Splash!

A few days ago I arrived in Whangarei with my family. We have been going to different kinds of beaches, places and a lot more fun thing. Yesterday, I went to the Whangarei Pools. It was amazing, because every 10 minutes or so HUGE waves appear out of no where. It felt like I was on a beach. I also went do the slide with my cousin. There was a black slide and a blue side, I wanted to go in the black one because it looked dark. As I was going through the slide, it felt like an illusion. I also felt dizzy as I got out of the slide. When I got off the slide, I went outside to the diving board with my cousins. There was a small board, A medium and a very very high one. I jumped off the very high one a few times. It was very scary. After a while at the pools we decided that it was time to go home. When we got home I had a shower then feel asleep, I was very tired.

Cyber Smart

In room 7 we have been doing reading activities. Kakapo reading group has been working on being cyber smart and leaving a positive digital footprint. We had to make a poster about what we should do on the internet and what we shouldn't write on the internet. I have created this piece of art work using google draw with a few colours and pictures.

Dining at Mum's Cafe

Today, Myself and Litia have been working on a shared doc together. What we had to do was order four foods at a Cafe and see if we had any change to spear. I'm not sure if I got some wrong, but hopefully not. We had to answer some difficult questions and see if we could get the money & cents right. Here is my work, you can visit Litia's blog, and see hers >HERE< 

Litia/Honey

$50 Order

$25 each

Honey’s Order

1. Meat Lovers Pizza (8 Slices) - Costs $13.00
2. Corn on the cob-Costs $3.00
3. Ice Cream Sundae- Costs $5.50
4. Tap Water - Costs FREE

Total: $21.50

Did you have enough? Yes

How much change was there? $ 3.50

1. How much Money will you need to order a ham and cheese toasted sandwich, potato salad and apple pie.

It would cost: $15.50?

2. You and 3 friends go to Mum’s Cafe for breakfast. You each order Pancakes with Maple Syrup.

1. How much will that cost?

It’ll cost: $ 28.50? all together

b) You brought $10.25 each, How much change will you get.

We will get: $ 3.75?

2015 Reflection

Today, I had to do a reflection on this year. I had to wrote down what I have learned, what I liked learning about and what I would like to continue working on. I reflected different things I have done this year.

This year I did my learning with Mrs Parker in a netbook classroom using Google Drive.

Having a netbook made it easier to do research and learning independently. When you need to do a lot of learning  & research, a netbook becomes very useful. A netbook makes a lot of things easier because you can send a doc to other people, blog your work and a lot more.  

This year I learned different kinds of things, like how to blog my learning and using good words in a blog post. I learned how to do a lot of things on google drive and blog.

I did research on  the solar system, War and a lot more other subjects.

The things I enjoyed learning about the most was World War 1 & 2 because I found out a lot of things from World War like, they stayed in trenches, food supplies were low and a lot of other interesting facts about War.

I still want to learn more about planets because as I want to become an astronomer or astronaut.

The class trip/activity I enjoyed most this year was having a very kind and humorous teacher because she is a very funny and vibrant teacher to have. The best trip, well I think it was the best trip was going to Interschool sports days. I love going out of my school to represent it and make them proud by going to interschool events.

I am proud of the way I have achieved my goals and now I can set new ones. I have learned a lot of new things that I had no idea about.

Next year I am going to set new goals and try to be more successful. Next year I am going to try and achieve my goals by the end of the year.  

                 

Writing with Whittaker's

Have you ever just had a total meltdown while staring at a  Whittaker's Hokey Pokey chocolate. All your doing is staring at it, but it’s so hard to resist. You wait until you can eat the melting deliciousness. When you take the first bite,  it melts in your mouth and it’s such a great sensation. As it slides down your throat like a Chocolate Waterfall. Well, on the 3rd of December, I experienced that.

Today, Mrs Parker brought in a box that she has received from Whittaker’s for posting up a Whittaker’s Tart blog post. Oh did I tell you? Oh, well Mrs Parker received all this chocolate by making a Whittaker’s Tart, she posted it on twitter and Tagged Whittaker’s Chocolate Lovers and they talked about it. They talked for a while and the Whittaker’s Company decided to send her boxes filled with different kinds of chocolate. She brought it to school to share with Room 7 and do a project with us.

We all sat on the mat in a circle and waited for Mrs Parker to give us the delicious chocolate. When we got a piece of chocolate, Mrs Parker was reading out a ‘Chocolate Meditation’ to help us be really mindful while eating the chocolate. While she was reading that Chocolate Meditation Paper, it was kind of hypnotising because she made it sound so irresistible with the 5 senses.

