Year 6 camp

Last week we went to year 6 camp. Year 6 camp was about biking to places we biked to Havelock pools then the sound shell in Napier then to Frimley park. This camp was a reward for being awesome year 6s.

At Havelock pools there was a pool over 2 metres deep this pool was for bombs and dives. There also was the fighting pole where Jewell was probably the champ she was pretty strong. After a little while the life guards brought out a bouncy castle that had obstacles on it. They also wet it to make it harder the quickest time was . The parents and teachers also ran sports games.

The next day we biked into a headwind to Napier. It was pretty hard and we all made it so it was a great achievement. When we got there we did a scavenger hunt and then came back. In the scavenger hunt we got 5 dollars as a group to buy something Christmasy my group brought some Santa hats.

On Friday we biked to Frimley park. Then we walked next store to Lindisfarne and swam in their pool. We played some volleyball to. We did relays in the pool and all of the teams got disqualified. Mr Cotterells team got disqualified because he did an illegal kick in breaststroke. Then we biked back to school which meant that bike camp was over.

The camp days were pretty fun and the nights were really fun Reece Sam H and I stayed up really late. My highlight was the Havelock pools it was really fun on the bouncy castle and playing basketball. My lowlight was biking to Napier in a head wind but it was still awesome that I did it. Overall out of ten I give this camp a 7 out of ten it would of been funner if it didn't rain so much.

Wheel art

We did some art about the year at Parkvale school. Mine was inside a bike wheel with four different sections. Mine were about Yachting, Rock'n'roll, Room 19 and camps. It was all about fun times and Pride.
Go Parkvale!

The evolution of the bike

Bike cheking

Today we did our bike checks for safe cycling. We had to mark our learning buddy's bike. My buddy is Ryan and I had to help him check his bike, his bike had three repairs that he needed to do. They were nothing major though. My bike had no problems and was fine so I am all ready for Safe Cycling.

Air pressure and gravity Experiment!

Hypothesis:

I think that all of them will work and I think that they will all work on the first go.

Results:

The result was that they all worked because even though the cups were different they all still had a vacuum and air pressure was there. Some took longer than others because people put their whole hand on the card instead of two fingers. This matters because when you put your whole hand on you apply too much pressure. If you press down with two fingers you make a suction between the card and the water. Also some techniques were more successful like when people slowly turned the glass over instead of doing it really fast.

Conclusion: My hypothesis was partly right. They all worked but not on the first go so I did ok with my prediction.

Cloning tuataras

I think that cloning the dying Tuataras is a good idea because  it may be the only chance to keep them alive and because they are native to New Zealand we need them because they make our wildlife unique. We only need a couple clones and then from there the Tuataras can breed naturally and they will all be safe. Or we could keep cloning them so there will be lots of them for a long time either way they will still be alive. That's why I think cloning the Tuatara is a good idea and should be looked into.

I think that cloning the Tuatara is a bad idea because it might not be a good experience for the Tuatara and what if it goes wrong we could just lose another Tuatara or even maybe make a disease or create something unwanted in our country. It also wouldn’t be the same if we said we only have Tuataras because we cloned one it sound much nicer if we say they breed naturally and we looked after our wildlife. We don’t need to clone them if we take good care of our wildlife they will still exist and we will still have the Tuatara in New Zealand.

The end   

Yachting reflection

In week 7 of term three Nga Rakou were lucky enough to go optimist yachting. I have been yachting before so I was pretty confident. On the first day of yachting I was paired up with Brodie. It was a test for me to see if I could sail a yacht and help and teach Brodie at the same time. Brodie was a good partner and became a great sailor in no time. I think that I did a pretty good job on teaching Brodie because he got a little bit stressed when we tipped a little and I calmed him down and told him just to slide forward a bit. On Tuesday I was sick so I didn’t get to go yachting I was really gutted. One time Liam and I went togethe. I learnt that Liam was a great partner and we both got involved heaps. At first I was a little bit scared of capsizing but when me and Liam went really fast around a corner I fell out of the boat and I learnt that it wasn’t that bad and it felt good that I knew that it was ok. After that I wanted to try new things on the yacht and it made yachting even funner. When we got to capsize our yachts I helped some people capsize because they were feeling a bit nervous. When I went with Rogan we communicated really well with each other. One thing I need to work on is to be a bit more confident in myself and my abilities and remember to focus on doing my job as well as helping my partner. Overall Yachting was really fun and a great experience!

Thank you teachers.

Yachting day one reflection

                                         First day of yachting reflection.

