the sport of reading By: Iona McNaughton

This week my group has been reading a book this book is called
‘’the sport of reading’’ this book was about the catholic lit quiz
and who created it , i found it really surprising that reading is a
sport. I  can relate to this book because i enjoy reading.

My wind chime design brief...

For the past couple of weeks in our class room we have been trying to make a product to sell at our school fair next term made from all re usable products this is my design brief..

Wind chime...

The ideas I had were a planter box, a button necklace, candle holder, flowers made of buttons, wind chime.

The product i have chosen to make is a wind chime because it will be easy to make with reusable products and i think it well sell well.

The wind chime will need to be made from reusable products, it will need to be
useful and it will need to look presentable.

My mission statement is to have a good product that will sell and make money
for the school and will be useful around peoples homes.

The stakeholders of this product is the community and children's parents from
the school.

The products i have available to me is driftwood, shoelaces, shells,clear nail
polish, a hammer and some nails.

By the river

                                  By the river. By:Sarah Penwarden 

This book was about a few young year 8 girls that went on a camping trip to a river with their school. They did a couple of cool things like they went on a hydro slide they had a sneaky mischievous mid night snack and they sat around a campfire, i loved this book because i could relate to it in a couple of ways.

Fallen leaves

1.  This week in our reading group we read a book called Falling leaves this is my summary of it...

Te Kura Tuatahi!

                                           Te kura Tuatahi By: Ross Calman

This book was about the first Maori school and how it escalated to become the schools we have  today and how different it was back then for the Maori, compared to now. Did you know that the Maori children  used to get punished for speaking Maori! Horrible right The first school was opened in 1816 and was run by a man call Thomas Kendall a Missionary from England. Thomas Kendall worked for the church missionary society (CMS) there purpose was to spread Christianity.

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