When I took the first bite of my immaculate hokey pokey chocolate, I was transported into a chocolate dream, as it slipped down my throat like a chocolate waterfall. When I took the next huge bitch, eating the rest of my hokey pokey mini bar. I left it to melt on my tongue like a chocolate river that leads down a waterfall. The stream was ending and It left the taste of the sweet hokey pokey. The little bits of hokey pokey, sticks to my lips, as I lick my lips, it falls down my throat like rocks, awaiting to find the chocolate stream. When I finished my delicious mini bar, I thought if I should of eaten it more slowly. It was so irresistible.

What causes seasons and Why we have them.

Do you ever think about how we have seasons? I used to think about that all the time, but now I know how they work.

Seasons are caused on the tilt of the Earth’s axis. Half of the earth is leaning towards the sun meanwhile the other side is faced away from the sun, but as the Earth spins, the other side of the earth gets sunlight.

When it is Summer, the days get longer and the nights get shorter, but in winter, the days get shorter and the nights get longer, isn’t that confusing? The days are longer in summer because the Earth’s Southern hemisphere (Where I am) is faced towards the sun which direct heat, meanwhile the Northern Hemisphere is having winter.

The seasons all depend on the sun, the tilt of the Earth’s axis and the way the Earth rotates. Without seasons the Earth would probably be boring and cold. There would be no fun too.

Stardome Observatory

Today, the senior students of Glenbrae School got to go on a school trip to the Stardome Observatory. What we had to do first was sit down outside of the Observatory and have a 10 minute snack time. I sat down with a group of friends and my mum, she also came along on the trip.  Room 7 and Room 8 went inside of Stardome first while room 9 and 10 stayed outside until we were done. We went inside and saw all of the exhibits and presentations. Room 7 went inside of a room called the 'Space Room,'. Inside of the Space Room, there was a lady waiting in there for us, I forgot her name but she told us a lot of information.  We learned a lot about how the Solar System works, how the sun was formed and a lot more. I also learned that Venus is hotter than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the sun! After we had learned about the Solar System in the Space Room we went outside to the Room with all of the exhibits and got to look at everything and read a lot of facts. When we finished looking around, we got to go into another room but it was a different room. We all lined up and went into the room. There were a lot of seats and when I looked up there was a hole in the roof, but it wasn't really a hole, it was where we were going to watch the movie on. I went to the back and sat down, the seats are leaned back so that you can look into the sealing to watch the movie. We all took a seat while the show started. The lady told us some things about what we are going to watch. We all looked up as the movie started. The movie started with two children, one older sister and one smaller brother, the older sister was working on a project about the seasons and the little brother was playing with his toy robot. He bumped his robot into her project and crazy weathers and seasons were going on in her room, but most of it was just imagination. All of a sudden, her brother went to go get his toy space ship to go for an adventure into space to see how the seasons work. The trip to space was just using their imagination, but as they went into space they could see how the seasons work and she learned all about the Earth's axis. When they tried to go back home, they accidentally landed in Antarctica! They looked very cold, eventually they ended up getting home. When they did, she started to fix up her project and get it done. After that session we went outside while the other classes went inside for their turn. We had our lunch and play time. The classes were done, then finally it was time to go. I was very tired, so I fell asleep on my friends shoulder.

No Escape!

In week 6 I have been learning about black holes for reading activities. Our task was to get information out of a book, and put all the information into a Google draw which our teacher made for us.

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My kind of Super Power

SUPER HERO POEM

My super power is Controlling things with my mind

I am Quick, Unbelievable and Hypnotising

If I could, I would change the way others use their SuperPowers

like a Sorcerer, so that they use them for good, not evil.  

People would see me and be relieved

because I can control the way the world works with my mind

With my SUPER power, my mind is like a super computer

I'm as forceful as can be

When I use the SUPER powers within me.

Sending a Post Card from Cape Reinga

For reading this week, we have been working on a book called " The Vege Car," I bet it sounds weird, but it is still very interesting. The story is about a Man named James Nui building a car the can only use Vege oil not gasoline. The car has been equipped to only be used on Vege Oil. It also saves money and doesn't pollute the air. He proves that you can use Vege Oil by traveling from the top of New Zealand to the Bottom of New Zealand! Isn't the crazy!

The first activity I had to do was pretend to be James Iti writing to one of his friends on a post card. This is what I have done. I have used Google Draw to make this, but my Teacher, Mrs Parker has made the post card. I have also made up a name to use on the letter. (I'm sorry if there is a person actually named Jake Henare)

The second reading activity I have done is a PMI ( Plus, Minus, Interesting) I have read over the book and written down what is good about the Vege Car and the book and what isn't so good. It has created a table which I had to divide what is Positive, Negative and Interesting. I haven't done much, But i have been doing as much I can in this amount of time. I also shared a Doc with a few friends in my reading group so that we could all work together. 

