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Dear Santa,
I cant wait for you to come this year, I am really excited. I have been told by my friend Jessica Cox that you aren't real but I dont believe her because I have heard you before and I heard your reindeer. 

This year I been a very good girl and for being good I would like a present. I know this sounds greedy but I would really like an iphone 5s. That is the only present I would like this year because I am going to America and dont need anything else. I have helped my mum around the house this year and have got a job to help the doggy day care. At the doggy dare I cleaned out the back and took the dogs for walk. So since I have helped out and been good this year I really would appreciate the present I would like. Thank you.

I was wondering if you would like a different snack by the chimney this year? I saw last year that you didn't drink all the milk, so is there something else that you would like? I also saw that you munched all your way through the cookies so I will leave out more this year.

I can't wait to see you!

From Milly

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A third world country is a developing country and is poorer than other countries such as America.
Some third world countries yearly income is about $1000. A country like Malawi spends approximately $1.6 a day to make a living, a person from Eritrea spends $2.5 and people in the US spend $144 a day.

There are a few under developed countries such as:

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Kyoto is a city in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has the population of 1.5 million people in this city. Last week we had a Japanese student in our class from Kyoto.

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A rose by any other name is a famous quote written by Shakespeare in the year 1600.

It originated from his play Romeo and Juliet. The full quote is 'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet' and that was said in act 2 scene 2 by Juliet.

'A rose by any other name' means what matters is what something is, not what it is called. Juliet said this to explain her love to Romeo and show that his name dosent matter to her. The word rose does not just mean a rose but also it mean Romeo.

In the 21st century there was a American romantic comedy loosely based on Romeo and Juliet.

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New uniforms:

What it will need:
School colours
Comfortable
Style

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45 Minute Inquiry.

Curling is a game that is played in the Winter Olympics. It is played with to long sticks with a broom at the end of them and that is called a sweeping broom. You also use a curling stone that glides across the ice floor, the curling stone is made out of a granite stone. To play curling you have a team of four. On the ice at once there is three player and the fourth is a sub. The captain is know as the 'skip' and they make all the decions the other positions are called lead, second and third.

To play curling a player pushes the curling stone across the ice and the other two players use there sweeping brooms to sweep around the stone to make force so the curling stone will keep moving. The aim of this game is to see how far you can get the stone before it stops. Each player pushes the stone twice so they all alternate with the positions.

The next curling tournament is in the Winter Olympics which is going to be held in Fussen, Germany. New Zealand has a team and they were selected out of lots of curling teams around the world to play in the next Winter Olympics. There are eight olympic teams and New Zealand is one of them.

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Dystopia: A ruined future

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The misty layer of thick black covered the once blue sky. Hundreds of cars lining up like anxious fans lining up for there favourite concert. The overgrown dead grass takes over the side of the busy motorway. The chimneys were puffing like they were chain smokers. The traffic merges like a zip and slowly makes it way further up the motorway. 

I can barley stay awake as I had been waiting in line for hours slowly moving. I feel like I have been waiting for days and days. My arms feel like jelly as they have been up on the wheel for I don't know how long.

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As annoying as a fly buzzing around your head when your trying to get to sleep.
As peaceful a graceful butterfly flying in the summer breeze.
As lucky as finding a four leaf clover.
As hot as a 40 degree summer day is Oman.

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"How do you think your behavior has been this year?" Miss Campbell asked.
"I think I have behaved well and have stayed on track for most of the year."
"I do agree that you have stayed on track and have got your work done even though you like to talk a bit in class." " What's something you think you need to work on?"
"I think I need to get to class on time instead of being 5 minutes late and definitely I can always work on getting my maths scores up."

"Do you know what your levels are?"
"Yes I got a 4A in maths, 5B in reading and 5B in writing."
"Ok that is good that you are at and above the standerd for everything."

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Questions about picnic day.

Money:

How much money are we aloud to spend?

Where do we get our money from?
Are we allowed to spend all the money we are given?
Have we got a budget?

Transport and Saftey:

How many parents would we need for transport?

What time do we have out of school?

If we left the school how much supervision would we need?

Activities:

What are some fun cheap activities? 

Are we allowed to leave Tauranga?

Are we allowed  to have a combined picnic day with room 41?

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Waimarino

Getting blobbed

Kayaking with rain

Travelling through the air

Swinging off the tarzan swing

Choppy icy water
Falling in
Fun

Germany

After a long flight to Muinch, Germany I was so surprised to see how clean and green it was over there. 

When we arrived to the school and it was so amazing the facilities were just beautiful. 

I got billeted out with Emily and we were with a lovely American family. In Muinch we did lots of tours and sight seeing a highlight in Muinch was playing there rugby and softball teams. There were a few injures in rugby but we wasted both the rugby and softball teams in the end.

We next traveled to Austria and went for a tour of ' The Sound Of Music' places were it was filmed. It was really pretty with all the mountains and water. We also found out a few filming dramas such as when they were in the boat the little girl couldn't swim so when they all fall out they were spose to fall out the front of the boat and Maria was spose to catch her. But when they took the second take Maria fell out  the back and all the children fell out the front. If you look closely in the movie you can see Greatle  the youngest bobbing up and down. The next day we went to Nushvanstein castle were some of the seances were filmed from chitty chitty bang bang there.