Today was the first day of yachting. Us and room 18 were up first. I got to head over early with Liam, Lucas and Jewell. We had to set up the yachts before everyone else got there. Setting up the yachts was really fun and Mr Ford knew exactly what to do. When everyone got to Pandora pond we split up into our classrooms. We went yachting first and to start of with there was not much wind. But the wind picked up and we started to sail really fast. I got paired up with Brody. For his first time he was really confident and he was awesome at being in charge of the Tiller and Rudder. Next we did kayaking we had some free time and then we did some races I came second and Jack.W came first. The best part of the day was when we got to have free time during kayaking. Liam and I sat at the front of our kayaks and paddled with our feet and the paddle, we both ended up falling in. It was heaps of fun though.

Josh and Flynns tutorial

Josh and Flynns Tutorial from Student Parkvale on Vimeo.

Yacht making reflection

The positives.

Yesterday we made models of a yacht in groups of two or three. My group was Charlotte, mason and I. The best part of our yacht was probably the sail it looked cool because of the blue cellophane. I think that Charlotte and I did a good job on the sail and the sprit pole. One of the other good things was our centreboard it fits perfectly and can slide up and down. Another cool thing was our yachts name it was Ocean Blue we all agreed and we all like it.

The Negatives.

Yesterday we made models of a yacht in groups of two or three. My group was Charlotte, mason and I. Our group worked well in some parts like when we were making the rudder and tiller. Mason let us down with not really contributing. We were trying to get him involved but he was just being silly with all of the materials. So next time we make somethin in groups Mason could contribute more.

The interesting.

The most interesting part of our yacht is that it runs on wind. So when we are sail it i’m not sure if it will sail but I hope that it will. We decided to do that because if we used rope to move the sail when we put it in the water it wouldn't sail because we are not allowed to help our yacht sail. I don’t know if not using rope will help us or if it will not. Lots of the other groups used rope so it will be interesting to see whose yachts move.

Modifications I would make.

The modifications I would make would be for our tiller and rudder to work as one because right now the work separately and are not connected together. So that could be something to work on because it would be cool if we could actually steer our yacht with them. I think that we could modify our centreboard because its hole it goes into is a bit too big and water might come in and sink the hole yacht. Also our sail is a bit too big and it interferes with the centreboard.   

My Prezi about Netball passing

This is a Prezi about our P.E. We did Netball, our class has some pretty good netball players. I hope you enjoy!

Living in the fast lane

Living in the Fast Lane

By Josh little - Tuesday, August 13, 2013

I had always liked to live in the "fast lane." I drove fast, ate fast, walked fast, and talked fast. Never thinking I would ever slow down. Old people that slowed me down made me extremely mad. They walked slow, ate slow, and drove slow I would get so upset! My teachers, friends, and family always told me that I needed to learn to slow down and enjoy life because one day, I too, would be old. "Yeah right," I thought, nothing's going to slow me down. Then, one day I was driving fast and almost ran into a little old lady. She had little beady eyes that stared deep into my eyes she just gave me the chills. I beeped my horn for her to get out of my way, but she slowly moved around the side of my car to my open driver's window. Softly and slowly she spoke these words, "You must learn to watch as you go and learn to take things slow because you never, never know how quickly you might grow." I thought she was just a crazy old lady. I hurried off, screeching my tyres as I drove away. Forgetting about what she said, I went to bed that night planning what adventures I'd do the next day. But, the next morning I woke up and could hardly move then I looked in the mirror and to my horror, staring back was an old, old man. What had happened? What was going on? Who was this person starring back at me? Then, I thought about what the little old lady had said. I felt my wrinkly old arms and cheeks they felt like they had been in the water for days. I went to run and splash water on my face but I could not run! I was going at the pace of a sloth. This was horrible I was never going to be old I had planed out my life. In my mind I saw the old lady steering at me with those little beedy eyes. I waddled I held the railing of the stairs and ran as fast as I could, it may sound as if I was going fast but no I was not I would have been slower then a snail. I eventually made it down the stairs I grabbed a bowl to put my cereal in but I was shaking so much I dropped it and it smashed on the ground. "Oh forget it," I said to myself as I was leaving for work. I went to put on my shoes as I looked down I saw moldy old green toenails but the worst part was in the years that I missed my toenails did not stop growing. "Man, I do not want to cut those toenails." I hopped in the car put the key in and drove. I was trying to go extremely fast but I just could not I was very slow. Horns were tooting everywhere it turns out that they were tooting at me but what for. I was driving a long and came to a set of lights they were green so went on through but halfway through they turned orange and then red! Cars swerved around tooting their horns and doing other stuff I probably should not tell you about. I did a dumb thing and decided to just keep driving sometimes old people must have no clue. After about ten close calls I made it out of those light my work was by those lights so I didn't have to drive much longer. I pulled into the car park and got out of the car. I walked into my work and stood behind the counter. I worked at rebel sports so it can be extremely busy. My first costumer walked up with a pair of soccer boots. He said hello and put them on the counter. I picked up the shoes and went to scan them but I kept on dropping them. My boss walked up and said, " You look a bit tired how about I take you home". Before I had a chance to answer he grabbed my arm and started to walk. He was walking so fast I was nearly getting dragged a long the ground. He put me in a car and drove I had to hold on he was going incredible fast well I think he was going fast but whom knows. I got home and laid down on the couch. Why did I have to drive fast I thought to myself why? I laid there thinking about those words and the beady eyes. Wait I know what to do I said sprinting as fast as I could, while I was running I was sure that I saw a tortoise passing bye but my eye sight might not be the best. After a while of thinking I made a decision I was going to do it. I stood on the road and a speeding car came right at me I closed my eyes. I waited for the impact but then what I wanted to happen happened. The car stopped I walked up to the drive and said , "You must learn to watch as you go and learn to take things slow because you never, never know how quickly you might grow." The driver speed of, I rushed into my house and hopped on the couch and dozed off. I woke up the next morning I got up and walked to the kitchen wait I was walking at a fast pace I was me again. Now that I had learnt my lesson I decided to make a promise to myself. It was to take things slow, but not too slow otherwise my life would be boring. On my way to work I met a old man in his car parked in the middle of a set of lights I drove past him and waved, I think that it might of made his day. I hopped out of the car and walked into work my boss was not there yet so I waited. My boss walked in and he looked very old. I think that I know who was driving that speeding car.

