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Saturday 29th December I know i am no longer a student at Mercer School but i know that i am still a family member at Mercer. We are just a big family that just keeps growing, and as faces go new faces come. not replacing the old ones but just extending the family. Thank you to everyone at Mercer for making the last 8 years of my life amazing. Thank you Mr.T for being the best principal we have ever had. Mercer has to share you though aye. Thankyou to every one who has been reading this blog and my blogger one. I'ts going to be really scary, interesting and exciting going from a school of 24 to a school of i dunno 300! I'm really going to miss Mercer and all the amazing opportunities it has given me. Im still going to follow my dreams though and make the most of college. im going to be the best person i can because my name is my virtue. Im going to be dux and head girl (hopefully). I want to go to Waikato University and be a teacher. My motto is life is what you make of it so make the most of it! Thank-You for everything this will most likley be my last post. oh but before i go i've been reading a little E.E Cummings poetry and i saw this and it just made me really happy because i know i have courage;

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― E.E Cummings

Monday 26th November Latley we have been practicing softball in the aftenoons. For us to play good we have to work as a team, work together and go like a well oiled machine. We cooperate so that we can perform our best. when playing softball we cooperate b not getting the ball then running it in, we throw it to other team members and it gets in quicker and we get someone out. Now see if i tried running it in i wouldn't get there quick enough, the other team would get a home run and i would become angry that i didn't get there in time + my team would be angry or fustrated at me too, Then i wouldn't want to play.
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Even though you might not feel like it its always good to participate in all the activites you can because someday you wont be able to! We mainly want to focus on good thing to participate in like sports and games, school and conversations. if there is somthing bad like a fight you can participate in that too, not as a fighter or just an onlooker but someone who will stop the fight and help the people who were fighting. You still had a part in the fight but you had a good and helpful part. Participation doesn't just apply in sports or games but in many other things to. If a box is falling and you caught it you participated in saving the box didn't you? Some people chose bad ways to be involved but thats not what we are looking at. Participate in any good way you can and i can almost gaurentee one day the favour will be repayed.
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We always have to think about what we are doing before we actually do it. Our thinking skills are always turned on but we dont always use it and say or do silly things. Thinking skills apply when we are working in the classroom on our usual daily tasks and outside too. We shouldn't change our behavior when we leave the class room to be "//Cool//". Our good behavior should apply everywhere and our thinking skills should always be turned on and us thinking about what we are doing and why we are doing it.
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Being a self manager is something you will now and always need to have. It will help you keep organised and ready. Self managing is somthing you are going to have to be throughout your whole like and is a great skill to have. It will keep you more preapared. We have to be self maaging in class by having pens or pencils, rulers and rubbers ready. To be self managing is great and if you want to be a leader this is a good skill to have.
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Friday 16th November Reading- Reading is been great this week and the last because we are reading much more interesting stories which i love because it keeps me hooked on the story. I am reading a really greeat story called horse apples. it is a really good story and has some really funny bits in it. Its not like the usual stories i read but it still is a fantastic book. The writer captures youy and pulls you into the story, you just cant stop reading and have to turn the page so you can read more! its fantastic. A really good bit in the story was how they are using everything we have been learning in writing, such as : personifacations, idioms, complex and compound sentences and F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. Writing- we are using story starters to come up wirth ideas about writing. I got write a T.V somercial about a handsome movie star who rides a giant sloth to work. When i finish making it i will post it up next to this eentry and/or in the work folder. We are still using conjunctions, compound and comples sentences in our writing and that is our main topic. Maths- WALT- add fractions then turn them into decimals. Its prety easy work but i need to keep working on my maths because im below standard. :( I got my test results back from the college i am going to next week. I got really good in writing (YUSS) i got really good in reading too (WOOP WOOP) but im in the cabbage class for maths. Im not worrying about being in cabbage class because at least i will be working at my own level and it will be what i need to be working on not somthing hard that will take me forever to get. its better then being in the smart class and getting put down a level, right?

