my coloring pot with a paper elephant

Today I painted a pot with bees,flowers,grass or leaves and light blue sky.

Outside it's all painted,but when I look inside there's a hole to put some air in.

 

When I look at it,the painting seems real and come out of it and reach me.And the elephant looks thin,but real without any colors except grey,white and black.

It was connected by the thin long slices that goes in  it.

When I look at it I see these interesting details it makes me go wow!!!

When I put These together it seems a paper drinking water or eating a bee.

When I see carefully it seems it's chasing the bee to the flower!

By:Alex

The HUGE fire!

Around 5:30pm  on the middle Sunday of the holidays, Vikram, his dad and I went to school to play touch for a few minutes. Later some kids we think they were from Intermediate and they said "excuse me mister but there is a fire down there" and guess where he was pointing to Murawai pod. Vikram's dad said stay here but we did not listen we just followed him each time we got closer we could smell smoke it got worse and worse. Then I was shockingly amazed we saw the rubbish bin completely melted down to the wheel. I could see black burnt rubbish, there were burn marks on the pole we suspected it to be drunk people because we saw beer bottles and beer cans on the floor. The fire was scorching hot my dad went to someones house and asked them for buckets.

They gave him buckets then he came back Kevin and I filled them up with water and chucked it on the fire when we did it got bigger then shrunk. Then Vikrams dad called Miss Cheeseman, then Miss Cheeseman called Mr Sumich and Mr Sunny. The smell was awful then we check the other pods to see if there was another fire then we went up to the office to see if there was anyone to help us but there was nobody there. Then we went back down to Murawai to see what was happening. The fire was out when we went back there Kevin and I were pretty happy for the fire to be out. Then we went on the playground to play for a few minutes then Vikram went home with his dad and I went home on my bike.  

Vikram and Kevin  

The review of dispicable me

Despicable me a spectacular movie,a lot of laughs,some dramatic scene's and great animation. If you have not seen the movie the main character is known as Mr Gru. He wears a black and grey scarf around his neck.He has a nose as pointy as a sword,he is so bold that it is as clean as a mirror. He wears grey clothes and he has a Spanish accent.

It's about a man that a supervillian and tries to steal the moon then addopted three kids to help steal somthing. He hated the children at first then started to like them.Well we shouldn't give the movie away so you will just have to see it.

If you comment on this post you will get two free  tickets to the movie....

na just kidding.

Vikram and  Kevin 

Diary of a wimpy kid

Hi wellcome to the cheese touch!!!.I liked the cheese touch story do you want to know here it is''Tom touch the cheese than a yong girl said ''CHEESE TOUCH!!"the only thing to get rid of the cheese touch is to do is pass it on ,Tom pass it on to a bully than the bully pass it on to a nerd guy than the nerd guy pass it on to a cool guy the cool guy pass it on to a french and guess what "what" the french guy keeped on talking and then he went to camp". It was so  awesome i got chips yum it was so cool the movie Well the movie is kind of not wimpy well its funny.




By Farah

As good as it gets!!!!

This holidays mystery picture...

This Holidays mystery picture is :


Post your answer as a comment. The winner will be announced soon....




By Aaliyah and Louisa

Ramadan - the month of fasting

Fasting means you can't eat or drink when the sun is up.When the sun is down and its really dark you can finally eat. You have to wake up early like 5 or 6 a.m if you want to eat before you fast. Muslims only fast in August when september comes thats when Eid starts. Muslims don't have to fast the whole month you can fast any time or 2,3,4, 5 days. Muslims fast because  they want to feel how the poor people felt. Some people fast because Allah says to fast. If you fast you need to be over  8 years old. Muslims don't have to fast but they have to fast sometimes. 


                                          




By Farah

Eid the day of joy yeah!!!!!

