Rugby World Cup

Some of you may know that this year is the Rugby world Cup, If you did not know but the trophy they win if they win the cup is actually called the Web Ellis cup because he invented it by taking a ball and running with it. Since it is the Rugby World Cup we all got to pick a country and answer some questions about that country, I chose Canada because the colours are nice I like the Maple Leaf and because everyone would probably chose either New Zealand or maybe Australia, GO New Zealand If you don't know but New Zealand won against South Africa. Here is a slideshow on Canada.

Have you watched any Rugby World Cup games? 

I know I have not.

Amazing Aqua Man

We had to write a blog post on what super power we would like to have if we could.
I decided that I would want to have the same powers as Aqua Man.
-Aqua Man can breathe underwater
-hold his eyes open underwater
-control the sea
that would be awesome and you will also have a cool Trident.

Do you reacon my power is cool?
What super power would you want to have?

Hutton's Shearwater

The Huttons Shearwater bird is very Native to New Zealand and special to Kaikoura and to seawater Kaikoura Ranges. They nest high in the mountains and are the only Native bird in New Zealand that nests in the mountains. They arrive in late spring and wait for the snow to melt and show their burrow.
They spend summer in Kaikoura and in winter they fly to Australia, This type of bird is nearly exstinct it only has 2 colonies left, 2. In November of 2016, they suffered a further blow when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake badly affected their habitat in the mountains, destroying around 15% of their nesting area and possibly killing an estimated 200,000 individuals.
These birds are very important to are country we don't want to lose these natural birds to predators and earthquakes do we.

Do you think I picked a good bird to do my work on?

Bumbling Bumble bees

Bumble Bees, They are very important to our world if they go exstinct the world would start dying off and we would be left with no actual living plants and then no honey.
We have to be really careful now days because every little thing we do to the environment counts, the more polluted our world becomes the more bumble bees we are destroying.

The word Bumblebee is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word bumble means:
It means sort of us humans mumbling but if you listen to a bumblebee you can here it make a noise sort of like a bumble noise.

Bumblebees can reach ground speeds of 54 kilometres per hour.

 Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do _____

times as much work as a normal honeybee.

Do you know how much more times does a bumblebee work as a normal honey bee?

My Graph

If have done a graph here of many very hot places but these places get into the 70's that must be really hot. These places are not from New Zealand these places are to hot for New Zealand.
Here is my bar Graph.
What is the hottest temperature you have had?

Safety Sun Screen

It is very important to be careful when in the sun because if you spend to much time in the sun you could get skin cancer.
Here are some ways on how not to get skin cancer.
1. make sure to apply sun screen regularly when in the sun.
2. wear a hat so you do not get a burnt face.
3. if you feel like you are getting sun burnt of feel hot go under some shade.
4.If you were a shirt or a rashie (swimming suit) there will be a slightly less chance of sun burn.
5.The last one is optional sunglasses, sunglasses protect your eyes from the harmful sun.

Make sure to be sun smart, do you have any other ways to prevent skin cancer?

exciting New Zealand

This Holidays the teacher gave us homework to do (optional). This time we had to write what we think the best time of the year is to visit New Zealand. I reacon that the best time to visit New Zealand is in the Summer, because hot weather, sunny skies, and more cool atractions to go and do.

If you do think about visiting New Zealand her are 3 things you could do while you are here:

-You could go to the Shy tower and have dinner or high tea.

-You could go to snow Planet or Rainbow end.

-Last but not least you could go to Te Papa.

If you were a tourist thinking about going on holiday would you consider coming to New Zealand?

Swimming at Q.E.2.

For the past 2 weeks our whole school have been going to Q.E.2. for swimming lessons.
We have learnt how to do different strokes, such as freestyle, back stroke, survival back stroke as well as many other styles. The worst part was probably when I had to make sure not to touch the ground for 3 minutes and we had to keep ourselves up in the same spot, but the best part was when I jumped into the pool and Tallulah had to throw this thing at me and I had to hold on as she pulled me to the edge of the pool. The Hardest thing is breast stroke I could not quite get my legs to do it and push me through the water.

What do you think the hardest stroke is?

Me, Mary

We did a recount for R.E. this week. We had to put ourselves in Mary's shoes.
We had to re-tell the story of Mary and her being told by Gabriel that she was going to have a child and him Jesus, and her cousin was going to have a child in 3 months.
Here is my story,

Me, Mary

I woke up this morning all flushed and blotchy eyed. I went down the stairs and made myself a glass of original brewed coffee (by the one and only me).

The house was a bomb site, I grabbed out the cleaning solution then the vacuum cleaner and many other cleaning products.

I was doing all the house chores while Joseph was out “working”  (having a coffee with a mate.) I started chopping up dinner, we were having soup “carrots in the pot, carrots in the pot, high how the Mary oh carrots in the pot. I went outside to fetch some kiwifruit, Brrrr…….  Christchurch is cold this time of year better get my sweater and change out of my jandals.