Friday 2nd November. For reading we are learning to find important information to form our own opinions about an article and show we understand what we are reading. I enjoy doing this because we use the i-pad or i-pods to look at the herald or stuff. In writing we are looking at complex and compound sentences and i really like this because we have learnt lots, such as F.A.N.B.O.Y.S which is an acronam for our 7 conjunctions. we have learnt all about subordanite and main clauses. Learning about this and using these in our writing makes it more interesting to read because when we write we write for an audiance and what audiance wants to read or listen to a boring story? In maths we are learning about exponants, although wwe just started i already know alot about exponants because when my brother did i9t in college he taught me about it because he liked them. I think i am doing good at school becasue i am moving myself away and not letting others distract me. Sometimes i lose track though and go off topic but most of the time i get my work done. we have athletics next friday and i am looking forward to that. I have entered into discuis and long jump and a few sprints. On tuesday i went into hospital for an operation on my arm.

Friday 21st September This week in Maths i have been learning how to turn fractions into decimals. Its not to hard and i enjoy doing this work. The bookwork is fun and i have completed most of it and have moved myself from others who will distract me in maths. If i want to be a techer i will have to know how to do this. I will not only need to know it so i can teach my students but when im marking work or doing other paperwork for the school.

For Writing this week i have been learning about personifacations, smilies, metaphors and idioms. We actually use these figures of speech eeryday but we dont realise it. Mr.T said that if you hear someone say one then say "hey, you used an __!" so that you can reconise it and so they can too! We had to write a story using thses figures of speech. We could write in any jonra we wanted-so i wrote a play.

In reading we have been learning how to retell a story. At the moment we are reading a comic. its is really funny and quite interesting. I enjoy reading this book.

TOPIC -Maori; we are buling maori pa's and writing plays in maori. -music; we are doing a guitar hero band manager. we have to complet loads of different tasks. i will post it when i have finished. -plays- we have decided to perform our big play next term but do our small plays this term. hopefully they get videoed and i can publish it on here.

Friday 7th September This week have been practising really hard on our play. Our play is called little red hoodie and i am the wolf. We have had Mrs Beere nearly all week and only had Mr T twice. On Monday we worked on our Maori PAs it was really fun. After morning tea we come into class and do our times table sheets we have to finish 100 x tables in 8 inutes or less. when we first started doing this it took me 8 minutes but i have slowly improved and it is taking me around 5 minutes now and i am slowly improving bythe day which is making me proud and happy. We are doing jump rope for heart and it is really fun but somtimes when i skip it hurts me wrist but i like doing the big rope and can go for ages i like i can do teddy bear. i like skipping alot. in the weekend we are going to my Auntys house and we are going to go funraising with her kids on our bikes. I love going to their house especially because Saturday is takeaway night! I got a letter from the hospital confirming my operation date and sening me my x-rays.my arm keeps getting bumped at school and it really hurts but at home when they get bumped it hurts too but mum puts some nice cream on it so it wont hurt as long. My scras are really visable now.

Monday 13th August In the holidays i went to Opal Hot Springs and Camping ground in Matamata with my Aunty Vicky and her 9 year old daughter and her 13 year old son. I loved that holiday because we had so much fun; building huts and swimming, riding bikes and staying up late. We stayed in a cabin. Onour last night there we were playing spotlight when i fell down some stairs and broke my arm. I got taken to the hospiltal by an ambulance i was in the hospital for 5 nights and 6 days and on nil by mouth for 3 days.

With Mr.T we are learning about how the music industry works and we have a variety of fun tasks to complete such as making band shirts, designing cds and tickets and other un things to make and do. We are als learning Te Reo Maori and how to write and play music. With Mrs.Beere we are doing productin and performance. We are doing a play called Lil Red Hoodie. I have really improved my times tables i know becvause all my work is easier and i can do it faster and more answers are right.

