Maths Reflection

This year for maths I am  in the Fozzies. I think I have really improved in everything. My teacher for maths this year was Mrs Taaffe. One reason I think I have made a improvement is because of my AWS and IXL. AWS is a book filled with maths worksheets with basic facts and other activities. I definitely have improved on drawing 3D shapes because I never really knew how to draw cubes. We have also been working on tessellations and they are confusing but fun at the same time. I have sort of mastered Roman numerals but there are some I still have trouble with. Next year I want to know all my roman numerals off by heart. This is kind off like the tessellations we did except we had different shapes and had to turn them to fit without leaving any spaces.

   

High Jump

This Monday Ngatea school is going to participate in Athletics. On the day you have to do High Jump. We practiced with the wood and elastic.  I caught my foot on the pole so I didn't quite land it right. Before the day I want to work on my jump and getting over the bar at Athletics. Down below will be a video of me doing High jump.  Hope you enjoy :)

iDrive PMI

Labour Day

How it began:

Samuel Parnell’s Stand

On arrival in New Zealand, Samuel Parnell was asked to build a store for shipping agent George Hunter. Parnell who, while living and working in London, had been exposed to the prevailing international concern with worker’s rights, agreed to do so, but only on the condition that he not work more than eight hours a day. Though his employer protested, the shortage of skilled tradesmen in the new colony allowed Parnell to make good on his demand.Parnell organised other carpenters in the town and in October 1840 a workers’ meeting on Lambton Quay resolved a motion to adopt an eight hour working day (any worker who dissented was to be ducked in the harbour!).

Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New

Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel Parnell won an eight-hour day in Wellington. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade  members and supporters attended parades in the main city centres. Government employees were given the day off to attend the parades and many businesses closed for at least part of the day.  It is also to honor all those who work hard each week day.  

My holiday

My first weekend of the holiday

Dad waterblasting the digger

Digger

Imagine this on the first Friday off the school holiday waking up at 6:30 am. Shocking isn’t it supposed to be a holiday, but that day I went to work with my Dad. We went to Duder an Auckland regional park. My Dad is a contractor so he sometimes he will do  jobs at the parks. We went there and Dad had to talk to the man to ask how he wanted him and Poppy to lift up the shipping container. 

While Dad went and got the digger he got me to stand by the gate and open it for Poppy. Just my luck when it started to rain on the angle I was standing on.  When Poppy came Dad had just come with the digger. They lifted up the shipping container and put a couple blocks of wood under it. When we were done I got asked to shut the gate but the wind to it out of my hands and got a big dent in  Poppy’s ute. After that Dad, Poppy and I went and cleaned the Little digger (Hyundai 1.6 tonne) and the big digger (Hyundai 12 tonne). We sent about 15 minutes trying to get the water blaster going because Dad accidentally left the choke on. 

But when it got going Dad let me water blast the tracks but while dad finished the rest off the diggers I got some photos and videos on my Gopro. After we washed both off the diggers we loaded them onto their own trailer’s. While Dad was loading the big digger onto the trailer I had some lunch. Then Poppy realized there was a big dent in his ute. This ute he got in July. He said it was ok but dad kept on joking around saying “It ain't new any more” then continuing to laugh. Dad and I jumped into the Truck and Poppy followed us behind in his ute with the little digger on the back.

We went to Wiri to get the sand for The Ambury Farm Day. We continued on our way to Mangere. We went to Ambury Park and dropped off the diggers and tipped off the sand.  We saw one of the workers running around and  his name is Gary. We left the Truck there and we hopped into Poppy’s ute. We went back to Duder and dropped Dad off at his ute. Poppy and I went to poppy’s house in Orere Point as I was staying at Aunty’s . He went over to the shed for a little bit while I did a coloring in competition.

