paddle boarding.

Last Wednesday the year 7&8 went paddle boarding at lake Rua. When we got there we got to have a little bit of food and then we got a ore. Then we had to get into 2 groups. One of the groups had to blow up a big board and one of them went on  the little ones I got to go on the little ones.

Then we we were finished on the little ones we had lunch and went on the big one. The other group fell of the big one but my group didn't. At the very end we had a relay race and my group was the winner. Then we all got to play in the water for about 5 minutes and we all splashed Mrs Taylor.

   

Summer learning journey prep 2.

Today in Rimu we had to to the other activities on the summer learning journey. we are pretending to go to the country that we chose to find stuff out about it. we need to go on a plane with our curious kiwi that came with us. we had to watch 2 safety videos and we had to choose our top 3 safety tips and write them down. Here they are. 1, if an emergency happiness put your hand on your head. 2, don't smoke on the plain. 3, always wear your seat belt. we also had to recommend a book to the curious kiwi that came with us forget his book that he was going to read so we haft to recommend one to him and tell him some facts about it. I like the book Under the mountain. It is about to twins that get lost in the forest when they were little and an old man saves them then when they are older they saw them again and he tells them that they are from another planet and have telepathy.     

 

 

Summer learning journey prep.

today in rimu we had a person from the Summer learning journey come and we had to pick a country to study so I chose Germany. We had to research and arnster some questions about it, here are the arnsteres. The capital of germany is Berlin. The population of Berlin is 3.575 million. In january the weather is usually a hi of 3 degrees and a low of -2 degrees. The capital is in the eastern side of germany. The languages most commonly spoken in berlin is german but it you don't know german they should know english. Here are 3 fun facts about Germany. 1, there are 110,00 dogs in Germany. 2, there is 250 grams of gold. 3, there is half a million foreigners.
To find this info I used google. I now hope you know a bit more about germany.

pet day afternoon.

After we made the sand sources and vegetable sculptures all of the school went outside to see some duck herding. Here is a photo of it. 

After we saw the duck herding we saw some sheep shearing. This is the sheep before it happened. 

 

This is the sheep after it was shared.

At 1:45 the pets started to come. There were cats, dogs, birds, guinea pigs, horse and even chickens.  

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Then we had the hobby horse race. Here are some photos.

Pet day moring.

Today at Yaldhurst it is pet day. That is when we can bring our pets and put them up for judging. We can also bring a pet rock to a soft toy. I brought a soft toy but no live animal. We also mack ether a sand sculpture or vegetable sculpture. I maed a vegetable sculpture it is meant to be a barbeque but it didn't work that well because the legs and the top fell of. here is a photo of it.
some of my friends made a car and a crab. We also get to participate in a hobby horse race.

Book character day.

Last Thursday at Yaldhurst school it was book character day because it was book week.  I came as a Piratet and one of my friends came as his is 10 years. He said that he will be a soccer player and that there will be books written about him. Here are some photos. One of my favorite one is the school was someone that was Thanos.

Hooked on books.

This week is hooked on book week. That means every day we get a new book. The first day we got a book cooled Liars and Jack Heath is the author. It is about a boy who made a troth app that tells if you are telling the truth. The book that we got on Tuesday is cooled Larf you head of 4 ever and yes it is spelt that way. It is a book that has three funny stories in it.

The book we got today is cooled the goldfish boy. It is about a boy that is a germaphobe. and a weird mystery happens. 

Writing.

The past week in Rimu for writing we have been doing Traditional Fairy Tails. Yesterday and today in my group we learning how to put direct speech into our sentences. We had to look through all the sentences and put the correct speech marks, commas, question marks exclamation marks. Here are some of them.

"I know what I want for my birthday", said Tina, "A brand new car".

"Run!" shouted Sally, "The dog is after us"

"Is that my bag?" asked Daniel, "I thought I’d lost it"

Saling.

Today in rimu we had to write a recount about our sailing day. Here is my story.