I walked back into my modern cottage at the edge of a stream, my sweater was grey with an old band called “five50” written in permanent marker. I put on my crocs, crocs sound like the would be cold but mine had a fur line. I scuttled for the door as I walked out, the big heavy metal door brung me to the ground I stumbled and fell “aaaarrgggggggggghhhhhhhh…………     MY BACK” I popped my back out. I walked it off though, I went walking into the garden to fetch some of my famous kiwifruits, my kiwifruits are rather fresh this time of year.

I hunched over and waddled to the kitchen and started singing “kiwifruit and carrots in the pot, kiwifruit and carrots in the pot, high how the Mary oh kiwifruit and carrots in the pot.

Joseph came back and I made him make the cheese dipping sauce for the onions. Once done we sat down on red rocking chairs with vintage pillows. Then I realised I had a cramp in my stomach, “Joseph, Joseph go grab the medicine!” 

The next day I was wandering down to the stream, I sat by the side of the stream, the water flow looked like dancing dolphins. I stared at the eels and watched the fish do freestyle. As I watched the water I saw a figure above me through the reflection, I turned slowly. “Um Hi there, Do I know you?”  “Ahh no Mary I am a new fellow around here, but I have a message for you, God my leader wants you to give birth to a child and name it Jesus!, and your cousin Elizabeth will have a child in 3 months time.” Then I had another cramp but then I realised “I’M PREGNANT!!!”.

Joseph was astonished he started pacing around the room, I stood in shock. Next minute I heard Gus McDonald pull up in his delivery cart. I rushed to open the door before he knocked, “hey Gus, have anything for me?” yes actually a whole lot” He showed me the load, Joseph had been shopping. Gus was rather chubby and he was always eating fries and burgers.

Joseph turned to me and shrugged, I started opening the cheque even though Jesus was going to be God’s child Joseph was going to treat him like his own.

First things first Joseph you spent 300 dollars on a baby products!

We were both in shock.

Do you like my story?

Playing pixels

We did Cybersmart today with our teacher Miss Holland. She got pixel images and started them off we finished them now it looks like this.
The one on the right is the image and the one on the left is mine.

Do you like my Charmander?

Instructional sandwich

This week we have been writing instructional writing, we are writing on how to make a sandwich.
I did a peanut butter sandwich. I was the first person to do it.
Miss Holland made mine, I was so nervous that my sandwich would fail.
In the end my sandwich was a hit, I even got to eat my sandwich it was free.
It was not the best but it was average.
If you made a sandwich what spread would you put in the sandwich?

The Map Makers Race

This term the Moreporks we have done a chapter book, we read a few pages and then answer questions and do tasks.

The task for this week was to create a new book cover for the book.

I put the author on the cover and a picture from one of the  pages of the book.
Here is a quick blurb of the story.
So the Santanders go to Grand Prospect and they get on the train but their Mum doesn't get there in time. They go on without her they make a friends along the way and they make enemies.
They have 28 days to make a horse track and a train track so far they have spilt ink, lost their food.

I hope you like my map.

Interesting Interland

For Cybersmart this week we have been on a site called Interland and it is about being smart and safe on the internet. There are 4 different lands/worlds that you can choose to play, I picked the red one.
Some levels are about passwords others are about bullying and sharing.
Here are some pictures of the red world.

Have you ever played Interland before?

manners 2.0

This time these manners are not what we say but what we do physically.
Such as opening the door for someone, chewing with your mouth closed, being quiet at a public place, waiting patiently, Etc.
I did a slideshow and every slide had a different manner we can do and how we can do them.

Did you like my slideshow? What other manners do you know that you can do?

energetic emotions

For inquiry we have been learning about emotions. We did a DLO I chose a slide show, we did a slide for different emotions. We wrote about what makes us do these emotions and how we can control these emotions.





I hope you enjoy my slideshow.

marvellous manners

W.A.L.T.  Being Respectful by using manners in what we say.
Our virtue for this week at our school is Respectful so we did a DLO on manners. I did a slide show I hope you enjoy it.
For now I will tell you a little bit about manners, Manners are something we do and say.
Waving, opening a door, these are examples of things you do physically, saying excuse me, sorry, your welcome, pardon are examples of things we say to show manners.
Manners are things that keep the world together, people would not be able to work side by side if there were no manners. I need to work on the manner excuse me because I always interrupt adults.

What manner do you have to work on?

A tale of Abraham and Sarah

So for R.E. we did a DLO on Abraham and Sarah her is a quick re-tell of their story.
Abram and Sarai were 75 years old, they both wanted kids but they thought they were to old, God told Abram and Sarai go to Canaan and if they go there God would give them kids.
They were unsure but then they decided that they would follow Gods call.
When they got there God said I will give you kids as many as the stars.
Years and Years passed but still no children Abram asked God "God we have followed your commands but where are our kids". "Abram in a year you will have kids"
Abram told Sarai but she just laughed "hahahaahhahah"
Then on Abrams 99 birthday Sarai got pregnant when she gave birth God told them to name it Isaac which means laughter. Then God gave Abram and Sarai new names Sarah and Abraham.
Abraham died at the age of 125 but are you wondering where are the millions of kids God promised, well Isaac had kids and his kids had kids and so on and so on one of the kids was Jesus so Abraham is connected to Abraham and Sarah.