Shirley got home and we ordered some hamburgers from the local shop and had some chips, onion rings and Pizza. I was filled after that.  Aunty finally got home at 8 oclock. Aunty works for Water Care in New market. The traffic is really bad so she gets home late. We went to Aunty’s house (next door)  and I had a glass of juice and a cheese and cracker. I had a shower and then  I went to bed. The next morning when I woke up I got a Up and go and turned on the Tv and sat there and slowly started to wake up. We made our way to Manukau City and to The Mall. We went shopping and I got some pairs of new jeans and a couple t-shirts and I can’t forget the Sushi. 
We continued to shop then we went to Takanini Pak'nsave and got some food for dinner. 

Aunty and I decided we should get a chocolate thick shake at Mcdonalds. We made our way back to Orere point.  We spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing. We had Sausages, Salad and mashed potatoes for dinner. I can’t forget dessert.  We just relaxed some more and then I had a shower and went to bed. The Next morning I woke up bright and early and got ready to go to the Farm day.  The Ambury farm day is a day to show the people of Auckland and places around there how farming works. There is also fun activities like making your own butter from cream and all these rides kinda like what you would go on at a Amp show. I went onto a big trampoline with harness and did a couple back flips. 

Dad and Poppy let the Kids and some big ones too have a chance to go on their diggers and the lines are quite long because the hardly see anything like that let alone play on it and push some leavers. Ambury Park has a lot of history behind it as well. Ambury being nearby Māngere Mountain was once the site of a large fortified Māori pā and the area now known as Ambury Regional Park was used by Māori for gardening.

Māngere Mountain erupted approximately 18,000 years ago and the park sits atop a lava field made fertile by ash from the volcano. After the farm day is over Dad and Poppy took the diggers to Duder. Jayde went with Dad in the truck and Kaylah , Mum and I went in the car and got some real fruit ice cream and strawberries. Once we dropped off the digger we came home and had dinner and you can’t forget about watching the block.  

My Term 3 Reflection

Learning in the Making Conference

On Tuesday 11th of September Ngatea school had The Learning in the Making Conference.

Tiny stiches

What this day is we Skype or meet a person. Last year we met Mark Osborne this year we meet Andrew Cowie. He talked to us about Cyber Safety.  After that we went to our first Workshop. For this workshop I did tiny stitches. I made a minion finger puppet. It looks really cute and I love it. We had a break and we could go to the tuck shop and buy some food. Next I ran a workshop on Powtoon. Powtoon is a online editor and publisher tool. I taught year 2,3 and 4's how to create and use it. They published a poem.  We had a break then we went to our next workshop. Mine was Fabric Stitching. We made a brooch. Mine had a deer on it and it said "Hello My Deer". We had another break and then I ran another workshop on Powtoon. It was the same as the last one but I had different students. After that we packed up and went back to class. I got a Chocolate fish for tidying up other people's mess with sand. It was messy. 

Powtoon 

Presenters 2015 

                                                                                                              

Princess Diana

Princess Diana                                                       

Most people have heard of Princess Diana. She was married to Prince Charles from 1981–1999.She died in a tragic car accident. It has been 18 years since her death on Monday  and many people are still devastated. Princess Diana did a lot of charity work to help different countries. Her family consists of Charles Spencer, John Spencer, Jane fellowes, Baroness Fellowes and Lady Sarah Mccorquodale. Her wedding to Prince Charles was  on July 29 1981. 600,000 people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Diana on her way to the ceremony.  Diana wore a dress valued at £9000, which is $21636.98 in New Zealand. Diana became Princess of Wales when she married  Prince Charles on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral.

Princess Diana has 2 children. Prince William and Prince Harry. She has 2 grandchildren Prince George and Princess Charlotte. From 1989 she was president of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children and did a lot of work for other charities. After the accident the media gave the subject a lot of attention. Diana was born on the 1 July 1961 in. Her relationship with Charles ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Well you may wonder how Princess Diana Died. She was in a car accident with Dodi Fayed  in the Pont de l'Alma underpass in Paris.

