Hello. I am 10 years old. I live in Riwaka New Zealand in a huge house with only 2 other people. I go to Parklands School. I have 11 friends. We play sport all the time. My favourite sports are Rugby and Cricket. My favourite subject is maths and my favourite colour is lime green.
2 March
TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL
1. Why do we have the Turangawaewae Festival ? It's to celebrate all the different cultures in our school
2. Activities There are food stalls, bouncy castles, and much more.
3. What I enjoyed. I enjoyed the food. I was a bit full afterwards though.
HOBO STOVES
Yesterday we made Pikelets on Hobo Stoves because we are studying the olden times.
First of all we made butter by shaking cream. It didn't taste very good. After that we mixed milk, baking powder, flour and the butter we made together. That tasted a lot better.
Finally we got to cook the pikelets on the Hobo Stoves. We did it by lighting a match and put that in. Before that we put sticks and leaves in. We put the butter on with the mix . The Pikelet was slowly making itself and in about two minutes I had the first Pikelet .
Then George had one then I cooked one for Jackson. I got the last one, lucky me.
I felt happy because I got the most of everyone in my group and they were delicious
Click this:HOW TO MAKE A STOVE
FANTAILS
The oldest fantail found is 3 years old. The Maori name for fantail is Piwakawaka . They are most importantly indicator species which tells you if the forest is healthy or not. They can move up and down using their tail. Fantails live in bushes and the lowlands.
OUR BOOK WEEK SLIDESHOW BY ALEX AND BAILEY on PhotoPeach
New Zealand Falcon
The Maori name is Karearea. The New Zealand Falcon is the fastest bird in New Zealand.
The Falcon is the fastest bird in the World. The New Zealand Falcon is half the size of a Hawk.
They catch their prey when flying. They eat some other animals alive. It lives up to about 25 years old.
BOOK WEEK
We have book week to encourage kids to read books and like reading books. During the week every day we did stop drop and read for ten minutes and some people came and read to us. On Friday we dressed up and walked down High street and came back and then walked through the kindergarten and went back to school. We should thank Becky for organizing book week. |
| Fearsome Character |
OUR BOOK WEEK SLIDESHOW BY ALEX AND BAILEY on PhotoPeach
TREASURE ISLAND
This story starts in the Admiral , an inn. Jim Hawkins (played by Quin) works there. Billy Bones ( 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 (Charlie ) 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. Long John Silver 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 the goodies . 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 marroned , arrives and joins the gang .
Jim takes off and sails the ship around the island . The pirates have nowhere to go. There's a big problem. The pirates are winning
until they hear Ben whom they think is a ghost of Captain Flints. Ben screams horribly..
They all run away and the goodies find the treasure and sail back to England.
My favourite part was singing (why) it was fun.
My favourite character was Foul Mouth Fred (why?)Cause I liked one of his lines.
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| Foul Mouth Fred/Jackson |
 Pirate indroduces Treasure Island |
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 yo the earths surface and pushes up through the vents.
When two plates push together they some times form volcanoes. This is because pressure forms cracks and the magma flows through them.
At the centre of the earth is a solid metal core, which is surrounded by an outer core of liquid metal. Around this is a layer of hot rock called the mantle. The surface is broken up into large pieces called tectonic plates.
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
The 2012 Olympic Games were held in London, Great Britian The participants were from all over the world Some of the activities i liked were table tennis and the decathlon. New Zealand had a very sucsessful games. We won 13 medals,6 golds, 2 silvers, 5 bronze Click here to see the olympic medal tally
ROCK DA HOUSE
Rock Da House is the name of a music festival for more than one school . The leaders are Paulettle and John who organised it. The band that play the music are called the Peasants who are very good. There are three soloists from our school. There is Quin who plays ukelele for Hey Soul Sister, Mikayla who sings We Are The World and Jason who sings Falling slowly. My favourite songs are One Day and We Will Rock You. I feel nothing near nervous before the show even though I am right at the front.  |
| ROCK DA HOUSE SINGING Something In The Water |
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| All the beautiful voices in action |
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| Mary Had a Little Lamb actions |
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| Quin playing ukelele |
MY THOUGHTS AFTER THE SHOW.
The Rock Da House show was awesome and fun to be a part of. The show went well apart from a few mistakes especially from a few of the soloists. It was fine apart from that and it would help because I was there singing. The soloists peformed well apart from one or two mistakes. The ones from our school were very good. The audience loved it especially the Austrian yodeling song where they repeated all the actions that we did. I loved the whole evening and being in the front row was even better
OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT
We made the signs because we were trying to warn people to be careful of the birds and the eggs on the Kumaras.My part was to make one of the signs and paint it. Mine and George's sign said 'don't harm wildlife'.
We went to the Kumaras on the 17th of September to see the signs that we made.
ANIWANIWA
On Monday 29th of October Parklands school's new multi purpose room called Aniwaniwa was opened. The name is from the rainbow colours to celebrate the different at our school. At the start we walked through the building and blessed it. Then Whaea Tania told us about the colours fighting about which one was the most important. Then Selina and Hinekura unveiled the tukutuku pattern. At the end we got chocolate and cookies. The first time we used it was later in the afternoon for kapa haka.
LAST POST
THIS YEAR IN BLOGGING I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO:
- Open safari
- Open blogger
- Log into blogger
- Create a new post
- log out of blogger
- Edit a post
- Find your post
- Put a title
- Put a label in
- Add a picture
- Use the blogger interface
- Set up a blog
- Add a caption
- Add a video
- Add a link
- Make a numbered list
- Quit safari
- Minimize safari
- Close safari
- Sleep the computer
- Plug the computer into charger
- Play videos
- Publish post
- Preview post
- Save post
- Go back
- Go forward
- Refresh page
- Turn airport off
- Turn airport on
- Copy and paste
- Choose network
- Change text size
- Change text colour
- Change background colour
- Change Alignment
- Change font
- Change to HTML
- Use google earth
- Use kid pix
- Delete post
- Search on google
- Use the dictionary to check spelling
- Use bullet list
- Use Quotes
- Put two spaces after a full stop
- Put one space after a comma and none before
- Change desktop picture
- Open a new tab
- Open a new window
- Make a clock
- Turn bluetooth on
- Turn bluetooth off
- Log in to smart login
- Open parklands website
- Turn volume up
- See how much time we have left
- Find out the date
- Change clock to analog
- Change timezone
- Browse time machine disks
- Open time machine preferences
- View blog
- Remove formatting
- Choose transliteration language
- Change type to left to right
- Change type to right to left