On the Friday the 2nd of November most of the class went salling and it was really fun I was looking ford to it ever since I had known that we were going. There was about 1 or 2 people that werent there. The bus left at about 9:00, the lake that we went to was really close so it didn't take long to get there. When I looked at the water it was as blue as the sky.

The first thing we did when we got there is we put our bags down on some tapolines and then we all sat down and listened to the people there. I think they just talked about safety and stuff like that I can't really remember much. Then they showed us how to rig the boats.

I can't really remember it step by step but the first thing we had to do was get a buddy, my buddy was Eben. then when the person told us to go and find a boat we ran strat to a nice read one that we had our eyes on since we saw it.  When we got there Eben stayed at the boat and I ran to get a mast, ruder and a center board and a stick that I can't remember the name of that we we need to put the mast up.

When we had put the boat together we all went back and listened to the person and he said that we had to practice how to sit down on the side of the boat and move the rudder. Then we had to practice how to make the boat go faster and slower. All you have to do is pull a piece of rope that is throw about 3 pulley senstime things I can't remember the real name and that makes the boat go faster and slower.

Then the people in motor boats got some of the sail boats and puned them across the water and to a little place where the puneed them on the beach thing and then we all had terns going in it. Even though I have been sailing before it is still a little hard. what I was coming back into the land I started going as fast as a slithering snake.

But after a while the wind started to pick up and 2 people capsized.

And one of the people that capsized was Eben and he cut his leg and. Then we went sailing for a bit more and then we had to take the boats apart and put the bits back in the placeres that we got them but the mast we had to but is the containers. Then we got on the but and whent back to school.

In summary, I felt excited at the start of the day because I have only been sailing once and it was really fun. At the end of the day, I felt, sad and disappointed because we had to leave and I made so many fun memories.

Maths.

This week in my maths group we have to finish these slides. I have only done a few slides but here is one of the ones that I have to do. 

For this slide, you need 2 people because it is a game. I just did it with my Self because there was nobody to do it with.

Recount.

For the past 2 weeks in Rimu, we have been doing recounts. One of the recounts that I have done is the one about athletes. The bit that was hard writing it is probably that I haven't really written many recounts. When we had finished writing it we had to go a buddy and read each other's one and then say what we think can be improved. I had to put more description in. Then before we blog it we have to present in it a cool way. Here is mine.

Story.

Last Tuesday I finished writing my independent writing story. It took me about 2 terms but I didn't work on it every day.  Here is the finished thing.

There I was, face to face with a vicious monster on the edge of a volcano. I was on the very rim of the volcano nearly falling into the mouth of the volcano. It looked like I was staring into a big monster mouth filled with Burning fiery laver. Then, the unthinkable happened…

There I was going down the Amazon river. Then I started to feel dizzy, the earth started to spin. Then I found myself in the middle of nowhere I looked around. I thought I was going crazy. I saw dragons lots and lots of dragons, there were dragons for miles Then out of the dragons I saw something I wish I could forget. There was a hideous monster. It was covered in big green slimy scales, it looked as if his teeth were all made of gold and they were covered in blood. Then he looked at me, he started to walk towards me then it stuten to run so I ran to. I was running as fast as I could but I knew he was ganeing. Then I saw a dragon flying quit low so I ran up a bent tree the I jumped and hold onto the claws for dear life. It took me away to its nest when it was about to land I let go of the claws. I ran away to the edge of a Mountain. I saw it was about to be night time to I decided to make a little camp.