Make one wish

"Come on spurs," I scream as Gareth Bale runs down the wing. He fakes, a step over POOF someone or something magical appeared in front of me. "Hey get out of the way we might score her. "I have come to grant you just one wish because I am the magical and wonderful One wish genie," He bellowed. What! I thought Genies weren't real, but he might come in handy I thought to my self. Ideas of thing that I could wish for rushed through my head, a Ferrari could be fantastic then I realised that I can't drive but the point is there is millions of things to wish for. I thought very hard, and I made my decision. "I wish to have unlimited money," I said. "Your wish is my command," he replied then he vanished with out another word. I ran over to the phone and put in my friend Brodys phone number.

"Hello Brody speaking," I heard Brody say "Just get round to my house," I replied He then hung up and I knew that he was coming round. Brody was at my house super fast, and he was looking excited. "What's the news," he said "This genie came around to my house granted me one wish because he is the One wish genie and I wished for unlimited money so now we are going to Brazil," I replied. "Slow down buddy its fine with me if we go to Brazil but the genie thing that was just weird,". I told him the full story, and he believed me. We got a taxi to the airport when we arrived we realised we hadn't told our parents. We called our parents and left them a message. We brought our tickets and boarded the plane we just couldn't wait. The time came the plane took off we were away.

Everything was going smoothly until strange things happened. The plane started to wobble then the nose pointed straight to the ground we were plummeting straight down towards the sea. We were like a meteor crashing down towards the earth. We were metres away from our doom when suddenly the plane pulled up and we flew into the air. Everyone applauded for the pilot well that was everyone who was not still in shock from our fall.

We were now just over halfway through our flight, there had been some strong winds ever since that fall. Then a huge gust of wind hit the plane it shook like a rocking chair. People started to panic then we heard the pilot say " we might be experiencing a crash landing due to tornado's," "What," Brody and I screamed together. A tornado approached and we became caught up in it everyone was screaming including me, to be honest I was screaming like a little girl. I smashed through the seat belt and was flung around the plane. "Help," I yelled I looked up and I saw the walls of my bedroom. I looked at the time it said 7:37 I had over slept and it was Monday a school day. I was extremely glad it was a dream and not real. On the way to school the strangest thing happened for real this time, I met the One wish genie again! "Oh no I am not falling for you this time I'm out," I said sprinting down the road. Turns out that it was a young boy walking to a dress up birthday party, so that was a little bit embarrassing. Here is a tip never ever trust a genie.

Soccer skills week 1

This week in soccer skills we practised dribbling. It is with Napier City Rovers and the people who run it are Aaron and Harley. When dribbling you can use the outside, bottom, top and inside of you foot. My best dribbling spot is the top and inside of my foot. When using the bottom of your foot I like to roll my foot over the ball and it will spin back towards me. We also used both of our feet. I can dribble with both of my feet. I like to dribble with my left foot so I can tap the ball ahead and kick it with my right foot. Aaron also told us to mostly keep our head up bust sometimes look at the ball so you don’t lose control of it. I think that I am a pretty good dribbler and I know that because people have told me I have good dribbling skills and that I have good ball control. Soccer skills is really fun but the thing I am looking forward to the most is shooting and defending also some attacking.