Please look at my slide show answering heaps of questions.
Do you have any questions? If you have any questions please ask me in the comments.

Logo challenge

This year a whole bunch of schools in our cluster are competing to create a logo for our cluster.
Our cluster is called Te Ara Tuhura that means the path to discovery so I did a heart with a magnifying glass, because the heart I am not so sure but the magnifying glass is for the "path to discovery".

Do you like my logo?

My calendar art

W.A.L.T identify kiwiana symbols

At our school we have been doing Calendar art, our art is about Kiwiana if you do not know what Kiwiana is it is things that relate to New Zealand. I put a pavlova, a fern with the words All Blacks, a kiwi, and Jandels. Sadly my art ripped but luckily it is not that bad. We added colour and we can order calendars to keep.

Do you like my art work?
(be honest)

The old Orphanage

For our narrative writing I choose to write a story on an old Orphanage.
It is about a girl named Lily and her best friend Katie, the story involves twists and adventure, emotions and drama.
Read my story and give me feedback down in the comments.
Do you like to Write storys? if you do write in the comments.
Have you ever written a story on an Orphanage?


One cold and frosty evening, Lily laid and waited at the chipped second floor window at the old Orphanage. Mumbling to herself saying one day she would find her long lost parents.
Lily was very sneaky she would always discover information behind Bootswagens back.
She tried over and over again to find out more information but living in an orphanage was hard, all the time she would wonder about them.

One bitter cold night, Lily laid in the bed of the old closets (rooms) imaging what her parents actually looked like. She sat up and decided to whisper to Katie (her best friend)  ̈ ̈Katie do you ever wonder about what your parents look like?̈ questioned Lily, looking for an answer.
Katie looked unsure like someone told her that ice cream isn't healthy. (which it isn ́t) even though Katie had an unsure expression on her face she replied with ̈ I always thought that my parents were somewhat different¨ She shuddered before drifting back to sleep.

Lily always thought that her parents had glossy blonde hair and crystal blue eyes that stream out like bubbly rivers. But that was just a fantasy for lily, nothing but imagination.
So far all she knows is that her parents took one look at her and said ̈ ewww…. Gross give her back ̈ and then left her on the orphanage steps.  But that was coming from the old bot of a lady Ms Bootswagen.

Deep down she knows her parents love her with all their heart. Katie was helping her figure out her true parents and how to escape this broken down orphanage.Ms Bootswagen came thumping through the corridor banging on the doors yelling ̈Quiet you noisy brats ̈ Katie and Lily ducked the remainder the covers pretending to be asleep right before Bootswagen arrived.

The next morning, a lady wearing a very formal outfit demanded that Katie was to be handed over. Her crippling voice shaking the hallway, Ms Bootswagen didn ́t hesitate she threw Katie's clothes into a black rubbish bag that had a giant rip in it. Lily was shocked but Bootswagen just grabbed by the wrist and crammed her tiny body into the mustard yellow cab.

Lily ran to the window and looked at Katie, through the glare Katie stared back, tears silently rolled down Lilyś pale face. She watched as the cab drove off into the distance, never to be seen again.What was she going to do? Well luckily she has heaps of plans, But right now she couldn't do any of her work, so devastated. She crawled into a ball tears dripping like a broken tape, her flood of tear puddling beneath her.

A whole week later a very nice couple came and picked Lily up to take her in. At the couples house there was a tiny room with a tiny closet and a bunk bed.She pulled all the notes out and slammed it on the table then she found a piece of paper she was never seen before.
It was the address and the names of her parents she assumed, Agatha and Danny.
She found out that they live in London.

Later that night she jumped out of the window and fell in a bush ran through the park and jumped on a carriage that took her all the way to London.
Lily was nervous she scrambled to find the paper, luckily it was still there brutally crinkled paper with faint ink sploshes.

Once at the dock where the carriage stopped for some reason.Lily slipped of like she was a snake slithering for prey. She ducked onto this little dingy on the edge of the water and hung out there till no one was above. She ran to the streets of London and saw a sign that said bread for a dollar, but being alone at an orphanage you never got pocket money.
Even though Lily was poor when she was at the orphanage she would always steal food and cash from Bootswagen. Since being a mini thief, off went lily pick pocketing money.
After a we bit she managed to scrape up enough money to buy her a loaf of bread and a can of soda. She pulled the dotted paper out of her blue crusted jacket pocket.
The paper had the address for 19c Worthingham Crescent.

Lily ran through the streets of London until she stumbled across a newspaper stand.
They had hung a giant map, she scanned the wrinkled paper they call map.
She found where Worthingham Crescent on the map, she snatched a mini map.
It did not take her long to find Worthingham because it was a block over.
Down the street she found 20a, that was not it she kept running then she found 19c.
She knocked on the door, a lady opened it.

Lily decided to ask “Are you my Mum?” “Are you Agatha?” asked Lily anxiously.
The lady was shocked and just laughed, and laughed, but an evil laugh.
Then Lily felt someone shaking her then………..
It was all a blur Lily woke up and wiped the sweat off her head and there was her Mum.
Pheww….. Just a dream .
The End.