Into the FUTURE!

Omigosh I'm almost a year nine! Help! Its going to be so crazy when we head off to college. Hopefully the next generation of year eights and sevens keep the dodgeball tradition going. And maybe next year there might be only two classrooms instead of three? Anyways, some things I'm excited about is my first year of college! Being a year nine seems like a cool concept and I'm excited. Next year I would like to achieve making a good impression on a new school and possibly making a football team. Im looking forward to hopefully coming back to St Benedict's sometime and playing dodgeball for room 8 (If there is still three classrooms) and leading the team to victory with (Hopefully) Other former year eights. If i do end up moving to auckland then I will try and stay in touch with everyone and I would be looking forwards to seeing Auckland and maybe even JK?! I will be sorry to see everyone go. Something challenging in year nine? Year nine. Its gonna take some work... to finish all that work we get.

R.I.P

YEAR EIGHTS

THEY PLAYED ALOT OF DODGEBALL

2015-2015

Good Luck,

        Maximus

All the Books!

Last week we had an action packed week, AKA Book Week! There were people visiting, events going on and prizes handed out all in one week.

One of my favourite things that happened last week was the famous author Kate De Goldie coming in and talking about her life and how she got into books. She showed us some of her books and told us a bit about them. She also gave us a spoiler on an upcoming book! (I don't remember it though, sorry) We got to ask questions about her life and about books that she had written. It would have been funny if someone asked if they could have their name in one of her books!

Another thing I enjoyed was the book character parade. Everyone in the school dressed up as their favorite book character. Some costumes were not even book characters but nobody cared. And if you show up with no costume then then your excuse is that you are yourself from the yearbook! Some people had really authentic costumes and others had planned ahead and came as matching costumes or costumes that go together in books like Captain Haddock and Tintin and Thing One and Thing Two. (I dressed up as Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin). Congrats if you had an award winning costumes BTW.

Peace,
     Maximus

Digging up Old Books

I was looking for two other book to do my blog post on when mum found one from even longer ago. I couldn't find the other books because I forgot their titles! One was something like Penguin and the Deep Blue Sea and another was a book with rhymes including poorly drawn monsters and such. But when mum had a look she found one of my old books on diggers that my uncle gave me 10 - 9 years ago. I was about 2 - 3 when I read it. It is called Diggers by a company called suborn. It is an 'usborne touchy feely' and that was why i liked it so much. The book had cartoon pictures of diggers on every page with some sort of fabric on them or plastic with bumps for all the kids to touch. One page has sandpaper and another has a dog with some fur or something on it. Anyways you get the idea. The part I like had to be the fact it was about vehicles and also that it had the touchy feely thing going on. There are six pages but they are MASSIVE.  each page is about .3 centimeters thin with seems pretty small but compared to other pages that is huge. 

(The dirt in the bucket of the digger is plastic with little bumps on it)

Peace,

     Maximus

Australian Football League

AFL Is an interesting game and i have yet to learn more. It can be confusing but fun, and once you know how to play it becomes crystal clear. Some skills i learned about the game is how to drop punt. To drop punt, it is pretty self explanatory. You drop the ball and punt it. But there is TECHNIQUE. There are some things on how to hold the ball such as keeping the stitches on the ball away from your  face, but long story short you hold the ball with two hands, point it towards the ground, drop the ball and before it touches down on the ground kick it towards who you are passing to. The only catchphrase i can remember is drop punt. Im sure once we do AFL again on Thursday it will all come back. For three facts I learned, I learned that there are 18 Aussie rules teams, there is no tackling because it is a touch sport, and you can stand on a teammate to get higher up and catch the ball.

Here is a funny photo of an AFL player. Enjoy.

Peace,  
   Maximus