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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.