Mathletics

This is my mathletics. I worked really hard on and you would be suprised how many times I mucked up, but I kept persevering and this was my end result. I hope you like it.

Mathletics

This is my mathletics. I worked really hard on and you would be suprised how many times I mucked up, but I kept persevering and this was my end result. I hope you like it.

Minions Prompt

WALT punctuate speech correctly

• ‘speech marks’ at the start and end of each talking part

• new line (enter) when the speaker changes

• comma, exclamation mark, question mark before the closing speech mark

• comma before person talks, if it comes after the information of who’s talking

It all started one Saturday afternoon when, well, everything seemed normal. At exactly 2:23 there was knock on my door. Very funny laughs came from outside, I opened the door. There were short funny looking yellow things, on the doorstep to be precise.

"Hello, how can I help you," I said looking at them with great interest. The one with one eye replied,

"We are minions we do your housework and anything else you wish, but for only one  week. " Confused, I invited them in I sat down on the the sofa and they lined up seven minions. That's what they called themselves. I said " Take me to Paris." And that they did so. They grabbed me and my money and dragged me to the airport, and got us a plane to Paris. Can you guess how many seats we got? "yes," we got nine, apparently money needs a seat. When we were waiting for the flight I asked them their names. They lined up yet again. The one that spoke at the front door said,

" Hello my name is Bob and I like ice cream," he said cheekily. The second one was quite shy and whispered it, Bob sighed "Frank, why do you have to be so shy, well anyway that's Frank." Suddenly there was a yellow flying thing coming at my face

" Hello it said I'm BooBoo I am a baby minion, I like keeping people company."

" Right ,"I said " Who's next " I asked. Two minions spoke "We are Steve and Dude and we are twins".  Almost after the twins finished talking another minion started.

"I am Bill and I only work on Saturday," Bill said. There was one more funny looking one he said " Hello I am Sunday and I only work on Wednesday."

When we arrived in Paris I was so tired. Do you know how much minions talk? It was horrible. It was late when we arrived so we went straight to our hotel. But soon enough it was morning and the minions wanted to go bungy jumping of the Eiffel Tower. But before they realised anything else, the twins yelled "I want breakfast." So for breakfast we had bananas and ice cream because that's minions' favourite food. An hour later we were up the the Eiffel tower. I thought they meant to do what I wanted to do and do my chores, not what they wanted. As I said earlier they wanted to go bungy jumping they even brought their own ropes. The were harnessed up in no time. I don't even think you're allowed to jump off. But anyway 3,2,1 and they were gone. Well anyway you don't want to know what happened during the week. I will save it for a another time.

Calendar Art

Step right up to this amazing opportunity. It's for a short time only. So come down and buy your newst calendar.

Calendar art time is finally here. I can't believe that it is almost the end of the year already. For our  Calendar art this year we had to do a scene with three different bits. I did bushes at the bottom, the sea in the middle and the hills of the seven whales in the background. We had to draw it in our art books first. After that we did our good copy that would be stuck onto our calendar sheet. I am very happy with my calendar art. I put the kiwi on there becuase it is a famous New Zealand bird and it is a very beautiful bird.

Before

After 

I have edited my art since the one above. I have taken the kiwi from the middle. Made a new bigger kiwi and stuck it in the corner. The reason I put in on the side was becuase Ezra's mum Adele is a really good artist and she came in and talked composition. After we went and carried on and improved our art I went up to her and she suggested to take the original kiwi off and make it bigger and move it to the left side. 

A Friend

These two poems are this week's poems. The one on the right is the poem I made up based on the poem "A Friend... " on the left.

A friend 

A friend 

A friend is kind and caring

But when you’re not your best

And when you're hair is in a nest

They won't laugh they will say gosh you look good today

When you feel like a chat you just dial up their number and you can chat chat chat just like that

Friends are always there for when you're feeling blue 

When your friends are around and you don't know what to do how about you go to the zoo

A friend is always there when you need them most

A friend will always come when you toast marshmallows 

A friend will give you surprises when you feel blue 

They will lend you a hand when you are covered in glue 

A friend will never doubt you

They will always believe you

A friend is always there.

By Matilda 

Gymnastics

This is my genius hour. Its questions about gymnastics and their answers.

Aliens Exist

Aliens Exist / Aliens Don’t Exist

I believe that aliens exist because there are 1.8 billion planets out there. There is a high chance that there will be at least one because there are so many planets. Our galaxy is so big there could be heaps out there rather than one with living things on them.

First of all, I know in 1969 there was sighting from the first spacecraft of a L-shaped thing fly alongside there spacecraft. The first people to see this were the first people also on the moon, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.

Second of all, I think they don’t want to come here because they have seen our weapons and  they don't want to get killed. I think that is sensible because I would not want to come to another planet and want to killed. But that is just my opinion.  

Third of all, Why would people put aliens in movies if they were not real? We would not even know about them. That means if they are in movies someone must have seen one.

I think they exist, but a lot of people don’t. This piece of writing is why, I think they are real.

Rock Climbing

Rock Climbing from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

This my trailer about rock climbing.
 I hope you enjoy!!

Camp Moment In Time

Are the chips cooked? Is the spaghetti getting heated up? it was all a blind panic. It was almost time to plate up so soon. The spaghetti started popping in its pot. The shaped toast was starting to burn quick quick turn them over, some were burned what a disaster. Lets give the judges the non burned ones. Ouch! the chip burned me as I tried one. The chips started sizzling on the gas cooker.  I think they’re almost done.

