“Ya” I shouted out loud as we were getting ready to head for the buses.
Last Wednesday our whole school were transported one by one by bus to Sylvia Parks Hoyt's to watch the Manaiakalani film festival movies for 2011.
When we arrived all of the classes that were in the bus I was in all rushed outside very excited and couldn't’t wait to enter Sylvia Park. I was laughing really loudly because I was just so excited. Finally we entered the Extreme Cinemas it was so dark that I could hardly see where I was going.
I was sitting right at the back on the Lazy Boy chairs I felt really comfortable because when the introduction of the movies came up it looked really good because I felt like I was in the middle of the cinema.
My favorite movie that I really enjoyed was Tamaki College’s Rugby girls movie. The reason why I really liked it was because I liked how they made all there tackles and they never even missed one.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
New Taonga Team
This Term all of Team 5 swapped Taonga Time groups. Last Term I was with Mr Jacobsen and this term I’m with Mrs Telea. I was really looking froward to go to Mrs Telea’s group because she told us from the begining when we first started Taonga time she told us that it would be heaps of fun in her class because we will be able to do filming on our own with our own little group.
Last Week Mrs Telea gave us a Fairy Tale to do, my group did Godilocks and the three little bears. At first I was confused because I forgot all about what that fairytale was about.
In my group was Me Athena, Nathaniel, Annexe and Richard. It was so funny when we were filming because Richard was the big Papa Bear I was Mamma bear Annexe was Godilocks and Nathaniel was camera man and also director.
We went to film our movie inside our school library and we also used the outside field.
When all the groups finished filming we all came back to the ICT room to show our movies.
When it came to our groups movie I was totally sure that the teacher wouldn’t like it because we didn’t really do that much talking and we also didn’t do different angle shot’s.
Last Week Mrs Telea gave us a Fairy Tale to do, my group did Godilocks and the three little bears. At first I was confused because I forgot all about what that fairytale was about.
In my group was Me Athena, Nathaniel, Annexe and Richard. It was so funny when we were filming because Richard was the big Papa Bear I was Mamma bear Annexe was Godilocks and Nathaniel was camera man and also director.
We went to film our movie inside our school library and we also used the outside field.
When all the groups finished filming we all came back to the ICT room to show our movies.
When it came to our groups movie I was totally sure that the teacher wouldn’t like it because we didn’t really do that much talking and we also didn’t do different angle shot’s.
Friday, November 4, 2011
(Our planet experience using balloons)
I was really looking forward to do the experience that we were doing yesterday. I couldn’t wait to find out more information about our solar system.
Yesterday our class attempted to do a planet experience with balloons outside, but unfortunately it started raining so we just did our experience inside our classroom.
From the experience I found out that everything in our solar system orbits (moves around) in the same direction. During this experience 10 kids from my class were chosen to blow up balloons. These balloons that they were blowing up were our planets so it was pretty cool because we acted the balloons like the planet’s, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Dwarf planet Pluto.
Sharon had the yellow balloon so she had to stand in the center because the center is where the sun sits in our solar system. Second came Mercury, because Mercury is the closest to the sun it doesn’t mean that it is the hottest . Mercury is actually the fastest moving planet. Second came Venus . If you compare Venus and Earth they are almost the same size. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.
Third was Earth, I learnt lots about our earth, Earth isn’t the hottest or the fastest moving planet, I mean this by it moves around slowly so that how I know that it is actually perfect. The reason why people live on earth is because there is air and we can actually breathe in oxygen.
When we finished learning info about Earth we then moved on to Mars. The planet Mars is known as the red planet because of it’s colour. The planet looks like a little rock that has just come flying out of a volcano.
The fifth planet we learnt about was the biggest planet which is called Jupiter. The only thing I like about Jupiter is the colour, It has a light creamy colour.
Our next ballooned planet was Saturn. In our solar system Saturn is known as the only planet with rings around it, The rings are made out of ice.
