Netball Kiwi Sport

Thursday 19th May 2016

Today at Kiwi Sport a lady named Anne who taught us how to pivot in mid air. First we practiced of privets in mid air by playing at little warm up game. When the game started she told us the rules. She would call out hi five and then me and the rest of my class would run across to their partner hi five them in the middle of the court and then pivot around and run back to their original spot. If she called low five you would hi five your partner down low then run back.

After that we were warmed up and ready to play. After that she split us up into three groups. There were seven people in each group and in my group was me,Dora,Hemi,Justin,Maara,Luisa and Alfred. We were spreed down the court and I was at the top next to the netball. Now we were playing a passing game to practice our passing. At first my group was winning until she told us that we had to run three steps before the other person could pass to you and they added on pivoting.

After that we played another game she called Rugby Netball. This was our last game for the day. It was very fun. The idea of the game was like netball but you could go anywhere and if you wanted to get a goal you had to put the ball down on the in front of the line she had drawn earlier. My team had Me, Fusi, Dasharn, Lio,Levi.G, Luisa, Maara, Dora and some other kids. It was up to ten and we were wining. When she chose the team I knew we were going to win.

By Jayden.F

Art Inquriy (Black Panther Marvel)

Tuesday 17th May 2016

Art Inquiry

Your inquiry for the next four weeks is to study a style of art and an artist who is famous for using that style.You will then be asked to create a piece of artwork in the style of the artist that you have chosen.

Your first task is to choose and gather information about a particular style of art. I have suggested a few things to search for below.

Background of Art Style

Art style chosen: Comic
Who: are some of the artists famous for using this style? Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others.
When: was this style first used? Mark Bryant
What: are the key features of the style? Create Emotions from simple changes in the face
How: are pieces created? Ask http://www.mykidsadventures.com/create-comic-strip-kids/

By Jayden.F

Science Observation

science Investigation

We are learning what plants need to survive

We are learning how plants respond to environmental changes.

What do plants need to survive?

Water

Sun

Soil/ fertilizer/ dirt

Oxygen

Carbon dioxide

We are going to conduct a science investigation to determine   what will happen to plants when their environment changes. In this assignment we will be changing the environment of each of the mint plants and the potatoes.

What will we need to make this a fair investigation?

• Lots of plants in case one fails
• Make sure they all get the same amount of sun
• Make sure they still have the other things they need to survive
• Monitor progress every few days - with pictures
• Have a “control” plant, that we do all the right things to.

Method:

• Suffocate a plant - by putting it in a container
• Stop watering a plant
• Take out the soil
• Put in the dark
• Normal plant - the control

Hypothesis: It might stay alive.

The plant I will be observing is: Mint plant.

Observation day 1:  All the plant were healthy

Observation day 3:

Observation day 7: my planet is the normal planet

Explanation: Why did this happen to my plant?

Potato Experment

Today in class were are going to be doing an experiment including potato's. we are going to see if it grows normally with light, not at all with no light or grow towards the light.

1. My hypothesis it the it will grow normal
2. My hypothesis is that it will not grow without light
3. My hypothesis is that it will grow towards the light

Superman's Fortress of Solitude

Monday 11th April 2016

On the old movie of superman he made his Fortress of Solitude by throwing a piece of kryptonite from his shuttle to earth, to the arctic. Inside there are sunstones that he can put into the Fortress of Solitude to see messages from his father Jor-el and his mother Lara. There's also a place in the Fortress of Solitude where he can give his powers away to be human. On the old superman movie he gave way his powers for a little while be human and stay with lois lane, but he had to get them back to face General Zod, Non and Ursa.

The Fortress is also a place for him to get away from crime fighting and relax. But on Superman Returns it does not show him in the Fortress of Solitude for long is shows him floating above earth waiting to fight crime and save people. In the modern Fortress of Solitude there is a key called the Steel Key that superman uses to get inside the Fortress and keep people out.

The largest room in the Fortress of Solitude is superman's trophy room Superman’s trophy room is full of things from his past adventures. Like the Duplication Gun, the same one that helped people from krypton create bizarro version of them selves to take over krypton. That is why Genral Zod was in-poisoned him create the opposite Superman known as Bizarro. His collection even includes the gun that Brainiac once used to shrink entire cities.

One other thing in superman’s fortress of solitude is the shrunken city of Kandor and the Phantom Zone Projector. The small city of Kandor was once the capital of Krypton. But Brainiac a superhero turned bad, shrunk it to add to his collection. Kandor is one of superman’s most prize possessions in his fortress of solitude. In the superman comics there are different types of fortresses of solitude. Some are found in different places and look different too.

Superman’s fortress of solitude is constructed out of Kryptonian crystalline material known a sunstone. On Superman Returns Lex Luther combined's sunstone and Kryptonite to form an island made out of kryptonite that would eventually turn into to a contray of Kryptonite.

By Jayden.F

Recount about Ripper Rugby

Tuesday 15th March 2016

Today we had Ripper Rugby but I was late so I didn't get to play much. Mrs.Tofa told me to get a belt and attach the tags to the belt and start playing Ripper Rugby. I had to run and try not to get my tags ripped off my belt by the other team. Later when I was running I got my tags ripped off my belt by one of the players from the other team.

