Joshua T @ Ngatea Primary School

For art this term I did a 3D letter art. I did a 3D J because my name starts with J and we had to personalize our letter. I personalized my letter by putting a few photos of me playing rugby and I made some cardboard rugby balls, and a goal post. I had a light green background for my letter and I enjoyed doing 3D letters because I had lots of fun.

On Friday the 11th of September my school had a Student Conference Day. Our Student Conference is about choosing 4 workshops that were on a booklet that you get given and you choose what you want to do. You get 3 options for one breakout just in case you don't get your first or second choice. My first workshop that I went to was the technology challenge. We got into a group of four and in my group there was Luke, Heath, Nathan and Ryan. We had to use 1 metre of string, 20 spaghetti sticks, and 1 metre of tape. We had to build the tallest structure and make it stand with a marshmallow on top. The structure we made wasn't stable so it fell. The tallest structure ever in the world was built by kindergarten kids, I think the structure the kindergarten kids made was 180cm.  After that it was morning tea and there was a tuck shop, I bought a top deck chocolate bar and the next workshop I did was hot dog pasta. First we had to cut a hot dog sausage into about 4 equal sizes. Then we ...

Today for iDrive I did basketball shots with Mason, Heath, Luke and Finn. We played for about an hour and a half, we also made the hoops go up so its higher and it goes down so its lower.  My favourite part was when I took a shot from a far distance. The skills we needed were having fun, and the learning powers are being me. The being me learning power is because you need to choose your attitude. We played a game of basketball and it was Finn and me against Heath, Luke and Mason. The  score was 10 to us and 12 to them.