The next place we went to was Hidleberg. When we arrived we got welcomed with a song and a snack and a drink. Then we meet our host family. Mine wasn't the best, well the daughter was nice but the mum not so much. Just from one look I could see I was not going to enjoy it. The mum had piercing above her lips and piercing all down her ears. The tattoos were all up her arms and over her back. When I got back there was a pet rat and snake and the mum was a chain smoker.

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Last night was our Rimu house social dance. We did a lot of dances like change the partner dance, change of partner sumba, maxine, gay gordon, cha cha, the jive, snowball walze, walze, bunny hop and the cha cha slide. Everyone really enjoyed all these fun dances, even the parents joined in and danced the change the partner dance, cha cha, walze and the bunny hop. As we were all dancing you could the enjoyment all everyones faces. My favorite dance was the snowball walze.

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Superstition

Superstition is when people believe all types of things are bad luck. Like
• If you walk under a ladder you will get bad luck for 10 years.
•If you see a black cat you will get bad luck.
• If a mirror brakes you will get bad luck and so on.

Other thing is Friday the 13th it is known to be a very unlucky day. I know that one day a child was going across the road and a car came speeding and nearly hit the child luckily a teacher grabbed them and pulled out of the way. Ever since that I have been really scared of friday the 13th.

SPCA

Norm Heitt is a promter of the SPCA. He came to our school to tell us how animals and humans are a like. Norm Heitt is the winner of dancing with the stars and a former all black player. He told us about his life and that his family got abused just like animals get abused. He was a really funny guy and you could tell he was really confidant talking infront of us. At the end he asked us questions about things we had learnt during the season and if you got it right you got a prize. There was t-shirts, hats and everyone got a pencil case. It was a really fun middle block.

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Practical Task

When I timed myself it took 11 minutes and 43 seconds to walk 1 km.

Homework Research

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Once there was a person who had a bunny.

That was very funny.

She wrote a story that had a scene that was gory.

She loves her morning glory.

The day she wrote it it was very sunny.

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Spring time is a time where we love to go and play outside and have fun in the sun.
Prancing little lambs in the grassy fields.
Rabbits running around like they have nothing to worry about.
Ice-blocks dripping from little kids ice-block sticks.
Nature is when it looks the best in spring as everything is as green as a green white board pen.
Grass is growing long so its perfect to play hide and seek in.

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Who am I?
I am very good at drawing.
This year I am doing a speech.
Normally I am super quite.
Who am I?

Who am I?
I loved to play a sport with a round ball.
I have to make sure my hair is always perfect.
For homework my videos are always the best.
Who am I?

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As the boys were making there movie they had to involve a cookie pad. When Connor through the cookie pad and it went down the bank into the bush. The boys tried to be sneaky and not tell anyone that they lost the cookie pad.

Research

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George Finn was autistic he was also savant. Savant people are very special, there are lots different types savant people. George Finn could tell the weather and if you gave him a date like 3rd or August 1969, he could tell you what day of the week it was. Which was amazing. Some savant people have an amazing memory like Daniel Tammet he memorized and recited 22,000 numbers of pi. It took him over 5 hours. I wonder if he could of done more?
Now there are only roughly 52 savant people in the world. I hope that we see more savant people because they are just so amazing.

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Poem

We played our game against Bay Of Plenty.
Eating lots of food in between our game.
Exciting game against Waikato.
Kids cheering for there sisters playing hockey.
Exhausted after a long day of hockey.
New pair of shoes from my dad.
Dad came back from England with lots of presents.

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Homework

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We should have homework.

For:

* Homework is good because it gives us extra work and extends our minds to make us better learners.

* It is good to do homework because it gives us some responsibility to make sure we finish it and bring it back on time.

* Homework prepares us for the future and we get extra learning which is always good.

Against:

* You have to find time after school to do it because if you have a lot of things on after school it can be hard to finish on time sometimes.

* If you dont do homework you may not get a better job when your older because you will do extra learning.

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School uniforms are good.

For:
* School uniforms are good because in the morning you all ready know what your going to wear.
* You dont have to worry about what your clothes look like because everyone is wearing the same thing.
* Its fine having a uniform because you also get mufti days sometimes during the year when you get to wear your own clothes, which that can be a nice change for a day every now and then.

Against:
* It can be a bit annoying having a uniform because you have to wear the same thing every single day.
*

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Computer gaming is good for people.

For:
*Computer gaming can be enjoyable for lots of different ages and it can be very entertaining.
*It can be good to play when your bored and have nothing to do.
*Computer gaming can be fun to play on rainy days when you cant go outside.
Against:
*Playing computer games can badly damage your eyes and cause problems when your older.
*If you play computer games all the time you will gain weight and will never go outside and get fit.
*

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Who am I?
I play hockey.
I am in Rimu house.
Im good at maths.
I lost a bet to my sister.

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Languages
Rimu year 8s are learning languages this term, we got split into two groups between the two classes. One group is learning Sign Language and the other Mandarin. I am conjointly in Sign Langage. We have learnt all of our vocabulary and have learnt how to say hello, goodbye and also introduce ourselves.

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Where am I?
Its colorful.
There are lots of hooks on the wall with things hanging on them.
There lots of art work and is a place were you learn.
Where am I?

Where am I?
Its a capital of a country.
There are people everywhere you look.
There museums and subways under the ground.
I have a big tower that lots of people come and vist.``
Im the city of love.
Where am I?