Cross country training.

As we started our run I saw people speed off I just kept jogging slowly I didn’t want to waste my energy. I made it round to Miss Garland and got my first stick I still had heaps of energy so I kept on going. When I got round to Mr Cottrell the people who had sprinted were now basically walking. I looked up ahead and it was lucky I looked up otherwise I would've crashed into the basketball hoop.I kept on going some people looked at Mr Cottrell and saw he wasn’t looking so they started to walk. While I was running I looked to my side and I sore Renee go past me she was going really fast. Miss Garland handed me another stick I was puffing a little bit but I was ok. I ran past the cricket nets and I started to speed up. “Nice pace Josh,” I heard Mr Cottrell say. That made me want to go a little bit faster so I did I got to Miss Garland and then I regretted speeding up because I was starting to get tired so I slowed down again trying not to walk I jogged past Marshall he sounded like he was breathing like usain bolt does after winning the 200m. I kept going for the last two laps and I was pretty tired at the end. Mr Cottrell showed us some stretches and ways to become less tired and they actually worked. It is pretty hard work doing this training.      

Colgate prize.

Today in assembly Miss Garland announced that we had one a prize from the Colgate competition. The competition was to make a video about why people should use Colgate to brush their teeth. Miss Garland held up our bag and said, "From the Colgate competition our class one a prize our prize is six P.E sports balls." It was pretty cool when I hear that we had one these because we could use them for games like dodge ball and some other games. All of the balls have their own colour and own number. I'm sure that our class will have a lot of fun with these balls.

 

Whaling chart

Book week

This week it is book character week. We had electives to choose for. I chose the drama one. We are working on plays and readers theatres. A readers theatre is like a play but with no acting. Today we had a parade of costumes that we wore because it was book character day. We got to dress up as our favourite book character I came as Captain underpants. Parris and I got to be the host's of the parade. So far it has been a awesome week and I can't wait for tomorrow.

The big wall

My brother Daniel and I stared over the edge of the wall we were both thinking we made it the first people to climb up here it was like it was the edge of the world. Daniel walked over to the edge and said, “what do you think is down there” “I’m not sure but why do you want to know,” I replied. He didn’t answer he just kept looking over the edge. Then the unthinkable happened he slipped and started to slide off the edge “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,” He screamed. I stood there in shock. Then I made the decision, to find him. I took a deep breath and I jumped. I was rocketing through the clouds then I started slowing down I started to float what was happening. Little sparkles were floating around and there was an old man floating around. “Hi there I am old man Jenkins I was actually the first man to climb this not you’” He said “Um cool but anyway have you seen a boy with blonde here go past,” I said. “Oh sure he was going so fast he went right through but before you go do you want some sparkles to eat they taste like lollipops,” He said. “No thanks and I better be off now,” I said leaving quickly. I dived down and resumed my fall. I was looking around for Daniel then I noticed that old man Jenkins was right next to me. “How did you get here ,” I said “Me you have never seen me you might of seen my brother old man Jenkins but I am hillbilly Jenkins,”. “Oh no not more annoying people,” I whisper to myself. “Hey hillbilly look over there its a banjo,” I said and with that the hillbilly was gone. I was falling awfully fast and there was still no sight of my brother then I saw something it looked like earth I am going to die I thought to myself then I stopped falling just metres away from the ground then weirdly I landed on my feet what had just happened I thought I was back where I had started at the big wall. This was getting really creepy. Then once again I saw old man Jenkins or hillbilly Jenkins but I was wrong it was their other brother. He was just called Bobby. “Hi there I love to fly around so I will be off,” He said as he jumped off the edge. Those brothers have some issues I thought to myself. I was standing thinking if I should leave or wait for Daniel. I stood there and waited and waited then I decided to jump again because Daniel had the map so that meant that I was lost. I ran and got ready to jump then I heard “what are you doing,” I realised that it was Daniel. “How did you get here,” I said “Well when I went off the edge I stopped and ate some sparkles with old man Jenkins then I saw you go past so I kept going,” He replied. “Well in that case we should go off the edge again,” Then the next thing we did was jump and braced ourselves for a ride. We showed the map to the world and heaps of people had fun and the Jenkins brothers had heaps and heaps of company. Hillbilly Jenkins also learnt how to play the banjo and put on shows for people. So the big wall turned basically into a theme park. I hope that the big wall always stays like the way it is now so that everyone that will ever live can experience it. The End

Class Item

This is a video of our class item.
I hope that you enjoy!

IMovie

The Secret Of Jelly Mountain from Student Parkvale on Vimeo.

Camp Loopy

This is my Loopy

Octopus on the go!

