The Last Post

This year Mrs Roil has been my teacher and I have learnt lots of things from her. At the start of the year I was given 2 badges a sports pal and a young leader badge. I have had lots of sporting opportunities and I have played in T-Ball and some inter school competitions.

We have written and learnt about animals that no one has seen before and we have been camping and much more. When we went to Camp Kaitawa we got pushed to our limits. At Camp Kaitawa we learnt more about the world then we knew.

Science Hot air and cold air.

What happens when air meets hot or cold water?

The first paragraph will be about what I think will happen, then about immersing it in the water. Then observing  the experiment . After the particles will start to expand and that's what happens in the experiment.

The first thing to do is get all of the equipment for the experiment  you will need: one bucket full of cold water and one bucket of hot water also one fizzy bottle and one balloon. If needed the experiment can be done with one.

Step 1: First full one of the buckets up with hot water then full the other one up with water. After doing that put a balloon on each of the bottles.

Step 2: Next put the one of the bottles in the hot water and another in the cold water.

Step 3: The next step is to observe the science experiment and watch the balloon blow up or shrink up.

When  putting the bottle in the hot or cold water make sure that the whole bottle is immersed so the balloon starts to blow when it is in the hot water. After putting the bottle in the hot water and finished observing it put the bottle in the cold water and watch the balloon change.

The air is made from lots of little particles and expand when they are heated. The heat from the hot water make the particles warm up and expand. When they expand the bottle gets too small for the particles to expand even more that's why the  balloon stretches. When the balloon stretches all of the warm air goes into the balloon and causes it to blow up.

The answer to the question is when you put the bottle in the cold water the air gets cold and starts to freeze and after the cold water put the bottle in the hot water and watch the particles start to move back around and blow up the balloon.

Our class has been doing some science experiments and then writing a story about the this story tells you how to do our experiments that we have recently done. It also 

What happens when air meets hot or cold water?

The first paragraph will be about what I think will happen, then about immersing it in the water. Then observing  the experiment . After the particles will start to expand and thats what happens in the experiment.

When  putting the bottle in the hot or cold water make sure that the whole bottle is immersed so the balloon starts to blow when it is in the hot water. After putting the bottle in the hot water and finished observing it put the bottle in the cold water and watch the balloon change.

The air is made from lots of little particles and expand when they are heated. The heat from the hot water make the particles warm up and expand. When they expand the bottle gets too small for the particles to expand even more that's why the  balloon stretches. When the balloon stretches all of the warm air goes into the balloon and causes it to blow up.

The answer to the question is when you put the bottle in the cold water the air gets cold and starts to freeze and after the cold water put the bottle in the hot water and watch the particles start to move back around and blow up the balloon.

The first thing to do is get all of the equipment for the experiment  you will need: one bucket full of cold water and one bucket of hot water also one fizzy bottle and one balloon. If needed the experiment can be done with one.

Step 1: First full one of the buckets up with hot water then full the other one up with water. After doing that put a balloon on each of the bottles.

Step 2: Next put the one of the bottles in the hot water and another in the cold water.

Step 3: The next step is to observe the science experiment and watch the balloon blow up or shrink up.

This is the came piece of writing but the next level up. Under neath is a diagram of what happens and the success criteria.

These are pictures of what happened

Write an explanation that explains clearly to the reader

include title and intro that states your topic and maybe asks a question

include a summary statement that links with the intro

Write the body of the text in order using some of the key words - Suggest the sequence of the experiment  clearly - firstly, after that finally.

Include some topic-specific science vocab

Show how the process happens by using continuous present tense?  This will mean using lots of ‘is’ and ‘are’

Sailing Story

One day there was this guy. His name was Bostan . Bostan was the best sailor and loved sailing. One day Bostan was sailing and he was sitting on the starboard side. He was on an optimist yacht and wanted to be a sailor racing in the Americas cup.

He had researched all about optimist yachts and is researching about catamarans.

