2009 Reflection

Term 1

The topic for Term 1 was to speak politely, in other words, "The Language of Success". I learnt a lot of ways to greet people politely and at the same time,as meeting new friends in our class like Aidan.  Moving in Room 15 to be a senior was a real big step so I was a bit quiet in the first few weeks of the year. 

Term 2 

In Term 2 we learned about Dino-might. It was real cool considering all of the vicious dinosaurs and heart-beating Herbivores. To me Dino-might was my best subject. I do think that I could of worked on my behavior about talking to others a bit. But besides that I think that I have improved in my behavior from Term 1, and that I really enjoyed studying Dinosaurs. I also have enjoyed working with Hamish Campbell.

Term 3

In Term 3 we all learned about a very popular primary subject: The Art In Storytelling. This topic is still buzzing in people's heads today. My most favourite fairy tale character is Hansel because he took a big responsibility to look after Gretal from starvation and defeat the ugly witch. Also to sit up when we are on the mat.

A Popping Picnic for the Year 5's

 On Thursday the 3rd of December the Year 5's went down to the Point England Reserve to play some games. But before we went down, we had to bring some home made food that we either cooked or helped to cook. In my view about 30% of the class who brang food were buyers. I was part of the 30% because I ran out of time to make something. So I brought popcorn, Afghans and some cookies.

Mrs Squires said that we all had to get into groups. All of my group were fans of the Jabbawockeez so we called our group the Jabbawocke-NATORS. I thought that that

was a good name to choose. Then Ms Squires said that all the groups had to sort out a

game the other people from room 14 and 16 could play. We didn't need to so I was happy.

Off we went to the reserve and I was so jittery and jumpy that I couldn't wait to get there. When we arrived

at the reserve we sat down and I sprang up like a frog bouncing between the reeds to be chosen for

Touch. Sadly, I wasn't chosen but on the bright side the second game was

Soccer, and I happened to be a master at that art. The Soccer pitch ( in other words, football pitch)

wasn't as big and as wide as I thought it would be. It was approximately as big as the Goal keepers

ground.

"Brrrrrrr" went the whistle and the game was off. The ball was flying everywhere as me and my friend

Joshua started to make some plans. I spreaded out to the right were there was a gap. The pace of the game

was going so fast I didn't think I could make it. The ball came flying my direction like a bullet, I knew

that the only way I could get it in was to think fast. I hit the ball with all my might and "buffff" the ball

went heading to the goals direction. The only question was could the ball make it. Most unexpectedly,

the ball curved so hard it looked like it touched someones foot. But no, the ball didn't touch a persons foot,

nor a hand, but it met mother nature itself. That's right, the wind blew it so it skimmed the post and out. I was

mostly outraged but I had no one to blame.

I switched places to be a Goalie. Our side was magnificent from this view. But there were a few weaknesses

that we needed to polish. That side I didn't worry about because the score was 3-0 to us. Magically,

I saw another goal made by Joshua, never before have I seen so much talent in Point England. Yet

I knew there was more within. 5mins left and I swapped to be a striker. I had to give it all that I got cause I hadn't

got a goal yet. The oppositions confidence grew more and more as they entered our territory. A

minuete left of the game. As time shrunk I got more nervous. "21,20" time went, then Unaloto passed the ball

to me and I was off. I passed one and faked a pass to pass two more, the ball was stolen but I wouldn't

take no for an answer, I got the ball back and faked another pass again. I booted the ball and BOOM

the ball went in and I ran for celebration. "Urghhhhh" went the time bell and that was it, we won 5-0

to us.

Eating Time

After that we sat down in our class lines huffing and puffing as if we had ran a Marathon. We were

on our way to class to eat the homemade food that we had brang. When we arrived we all were very

hungry when we layed our eyes on the food. Everything looked so divine, the aromas smelt so wonderful.

Mrs Squires asked joshua to say Grace. After that we plated our food and dug up. Cruz (A.K.A Munch 

Crunch) ate about 28 farmbaked cookies and 6 large cookies ( we call him Munch Crunch cause he

can eat lots of cookies. I ate some muffins as an entree. It was so beatiful I thought I was in Muffin

Mania. Then I had some Pizza bread for Mains. When I tasted the pizza bread it was like it was made

by Gordan Ramsay. I was unspeakable. To top up all of this lovely food I had Popcorn. "Um Um Um"

I said now that I had finished some popcorn, "I have to say that that was one real Popping Picnic

The End

Damaging Tsunami in Samoa

The Shock

I was at Camp (Totara Springs) in Matamata during our school holidays, we were in the middle of our "Cabin Inspection" when our headmaster told us that we had to sit down. I was quite confused considering that I was in the middle of folding up my spare blanket. As I came down to sit; I realized that one of our leaders were looking depressed or upset. Our Headmaster then went up to that leader and cheered him up by saying "Are you all right". This was unusual because this leader was my leader and we had just finished going on the "Hydroslide". I sat down on a spare bed with some friends next to me. Unexpectedly, my Area Head walked in. His name was "Seb" and he came in to inspect our cabin. Our Headmaster then said " There are about 4 or 5 Samoan people who have family in Samoa". In Samoa there has been a "DAMAGING TSUNAMI!!!. I was terrified because I am a Samoan and I had family in SAMOA. The Shock put a lot of sadness in my heart

Having Faith

I knew now why my leader was feeling a bit upset. He was Samoan too. He then said a prayer while tears ran down my face like it was trying to race down in a split second. I felt like I was lost in total darkness and did not know where to go. Then my Headmaster came to sit next to me and cheer me up. As my leader ended his prayer I walked out the door for dinner ever so slowly thinking what should I do now. When I sat down at our cabins dinner table, I tried to hide my face from other campers. It was no use because I could not find a way to smile. My leader then said to be strong in the Lord with all your heart. I started to gain faith but still sulk.

