Hockey

We played hockey with Shaun and other player from Western Hockey. They taught us how to dribble and how to hold hockey stick. We played game called 'hockey ball rush'.

We had a lot of fun.

It was interesting to watch Shaun doing the tricks. It made hard to get his ball off from his hockey stick. The dribble was kind of hard because it was hard to control the ball. Anyway, it was short time, but it was funny.

By Jae

Reach 4 the *'s

Starlab reporting for duty.... LAUNCHING 5 4 3 2 1 ....... BLAST!!!

Straight after the bell, Louisa, Isabella and I went out to the court to meet Mrs Dysart and all the other people doing the 'Reach for the Stars'

seminar. Gloria Witheford was our teacher who taught us about the star constellations which is stars that link together to make special pictures! How exciting! We got to feel how a real meteorite feels like, make a Star Chart which we need to help us find star constellations and go into this Starlab AKA Mini Look-alike spaceship. We got to make a comet (the closest thing to a real comet

) with her. She showed us a trick with candles and some dry ice. The trick was she kept a bottle of oxygen which was made by dry ice. If she put the bottle close to the lighted candles the candles went out. At the end, we got to have a bead that changed colour in the sunlight. A few days later, Isabella lost her bead! I found another bead that was blue while Louisa

found out hers was blue. Then I lost mine too!

By Dain, Louisa & Isabella

Left: The beads when theres no sun.

Right: The beads when there is sun.

Robotics

Devon and Jarred were selected specially because they are awesome [Miss C said] and they went to do robotics to see John who was a expert at use these Lego robots. The robot had a brain that was called a brick, the brick had 4 buttons, left, right, select and back. Every robot could walk left, right, back, back right, back left, forward right, forward left, forward for 2 seconds and five seconds, wait for 2, 5 or 10 seconds, loop, stop, move at a object, move at sound, or move on a black line plus much much more.

Each robot had a name I can remember some, Sue, Cyrus, Rodney and Phillip. With the robots there was a touch sensor. He showed us (everyone that was there) some videos from a tournament.

We did a course that only a few people completed. Forward, right, around the bucket, through the middle, around the other bucket and back again...

By: Devon and Jarred.

End Game

We went on a class trip to the theatre to see a play called End Game, the characters were Alex and Mum. In the game they were called Pluto and Madonna. We did a PMI on the play. The pluses about the play were: The bit where they tell the time and when Alex had to smash only two statues to find his mum. Also the bit when Mum had to change her name to some thing better rather then Madonna! Some minuses were that in the beginning of the show it was a little bit boring because they were talking too fast and we couldn't hear them, and also when they said some rude words. The show was really fun and interesting, we really enjoyed it and we can't wait to see another show!!

Thanks

Shania, Tori, Tenera and Sahville

WORK LIKE A SLAVE

A couple of weeks ago we did Egyptian activities with room 21.

It was awesome we got to do 6 activities.

They were called Egyptian bread Egyptian sandals senet game Hieroglyphics, beads it was fun we also did Egyptian maths That was kind of hard because we didn't under stand it proprely.

Room 21 was funny because when they made Egyptian bread they made a big as mess and we had to clean up their mess that was so unfair.

But we just did it without any fuss.

It was so fun.

But we always had to clean up the big mess in the back room but we still did it!!!

When we did the Egyptian maths people just keep moaning and asking for help. Do you think that is fair? some people think that it isn't fair well at less we finished the maths sheet.

It was fun doing all the activities we had great time with room 21 and we hope they had awesome fun with us hope their reading this.

Anyway some of the kids always ask for help when they were doing the maths so we

just did the right thing and helped them!!!!!

That day was great thank you room 21 for the awesome fun!!!!!

By Sasha , Aaliyah , olepa

Egyptian Immersion rotation

So what did you think of the rotation - click on the link and write a word or two words in the space and press enter:

http://answergarden.ch/html/1433

mystery egg...