In the morning I went out to look for something to use as a weapon. I found some old dragon claws and skin. Great I thought I can make some weapons out of thes dragon clos and some good armor aou of the dragon scales then I will blend in more and the monster won't be able to recognize me that Easily. So I went back up to the mountain lucky it wasn't that High and it was quit ease to climb because I could use the claws to help me. When I got up there I saw

 Not only the dragon the I hald on to to get to the muntin but I also saw another one and it was sitting on the nest. Then I knew what was happening the other dragon was sitting on the nest because it was sitting on some eggs. So I walked   around then and went to my hutt. Luckily they took no notice if me. When I got to my hut I started to make some weapons and sum armer. When I got back up onto the mountain I go to work making weapons and armor. It took me all day but finally I was finished. I made one axe out of the claws and one sword. When he put the arme on he found something out, if I went up to a tree and touch it I would turn the colour of the tree and if I touch a rock I would turn the colour of it. And the same with everything, if I touch it I would turn that color. This is so cool I thought now I can get that monster. Just then one of the dragons came up to me and started to push me towards the nest. When I looked in I saw the cutest thing that I ever saw. There was a baby dragon it was so small, it had big green eyes and it had black scales and a long black tail. And small black wings. When I looked at it it looked back at me then it yawned

and jumped on me and started to sleep. I tried to get him of but he wont bug so I had to sit there until he woke up. Eventually I went to sleep as well. When I woke up it was night time. I tried to get back to my hut but the baby dragon wa still on my shoulder and the other two dragons where making a circle around me and the dragon.  When I woke up the dragons were gone, the baby was still asleep but it Wasn't on my shoulder it was on the grund, it must have fallen off in the middle of the night. Just then I saw two dragons flying towards the mountain. I pick it up the sleeping dragon and went to my hutt o dam this isn't good, I thought there are to wind dragons flying towards the mountain. I look’t out of my hutt and I saw the dragons. Wait, I said those are the baby dragons parents. So I went out of the hutt and went to the dragons. Thay put some fish on the ground. Great, I said I’ll cook thes up and we'll have some breakfast. So I cook´t them up, well for me anyway, the dragons like them raw. After that, I decided I should explore the place. I got my armor on and grabbed my weapons and started to climb down the muntin. But the dragons pulled me back up. What are you doing, I seed. They didn't answer of course. Man, I´ve been alone for so long I'm talking to the dragons I thought. I got up sgrat and went back to the edge of the muntin. Then one of the dragons put their head and back down and looked at me. O you want me to go into your back. Well, i've never flown a dragon before but I'll give it a try. So I climbed onto his back and flew of. We had been flying around for about 30 minutes and we have seen nothing interesting. But then we heard a cry a dragon cry. What was that, I seed. It sounded like a dragon in trouble. Well better go check it out I seed.

When we got there I saw the dragon in trouble, it was backed  up against a tree and in front of it was the monster. The monster had it against a tree and was about to kill the dragon and eat it. We had to do something. So I snuck up behind the monster with my axe and hit him right between the sonder blades. The I drag it down and pulled it out. Blood poured  everywhere and the monster screamed in pain. Then the monster turned round and looked straight at me. Then he gave out a all mighty roar. I turned around and ran as fast as I could. Bet when I looked over my shoulder the monster was chasing after me I had ever ran so fast in my life and I couldn't go any faster. But I saw the dragon that it was about to eat fly away. The, out of the corner of my eye. I saw the boy dragon flying towards me. I jumped up and held onto his claws. Then he flew up and I climbed onto his back. Well, that's enough exploring for one day I said. When we got back I said I think I need to name your dragons so I named  the boy dragon Tornado, and I named the girl one Ivy. I looked at the baby one [who wasn't atchley a baby anymore but a teenager.] and thought for a bit. I looked at his mouth he had to teeth so I decided to cool him Toothless. I was becoming night time and all that running made me tired. So I went to my makeshift bed made out of lef’s. In the morning I thought about how I achley got here, in the past. When I heard a terrifying roar, I looked outside and I saw the monster. I was climbing up the muntin. So I got a big rock and posht it of the mountain. But the monster opened his mouth and ate it. So I got on Tornado and shot him with fire. He lost his grip and fall down and hit the ground. But he didn't die.

