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I’m not a big fan of skipping. I’m not good at it. Whenever my friends and I skip, I usually hold one end of the rope. I’m not good at jumping in. I was scared that the rope would hit me. I wanted to jump in so bad. Today I tried to jumping in to the rope , I did it. I achieved some thing today. I was really happy when I jumped in. It felt good. I did it before, but only once. I need to skip more often to get use to it. I learnt that if you keep practicing and practicing and if you put hard work into it , then you can achieve it. Just try your best and never give up!

A couple of weeks ago the teacher said that cross country is coming up. Mrs Garton said we have to do one hundred laps. I’ve done thirty-five so far. Cross country is on Friday. I’m so excited!

I should have written about  technology last week. Luckily I remembered  this week. This is the second week we did technology. We do technology every Wednesday. Our technology teacher is Mrs Holman. This term we’re doing textiles.

Last week we were given a piece of paper and we had to sew it. We learned how to use the sewing machine first. Caitlin and I were partners last week. Caitlin’s one turned out pretty good but mine was horrible. I can’t remember the last time I used a sewing machine. I’m not good at sewing.

This week my partner was Josh. We were sewing some fabric. I had a better result than last week. After we were done sewing ,we ironed the fabric. We packed up. All of us had a job to do. I had to make sure that the all the switches were off.

Mrs Holman is a really good teacher. She’s an expert in sewing. I’ve learnt a lot from the last two weeks. I’m not sure what we’re doing next week, but I’m sure we’re  going to have a lot  fun!

Today is the 25 of April so it’s Anzac day. We celebrate Anzac day to remember the soldiers who fought in the war for Australia and New Zealand. Anzac stands for Austalian New Zealand Army Corps. People wear poppies  on Anzac day to remember the soldiers who fought in the war. The war was taken place in Flanders field. Flanders field if now a war cemetery in Belgium. After the war some red poppies grew in the battlefield and now people wear  poppies on Anzac day to remember the soldiers who was in the war.

I didn’t know much about Anzac day. I only knew two or three things about. I searched it on Wikipedia. The story behind was  so sad. Thousands of soldiers lost their lives to fight for their country. Some even lied about their age to go on the army.

This week is the last week of  term one. Thursday is the last day of the term.  I’m so excited and so is everybody.I don’t have any plans to do in the holidays, so I’m just going to relax at home. I don’t want to become a couch potato, so I’ll probably go to my friend’s house. To get out of doing school work is a miracle! Not!

Hi, my name is Mary. I’m eleven years old and I am in year seven. I’m in a student in room three. My teacher is Mrs Garton and I’ve been in her class since last year. This is my second year in her class. Most of my friends are in the same class as I am. I enjoy being in Mrs Garton’s class. There are two Mary’s in the class. One is me and one is Mary E. It’s so annoying when people are calling you. Sometimes people get confuse which Mary is which. That’s why they call me Mary B and the other one Mary E. It’s easier that way.

Now let me tell you about my family and best friends. I am an only child. I live with my mum and dad. I use to live in the Philippines but I came here in New Zealand on 2008. My best friends are Therese, Caitlin, Clementine, and Sonia. I can always count on them when I have problems. They’re so fun to be with.

My favourite things to do are drawing and painting. I like drawing all sorts of things like cartoons and flowers. I like playing with colours and I like mixing colours. I also like marbling. Sometimes  the colours end  up pretty colourful and sometimes they look horrible. My favourite colours are blue,purple and green.

My favourite things to do at school are reading and blogging. My favourite books are Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Violet Wings. I like blogging because I can write posts on my blog. I also like writing comments on other peoples blogs. I have a goal for reading. My goal is to read five books this term. I’ve read four books so far. Our class is doing a Book Talk this term. The book that I’ve chosen for my Book Talk was Violet Wings.

I hope you like reading some details about me. Maybe you have the same interests as I do. I don’t have any pets if you were wondering! Most of the details I read on others peoples blogs  is that they have pets. Now, here are some questions for you. Do you have pets! Do you like drawing? What are your hobbies? I hope you will answer back.

What happened on Saturday March 17? It was St Patrick Twilight Fair. We celebrate St Patrick’s day every year in the school because we are a catholic school and the name our school is St Patrick. It’s a very special event at our school.

The event was being held on the field so the field was the first place I went to. There were many people there already. Some of them were wearing costumes. I could hardly recognizes them.I didn’t dress up. I’m not a big fan of dressing up, so I just wore mufti.