His name was Levi.G my whole class calls him that because there is another Levi, nicknamed Levi.R. After the game was over he kindly asked us if we could fold the belts back up for the other class that he was going to play with.

By Jayden.F

Cultural Festival

Tuesday 1st December 2015

Last Friday we had a Cultural Festival and kids could go in a cultural group and perform. It started at 5:45 but everyone says that it was 6:00. We were having a Cultural Festival because some of the kids on camp didn’t pay and one kid kicked a hole in the wall which cost the school 500 dollars.  And they did extra activities like kayaking which cost more money.  Miss Elia was going to take it off the list of camp things to do, but our teacher said put it back on the list.  I wasn’t in any group because I didn’t go on camp.  But my brother Levi was in a group, he was in the Niuean group and the Sasa which is the Samoan group. Before the show, my mum had to get a singlet for my brother because when he did his dance, he was going to have to do it with no shirt on.

But when she did get it, he didn’t wear it because before he must of forgot because the teacher said, “The whole group has to wear singlet or no one can wear a singlet.”. After we got the singlet, our cousins and Aunt had just arrived to come with us and watched Levi dance. It was my cousin Toni-Lee and my other cousin Dylan. They came with there mum Aunty Mata. They came in our car but me my mom, nana and little brother were already in the car. So we were all squashed up, I don’t know why they couldn’t use their car because that's the one they came on.

When we got there were loads of people outside and even more inside the hall where we all went to watch the kids perform. When we sat down I hoped that a big guy won’t sit in front of me so that he won’t block my view the show. My cousin Dylan was on the right side of me and my other cousin Toni-Lee was on the other side of me on my left side. After we sat down it took awhile for the show to start and more and more people started coming and sitting down. After a while, the show started and the first act was the Kapahaka kids doing their thing.

First they did the Maori haka. After the haka they sung a song. I thought that their song sounded great. After them was Room 4 doing their act. They did another song but they did not sing it. It was on a tape they just danced to the song with their poipoi. But I think that they were supposed to sing but got scared in the middle of the act. Next after them was these two boys showing us some Karate moves. Their names were Alex and Richie. Richie was the little one and Alex was the bigger one. My friend Justin told me that had a six pack. I think that he could give me a huge hiding if we was my age and height.

Fourth was the Samoan girls. I can’t remember much about the samoan girls so I’m just going to skip to the next one. Later Room 5 did their act to tell us about recycling. Each of them had prop from the song. The song sounded like a baby song, but still I liked it because it was catchy. The song I think it was called Save the World. After that was my old teachers group Sound Of Glenbrae by Mr.Nath. It was so boring, they did the exact same beat for ages, then changed it and did that same beat for ages and changed back and did the same beat from in the beginning for ages. I couldn’t wait until it was over. But my mum said “That’s in Mr.Naths culture to do the same beat for ages”.

Next was the Tongan Boys dance. They were good as and heaps of their families were coming up on stage and giving them money. Too bad the teacher was going to take it off them backstage to pay for their camp. James, a year 8 in my class, looked happy as and so did the boys dancing  with him but he just looked the happiest.  Next was the Cook Island group. I thought that there was going to be a whole group but instead it started off with Ma’ara. Then later Honey and Aliayana came out on stage and did the hula with her. In the middle my cousin's asked me if I wanted play a game called Smashy Road on their IPad. It’s just like this game called Crossy Road except this time your the car and you're running away from the cops.

Next up was the one my brother Levi was in. It was the Niuean group. The first act they did was alright. But the song they did after was even better. After the song the song only the boys did the Niuean haka. After that was the Bollywood group and I didn’t pay much attention to this. I was playing Smashy Road. Later was the Tongan girls dance but they weren’t ready yet so the teacher that was taking all the money away from the kids, Mrs.Ripata said “ The Tongan Girls are not quite ready so we are going to have a little competition”. She told all the Maori,Tongan,Niuean,Samoan and other people from other cultures to come on stage and see who is the best dancer. there were heaps of people going on stage and my cousin Toni-Lee (who is a girl and he brother is a boy) wanted to go up on stage and dance so she did. She was on the Samoan side. After the the Tongan Girls were ready to dance. They stopped the contest and started the show up again and introduced the next act.

In that act all the girls had oil on their skin, they looked really shiny. During their dance, I think the crowd gave them the most money. More than the rest of the acts. People started hopping up on stage and giving them money, lots of money. After them was the Samoan Sasa group. All of the people in the Samoan Sasa were in blue. But I don’t remember much about that act. The last act was called the Tau’olunga. But this one only had Alisi a year 8 girl in my class. She was probably the person who got the most money out of all the acts.

After that my uncle took my cousin's and aunty back to my house. And we stayed behind and cleaned up the hall after it was all over. Soon we got tired of waiting and we started walking back to our house. But my little brother had gone missing we thought. But when we got home he was already there. And he had taken my friend Fraser’s scooter home with him. When we asked him where he was, he said that he had walked home by himself on Fraser’s scooter. When we saw the scoter, we took it back straight away because it was not Fraser’s it was his older brother’s scoter. And we did not want him to get trouble. Soon my cousins all went home and we went to sleep not long after.

By Jayden.F