He just walked away. So I went back to my camp and had some fish for breakfast as I have had for the past month. I thought what might be up the top of the mountain. I looked at toothless who was a teenage dragon who now was an adult dragon and I looked at Tornado and Ivy and “said goodbye I will see you soon.” then I started to climb the mountain. I don't know why I didn't use a dragon and fly up but I kept climbing. When I got to the top I saw it was not a mountain, but it was a volcano. I got on my stomach and looked over the side and I saw a whole lot of laver. I stood up and through a rock in it and a burst of fire shot up. I stepped back and through another rock in this one was bigger and another burst of fire shot up as fast as a bullet coming out of a gun. I went to climb back down the mountain but when I looked over the edge I saw the monster climbing up the muntin. I thought I was seeing things I rubbed my eyes and looked again, But he was still there. I started to panic I looked for another way down but there was none. I was starting to get really nervous he was coming closer and closer he was about a meter away when I  started to do something, I threw rocks at it. But that didn't slowed him down. He was angry, angry at me for letting his diner getaway, angry at me for stabbing his shoulder bone. And now he was getting going ro get his revenge, he was going to eat me. I through one last stone at him but it made no difference. He was finley up and he was staring right at me. I was done for. I was now about a meter away from the edge of the mouth of the volcano. And he was getting closer. He was now about half a meter away from me and he was slowly getting closer I panicked, I didn't know what to do he was in front of me and the mouth of the volcano was behind me. He was now only centimeters away from me and I really thought that I was going to die and believe me when the that when you are going to die you see your life flash before your eyes, they aren't lying. But then I heard a sound of wings flapping then I saw Toothless jump in front of me and landed on the monster then he bit the monsters neck and it screamed out is pane then I saw hundreds of dragons flying toward me the ones in front were Tornado, Ivy and that other dragon that I saved from the monster. The all hoverd buy the volcano and then Toothless flow up with them and he gave an almighty roar then all the dragons stuted to shot fire at the monster and he pot his too grose hanes infront of his face and he started to walk backwards then he was on the mouth of the volcano and then he finally he fell in the volcano and then was a huge burst of laver that shot up and he was gone, he was finally gone now mor threat to the dragons and to me and that made me realize that I still need to get home but then I thought, I don’t really want to go home I like it here I like all the dragones and I love flying on then, and I don't really know how to get home and Toothless can be my dragon. This is going to be awesome.

 

novel study

This term in Rimu we are doing novel study. Each group has to read a different book that we can't choose and then we have a slide that has start of book activities, middle book activities and end of book activities and we have all answer all of them in the order of where we are in the book. My book is cooled Better for everyone. I haven't finished reading it yet but so far it is about a girl with an older brother and to twins and here parents have divorced and they go and see there dd and step mum in Sydney 3 days a year. So far I think that the book is a bit boring. Here is a photo of the front cover.

Our new book

This term in Rimu we reading a new book, it is cooled by underwater. It is about a boy that has never gone swimming in his life because his mum has never taken him and when he asks why she always makes a weird excuse. Here is a photo of the front cover. here is my favorite excuse ¨chlorine can make you itchy and you often find lumps of other peoples hair in swimming pools and some of it don't come from their heads but from other places.  

Refugee

Today in Rimu we are going to finish Refugee and it isn't looking good for Josef he has been caught by the Germans. And his mum only has enuff money to save one of her children. And Isabelle is trying to get to the land before the coast guard gets them and they don't have a motor.  And Mahmoud has been put into a prison. we are going to finish the book today but I think that they are all going to die. 

Overall, I think that the book is really exciting and I would definitely recommend it to others.

Math

Today in Rimu we did an e-asttle math test about Statistics. but before that my math group got some slides to do, we had to do as much as we can. here are some photos of some of the things we had to do.

I really don't like math and I am not really really good at it but you could be so why don't you have a go at it if you want.

Navitiv

Today in Rimu we made our native better than what we did on Wednesday because today we had to mack it look really cool so I used Pictochart. Here is a photo of mine.

Writing

Today in Rimu for writing we did a writing test. We had to plan it first though. here is my plan.