This term has been really fun. I am excited that our school is growing and soon we are getting another teacher and another classroom. I have really enjoyed having more students because games are more fun and there are more than one game going on at a time. This term has been kind of busy with our R@W awards and Rippa rugby. I really enjoyed this term because of all the fun things we have done. At tech I made a C02 car I got two races I won one race and lost one race. It was kind of easy to make. I painted it black then put a pin stripe down the middle. It has the number 16 on it and is called Baxter. I burnt my hand at Tech and it really hurt. \ (*_*)/ Our topic with Mrs. Beere is the Pacific islands. My topic was Pacific island churches. Here is what I made;

Friday 1st June In maths we are learning to multiply a 3 or 2 digit number by a 2 digit number, at first i found this hard but now it's actually quite easy. In reading we are reading a book called Rocco, it is very interesting and i likehowitisdifferet frommoststories i read. Rocco has a different text than most books and ilike itfor that reason. For writing we are doing explanations it is very fun i like writing.

R@W is very fun. Niskyla and I are working on a advertisement together. We are doing pretty good and im proud of our work. i just have to take the pictures for my claymation then edit it.

This weekend Mum, Dad, Lucy and i are going to Rotarua. We are staying in a fancy hotel and then we are going lugeing and other fun stuff. Bax is going to his mums, Das and Jen are going with my couisin Graydey and Jussie and Tommy is in Parmy with Lana. I am really looking forward to our weekend.

Friday 18th May This week i have learnt what algorithm is and how to do it. I still need practise but i am getting better. Somtimes it fustrates me because my expanded it somtimes a different answer to my algorithm which made me mad and not wanting to do my maths. I am happy at school because we are doing fun things. Our topic with Mrs.Beere is fun, it is the pacific islands. On Thursday we had and Island food day. it was really really yum and fun. R@WAWARDS are back again and we are having fun creating clamations, comic strips and more. Our R@W topic is higher, faster, stronger. I Enjoy coming to school because we have very creative teachers who always think of fun ways for us to do our work, homework and at make coming to school fun, everyday even if im not feeling so well i stil try to come to school to learn because we have such wonderful teachers who will help us when we need it and diciplin us when we need it. School is such an amazing place when it is like being with a family and that is exactly what our school is like and i love and cherish that so much!

My Holiday

Easter

My whole family including Dassy’s and Debb’s partners went to Sailors Grave Beach in Tairua. It was fantastic. The water was really fun because of how rough it was. When we got there I felt like crying because rubbish from the Rena had washed up and ruined my favourite beach in the world!!!! There was Mi Goreng noddle packets everywhere and the little white freshening balls where everywhere. While Lu, Dad the boys and myself went diving, Mum, Jen and Baxxy helped clean up the beach. On the way back home we stopped off and we all got a passion fruit ice-cream. J

Week one

We had my cousin, Hannah, over. That was really fun we played heaps of games. We came to school and played on our bikes. We set up the tent and stayed in that and had heaps of fun. I and Hannah gave the dolls haircuts. While mum was at work she dropped me, Han and Lucy off at the movies. We saw Pirates band of misfits. It was the best animated movie I had ever seen. Dad said when it comes out on DVD he will get it for me.

Week Two

Lucy went to Aunty Vicky’s house. I stayed home and went to work with mum and dad. It was fun because I did whatever I wanted. My brother Thomas’s friend came over with his six month old daughter. I played with her while the others talked it was really fun. Every time I ate it was takeaways! On the last day Debbie took Me, Lu and Baxxy to Miranda hot pools.

In the past term Mercer School had Mr. Ethan Parker come in and tech us TaeKwon-Do. In our last lesson we were breaking boards. We had to use our high flying kick and our front snap kick. I broke the board twice and most of the other kids did too. It was a great experience and I would love to keep doing TaeKwon-Do. It is a great sport because everyone shows respect for one and other and everyone is treated the same. The sport is great because it’s such a disciplined sport by that I mean everyone is disciplined.

Yesterday Jacqui Sharp came to our school for a Duffy assembly. She is really smart and adventurous. She is funny too. She gave me two cool books; Titanic and Movie Stars Unauthorized. She showed us a really cool presentation about her life. She started up a cool Monarch Butterfly Trust to save the Monarch Butterflies of NZ. You can help by tagging them go to her website; [|www.monarch.org.nz]. So you can help save the lives of butterflies.