As a kid all of his posters all over the walls was yachts,  yachts and more yachts. Traveling around the world sailing was his dream until the catastrophe.

The catastrophe destroyed his career and nearly his life.  When Bostan was about 20 years old he was in a head on collision.  The car that he crashed into was not a car it was truck. The truck hit him so hard that Bostan flying out of his seat and ripped his seat belt out.  The truck driver range 111 and the out of the distance came an ambulance.

A couple of days later Bostan got out of hospital but he came out of hospital diferent. He came out with a bad memory left in his mind and he was left in a wheelchair.  That’s how his career turned now he just has to watch.

Stockcar Racing

Stockcars

-1.How many years have you been racing stock cars? Crystal

-2.How many stockcars have you owned? Charlotte

-3.Do you name your stockcars?John

-4.Where in the world would you like to race your Stock Car? Daniel

-5.Would you like your stockcar racing to become a career? Georgia

Stockcar racing is a car destroying sport. It has destroyed many cars and Racetracks.  I have been racing cars for a few years.  I have owned more that my dad and have one name for all of my cars.  I have also raced all over the North Island.

Stockcar racing is a hobby I have been doing since I was six.  I had watch my Dad and Uncle create the sport. Now it has turned into a hobby for our family.  We have stockcars, street stocks and saloons.  Ever since I was six I have had more cars and more broken parts than my dad and brother. Over all I have had five stockcars and one of the I am racing now and the other four have totaled and aren’t strong enough to race.  I have had two streetstocks and three saloons.

I have got a nickname it is Maddog.  It is Maddog because when I was little and started racing I had a name that my Mum chose then when I got a game on our playstation there was a name that I really liked. The name was Maddog.  Ever since we had that game it has been my name.  

My family and I have been traveling to meetings all over the North Island and we have had one trip down south.  We traveled to Nelson and all of us want to go for one more trip to the South Island.  The next big trip that our family wants to go on is to Christchurch.

In response to your question about stockcar racing becoming my career, I would like for it to become my career.  Sadly, racing RC stockcars does not earn you money.  Due to this, stockcars wouldn't make a good career but would make a fabulous hobby.

Why You Should Go To Alaska

I think you should go to Alaska instead of New Zealand because they have more wildlife. They have things that New Zealand doesn’t and there are more places to travel. Alaska more wildlife, magnificent scenery and is much bigger.

In Alaska there is an abundance of wildlife.  There are Black Bears, Brown Bears and Polar Bears.  They also have Bald Eagles. The Bald Eagle is a bird. It is prey found in North America.  Willow Ptarmigan and many more. Alaska has over 430 species of animals. It is also known as the Willow Grouse. There are Deer, Moose and Caribou are also common in Alaska.A deer is like a reindeer but with big antlers. A moose is the same but with even bigger antlers. Alaska has Bats, Beavers, Bisons and Coyotes. You can see these animals at zoos and wildlife parks.

Alaska has activities and scenery that New Zealand doesn’t. They have the Northern Lights. The Northern Lights are colorful waves in the sky. They can be red, purple and green . The northern lights come to Alaska every Sled dog racing is an alaskan sport. They race in sleds and get pulled by a pack of 16 dogs. There is a water park called H20asis it is the biggest water park in the U.S.A.  It has a 505 ft water slide and much more.   It is in Anchorage, Alaska. The H20asis has a 575 ft lazy river as well. If you like Pizza then  Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria in Anchorage.

Alaska is 1,717,854 km² that is about seven to six times the size of New Zealand. Alaska has over 148 towns and cities. In Alaska there was a population of 621,400 in 1998. In some towns and cities people called Inuits. Inuits live in igloos. Igloos are domes made from ice and snow.  Alaska is so big that it is bigger than France,  Italy,  Spain and England combined. If you go to Anchorage you can go to the zoo. There is also a museum in Anchorage. Anchorage has a population of 298,610 and  it covers 1,704.7 km² of Alaskas 1,717,854 km².

