Term 2 reflection

At the beginning of Term 2 I set myself some goals. My goals this term were to make correct letter shapes when writing and to be able to type faster. At the end of the term I could type faster and my letter shapes are well formed. I will continue with these goals next term. I know so much about the plant story I can not type or write down how much I know. You won't even see how much I know in my science book. Generally, I enjoyed what I learnt this term.

My First Communion and Comfirmation

On Sunday the 31st of May, I had my first communion and comfirmation.

I was dressed in my Uncle's white shirt and black pants, my Dad's black bow tie and socks my school shoes and a red sash with my name on it. I had done my hair. I looked very handsome.

We drove to the church and waited for the bishop to come in. The bishop was very tall and had a pointed hat and was nearly bald. We sang some songs like 'send down the fire of your justice' 'here at the table of plenty' 'bread broken wine shared'. One by one we were called by name to receive a candle lighted from the pentecostal candle, the priest renewed our baptism promises that our godparents had said for us and now we were old enough to say them for ourselves. The bishop said 'brendan be sealed with the gift of the holy spirit' and rubbed the oil of chrism on our forehead. Our sponsor placed their hand on my shoulder for the blessing. My great aunt was my sponsor who is very religious.

The mass moved into the eucharist were we had our first communion. They had a procession of gifts and we went up to the bishop and he held up the bread and said 'the body of christ' and we took the bread and we went over to Sylvia and she said 'the blood of christ' and gave the wine cup to me.

After the mass we had a party, adults made food and bought it to the church to be eaten and enjoyed. We kids played around on the swings and the playground. They bought out a cake and cut it up into pieces and I received the piece with my name on it. I loved going to my first communion - it was fun. I liked the part in the church the most.

I received lots of gifts from both grandmas, my mother, father, both sisters, Aunty Paula and Aunty Rita. The special gifts were badges, my rosary beads from mum and dad, a kids adventure bible, a cross and lots of cards.

Car spys

I was riding my bike down my driveway on Saturday afternoon and when I was halfway down my driveway a orange car pulled in from the road and parked next to the abandoned house next door. We raced inside and told Mum and she said to wait until it came further down. I thought the people were going to ask about buying the mill house next door as people have done this lots of times before.

We waited and waited but they didn't come any further down and we thought it would be a good idea to not go further down the driveway. Both my sisters and I watched. Mum suggested we write down the number plate, however we couldn't see the numbers. Rachel got the binoculars and we still couldn't see. We felt like car spys.

Then I had a great idea to go through the mango trees to our raintree cuddy house where we could watch closer. Two men got out of the orange car. One was wearing a green shirt and brown shorts with dark brown hair. The other man had a yellow shirt, green shorts and light brown hair. They had a look around, took something from the back of the boot and jumped back in the car with the thing from the back of the boot and drove on the grass closer the our other neighbours house.

They got out again looked around and looked through the mangoes that we were spying from under bush cover. They got back in their car and drove off onto the bitumen road and turned towards town. They seemed to be looking at the houses and the mangoes and the sugar cane. This was really exciting and my sister kept telling me that we should go home as she was worried that they would come down the mangoes after us.

K'nex car racing

My Dad and I are having a competition on who can make the fastest car out of my knex and rubber bands. So far we have made about eight changes and modifications to our cars.

We have changed the wheel size, the rubber band length, the length of the car, gears and rubber bands systems. We race them to see who's is faster after we make changes. Then we both work on the cars and make new changes - take away or exchange or put on new parts.

My Dad made another car powered by catapault power and it is like an automatic attacking machine when you wind it up because the catapault is pulled back and then it flings forward and then smashes everything in its way. We have made our own power system using cogs and rubber bands.

My Dad ordered new pieces for our cars because we were running out of pieces that we could put on our cars. The parts that have come today are different to what we have been working with so far so hopefully they will make our cars faster.<

Anzac Slide Show

The end of Term 1 2009

This term I learnt all kinds of things about the history of Townsville.
I really found the tornado in the bottle interesting.
I enjoyed Grandparents and Special friends day because there was lots of fun games to play.
I didn't find anything difficult and I improved in my typing skills.
Next term I will improve in Thrass spelling using the IPA and I will extend my vocabulary.

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