Under Pressure!

Oh no! This week is our last week to get our discovery project done! I am pretty much done and I am very excited about presenting what I have found out but I am also a bit nervous.

I have really enjoyed doing the project and I now know things all about my great, great, great, great, great grandma! My favourite thing that I learned was all about what it was like in the olden days. Instead of electronic cars they would use horses to get places, and instead of using Iphones to communicate they would just talk head to head. The world has changed a lot over the centuries!

Here are some of my questions that I asked family members...

What are some unique and amazing things my family has done?
My Dad was very brainy e.g he would have a test and he wouldn't study but he would still beat everyone in his class. He also came up with lots of inventions like on my Nana and Poppa's farm their troughs get filled with slimy stuff, so my Dad spent some time in his shed turning the lawn mower into a trough cleaner. He somehow made it suck up things so he went around cleaning the troughs! My sister has won most of her races since she was seven. She recently won the Southland under 13 girls cross country! During world war 2 my great Grandpa's airplane  got shot down over Germany and he spent a year as a prisoner of war and yet he still survived.

Where is my first and middle name from?
My parents just liked them, I could of had the name Annabelle but at the last minute my name was changed to Lucy and my middle name is now Annabelle. If I was a boy I would of been called Timothy Keith Thompson.

Has my family ever opened their own company?
My Nana and Poppa own a 1000 acres farm.

I have loved learning about my families history and I am excited for sharing it!

Making my brain sore!!

Do you want to make your brain sore of thinking?? Well if you do I suggest you carry on reading!!

Today in the morning email Katie sent us three riddles that we had to solve. I sat there for ages re-reading the riddles and I just couldn't get them. After about 5 minutes of hard out thinking I got the second one!!!! Then I got the third one, but I just couldn't get the first one. 

These were the questions...... 

I have streets but no pavement,I have cities but no buildings,I have forests but no trees,I have rivers yet no water.
What am I?


I am small as an ant and big as a whale,I can soar through the air like a bird with a tail.I can be seen by day and not by night,I can be seen with a big flash of light.I follow whoever controls me by the sun,but I fade away when dark fell like a ton.
What am I?


When I'm young I'm tallWhen I'm old I'm shortWhen I'm alive I glowBecause of your breath I die
What am I?

I will include the answers in next weeks blog!! 

Newspaper 2014!

The music played in the background as I stared at my blank page. My brain was trying to think, I could hear it ticking away along with the noise of other people typing their ideas. The newspaper group was in the studio typing up newspaper articles because we all had to have one finished in two weeks! After a few minutes of thinking I started to get ideas and soon my fingers were spread out on the keyboard typing them up. I wish I could tell you my ideas but its a surprise, but I can tell you that the Enrich newspaper 2014 is going to be amazing!

Step on a crack, you marry a rat!!

I skipped along the pavement clutching my notebook and pen, dodging the cracks as I went. The Enrich@ILT newspaper group were on their way to the library to do a bit of looking at published newspapers from all over the South Island. We were getting ideas for our own newspaper!

I scribbled down my ideas as I flicked the pages of the newspaper. The nice smell of the newspapers made me feel relaxed but focused. It was dead quiet in the library. I could hear others people's pens jotting down ideas, and the soft breaths of the other people in the library. After 7 or 8 newspapers we decided to go back to Enrich. I now have six ideas of what I might do in the newspaper and I am very excited about starting to write it.

Fingers crossed

My fingers were crossed as hard as they could cross!! Nicola was handing out invitations for helping write the newspaper, I really wanted to get in and it was getting down to the last three invitations "Lucy" Nicola called out. I did a little scream inside and got my invitation. I was relived and so glad to be in. I can't wait till next week to start!!

Round and round and round goes my pen!!

Today I wrote a new goal, for the remainder of the year, for the goal tree. We first got a little paper person and we decorated it to look like us. I designed a beautiful rainbow dress for my doll, with squiggles. On the back of these dolls, we put our new goals. My goal for term three is To Complete A Successful Project about my Families  Past.

See you all in Term three!!

Tricky day!!

Hello!! I thought I would give you all an update on how my passion project is going!! A reminder of what I am doing is MADE awards which is a competition on entering photos. I am going to take some photos this week and hopefully show you all!!

Today I printed off some editing sheets so I have ideas on how to edit my photos!! Some new editing things I learnt were that cameras have a button that makes your whole photo in black in white!! I was meant to be editing my photos today but I had some problems of taking the photos and things so I plan to do that next week.
I also printed off a sheet to take home with photography tips so I can get a really good photo and hopefully win!! (Or at least get a placing).

My project I am doing can be tricky because sometimes you can have troubles along the way so you have to re-plan your day I had that problem today.

I can't wait to show you all my photos!!!!!!