Rarotonga

 Rarotonga 

BANG,CRASH,THUMP! we have landed in Rarotonga we hopped on a bus and it took us to Edge-water Resort there we unpacked our bags in a room called a villa we were villa 15.
We stayed there for 8 days and went snorkeling a lot and saw huge fish and eels. To be honest I was a little scared when I found a green eel because it kept on following me. My highlight of Rarotonga was going on a glass bottom boat when we swung on a really long rope that went over the water and coconut climbing.
I can't wait to go back to Rarotonga!

Soccer

Lately we have been playing winter Sports and my class were playing Soccer. 

 

Every two weeks we switch classes and do a different sport.

Here is a pic of me playing soccer...

Weird science!

On the 15th of November on Friday we did some weird science and this is what we did...

First we put baking soda in a balloon and put vinaga into a small bottle then we placed the balloon on top of the bottle and shock all the baking soda into the bottle of vinaga and then it created gas and so much pressure that it blow up the balloon to its full size and then we gently took the balloon off the top of the bottle and let it go fly in the air!

For our second experiment we got a mini canister and put vinaga in it and got a little zip lock snack bag and saler-taped it all up and put backing soda inside the bag and placed the canister in the bag as well and saler-taped the top up to make sure the gas can't escape, then we shock it up and it blow up and got bigger and bigger then exploded all over me because of the pressure of gas from the vinaga and baking soda!

Then for our last experiment we got a plastic bottle and put 5 holes in the lid and got vinaga and filled the bottle with vinaga about 3 quarters of the way and got a zip lock snack bag and cut the corner off and put baking soda in it and stuffed it in the bottle and quickly put the lid on tight and then all the vinaga and baking soda came out the lid like a sprinkler from the pressure and we all stood under it and got durty but still had alot of fun and it was cool having all our experiments worked this time!

Tennis

Tennis

Every Wednesday for the past Three weeks room 15 have been doing tennis.

A couple of things I learnt was volley. You have one person at the net with a racket  and you only hit with a softly into the opponents side and try to make it double bounce. If you do you will get a point. 

Her is a photo of me playing tennis with my friends.

Can you guess if I hit the ball or not?

Maths Statistics

A few weeks ago Room 15 Had to colour a piece of white paper in green which is fruits and veges,purple which is drinks,pink which is sweets and desserts and blue which is other.
We had to vote which one we would go home to eat and which is the most common.
The most common is fruits and veges,The least common is other.
We also made the squares into different graphs like a bar graph,Pie graph,dot plot,strip graph and histogram.
What would you vote for?

Senior Swimming Sports

On Wednesday in week 5 it was senior swimming sports and I entered in 4 races which were 10 year old girls 1 length freestyle 1 length breaststroke the medley and the relay.Can you guess what I came in the medley?

And can you guess what my favourite stroke is?

Swimming with Kelly sports

Here is my group practicing freestyle

My favourite part about swimming is learning new things and helping others.

Something I want to improve on is my speed and my backstroke.

Something I have improved on is my breaststroke and breathing.  

2013 refletion

In 2013 I had  great year we had lots of fun events and activities here are a couple of events and activities we did this year!

fun day!

Ice cream making!

puppet making!

bike wise!

There are a lot events and activities but here are only a couple for now i hope you liked it!

Reflection on Blogging

If I were to tell a class to do blogging I would tell them that blogging is really cool because you get to comment on other peoples blogs all over the world and you get to share your learning with others and they could help you make it better.

To make a good comment you must say something nice about their work and maybe ask a question so you can continue the conversation and even say something that will make their work better.

What I like about blogging is that you get to know what other classes do around the world because they might do different things to us and you get to find out what work they do.

What helps me with my learning with blogging is that you can get feed back and feed forward for your learning and they might say something that could help you with your learning or make it better.

I think blogging is great the way it is and I don't think we should make any changes.

Algebra

For maths we are doing algebra.  Today for algebra we had a problem solving activity involving a shortage of tent pegs.  Here is the problem.

The youth group are having a camp. they needed to put up tents for each team. Usually it takes eight large pegs to hold up each of their tents. This time they have a problem. They are very short on large tent pegs.

Leader: "Find some ways to put up tents that will save pegs" (Talking to the groups).

We had to work with a classmate to find a least three ways to put up ten tents.  Then we had to find out which of the ways used the least amount of pegs.

Emily and I made a way that only used 39 pegs but then Brooke came and looked at our layout and suggested that we could take some pegs away and join them to others.  Our second layout came to 36 pegs. The white bits of paper is the tents and the green counters are the pegs.  We had the least amount of pegs in the end and some people got up to 60 pegs altogether.  

Picture one is the first design:                                    Picture two is the second design:     

Speeches

hello and welcome to my blog in term 3 we had speeches and we had 3 topics and chose one to do our speech on witch were culture and me, my cultural discovery and I'm unique  let me tell you why  and I chose culture and me I think I did really well and I got into the semi finals along with Emily, Brenna and Arzoo but sadly I did not get though to the finals but Emily did she came first place for the semi finals and she is now going though to the finals a couple of challenges I faced were getting my speech ready because I had been away for the week  so it was hard to keep up but I did witch was really good I also had trouble with my q-cards getting them ready because I was so busy and I also had trouble trying to get away the butterfly's and getting up the front and sharing my speech in front of everyone but I did and did so well and I am really proud of myself and my speech here is a video of my speech in front of the class and some photos below!

please leave a comment for feedback or feed ford!

what am i? huiku

gymsport

Every Thursday we go to our gym sport class and practice our routine there is Hip hop, aerobics and cheer leading I am in cheer leading and we were competing in a gym sport compatsition when it was closer to the time we got our name and costumes ready and our costume was just black tights with a colored singlet and our name was the extreme team and we vs Te kowai school and we came 3rd and I think we did really well but we could of inpoved on our moves a little better.Anyway I really enjoyed it and I am veary proud of our whole team and myself!