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My Holiday

A big highlight in my holidays is going to Wellington and being in the earthquakes. The first one was at about seven o'clock in the morning. It started with the rumble, then the windows were shaking and then the beds were moving. My first reaction was to jump up and get into the doorway, but my friend in the room opposite me didn't do the same he just stayed in bed while the earth was moving like crazy. Later that day we found out the magnitude was 5.7.  For the rest of the trip I was extremely scared there were lots of earthquakes after that but one there was one that was huge it was a magnitude of 6.5. It hit when we were in the street walking home, all of a sudden I wasn't walking in a straight line, I was going all over the place. There was a huge apartment building next to us that was swaying like crazy. The noise was horrific. It sounded like millions of sheets of glass shattering into a million pieces, even though no windows that we could see were braking. It was a scary but cool expose.

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Term 2 overview

This term we have had a lot of fun events. We started off the term with going to camp and that was definitely a highlight. We have also had cross country, production, science fair and inter-house soccer. In inter-house soccer we came second to Rata it was a very intense game. It has also been the first term of hockey for me, I am going to aims next term which will be fun. For science fair I think I did quite well because I invented a device to stop your hands from getting sore when using crutches and I got a bronze ribbon, which I was happy with.
My lowlight this term is losing our inter-house soccer game because someone stod in the circle.
I have improved at running this term because we have been doing most mornings.
I still need to improve on my maths because I need to learn how to understand how to work out some problems.
My highlight was going to camp as it was a really fun week doing lots of activities.

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Dear Nicole

I play 3 sports but my favorite is surfing by far. The reasons I love surfing is that you learn to appreciate the ocean and you get to learn how it works. You have the freedom of being out in the water by yourself and choosing whatever you want to do. I'm here to persuade you to join surfing its really fun and worth doing. 

Surfing is easy once you get the hang of it, a little trick that I learnt when I was beginning how to surf was when a wave in coming and you get onto your board once the wave has caught up to you and is pushing you forward you do three paddles before you attempt to stand up. When I was first learning how to surf I fell off a few times but it may sound weird but its actually quite fun when you fall off and make a fole of your self when your surfing with your friends. 

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1. Q: What do you call a skeleton in the closet with blonde hair?
 A: Last year's hide-and-go-seek winner. 

2. Q: How do you get a blonde on the roof? 
A: Tell her drinks are on the house. 

3. Q. Why did the man put his money in the freezer?

    A. He wanted cold hard cash!

4. Q. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?

    A. Frostbite.

5. Q. What did the water say to the boat?

    A. Nothing, it just waved.

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Bad Product

Once we went for our weekly shop at New World in Whangamata. When we got home there was a box of muesli bar and I deiced to have one. I opened the sealed box and looked inside to grab a muesli bar when there was already one open so I looked at it and there was a bite out of it. I thought that was very od so I showed my mum. At first she didn't believe me but after I fully explained what happened and told her the box was definitely sealed she started to believe me. Later that day we went back to  New World and told them what happened. They refused to believe us and just thought that we were lying to get a free product but I think they knew what we were talking about. Later that month one of our friends had a similar thing happen to them and that made me think that New World had a bit of a rat problem.

S1. Improve your leadership skills: Act as a class leader or school counsellor all
year.


I am one of the class leaders in room 42 with Kyle. At first I didn't really wont to be class leader but I got nominated and won.To pick our class leaders one day before lunch we nominated a few people and did a blind vote. As a class leader we get to organise class activities and give out golden tickets at the end of the week. We dont do so much anymore as we now have two house leaders in our class.
I was also class leader in room 30 last year and this was the speech that I came up with last year:

Good morning/afternoon Room 30

What do you see in a Class leader? Do you see leadership qualities. Well I have those qualities. I am very responsible and know when enough is a enough. I am extremely confident with my speaking in front of an audience and as some of my fellow year 6 peers will know I was chosen to do the leaving speech at the end of the year at Tauranga Primary School.

If I was Class leader anyone could come talk to me about anything, it would be like our little special circle time.

I consider my self trustworthy (and I do like to have a joke around from time to time) Also I am a team player and I like to participate in everything.

If you want a fun and jam packed year just vote for Milly Hillbrook as class leader.

Thank you for listening.

A5. Improve your study skills: Research Rimu- where do you find it? What are some facts about Rimu trees? What uses does it have? Why is Rimu the best tree in 
the school?


You find Rimu trees in the New Zealand forest. They are normally on the side of open trails and right in the mid of the bush.

 Rimu trees can be used for lots of different things like  making bowls and other wood turned objects.The inner bark can also be used to treat burns and cuts so thats good if you ever in the bush and have a serious cut.

 Rimu trees and very slow growing but they can live for 800 to 900 years approximately. They can also grow up to 50 meters. 

Rimu is the best house in the school because we all work together and get on very well. When ever there is a school event our whole house is there supporting everyone. In the cross country I think we were defiantly the best looking house, we were covered in paint and all dressed up in red.

The Worst Thing About My Sister

Have you ever felt that your big sister is just a pain in the butt? Well in this book the worst thing about my sister Marty feels the same way. This book is by Jacqueline Wilson. Jacqueline Wilson has published many books in her time, Hetty Feather, Double Act and The worst thing about my sister. Jacqueline was born in a bath in 1945. She always wanted to be a writer, she wrote her first book novel when she was nine years old.