Yeah awesome lets go. That is the sound we make when it is Eid, Eid is the day of joy.  Eid is only        celebrated by muslim people it only comes ones a month after Ramadan which is also celebrated by   muslim people in August every year.  Eid is when muslim people go out and celebrate, they celebrate because they have been  fasting [not eating] and now it is time to eat as much as they want. For my Eid I went to Mission Bay and the  Rainbows End and ate nandos. The kids are the must luckiest because they get money from who every  they know I am so lucky because I have heaps of people in my family the only people you can't take money from is the people that are younger then you and also they can go anywhere they want to go kids choice. We muslim people call it the day of joy because it is a very fun day and we love this day . 

Farhiyo 

Ginger's creative nature poem

 

N = nothing but a little door, will lead you into nature's tour

A = animals run and jump all day, while people sit and fade away

T = trees of the forest and plants of the land, and the cactus will lie in the sand

U = you know the seasons Summer,  Autumn, Winter, Spring, something god will always bring

R = rain can make some of our rivers, and some are cold that gives me the shivers

E = earth will spin round and round, on this place that someone's found

by Tenera AKA Ginger  [yes it's my own work!]

Conservation week

Last  week was conservation week. You should have worm farms and you should  keep the world clean. Don't you use your car, use your bike because the smoke and oil that comes out of the back it causes pollution. Get some plants if you do your  cool as! Anyway here is a website for saving the planet.

http://www.ecokids.co.nz/
Go to this website because it has some cool games to play, you could win prizes, you get to design your own agent and its has some tips about saving the planet.

By Vikram & Josh

The Horrifying Earthquake in Christchurch!

Three days before the horrifying earthquake struck everybody was going to work going to school as usual. At night the rumbling had started everybody came out screaming. In the morning people saw their houses their cars were all damaged.

The magnitude was 7.1 it happened on September 16th 2010.

Now Christchurch is having aftershocks. One of the after shocks was so deadly that the magnitude was 6.4!

The cracks on roads and paths are so deep that sand is bubbling out.

People are saying that to repair Christchurch it will take 1 to 2 years to get Christchurch repaired and on the go.
People were saying that an earthquake was going to hit Christchurch anytime.
But luckily it happened at night and if it had happened in the morning buildings would fall lot of injuries would occur more often. An earthquake happens when rocks underground fall along a fault then it releases a big amount of energy that makes all the rumbling Check out this video




By Nawshi

 

The adventures of Freddo

The adventures of Freddo is a game were you get 10 days or more to complete you get your own room and you get to customize it by playing games and getting points you can customize the outside and the inside. Once a day you will get an episode the episode is about adventures with Feddo and his friends Zac, Hannah and Ashley. You will get a game with your episode after or during your episode. Once you finish the game you wait a while and you will get an another adventure. Well I hope you like this game.

 

By vik

ZUMBATONIC

BOOM BOOM SHAKE SHAKE THIS IS A ZUMBA BODY!!!!!!!!!
Today we done Zumba with too hard out ladies  one Miss Pullman and the other lady was Rosaline. Our first song was O.M.G (oh my gosh) we had so much fun dancing away like we we're at a party. We did moves that were kind of hard and some moves were easy like shaking you bottom that was easy. The hard dance move was when we had to jump and roll our hands in the air until Rosaline changed the move. The  song to that we didn't know. The third dance I liked because we had to shake it like someone is shaking you that is why it was the best dance that we did that was fun for me it was but other people would say that they like O.M.G better because it was the best song and the best moves in that song. Everyone sang in the last song  the last song was party in the USA and every body sang how amazing do you know why? Well because the BOY'S we're singing HAHAHA. that is such a crack up I have never seen boy's sing before but only my brother. The girls we're singing like they we're at a club singing for a band that was so fun hope Miss Pullman and Rosaline is reading this thank you's. You are two amazing glorious,graceful teachers. 


