This year, 2011, has been awesome. I have really enjoyed being in Room 17, especially because I have the most amazing group of friends. I am going to miss them so much, but hopefully I'll see them again. So I want to say thank you to all these girls and Merry Christmas!

Outta This World

The school wide inquiry for term 4 is Outta This World. We've been learning about all of the planets in our solar system, and for this e-Learning project we got to choose which planet to do it on. I chose Venus. First we had to come up with a reason to leave earth and find a new planet to live on. But no planet is perfect so we had to find two problems with them and find a solution. I hope you like my movie!

Superhero Comic

This movie shows pictures of three superheroes, Wonder Woman, Superman and Wolverine. the only way to kill Wolverine is to remove his head from his body. Supermans weakness is Kryptonite which comes from his planet Krypton. A weakness of Wonder Woman is if her silver bracelets are bonded together. Another problem that she has is if she gets shot it will kill her.

Bitterns

My reading group have been reading a book called The Bittern. It is about a man getting the wetlands named after his last name. He gets this because when he was a young farmer everyone else drained their swamps to get more land, but this man thought ahead and didn't. He knew that there were lots of birds that for them, the wetlands were their home. So this is a presentation showing information about Bitterns which were native birds to New Zealand.

My Family Flag

This flag represents my culture, hobbies, the love in my family and my extended family around the world.

HOLIDAYS!

Yay! Finally, this is the last week of term 2. My sister, Tinei, is already on her holidays, because she gets a 3 week break. During the holidays my other sister, Alosina, has a netball tournament, so we are all going to Hamilton to watch her. We might be staying down there for one night, so we can do some sight-seeing.

A Podcast Coming soon!!

Guess what? I have a new podcast for you, called No half measures, that has been recorded, taken photos for and is being edited right now. But there is something a little bit different about this podcast and lots of other peoples podcasts. We chose a part of our book that we wanted to animate. I picked a bit where the main character is stuck in a cage but then picks apart the wires and sets himself free and his new, and very special, friends. Does it sound interesting already? Well if it does make sure you keep your eyes peeled for the full podcast. I will have it on my blog soon, and if it's not there then go to the KPE blog.

Here is my animation.

We made it to the Courier!!

I thought everyone did a great job at the conference, and so did some other people so we made it into the East & Bays Courier. Click the link to find out what they said about us.

Courier

20 Hour Famine Sleepover

Right now everyone is in the ICT lab at school. A bunch of year 5- 8 students from Pt. England School are doing the 20 hour famine. When you are our age you aren't aloud to do 40 hours. We are trying to support the people that are much more unfortunate than us, we are also doing it to see what it is like to go without food. I have joined the YELLOW team, and the celebrity team leader is Erin Simpson. Hopefully everyone succeeds!!


GO YELLOW!!!!!!!

WELLINGTON-Koru Lounge

After our long day, sight-seeing, everyone was ready to have dinner. But it wasn’t just any dinner, it was dinner at the Wellington Koru lounge. We had been at the Koru lounge in Auckland that morning but we didn’t really have enough time to enjoy it because we had to board the plane. But when we got to the Wellington Koru lounge we still had another two hours until our flight.The room was packed with people in suits and laptops. Lots of people were looking at us because there weren’t many children there.


For my dinner I had rice with beef stew. It was really nice. But the dessert was even better. I had a little trifle, it had a little rasberry cake at the bottom with custard on the top. I also had a really nice louise slice. I can’t really explain it but, it was delicious.

WELLINGTON-Cable Car

Just before we had to leave Wellington ,we got to go on the cable car. It was so fun. The view from the top was AMAZING!! You could see everything. The ferries leaving the doc, people playing soccer and the sea. We tried to take some pictures that looked like we were holding the city and like it was in a heart. I hoped that I could come back to Wellington with my family, and for a longer amount of time.

(P.S the picture of the clouds is the view from the plane going to Wellington)

WELLINGTON-Te Papa

Te Papa museum was A-W-E-S-O-M-E! One of the highlights there for me was going on the high ride. It was so cool, you got to sit on these chairs and look at the big screen. The screen would show an activity you might be doing in New Zealand but it doesn't show anyones head so you feel like your the person doing it. For example there was a bit where you felt like you were in a truck going along a rocky road, your chair would be going up and down really fast. It was so fun. Check out these photos to see what else we got up to.