Opening: Introduces the setting and character setting is on the moon, that characters name is Alex he went to the moon.

Setting: Where is your setting set? Brainstorm some descriptive language now to help you. On the moon cant breath.

Characters name: Description. Flaws, feelings/attitude/character type, what they look like. Remember show not tell.  He has short black here, has wanted to go to space all his life.

Build up. What is your character/s doing leading up to the problem he went to the moon and the engines start making funny sounds. Problem - What goes wrong? He crashed on the moon. Events. What are the events which happen right after the problem? SHOW not TELL his co-pilot has died. Resolution. Is the problem resolved or left? Remember your descriptive language. SHOW not TELL he rebuilds the rocket. End. Does your character reflect on what has happened? How has your character changed? What have they learned? Is there a twist to the story? Is there a moral to the story? SHOW not TELL. the rocket got too much power and ended up crashing on Jupiter.

Character Change How does your character change/grow as a result of the problem/events/ resolution /end throughout the Narrative? (Flaws, personality , feelings/ attitudes/ character  type)

Then we had to write a story and tomorrow we are going to mack it better. Here is mine.

Oo where am I? Why is my head so sore? Why can't I move? Why am I floating? O yea I was going to the moon when the engines started to make funny sounds. We crashed some were. Where is the window I need to see where we are. I am on the moon, wow this is great, now whereDavidaved we need to go get a flag, what what is this floating? It looks like a body, oh no, it's Daved, oh no, oh no,oh no,oh no. its Daved, heś dead no he can't be dead I need him to help me get back to earth. This is bad, this is bad, this is really bad, how am I meant to get back to earth without a co pilot. Where's the radow I need to contacted mission control. mission control, mission control come in, oh no, the radow, itś broken. Now I will never get back to earth. Well, there is no point in just sitting here and doing nothing. Where's my helmet I'm going outside.

Wow itś right what the say there really isn't much gravity on the moon. Hay what is that in that crater? Somethings moving oo what is that itś got three big eyes and 4 fat arms one long leg and nine plump stomachs, and it is all black and covered in slime. It is an aleyin. I better go back to the rocket and get some weapons just in case. It is a good thing that the scientist on earth just invented a new weapon cooled a phaser. Aparintly is shots a burst of enge and it has different settings. I should probably put it on stun. Now let's get back to that crater.

Wow they seem to have lots on little houses made out of metal. And one big hall in the middle I wonder what's in there I need to go have a look but I better be careful I don't know it these creatures are friendly or not I better stay hidden, good nobody saw me now I just need to get thru this door, I know I will use the phaser, yay it worked wow what is that it looks like a stasis chamber. I wonder who is inside it? I will go have a look, oh my goodness it is Neil Armstrong. I thought he got back to earth, and he was meant to have died a long time ago. Hay that button must get him out. Neil Armstrong you have been kidnapped by aliens let's get you home, the  house will work nisly to fix my ship and it wont tach long. Good, it is fixed now let's get back. What why are we going to fast we aren't meant to go this fast, what is that jupiter. Great we have crashed on jupiter, now we are never going to get home.

Inquiry.

For the last 3 weeks in Rimu we have been doing inquiry about the environment. we need one main question and then we need to brack that down into 4 sub-questions, mine is what is pollution? My 4 sub-question are what types of pollution is there, how is pollution affecting marine life, how can people, communities and governments stop pollution. 

10 minute writing challenge.

Today we had to do a 10 minute writing challenge thing, that is when we look at a photo that the teacher shows us and we need to mack a story about it in 10 minutes. The photo was a gay stuck in a wall. Here is my thing about it.
This is a story about how a man got stuck in a wall it was in the 25th century he was on a mission to get the rest of the people that were going against the Federation. He was sent on a mission to get them to a Federation prison on Earth he was going to get beamed down and surprise then but there was one problem, he hated being beamed to places because it could go wrong when he gets turned into millions of pits and not get put back together, or he could end up in space or another random place. No, he didn't do it, but he was the only one who could find them so he had to he got some strength and did it but then he beamed into a wall and his family was so sad and they went into a mental health center because the went crazy. and was stuck there forever so if you don't like being beamed then don't beam you this could happen.  

the other one is about what my shows would say if they could talk. We had to do a diary entry. Here is is.