I hope this has made you decide where you are going this holidays.If you go to Alaska you have 148 places to travel and heaps of sightseeing places. If you are taking kids than it is also the place to go there are Zoos and museums. Alaska has all different species from feathery to furry.

My Moose Report

Moose prezi

My Holiday

Under 16 Stockcars

“Welcome to the New Zealand  Under 16 stockcar champs. Lets get this underway.” The first race starts in 5 minutes and I'm in it. I start getting my car ready. 5 minutes later my group goes to the track and starts to grid up. everyone is all pumped up and ready to race.3,2,1 GO!!. We  take off and go into the first corner and there is a big pile up. I'm stuck in the middle of it and there are cars all around me. The leader comes back round and all of the cars start to drive  away. I chase the leader a take him out in the next corner.

“ Damn I missed” I say.

I watch the leader of the race come back around and wait for the right moment to thrust my car into his car. I Start moving getting faster and faster he comes past and I take off slamming the trigger. The race leader goes into the corner. I Line him up and smash him into the wall. He rolls over and I was well timed I drive out from underneath his car start racing normally. The race finishes and I check what I came.

“Sixth! Really?” I say  

The Windmill Farmer

The Windmill Farmer

I'm a lonely old windmill farmer and it is planting season again. Every autumn it is planting time. I like my farm to bits and take very good care of it. Farming windmills is my hobby and I go out and give them water I like farming because i don’t have to do much and they just need water. When it is planting time I get really excited and make sure my all of my tools are in good nick. If my tools aren't going to last planting season I would go to the shops and get new ones.

The next day I grab my hoe and start to plant. When the Windmills start to grow  I check them every day. Every night I watch the weather forecast. If a storm is coming I make sure the windmills will hold up. If they won’t I have to make them stronger.

Last season it all went wrong and I was devastated because all of windmills got blown down all because of a big storm. At the break of dawn I get up and get ready for another day of work. Every day I work hard and leave my house and go into the country air. At the end of every day I go inside make me a cup of tea. I walk to my seat and watch the sun go down. By the time the sun goes down it is watering time. Every 2 to 3 hours I water them. One of the downsides of being a farmer is having to dig them up and wait for next autumn.

It has just been past Autumn and I am going through a hard and cold winter. The windmills had gone now and I am all lonely again the windmills are like family to me and I talk to them every day. I hate the winter because it kills my windmills and makes me lonely again. I am halfway through winter and All of my water pipes are frozen up. There used to be grass but now its just snow, snow and more snow. Layers of snow stop me from even leaving my house.

At the end of winter the snow starts to clear up and leave my house. I brush off the last little bit of snow and look in front of me. I see nothing but windmills

“oh wait windmills yes yes yes my windmills are back they must of replanted themselves when they got killed by the cold and freezing Winter. I was so happy  and excited. I was Jumping with glee.

I have gotten a link from the literacy shed.

The Catch

I throw my line into the water. I wait a few minutes my line gets tugged and I bring it in. Its only a small one and I am very disappointed. I hear the sound of a fox screaming. I go through the bush and see a fox tangled up in rope. I cut the rope off its leg and it backs away. It looked like the fox had frozen. Then out of nowhere the fox jumps onto my chest and knocked me over. The fox runs to my one and only fish. He grabs it and starts running away. I start to chase the fox.

It goes through the thorns. Should I go through or not?  I decided to go through. The fox runs up the hill. We reach the summit and the dog throws the fish away into the fog. The fog evaporates and a big giant lake appears I am surprised but disappointed. The fox has thrown my only fish into the water.

Splash!  A giant fish jumps out of the water. When it got back in the water the fox drags a branch over to me.   I tie some string to it and throw the line into the water. I get a bite and pull it in. It feels bigger than the first one that I caught. I pull it in and its about a meter long. I throw my line back into the water and wait for a little 10 minutes later I get a giant tug I pick my rod up and the fish goes away.