Stop the video at 40 seconds and read the ending that I made up. Then you can watch the end of the video.


As ollie the octopus slithered along the edge of the truck he could feel his tentacles slipping of the side but he was determined to save his love.Ollie peeped into the van the driver was listening to music and took no notice of Ollie. Then Ollie slipped and landed on the window. The van driver started to wind up his window and that was when he noticed Ollie. He screamed and hit Ollie away,he landed on another van and the van driver threw him back at the van where he had started. It was like a game of octopus table tennis. This was extremely painful for Ollie but he would do anything for his lovely wife.

Then he landed with a splat on the chilly bin that his wife was in.

He looked at the evil driver and he launched himself onto the steering wheel he reached out and started slapping the driver. He lifted him up but Ollie slid out of his hands and landed on his head and was trying to rip his hair out. The driver took both hands off the steering wheel and was trying to pull Ollie off but Ollie was too strong. The drivers van went crashing through markets but the driver managed to get his foot on the brake and the van skidded to a halt right outside of a seafood shop. He ripped Ollie of his head with a bit of his hair coming of as well, then he threw him in the chilly bin.

The driver gave Ollie and his wife Juliet into the chef. The chef opened up the box and looked at the octopi. “Oh man come on they never deliver them dead this company sucks,” he said with a big sigh. He just looked at them “I can’t kill these two they are just too cute,”. Ollie and Juliet were looking at the chef with puppy dog faces. I know what I can do he thought to himself. “How about you two come home with me I have a octopus in my tank the tank is huge it could fit you and three others, oh and by the way my name is Nick your new owner,”. He picked them up and put them back into the chilly bin. A few minutes later they were on the move again but this time it was a peaceful move. When they got let out of the chilly bin into the tank they met an octopus called Tommy. Tommy was a very nice octopus and they all liked each other very much. Everyday Nick feed them and went off to his work. Nick, Tommy, Juliet and Ollie lived a great life together. Well that was until they found out that the tank we were in was a fridge and that in glade rap was a knife. Written on the glad rape was knife for chopping Octopi. Oh no I thought to myself in horror here we go again!

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Camp prezies

Caving at camp Kaitawa

                                           Caving at camp Kaitawa

Thump I land on the ground after jumping of the rocks at the start of the cave. This part of the cave was very roomy and looked lovely except for one big drop near the edge! It was pretty scary. There was a lot of leaves and not much rocks. Then the cave got  smaller and became a tight fight. I came upon two rocks jamed together. Martin told us that we had to squeeze through the rocks to the other side. I watched the others go through and then it was my turn so I wriggled my way through and popped out the other side.

I had to climb up onto some rocks and swing my feet over to another rock. There was grit on the rocks and it was rubbing against my hands and dust was getting in my eyes. Miss Hill told me to put my hands on the bar that went around the edge of a humongous drop. I shone my torch done the drop and couldn’t see the bottom. That made me more nervous. My feet shuffled along and I moved my hands across on the bar. I launched myself onto another rock where my dad was waiting. My dad helped me get past some slippery places then he sent me down to tony.

Tony helped my climb on top of the rocks and slide down the other side. When I landed I nearly slipped over because there was some slippery mud or bat poo I wasn’t quite sure. There wasn’t much to look at I looked down and I could barely see my shoes because they were covered in so much mud but I could see Grant in the light of my torch.  I walked over to Grant who was standing in the middle of bat poo that looked exactly like mud. It stunk horrible! The smell got worse and worse when you got further into it. My feet were getting stuck in the poo and trust me it wasn’t that nice. There was also leafs mixed in with the poo. Trudging my way through the mud I saw a ladder. Craig told me to climb the ladder up to Miss Garland.

I shot up the ladder and walked back to where everyone was. We got a lollipop to eat well we waited for everyone else to finish. Caving was a lot of fun and for me was probably the best thing about camp and camp was awesome as well. It was the best camp ever.

The Olympic games 2020

This is a story that my friend Flynn and I made it is called the olympic games 2020. Hope you enjoy.

The 2020 Olympic games are being held in Tokyo, Japan. Josh, Flynn and Samuel are all competing in the 100m and 4x1 relay. Josh is in heat number one against Yohan blake and Flynn will be competing against Asafa powell, and Sam, he will be up against Justin gatlin that is for the 100m. First the host said on the microphone “ Heat one is coming out onto the track for the 100m. On your marks, Get set, Go. There off and what a start to the tokyo olympics Josh little is in the lead Yohan blake close behind and the winner is Yohan blake by 2 milli seconds, what a race. “ Heat 2 is now coming out onto the running track, On your marks, get set, Go, there of. There coming up to the finish line folks there coming and the winners are. 1st. Asafa powell 2nd. Flynn 3rd. Tyson Gay. The qualifiers for the semis are Yohan blake, Josh, Richard thompson, Asafa powell, Flynn, Tyson gay, Justin gatlin, Sam, Ryan bailey, Churandy Martina and Usain Bolt.