If you want to do Zumba come to Summerland community house on Wednesday after school it starts at 3.30pm

By Olepa and Sasha

Pirate day with Rm 21

Clang! Clang! CLANG! That's the sound of the swords bashing into each other! Starting from the morning bell - Beep! - till the end of school, we had a day, a wonderful day when we dressed up into our fantastic costumes, from head to toe, all pirate things such as an eye patch, a cutlass, and all sorts of other stuff! Even things that others never thought of! Some thought of wearing stockings underneath their pants! I think that was really creative in some ways! Because only a few, well, that was including me, of course! We did pirate activities all day long! Miss Cheeseman even put links to pirate websites! You know how she loves pirates, right? No? Well, she does. I think it's because of her dream boyfriend, Johnny Depp. :)

Anyway, we did math activities like counting in 3's and 4's. Then, we did some co-ordinate activities and pirate maps. What I mean by 'pirate maps', is that we got to make our own. Then, at the end of the day, well, near the end, we did some literacy activities. We had so much fun! To be honest, I didn't really like my pirate name which was Cabinlass Sal. Isn't that a weird name to have?

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Dain

Summerland Sports Exchange

 Some of the year fives and sixes went on a sports exchange replaced by a Winter field day that was going to happen earlier this year. The sports some kids were doing were Hockey, Soccer, Kiwi Sport, Netball, Rugby League. In Hockey, Summerland  had to play Sunnyvale, Summerland. Summerland Team Red had take off one player (which was me) on our team to make eight players because there were nine players in our team. In Kiwi Sport you got to play games like Unihoc, The Nests, Bombers and Dodge Ball. The schools that the Kiwi Sporters played were Ranui Primary, Western Heights Primary, Summerland. They played the sports at the Te Pai courts. In Soccer, the schools they played were Pomaria, Western Heights, Henderson North.They played soccer at Henderson North. In Netball, the schools they played were Western Heights, Pomaria, Henderson North, Summerland. They played net ball at the Te Pai courts. We all had so much fun at the Sports Exchange, we could have been playing longer!
By Sahville

F1 italian Grand Prix 2010

The idea's of the high speed track in the circuit of Monza 1955, Antonio Beri and Aldo Di Renzo had one goal, Create a  track with a very high avarege speed, Without having changing of direction and with no use of brakes. the project so, strarted from the idea of the the one built in 1922, but with a modern concept. Finally the "ring" was composed of two half circle of a radius of about 320 meter and two straights of 875 meter. With a slope fo 80 % the car could keep going at 300 km/h all long the circuit.

The circuit of Monza will again host the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Italy from the 10th untilthe12th September 2010. The Italian Grand Prix is one of the most popular races on the F1 calendar worldwide. In 2008 it saw the maiden victory of Vettel in his Torro Rosso. In the extreme wet conditions the German took pole on Saturday and brought home the victory on Sunday. The “Autodromo di Monza” is the ultimate circuit for speed lovers. On the long straight distances the Formula 1 pilots can race high speeds. Overtaking is easy, but also very dangerous. A race on    the circuit at Monza forces a lot from both the car and the driver. As a result, spectacular crashes are also known to occur. A race at the “Autodromo di Monza” guarantees annual tension and sensation. This race should not be missed by real race fans cool !!!!!!!  
The race was on sunday on C4 I watched it  while the V8's were on Tvnz 3 .The race stared with Luwis Hamton crashed in the opening lap,


Hey may still be stuck on zero points, but the 2010 season has progressed so well for  Lotus that they look increasingly likely to finish the year as the best of the three new teams and clinch the all-important tenth spot in the constructors’ championship. For a team that only came into being a year ago, it’s an excellent achievement, and with some key announcements about their future due in Singapore next weekend, team principal Tony Fernandes is understandably feeling proud''. team Lotus spoke  '' I say well done''
there is two track's  here
 Josh 

Dain and Izzy's Game

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Check out our Egyptian quiz game - Izzy and Dain

Mystery Picture 1

Starting from now, we will be putting on mystery pictures for you guys to guess what it is. Thanks for the Australian School, one mystery picture has inspired us so we decided to give it a try. Every week there would be a new mystery picture.

