. Heather was dressed as Heather Chandler from the Heather's, Ben was a werewolf, and Luke was a cat. We were all playing games then the lights went out. Heather then screamed, “What the HELL!”. We walked outside and saw footprints on the snow.

 

Gymnastics.

 Hi guys today in P.E we were doing gymnastics, there ways different stations that we could go on but our group choose the mini trampoline. My three activities from the card were Straight Jump, Two feet landing jump, and a flip. What there was that there was a mini trampoline and after that there was a crash mat so after you jumped you could land on something soft so you don't hurt yourself. Here is a video me completing a flip! Hope you enjoy.

200 word challenge

 Hi guys today in Wananga we did a 200 word challenge. The photo is a picture of a scuba diver and a whale shark. Here is my story and the picture I hope you guys enjoy.

I decided to go for a swim in the ocean because there was a rumor going around that there was a huge sea monster.

Currently right now i'm swimming in the water, today the water looks really nice it's like a lapis blue.

I was swimming around and I saw some fish, some with really exotic colours like Framboise, Oranges, Pinks, and

Yellows. Right now I really haven't seen anything but fish and rocks. I suddenly then heard a huge noise from behind

me. I turned around quickly and then I saw a huge whale shark. It opened its mouth and I started swimming as fast

as I could. I was panicking.. “What if I die here” “I'm going to die”. I decided there was no use in swimming so I just

stopped. The whale shark then opened its mouth and swallowed me. My eyes opened a bit and I realized I was in its

stomach. Its was a pinky purple colour looked around and saw a skeleton.I then realized i'm never gonna get out of

here without a sharp weapon to get me out. I sat down on the whales sharks insides. I deiced to accept my faith. 

Drama

 Hi guys last week in drama we have been doing different types of techniques. The techniques that we used is Levels, Spacial Relationships, Facial Expressions, and Gestures . What we did to practice theses techniques is that we did Freeze Frame. We did some random ones like someone went in first on said they were a random thing and then everyone else has to do the same thing but had to fit into the scene. The less random one is when we used the idea of the script that we read a few weeks back called bullies. I was in a group with Shanaya Carla and Casey, we deiced to do a scene where Shanaya was on top of me and I was on the group she was holding me by the collar ad then we pretending like she was going to punch me. The most interesting thing for me is that when we were doing the freeze frames I actually enjoyed it. My favourite thing was when Miss. Allen told us to do a freeze frame of the titanic. Now here's a photo of Shanaya punching me.

Playing to Win Character Description - Update

 Hi guys today in reading we just read chapters 6 - 7, for the activity that we are doing is adding more things onto out character description. I added two characters onto the description I added the Coach of the rugby team and Pete and te rugby boys. I added more things on Alice, Todd, Coach, and Pete and the rugby boys. Here is my table and I hope you guys enjoy.

Character	Description	Direct/Indirect + PG
Denny logan	Goes to a new school Moved from invercargill  Has two sister Responsible  Likes Alice	Pg - 5 Direct  Pg 6 Direct Pg - 10 Direct  Indirect  Direct
Todd Salter	Goes to westbridge  Tall Well Built Good Looking  Has a crush on Alice Believes if he nags enough he’ll get what he wants.	Indirect  Pg - 41 Direct Pg - 41 Direct Pg - 41 Direct Direct  Pg - 61  Direct
Alice	Alice is in the band Power Pak Sarcastic  Hates rugby  Likes singing	Pg - 31 - Direct  Pg - 14- 15  - Indirect Pg - 57 Direct Pg - 31 - 32 Direct
Clara	She's in a band Power Pak   She’s really open to Denny  Plays a keyboard  Likes Denny	Pg - 31 - Direct Indirect Pg - 32 - Indirect Direct
Denny's Mother	Works a lot Struggling with money Trust’s Denny	Direct Pg - 11 - Direct Indirect
Denny's sisters	Helps Denny practice rugby  Energetic	Pg - 30 - Direct Pg- 11- Direct
Coach	Strict Snappy	Pg - 68 Direct  Indirect
Pete and the Rugby Boys	Drinks Play rugby Partiers  Smelly	Indirect  Indirect  Indirect  Direct