+*.+~ {Normal School} ~ Day abc? ~ Valindra the Rose Goddess! Was she a Twisted Goddess? ~+.*+

 Bonjour Beautiful Tim~Tamz!

It's been a while since I've last posted {Almost a month to be exact!} and I apologize for that. But recently swimming started and since I'm a non-swimmer, we got assigned to do two of these rubric tasks in the afternoon, while all the swimmers were at their lessons. Unfortunately, I'm still working on my 2nd task which is a story about an alien invasion, but I'd love to introduce you to Valindra the Rose Goddess! I even provided a little bit of information about her powers, and a brief summary of her backstory.  

{P.S sorry if it's hard to read it, I wanted to make it look pretty, but just in case I'll write what it says <3}

The top slide reads - Valindra. Valindra Rose Vine is the Goddess of Love and the growth of Roses. When she feels harmed, she can shoot out thorned vines at her prey, causing them to freeze in pain. She may look harmless and stunning but deep inside she has her cunning plans.

The bottom slide reads - Valindra. Valindra Rose Vine was born in 1624 in a small town named 'Divinia'. She was the middle child out of 5, being almost forgotten by her parents. She grew up facing struggles with learning, due to her learning disability yet her parents didn't find that as a "good excuse" to her C grades. But no matter what she strived through her gardening classes, except she became a rule breaker in High School. She didn't wear what she was supposed to, causing her to get expelled. She then packed her bags and moved away into the nature. That was when she discovered what she really loved doing, growing a rose garden to live in. To this day her spirit haunts her garden, rumour has it that she was the twisted goddess. Yet, nobody knows how she died.

This blog post is a bit short, but I hope to present to you my alien invasion story soon!~ Well see you sometime in the near future! Toodles!~

{P.S ~ if you're feeling down or in need to talk to someone, just so you know it's ok to do so! I'm even here if you need to talk to someone. Stay safe. <3}

+*.+~ {Normal School} ~ Day Idek ~ New Zealand culture's adventures! ~+.*+

Kia Ora beautiful Tim-Tamz!

It's been a while since I've last done a blog post, and I apologize for that! Recently we've been really focusing on how beautiful our own country is and its native techniques and activities like Ki-O-Rahi, The Kiwiana Statues, and even the Hangi!

I've created posters of how to play Ki-O-Rahi and how technology has changed how Hangi's are done! And did some slides on some traditional Maori things like the Korowai, Haka, and Ta Moko. Here they are! I'd love feedback on them :)

That's all for today's blog post! I'll see you in the next blog post on Friday! Toodles~

{P.S ~ If you are feeling low, or in need to talk to someone. Just so you know it's ok to ask for help and talk about your emotions. Stay safe and love y'all <3}

✦ *.+~ {Normal School} ~ Day ?? ~ Term 4 has officially started! Well- Doesn't feel like it has... ~+.* ✦

✦ Hola Niños!  ✦

✦ Welcome back to the final term of 2020! It's actually a sad term in a way because it's my last year/term at Marshland School. It's been such a journey of 8 Years being here {Well 7 and a 1/2} and I'll never forget it. ✦

✦ But that aside, I've had a busy Holiday! From having a single person over for a week to have three friends over in the course of five days! Oh and the family visits. ✦

✦ For the first person who stayed for a week, we went to the Hot Pools in New Brighton {Reccomended they're awesome}, the Dairy nearby where I live, to the Mall for lunch and to splurge on some things and some awesome disco nights! ✦

✦ For the second wave of friends we had some... interesting... roleplays... on Roblox, a great trip to a closer mall to get lunch and some items, and a disco! ✦ 

✦ Then the last person we had some more roleplays on Roblox that weren't as- eventful as the other roleplays... and we sung our hearts out because my sister was at my mother's for the weekend! It sure was fun :) ✦

✦ For school, we've been getting back to the normal schedule. For Literacy, we've been starting our films! My group is doing a murder mystery sort of movie! I'll show you our character descriptions for now because I don't want to spoil anything! No spoilers... ✦

