TOKU MAHI NA Laura

My name is Laura.  I  have an awesome Mum a great Dad  and an annoying sister and brother.  I enjoy going to st John and playing sports with my brother.

2 March

TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL

Why we have a Turangawaewae festival?

     1:So we can celebrate the different cultures in our school

2:To raise money for sports gear and other funds in our school
3:So we can show our school to the public.

HOBO STOVES

Yesterday the sixth of March Room 3 made hobo stoves and pikelets.  I was in a  group with Amy.  We made the pikelets and the fires outside MoTEC  and  the pikelets were yummy.  First of all we made our butter in our table groups.  We made   the butter out of cream and salt.

HOW TO  MAKE A STOVE





                         
27 April
                                                              FLIPPER THE FANTAIL

Fantails ar amazing birds.  They can flit around by using their wings and tail.  They have a beautiful call and also a beautiful maori name.  Their maori name is Piwakawaka.  The fantail is a short living specie and they only live for about three years.  They eat flying insects that get scuffed up by walkers when they are out walking.


                                                                            PORKY THE MOREPORK
The Moreporks maori name is Ruru.  Ruru  is a small brown mottle native owl with large owl eyes.  It is nocturnal,   eating a variety of insects and small animals such as rats,mice and smaller birds.  Ruru is mainly found in forested areas from sea level to the high country.  Ruru has a variety of calls but derives its  common name from the iconic call that sounds like "more-pork".  Ruru is hard to spot  because it is nocturnal hidden in forested areas and possesses early silent flight.

BOOK WEEK

Ready to roll!

Through the Kindergarten

Book week is a cool activity Parklands school does each year.  Becky the librarian at Parklands school organises the event.   Durring the week we had guest readers and also we had drop everything and read for 15 min.  On book day most people dressed up in island clothes because the theme was islands.   The idea of book week is to find a book to do with the theme.  This time there were many books to choose from.
                       BOOKWEEK SLIDE SHOW BY LAURA on PhotoPeach

                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 TREASURE ISLAND 

This story starts in the Admiral Benbow, an inn. Jim Hawkins (played by Quin) works there. Billy bones (played by Shanti ) comes to stay. He has a map. He was once a pirate, a member of Captain Flint's crew. He is visited by Black Dog (Stevie )who fights him. Then the evil Blind Pew (Sasha ) comes and scares him to death.

Jim gets the map . He gets the Goodies, Dr Livesey (Charley) Squire Trelawney ( Sarah), Mr Dance ( Shannen) and they hire a ship called the Hispaniola. The captain is Captain Smollett (Makayla ) who gets Long John Silver (Madison ) to collect a crew. He is evil and one of Captain Flint's  pirates. He collects all the other pirates and away they sail.  On the trip Jim hears of a plot to kill them.

When they get to the island the Goodies go to the stockade . The baddies go in search of the treasure . An old pirate called Ben Gunn ( Zion) who has been marooned , arrives and joins the goodies . Jim takes off and sails the ship around the island. The pirates have nowhere to go. There's a big fight. The pirates are winning until they hear Ben Gunn whom they think is a ghost of Captain  Flint. Ben screams horribly..

They all run away and the goodies find the treasure and sail back to England

My favourite part in the show was the singing.

My favourite character was the narrator.

My part in the show was Black Smith

I thought the whole show was awesome

We should thank Smiddey the producer.

The bows

The fight

                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                      

VOLCANOES

Deep within the earth, rock is so hot that it melts to become a sticky substance called magma.  When magma is pressurised it is forced up to the earths surface and pushes up through the vents.  When two plates push together they sometimes form volcanoes.  This is because because pressure forms cracks and the magma flows through them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2012 LONDON OLYMPICS                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                                            The Olympics were held in London,England.                                                                                               The participants were from countries all around the world.                                                                                 Some of the sports I  watched were Rowing,Swimming,  Track cycling, Running, Triathlon, Gymnastics and weightlifting.                                                                                                                                         New Zealand had a very successful games.  We won 6 gold, 2 silvers and 5 bronze. Click here to view the full medal table.

    

                                                                                            

ROCK DA HOUSE

At the practice

Wigs on for the bad hair day song

The band

Quin doing his ukulele solo

1, Thoughts after the show: Everyone enjoyed them self. 2, How it all went: Awesomely. 3, How the soloist performed: I think the soloist performed really well but with a few mistakes. 4, How the audience liked it: The audience really enjoyed joining in on the Austrian Yodelling Song.

DENTAL HEALTH

Last week it was dental health week and we all made little projects in class. I learned that there are 3 different types of teeth. The different types of teeth are Molars which are used for grinding food, Incisors which are used for cutting food and Canines which are used for ripping food.

                            OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT

 

Last term Sally from DOC came to talk to us about making signs to protect the godwits on our sandspit to look after them when they get home from Alaska.  Everyone had a special part in making the signs.  I worked with Amy and on our sign we wrote NO MOTORBIKES.  On Monday we went to the Kumaras to unveil our signs and we all had fun.   

                                                      Leonardo Da Vinci 

 



Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 to 1519) was an Italian.
He was a brilliant artist, sculptor, inventor, engineer, architect and musician.  The first modern helicopter built in 1939 was inspired by Da Vinci's design for a flying machine.  No other man has ever been born into this world who knows as much as Leonardo said Francois king of France and Leonardo's last patron.


                                               THE ANIWANIWA OPENING

 




On Monday the 29th it was the opening of Aniwaniwa, the muilti pupose room.  The name Aniwaniwa means rainbow and the name got chosen because of all the different cultures in our school. First of all we got our chairs into a semi circle around Aniwaniwa and then we were greeted by Whaea Tania. Whaea Tania also told us a story about a rainbow. Aniwaniwa got blessed by Reverend Gladys and we followed her around and touched the walls of Aniwaniwa. When we were finished we got food and went to play lunch. It was a great way to open our multi purpose room.  



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