Novel study

For the last few weeks Rimu has been doing Novel study. I Did my novel study on if I stay. My book is about a girl who has a car crash and all her family dies but her and she is having an out of body experience. We had to do a certain amount of activities. My favorite activity was doing the dust cover. The thing I found the hardest was doing the blurb because I wanted it to sound like the author wrote it. Otherwise I think I did really well on my novel study. The one thing I would do different is my dust cover. Have you ever done novel study in your class?

Canta Maths

This year the year 6s were allowed to do Canta Maths. I chose to do a brochure for a family holiday to Rio. My favourite bit about Canta Maths was decorating the brochure. I put a parrot and a statue on my brochure. The hardest part was work out all the maths for how much the trip was going to cost. I chose to have 5 star hotel and business class for my plane. I found it really fun because we got to choose our plane and hotel. I wish we could have worked in a group though. I wonder if next year's Canta Maths will be harder? I very much enjoyed Canta Maths and cannot wait to next year's Canta Maths.

Digi Awards

Every year Rimu enters the Digi awards. The theme this year was 'Be the Change'. I was in a group with Evie and Ariana. We did a video about bullying and how you could be the change. We chose to do an i-Movie. Evie was the bully and Ariana was the hero and I was the victim. The thing we found the hardest was when Evie did not agree with us on the video idea. My favourite bit about the Digi Awards was watching the video at the  end. We did not place anywhere but we did have a lot of fun. I can not wait till next year's Digi Awards! I wonder what next years Digi Awards theme will be?

Smoking should be iIlegal

In the last few weeks Rimu have been learning to write speeches. My speech is about how smoking should be illegal. The reason I chose my topic is that  I think smoking is a horrible habit that  must be stopped. I was focusing on persuasive writing and showing my listener that smoking should be illegal and why. My favourite bit about writing my speech was presenting it in front of the class. The thing I think I did the best was looking up when I was presenting. The thing I think should work on was doing more hand movements and being a bit louder. Otherwise I think I did really well on my speech and I can not wait till next year speeches.

Cycle safe!

Cycle safe

This week we have been doing Cycle Safe. I think I did really well on my signals but I need work on knowing where to bike on the road and biking straight when I do my signals. The thing I most enjoyed was riding on the road and weaving around cones I learnt that is good to be pushed past your limit when you’re on your bike. I think my next steps are to be more confident on the road and making sure I do the 'lifesaver look' closer to the footpath. I thought Cycle Safe was really fun this year and I can’t wait till next year’s Cycle Safe.