WELLINGTON-Presenting

As we snuck around the back of Te Papa, butterflies fluttered around in my stomach. No one knew that we were coming to speak at this conference, they thought it was someone famous, but instead it was a bunch of kids coming to tell them about their school. Finally it was time to go onto the stage their was a huge round of applause as we walked on. My butterflies were flying around and round in loops. This was the moment.

Iran and New Zealand

My reading group, the kiwis, have been reading a book called "A Country like Mine". It is about a little boy named Ali who lives in Iran. Our task was to do a Venn Diagram comparing my life in New Zealand to the people in Iran. After that we put our research into a Picasa slide-show.
Enjoy!

Redesigning My Netbook Bag

Our task today was to use our imagination and the B.A.R key to redesign our netbook bag. I made the whole case bigger, I added wheels and a remote .But the remote can also be used for the two screens on the front of my new and improved bag. I also replaced the zip for a magnetic lock that is strong enough to hold your netbook in but also fine to open.

The whole point of making the bag bigger was so that you can put things like your charger or your mouse in. Adding the wheels obviously makes things a lot easier, because it would save you time by you not having to walk a long way to go and get it. Having the screens just makes life fun, by having a screen to watch any movies you want and the other for your favourite T.V programmes, everyone would want something like this. Our zips go too far around our case so they take forever to open, that's why the magnetic lock is good,it looks smart and is easy and fast to open.

Marble Track Challenge

Plan:
First we will roll up 4 pieces of newspaper.Two will be going vertical, and the other two will go horizontal . The tape will be used on the table and the 3 bends. Vivienne will be in charge of the cello tape and how much to use, Marvin will be in charge of the paper and making the tubes and I will be in charge of the structure and which way the paper should go. Our aim is to make it strong and stable.

What we did:
Vivienne cut the cello tape into lots of little pieces so that we would have more, Marvin rolled up the paper into thin tubes so that they would be easier to fit into the other ones. I was the one that made sure Vivienne used the tape wisely and that Marvin used the paper well. Our track was very successful and got shown in front of our whole class.

On the Plane to Wellington

On the morning of Thursday 18th of May I woke up at 3:30am and couldn't get back to sleep. I was extremely excited, because all of the ambassadors(Chante, Rita, Vivienne, Darius, Waata, Kingston and Crusader and I) were going to Wellington to present at Te Papa.


When we were boarding the plane, after our nice muffin and drink in the koru lounge, everyone was talking to their friends, luckily the pilot waited for us to get on. It took a while to get to our seats, because they were all the way at the back, but we got there. It was so cool that we got to use our netbooks on the plane so that kept us entertained for the ride.

Sorry I don't have a movie for you yet.

Super Swimming

Swimming, not exactly my favourite sport. But I guess it’s better than staying at school and doing work, plus it’s good exercise. And, maybe we’ll get free time, I thought to myself. Swimming can be pretty fun.... sometimes.

I was sitting on the edge of the pool, with my legs lazily dangling off the edge, when suddenly Mr Marks, our instructor in the big pool said, “Alright,Litia it’s time to get in the pool”. With a splash I was in the water trying to get warm by jumping around a little bit, until I got used to it. With my goggles on, and a powerful push off the wall I was off down the side of the pool.


Yay, I thought to myself as I looked up and saw the end of the pool was so close. I didn’t realize that I hadn’t been swimming for ages,so I was panting and wanted to just flop down and float in the pool. But I had to go back to the end of the line, so with a huge push I was out of the water dripping, and exhausted.


“Go Vivienne,go”, I shouted as I walked back to our line. Sitting down I watched my friends swim as I cheered them on. Whenever one of them stopped halfway, I made sure I kept cheering them on till they got to the end. All of them swum really, really well.


At first I didn’t really want to go swimming, but in the end I actually liked it and was looking forward to the next sessions.

Vote For The Best Introduction

These are two introductions that are for my holiday highlight writing. But I don't know which one to use. My first introduction gets straight in to some action, my second one is my thoughts and what I felt. Which one hooks you in more? Please comment and vote below.

I screamed louder and louder as we started spinning faster and going up and down more and more. I was having an awesome time at the Easter show, even though it was raining, with my Aunties, my brother,Isara and my sister,Tinei.


All sorts of exciting thoughts were racing through my head as we arrived. I had been to the Easter show once before, with my Mum , and could still remember some things, like the awesome rides and the stinky farm animals, so I couldn’t wait to get in there again.

All About Me

This is my animation of my family, my hobby and my friend. I hope you enjoy it!