The book is about 2 girls one called Melissa and one called Marty. The both of them have different personality, Melissa is all super-duper girlie and all pink and Marty is tomboy dressing clothes that haven’t been washed and has heaps of stuffed animals and she calls her bedroom “Marty Dean”. The girls mum got a new job designing dress for little girls, after making Marty wear one to a girls party. That meant that Marty had to share a room with Melissa so their mum can use it for sewing room. Which was very hard for them. When Marty has her best friend over for the night, Marty friend wants to hang out more with Melissa than Marty. Their dad built a nice big shelf for the girls bedroom. When Marty's friend mum goes and looks in the girls room she loved how their dad had done the shelves and asked if he could build some for her daughter. He said yes of course even though he was a professional they still needed the money. But when Melissa falls and ends up in hospitals the two girls realize that they love each other.

All the characters very different, like Melissa and Marty. Melissa is very proper and pink and doesn’t like getting dirty and likes jewelry and makeup, compared Marty where she likes Sports drawing cartoons and getting dirty and NOT wearing pretty little dresses.

The worst thing about my sister is a very good book. It is aged between,8+. It is quite funny and sometimes there are very sad moments. This book would be recommended to people who have annoying sisters too.I enjoy this book very much you could read it as many times as you like because it is so interesting.

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My Science Fair

My topic this year is a technology one. I am inventing hand grips that strap onto crutches. I made my prototype and it seemed to work quite well. I think my writing for my science fair is going really well and I am hoping to do well and maybe get a yellow sticker when we take them up to the hall.
I have not finished my science fair yet but I am really going to put my head down and concentrate on it today. I am aiming to sell my comfort straps for $15 and in total my profit come to $9.90.

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Cross country

On Monday 24th of June was Tauranga Intermediate Schools cross country. As Rimu house walked out onto the field we were all dressed up and had lots of paint on ourselves to support our house.
The first race was the year 7 girls. On there final lap all of a sudden all you could see was red tops coming around the field, the year 7 girls did really well in there race. After the year 7 boys it was our turn. I was so nervous. There was a big group of girls that said we would all run together that didn't last long as soon as we got to fraser street some went to go forward and some dropped back. On the final lap I was neck and neck with Kaitlyn in room 41 and all of a sudden a felt a boost of adrenaline and I sprinted to the finish line finishing at the placing 95th. My goal was to get in the top hundred and luckily I did.

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Phone game.

Flowerama

Flowerama is a game when you have a shop and you have a garden. In your garden you have to plow, water and harvest your garden. Once you have planted your flowers you can put them in your shop and sell them. You can renovate your shop buy buying new tables to put your flowers on and you can also paint the walls and do other cool stuff to make your shop cool. You can expand your garden by going up a level or you can use your money to make an extenuation.

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My parents job.

My Dad is an Entrepreneur. A Entrepreneur owns lots of  business and makes up companies. He also owns a forestry and we own some land in different places like Brazil, Gisborn, Whangamata and a few other places. When he isn't in his office he is out on our farm feeding cattle and moving them.

My mum is an interia designer. She works with curtains and colours. She is normally a stay at home mum but she gets some work in Tauranga because the company she works for is in Auckland. Every now and then she goes to Auckland for a month to work all the time up there.

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My scary night.

It was a dark cold night and I was lying in bed downstairs, all of a sudden I heard a big thud... I asked my mum if she had heard it, she was about to ask me that exact question. I felt goose bumps appear on my arms. As fast as a lightning bolt my mum ran up stairs to see if my sister was alright because the thud came from her room. My sister was sitting on her bed shaking, she looked like she had seen a ghost, then she whispered “I think there someone on the roof”. I could barely hear her talking over my teeth chattering. She told us that she saw the roof shake when she heard the thud. We really didn't have any idea what it was. The things that crossed my mind were a person, a dead person, a albatross, a dead albatross or space junk.

Ten minutes we still hadn't heard anything else. So my mum went to lock my sister door but it wouldn't lock, now I was really scared. We tried and tried to get it to lock but it wouldn't lock.

My crazy Aunty had an idea, it was almost as weird and crazy as she was but it did work. She tied a pair of jeans to the handle of the door and the other leg of the jeans to the wardrobe door handle.

I was so scared the rest of the night. 

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1. Find a idiom or saying.
All bark and no bite.

2.Explain in your own words what this saying means.
When someone is threatening to do something agressive but not actually intending to go into a fight. Or harm you in any way.

3.Give an example situation when you might say this idiom to someone.
When some say is threatening to do something and the person getting threatened dosent believe them and says your all bark no bite.

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Playground conversation

"Your it Billy I got you," shouted Freddy
"Hey not fair there were people in my way!"
"Oh well your it," Freddy loudly said, "Come and get me"
Billy counted, "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10! Im coming for you."
"OUCH!" Billy screamed
Freddy sprinted over to Billy, "whats wrong?" Freddy asked, "are you ok?"
"Of corse im not ok, Im in pain"
Freddy sounded concerned "Ok we better get you some help!"
"Lets go!" Billy said, "I think my ankle maybe twisted"
Freddy said "Ok."