Diana and Dodi were not wearing a seatbelt said by British and French police. The police also discovered that their chauffeur Henri Paul was under influence by alcohol. There was also a idea that paparazzi were following the couple. It is claimed that Dodi bought Diana an engagement ring just a few hours before the crash. There a is a rumor that princess Diana and Dodi were killed on purpose to stop her marriage to Dodi but the most shocking part was who apparently said it can you guess???? Well it was the Duke of Edinburgh otherwise known as Prince Phillip.

The Queen didn’t even speak publicly or fly the flag at half-mast over Buckingham Palace after the death. She was called “The people’s Princess” because she was the first royal in a very long time who had truly connected with the people she was engaged in countless charity actions and was also Praised by the people for her compassion and more. Her funeral took place on the 6 September 1997 at 9.08 a.m in London. The official ceremony was at Westminster abbey.

Two billion people traced this event worldwide making this one of the most watched events in history. More than one billion people stood on the streets to see her coffin and family walk past. During the service Elton john sang “Candle in the wind” which has been rewritten as a tribute to Diana. The original plan was for Diana to get buried in the Spencer vault at a church nearby Great Brington. But Lord Spencer was concerned about public safety and security.

He decided for Diana to be buried somewhere that her family could visit .The island is in an ornamental lake known as The Round Oval within Althorp Park's gardens. A path with thirty-six oak trees, marking each year of her life, leads to the Oval. Four black swans swim in the lake. In the water there are water lilies, which in addition to white roses as those were Diana's favorite flowers. On the southern verge of the Round Oval sits the Summerhouse, previously in the gardens of Admiralty House, London, and now adapted to serve as a memorial to Diana.  To me Princess Diana seems like a lovely person like Kate the duchess of Cambridge married to her son William. She was willing to help the world. She was amazing because not many people wished to but she did.  

Rest in peace Diana

Term 2 Art

Last term we did lino printing. My group was based on houses and streets.We looked on google Images and found some old houses. I didn't base mine on a real life house but Elaina did here is the link to her post Elaina. I did 4 colors. They were Blue ,Red ,Yellow and Black. When I first started carving I cut out some lines and blocks of lino and printed it in yellow. I cut out some more lino then printed blue then red. When I got to black I had to carve out majority of it. Then Printed. Kate did a really cool one Link to here Blog.
Here is the finished Product.

My Art

My holiday Trip

At the start on the 2 week holiday we went to Hamilton. When we were in Hamilton we went to KBB Music to pick up my trumpet. Next we headed to Chartwell to get our movie tickets and lunch. We also went to a shop named Girl on the swing and got some cupcakes. Next we went to Splashy. Splashy is a place where you paint a object and decorate it how you like. I painted a cat bowl. We went back to Chartwell and did some shopping. We set off to the movies. We watched the minion movie in 3D. That night we headed to Rotorua. When we first got there we went to eat dinner at Wendy's. After that we headed to our hotel. We stayed at the Millennium Hotel. The next day it was raining. We decided to go and do some shopping. We made our way back to the hotel and booked a private spa. We just relaxed in the spa for 30 minutes. After that we spent about an hour in the swimming pool. We went out and got some dinner. After that we meet up with my Mum’s friend Sarah. Sarah bakes amazing cakes. Down bellow you can see one of her cakes. After that we went up to our room and chilled. I had a bath then went to bed. The next morning we had to pack all our bags and head off but we went to Rainbow Springs. We watched the bird show and went on the Big Splash. Mum told us that Sarah had so cupcakes for us. So we went and saw her and got our cupcakes. Finally we got home I was so happy to see our animals and they were happy to see me too.

Mum's plate

Sarah's cake

Alyson's Term 2 Reflection

J-rock

J-rock

Yesterday Ngatea Primary School participated in J-rock ( stage challenge) in Hamilton. J-rock is a version of Stage Challenge but for primary school’s. J-rock is a dance performance telling a story. Our J-rock dance was based on the Gaming world. The main character is given a play station for her birthday and starts getting confused with what is real and what is not.

