My recount about the night of the William Pike Challenge launch.

My recount about the night of the William Pike Challenge launch.

It was the evening of the 8th of March, when the William Pike Challenge was being launched and it was meet the teacher, so my class called Rimu class had made a evening meal for our parents and us to eat and William Pike himself was there!

Then we had William Pike talk about how he lost his leg and what happened in his life after that. I volunteered to clean his metallic leg, which meant I got a copy of his book for free!

At the end, we were told that in a couple of weeks we are going surfing and then I went home. At the end of the evening I thought had a pretty good day.

Wonder is in 1st person

Last week, my class had find out what perspective was the story ‘Wonder’ was written in. (‘Wonder’ was written by R.J Palacio.) To do this, we had to do our own essays and use examples from the text, also we found quotes to back up what we thought. It had to have an introduction and an conclusion. Overall, I liked ‘Wonder’ so much, that I can’t wait to read more of ‘Wonder’. Please enjoy this.

‘Wonder’ is a story about a boy who feels ordinary on the inside, but he is always reminded of how different he is by how people respond when they see him. This is R.J Palacio’s first novel and it is written in the 1st person.

This paragraph at the start of the book is in first person because August says “I know I’m not an ordinary ten year old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I have an XBox.”

This paragraph near the end of the first page is still in first person because august says “But I’m kind of used to how I look by now. I know how to pretend I don’t see the faces people make.”

This paragraph is at the chapter ‘Jack Will, Julian and Charlotte’ but yet, it is again first person because August says “Next week I start fifth grade. Since I’ve never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified.”

Therefore, I think that Palacio has used the first person point of view in her story  ‘Wonder.’

My mihimihi

In the first two weeks of school, Rimu class learnt how to create and say our mihi in Māori. This is our introduction to our class and community. We also created a ‘visual mihimihi’ artwork to accompany our speeches. Each visual mihimihi had to have 3 parts to it:

1. A self portrait or a photo
2. Places of significance to us
3. Symbols or pictures that re present our culture

Those of us who spoke clearly, confidently with excellent pronunciation with great visuals and layout scored well on our rubric. Take a look at my mihi and tell us what you think about it.

My 2nd animation: MINECRAFT paradise!

My new animation: The terror of the evil man!!!

Grip leadership course

On Thursday, some of my class and I went to the Grip leadership course and we learned how to be a leader

and that you stand up if there is a opportunity, for what is right, for others and for yourself and that you can be generous with your time, your treasure and your talent and the fact you could use paper, scissors, rock for an example of a leader, paper = create a plan, scissors = take action and rock = stay strong.

Hatchet silent film

this is a silent movie of my novel study book, hatchet, this silent film was made by Cyriss, Cayde and me.

I hope you enjoy it. :-I)