The planet we last of all spoke all about was the planet Pluto.
The information that I know about Pluto is that in 2006 it was downgraded to a dwarf planet because scientists said that it was too small to be a planet. I reckon Pluto looks a bit like the moon. In our experience Kamire was holding up Pluto.
The experience we had I think should of had a moon because the moon is also in our solar system. Our moon for real it does not have light it is actually our sun that reflects it’s light onto the moon so that the moon can shine when it’s night time.
So from learning about the moon the sun and the planets I’ve known that the sun must be like the most important thing that is out their because if we had no sun our earth will just be cold like Pluto is now and we’ll have nothing to keep us warm, We also might not see anything. I think that if we had no sun on this earth then no one will know when it’s night or daytime.
I really enjoyed this experience but at times it got boring because some people were just making lots of noise.
Yesterday our class attempted to do a planet experience with balloons outside, but unfortunately it started raining so we just did our experience inside our classroom.
From the experience I found out that everything in our solar system orbits (moves around) in the same direction. During this experience 10 kids from my class were chosen to blow up balloons. These balloons that they were blowing up were our planets so it was pretty cool because we acted the balloons like the planet’s, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the Dwarf planet Pluto.
Sharon had the yellow balloon so she had to stand in the center because the center is where the sun sits in our solar system. Second came Mercury, because Mercury is the closest to the sun it doesn’t mean that it is the hottest . Mercury is actually the fastest moving planet. Second came Venus . If you compare Venus and Earth they are almost the same size. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.
Third was Earth, I learnt lots about our earth, Earth isn’t the hottest or the fastest moving planet, I mean this by it moves around slowly so that how I know that it is actually perfect. The reason why people live on earth is because there is air and we can actually breathe in oxygen.
When we finished learning info about Earth we then moved on to Mars. The planet Mars is known as the red planet because of it’s colour. The planet looks like a little rock that has just come flying out of a volcano.
The fifth planet we learnt about was the biggest planet which is called Jupiter. The only thing I like about Jupiter is the colour, It has a light creamy colour.
Our next ballooned planet was Saturn. In our solar system Saturn is known as the only planet with rings around it, The rings are made out of ice.
The planet we last of all spoke all about was the planet Pluto.
The information that I know about Pluto is that in 2006 it was downgraded to a dwarf planet because scientists said that it was too small to be a planet. I reckon Pluto looks a bit like the moon. In our experience Kamire was holding up Pluto.
The experience we had I think should of had a moon because the moon is also in our solar system. Our moon for real it does not have light it is actually our sun that reflects it’s light onto the moon so that the moon can shine when it’s night time.
So from learning about the moon the sun and the planets I’ve known that the sun must be like the most important thing that is out their because if we had no sun our earth will just be cold like Pluto is now and we’ll have nothing to keep us warm, We also might not see anything. I think that if we had no sun on this earth then no one will know when it’s night or daytime.
I really enjoyed this experience but at times it got boring because some people were just making lots of noise.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Facts about our Solar System
In 2006 Pluto was downgraded but now there are four dwarf planets in the solar system.
I was really shocked when I found out that our sun wasn’t that big and that there are other stars which are much bigger than the sun. Some people call the sun the star. That’s why in lots of sayings people and many scientists say that the sun is the closest star to earth. The sun’s surface is called the photosphere. The temperature of the photosphere is about 10,000 Fahrenheit. Did you know that the sun is made out of 92% hydrogen, 7% helium and the rest is other low number gasses.
The moon does not give off light of its own. It is the sun that gives light to the moon. The moon reflects the suns light.
Falealupo in Samoa is the last place in the whole world to see the sunset which I think is pretty cool.
Other interesting facts:
Pluto is about the same age as the Sun which is about 4.5 billion years old.
The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid.
Venus has mountains that are higher than Earth.One of the mountains names are Maat Mons which is more than 5 miles high.