“Damn it” I say to myself

I pull my line in anyway and check the hook. I throw it back out and wait five minutes. I get a tug and pull as hard as I can. A fish come up on shore. I take the hook out and put it on my shoulder. The fox and I start to walk back to the village. We get to the entrance and give the fox the smaller one. I walk into the village. I turned around and the fox was gone. When I got into the village the villagers looked so happy. I was proud and happy. From that day on I went to that lake to fish for my villagers.

This is my writing about a little boy and a fox that has to catch fish for his village and the fox take his fish and takes him to a lake where there is lots of fish.

Here is a link to the web site we got the story from. It is a video called the catch.

John Roil

Yesterday John Roil came into our class and told us how to survive in the bush.He also told us how to prepare for a tramp and stay safe. He has been in the army.

Rules

Before you leave to go on a hike, go camping or hunting it is better to tell someone where you are going and when you will be back. Always take a first aid kit.

Before you leave check the weather and the cloths you are taking. Good broken in shoes are also a good idea so they prevent blisters from turning up.

Equipment

When you  are getting your pack ready check through all of you gear and make sure it is in good condition. make sure you have packed water and food as well. Take things like a water bottle, warm thermals and other warm clothes and pants. when you pack your things it is a good idea to pack them inside resealable bags.

When you think you are ready to go but you don’t exactly know where you are  going and you get los don follow a river, creek or a stream do the STAR drill S=stop, T=think, A=asses R=respond. also in the bush there are a couple of poisonous plants such as Stinging nettle and bushmans lawer.

Training

When you have new shoes for tramping it is good if you break them in and train hard. When you go camp you will see why you needed to train hard and break in your shoes. If you go camp or tramping and you don’t train you will not know your limits.

So before you leave remember to tell someone where you are going and when you will be coming back.

Racing

The buzzer goes off I take of to a flying start. I do a lap oh no is that smoke I say to myself. after seeing some smoke I stop I didn’t want to but my car just stopped hopefully its not my motor. I try to keep on going but it will only go slow.

“I think its the battery I think it is flat” I say to a friend

“Me too” he says back to me “just stop its a wast of time just trying to race with a flat battery”

The race carries on and my car is sitting in the middle of the track and in the middle of the carnage. At the end of the race the red light goes on and the race stops. I go to get my car I smell inside it and couldn’t smell smoke so I check the wheels and one of the back wheels had been cut right open. I took it up to my mum and she just said to change the battery and the wheels so I changed the battery but didn't have any wheels to put on.

A few races later I take it back out onto the track I test it and it still goes slow after the race I realise that I need to make the body higher.  After the second to last race I make it higher .  

I go out to the next race and the buzzer goes off and I take off and My car takes off I am in the lead I start catching up to another car. Is he going to hit me but no I hit him he does nothing instead he gets the car behind me.  The rest of the race goes fine and I only get spun around a few time but its okay because I was lapping people. The red light goes on and I stop I go to pick up my car and go up to my mum I have a look at the screen and there is my name at the top of the screen

“I came first Yay!” I say

I take my car back up to my table and tell my Dad he is so proud of me.

Dad Gets Bitten

Ouch!! I ran out of my room. All I saw was dad lying on  the bed with a bleeding nose. My mum and my cousins are laughing.
So I grabbed the dog off dads chest and smacked it on the nose and said “no bite”. It was being naughty so I growed it. After that I went back in my room and heard dad scream again Arrr! I ran out again and the dog was running away. She had bitten him again! I went to get her and I couldn’t see her anywhere.
Then I heard my cousin screaming out “get the dog it is running down the driveway”. I gapped it down the driveway and just got her just  before she went on the road. Then I whispered in my head “That was close”.

Cyber safety

Last Summer

Have you ever smelt summer?
Sure you have.
Could you smell the salt from the
sea?  
Remember that time when we were swimming at the  beach and getting the salty air that was summer

When we were walking on the rocks and
Remember that time when we went fishing and saw a school of kawhai go past 
That was summer

Remember that time when you were driving us down to the river and you stopped at a creek to have a quick jump in?
That was summer.