✦ For Numeracy, we've been covering some basic multiplication of decimals. There's not much to show because it's all in my book, but I'll take pictures for the next blog post {If I remember} ✦

✦ Apart from that, I do hope you've had a safe Holiday! And I hope you all are doing well! Well, see y'all next week! <3 ✦

✦ {P.S ~ If you are feeling low, or in need to talk to someone. Just so you know it's ok to ask for help and talk about your emotions. Stay safe and love y'all <3} ✦

✦*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day ?? ~ Building Adventures and More! It's sure fun! +.*✦

Hello, Beautiful Tim~Tamz!

Welcome to another blog post! This week I kept on doing my map {I'm not sure if I told you guys about it} which is called Tamazon!

Basically, it's a chaotic country with bean island close near. From Atom Bomb storages to a heritage park with a massive lake that may or may not hide something deep under... It's certainly a chaotic place but it has some area that is very peaceful and others not so much... Bean Island is more peaceful with the iconic landmark Stonebench. {Yes you read that right, Stonebench not Stonehedge}

I once again have been working on my video essay but I still haven't finished or had anything to show just yet, also because I don't wanna spoil it!~ But I can tell you the genre, it's fantasy! Have you written a video essay before? I'd like to know! If not, did you know it existed?

In my spare time, I played a game with my friend on Roblox called SCP-3008. It's a cool game where you have to gather things in an Ikea and build a shelter to survive the night and avoid the workers there. Here are some pictures of our base! We had an observation area, medkit storage and even a worker held captive. It was a lot of work but it was so fun! I recommend it to play with friends but do be warned if you get scared easily it may not be suitable for you.

I hope you have had an amazing week! But that's all for now!~ See you next week! Toodles!~

{P.S ~ If you are feeling down or sad then just so you know it's ok to ask for help! It gets better, I know everyone says that but it really does. Stay safe! <3}

+*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day 20?? ~ This week on Keeping up with Karen {Tamzin}... +.*+

 Bonjour Beautiful Tim-Tamz!~

Another Week just went past! Week 8 is on the horizon and I am amazed by how fast this term has gone past. Let alone year! 

But apart from that, I've learnt something valuable! It's about how one person's opinion doesn't matter. If the whole world {7.? Billion People} thought what that one person does, then maybe think about what they're saying. But considering it can be one to a small group of people who think that about you, just don't care about their opinion! It's their opinion out of this whole world, why let that change you? Just be you, life's too short to attempt to fit in anyways.

But For literacy, I've been busy working on my Video Essay which is due on the last week of school. I haven't finished it though so when it's completed I'll for sure show it to you guys!~ The book is still being illustrated though so I cannot show you anything yet! But I'm excited to show you guys when it's finished :)

For Numeracy, we've been learning the Probability of the Lotto. It's certainly an interesting and different thing to learn about but it's interesting to guess the actual odds and learn more about how the lotto works. Unfortunately, I don't fully know the actual probability just yet but when I have a rough estimate I'll for sure tell you guys! 

But we've been using tree diagrams to find the probability of some things, take rolling a dice, or flipping a coin. You'd use tree diagrams to show the working out of the probability of it! Really interesting :)

For Inquiry, we've decorated the RAMEN Rocket and we're setting up for the last flight! Wish us luck <3 {I have a fun thing to do if you're bored associated with rockets! Get 1-2 Empty and Clean soda bottles and create a rocket that you could fly! It's really fun to do and you can customize it to be your own! IF you have siblings maybe try to create the best rocket!} I'll show you our logo for now as I don't wanna spoil to much of the RAMEN Rocket. the logo :)

I've also been working on a PSA about recycling correctly, but it's taking a little longer so I'll include a smaller, separate blog post for it so I'm able to give a better explanation.

