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Tuesday 15 March 2016

Awesome Camping Trip!



Where
How
Activities
When
Why
Who
Rotorua Camp
By packing things to our car.
Playing, Eating, Having fun,
Sunday
To have fun and stay outdoors for awhile
Family, Friends, Cousins,








On Sunday, my family and I packed up our tents and our food. We packed up really neatly and carefully to preserve the fragile items and the food that we wanted to bring to our camp in Rotorua. After packing up our items, we contacted our friends and our cousins to go with us in the camp Rotorua which is really fun and really cool. After calling our relatives and friends we rode to the car and relaxed because it’s going to a really long trip. My cousin John and I were looking for yellow cars inside our car and who ever spotted the most yellow cars’ won the game.


Later after arriving at our destination. we unpacked our items and put together our humongous tent. Putting up  our the tent took more than 10 minutes -  it was bigger than the rest. I went inside with excitement and lie down in the soft and comfy floor and relax because it was so comfy and so calm. I was about to take a rest but there my friends and cousin were shouting outside like an angry lion because it was so loud and I couldn't rest because if it. Instead of taking a nap, I drank the Keri juice. After drinking the delicious juice I went outside with my friend and played Hide N Seek. We used 21 in order to reveal who was going to be the seeker and who will be a hiders.

John was it and I had to hide behind that huge tree and hid right next to the huge tree that was cut downed by those lumberjack with a chainsaw. John spotted all my friend but e. I ran all over the camp trying to find a place to hide but I was cornered because he was inside the bathroom where I hid and I could not escape it. So i was hoping that he wouldn’t find me inside the bathroom I am inside a room behind one of the doors. He was opening all of the door but one. The last door contained me. He was about to open it but his mum called him to get back to the camp and eat lunch. So I survived and the seeker ran out of time and I won. I ran back to John and taunted at him. He was a little mad. I explained to him where I hid.


We ate our lunch together with our friends and cousins, I ate a delicious lasagna topper which had lots of meats inside it and it was really delicious because of all the delicious meat on it. After eating the lasagna I drank the keri juice once more because it was delicious. After drinking and eating I ate some chips with my friends. The chips was a little bit spicy and delicious at the same time. It was called Doritos the flavour was THai chilli. I liked Doritos because you can taste the flavour and it really stands out. I was full because of eating all of those chips.


Moments later, my friends and I were getting sweaty and hot. So we decided to go to a pool nearby and have some fun in the water. Later on, we packed our towels and wore our swimming togs. We all ran to the swimming pool and dived inside the pool. When I touched the water. It was freezing cold and I was shouting, “Cold, Cold!” So I ran out of the pool while my friends stayed in the pool because they thought it was warm. Later on I jumped in the pool again, and this time I didn’t run out like a coward. We played underwater tag with the swimming goggles on. I tried to swim as fastest I can but I didn’t know how to swim so I ran underwater which made me extremely slow. I was it, so I got out of the pool and jumped to the nearest friend. When I jumped down I quickly tagged Dhon (my cousin) and swam away as fastest I can. Dhon became tired and I became bored so we played dodgeball in the pool and who ever gets hit loses. So we tried our best to dodge the ball. When down was about to throw the ball his mum came inside the pool and told us to go outside because we’ve been inside the pool for so long.


We went back to our camp and took a bath to wash of those chemicals in the pool. While I was washing myself I sang loudly which was embarrassing but I didn’t know that there were tons of people. So when I wiped myself off and open the room there were tons of people were waiting for their turn to take a bath. So I ran away and went back to the tent and changed clothes. After I changed to my beautiful clothes I relaxed while playing a racing game called Asphalt 8. It is a racing game in the device. The game is about trying to get first place and upgrade your car and be the best driver in the game. I raced with my friend Owen (cousin) in the game. He has the 3rd fastest car in the game. So I was scared. But I didn’t gave up and raced him to the finish. He was way in front of me. But I used my nitro (Turbo) which gave me a huge boost and made me to catch up to him. I beat him because the turbo boost was way faster than his car.


