What it means to be ‘Successful’

What it means to be successful is when When you finish your work and complete during class time.  Achieving level 1, 2 and 3. Achieving your goals. Making right choices and decisions. Their are many people who are successful in their own way. e.g, J.R.R Tolkien. He is successful because he has achieved his goal by writing books like the Hobbit and the Lord of the rings series. I really like the books he wrote, it was so mysterious and had interesting objects, like the ring, the four wizards, the two towers etc. Successful can mean anything like Leadership, Hard working team, Business, Innovation etc.

What it means to be successful is when you finish your work in time and not playing around, you can play games when you finished your work. In able to help your self be successful you can Believe yourself that you can do it, loyalty, being humble, persistence, thinking about great ideas and keep trying if you keep failing.

River Talks

Today we went to the River talks in Auckland, Glenn Innes. We there with 9KRO. The River talks were close to the school so we walked to the River talks. The other school that were there was, Point England, Glenn Taylor and Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Puau Te MoanaNuia A Kiwa. We went to the river talks because we needed to clean the creeks and save the animal sea life in the river.

We watched cultural performances. We saw a Tongan group singing about the river and how we can save it. There was also a Cook Island group and a Maori group who also talked about the river and how to clean it.
 

Sponsor

Dear Glenbrae School Community,

I am student from Glenbrae School. We are fundraising for our year 8 leavers gear and graduation. We are volunteering to help clean up the Glenbrae Reserve and creek. Some of the money is going towards the year 7 camp next year. I appreciate it if you sponsor us. If you do sponsor us, thank you very much because you are doing a big job of helping us.

Kiwi Sport

Today we played Touch for our Kiwi Sport. Our coach didn't teach us that much because some of my classmates didn't focus and was not listening to the coach. We played two games. First we played a game where everyone has to stand in a circle and pass 10 or 9 balls around the circle clockwise. Who ever touched the ball had to run around the park fast so we could play some more. The second game we played was Touch, but we changed the rules a bit. We were aloud to pass after getting touched, we were aloud to kick anytime.

We practised playing the ball and passing it back to the the person who got touched. We also learned how to play the ball and quickly so we could get back. Some of the people didn't get back quick enough, so we taught them.

We really had fun playing Touch and learning new skills about Touch.

Maths

Today we had a very confusing geometry lesson. I had two partners to work with. It was Mateaki and Alfred. We worked on maths problem called Carries Cubes. Each side had 9 smaller squares. There was 6 sides. We had work on these questions below. We got the answers. We solved it by drawing dots to make sure everything was right.

How many of the original small cubes have:

1. three faces painted red = 8

2. two faces painted red = 12

3. one face painted red = 6

4. no faces painted red = 1

This is a photo of Alfred, Mateaki and Me working out the problems.

Glenbrae Kids

Today room 7 went to the Glenbrae. We walked there with cool books so we could read to them. When we got there, there was a lot of little kids. Some of the kids were happy, naughty, playful and shy. My kid that I chose to stay with, was Brittney. Brittney was one of the naughty kids but I still liked her even though she was running away from us and hiding from me. Brittney didn't want to read a book because she was to young. I was about to read her the book Astarons. Sadly when we were playing we had to leave because we had to go back to school. She was still happy because she had a new friend Tati.

Argentina

Today we are learning about Argentina. We are learning about their foods, Capital, Sport, Dancing, Music and many other thing about Argentina. 

Argentina has very yummy foods like Asado or Chimichurri. Argentina has yum desserts as well. They have tasty chocolate cakes and chocolate muffins. Argentina's foods are very creative. They make their own foods and games. 

There are millions of people in Argentina. There is about 43, 995, 357 people in Argentina right now. Argentina is about 2.78 km² wide. Argentina's capital is 203.3 km²  wide.

There are a lot of people in Argentina. Argentina is on the top of my to do list because one day I would like to visit Argentina when I am older and have permission to go with my younger brothers and friends. Here is a picture below that was taken in Argentina.