In the first heat is Flynn, Josh, Richard Thompson, Churandy Martina and Justin Gatlin. In the second heat Samuel, usain bolt, Asafa Powell Ryan bailey, Yohan Blake and Tyson Gay. On the track now is semi final one. On your marks get set, go Off they go with Gatlin in the lead with Flynn and Josh in hot pursuit and Flynn will take first with gatlin second and Josh third what a finish that was. Those three will now be in the final. The second semi final are on the running track now. On your marks, Get set, Go, And there of. They are approaching the finish line with Usain Bolt and Samuel trying to take the first spot, and it’s a tie with Usain bolt and Sam taking first with Yohan blake joining them in the final. “ Now could I have the finalist to the running track. On your marks, Get set, Go. They are approaching the finish line. First second and third are Samuel, Flynn and then Josh. The three New Zealand boys are making there way onto the podium and they are collecting their medals these three boys deserve those medals,”. All of the boys waited for the last event the 4x1. New zealands team was Flynn, Joshua, Josh and Sam. “there is only 8 countries competing in this event so we will have a straight final and hear come the teams. The teams are in there lanes ready to race. On your marks get set go and there away Flynn and Yohan blake right next to each other at the batten change Joshua is up against Asafa powell powell overtakes Joshua just before the batten change Josh speeds ahead of Willem Warra and Josh gives nz a good lead at the batten change Sam speeding off with Usain bolt close behind him who will win who will and new zealand takes the win what an exciting race how intense was that. First place was New zealand Second Jamaica and third U.S.A. New zealand have dominated the 100m and the 4x1 mens relay. Tokyo olympics has been great but it is over now thank you for watching the Tokyo olympics 2020”.     

Our class winning the Sevy Shield

The Sevy shield is a shield that Mr severinsen created. Room 18 had the shield and you have to challenge them to some sort of game and if you win you get the shield. We challenged them to a game of t-ball and we won 21 14. So now we have the shield.

Here it is and now it is ours!

Bush safety

This is some work on Bush safety.

Yesterday a relative of Mrs roil came in and talked to us about bush safety. He told us that before we go out into the bush the first things we need to do is tell someone where we are going and when we will be back and also check your bag to make sure you don’t have any holes in it. In your bag you should have Torch, Water, batteries, lighter, sleeping bag, food, bed roll, Beanie, warm clothes and a tent or some shelter. You also need a first aid kit that should contain stuff for blisters, headaches, cuts, bruises, rashes and insect bites. It is better to go hunting or in the bush with a group so if you get hurt there will be others around. Items you need to access quickly are Drink bottle Raincoat: wet weather gear space to pack in your clothes as you take them off

Gas cooker and cup. If you are in a situation when you are lost you should try and keep warm drink heaps of water be determined to survive and stay put. Try to stay away from these plants stinging needle and the bush lawyer. When you stop for a brake you should put on more clothes to keep warm, find natural shelter and put on a beanie because 60% of your body heat is lost through your head. Group rules are If someone needs to stop we all stop and wait. Keep an eye on each other. If you can’t find or see the group you stay put. I hope that helped you out and gave you some more knowledge on the bush.

The end.

Maui and the North Island

                                   Maui and the North Island

Maui stood behind the door listening to his four foster brothers talking about going fishing and maui not coming with them. He listened to them give details about what time they were planning on leaving. Early in the morning Maui snuck into their canoe and waited for his brothers. An hour later Maui heard his brothers hop into the canoe. Maui could here them talking about how they had just tricked Maui, but they really hadn't because Maui was still in the canoe. Slowly Maui felt the boat stop but Maui didn’t want to stop here so he pounced out of his hiding place and gave his brothers the fright of their life. “Keep going keep paddling,” commanded maui. The brothers followed his orders and kept paddling all through the night, finally Maui told the brothers to stop paddling because he wanted to fish here. The brothers listened to his commands and stop paddling but the brothers refused to give Maui bait as revenge for him hiding in the canoe. So Maui struck himself on the nose as and smeared the blood on his magic jawbone and launched it into the water. It made a splash and sunk deeply into the water. Then Maui felt his jawbone get stuck in something. Maui thought that it was just a fish but it was really a carving from a marae. He pulled and pulled but the carving put up a fight and didn’t want to come out of the water.. The carving was strong but not as strong as Maui's will Maui said his karakia and the carving came out of the water. “I need to find my jawbone said Maui,” he told his brothers not to do anything to his catch. When Maui was out of sight the brothers started to get there share because they did help with the paddling. When Maui got back the brothers had made valleys on the carving. You might of traveled to this carving because it is the north island of New Zealand.  looks kind of like a beaten stingray don't you think?