Later on, we went outside ate our dinner which was my favourite dinner. chicken with rice! I ate really fast. I wanted for some more but they wasn’t any left. After eating dinner, I drank my favourite kind of juice. Keri tropical flavour, I was the reason why the keri was finished really fast. Moments later I went back to the tent listened to the music and went to sleep.

When I woke up from a really delightful sleep, I saw everyone packing up their tents. When my mum and dad woke up. They got the bag for the tent and start packing it up. I helped them taking out the parts with all my mighty strength. Later on, our tent was packed up, before we went to our car and drove home we ate a little bit of breakfast and headed on our way back to our house.

Introducing my friendly and supportive friend!

Today, I met a friendly classmate named John. He is really funny because he does crazy and risky things that include jumping off the cliff in a video game and he is also funny because he has lots good jokes and makes really funny puns.


He is always helpful. He helps me when I need to fix my bike in the middle of the road and he also helps me do the dishes when there is too many dishes on the sink. He also helps me to have a happy and good life living in this world.


He likes going biking every afternoon, He goes biking with his cousins and one of his friends - he is one fast biker. Every time we have a bike race he always wins because he peddles really fast, so fast infact, that we can’t catch up to him during the great race. He usually bikes to the top of the hill and then enjoys the free ride back to the bottom hill.


John is really playful because he goes to our cousin’s house everyday in the holidays and plays minecraft. He is so fun to play with because he shares the valuables with me. He also help me destroy all the enemies in the game.

When he is bored he watches the movie in Netflix, especially horror and comedy movies. He’s favourite movie is Yogi Bear. We both agree, that this movie is really funny as well as really heroic. He likes to sit in the bed and relax while watching yogi bear.

Are you a hero?

WALHT: In reading this article I have been learning to combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of heroes.


Paul Whatuira is a famous rugby league player who used to play for the Vodafone warriors and 6 other teams including the Huddersfield Giants and the Melbourne Storm. He is an hard working competitive sportsman which helped to make him successful and famous. He worked really hard to achieve his goals,when he was a teenager in Wainuiomata Intermediate. His achievement has been an inspiration to the students in his old school. This makes Paul a supportive and inspiring hero.


Paul was a dedicated student who has taken those same attitudes and skills forward to his career as a League player. In visiting his old school, he was a good role model for students and their interest in him. As a sports hero, he showed them how commitment and determination can make a difference.

Monday 14 March 2016

Richie McCaw changes the flag.

McCaw Backs Flag Change

Walht: As part of our reading-we work independently exploring news items that have a national or international setting.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?
From Richie McCaw voiced his support for a new national flag on social media. “This is the moment when I decided a new flag would be great for our country. Running out at Twickenham and seeing the two flags looking so similar. The silver fern has always been the special symbol on the All Black jersey that represents who we are as kiwis, so the new flag with a silver fern as a part of it would be a great option I believe.”
2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article?
In the final of the world cup. The two flags of  Australia and New Zealand flew side by side.  being similar. It was confusing to thousands of people who had gathered for the game.
3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.
The game took place in Twickenham England which is a stadium Home land of England which has a seat of 82,000 also the largest dedicated rugby union in the world!

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.
This event took place in 2015. I predict that in the future that the next big world cup event. They will show both of the flag side by side. Except there will be confusion inside the stadium.
5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.
Because the Australian flag and the New Zealand flag was way too similar which confuses people mind. Which led the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to switch the flag.
6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.
Referendum-When there's a election
Decide-When you think about something
Between-Somewhere in the middle.

How to grow your very own Seedling!

WALHT: Carry out and record a scientific investigation.

How to grow your very own seedling!


Materials:
  • 1 Plastic cup
  • 1 pin/compass point
  • dirt
  • pebbles/drainage
  • seedling/seed


Procedure
  1. You have to get your plastic cup and grab your needle/ compass point.
  2. You have to pierce the bottom of the plastic cup and make some holes for drainage so the plant won’t drown.
  3. After that you have to take some pebbles/stone and make a layer out of it so you will block the holes so the dirt won’t come out.
  4. When you finished placing the pebbles/stone you have to put ¾ of dirt inside of your plastic bottle.
  5. When you got the dirt ready you have to place the seedlings.
  6. Wait for the seedling to grow!