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I have a very interesting uncle, his name is Steve. My Uncle looks scarier than a homeless person he has a long gray beard with yellow stains from his smoking, about 6 earring in his ears. His ear lobes are a long as a finger. He is always wearing a cow boy hat and he walks around dropping his hands down low.When he was about 23 he was in a car accident and was in a coma for about a year. He damaged his brain and is now in a special home in Auckland. Last time we went to see him he told my mum that he better take me home before he takes her to a park at night when the aliens are going to come and take them to another planet.He means well but really after his accident he has never been the same.

The book Wickit is a fantasy adventure book about a little boy named Pip. He lives in a small town in the most smallest house you could ever imagine. One day he decided to explore the high mountains and discover new thing but it turned out to be more of an adventure of crazy and scary. When he got to the top of the mountain he found a little village with straw topped houses and there wasn’t much at the village except for some monks. He saw an old man that was half bald and was wearing a old red robe. His name was Abbot Micheal. The other monks names were Brother Barnard,Brother Gilbert,Brother John and Brother Paul. Abbot Micheal was the leader of the brothers and he was called the father of the community. Prior Benet is the second in command. Abbot Micheal showed him around and showed him the most dreadful place on earth. he looked down at a giant swamp and behind was a giant castle. In the distance he saw a little figure with a giant hat with a large feather on it as if a loaf of bread was on his head, he was Sir Robert. He was the new king arnalds servant and another servant he has is called Sir Giles. He wanted to check the castle out but Abbot Micheal said it was way to hard to even go to the bottom of the swamp. Everyone hated the new king so they tried to kill him but they all ended up dying. One day Pip wanted to kill the king so he can be a hero to everyone but it didn’t really go to plan. This book is a book that uses a variety of language and makes you think about it when you are finished. This book would be suitable for ages 8 to about 12. I enjoyed this book because it wasn’t like an ordinary book.

P5. Compete in a sport for an entire season
In term 1 2013 Benji, Caitlin, Damian and I did volley ball for the term. We started of just playing volleyball for fun, none of us had ever played volleyball for a team before. Our very first game was against the the other Rimu team. We ended up beating them 86-48. After that win we felt pretty confident. We ended up winning all of our games until we came up against a Kahikatea team which was the closet out of all our games. We were told to look at the notice board outside the sports office at lunchtime to see if our team had made it to a final. We looked at the notice board and we saw our name the (FLAGS) in the grand final. This came as a big surprise to us because we never thought we would make it any were near here. This was even closer than the Kahikatea game. But we ended up winning the whole competition. We were all so surprised and we couldn't

 believe it at all.

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Charging laptops at school

What are the negatives of Rimu students charging their laptops at school?

1. If we were aloud chargers at school it wouldn't be such a for students to charge there computer at home.
2. There would be lots of chargers lying around the classroom and that would be a hazard as people would trip over them.
3. It would be expensive because we would be using lots of power.

What are the 2 of the suggestions for solving the problem?

1. There would only be one charger that is available to use at Miss Campbells desk.
2. You were only aloud to use your charger at morning tea and lunch times.

What is your opinion about Rimu students charging their laptops at school.

I think we should allow the chance for people to charge their computers. Some nights we are busy and out most of the night and we just go to bed or you lend your charger to someone else who has a faulty battery and they forget to give it back to you and you dont have the opportunity to charge it. I think we should have at least 2 chargers running a day and everyone in the class can use them in that day but if your the last to use them, you are the one to put them away.

P1. Improve your fitness: Over a 12 week period run or
walk at least 60km or cycle 120km

I choose to bike 120km. I did this over a 12 week period and made a chart for when I did it and how many kilometers I did.

Here is a photo of my on my bike when we went to Waihi to do a 14km bike ride through the tunnels under the kaimais.

G1. Give to children in need: Participate in the 20 Hour famine. Raise a
minimum of $40.00

On Friday night after hockey I went to Brooke's house to start the 20 hour famine. We were doing no eating. After dinner and desert we started at 10:00pm and we went to bed so we werent missing food because we were sleeping. The next day we went to watch Brooke's sisters hockey. While she was doing hockey Brooke and I walked to the super market to buy some Just Juice and barley sugars. We arrive at Countdown, we looked at each other knowing that we were going into a food store. We go get 7 packets of Barley sugars and 2 bottles of Just Juice. As we were walking down the confectionary isle we were looking at all the sweet and sour lollies and chocolate missing it. As we walked out of the super market to our left there were people selling sausage and it was so tempting but we ignored it and kept walking. 

When we got back to Brooke's house we made braclets and earring to keep our selfs busy for an hour or so. After that it was time for Brooke to go to jump jam and for me to go home. When I got home I had 3 more hours to go until I could eat something. I swear that was the longest 3 hours of my life. Finally I could finished and the first food I ate was a chocolate muffin that Brooke's nana made for us when we were finished.

Brooke and I at the super market.

The barley sugars.

Daily Blog Post

The weekend

On Sunday it was my birthday. I wasn't so excited for my birthday this year, but it turned out being a good time. First when I woke up I opened my presents. For my birthday I got a pair of ugg boots, two pogo sticks,  four movie tickets, a zumba set and $160. I was quite surprised once I opened my presents and I thought it was a pretty good turn out because I was not expecting much as I am going to Germany and America at the end of the year. Later that day I went to the movie with Jessica, Brooke, Jahna, Lauren, Sattori, Kyle and Hoani to see the movie Fast and Furious 6. The movie is very intense and is fulled with action. I really liked the movie but at the end it was really sad and made a few of us cry.