Hoiho the yellow eyed penguin

Brazil research

Global warming

How is global warming caused.

Global warming is made partly by methane.

Is global warming effecting animals.

Global warming is affecting the whole planet.

What is the worst damage global warming can do.

It can cause diseases, storms and floods,droughts and rising sea level.

Jelly Mountain

An Illustration for the book Jelly mountain.

Questions What diseases did Maria Stockwell and her father have what do you think she would of felt like when she had the disease.
Why did Maria start writing in a journal and did it sound like she enjoyed writing in it.

Maths work

These are three stratiges to
work out some subtraction problems equal addition negative numbers and number line.

Porwhiri

Yesterday room 19 did a Porwhirir with room 18.During the Porwhiri I really enjoyed our waita.

I saw that a lot of people weren't that comfortable with doing a hongi.

It was really fun when I had to give a donation to the tangata whenua (The locals of the land).

I also enjoyed it when Hamish used a taiha to try and scare us it was hard not to laugh because the boys from their class were using hockey sticks to try and scare us.

It kind of felt like I was in a real marae when we were doing all of the speeches.

I learnt a lot about the maori culture and some maori vocabulary.

We did all of this so we could learn about Cotrells

culture and it was really fun. The part I enjoyed most would be my speech and singing the waita. We get to do it again and this time we are not going to stop and we will all have lunch together after we have finished.

Blood

                                                         Blood

As I go up for the header the Hereworth Keeper comes out and jumps to punch the ball away. Then I fell the keepers fist go up against my head just above my right ear. I hit the ground and feel the pain man that stings I think to myself. I see my team start crowding around me,”are you ok” I hear my friend Brendon from my soccer team say “Yeah I’m alright” I he field I feel my head a

replie. As i get up of the ground I can feel the dark read blood oozing down my face. As I walk of t

nd I can feel I big bump on my head. It feels as fat as the worlds biggest egg. A big bandage gets wrapped around my head. “Can I play now,” I ask. “I don't know,” I here my mum say But then the next thing I know I’m back on the field and taking a penalty. as I slot it into the top corner I say “yes my team Maycenvale are gonna win,”.

My camp group

My camp group is Flynn,Maggie,Greta,Bhrt and Jack B. All of the groups have 5 or 6 people in them.
right now my group is called the Hawkes bay Saints. I think that at my group will be successful and will work together well. I am looking ford to camp and I think all of my group are looking ford to it as well

Cars that you can truly sink your tenth into.

My class had to do a dogo news summary and here is mine about cars made out of chocolate and food like that.

Who Lots of cars made out of yum food

What Cars made out of food including chocolate gumballs melted chocolate

Where All over the world

How One of the cars was covered in melted chocolate.

I think that People who are creative and like some

Character inference chart

Night time Mayehm

“Go to sleep Josh,” says my mum she doesn't sound very happy at all. When she leaves the room I hop out of bed and grab a guinness world record book. “Ahhhh this is the life relaxing when you're meant to be asleep,”. After reading for about an Hour I hear my mum coming towards my room. I quickly sprint to put my book away run back and jump into bed. As I close my eyes and curl up. Mum must be checking if I’m asleep. I hope I can trick her. Creeeek I hear my door close yay I did it she fell for it. I turn the radio on really quiet and lie back down. Then my favourite song comes on I try to stop myself from signing. “Why does your song have to be so catchy Ollie murs,” I say to myself. I just turn of the radio now my night is going to be boring. Then I start to sing “Troublemaker,”  “no stop singing,” I say very angrily. I hear footsteps coming up the hallway oh no I think to myself. I close my eyes and curl up. But I hear the person say “United Manchester united,”.Then I realise that Manchester united have just won a game of soccer and that the person is not mum it is daniel what a relief. “Hey Daniel” I say “hey shrimp,” he replies. We have a great conversation about soccer. Daniels voice starts to disappear what.Then I realise Daniel has fallen asleep. He must of been very tired. Wait that means I have to go to sleep or I could sit here and be bored I know what I will do I think to myself. As I crept out of my room and walk down the hallway. Carefully I walk into the kitchen and got a nice cold drink of water. As I make my way back to my room  I see my mum walk out of her room I take a giant leap and go crashing into the bathroom. Peeping through the door I see my mum walk straight past me. Being as stealth as I possibly could I crawl back into my room. I throw myself onto my bed and start to doze off what a night this has been.  