I crossed over and went inside the library. I got change into my Kapa Haka dress and lined up in the library. I was in the front row. We crossed over to the field. There were more amount of people when we got back to the field. I was nervous because my mum was coming to watch the performance. She usually don’t come to school and watch my performances but this year she came.

A man introduced us to the audience. I wasn’t sure who he was. The first song we sang was He Honore. We sang other songs like Oma Rapati and Nga Waka E Whitu. we didn’t sang loud enough and I was mucking up in some of the actions.The audience was shouting and clapping after we finished. I was so happy that it was over.

I quickly got back to the changing room and and got changed. I ran back to the field with Therese. My mum gave me some cash and went away. She was only there to see my performance. She went home right away. She said that the performance was excellent and she enjoyed watching it.

After that Therese and I were free to do what ever we want and buy what ever we want. We bought some candy floss, drinks, sausages and lollies. there was a long line so we had to wait for quite a while.

Later on Caitlin came and joined us because she couldn’t find Clementine. We watched the Irish dancing. Our friend Breellen was Irish dancing. It was awesome. After watching the Irish dancing Caitlin, Therese and I went in the bouncy castle. The cost was one dollar.The boys keep pushing us and jumping on us. They were so annoying so we decided to get out.

After that Caitlin, Therese and I went to the truck. It didn’t cost anything. I didn’t get to go with Caitlin and Therese. People keep screaming when they go up the little hill. After Caitlin and Therese got off we went to the shop. We bought lollies, toffe apples and ice cream. Therese had about three or four ice creams.

We didn’t even notice the time was. The fun was over. Caitlin went home. Therese and I were playing in the playground. Then she had to go home. I was tired with the running around so I also went home. I had so much fun with Caitlin and Therese. I can’t wait till next year’s St Patrick’s day!

It’s nearly St Patrick’s day. We celebrate St Patrick’s day every year on the 17th of March. It’s a very special day for our school because our school’s called St Patrick School. We play all sorts of games and we also do Kapa Haka and Jump Jam. Some of us are in the Kapa Haka group like I am. We’ve been practising for a lot of weeks for our big performance. On Friday we’re going to dress as our colours for our groups. I’m not sure what colour I am this year but last year I was yellow. On Saturday evening is the Twilight Fair. I’m in the Kapa Haka group so I have to go there earlier. I’m so excited! I can’t wait.

Do you know what my gift is? It’s art. I like drawing almost everything. Last week room three did a star that said what their talents were. Here are the instructions and the materials that you need.

Materials:

White paper
Black paper
Glue stick
Pencil
Rubber
Colored pencils
Felt pens
Sharpie
Scissors

Instructions:
Step1 Get a piece of white paper and draw a star on it.
Step2 Write your name in the middle of the star.
Step3 Write  your talent underneath your name. My one says come to Mary B if you need help with your artwork.
Step4 Decorate your star and make look interesting.
Step5 Outline on the edge of your star with a pen or a sharpie so it stands out.
Step6 Cut your star.
Step7 Glue your star on a black piece of paper.
Step8 Glue around the outside of the black paper and sprinkle some glitter on it.
Step9 Wait for it to dry in a couple of hours.

Now that you had followed all the instructions, you can show other people how to make it. It’s easy to do and it’s do much fun to make. Enjoy!

Today I was reading with my buddy. The book I was reading to her was called Were Nana. The book is about Stella Rose who’s always been frightened by her brother Simon. Now her babysitter is coming and Simon was telling horrible stories about her babysitter which was not true. Finally they went to the airport and they saw the  babysitter. Stella Rose didn’t want to hug her babysitter beacause she was scared that she would turn into a were nana hrself. The babysitter took of her coat and then Stella Rose saw nana’s real face. Stella Rose realised that Simon was lying to her. Nana whispered in Simon’s ear and said” You were right about one thing, my friend are witches and they have the perfect spell for bad brother’s”.

After that we read The Rainbow Fish. The book was about a rainbow fish and his friend playing in the ocean until they saw a huge whale looking at them. They said that the whale was eating all the krill. The fishes insulted the whale and the whale heard them and was a little hurt and later got angry. The fishes got frightened and was force to hide in the cave. Rainbow fish said that they should talk to the whale but no one wanted to to talk to the whale because they were too scared. So rainbow fish went up and talked to the whale and and became friends with each other.They went off and found a place that has plenty of krills to eat.

I had lots of fun and reading to my buddy and I hope she enjoyed it too. I mucked up on a lot of words while I was reading, but I didn’t mind it anyway. I’ve read Were Nana and the Rainbow Fish back when I was in year4. One thing I have to practise on is to read clearly while reading to with another person.