Scientists have found out that Venus is the brightest planet viewed from Earth.The reason why they know this is because the planet rotates from East to West. The only other planet that does this is Uranus.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Simile Writing
1)The Baby is as cute as a bunny rabbit.
The Baby is as cute as a tiny teddy.
The Baby is as cute as a little cute chipmunk.
2) The monkey is as cheeky as a little child.
The monkey is like an annoying friend
The monkey is as naughty like my little cousins.
3)The car is as bright as shining teeth.
The car is as blue as the sky.
The car is red like a tasty looking strawberry.
4)As brave as a hero.
As brave as a growley teacher.
As brave as a roaring lion.
5)As smooth as a babies bottom.
As smooth as a
As smooth as a
6)As soft as a fluffy blanket.
As soft as a babies pillow.
as soft as a birds feather.
7)As happy as the Rugby World Cup teams winning their first games.
As happy as a little girl playing with her dolls.
As happy as little kids running around on the play ground.
8)As loud as a noisy classroom.
As loud as the fans cheering for the All Blacks when they won against Japan.
As loud as a teacher growling at someone.
9)As warm as a heater.
As warm as the sun shining in summer.
As warm as a hot cuddly blanket.
10)As large as an elephant.
As large as Russia.
As large as Mt Everest.
The Baby is as cute as a tiny teddy.
The Baby is as cute as a little cute chipmunk.
2) The monkey is as cheeky as a little child.
The monkey is like an annoying friend
The monkey is as naughty like my little cousins.
3)The car is as bright as shining teeth.
The car is as blue as the sky.
The car is red like a tasty looking strawberry.
4)As brave as a hero.
As brave as a growley teacher.
As brave as a roaring lion.
5)As smooth as a babies bottom.
As smooth as a
As smooth as a
6)As soft as a fluffy blanket.
As soft as a babies pillow.
as soft as a birds feather.
7)As happy as the Rugby World Cup teams winning their first games.
As happy as a little girl playing with her dolls.
As happy as little kids running around on the play ground.
8)As loud as a noisy classroom.
As loud as the fans cheering for the All Blacks when they won against Japan.
As loud as a teacher growling at someone.
9)As warm as a heater.
As warm as the sun shining in summer.
As warm as a hot cuddly blanket.
10)As large as an elephant.
As large as Russia.
As large as Mt Everest.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Silly Sports Day
I was really excited to hear that the whole of team 5 were going to be having a fun and great time doing and playing games down at the bottom field where there was lots of spare space for us to use and do all the activities.
There were 4 teachers taking each activity. The first teacher we went to was Mrs Lagitupu. With Mrs Lagitupu we played ball tiggy. That ball tiggy wasn't the same as the ball tiggy we usually play nearly everyday. The only thing that was different about this ball tiggy was that we couldn't’t run with the ball.
The instructions were if we got the ball we could only catch the other group by touching the ball not throwing the ball them if we did throw the ball then we would be out of the game.
The first thing we did was Mrs Lagitupu put our whole class into equal groups there were four groups Yellow, Green, Red and Blue I was in team Blue. My team was one of the first teams to start playing with team Team Green.
Our second teacher we went to was Ms Tito. Before we even started walking I had a feeling that Ms Tito’s activity would be challenging well as always.
When we got there we had to sit and wait until everyone was quiet then we would start.
The point of the activity was that we had to aim for a hula hoop that was out on the field and we had to try and flick the ball out of the sling shot into any of the hoops if the ball went into any of the closer hoops our class would get 50points. But if someone got it into the pink hoop which was far out near the middle of the field, We will get 100 points for our group.
The prize at the end of the day for Ms Tito’s activity was that the winning class will get to have a water balloon fight during lunchtime. At the end of the day the class that won was unfortunately not our class but Room 22.