Excuses for forgetting my togs

Soccer/Football Research

Football (soccer)
There has been lots of great football players over time and here are the ten greatest players.
Number 10 Osvaldo Ardiles








                                                                Ossie ardiles

Number 9 Franz Beckenbauer


Number 8 George best

Number 7 Gerd muller

Number 6 Zinedine Zidane
Number 5 Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho
Number 4 Zico

Number 3 Cristiano Ronaldo

Number 2 Diego Maradona

Number 1 Pele
                          Pele
Now to how the game was invented.
Back in 1863 the Chinese kicked a round and hard ball. They used it in the military as well. A man called Ebenezer cobb morley got a group of people together and got some small nets and they all tried to kick the round and hard ball in the net. I am not sure where the name soccer came from but apparently the game had a soccer football association and the americans took away football and made it soccer. But england did the opposite and called it football. Since england called it football first the proper name is football not soccer but the americans still go against that and call it soccer.

My favourite football players of all time are probably Neymar and Gareth bale.
That is my Document about Soccer/football.

Physic animals

Title: Spain or netherlands ask these physic animals.

Who Paul the octopus and Mani the parakeet.

What An octopus and a parakeet choosing the fifa world cup scores.

Where Paul was in germany.

Why I think it is to show how smart some animals are.

How  For Paul the put to boxes in front of him with the flags of the teams playing on them and he would hop into the teams box who he thought would win. Mani picked up a card with the flag of the team on the card.

I think that everyone who likes animals and soccer would be interested.

Imovie

The Journey Through The School Spy from Student Parkvale on Vimeo.

5 Things my teacher should know about me

The nogard

WALT Visualise as we read

We will know we can do this when we can...
Imagine a picture in your head
Look for clue words (key information)
The picture changes as you read more
Keep rereading until you have got it
You might close your eyes

Letter To Myself in 20 years.

Dear Josh
This letter is from yourself at the age of ten. This is what I wanted my life to be like at the age of ten. I hope you are a professional football player with the latest nike mold boots and the latest adidas sprig boots. I wish that you will meet ossie adillias,Gareth Bale and the best young talent Harry kane. Josh I hope you will play for tottenham hotspur and if you have good for you! It would be great if you would help everyone in need that you possibly can. Do people still call you Littleping? Are you a chef? I hope you are I want to be a dessert chef or play for the black sox or Tottenham,and the all whites. That would be awesome. My best friend is Brody is he still my best friend? I hope that you will live in London  Right next to white hart lane.This would be an awesome life. Do you live live in a mansion with a big pool and another spa pool with bubbles. Do you have a big back yard. I hope you did breed different types of animals together and the first animal I you breed was crossed between a snail and a polar bear and I you called it Littleping. Do you have a Lamborghini or a ferrari. This Is me and my best friend Brody. Do we still look the same?
I hope you have visited Parris Rio Moscow Perth Gold coast Shanghai and all of Japan.

Yours sincerely Josh Little 12th of the 12th 2012

Kids 4 Kids show

Today the seniors at Parkvale school went to the opera house. It was our rehearsal for the Kids 4 Kids show. The Kids 4 Kids show is a singing concert for world vision. The hosts were Dayna and and the co host was Callum. Chris from the funky monkeys played the piano and conducted us. We sung 18 songs they were all pretty fun. My favourite song was probably candy man or the New Zealand ad medley. It was very fun and I am not nervous for to tonight's performance. I can't wait!

Ticket Booth

As I stare at the booth I see people turning invisible and others just walk away. I can’t decide would it be cool being invisible I really don’t know. I decide that I will just flip a coin on it. Heads I get the ticket tails I don’t. I flip the coin as I see it spin what will it land on what will happen. The coin hits the ground, I look straight at it it landed on...Heads!. What am i in for. I buy the ticket. “Excuse me sir can you see me?,” I say “Um no, no I can’t,” he replied. I wonder if this will be any good at all. As I walk through town I walk into Rebel sports and ask the man serving me “are these the boots with the control grip,”. But all I see is a man run and scream “ahhhhhhhhhhh who said that i’m leaving this place,”. I just don’t think being invisible is going to be very fun at all I think to myself. I walk home and sit down on the couch. I click my fingers for my cat to come to me. I also call his name. He looks very worried and scared I see him run off. IS he scared as well being invisible is dumb. I quickly run back to the ticket booth.”Do you have any tickets to turn me back to normal,” I say to the man at the ticket booth. He replies by saying “no sorry mate,”. It looks like I will be stuck like this forever I think to myself. I wish that coin had landed on tails. I walk back to myself thinking about that dumb coin not landing on tails. Man this is going to be very tough being invisible.



This is writing we had to do about if we would be invisible or if we wouldn't.
To check out Sarahs writing.Click this. To check out the writing on Matt H's blog Click here