Daily Blog Post

What was the first animal on earth?

The first animal on earth was a ocean drifting comb jellyfish. The scientist were so shocked because they didn't relise the first animal on earth would be so complex. It was so shocking that the scientist  thought that they had gone wrong through the process of finding out what the first animal on earth was.
Comb jelly fish have connective tissues and a nervous system so that makes the comb jelly fish more complex than a sponge.
It was unexpected but because evolutionary biologists had thought that less complex animals split off and evolved separately first.

Daily Blog Post

1.  come when lightning hits the sea all the fish dont die?
The fish just get fried and they dont die because of the salt water.

2. I wonder how the leaves disappear when the fall on the ground?
They blow away.

3. How do clouds appear?
Water gathers together and makes the clouds.

4. What comes first the chicken or the egg?
The egg came first because of evoulotion the first chicken came out of an egg that was from another  animal.

5. Why is wee yellow?
Pee is yellow because of red blood cells die an turn the colour yellow.

Morning Blog Post

I wonder why when lightning hits the sea the fish dont die?

I wonder how the leaves disappear when the fall on the ground?

How do clouds appear?

What comes first the chicken or the egg?

Why is poo brown?

Why is wee yellow?

What was the first animal on earth?

How are socks made?

How does your food mix together and digest?

How was technology made?

Morning Blog Post

BP Technology Challenge

On Friday five people from room 42 went to the hall to compete with other schools in a technology challenge. Our group was Jessica C, Britney, Matt S, Cole and I. Our first activity was we had to build a structure to keep a marble 5cm from the ground. We were able to use string, straws, cello tape and a paper bag. We got 20 minutes to build this structure and we didn't quite get it done, so we sneakily kept  working. When Mr Marsh came to ours we told him that we went a little over the time to finish luckily he kept our points because we were honest.

Our second activity was we had to drop a egg on to the concret and make sure it didn't crack. With ours we missed heard Mr March and thought that we weren't aloud anything under the egg when we dropped it but unfortunately that was wrong and all the other teams had soft landing for there egg but not use. We got up to 10 cm and it cracked on our first go. The highest was dropped from 3 meters. The materials that we had to use were string, a paper bag, three sheets of paper, cello-tape, scissors and a piece of card.

Giving

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the
menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from
your guests.


First up for my entree I just made something quick and easy, camabert cheese and crackers.I choose this dish because I really had know idea what to do for a entree.To make this you buy cheese and crackers, take the wrap out of the cheese and put you cheese and crackers on a plate.


Second I made home made pasta. First I needed to make the dough which is just flour and egg. You need to need the dough for ten minutes then leave it to rest for half an hour. The you have to cut the dough up in to four bits and start to role out the pasta once you get it thin enough you can put it through the cutting piece which makes it spaghetti. While the spagetti is cooking I cook fry some spicing sausages. Once the pasta is finished I put it all together with some pesto and oil and it makes a delious dish.The reson I picked this was because I love making the pasta, as it is really fun. Also the pasta only takes to minutes to cook which is cool. 



For dessert I have choosen to make a meringue tower. Which was very difficult. First I make the meringue and it is very hard because it hurts your arm from whisking it for about ten minutes. Meringues are normally white but I wanted to spice it up a little bit and I put some blue food colouring in it so it would look cooler. Then I had to put it in the oven and left it for 1 and a half hours. When it looked ready I tock it out to cool and started to make the whipped cream which was cream then I whisked it. After that I made it into a tower and I think it looked and and tasted even better. For the first meringue that I had ever made I think I did it really well. One thing that annouyed me a little was it took so long to cook.

Story

Once a upon a time two boys lived out in the country. All they did was sit on the couch and watch tv, until one day there mum made them go for a bike ride. So the boys dragged there feet to go and get get  there bike and there helmets out of the rusted  shed and started to bike down the metal road . As they were biking down the gravel road out of know were out jumped a bear. The boys got such a fright they swerved and fell of the road. The bear slowly started waddling closer and closer to the boys. They tried to jump on there bikes and get away but the youngest boy Bob, his foot got stuck in a wire and he couldn't get out. Fred didn't even relise and he biked away as fast as possible. 

The black bear was so close and all of a sodden the bear jumped on the boy and started to attack the boy. By the time Fred released that Bob wasn't with him it was to late Fred biked back and the bear was still ripping Bob to pieces.

Yesterday the satellite class moved into the temporary class in front of ours because a few months ago there classroom got burt down. In the middle block we went to meet the students in there new classroom. When we got there Bobby showed us around. There actual classroom was really cool, they had brand new furniture which was bright and colorful. When Bobby showed us his new working space he locked us in there and said that if he was outside we couldn't of hear anything he was saying so he went outside and said see you cant hear me, but actual we could hear exactly what he was saying.

The weekend

On sunday Steffanie, Brooke, Amber, Grace, Hoani, Tama, Kyle, Travis and I went to the movies to see the croods. You'll find it hard to believe but when we arrived we didn't even know what movie we were going to. There were so many on but we surprisingly we choose the croods. I never thought I would go to the croods because it was a movie for little kids. Unfortunately during the movie the people infront of us kept telling us off because we were talking and throwing maltase's around the cinemas.