Enjoy this weeks mystery picture:

Post your answers as a comment and the winner/s will be announced at the end of next week.

By Louisa

visit to Henderson

Brrrrm Brrrrm we were sitting on the bus waiting happy. When we were their we got put in to groups the first thing our group did was cooking. We made rice paper rap we made it with some cucumber,carrot,capsicum,parsley,lettuce and mint leaf. We also made an apple tart witch had some apples, egg, pastry and Cinnamon. The other activity that we done orienteering witch we went around the school looking for some clues witch was very easy. The last activity was story telling we went there for a short time but the story was called Imagine a day and it was cool because one of the photos had the same reflection and you couldn't tell witch one was witch. Then we had a sugage sizzle morning tea and a ice-block while they were setting up an assembly then we went in and sung and watch their play. Next year we we really want to go to Henderson so we can enjoy art,music and maybe even be in a play. We really liked it we hope you have fun next year when you go to visit Henderson next year.

Olepa and Tenera

The winning match

Last night we had a match Oratia Cool Cats v's the Oratia Hawks for a catch up match of soccer. First we did same shots at goal to warm-up but our keeper was sick and I was back up so I was the one that got shot at in the goal. But on the other hand I could pick up the ball which was cool then the other team arrived.

Then it was kick off I was midfielder Tom passed to Kail and then he went all the way (with us fowling Kail to the goal line ) to the keepers goal and booted it right to him. so he punched the ball to the goal line so it was a corner. so Kail did the corner. Kail passed to jamie and jamie passed to me ( with the hawks still at the corner ) so I booted the ball into the goal ( with the keeper still looking at the corner ) and I said "GOAL!!!!!" it was 1-0 .But I forgot to rip open my shirt up. oops getting to far now sorry!!! Now back to the game since we got a goal it was there kick off.

(Right at the back of me was this larch pudie of MUD ) the coach said goal for the cool cats. Kick off for the hawks then it was half time so our coach Kevin told us about the game plain when we wore eating Moorobars hay don't look at me I'm not In charge ok ok good then it was back on I was keeper for this half and then it when it so fast the coach said"full time" then we shook hands with the hawks saying good game good game "ok we get it'' ''ha its my story here'' ''I thought it was real '' ''it is '' ''ok''. lets get to the good point now I got player of the day so at 4:00 tonight at the club room for the prize draw to win a $20 Sterling sports gift card. and you get a bottle of coke + a bag of chips. so at 4:00 we went to the club room for fun and for the gift card. so they called out the 9 yr old boys cool cats it was a win 1-0 at that point I ran up to get the bottle of coke and a bag of chips and they draw out a name for a prize and they called out Josh- I got a $20 Sterling sports vocuher.

Josh

Discovery time

One spectacular Friday we joined room 20, 19, 18, 17 for discovery time. When we arrived we sat down for around 5 minutes and then the teachers from Anawhata started explaining discovery time. They had a sheet of paper with words on them they said today we are doing discovery time. The sheet said what would it look like and our mission was time management the little kids got 3 or 4 tasks the big kids got 5. We had to finish our activity's before morning tea time and we only had one hour. So when we started everything it was fine but when it was around 9:30 it was a mess they were scissors on the floor vivid's all over the floor. It took us 5 minutes or ten to pack it up. At the end of discovery time we wrote down what we found hard and why it was. Some people finished all the tasks but most of us didn't, we found it hard because people were not putting there equipment away and everything was messy. I managed to finish the sheep and the lily. When I was trying to do them I had to wait for ages for the equipment. Next time I will not wait for the equipment I will go and do something else. Then we left I really want to do it again, because its fun doing stuff with paper and sticking stuff, making things is good to take home.

Check out the photos here DISCOVERY TIME IMAGES

By Vik and Tamir

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