The next teacher we headed off to was Mr Harris. With Mr Harris we had a race the first one we did was we had to put a tennis ball on top of the spoon and also with a rope tied up to my foot and to my partners foot and race to the other side of the field without dropping the ball if we did drop the ball we would of had to go back to the start line and start again.
Last of all was Mrs Nua’s her one was the best because it involved water which was pretty cool.
The aim of Mrs Nua’s activity was all four groups each had one big sponge. With the sponge we have to splot the sponge into a bucket of water the we pass it to the back of our group under legs then to the side. The last person at the back of the line squeezes the sponge into another bucket at the back you have to try to squeeze all the water out of the sponge and into the bucket.
I hope that we carry on doing these kind of activities but every week it should be different activities like next week one teacher should take rugby and one teacher should take another activity because it will be pretty boring if we do the same one every week.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
How we need to earn points for our classroom
50 pts - bin it award
50pts - lunch box heroes
50pts - 1st class at assembly
50pts - best class at assembly
10pts principal award
10pts - karakia mihimihi
Points are also given to students doing the right thing throughout the day. Some examples are sitting and eating, picking up rubbish in the street and random acts of kindness.
To earn points for our class we have to be either first to our school assembly and even the best class that sits there throughout the whole hour. Those aren't the only ways you can earn points. You can also earn points by getting a principals award, doing karakia or mihimihi, bin it award and lunch box heroes. The amount of points you can possibly earn for either of these is 10 to 50 points.
This term Room 21 have to start earning points because right now on the score board we are very far behind with 225 points. So far room 19 is taking the lead with 590 points. The reason why our class is behind is because we don’t work that hard to earn points. The other reason why we don’t get much points is because we hardly remind our teacher to do Lunch box heroes.
When I heard how much points we earned it felt pretty embarrassing because all the seniors were there to hear it . We just need to work harder and do the best we can get point even if it’s 10 point.
50pts - lunch box heroes
50pts - 1st class at assembly
50pts - best class at assembly
10pts principal award
10pts - karakia mihimihi
Points are also given to students doing the right thing throughout the day. Some examples are sitting and eating, picking up rubbish in the street and random acts of kindness.
To earn points for our class we have to be either first to our school assembly and even the best class that sits there throughout the whole hour. Those aren't the only ways you can earn points. You can also earn points by getting a principals award, doing karakia or mihimihi, bin it award and lunch box heroes. The amount of points you can possibly earn for either of these is 10 to 50 points.
This term Room 21 have to start earning points because right now on the score board we are very far behind with 225 points. So far room 19 is taking the lead with 590 points. The reason why our class is behind is because we don’t work that hard to earn points. The other reason why we don’t get much points is because we hardly remind our teacher to do Lunch box heroes.
When I heard how much points we earned it felt pretty embarrassing because all the seniors were there to hear it . We just need to work harder and do the best we can get point even if it’s 10 point.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Immersion Rotations
For Term 2 we are learning about Bigger,Better,Faster and Stronger. I think that the whole point of this topic is to research old historic things and do a prototype and make it Bigger,Better,Faster and Stronger.
I reckon that that best Immersion rotation so far for me would have to be with Ms Tito. With Ms Tito we learnt about Creativity.
We had to create our name with different shapes of letters of the alphabet. It was very exciting because Ms Tito showed us her classes names and they were actually pretty good.
So far Henry’s was the best because he did his name in graffiti. My one is just random I didn't really use my imagination.
For this creativity activity it is actually a competition between all the classroom students and teachers. The prize for this is if you win you will get to throw water balloons at your whole classroom.
Immersion with Mrs Nua was very cool. We were going to get given a raw egg but first of all we had to build something to stick the egg in so that when it is time to drop the egg it doesn't crack.
The only materials that we got to use were ten drinking straws,6 ice block sticks and sticky tape.
In my group was myself,Mui and Sharon. We tried our best to stop our egg from cracking. The whole point of this was to drop the egg without it cracking. Ours cracked within minutes because it slipped out from under neath the straws.The groups egg that I know of that didn't crack was Daniels group. There one was actually decorated and made very carefully.