The air tension was pretty high trying to get all the plates plated up and all pretty for presentation. Pass me the toast no that one is burned. One circle on the bottom and one heart for the top. The burning hot spaghetti got sprinkled around the edge. Chips at the top like little hairs on someones head. The delicious large breadcrumbs with yummy chicken flavoring. Done! Don’t touch the plate. Then we were taking it to the judges.

The Smell Collector

This is my poetry. I hope you enjoy. It's called The Smell Collector.

Fun Swimming Sports

I dived into the pool and I suddenly felt as frozen as ice, I came to the surface and began to run.  The water splashed into my mouth it tasted strongly of chlorine. I could see people cheering and encouraging us racers on. It was so noisy people cheering, Mr G commentating, clapping it was such a hullabaloo. The penny dive came  quickly. The last event then we can hop out. I could hear the pennies splash on the water then fall to the bottom. I could see them almost everywhere I looked. I could smell the chlorine underwater but I didn't mind I just kept looking I found nine in the end it was a great day.

Waka Art

This is my waka art. I did three different bits. One is what I like to do, Gymnastics, Swimming and hanging out with my family.

The next bit is where I am from and I am from the amazing Kenya and the incredible New Zealand. 

Also there's a bit about me and my classroom. The pride tree is in the centre. Six, that's our classroom number and the totara hub because we're in that totara hub.

 This is my oar. I chose my two favorite colours and I wrote my name in black so it stood out.

How to get over your stagefright

This is my poem I created on getting over your stage fright.
Hope you enjoy.

Countdown online shopping

This is my shopping we went onto online countdown shopping this is what I brought 

Item	Cost	Total
Biscuits melting moments Molenberg toast bread original x2 Tim Tam biscuits caramel Arnotts Country Cheese Sakata crackers x3 Raspberry jam buns Middle bacon Nutra Grain Uncle tobys oats Anchor blue top x2 Earthcare toilet paper 12pk Palmolive shampoo x2 Palmolive conditioner x2 Palmolive soap Finish dishwasher tablet Dishwashing liquid Oreo ten pack x2 3kg Bananas 4kg of apples toothbrush soft x5 x2 regular toothpaste passion tango yogurt x2 hellers sausages Chicken breast boneless Pork chops loin Chocolate fruit and nut  crunchie pasta large spirals wine	$4.50 6.58 3.79 3.99 7.47 4.20 4.79 4.99 5.49 4.58 4.99 11.78 11.78 2.99 19.99 3.49 5.58 8.88 9.96 7.96 19.98 19.99 19.99 5.58 2.29 6.99	30.53 35.32 45.8 54.38 59.37 71.15 82.93 85.92 105.91 109.4 114.98 123.86 143.91 161.83 173.81 193.79 213.78 233.77 239.35 241.64 248.63 plus 1.00 and then round 63 to 60 and then you have 40c change 1.40

TOP HOUSE

Go go go you can to do it one last jump. On Friday we had Top House, Its is a day where you show leadership and have heaps of fun. I was a leader I found it really fun and my team did great we worked together and thats the main thing. The challenges were very entertaining there was allsorts. There was passing a stick down the line in your team them you run to the front and keep doing it over and over until you at the cone.Then you run back and do it again, also there was  chucking these jack things into a bucket and and every one you get in the bucket you got a point my team was ok at this one but not great. Next there was a one you have to stand in a hoop and someone chucks you a ball and then you pass it down the line and then throw it into a hoop, but you have to make sure you don't throw too far otherwise it will miss. Also there one was  that Mr Ford took when there is hurdles and you have to jump over them but there is six lilly pads that you have to put out and make sure you can get across to the cone you can move them round but you can’t touch the ground and thats the challenge but we made it I got 8 of my team across. The last activity was a two legged race and and then you and your partner you went with, you both chuck a ball at a wicket. Thats all the activities. I was proud of my team I really want to have that team back. I felt tired and happy at the end of the day  I really enjoyed the day.  

TOTARA TREE ART

This is my Totara tree art. Mr Cottrell designed half.
My art symbolizes no matter what country your from you are all equal in every way.

Device Agreement

This is my  Device Agreement and that means I cant break any of the rules it says.

Athletics

Running ,jumping and throwing was a whole day's fun. On monday we went to athletics. The activities were high jump,  long jump, 200m sprint, 100m sprint,50 metre hurdles and a softball throw. I did all 6 activities to earn more points for my house I scored 9 points. It was a fun challenging day I really enjoyed it I hope I can do it again. I think my most successful event was either long jump or 100m sprint because I got to the semi finals  and I am not that good at running. My dad came for about half an hour before he went back to work he watched the hurdles and the 100m sprint and then kelly and pippi came and watched me do high jump, softball throw and 200m sprint. It was probably one of the best days I have had all year.      

 

This is me at high jump

Yachting and Kayaking

Yachting and kayaking Day

Day 1

I jump out of the bus and ran over to put my bag down ready for going our yachting and kayaking later. My tummy growled with nerves. My first partner was Renee. We chose our boat and set out I was in charge of the sail and the center board, Renee was in control of the tiller and rudder. I was scared at first because I had never been yachting before we sailed around my hand got really sore from holding the rope. We went back after a while so Renee could go with a another person. I went and meet up with my friend shore. I did not want to go back in but I had to so I went with Greta we managed ok because we were not with an experienced person on board.

Once we finished yachting  we headed over to kayaking.  Kayaking was really fun my partner was Georgia but she gave upon me half way through so I had to go with poppy’s mum. We kayaked around for a little while, we went out to the little island in the middle of Pandora pond and stayed there for a bit. We went back in when the whistle blew for to hop out and get changed to catch our bus.