First of all when we drove to the A&P show Shukoor, Cayde Zac and I went to go and watch some dirt bikes and looked at the best food trucks. We then went off and looked at a food stall. We ended up buying popcorn that was easily the best popcorn I’ve ever had. Then we met the “Saucerer”. He was a really chill guy who gave us some really spicy black sauce. Then we got lunch with our parent help Trudi or Cayde's mum, we sat down as a class and them left to get snow cones.
We ended up buying popcorn that was easily the best popcorn I’ve ever had. Then we met the “Saucerer”. He was a really chill guy who gave us some really spicy black sauce. Then we got lunch with our parent help Trudi or Cayde's mum, we sat down as a class and them left to get snow cones.
When we got snow cones and candy floss we sat down and watched wood chopping. It was a great day and I would definitely go again. Although It was really
Yesterday we had the task of writing a narrative story. We wrote about a short film called the ocean maker. We had to copy the start of the film but have an alternate ending. The process I went through was Planning my story for 10 minutes then I just put all my best ideas and time and connective words and wrote this story. I think it is alright but I really need feedback. Please leave a comment on how I should change my writing for the better. Here is the video-
Dry Ocean
Shukoor was breathing heavily through the thick air of the Dasht-e margo desert deep into Afghanistan territory. The air there is thick and sun is blistering hot near melting anything it Gleams on. Shukoor was burning hot trying to look for a water supply for his crops and thirst.
He was flying around in his old plane he built from old rusty bits of metal, bolts from submarines and a engine from a jet fighter that crash landed in the old ocean that dried up named the “Arabian Sea”. His crops, houses and land are all on the bottom of the sea bed of the dried up Arabian Sea. He peered down at the old lightower Isaac runs and saw the lights flashing therefore there was an emergency somewhere. He headed down to the lighthouse where he found Isaac happy as can be and asked “Whats happened”. He was met with a smirk and a cheerful “THERE IS CLOUDS” From Isaac. The rain was going to come over and they would practically be saved.
Shukoor had the brilliant Idea of making a big tanker that would catch the rainwater so we would have enough rain to survive until the next showering of rain water. They headed out into the hot desert and starting gathering supplies. Isaac spotted the “bad adame” Which means bad guys in farsi. They tried to steal our plane and supplies. They immediately came sprinting up to us in groups of 4 or five and there had be about 10 groups.
We ran and ran until only 2 of them managed to catch us we fought them hard in the hot sun we were able to beat them but not without a few injuries. We leaned our hot aching bodies against and old submarine in the shade and looked down to where the bad guys had come from and they were nowhere to be seen and neither were our supplies. We popped up about 20 minutes later and headed back to our little village hoping the rain wouldn't come till the morning.
After a hot night of no sleep Isaac and Shukoor went outside to find a big huge dark raincloud that looked like it was ready to release rain all down the village. We grabbed supplies like old metal, Hammers we made, bolts from old jet fighter and made massive 15 foot wide by 15 foot tall and a 9 metre volume that held about 15 gallons of liquid.
As we suspected the rain fell and we caught a full tank of water. We used the water to water our crops and drink. Happy as ever we went for a walk and found a huge hole that filled up and we now had a swimming pool for when it's really hot. Scared it might dry up we took an old tarp covered it when we are not swimming. We both lived happy in the old village and lived until we were old.
This is my Uru Manuka Logo. We made this as our Uru manuka cluster has no logo to how what we are about and who we are. I have worked on for about 1 week. I think I have done well and I hope you enjoy. Please Give Feedback!!!!
On The 6th of September Some of the YMS year 4-8's went to student led toolkits at Hornby Primary School. I did a presentation with Rhys, Zac and Saxon. Here is the slide we based our project on. Hope you like it.-
Yesterday the 6th of September some of the YMS Year 4 to 8s went to Hornby Primary School for student led toolkits. I really enjoyed this and want to go again. I ran a toolkit with Rhys, Saxon and Zac. I will upload a slide very soon hope you enjoy! Here are some Photos-
This is my learning timetable for the weeks of term 3. I really enjoy making my timetable and managing my own learning. have a look and comment on my post and I will try to reply. Here it is-
Today the 7th of August Y.M.S went to the 2017 Children And Adult Book Awards. It was a big ceremony hosted at St Margaret's college auditorium. It was a book awards for young or old and I really enjoyed it. There were many Authors and illustrators; and they were all finalist from the NZ young adults book awards. Ill start with the first lady who was a Drama/English Teacher. Her name was Tania Roxborough, She was a really nice and cool writer and she writes children's books and young adults books. She was definitely my favourite and I loved to listen to her books. Next was David Elliot; he is an award-winning children's illustrator and author. He has written and illustrated seven picture books. He was an amazing writer and was close to overcoming my favourite. Next was Leonie Agnew and she was alright but not close to the best. She Lives in Auckland and really enjoys to write her books in the library. She wrote the book called "Super Finn". If you have ever read that or are reading it I think It is really good in my opinion. If she is trying to write a book but is struggling for ideas she writes lists or waits for the impossible to come to her and this book took her 8 years to write. Next we had a break and something to eat and drink. While we were doing this they brought out the new 3 finalists and they were in my opinion the best 3 they had. First was Simon Pollard and he was all about bugs and spiders. some of them were a bit scary but I think they were cool. He is a young children's writer, spider expert and natural history writer. Simon shared many photos and and stories of his spider and bug encounter's. He told a cockroach and spider story which was smart for the bugs but extremely gross. Simon was alright but not the bet there was. After him was Jenny cooper who was an amazing artist and children's book illustrator. her drawings where great and she had a very interesting way of sorting out her drawings in her books. Jenny talked about what she does for creating her illustrations. She takes the script for the book and reads it and reads it and reads it. She then makes rough drawings of them and this can take 2 or 3 days. Then she does a final drawing and adds the colour. She says "You Will Never Start With The Right Drawing". She was up there with my favourites but this next one was definitely my favourite. His name was Des Hunt and he was amazing and I loved his stories and how he wrote his book about events that took place in his life. He wrote a book called sunken forest which is about him 60 years ago when he went on a camp to lake waikaremoana which used to be land but an earthquake caused a landslide and sunk the forest down into a lake. That made lake waikaremoana. I liked him for these 2 reasons.
