Stanly's Learning journey

Kia Ora, This term we did lots of fun stuff like production, planting, Eel painting and lots more

Kia Ora,  This term we have been doing lots of things like Cross Country, Mai FM Basketball, Middleton Grange HS Music, Mrs Coppell’s Birthday, Pink Shirt day, Sparkle day, Mr Chitty - Deep Sea Diving, Winter Sport, And lots more. I’m going to pick two or three and write about them.  Cross Country Cross Country was a great race, At the start I had butterflies. Joshua Won, Liam Came 2, Charlie came 3rd, and I came 4th. In the end, Me and Charlie were so close but he just bet me by a centimetre. Mai FM Basketball On Tuesday the Canterbury Rams came to our school to teach us so basketball. Mai FM was giving away freebies like Tickets to games, Wristbands, and Pizza vouchers. Mr Chitty - Deep Sea Diving First Mr Chitty showed the Batten team some photos of fish like Clownfish, Some eels, and lots more. Then Charlie and Sophie put on some diving gear. Thanks For Reading, Stanly

This week I've done a lot of things like Matts Eel visit on Thursday, on Friday we did Twitter chapter chat, and on Friday we had our global play day. Today I'm going to be telling you about our global play day. At global play day time, I did painting with Manu, James, Charlie and Isaac. We where painting DJ stuff for Me, Maun and James's concert? Manu is the DJ and me and James work for him. First Me, Charlie, James, and Isaac painted the DJ booth while Manu paints the mask. After we finished the booth I made a suggestion box for ideas for Manu's name. Isaac made a ticket box. Today was fun, bye. Thanks for reading, Stanly😜

Term one reflection Hi, This term I have done a lot of things like the Batten and Hillary hub eel trip, swimming sports, walk or wheel day, tidying the good life, global play day, science in a van, Don the eel man and talked to Batten team about eels, learn NZ webinar, Phil and Janet's visit about South Sudan, Korfball, Miss O'Donnell's birthday, Matt and Bridget's visit about eels, Refugee Day, mindfulness and sphero's. A lot of things ah. I'm going to pick two or three things to tell you about. Swimming sports:                                                             G lobal play day: I loved swimming sports. It is all                                                             Global play day is about about having fun I reckon. I came                                                            playing with other friends  seventh in freestyle, fourth in the                                                             and not with electronic bac

I live in a refugee camp in Juba, my best friend is Liam. Every morning I walk to school with Liam every day. School is very fun, my favorite sport is volleyball. Me and Liam are a great team but, sadly Liam got hit in the head with the ball. My house is 2m by 2m, very small ah. The long drop (toilet) is 5 minutes away. I am very hot and hard to get to sleep. My mum's very tired of not getting to sleep. My biggest wish is to have heaps of rain, lots of food, clothes, water, and sleep. When I say sleep I really mean sleep, especially for mum. Thanks, Stan😎😜

Korfball On the 25th march of the did this game called Korfball. if you don't know how you play I will tell you right now. So there are four people on a team two girls and two boys. you are allowed to go to me 5 meters behind the hoop, if you do great defense it is handover ball, you are not allowed to hit the ball out of people's hands and well I guess you have to get goals like basketball.

Don the Eel man On Friday 22nd of March, Jack delacas grandad Don came to school to talk to the Batten team and Hillary hub about Eels. First Don told us about the longest Eel he has ever caught.  It was two meters long and  about 45 cm wide. Next, he told us some facts. So here are some facts. Eels are slimy. Eels eat ducklings and little birds. Long fins are very easy to catch. Eel lay their eggs in Tonga. Eels can swim 4,000 meters in 5 months. The oldest eel is 112 years old. Don tells how old the eel is by taking out its ear bone and seeing how many lines there. Short fins can eat crabs. Eels can swim back and forwards. After an eel eats a crab it gets a red butox. I hope you learned a lot Thanks, Stanly

On Thursday 21 of March 2 people called Janet and Phil came to see the batten team. They told us all about south Sudan because the batten team is learning all about south Sudan for lent. First they old us about water, they get there drinking water from the Nile river which runs straight through Sudan and South Sudan. They have to filter it because it is a little bit dirty. Then they started to tell us about money. $100 in south Sudan is 30¢ in NZ. Then they told us about their job. Janet converts Bibles into different languages and in her spare time she watches doctor who on her laptop. Phil MAF which means Mission Aviation Fellowship. I hope you learned a bit about south Sudan. Thanks, Stanly

On the Friday the 1st of march, the year 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s and 8s went to swimming sports. The year 5 boys raced first then the girls and it went on to year 8. Then it was backstroke in the same order and the same with breaststroke. I came 5th in freestyle, 3rd in backstroke ended up going to the finals and 3 in breaststroke. I was very happy with myself. The relay ended up getting cancelled. Then we went back to school. Thanks, Stanly

Water will never run out On  the 19 of march, the Batten team did a video chat about water. Water will never run out because we have aquifers underground which has lots of water. The water gets there because water from go's rivers down through the rocks, through the dirt and into the aquifers. During that process the water gets filtered and cleaned. The two sorts of aquifers are unconfined aquifer and a confined aquifer. Unconfined aquifer means water can get out in two streams, rivers and lakes and a confined aquifer means water can't get out in two streams, rivers and lakes.

Eel trip On the Thursday the 7th of march, the year 5, 6, 7 and 8 went to the Heathcote river at centennial park. The 2 people already there where Matt, Tony and Bridget. Me, Manu, Cam and Jay where a group. First we did nature art, my group made an Eel out of rocks, sticks, and sand. After that we had morning tea. Next we went with Tony. We went down along next to the river talking about Eels habitats, plants and overhangs. Next we went to Mrs welsh. We had to go and find little tubes with blue on it and 2 other bits. After that we had lunch. Next we had then we went and touched Eels, catch whitebait and play a big board game with Bridget. Last but not lest we got to catch water buds. The one we got the most were stick insects. Then we went back to school. Thanks for reading, Stanly 😀😃

  On the 20th of February we had science in a van come to school. Finally it was our turn to go see science in a van. The two people there were Emma and Allin When we got there Emma was telling us about forces and mass. They then got Mr Grant and Amelia Cody to come up. Mr grant was big horse and Amelia was small horse. They had to carry a big bag of dog food. Amelia could lift it pretty high but, Mr grant could lift it higher. After that we got to launch and chicken called Steve up a string on a l&P bottle. What we did was connected the bottle to a bike pump and pumped up and down and then it flew off, didn't go far enough so we connected a bigger bottle. When it flew off everybody was saying go steve go steve he just made it.  Thanks  Stanly😃 

Kia Ora,  Last week we had global play day. I played French cricket with Robby James Harrison David and Me. Then the ball went on the roof so we had to go play something else. Then I went and played hot wheels. I was the one at the end watching the cars come down and see where they landed. Ollie's car went the furthest. I can not wait till next Friday so I can bring my own cars.  Thanks for reading, Stanly😎😃

Kia ora, Welcome to my blog! This is where I'll put my work so that you can read it, and comment. Thanks for reading, Stanly