Dear diary.

My master's feet stink! The stink like the poo of lion poo like of lion poo could poo that is what the small like. And to make matters worse he isn't having a shower agent that has been three months without a shower, that is a new record. And we had crunchy today as well and that mead them all sweaty and now I stink and I got put in the wash if you ask me I think that he should go in there. I really had my life I wish that he would throw me away and get another pair of them. Mmmm pear tow game I have an idea I will put some of his toe jam in his pear and see how he likes it. And then will run away and never see those stinky feet agen.

Inquiry.

Today in Rimu we did our mini-inquiry. We had to take notes about what we are researching in our group work. My group was doing water pollution here is a photo of the slide that has my notes on it. 

I think that is was a bit hard because I wasn't here on Monday because I was sick.

 

Refuge.

The book that we are reading as a class is the book Refuge. Here is a photo of the cover. 

It is a book about three children and their families who are trying to escape the country they are in. The stores are true as well and they happened about 75 years apart and apparently, all of them have sumthing in common. The names of the three kids are Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud. And we are about a quarter way through. if anyone one us has read this can you please comment on this blog and tell me what happens.

speach.

Last Wednesday we had to do speeches. I had to go up and to it. Here is the speech that I did.

Are you tired of seeing rubbish everywhere? Seeing on the news all of the animals that have died because they have eaten rubbish? Did you know that from the 1780s to the 1830s humans have been polluting the ocean. If you are tired of it then I think that you will like this speech?

Hi, I'm Mikael and I am here to talk to you about some things and it is mainly rubbish. For too long humans have been polluting the earth and I am here to persuade you to agree with me if you don't already.

I think that humans have been polluting the ocean for a long time and I don't like it. When you put rubbish in the ocean most of it ends up on the Islands if it doesn't get eaten by animals. If humans don't stop polluting the ocean then sooner or later a lot of sea animals will be gone. Did you know that over 6.3 billion kg of rubbish is dumped in the ocean every year. Normal plastic talks about 450 years to break down if it doesn't end up is an animal's stomach. That is a long time especially because humans normally live to about 80 or more  Here are some photos of the Islands that are covered in plastic and animals that have eaten plastic. It’s not nice, is it? To see all of those poor animals dead all because they thought that that piece of rubbish was food. And the Islands, imagine how beautiful the would be if they weren't covered in rubbish. I think that we need to make a stand and stop polluting the ocean.

If everyone one that is polutting the sea keeps ignoring everyone that is telling them to stop them, imagine what the earth will be like in 10 years or 20 years. The amount of rubbish in the sea will outnumber the amount of fish because 100,000 marine life is killed by rubbish around the world every year. And one million seabirds are killed every year. But if we stop polluting the ocean then there will be a lot of fish in the ocean. And a lot of birds in the sky.

So in conclusion, I hope that you agree with me and if you do then please don’t litter and help save the sea.

I came in third place.

speach.

Last Wednesday we went to the eco landfill. We had to learn the 5 Rs, the photos are below... We also saw how the machinery works. Here is a photo of one.

Next we went to the Eco shop. We had a budget of $500 but it wasn't real. We had to go into the shop and buy stuff that we will need for a flat. Me and my buddy went over the budget a bit so we had to get rid of the fancy knife and fork we got.

math week

The past week in Rimu we have been making a tiny house. First, we had to look at the instructions on the board. Here they are.  Then we had to mack a  rough draft. Here it is.
Then we had to color in the walls and the floor and the roof. Then we had to put the furniture together and put it in the house. Our house is a medieval-themed that is why it is black and read. Then we had to mack it detailed and we aren't very good at here is our finish thing. we also had to find the area and perimeter of  the furniture.