<span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Friday 17th Febuary 2012 <span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I'm learning about Ancient Rome. It is a very fun topic to learn about because its something i have never done before. I like listening to the ancient rome myths. <span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I'm learning about this topic because it is a good and somday helpful topic to learn about. <span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I want to learn more about the myths of rome because they intrest me and i like learning about the way things came about. <span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week i really enjoyed learning about Ancient Rome and the countrys they ruled. <span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This weekend I'm going to Miranda Hot Springs and to my Uncle Steven's house. My dad is going to Seden park 20/20 cricket. <span style="color: #0059ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next week i am looking forward to our topic with Mr.T and art with Mrs. Beere.

<span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Friday 9th December <span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week we went on a school camp out at the port. We stayed at Mr.T's batch. From Monday to Wednesday it was only the seniors then from Wednesday to Friday the juniors came along. In my tent was Lucy, Megan and me. We had a sleeping tent and a clothes tent. This week was really cool because: <span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Monday : We set up the site. We set up the tents, the toilet, the shower, the marquee and the food. After we finished setting up we went and had a swim. We had to walk throuh shin deep mud to get to the dunes to have a swim. When we got back we had afternoon tea and got our fishing gear ready to go out again and try our luck with the fish. Its now 9:00 and we are heading to the reserve to play spotlight!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tuesday: <span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's about 8:00 in the morning and we are going to climb a really massive mountain. We went swiming again after morningtea and we played on the dunes. Alot of the girls got chafing. We also took out the kayaks but when i had a go i wasn't strong enough to handle the big one so my brother came and saved me. We went to the reserve and played wave but we had to stop cause Mr.T, Lucy, Wayne, Trinity and Faith went floudering while Megan, Merls, Ava and I stayed home and watched gulivers travels on Mr.T's laptop. <span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Wednesday: We had to wake extra early to get ready for class kayaking today. Cj and Eden came and taught us how to kayak properley. It was easy in their kyaks because they were smaller. We paddled for a while then played games in the kayaks. Then after the seniors session was over then it was the juniors turn and the seniors had to walk home. When Mr.T got back he took us pipping while the juniors and Faith went fishing. We didn't get any pipis we only got cockels. when we got back everyone got cleand up. We had showers then we got ready for spotlight. <span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Thursday: We went to the surf life saving club to learn about beach ed. I had really bad chafing so I didn't stay in the water instead I made a couch for Sam. We had a cleanest tent comp and Megan, Lucy and I won so we got to have first dinner and first icecream. Spotlight again tonight. Then When we got home we rosted marsh mellows and told scary stories. Karen had the scariest cause it was true. <span style="color: #cf0ccd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Friday: We just packed up and left.

<span style="color: #f65e04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Friday 18th November <span style="color: #f65e04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I did pretty good at athletics: I came 2nd in two races and came 4th in two races. I learnt that i'm way better at short distance rather than long. Next year i will try to stay focused in events and running rather than getting distracted and talking to my friends and other people. <span style="color: #f65e04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Softball is coming up and we are hosting it here at Mercer School. I have played soft ball since year 4 or 5 and i am now year 7. I'm going to work on my catching skills and try to hit further. <span style="color: #f65e04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week we had Mrs. on Tuesday and Wednesday because Mr.T was sick. It was really fun cause we worked on our scrafito and on our plays. <span style="color: #f65e04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This weekend is gonna be cool cause Mum, Aunty Doni, Michela, Aunty Vicky, Kui Kui, Lucy and I are going roller skating in Mt Wellington.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Friday 11th November week 3 term 4 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With Mrs Hamilton we made a story map read the gruffalo book like 5 times or more we played games and had heaps of fun. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I can't wait till athletics because i think i'm going to do well and i wanna go to zone for long jump. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">i'm really looking forward to athletics next week!

