Today I am writing to you to tell you about my progress this week in my learning at School. In Ata Hapara our focus this year is Investigation and for Investigation we have been investigating the way Maori travelled back in the days and how they came to New Zealand, we have been learning this through Kaupapa Matua. This week in Kaupapa Matua we have been learning about swells and how they helped navigators. In Pangarau / Maths the year sevens have been learning about subtraction. I really enjoyed this because I find subtraction fun and easy to understand but it can still be challenging. This week we have also been doing a lot of reading with Aroha as her adventures take us through journeys about our body and how it works. Sometimes during Panuitia / Reading people in the classroom will have to read a paragraph and then afterward we all have to answer questions from the story. During Tuhituhi this week we have been learning about making the starter sentences of a piece of writing more descriptive and making it more captive for the reading of your text. We have learnt how to do this by being given a boring sentence and word by word we have to make it more interesting. Each second term of each year we pick a sport to do on Fridays. This year I am in Gardening. During gardening we learn about the different plants, about the bees and how they make their honey. We also go into the garden and collect stuff to make food with. My favorite thing we have done this week was probably Tuhituhi because I enjoy letting my imagination wander and I really enjoyed when we were given a title and we had to capture the reader in the first sentence. Overall I think this week has been really enjoyable and I hope next week is similar.