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Choir

At choir we started to practice for the music festival because we are going to be practicing on Monday the 7th of September from 9:15 to 12:30 so we were getting more time to practice.

We firstly practiced a lot of time doing the song called the ring of fire, we did the for a long time because Miss Harris wanted us to practice D for a little while because we needed to work on it a bit more since we don't have a lot of time and we needed to get it right because it is a hard song and we were going to be performing with hundreds of schools and thousands of people so we need to get it right because then it will sound a bit bad if we are not in time.  Then we quickly did the roll, then it was about time to go but we got a new sheet of paper and that is a new song.  We are learning a song that we saw a group sing on YouTube and Mr Mccullam showed us the video and then we thought it was cool so we are going to be singing it.  Then the years 5 and 6's left first because the have te reo the the reat of the choir left.

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Kapahaka 

At Kapahaka we had a little time to practice our poi without any adults helping us we basically had free time for a little while but we were practicing poi.  Then Nate (who tells us the commands) said a commands and we followed it.

We were in our places, ready to go and then we started to sing a song,

The song was: Our school song.  We practiced that song for a bit because Mr Brown and Matua and also Mrs Baker wanted us to pick up the volume because we had our actions polished and good but our volume was quiet so they wanted our volume to rise.  So we had a battle firstly we did years 4 and 5's vs years 6,7 and 8 girls and also the year 7/8 boys.  Then for our second battle we did years 4,5 and 6's vs the year 7/8 girls and boys.  For the second battle the year 4,5 and 6's started off strong then the year 7/8 came back in the middle but it was the same at the finish so we don't really know who won so we just got told to do that in the song when we are doing it as a whole group.  Then we tried it as a whole group and we were very loud and that was good.  Then we finished off by doing Tahuruhuru.

We did Tahuruhuru and that involves the poi and I thought we did well but the teachers said that the year 7's have got it but some of the year 6's don't and some do but the year 4 and 5's so we need to practice.  After we finished Matua brought some lollipops to share with the group and after we got lollipops I went straight to peer mediation.

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Peer mediation

Every Friday at morning tea it is my turn to do peer mediation as I am a year 7/8.  I do peer mediation with Reuben and Riley and of course myself.  Since there is only one group doing peer mediation at morning tea that one group just walks around the school to help people solve there problems and we need to sort them out if they can't do it themselves.

I went to peer mediation at 11:10 ready to sort out any problems.  We started off by walking around the court area to see any problems and there wasn't.  We then went to the Kakano side of the field and one boy came up to us and said someone pushed him over while he was playing soccer and he said that he was telling him what to do.  We got the other boy who was involved and he said he didn't do it, the other boy said he did but then they both said sorry and they started to play soccer nicely together.  When that was finished we went to the Kauri teams side of the field to see if there were any problems and there wasn't any problems.  "Ring ring" the bell rings and we head back to class, we put our high vis jackets, necklaces and IPad away where it belonged.

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Kauri team event

I am organising the Kauri got talent for 2015, one of my jobs is to judge the auditions (which I have written down below). I also have the opportunity to be at the front of the stage which is introducing the acts to the stage.

Today and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I was a judge for the kauri got talent auditions because I am an organiser for this event.  At 12:40 each day I went to the music room to set up for the auditions so we can start straight away and not waste any time setting up since there were at least 9 acts in each audition and we needed to get through all of them in 45 minutes.  We didn't muck around at all when all the acts were in the music room we started straight away.  The first act went in the middle of the music room (since that is where they perform).  When they were finished we would give them a score out of ten and when all the acts had been completed we would see the top scores eg if Anna got 5/10 and Wendy got 9/10 that means Wendy would go through to the semi finals on Friday next week.  When we had at least one act to go through to the semi finalwe could go back to class so that we could go back to class.

Sam W's Writing

SOLO level: I think I am at Extended abstract because I can use punctuation in my writing eg comma's,  apostrophes.

My next step is to sit down with a teacher and discuss a new reading goal for me.

Sam W's Reading Prove it

My solo level:  I think I am at Relational because I can apply some criteria to evaluate texts eg technical language, objective language and structure and more.

My next step is to sit down with a teacher and discuss a new goal for me.

Coordinate graphs

My solo level I think I am at is extended abstract because I can specify location using bearing or grid reference.

My next step is to sit with a teacher and sort out a goal.