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Ash Wednesday!


Buulding Patterns

Walht: The data from the table was then copied and used to create the graph below which shows the number pattern for grey tiles and red tiles.

Here is another sequence of factories. Complete the table for this pattern.
From interpreting the information above I created the table below.
Factory number:
1
2
3
4
5

number of grey squares
2
4
6
8
10
x2
number of red squares
9
15
21
27
33
+6
number of all squares
11
19
27
35
43
+8
This information was used to respond the the questions below.
  1. how many greys do you need for the eighth factory = 16 the rule is (+2)
  2. how many grey squares will we need for the hundredth factory =  200.
  3. The answer is +2.
  4. How many red squares do we need for the ninth factory? 54
  5. if there are 14 grey squares how many red squares are there? 42.
  6. What is the number pattern for the red squares? +6
  7. How do we get the number of red squares for one factory from the number of red squares in the factory before that? 3.

    8. If we have to use exactly 36 red squares in making a factory, how many grey squares would we need? 11.

   9.How many squares do we need altogether for the seventh factory? 56

  10. What is the number pattern that we are getting for the total number of squares?
+8.
  11.If we had 35 tiles, which numbered factory could we make?
4 factories

12. Which of these numbers are not a number of squares for one of these factories: 20, 21, 22, 23 - 20, 22, 23

Following this, I selected and copied the numerical data from the table to create the graph below.


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Why we should keep our cats inside!

Walht: This is a collaborative discussion that we read in our book.         Created with Padlet

Who influence you?

Keep your cats inside!

 Walht read forward and back across to connect information.

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Amit, our Saviour!


WALHT: In reading this article I have been learning to combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of heroes.

Hero SJ: Part 4:2 1998

Amit was the hero of the story because, he saved an old lady’s life. Even though they had bad weather, terrible traffic and strong wind current. But the kid put himself in high risk or possibly death just to help the old lady cross the road safely.


Amit believed that he could save the old lady’s life even though it can possibly take his life away. He was a brave and courageous child this was shown when he saved the old lady’s life by helping her cross the road which makes him a supportive and bold hero.


Monday 7 March 2016

George, the hero dog!

WALHT: In reading this article I have been learning to combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of heroes.

George is the hero of the story he was a small Jack Russell that lived in a small town in Taranaki called Manaia. He was a courageous and fearless dog that put himself in high risk just to protect small boy. The boy was ambushed by 2 pit bull terriers. George guarded the child which caused a really dreadful injury which caused him to be put down. George’s confidence, bravery and courage made George a hero.

  1. What did George believe in?
  • Helping and had faith in himself that he can protect the child.
    2. What did George do?
  • He saved the children’s life even though it costed his life.
    3. What kind of dog is George?
George the hero dog.
  Value
    Action

  • Brave >




  • Courageous >





  • Confident >
He is brave enough to fight 2 pitbull terriers that was twice the size of him.


He wasn’t scared to fight off the pit bull terriers.



He sacrificed his life to save the kid’s life and didn’t panic when he was defending.



Tuesday 1 March 2016

Do you know how to continue patterns?

  1. Gina’s Gumboot store keeps a table to show the number of gumboots they have sold.

People
1
2
3
4
5
6
Gumboots
2
4
6
8
10
12
(2x)
2. Trevor's Tyre Service kept a table to show the number of car tyres they had serviced.

Cars
1
2
3
4
5
6
Tyres
4
8
12
16
20
24
(x4)
3. Draw the table Trevor's Tyre Service would end up with if they included the spare tyre in the boot and serviced five tyres on each car instead of four.

Cars
1
2
3
4
5
6
Tyres
5
10
15
20
25
30
(x5)
4. Barbara had a sale at her bookshop. She gave away two free books with each book she sold. She started with 30 books and kept a table to show how many books she had left


Customer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Books left
27
24
21
18
15
12
9
(-3)
5. Shutter Theatre are putting on a play. They are selling tickets to groups of five people only. They have 40 seats for sale. Can you fill in the table given below to show Shutter Theatre how their tickets will sell?

Groups
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Seats left
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
(5-)

Walht: Find a rule to continue a pattern