I hope you guys are having a great week! I sure have :) Also Happy Birthday to my Father! <3

Have a lovely rest of your week + next week! Toodles <3

{P.S ~ If you are feeling down, or in need to talk to someone. Just so you know, It's ok to talk through your problems. Contact a Helpline or even me. I'm here to talk things through <3 Stay safe during these times <3}

+*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day ??? ~ It's been a while! Whoops- +.*+

 Bonjour Beautiful Tim~Tamz!

It's definitely been a minute since I've posted... {Maybe a few weeks but that's besides the point} But I have some things to cover! Firstly for Literacy, I have made a script of a children's book! However I wasn't at school when we got to Illustrate them so I'm going to illustrate the book myself over the weekend! So hopefully it'll be ready by next week's blog post!~ But I'll show you the script!

It was a beautiful, sunny morning up at the ranch. 

The birds were singing, and the trees were swaying.

And all the cows were doing the normal cow things…

Eating the grass and just enjoying the simple things.

But there was a special cow in the bunch,

Who wasn’t doing what everyone else was doing.

That special cow was a strawberry cow,

A small, fragile white and pink cow who stood out from the rest.

She didn’t understand why though, 

She felt as she should’ve been normal.

Some of the younger cows would look at the strawberry cow weirdly,

And she felt insecure about herself.

She started to go further away from the other cows,

And started to miss all of the fun events.

She starting thinking about a way to change her appearance.

So she wouldn’t stand out so much. 

She tried painting herself black and white to become normal,

But when it rained it would wash away.

She tried hiding under something,

But that didn’t work.

She decided that painting herself would have to do…

The other cows started to worry where strawberry cow went!

Her disguise was finally working!...

A bit too well that is.

She carried on for weeks painting her pink spots black.

Not a single cow found out!

Until one week… A cow noticed she was painting herself and stopped her.

“Oh, dear strawberry cow! What are you doing to your special coat?” Said the cow in a fright.

“I’m trying to fit in! I do not want to stand out! I just want to be normal…” The Strawberry cow exclaimed.

“But Strawberry cow! Oh how lovely your coat is!...

From Pink to White, you are sure able to stop any show!...

But why do you feel like you should change? Embrace yourself like a sunset gaze!”

The Strawberry cow looked at the other cow and thought for a second…

“Maybe I shouldn’t try to fit in… Maybe it’s better to stand out”

“Exactly Strawberry cow, exactly! Standing out is better than being normal!”

Soon after that talk, the strawberry cow stopped! She finally learned that being different…

Was perfectly ok! Now she’s able to feel happy about being different!

She started teaching other cows with differences to embrace their differences!

Soon everybody was happy and feeling their best!

The end.

For Numeracy we've been learning a little about the biggest number in the world that has been used and what a factorial is. A factorial is where it's the ! next to a number {Example ~ 5!} and it means basically that the number is 5x4x3x2x1 = ?. Pretty cool right! However I don't know much nor enough information about the largest number in the world that was used. However if you were to think the number using your brain it would kill you. NOT that I recommend doing such thing but it's true. Unfortuantly I don't have anything to show you guys this week! But possibly next week. :)

For Inquiry we've been doing more rocket science and getting ready to make our final rockets! However our rocket will need some tweaking because it isn't flying incredibly well. I went sort of high but it went wonky and didn't go very far, so we're hoping the next test flight will result in a better performance! I'll keep you guys updated on it :)

I don't have anything to show that I've been doing at home this week either but I hope you guys are doing well and staying safe! QOTW {Question of the Week} ~ How do you feel about COVID-19 being in our country again? Are you feeling anxious? I'd love to know! But apart from that I once again hope you are doing well! Toodles for next week~

{P.S ~ I hope you are all feeling safe! However if you need to talk to someone feel free to talk to someone or contact a helpline. It's ok to speak up. :)} <3

*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day 5 ~ Mashup of my {eventful} week! +.*

Guten Tact Beautiful Tim~Tamz! 

It's the end of the first week of Term 3 and it's been fun! However, I wasn't here for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday thanks to a lovely headache. But Thursday and Friday have been incredibly fun! With my friends and me making each other laugh. But anyway here is my weekly recap.