Names: Davarni, Honey and Shannon Topic: The Vege Car      Date: 04/11/15

Plus (Positive)	Minus (Negative)	Interesting
Vegetable Oil doesn’t cost Vegetable Oil doesn’t pollute air Drive over 3000 Km with no breakdowns using Vegetable Oil	Gas cost a lot of money The car's exhaust fume causes Pollution, which affects health problems The car was damaged when they travelled to south. James Nui got a Speeding Ticket.   Staying up over night trying to fix the fuel system	Cars can actually run on Vegetable Oil It can travel 3000 km without stopping using Vege oil Went around the whole of New Zealand using Vege Oil

Why is the Moon upside down?

This week, Luisa and I have been working on why the moon seems upside down in The Northern Hemisphere so we created a Google drawing to show our thinking. We also Showed the different kinds of angles that we see the Moon. What we view from Japan and what we view from New Zealand. 

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By Luisa & Honey 

Showing Respect on our Playing areas

A few days ago, I have made this are about Respect on our Playing areas. I have used some shapes and lines to make this digital piece of art. I have created it on Google Drawings on Google Drive. It has some colours and a lot of playing obstacles.

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Autumn and I's friendship story

WALT: Recount a special day with a friend.

(Memorie 1)

Have you ever just thought back about all of the memories with your bestfriend? Well I have, and we have a lot of memories together and I can’t wait to explain what me and Autumn have done!!

Well, today was a usual day, I was bored without Autumn because she was in Whangarei, but her mum wasn’t. I went to my mum and begged her if she could take me to see Autumn, but she said that we have to go to her mum and ask for permission. As always, Autumn’s mum is very kind, but I asked if she could come with us to Whangarei, and she obviously said yes.

We had packed a few bags and all of us loaded into the car (Autumn’s Mum, My mum, My sister and myself). On our way to Whangarei, I never told her that I was going so it would be a surprise. When we got to the house in front of the massive yard, my mum told me that Autumn wasn’t there, and only Autumn’s sister was there. (My sisters Best friend). We kept on driving, until we arrived at this beach, I didn’t know that we were here because I was asleep. All of a sudden, I heard a “Click” of the door and a scream say “ WAKE UP HONEY!”

I was in shock because I never knew where we were, but then I saw Autumn, I was so happy I jumped out of the car and hugged her for 5 minutes.

I had asked Autumn if she could help me unpack my bags out of the boot, she said sure.

We had finished unpacking everything then we went for a walk around the beach, It was also so low tide. As the tide drifted out, we went for a walk along the beach until we reached the other side, I could see the backyard of the  house that was further along. There was a lot of shells and Autumn had cut her foot, she said that she didn’t feel it when it first got cut, but as she stepped inside of a salty puddle, it started to sting. I gave her my jandals because I didn’t want her to get hurt again. So, we walk back to the house and went inside of our tent.

I said I was bored because there was nothing to do and it was still 12:00, she asked her mum if we could go to a beach called “Mt Greggers”. She had told me what it was like and I was so eager to go. She had a few cousins there, and enough boogie boards for all of us. I was so excited and full of joy.

We rushed to the beach and I had already got my swimming gear on, I run and splashed into the water and it felt more warmer than I had expected it to be. I felt that the cold water had slightly gotten a little bit colder, but I didn’t mind. When I had gotten on my boogie board, massive waves started appearing and I tried to run because there was this one huge one. I had just made it onto shore, but i was still where the wave could splash, it had caught me and flipped me over and over. The salty water tasted disgusting because it got into my mouth. I had a lot of scrapes from when the wave hit me, but it was kind of fun.

When we were finished swimming, we went back to the house on the hill and it was quite late and I was tired, so I went for a little rest. I stayed with her for a week, then it was time to go home because school was going to start tomorrow. I started to cry because I didn’t want to leave her, but then, her mum said “If you want to come back home, you can” and Autumn replied with “Yes, of course I want to come back”

So, on our travel back to auckland, we got dropped off by Autumn and her mum and I said “Goodbye, see you next weekend”

I haven’t see Autumn in a while, but I will be seeing her soon. This has also been my first time going to Whangarei, and it was even better because I was with the most important person. I hope I get to experience this again. I loved going to the beach and going to other amazing places in Whangarei.

Gopro records poaching an egg!

Name of article that I read: Poaching an Egg Underwater View

Author: The author of this article is Kate Burn

URL: Poaching an Egg Underwater

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

The main thing in this article is an egg

2. What was the key event from the news article?

The key even is that someone is using a Gopro to record an egg being poached in boiling water.