Two kids from room 13 came in to show us an egg but what type of egg we don't know? we had to guess what it was. I saw that it was dark green with white lumps all over it and it was about the size of a kiwi's egg. Was it an emu, a peacock, an ostrich, an albatross or a crocodile egg?

The next day they said it was an emu. At morning tea they broke the egg and cooked it and now eating it. These are some photos.

Ginger

Kiwikick taster session

Yesterday we went to the courts to play kiwikick. Kiwikick is like rugby, but its more better and the people who do it tell you how to get better at kicking. We did the drop punt. We had lots of fun with room 17 and the kiwikick guy. We had to try to hit the teachers with the rugby ball by drop punting the ball, hardly anyone hit the teachers because they were kicking too hard. Some of the class were good at kicking. We also tried to hit Adam with the rugby ball. When you drop punt the ball you have to put the laces towards the person you are kicking too 'laces away from faces'. You have to kick with the bridge of your foot. You have to imagine there is mud on your toes and you want to kick it to your partner.
We played a game warm up, we had to jump on one foot and run on the spot and stuff and then when he blowed the whistle we had to rush to pick the rugby ball off the floor.
By Tamir and Jarred
kiwikick on PhotoPeach

kiwi egg

A surprise came to the library for room 22. Miss Galbraith had brought in a kiwi egg as she let us pass it around. Miss Cheeseman walked away saying OMG i can't look! because she thought we were going to break it. When we got to the end we were wondering how such a big egg could fit in a small kiwi?
by Ginger

Haiku Poems

We created some holiday haiku poems on fotobabble.

cooperative games

Tied up in knots made the start of the term interesting. Room 22 played a game called ties that bind games.What happens is you need a partner and two pieces of string, what you need to do next is you need to make a knot so the string can fit on your hand so you don't cheat. The rules in this game are you are not aloud to use scissors, slip your hands out of the string or bite the string with your teeth. The aim of the game is to figure out a way to untangle yourself and your friend.Now when you and your friend have finished and have untangled your self you have just finished the game.And the best way to help you in the game is to use communication and cooperation.
Co-operative fun to start the term! on PhotoPeach

By Rhiannon

Q: What did the rope say after it got tangled?
A: Oh, no, knot again!
[thanks Mrs Brown for that joke]

Karate Kid Movie!

Last Friday,mum and I went to the 'Event'Cinama to see Karate Kid. Jackie Chan was a Mr.Han.Drae is Jaden Smith.The original of Karate Kid was in 1984.They based on original story. Then they remake the movie.
I think the Karate kid is a funny and great thril in the one movie you should watch it! It is cool movie!



BY JAE YU

~***~ Trip to Mt Maunganui ~***~

Last week on Tuesday the six of July my Mum and I went down to Tauranga - Mt Maunganui to stay for six days. It took two hours and a half to get to Tauranga from Auckland. When we got to Mt Maunganui we stayed in an apartment named the Atrium. We had a fabulous time staying there for four days and after that we stayed with my auntie and then a night with Nana. At the Atrium we got the penthouse. The penthouse that we stayed in was in the forth floor and it was huge. When we got in we where staring at the beautiful ocean that sparkled in the sun. We could see the Mount. I went to see my room...I was sleeping in a double bed looking out to the sparkling ocean sea and I had a wardrobe to. It was BEAUTIFUL. All the way down the other end was my Mum's room. She had a double bed as well and she could see the beautiful ocean as well. Near my room their was a bathroom, the lounge, and the kitchen. It was so hot on the Wednesday that we needed shorts! We loved it. Soon the four days were over and we had to check out. It was one of the saddest times of our lives...lol!! That night ( Friday ) We went out for dinner to Blues cafe and bar restaurant with my auntie. We stayed at her house that night. Then that Sunday we went back to home sweet home!! We had SO much fun I can't wait till the next holidays!!