Innovation with Mr Harris was pretty good and really cool because we had to research old historical things like old telephones , old computers , old cars even to old types of toilets.
Firstly Mr Harris told us about his own families toilet that they had at there house when he was very young.
He told us that there toilet was not in there house. It was outside about 10 steps away. The most disgusting thing about the toilet was because it’s not like the toilets we use now it was actually different because the toilet back then had a bucket under neath where you do business.
The other worse thing about it was because about every week there would be a man who comes and collects the bucket and yep that sounds really disgusting. But Mr Harris told that the most disgusting thing that would happen was if the man who came to collect the bucket fell and everything that was in the bucket tipped on him.
Well I was researching I saw that telephones thy used back then were really different some of them were really big and they were used as mobile phones.
Mr Harris also told that he had a phone just like that. But then he got a new one,I was actually cracking up at this time because Mr Harris told us that he had a new phone. I actually thought that when he told us it was a new phone I thought of it as a mobile phone that we have these days but no.
At Mr Barks classroom we did Practicality. Mr Barks also told us a story about him and an old class he had. He told us that him and his whole class found bits and pieces of and old leaf blower so they decided to collect all the pieces and put it altogether. It worked and worked for a long but Mr Barks has changed a few things on it. He put a long pipe on it so that he wouldn't need to bend down all the time.
And from then on it is still working. We also learnt about how scissors were invented the scissors were invented by a scientist and his name is Leonardo Da Vinci.
It was very funny at this moment because Mr Barks said that one day he looked out his window and saw that his next door neighbour was cutting the grass with scissors which was really funny. But the reason why his neighbour was using a scissors was because the neighbour didn't have one so Mr Barks lended the neighbour his one to borrow just for the day.
Finally with Mrs Langitupu we did Imagination. For Imagination there were 6 tables with 6 pieces of paper on there. On each of the papers there were questions one of the questions were what would you like your house to be made out of.
My answer was that I wanted my house to be decorated with all the money of the world and I also wanted a house made out of chocolate but the only problem was that if it was sunny then my house would melt. But I also thought of another idea I thought that my house would be better off somewhere in the cold like Antarctica.
There were also questions like if you had a imaginary dance what would it’s name be. My one was that I would call my dance group the shakers.
During the Immersion rotations we learnt heaps about our topic Bigger,Better,Faster,Stronger.
I reckon that that best Immersion rotation so far for me would have to be with Ms Tito. With Ms Tito we learnt about Creativity.
We had to create our name with different shapes of letters of the alphabet. It was very exciting because Ms Tito showed us her classes names and they were actually pretty good.
So far Henry’s was the best because he did his name in graffiti. My one is just random I didn't really use my imagination.
For this creativity activity it is actually a competition between all the classroom students and teachers. The prize for this is if you win you will get to throw water balloons at your whole classroom.
Immersion with Mrs Nua was very cool. We were going to get given a raw egg but first of all we had to build something to stick the egg in so that when it is time to drop the egg it doesn't crack.
The only materials that we got to use were ten drinking straws,6 ice block sticks and sticky tape.
In my group was myself,Mui and Sharon. We tried our best to stop our egg from cracking. The whole point of this was to drop the egg without it cracking. Ours cracked within minutes because it slipped out from under neath the straws.The groups egg that I know of that didn't crack was Daniels group. There one was actually decorated and made very carefully.
Innovation with Mr Harris was pretty good and really cool because we had to research old historical things like old telephones , old computers , old cars even to old types of toilets.
Firstly Mr Harris told us about his own families toilet that they had at there house when he was very young.
He told us that there toilet was not in there house. It was outside about 10 steps away. The most disgusting thing about the toilet was because it’s not like the toilets we use now it was actually different because the toilet back then had a bucket under neath where you do business.