Morning blog posts

The average for teenagers smoking daily is 8.2%

The average teenager to be pregnant is 14.5%

The average teenager taking drugs is 2.9%

Teenagers going through depression is 20 % in New Zealand

99% of teenagers have cellphones in New Zealand

I think that there is way two many teenage girls getting pregnant and two many teens going through depression, but maybe there is lots of teens going through depression because they are pregnant.

Science

Passenger Pigeon

The passenger pigeon was the most common bird in North America until it went extinct because it got hunted so much. People were eating these birds and cutting down its natrual habitat to final it just went extinct . The last passenger pigeon was kept safe in the Cinicinnati zoo. But sadly it died in the year 1914 while it was in the zoo. It died of old age and its name was Martha.

Science

The periodic table

The periodic table is a tubular display of the periodic elements organized on the basis of there atomic numbers. The person who created this was Dmitri Mendeleev in the year 1864. The rows on the periodic table are called period and the columns are called groups.There are 18 groups and the names are:1.Alkali Metals
2.Alkaline earth metal
3.Scandium
4.Titanium
5.Vanadium
6.Chromium
7.Manganeses
8.Iron
9.Cobalt
10.Nickel
11.Copper
12.Zinc
13.Boron
14.Carbon
15.Pnictogen
16.chalcogen
17.Halogen
18.Noble gasses

Science

Evoloution

Charles Darwin came up with the evoloution theory in 1859, he changed the peoples idea of how life on the earth was devoloped. Charles Darwin argued that the change of the animal life over time was very slow. These changes were so that the species was able to survive out in its environment. So the fittest and strongest specious is normally the won that survies the longest.

Science

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is a scientist. He was born in the year 1879 in Ulm which is in Germany. He died in the year 1955 when he was 76. He was best known for his mass-energy equivalence formula. That formula is the worlds famous equation. He received the noble prize for his his services to the theoretical physics and his discovery of the law of photoeletric effect.

Science Post

Science experiment

At year 8 camp we did a stream study. The test I did was seeing what the temperature was in three different places in the water. The places I tested were in the sun, in the dark and in the rapids.
My hypothous was I thought that the water would be a lot colder in the shadows than in the sunlight.
Also I thought it would the same temperature in the rapids and sunlight because the water is moving fast and half of it was in the sunlight. From my memory after I did the test it was 8 degrees in the sunlight, 6 degrees in the shadows and 8 degrees in the rapids. My hypothous was right and it was the same temperature in the sunlight and the rapids, also it was warmer in the sun than the shadows.

Camp

On Monday the 6th of May the year 8 students from Rimu House went up to Ngamuwahine Camp for a week. At camp there are a lot of fun activities that put you outside your comfort zone.
Something that I am proud of is I got to the top of the vertical playpen which was very challenging and your arms got really sore after because you have been using all your upper body strength to pull yourself up to the top. Believe it or not but I actually held a dead possum. I was very surprised that I did that as I dont like any creepy crawly animals. The biggest challenge that I completed was staying in the bush for a whole night and sleeping on the end right next to the opening just looking into the bush.
The tastiest meal we had was the sausages and potatoes. The funniest thing was when Sharnae went up to get me a sausage and they made a rule that to get another sausage you have to eat a piece of pumpkin and Sharnae really hates pumpkin but she still had to eat it and it wasn't even for her. Everyone on my table was laughing really hard.

News

International - News
 

Britain's known oldest goldfishes Splish and Splash have been separated after 35 years because Splish has sadly passed away. He was found floating at the top of his tank dead last weekend. Splish and Slash were won in a fair in the year 1977 in Cheltenham by Richard and Ann Wright as a gift for there six and nine year old children which are now 40 years old. Hopefully Splash can hang in there for some more years so he can beat the world record which is 43 years.

My opinion is that I think it is amazing that a goldfish can live for more than 35 years and also I think it is sad that Splish has pasted away because he had been alive for so long and the family must of got really attached to their fish.

News

International News

The state on Florinda in a America is being swamped by giant snails. Over a 1000 of the giant snails have been caught over only a few weekes in the Miami-Dade county area. The snail is the size of a fully grow rat and in destroying buildings by eating thought the plasta of walls. Over 500 know plants have been eaten because of these snails.

My Option is that I think it is really grose that snail are growing up to the size of rats and I really hope they dont come to New Zealand.

Giving

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the
menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from
your guests.

First up for my entree I made Prawns with soy sauce or tomato sauce. This dish only takes a few minutes but you have to get it just right and make sure you dont over cook it. So I put the prawns into the saucepan also with a few drops of soy sauce so it had more flavor, then to finish it off I started my presentation which had the prawns on the side of the glass with either soy sauce or tomato sauce in side the glass. Something I could of worked on is making maybe a side salad to go with the prawns because it was to simple. Something that went right was the prawns cooked to perfection.

Feed Back:
Pete:
Rate  7/10
Comment:
I thought it was a great idea for an entree, it tasted good and was presented well. My only criticism would be that it could of had a few more prawns, maybe 6 rather than 4. It was also good that you could choose a sauce that you would like, I chose soy sauce, it complimented the prawns very well!

Umi:

Rate  7.5/10
Comment: Could of had more prawns.

Pimmy:

Rate  8/10
Comment: I liked how you could choose your own sauce.