Thanks

Tori-Grace

Rain Forest Express

Today I went to the Rain Forest Express in Titirangi with my mum and we took a lot of food because of the brouchure saying it would take about 3 hours to watch in the Express train.
We came to early so we looked around and took some pictures waiting untill the Express train comes.
There were rules about the Express train,The rules were watching out for poisons and traps,no putting our body outside the Express train and listening what the explaining people are telling and the really important rules are no opening the door when the train is going and no touching plants that we don't Know for example:Tutu is a poisonous plant!and the other important rule is no breaking the rules.
The leader had called our groups name , when we were getting in train, my mum was keep baging her head on the window and the leader said to be careful further.
The train is passing 10 tunnels,nine briges and a highest dam - Nihotupu in Auckland.
The interesting thing was watching gloworm and grasshopper in the tunnel and the dam was so scary because it's high and looks like a cliff.
I have learnt the dam is supplying to 1.2million Aucklander .
The journey seemed to through the bush .

Our Fishing Trip

During the holidays, my family and I went fishing in Warkworth. The beach was called Omaha Beach. It was a very cold and windy day and there was drops of rain. It took about 1 hour to get there and there was lots of traffic. When we go there, we had to get lots of things out from the back. This included fishing rods,buckets, tackle and bait. Rain started dripping on our heads as we walked to the beach. It was tricky waliking to where we fish because there was of sharp rocks and sticks. I then realised that it was low tide, so I thought there might not be a chance of fishing up any fish. But my dad didn't care so he just keep fishing. Timed passed as we still hadn't reeled in anything. The sun was coming down and the water started to rise. It was high tide. This was a chance of fish. It started to rain so my mum, brother, sister and I found a big rock and hid in it for shelter. My dad then got a couple of bites of the legal size snappers. He then caught a Kahwai too. I also got a chance to cast and fish but I always get the bait stuck between the rocks. My mum fished up a couple of snappers that ended up to be bigger than my dad's catch. The day ended in a big tasty dinner and lots of fish. 10 Snappers, 1 Khawai, 1 Trevally and another I don't know. This also ended up to be the best day my dad ever had!!


By Louisa

Studying In Holidays

In the 2nd week of the holidays, we planed to study at the Waitakere Library. Isabella & I still didn't know where to meet each other before we went to the Library! Anyway, it's the last day of school so I gave her my phone number. On Sunday Isabella phoned, telling us that her mum argued about looking after us for 3 days. I was away at skiing for the 1st half of the 2nd week. When I came back Isabella phoned again, saying that she forgot to tell that she's coming over after lunch to study together at my house! Friday finally came, when 12:30 came I could see her tiny blue car waiting outside my place. Isabella told me she had been to the Library while I was away and brought 3 science books! I asked her if it's OK to study in my room, she said "YES!" We studied the subject Science. After about 30 min I declared to have a rest by reading Eclipse.



By Dain and Izzy

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Rainbows end fun!!!!

On Saturday I went to Rainbows End in Auckland and there is so much fun stuff there you might feel like staying the night there. RIDES- The rides that are there are dodgems, Invader, Bumper Boats, Gold Rush, Log flume, Fear Fall, Movie Theatre 180, Motion Master, Coca Cola Roller Coaster, Power Surge Family Karts, Scorpin Karts. LOG FLUME- When you go on the log flume you go down a big hill and when you get to the bottom you get wet. PICTURES- When you go on a ride there are cameras by the rides so when you go down a hill do a funny face. CAMERAS- When you are on a ride that has water, beside to them be very care full because when you take your hands out of the boats the camera people will see you and you will get in trouble.

Dance off in room 22

On friday we went on a trip to corban's art centre.We left school before morning tea we came back after lunch.For lunch we had subway. After lunch time we had to make cards for the parent helpers. Some people did blogs.