1. He told his stories from the old days and things were a lot different back in those days and in my opinion better than today. 2. He told a great story about Eels and how the eels of lake waikaremoana and how they don't stop growing because they cant migrate to other oceans and places. I liked this day and would probably go again.
Yesterday Yaldhurst and Weedons came together and formed a Rugby team called Yaldons. We were at a Rugby tournament at Rolleston Domain. The fields were about 25 metres long and 15 metres wide. The games were only 10 minutes long with 5 minute halfs. We all arrived at 9:30 and started practising for our first game that we played against Rolleston (A) who won last year and took out the competition and got first place. It was tough but we played well but could not manage to pin them down and they got a 5-0 win. We were gutted but still pushed on and kept practising came up with a game plan and were ready to Verse Burnham in our second game and We played hard and beat them 6-0. We were very happy and had a confident attitude towards our next game against Clearview. They were one of the tougher teams but we got the win 5-0. I am very proud and happy for everyone in our team and the coaches and rest of the players will say that too. I was trying not to get ahead of myself and the team but I thought the rest of the games were going to be easy and we were going to win. Next we played Rolleston B and I am not being mean towards their team but I honestly thought we were playing a Year 5/6 team. But they put up such a good fight and were one of the best teams we played we snatched the win 7-0. next we were happy we were going well but it wasn't over yet, we still had to play Templeton. They were just a team of backs so It was very easy in the forwards but our backs were evenly matched up. In this game we played more of a strategical game and kept the ball in the forwards and beasted it up to the try line and scored through our forwards. We won 7-0. Overall we played marvellously and finished second and may be going to canterbury's for rugby. I am very happy here are our team photos-
Yesterday Wednesday the 26th of July Me and 5 other year 7 and 8s boys from our school went to weedons school to meet and have a training for the upcoming rugby tournament. I am very happy with our team and I am looking forward to playing and maybe bring back a 1st place gold medal. But the only way to do that is to put in the hard work and play hard. I hope we have the power and determination to win. We are playing the game next Wednesday early in the morning at riccarton park. I cant wait to have some fun and play my favourite sport with my friends again. I cant wait to play.
On sunday me and my family left on a plane to go to Auckland. on the first we did nothing but sleep because we were tired from getting up at 3:00 am to get on a 4:30 flight. When we woke up in the morning my nana had gone to work so we went to Rainbows End. I went on most rides with my dad but About 30 minutes into the time we where there I bit my tongue and Thought nothing of it but about 3 and a half hours later It was still bleeding and I had to go to the hospital The doctor glued back and It was fine. When we got home I had prawn for tea and I watched a movie with my family and went to bed. when I woke up it was already 11:30 and My family where ready to go the pools but they had to wait 30 minutes for me to have shower and get my togs so we arrived late. we spent 2 hours there and then got lunch. We then decided to go shopping and I got some new shoes and a jacket. I loved the other days there but we did nothing but going to the zoo and seeing the butterfly room. I really loved Auckland and cant wait to go back next holidays.
Yesterday for my maths work I had a short compact division sheet that we had to complete and I really enjoyed the new way I learnt to work out division. I think this will come in handy one day when Im budgeting or working prices for things. If you can get this technique down It is really satisfying when you answer a question using it. Here is video explaining (try to do it yourself) - Link Here
Once upon a time there was an old man known by the name of Marvin. He lived in an old irish countryside cabin. Freakishly was old, dark and raggedy. But he didn’t mind. He would go and and work on his farm every day from 6 .A.M. till 6:30 P.M. He was starting to get older and needed to retire before he went crazy. Sadly he had no close family and his wife passed away. He was on his last week of working when something terrible happened. He was digging up mud bricks when he went to start a new hole at about 6 P.M. he found something shocking. It was an old lady’s hand. Frightened he ran and ran but to no avail the full body of the hand rose up and pulled him into a nearby creek and bit his neck which caused him to be infected and start to turn into The Thing.
Earlier that day there was a young irish couple who were going for a drive nearby and They got stuck on a Muddy road with thick mud and sludgy green grass. They heaved the back wheels but couldn't get moving. With no reception they could only sit and wait till morning as it was already 5:30P.M. The young man was not happy and tried to find help. His girlfriend didn’t want to come so she stayed in the car. As the young man was looking he found a raggedy old dark run down house. He knocked and knocked but no one answered. He crept in through the back door only to find this old man lying down with a bleeding neck from where he got bitten. Scared he ran back to his Girlfriend saying this old man needs help. She was so confused but just went anyway.