The other worse thing about it was because about every week there would be a man who comes and collects the bucket and yep that sounds really disgusting. But Mr Harris told that the most disgusting thing that would happen was if the man who came to collect the bucket fell and everything that was in the bucket tipped on him.
Well I was researching I saw that telephones thy used back then were really different some of them were really big and they were used as mobile phones.
Mr Harris also told that he had a phone just like that. But then he got a new one,I was actually cracking up at this time because Mr Harris told us that he had a new phone. I actually thought that when he told us it was a new phone I thought of it as a mobile phone that we have these days but no.
At Mr Barks classroom we did Practicality. Mr Barks also told us a story about him and an old class he had. He told us that him and his whole class found bits and pieces of and old leaf blower so they decided to collect all the pieces and put it altogether. It worked and worked for a long but Mr Barks has changed a few things on it. He put a long pipe on it so that he wouldn't need to bend down all the time.
And from then on it is still working. We also learnt about how scissors were invented the scissors were invented by a scientist and his name is Leonardo Da Vinci.
It was very funny at this moment because Mr Barks said that one day he looked out his window and saw that his next door neighbour was cutting the grass with scissors which was really funny. But the reason why his neighbour was using a scissors was because the neighbour didn't have one so Mr Barks lended the neighbour his one to borrow just for the day.
Finally with Mrs Langitupu we did Imagination. For Imagination there were 6 tables with 6 pieces of paper on there. On each of the papers there were questions one of the questions were what would you like your house to be made out of.
My answer was that I wanted my house to be decorated with all the money of the world and I also wanted a house made out of chocolate but the only problem was that if it was sunny then my house would melt. But I also thought of another idea I thought that my house would be better off somewhere in the cold like Antarctica.
There were also questions like if you had a imaginary dance what would it’s name be. My one was that I would call my dance group the shakers.
During the Immersion rotations we learnt heaps about our topic Bigger,Better,Faster,Stronger.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
My Zinger Pinger Friend
My Zinger Pinger is the the best Zinger Pinger in the whole world because it is very talented. It can dance, sing and even jerk. It’s name is Xiao Dre and he is very good at karate. Xiao Dre’s skin color is light brown and he has cute big blue eyes. Xiao Dre has his own very special power and that special power is that he can read peoples minds which is really cool.
Xiao Dre is an only child in his Zinger Pinger family but he was abandoned by his owner Randy. Xiao Dre and I lived in China for 8 years but then we moved to New Zealand because we heard that there was going to be a Tsunami. Xiao Dre’s Favorite celebrity is Lady Gaga but Xiao Dre really really likes Justin Bieber because of his hair style . Xiao Dre is really interested in Lady Gaga because of her big weird dresses.
In Xiao Dre’s spare time he likes to read books write songs and ride on his BMX. Xiao Dre’s best friends are Winny the Pooh,Barney and Elmo . The island that you see on the top left corner is Xiaos Dre's island. The islands name is Stinger.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
JOY
My movie is all about Joy. In this movie there is a a girl who does not have any friends and she goes to ask some other girls if she can play with them. Luckily they let her play with them. She feels joyful!
Hope you enjoy watching my animation!! Monday, February 14, 2011
My Holiday highlights
The first week of my holiday was really exciting because my uncle was going to be arriving at my house from Napier. I couldn't wait until he came because I knew when he arrived we'll head straight to Sylvia Park to do some shopping for him and my brother and my sisters too. Well after a day of summer hotness me and my family headed off to Bucklands Beach to go and cool off with a nice cold swim. We didn't get home until 7:30pm.
Finally my last holiday highlight was going over to Manukau to spend the New Years with my grandma and some other cousins of mine that I didn't even know of. Their names are Christopher, Christine, Jennifer, Priscilla, Dannielle and Mira. They are the best cousins I have ever had. While I was there we watched some Phillipine movies and High School Musical.
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