Miss Cheeseman said if we have enough time we could have a dance off. On friday was white glove day. We had to do a Michael Jackson dance. Sasha's group was the best because there one wasn't random they new what they were doing but the others were good as well. Hannah's group was so funny. Hannah's group were doing random things they danced to thriller. Rhiannon was doing a bunch of random dance moves but she was funny as.

This year was the first celebration of Micheal Jacksons death.

by Sasha & Tui

On the 24th of June room 22 and 21 went to Corban's Art Centre and we made a Korowai
it was so cool. First we had hession material and we had to fold the top down to about 3\4 then we had to put two fingers down at the bottom and put a line across then do it again but this time we had to do it up above the line. We had to get the long grass and cut it up the top diagonal and stub it in the first line and up through the top line and back down [like a fish].
Then turn it around and pull it so it won't came out. Then we had to get same more long grass a keep on going to the end.
Next got yellow leaves [called kenko] and do the same it is just like diving down like a fish and coming up like a dolphin and then back down and pull at the back. Then we got some feathers. This time we had to flip our korowai over and thread the feathers through. then we were finished and had to sew it together along the fold line. it was really awesome working with the fibres - but the bits of grass gets everywhere. check out our photos here
also look at Mr Qadir's awesome shots here too

By Sasha and Liutu

New iPad

On Monday the 21 of June 2010 Miss Chesseman bought in a new ipad. When everyone saw it they were amazed,the ipad was huge and the colour was silver and a little bit of black. Everyone was saying wow it is huge and everyone was trying to touch it and Farhiyo and I was the first one to go on the new ipad. It was awesome and exciting but when we went to one of the internet games we couldn't play on them because there was no Adobe Flash but instead we found a really cool game called Aurora Feint 3 the game was like those puzzle game where you had to click on one of the blocks and move it to make the same three pears , and the blocks looked like water, earth, fire and air and we had to do it really fast because time was running out and if you don't do it fast your lives will disappear and we also got to battle different evil characters and so it was very awesome but it was loading very slowly it took like 3 minutes. So any way Hannah got to go first and then I went on the ipad, the ipad is so cool and huge we had a lot of fun, the ipad is so usefull because it has internet so if a laptop or computer doesn't have the internet or someone else is using it we could use the ipad instead of the laptop. The ipad has maths games so we can practice maths in different ways so we wouldn't forget it because we could just play on it again. The iPad has more games and apps then a laptop could have and the iPad is like a mini laptop because it has most of the things that a laptop has like the internet and games.
A ipad is just like an ipod but the ipad is bigger. You have no keyboard you just use your finger to move around or you move the iPad itself.


By Hannah and Farhiyo

Football Quiz

Interactive quiz

Use your arrow keys to go left and right, up and down moves the cannons position. Hold down spacebar to fire the shot - hold it down longer to get a higher shot. You have to answer the questions. Choose an answer and try and shoot the cannon ball onto the top of your answer.

By Kevin and Vik

The Modern School Of Music Competitions - Keyboard and Piano

Last weekend on saturday Vikram, Dain, Tori-Grace and some other kids from our school competed in a competition, for the competition we had to play the keyboard. The competitions went on all day but each competition took 40 minutes. On the keyboard we had to play two songs. Each song took 10 minutes or less. One own choice and a test piece. The test piece was Rock Around The Clock. He had a beat to go with the song. We had a lot of fun playing keyboard for everyone. When we were ready for playing the judges rung a bell to tell us we could start playing. Tori-Grace won first place for the test piece and got a Casy R Riketts trophy. Her name will be carved on the back of the trophy. Another boy from another school school won in the own choice and Vikram came second! After six months Tori-Grace has to give the trophy back to the other guy who came first in the own choice and then he will have it for six months and then by that time it will be the competitions again but next year. It was a great experience and would like to do it again next year.

By Vikram and Tori-Grace

Battleships and Knowledge

Test your knowledge against the computer.
How much do you know about world cup countries?
Have a go at beating the computer at battleships here
http://www.quia.com/ba/405921.html
let us know how you get on!

Matariki