Then I started on the main which was Quick Calazone. I choose this because when we did it at school I really enjoyed it and it tasted so good so I wanted to remake it. First I started to make the yeast grow by putting warm water, sugar, active yeast and oil. Then I put that in warm water and left it to grow while I started to mix the flour and cut up the vegetables to go inside my calazone. After that I put the yeast mixture with the flour to make my dough. Then I put all the stuff inside and folded it over and chucked it in the oven. Then I did the exact same thing to make another one. Something I could of done is kept it in the oven from longer. Something that went well was it fulled you up and the cheese inside melted nicely.

Feed Back:
Pete:

Rate 8 /10
Comment:
The main dish was simply the best part of the 3-course meal, it was full of flavour and was perfect. The only bad thing was that the bread was just slightly undercooked, but other than that there was nothing negative about it.

Umi:

Rate  8/10
Comment: The dough was to thick.

Pimmy:

Rate 8 /10
Comment: The dough was to thick.




For my final dish I presented vinilla cup cakes. I choose this because I just love to cook them, there my favorite sweet thing to cook. So first I just put all the ingredients into a bowl and out it into the cupcake trays. Then I took them out of the oven when they were ready and waited for them to cool so I could ice them. Something I could of down better was made the icing thicker so it didn't just drizzle off the cup cakes. Something I did well was it tasted nice but that just my opinion.

Feed Back:
Pete:


Rate 7/10
Comment:
I think it tasted nice but it could of been warmed up before it was served to me.

Umi:

Rate 7.5 /10
Comment:
It was good.

Pimmy:

Rate  8/10
Comment: I loved it.

News

National- News

In December 2012 a nine year-old boy was found dead in his bed. His caregiver had over dosed him on  a drug called methadone. Police charged and arrested a 42 year old women that was looking after him for manslaughter of Antony Herewini-Christensen after a four month investigation.

My opinion is that it horrible that another child has died from being forced to take drugs. And I think that hundreds of children are also having to go through this and are going to die from a over dose of drugs that the parents are forcing them to do.

Giving

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the
menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from
your guests.

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On Monday April 15th I made a three corse meal.

First up for my entree I made a egg quiche in bread. I choose this because it is easy to make and you cant stuff it up. I started with buttering both sides of the wheatmeal bread. Next I tried to make the bread into a cup so it could fit in easy when I squashed it down into the cupcake tray. After this I cracked a egg in to the cup I made out of bread, then I put salt and pepper and grated lots of cheese on top. Something I found hard was squashing the bread into the cupcake tray. I pretty much failed on cracking the egg in to the cup I made out of the bread because the egg started to over flow out of it.
What went well was when I tock out the bread cup out of the tray because it normally sticks but luckily in my case it just popped out.

Feed Back:
Umi:
Rate:  8.5/10
Comment:
I thought the bread was a bit to thick and the egg didnt have enough flavor. I think it could of used more salt and pepper.

Pimmy:
Rate:  8 /10
Comment:
Could of used more flavor maybe salt would of fixed the missing flavor.

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Now I started on the main and I severed spaghetti cabanara. I choose this to because it is a meal I normally make and I have great confidence on this dish. First up I put the pasta to boil then I started on the sauce. The sauce contained egg yokes, cheese and milk. After I made the sauce I friend up some bacon. The pasta started to look ready so to cheak I used a trick I know, I thorogh a piece at the window and if it sticked it was ready.

It stuck so I knew it was ready. After I found out it stuck I put the pasta, egg yoke, cheese, milk and bacon it a frie pan. The sauce started to thicken like scrambled agg but in tiny tiny bits, which was what I was looking for. To finish off the dish I chopped up tomato, mushroom and basil then sprinkled it on top of the dish. Luckily today I didn't find anything hard because it was a dish that I am very used to cooking it. Something that went well was the finished dish my option is I think it tasted great and it was  what I was looking for so overall I am very happy with my dish.

Feed Back:

Umi:

Rate:   9/10

Comment: Pasta could of been a bit softer.

Pimmy:

Rate:  8.5 /10

Comment: Could of been a little bit more vegetables.

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For my finally dish of 4the night I severed peaches, ice-cream and sprinkles. This dish is extremely simple but the reason I choose it was because I used all my bowls and there was no room on the beach to make anything else. To make it it is pretty straight forward, all you do is put peaches in the bottom of the bowl and a dollop of ice-cream on top. Then I just sprinkled sprinkles on top. In the end it didnt look as bad as I thought it would be, so I was pretty happy with that. I was very suprised when I tasted it because I think the flavour of the chocolate ice-cream and peach actually worked.

Feed Back:

Umi:

Rate: 9 /10

Comment: It tasted good.

Pimmy:

Rate:  7 /10

Comment: The flavors weren't that right for me.

News Tauranga Intermediate Fire

On Sunday April the 14th there was a fire at Tauranga Intermediate School causing three classrooms to burn down. This happened at 5:15 when the thick smoke started to poor out of the building. The fire was believed to been started by a electrical fault. It started in the first classroom and spread into the second and third classrooms. The fireman luckily got there just in time before the fire spreader further.
The firefighter had to open the roof to reach apart of the fire inside the classroom that was unreachable from the outside. They put the fire out with a extremely large hose.

My option is that I think that it is horrible that the fire was at my school and that the students are going to have move into a different classroom. Also I think it is kinda lucky in a way that there classroom got burnt because that means they will probably get renovations to there classrooms.
One thing I still wonder is that what electrical system caused the fire.