Letting It All Go

5mins past and my Headmaster asked for the microphone. He then said to all the Campers that there has been a Tsunami in Samoa and that the shocking news is that the Tsunami in Samoa has lots of stories to tell. I started to let it all go after some thinking. I then continued my Camp without the Damaging Tsunami in Samoa blocking FUN.

The Typing Website

One day in Extension Mrs Burt told us about a website. Guess what? It was a England website. It told us how to type. It taught me lots of things. Like telling me were to put my fingers. To start off you have to put you 4 fingers ( not including the thumbs) on your left hand on the A S D F. Then leave the thumb to rest on the space bar. With the other hand, put the first four fingers on the : L K J. If you would like to see more about this website got to it on www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing.

My blog Wordle

On Wednesday the 3rd of September the Extension group was taught by Mrs Burt how to use Wordle. Wordle is a website where it shows you what words you have used on your blogs, websites etc.
I have learnt that I have used the word "Earthquake" lots in my writing. This incredible website meant that I write quite a lot about Earthquakes. I like Wordle because it has many Fonts, Colours Layouts and even Languages.

My 2-day special birthday

DAY 1

On Thursday the 13th of August 2009 I turned ten!!!!. When I woke up I got a special breakfast. My brother and I had Pancakes with syrup, Eggs half cooked, and juicy bacon. Then my Dad gave me my presents. It was a Michael Jackson book, Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 album, and also a Sudoku book. My favourite song by the Jackson 5 is Farewell My Summer Love, Blame It On The Boogie, ABC, Ben, I'll Be There, We're Going Back To Indiana, The Love You Save, My Girl, Rockin Robin, Dancing Machine, Who's loving you and La La (means I Love you). My birthday card was really cool as well because it had Bugs Bunny on it. I like Bugs Bunny because I like his catch phrase "whats up doc". That Same day I went to my Grandpa's house and when I got there......., they said HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Later on my Auntie and Uncle came to my Grandpa's house as well. They came with a present. Then we ate and I felt really happy. I was eagerly awaiting to blow out my candles. My cake was a Mud cake. Mud cakes are my favourite, mmmmmmmm. When I got to blow out my candles, it took me two blows to blow out my candles. Then it was time to open my presents. I got a mini soccer table, a game called Brain Drain, A rugby ball and 20 dollars.

Day 2

MegaZone
I invited my 2 best friends, Joshua and Aidan. They came to my 2nd birthday.We went to MegaZone and when we got there there was 3 other birthdays. I also invited some of my cousins and relatives. Not much people was there so we had to go downstairs and play with the timeout games, we had no money, so my Dad payed the man for us to play Dodgems. It was really hard to control the vehicle because if you turned the wheel around lots of times, then your vehicle would of reversed. I got stuck for 5mins and then I started to go round and round again. We only had 3 Megazone games. I was on the red team. The people on the red team were Canaan, Joshua, Aidan and me. We didn't win but we had a whole lot of fun. Then we went back into the party room for a snack. I ate some lollies and cupcakes. Unexpectedly, the man came in and it was our second game. This time we had to challenge other people. We were all Blue. When we heard the news, we started to get a bit confident since we this was our second time here. All our work payed off because we WONNNNN. Yes we had beaten them by a mile of points. That was my first victory at Mount Wellington Laser Strike. Then we went back and guess what????????? the hot food arrived. It was pizza and some fizzy drinks. I was so hungry that I ate almost half a pizza. Then the man came in again, this time he said that this was our last game. We were all ready to take on the rest of the people that was there. We were blue again, but there was a BIG problem, the yellow team ( who we faced before) decided that they would team up with the other team UNFAIR. So we lost. When we got back to our party room. There was lots of moans and groans. Then we went back downstairs to the Timeout room. We had no money so we got as many balloons as we could and lifted them up in the air.

Farewell
That was the end. Hope to see you soon.............

Professor Cambell Conference Fiordland

Intro

On the 5th of August, 2009 .The Extension group had a Video conference with Hamish Campbell. Hamish Campbell works at the Te Papa museum. The Te Papa Museum is at Wellington, and we were talking to him from Auckland. He was with another lady who was called Diana-Grace. The last time we met Hamish Campbell was when he told us about dinosaurs last term.

Death of the Dinosaur Lady
Hamish asked us if we had any more questions about Dinosaurs. No one had a question. Then Hamish said," Did you know that Joan Wiffen is dead." We all gasped sadly, because Joan Wiffen was the first person to discover dinosaur bones in New Zealand. Hamish said that she died at the age of 87 and will always be remembered as the "Dinosaur Lady".

China Earthquake,or Fiordland Earthquake

Anyway, we next went on and started to talk about the Earthqake that had hit Fiordland last month. He said that there was also another Earthquake which was 7.8 in magnitude. It hit Tangshan in China, and killed 242,000 people because roofs fell down and killed them in their sleep. It was funny though that the Fiordland Earthquake was also 7.8 in magnitude but no one died. Hamish Campbell said that no one died because it was all isolated.

How Earthquakes form

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ether. The 2 plates that crashed for the Fiordland Earthquake to form was the Pacific plate and the Australian plate. Hamish said that Earthquakes do not hit Auckland, because the Pacific plate goes across the top of South Island. At the bottom of South Island, the Australian plate went under the Pacific plate. But at the top of South Island, the Pacific plate went under the Australian plate. The Earthquake lasted for 30 seconds. The China Earthquake lasted for only 15 seconds, and he said that when he was in Wellington he felt the Earthquake.

Farewell Hamish

At the end Diana-Grace said goodbye to us, and they said that they hoped we would all meet again later on in the year. We felt excited at the end and said thankyou.

Thanks Hamish.