<span style="color: #e005e1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Friday 4th November week 2 term 4 <span style="color: #e005e1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week i enjoyed working on Kodu because it was fun exploring the world of Kodu. <span style="color: #e005e1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week i learnt about working Kodu and lots about camp. <span style="color: #e005e1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I want to learn more about earthquakes because i am reading a book about earthquakes. <span style="color: #e005e1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the weekend we are going to our Uncle Chris's house to light our fireworks and have a BBQ and <span style="color: #e005e1; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">stuff its gonna be fun we are gonna do it tonight and might go roller skating in the weekend.

<span style="color: #5719b3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Friday 7th October week 10 term 3 <span style="color: #5719b3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I enjoyed doing my journal because i'm almost finished! <span style="color: #5719b3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week I learnt about blackholes, Did you know thast the blackhole was discovered in 1610 by Paul Butterworth. <span style="color: #5719b3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I want learn more about natrual disasters because of a book that i got for duffy. <span style="color: #5719b3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This holidays my Daddy has gone to china so Mum, Lucy and I are going to have a girls holidays and we are going to Whakatane then we are going down to Parmy to see Tom in the army. We are going to visit Tom in his new house and he will take us to the windmills! I'm so excited i just can't wait! Its going to rock! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

<span style="color: #f69728; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Friday 23rd September week 8 term 3 <span style="color: #f69728; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">This week i really enjoyed useing the solder iron and wireing up mine and Megan"s arcade, I also really loved skipping this week beacuse it was my first time going in the big rope and doing double dutch. <span style="color: #f69728; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I have learnt how to use the solder iron. It is really really hot! I have learnt heaps about the Milky Way as well. <span style="color: #f69728; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I want to know more about blackholes. <span style="color: #f69728; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">This weekend is going to be cool because 1. Debbie my sister is staying for the weekend and she is baby sitting us and 2. my Aunty Jackie, Uncle Tony and Jaime are coming home.

<span style="color: #9ef207; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Friday 9th September week 6 Term 3 <span style="color: #9ef207; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">This week i really enjoyed our days with Mrs Beere because we did alot on our journals, I really enjoyed this week. I also really enjoyed duffy theater this week because it was funny and fun! We also had zone cross country and arcade building that was so fun aswell! <span style="color: #9ef207; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I have learnt that it is really important to measure your pieces of wood right because if you don't it makes you leave places in the wood. <span style="color: #9ef207; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I want to know more about space and the real distants between the planets. <span style="color: #9ef207; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I am really looking forward to this weekend because its a chillax weekend we have got nothing on. <span style="color: #f34972; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">

<span style="color: #f34972; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Friday 11th August week 2 Term 3 <span style="color: #ff0039; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">This week i reallny enjoyed learning about open and closed circuts because it was interesting and new to me. <span style="color: #ff0039; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I have learnt alot about Papa and Rangi's story and about who their kids are and what they are gods of. It was also really good learning about Princess Te Puea and the maori queen with Whaia. <span style="color: #ff0039; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I want to know more about the slave lifes of the children in other countries beacuse i read a book that had a prince being kidnapped and was going to get taken to work as a slave. <span style="color: #ff0039; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I am really looking forward to this weekend because its my nephew Syrus's birthday and we are having a hangi also Thomas is coming up. Another thing i am happy about is our netball team is in the semi-finals which is really exciting for me!

<span style="color: #4acff7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Friday 19th August week 3 Term 2 <span style="color: #4acff7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">This week i really enjoyed pulling the computers apart and learning about what each part was. I also really enjoyed tech. <span style="color: #4acff7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I have learnt about what each part of a computer is and how it works. It was great because i didn't know anything about the parts of computers and what they do at the start of the week but now i know lots! <span style="color: #4acff7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">I want to lean more about gold, how much its worth and where it can be found and more. I want to know about gold because i read a book called gold diggers. <span style="color: #4acff7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">This weekend is all about relaxing, sleeping, computer and loads of T.V! (mums gone down to Rotorua for a netball tournament)