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Movenote

This week on my blog I have created a Movenote showing my knock knock jokes.

Please click the link here Movenote

Presenting

On Tuesday the 2nd of June I got to present to 2 different school's. I had to present about our syndicate( Whetu ). Mr Fraser asked me some questions and I answers them as good as I could. I had fun but I got really nervous. It was my first time and I think I can do better. Next time I will speak louder and clearer as well as trying not to look at my notes too much. It  was an amazing experience and I hope to do it again some time.

Inspirational Quote

Quote

This week my blog post is about an inspirational quote. I chose this quote because it is telling me to be myself not someone else. I can act all normal but inside I'm different and unique. Each person has something different about themselves that's what make them their own individual self.

Book Club

Here is my post of the week. It is my Book club. I was illustrator so I have to draw a picture and describe why I drew it. I am reading the book Scarlet Ibis. It is a really cool book I'm really enjoying it. In this chapter all of Red's feathers got thrown  out of the container. The penguin came and checked on Scarlet and Red. The penguin is a social worker who comes and checks on them. Scarlet is acting like the mum kind of. Because she has been doing the groceries and looking after Red.

I chose this picture because towards the end of the book it was talking about how the Mom smokes.

Memory Block

This week I got to publish my memory block. My memory block is about Port Jackson and relaxing there in the summer. The bottom picture is my writing for my memory block . The words up the top are what I had to write my little stories about.The photo is really blurry so down the bottom is my actual piece.

Port Jackson

The twisty and  dusty road leading to Port Jackson… a long drive. I get bored so I fall asleep then Mum say’s “wake up!” there was a pod of dolphins! Slowly we crawl up the final hill then drop down. I can finally see Port Jackson! We go to the office to sign in but sadly I'm on the gate.I wait patiently for them to hurry up. Then we got to pick our campsite right next to the showers. We got a hill near our campsite so we kept on doing Front limbers. Then we were waiting to have a solar shower so I decided to attempt to do a front walkover and I landed it! Ever since then I've loved Port Jackson.

Biscuiting

The waves as they hit my bum AHHHHHH. I scream I was terrified! I went onto my stomach.When I fell I felt like a barrel rolling down a hill. I swam to shore. Jumping up and down. I hope for another turn but Dad had a headache so we stopped.But just before we stopped Maria Mum’s friend who we go camping with went on she fell but couldn't get back on. Mum and Dad puttering back in Maria holding onto the back of the biscuit.I yell “Where’s Maria ? “ and Dad said” look at the back”! I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt but swimming can fix everything.So we went swimming and got the snorkeling gear  amazing.

Camping

The wilderness, the fresh air, the sound of the waves crashing down on the sand below. I say to Jayde “race you to the beach”. Dad said not so fast come back here and put up the tent I reply “FINE!”.  I shall get payback ! I just stand there, I start getting in the way then Dad says “bugger off go to the beach”.Finally the nice cool water is swishing  all over my feet.

Boating  

Some morning’s I wake up Dad has the boat ready “Put on your fishing gear” Dad said  Kaylah said “not again”. But the best thing about fishing  that day was Kaylah caught a kingfish. Unfortunately it was 10 cm too  small. Mum said we could go Biscuiting!!! Slowly after we lost some of our bait.The wind got a little bit choppy and the sea got rocky.Mum said it was too rough to go biscuiting. We were catching nothing so we decided to go back to the camp site.

Swimming

Each day we would go for a swim.The salt taste in my mouth I spit it out and run to the tent.The lovely water washing through my mouth.Thankfully I got that taste out of my mouth. But when I went back to the water a huge wave came.My finger’s going crazy as I catch the wave. That was awesome Kaylah yells. I am lost for words. I go and catch another one. It was night yes night it was 8.30pm at night and we went swimming? The best waves I've ever seen.  

