Joshua T @ Ngatea Primary School

In New Zealand Labour day is a public holiday and it is the fourth Monday in October. We have this day off because of a carpenter by the name of Samuel Parnell who came to work in New Zealand in 1840 and  refused to work more than eight hours a day. He fought to have the eight hour day in Wellington and won the right. Many workers that live in New Zealand take the spare time to relax and go away on the long weekend. Labour day was first celebrated on October, 28, 1890 in New Zealand.

In the holidays I went to play golf with my dad and brothers and I also went to the park to play with my friend Mason. On Wednesday the 30th of September we played golf and did the first ten holes. My favourite hole to play on is hole two because it is a short and  an easy hole. I saw my friend Nathan their playing golf aswell. I used a driver to tee off at all holes because that is what you are supposed to use and after that I used a iron because you always use it once you have teed off with your driver. Then I used a picture because you use it when you are close to the green and I used a putter to hit my ball onto the green. A putter is used to putt the ball into the hole. I enjoyed playing golf with my brothers and my dad. I went to the Ngatea park to play with my friend Mason and first we played tackle ball rush. There were two of my brothers playing and Mason’s sister and brother playing. First in was Mason’s brother and he tackled one of my brothers. They then tackled my ot...

Today for iDrive I did role-play with Nathan, Luke, Heath and Finn. Our play name was The Crazy Farm because there is a cow listening to music and a milk tanker guy riding a bull. The skills I needed were collaboration and communication. I used collaboration because we had to  work  as a team and I used communication because we had to communicate a lot. The learning power I used was resilience because we made mistakes and it is ok to make mistakes. I enjoyed doing the play.      

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 ...