For the Christmas holidays we are going to waikanae for Christmas day and we will stay on there for about a week at our friends batch. My sister and her fiancé and my nephew Neshaun are coming with us as well.

During the new years we are going up top the able Tasmin with lots of our family friends and we are going to walk it and go camping.

One of our Christmas traditions is we always open one of are small presents on Christmas eve. we have done this every year since we went to Germany a couple of years ago, because that is what they do there.

During the holidays I went to Napier with Anna! Hehe

We did heaps of fun things, we went to the movies to see grown ups 2 and we went mini golfing.. (which Anna won D: )and we also went go-carting, and I overlapped Alfonso twice hehe.

We got to stay in the sleep out in my aunties house and we had our own bathroom and kitchen! It was so cool! We also made fudge for my aunty and we made this rice crispy thing with m&ms in it and it was really yummy J

One night we got out this movie called funsize it was really funny but really weird..!

On Sunday it was the school fair, and I helped out with the kidzone beauty stall thingy. We did the coloured and glitter hair spray, the tattoos, face painting and nail polish. It wasn't extremely busy but I think we made a reasonable amuont of money. Me and Joaquin and Alyssa and Katie had a huge pillow fight and then Anthony joined in too and the girls won! Yayyy

Did you go out of Wellington in the holidays? and did you buy anything awesome from the spring fair?

this is the monkey that Christine and I made! for the base we used a light brown paper, then we drew the shape (Christine drew most of the drawing) then we coloured it in skin colour. then we got black pieces of paper and cut lines in and then puffed them backgrounds I guess. And then got a purpely brown piece of paper for the tummy(:

The reason we made a monkey was because it had to be a jungle animal that Henri Rousseau.

The tavern

I built the tavern with Esme, Lily and Christine. It is a three story building. The ground level is where the actual bar is then upstairs are 3 rooms and a bathroom for accommodation then in the attic we have 2 bedrooms and a bathroom where we stayed in during the nights, we also had a balcony which was useful for shooting people with arrows from above during the role play.

During the role play people came to the tavern for food and drinks, we also supplied the arrows and bows and accommodation.

At the back of the tavern we built a stable to keep pigs in, because according to research they had stables to keep guests animals, but we just used them for food.

What did you guys build? And what was your favourite part of the building? Mine was the attic because we also had a sitting area and it was fun to hang out in.

I have found the medieval times topic really interesting!

I have learnt a lot of things… mostly we have learnt stuff about what they do in everyday life, and the ranks and stuff like that. So we learnt that the villages have a lord and the lord lives in the manor house and rules and looks after the village. The peasants and the serfs make all of the crops for the village, which they grow on the lord’s land which they rent to them for the food and crops they grow. The merchants run the shops like the tailors, blacksmiths etc some of the merchants and shopkeepers are more wealthy than the lords! But they are only just higher ranked then the peasants and serfs.

We also learnt about the food and the buildings.

Cottages where made out of cobble stone, wooden planks, and thatched roofs. They had a whole in there roof for a chimney, so the cottages often burnt down.

I think the activities that helped me most to learn about this topic, was the reading groups and follow up activities. They really helped me understand it and made it stick in my head. Minecraft definitely helped me learn about building and town life and the roles of people in the medieval times.

electives

I have really enjoyed  electives.
In term 2 I was in creative computer's, it was really  fun, we got to make a short movie and an adventure map on minecraft.

I was in group with katie, Gabby, Rebecca for movie making and minecraft. we made a map where the aim was to get to victory island. and are movie didn't really make sense but we dressed up in onsies and we shot people.

over all i think it was a fun experience,
In term three (this term) i have been in master chef, Ms Bolger is teaching it and we cook lots fo yummy things for lunch on Fridays. so far we have made bacon and mushroom risotto, kedgeree and pistachio kofta wraps. my favourite so far has been the risotto. we have only had three leasons though so i am excited to see what else we will make.

I definitely think it was worth while.

I have really enjoyed my time at Mt Cook School doing tech. I have just finished making a keyboard thingy in electronics  which was really fun! but I think cooking was probably my favourite my favourite//but I am most looking ford to sewing.

so far I have done movie making, cooking and electronics next I think is woodworks, I m not particularly  looking ford to woodworks, because I am not good at that type of thing,but I am really excited for sewing!