3. Where did this event take place?

This event was in a pot of boiling water.

4. When did this event take place?

The date of the article is October 19, 2015.

You can watch the video > HERE <

Going to the movies

It was a bright sunny Saturday afternoon. My friend and I had gone to watch a movie called Born to dance. It is an awesome movie about dancing.

It was a sunny afternoon and I got dropped off to my friends house, her name is Annalise. When we got there, we hopped in the car with her parents and they dropped us off to Sylvia Park. When we got to Sylvia Park, we went to the cinemas and booked our tickets for Born to dance. When we had finished booking our tickets, we went to pak'nsave to get some snacks to eat during the movie.

We walked back to the cinemas and waited for the movie to start. While we were waiting we played in the arcade, the game we played was Air Hockey. What we have to do is put a $2 coin in the machine and air comes out of the little holes in the table. When the air comes out of the table, we get given this disk and two handles. What we do with it is try to get it in the goal, but try to protect our own. I won the game, the score was 4-3.

The game had ended so we walked back to the waiting area and we could see our line forming. We went to our line to give our tickets so we could watch the movie. We got our snacks and made our way to cinema 4. The seats we had were all the way at the back so we went there, sat and waited for the movie to begin.

A few adds played then, finally, the movie started. We had enjoyed the whole movie, but we didn’t finish our snacks. When the movie finished, we came out of the cinema and went to the train station. Annalise took the stairs while I went on the elevator. I met her at the place where we get the tickets. I booked my train ticket and she booked hers, all we had to do was wait for the train afterwards.

When the train had got to where we needed to go, we needed to walk home. We walked to her house and waited for her dad to get home. When he got home, he dropped me off at my house.

I was very happy that I had finally watched Born to dance. I had waited for quite a while to watch it. I had a lot of fun too.

What I am grateful for in 2015

In 2015, I am grateful for inter school sports, free milk at school and free fruits. I also want to achieve more in my learning by the end of the year.

During this year, I am very grateful for going to interschool sports for netball and Soccer. It was an awesome experience and trying our hardest to win against children that are our years. Going to the AMI netball courts to challenge other schools and represent Glenbrae. We may have lost a few games but atleast we still tried our best. During some tournaments, there were a few accidents, but we still carried on.

Going to soccer has also been a fantastic experience for me. We won a few tournaments too, and I was so proud of what the year 6’s had achieved.

I am also grateful for having supplies of free milk. Milk is very healthy and contains calcium for bones and teeth and protein for muscles. Milk has also cooled me down after having a long play after morning tea.

Free fruit at school is another thing I am very grateful for. Having free fruit at school has kept the students at Glenbrae school very healthy, especially when the teacher insists that you have one. Most teachers depend on their students to throw their scraps in the rubbish bin. Fruits also contain a lot of nutrients which is very healthy for your body.

Continuing this year, I also want to achieve in my academic (Writing, Reading, Math, Science and Inquiry). I want to get to higher goals, levels and stages in all of my academic. The subject that I want to achieve the most in is my math. I want to go up a higher stage and get to the national standard, but I also want to achieve all of my academic.

This year, I am grateful for going to interschool sports, having free supplies of milk and having free fruit. I also hope that I get to achieve my academic by working really hard during the week and answering very hard questions.

What is thunder?

This week, I have been working on this questionnaire using Google forms. I have got all of the information out of the Kiwi Kids site and chose what subject i'd like to do. So I chose What is thunder.  If you'd like to do this quiz feel free to. What you have to do, is go onto the link that is on the form and get information to answer the questions. Please have fun answering the questions and enjoy!

6 places I want to go

Today, I am going to list the 6 places I want to go

1. Mysterious Island

The first place I want to go is called The Mysterious Island, it is on a movie called Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. 

2. Fiji

The second place I want to go is to Fiji, I want to go there because they have beautiful land and beautiful water. They also have really nice houses on the side of the beach. 

3. Hogwarts

The third place I want to go is Hogwarts, I want to go hogwarts because it is in the movie Harry Potter. In the movie, that is a school where the students get tought magic. I'm not sure if it is real, but I still want to go. 

4. Easter Island

The fourth place I want to go is named Easter Island. I want to go to Easter Island because they have these heads that pop out of the ground which makes is look ancient. 

5. The underwater hotel

Another place that I wish to go is called The Underwater hotel. In the hotel that is under water, it is protected by glass which incase the water could get in. Another reason why I want to go to the Underwater hotel is because when you are lying in bed, you can see all the fish swimming around, and you can sometimes also see divers. 

6. Paris

Last but not least, I want to visit Paris. I want to visit Paris because it has a beautiful culture and it also has the Eiffel Tower.