Lee Lee the Sumatran Tiger Project

Sumatran Tiger Project

In the holidays we had to complete a task and that task was to research about the Sumatran Tiger because in Indonesia Mrs Parkinson bought a cute little plush toy that was a Sumatran Tiger and we had to find out all about the tiger so we knew about our new mascot.

We also had to make a background story to say how Lee Lee the Sumatran Tiger came to Vardon school. 

The part I most enjoyed was getting to know all about the Sumatran Tiger and making a cool project and mine was a book and I also enjoyed making the story about her.

The most challenging part was putting all the facts together and to think of a background story that describes how Lee Lee got here but in the end I figured it out all right.                     

WOW Reflection

 Wow Reflection

This term our topic is design.We had to create a outfit made of old materials and trash and we made a flash costume our costume had to be about nature and ours was the beautiful New Zealand Fantail our costume was made by myself, Sam, Latrel and our room 5 buddies Isabella, Harry and Harrison and don,t forget our lovely model who was wearing our outfit Courtney from my class.I think my group did really well and next time we will plan our costume a little bit better and Organise our Materials and Equipment.

This is one of the outfits at the Trashion show it was a outfit that lights up when you turn out all the lights and have one special light that makes the flero parts of the costume light up.

These are our awesome hoyts for the Trashion show they were amazing the hoyts were Emily from rm 12 and Natilie from rm 13.

I think we did really well and please leave a comment if you think there is anything else to work on!

My twisted fairy tale.



My twisted fairy tale!

 

Charters:

• Jessie (the narrator) 
• Jack
• Mike
• Katie
• Sally (the Bully)



Jessie:Once upon a time there lived four children one called jack (the weirdest) one called mike (the smartest) one called Kate (the cutest) and last but not lese Sally (the meanest) and.....

 

Jack:No thats not how it goes it gose like this.Once upon a time.......

 

Sally:Now stop right there you too both don't know the story it goes like this once upon a time......

 

mike: Now wait a minute.

 

Sally:What now.

 

mike:You can't just stop them from talking let them finish.

 

Sally:Well you just stopped me from talking how does that make me feel? Huh!

 

mike:Uuuum.......... bye.Zoooooooooooooooooommmmm!

 

Jack:Whoa, whats the matter with him?

 

Kate: He's just a scaerdy cat.

 

Sally:Hey!!!!!!!

 

Kate: Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

 

Jack:She's more like a sceardy cat.

 

Sally:What are you talking about?

 

Jack: Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

 

Jessie:And that was the end of that.

 

Sally:Who are you talking to!?

 

Jessie: Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

 

 

The End









Our Team 12 Assembly!

On Friday the 31st of may we had our Team 12 Assembly!

Our Goal for our team 12 assembly was to do our best and ....... to have fun!!!

Kiwikidsnews quiz results

 

Tuesday 25th June 

 Kiwi kids news quiz!

 

 

For the kiwi kid news quiz I got 80% witch is 8 out of 10 I got these questions right.....

 

 

1. Each year the finance minister must give his plan of the year ahead called a budget. Who is the finance minister for new Zealand? and I put Bill English
2.  Two traditional Maori __________have arrived in Northland this week after a 10-month historic voyage? and I put waka
3. The Education Minister announced this week that four schools in Christchurch will close and a 'super school' will be made. What is the name of the Education Minister for New Zealand? and I put Hekia Parata
4. What city in America was hit by a huge tornado earlier this week? It killed over 100 people, including 20 children. and I put Oklahoma City
5. This week the United States navy launched a plane without what? and I put A pilot
6.  Who is the New Zealand equestrian legend that received a knighthood for his services to equestrian sport this week at Buckingham Palace? and I put Mark Todd
7. Who is the world famous football player that announced his retirement earlier this week? and I put David Beckham
8. Who is the New Zealand women's kayaker that won the K1 500 at the second World Cup regatta in the Czech Republic this week? and I put Lisa Carrington

.....and the ones I got incorrect were.....

 

1. Which country won the IRB Women's Sevens Series this year? and I put Fiji when it was New Zealand
2. Which political party is trying to stop deep-sea drilling in New Zealand waters? and I put National Party when it was Green Party

...but for my first go I think I did pretty well and if you wont you can comment below and answer the questions by putting down what you thought it was before you  saw them but you need to be honest or you could just leave a comment about what you thought about the questions.

 

Thank you!





Drought Audioboo

listen to ‘The drought hits New Zealand north island’ on Audioboo

This is my drought Activity Audioboo in class we had questions that we put in our homelearning book and we found out all the answers and these were my answers.

Anzac reseach

This are my wickED challenge answers:

• The anzac ceremonies happen at dawn because thats when the troops landed at Gallipoli in 1915
• Gallipoli is in Turkey
• Anzac stands for Australia New Zealand army corps
• The 25th of April is a special day for us New Zealanders because its the day our soldiers landed at Gallipoli

And here is some facts about my family and anzac:

1. After discussing with my family,  my family knew that anzac day started during world war II and we celebrate it on 25th april very year. We have poppies and anzac biscuits to celebrate.
2. I have a couple of family members who fought in the war. They are my step dad's grandad and my step mum's dad's uncle and aunty.