Diary Post 1

On the first few weeks we had lot's of fun stuff like Youthtown which is at group of people who come and teach us skills like teamwork, working with others and cooperation etc, we played capture the flag which is teamwork so we work with each others to get the other teams ball to your side to gain 1 point, the people who came to our school as Mega-tron-(Dominic) and B-rad(Brad)

We also had lot's of other things like counselors who are the vice-leaders of the school and also there are head boy and head girl who are the leaders plus there are house captains because we have 4 teams Rimu, Rata, Kauri and Matai, each time we do something good than we get house points which we add to a chart.  After a while the house captains announce the winners depending on which house has the most points and they are not the real big houses the are basically just names on shields so all that basically means is which house has the most well behaved children they will gain more point.

For math we had a really complicated problem with 23 problems, it was Cryptarithms , there are letters which equal more letters and you had to change them into a number with the same numbers used on the letters and each question had a different number represented with letters so if A was 2 B can't be the same so it could be all the way from 0-9 except 2 because it was already chosen so B could be 6  than the next question will be A=5 and B=1 and C =7, there are three letters in total and the more you get correct the harder it gets until it gets to the end or until it gets to a stop for a bit than go because it's so hard.

The next thing we did was reading, we read a bit of the Whale Rider who was wrote by a New Zealander called Witi Ihimaera, Whale Rider is a maori legend about Kahutia Te Rangi and the story has multiple versions such as Kahutia Te Rangi  and his tribe built a canoe than sailed until the land was out of sight than a mean brother called Rua Tapu uncovered a hole in the canoe that he made the day before, and everyone drowned except Kahutia Te Rangi and Rua Tapu.