Ni hao!

Learning Intention: We are learning to greet others in Mandarin. 

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record basic greetings in Mandarin using Blabberize.

The Greenhouse Effect

A kind-hearted teacher!

Looking for a teacher :

I am looking for a teacher that can teach many things just like Jesus taught the people and his Apostles. A teacher that is able to use a variety of ways to teach. A teacher that is able to teach so that the people could follow on what Jesus did like being kind, showing love and reaching out to help the poor and those in need.

Walht: incorporate the qualities that Jesus would look for in an apostle to continue spreading the word of God today.

Mary is now with her son, Jesus!

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand about the 'Assumption of Mary'.

Facing and Meeting Challenges - Camp 2017

Giant Ladders:

It was a very cold day, however, the sun came out most of the time on for our camp challenge on Friday the 23rd of June 2017

The long-awaited day had finally arrived and all the Room 8 students went to Camp at Long Bay known as MERC (Marine Education Reserve Centre)  All students arrived at Camp and started off the day with an introduction.

The students were split into two groups. Both groups did the same activities but were rotated across these at different times. Before we set off with our groups to do our first activities, we were introduced to our instructors, Akari and Jono.

As Akari and Jono talked to us about MERC and asked us questions, they also talked to us about our first two activities.

Abseiling was my group's first activity. I felt very scared so I cried in tears because I thought I could not make it to the top and to the bottom. But really, we only had to climb down and that was it. The wall did not look that high but when I stood up at the top it was REALLY high. When It was my turn, I felt super scared so I just went slowly and slowly until in shock, my foot touched the ground. I felt amazed that I made it to the bottom with a little bit of encouragement and tears.

When it was my group's turn for the Giant Ladders, I felt afraid because I thought that I would not make it to the top, it really was high up and each step was further away from the previous one.  Our instructor Akari, gave the instructions of how giant ladder works and how to put on our gear such as the harness and the helmet. There were many importances of each gear, so we had to listen very carefully. The harness was a bit different to the harness we wore during abseiling.

As the minutes felt as seconds, it was my TURN to climb up the really giant long ladder. My partner and I helped each other out when we needed help because it was a bit tricky for us to climb. We climbed up and up with help and encouragement. However, we couldn't make it to the top but at least we made it just to the one before the top ladder. It was now time for us to climb back down to the ground just like a frog. It was really hard and scary for me because I thought I would fall, however, the anchor people were holding me safely and tightly. As I climbed up, I was a bit happy because I was climbing up really long giant ladders

At last, I felt like a champion climbing up and down just like I’d climbed up on a normal ladder! And I also felt happy that I climbed and achieved my goals for the day, I had faced the challenges and overcome my fear!

Blossom will be able to move soon!

WALT inform my audience about what we did at technicraft.

Again the students continued making their movable feature. By making a movable feature, this included painting and outlining the character. By outlining our character, we used a burner which burns the outline of the character.

Students then made themselves split into different groups, a painting group, students waiting to use the burner and another group of students waiting to use the scroll saw. A scroll saw is a tool used for cutting out wood into the shape that is wanted.

It did not take a long time for the students to paint their character but it did take a long time for the paint to dry. A lot of students were in line for using the scroll saw and the burner because they worked hard to finish the drawing of the character. Some students

had to wait patiently to use the burner or the scroll saw.

As minutes felt like seconds, students were able to make another one because they worked hard to finish their first movable feature. Making a movable feature was very difficult because the size of the character needed to be big so that it could be easy to make one part of the character movable.

The movable feature made a really good outcome. However, the movable feature was not to be taken home because most of the nuts and bolts were not in as well as it needed to be dry because the spray was very wet and sticky.

It was now time to pack up. Students picked up the rubbish, swept the floor and cleared out all table and the floor to check if there was any big rubbish on the floor. Rubbish all around the room needed to be picked up and into the bin because it would looked untidy because all the rubbish were all over the floor especially under the scroll saw and the tables.

The Bible Leads Me!