This is My Last summer poem.

The Five Powerful Captains

Once there was five  adventures their names were Rhys, Daniel Stefan, Seth, Jacob.  They went on so many adventurers that they made up nicknames for themselves. Rhys made up Captain America and he could see far, far away, Daniel Captain Underpants, Stefan was Captain Ukba, Seth was Captain Jack Sparrow and Jacob was Captain Chubaka. They all had super powers Rhys was unable to be killed, Daniel could fly and Stefan was bomb proof and bullet proof , Seth was Captain Jack Sparrow able to summon lightning, Jacob was Captain Chubaka and he was able to make people really hairy.

Then one day when they went on an adventure they were challenged for their ship but they said “NO JUST GO AWAY!” said Captain Jack Sparrow
“What island are we going to now” Said Captain America
“Maybe Candy Island” Said Captain Underpants
“But Candy Island is not real” said Captain Ukba
“Yes it is But Candy Island hasn’t been found  in 200 years” Said Captain Chubaka
“Oh come on mate lets just try it might be easy to find but it might take all of our lives and it might take a few months or even a few years but its worth it” Said Captain America
So they went on there journey to find candy island Then
“Hey what is that it looks like an island lets check it out. It looks like Candy Island.  FULL STEAM AHEAD!!” said Captain America
But when They got there it had a big sign saying If you are going to candy island go that way So they Went that way. But What they didn’t know was that it wasn't Candy island that they had found it was Death Island.
“Hey what about if we just sleep here for the night and have a try in the morning sun it would be easier for you to see the island then we would get some candy to eat”said Captain
The Next Day They went to the ship and then Captain America had a look around to see if he could see the Island but it was nowhere to be seen.
“Ok guys lets carry on with the journey so we we can get to where we want to go”
So that day they carried on with the journey


A few days later
“Ok guys lets carry on with the journey so we we can get to where we want to go.”
The same thing happened they went on and on to go and find their destination. Then in the middle of the day they found another island and then when they went closer to the island it looked like there was blue hills and pink shores with lollipops and lollies and hills covered in lollies. And when they got there they had a look at it and there it was Candy Island the island they have been looking for it. It has been years since they have never found an island that had been so nice they would normally been made out of dirt, mud and lots of yucky stuff.


This is a story that I wrote it is about the five of us going on and adventure to Candy Island. Candy island is a island on an TV show called The Adventures Of Flap Jack.

My First letter to my pen pal in U.S.A

This is my kiwi off my letter that I wrote to my pen pal. It has this drawing of a kiwi. I did it is hand written. I got to chose my pen pal because I didn't have my name written on the list of people in the class in America.

Production Diary Part 3

23/8/12
Dear Diary Today we painted our big mastercard its for the end of our advert and Tyrin bought his fake mastercard and then we made some masks for the all blacks to have they were Sonny Bill, Ma'a Nonu, Danny C and Richie Mccaw.

This is my production diary part two I has what we did and what mask we have printed out. We have added Sonny Bill for one of the All Blacks.

This is a photo of all of the All Blacks They are Danny, Ma'a Nonu, Richie and Sonny Bill.

Production diary part 2

22/8/12
Dear Diary Today we have practiced and sorted out the props and things that we had to bring from home. I have to bring fancy cloths like black pants and a long black fancy shirt because I am the butler. It is an easy part I only have to say “How can I help you sir?” Its easy to remember Its just that I need to speak up. When I went on stage I felt a bit nervous for the first time.

This is my part two of my production diary I have got a photo from div share it is Me and Tyrin on the stage.

Production diary part 1

21/08/12
Dear Diary today we were in room 19 finding out what part of the production we are and my name had just been called out and I am in the advert part of the production  and we have finished day one of it and we know the advert we are doing. My group is me, Brodie, Kayden, Sam, Tyrin and Jake. Were doing the All Blacks master card Ad Its pretty easy but it is also a bit hard to remember the lines.

During this week team five have been practicing our production and the class has been writing a production diary.