Alexis' Blog

Hi and welcome back everyone. Last Friday we did the Caritas Challenge, the Caritas Challenge is when you live 24 hours like the people in Timor-Leste. During the day we did sporty activities/games non stop and we were always moving.  This is me and my friend Anabelle in one of the sessions Dance. Then as the day went on we started building our shelters out of cardboard we built these shelters from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Around 6:00 we had dinner.  Now was the fun part... at 7:00 when it started to get dark we got our torches out and started playing games in the dark with our torches like: spotlight, hide and seek, go home stay home and more running around. Once we had finished we went back up to the class room and did some reflection time in our books, which is the reflection below. After that we settled down and got ready for bed everyone went to the bathrooms and brushed our teeth then went back to our shelter. We got a little bit of time to chat then at around 9:30...

Tech This term I am doing a new subject for tech and that is... fabrics. Fabrics sounds really cool and our goal for this term is to make a pillow case and so far I have made the lining of the pillow case. So far we have learnt how to use a sewing machine and how to do different techniques like: back stitching, pivoting, and turning. I learnt how to thread the machine and how to use it. It is very fun because we get to do any design we want. Have you ever done anything with fabrics before?

At the end of last term we trialled for winter sport teams. I trialled for netball and hockey. I play netball and last week my team versed Sacred Heart School and won 13-0. My position I played was center and in the last ten minutes I was off on the side line. I played center twice and was off for the last ten minutes. In the first quarter we scored 4 goals, in the second quarter we scored 3, in the the third quarter we scored 4, and in the last quarter we scored 2 goals.  What is your favourite sport?

Reading Challenge This year at St Francis of Assisi school we a participating in a reading challenge run by the New Zealand Book Awards, the Hell's Pizza Reading Challenge.  For every 7 books you read you will get a free kids pizza from Hell’s Pizza. We have until December to read the books and get as many pizzas as we can. For the Year 7 & 8s every time we read a book we have to write a book review about the book then get the pizza wheel signed by the teacher. Have you ever done the Hell's Pizza Reading Challenge?