Ripper rugby

On Wednesday 6 may we went to a ripper tournament. We won the first and the third game. I got 2 run away tries and I was really happy about it. Two people got injured so we all had to play. They 2nd game they won by a lot and on the  4th game we  lost by 1. We tried our hardest and had fun. That's all the matters. We didn't make it into the Semi finales but that's OK. We had a lot of fun and we are lucky enough to get to play and thanks to our school for letting us.

Made awards

This year a group of people are doing the MADE awards. The MADE awards is a documentary competition for students to enter. We have a secret topic. I am sorry we can’t tell you our topic otherwise it could be used elsewhere. We had a meeting with Mr O'Neill to talk about all our script writing and our idea’s. It was a good session and we got lots of new knowledge.Hopefully we can start filming soon. You can check out the website here http://www.madeawards.com/

Anzac

In the terrible time world war one was. Over  37 million people got sent to fight in the war. Nurses were also sent over to help the soldiers. On Christmas Day they stopped fighting to show some respect. Soldiers were sent mail but lots of it got put back in the mail sack.Around 16 million people got killed and 20 million got wounded. In New Zealand we have a day called Anzac Day. It is on the 25 April. The day of Anzac Day was picked from when the soldiers landed in Gillpoli. There is a parade that goes on Anzac Day and all The Soldiers that survived march but also there family members wore medals to remember them. This year is was 100 years since they landed in Gillipoli. I have made a mind Mup about the war so you can see that underneath this writing.

Word Cloud

I have made a word cloud from our camp. You can also read the story in the post below

Camp 2015

The last 3 days we have been at camp at Totara Springs. On the first day we had a tour and did Top Town.  We did a rotation.They were mostly Team Building activity's.Later on we did river side activity's.The activity's were Kayaking,Water slide,Beach volleyball and the water hole.I first went to the water hole and jumped of the bridge and hit the ice cold water it started doing freestyle to he ladder I was scared an eel was chasing me. I went to the water slide next. I fell into the water i was eager to get another turn. Next Kayaking I kept on crashing into the side but I got there in the end. We had dinner then did a Burma Trail. I got a bruise on my knee I was so scared. We slowly drifted to sleep. We woke up and had breakfast. There was Jet planes up for grabs for who had the tidiest cabin. We got the jet planes. After that we did a rotation.My group did rock climbing first and it was very hard and you had to be careful. We went back to have morning tea then went to the Go Karts. I almost went off the track but I stayed on. After that we went to the Gym and did Crate Climb. I got 11 crate on but I got so scared. The record at Totara springs is 32 and it touched the roof. Paige got 19 and got half way.We had a Lunch break then got into the Flying fox. It was amazing but I backed out a couple times but got there in the end. Then we did abseiling it was scary but really fun. Then we had afternoon tea. We were lucky enough to get to go in the Hot Pool. Then we had a delicious Dinner. Later on in the night we went eeling. We sadly didn't catch an eel. We made Damper it was really yum. After that we made S'mores. They are Marshmallows roasted on the camp fire and stuck in between two Biscuits but we put ours in Chocolate Thins. We went back to our cabins and fell asleep. That morning we had Pancakes and they were yum. We had to pack up our cabins. We got to do BMX Dodge Ball and Human sized Foosball. Then we went on the Hydro Slide. The Hydro Slide is 128 meters long it is the second biggest in the southern Hemisphere. Once we had done that we went into the Hot Pool.We had a delicious Lunch. After that we had to pack the cars and head back to school.

Weekly Reflection

Yesterday we played Cricket and Baseball because of the Cricket world cup semifinals.First we played cricket.We had to play in our House colors.The house colour’s are Pataki (Yellow) Weka (Green) Kapui (Red) Orewa (Blue).I am in Pataki and we had to vs Orewa. We won by 1 point and in Baseball we won by a mile. I  had lots of fun and go a really good hit.

I also got into Jrock. It is a production that Primary and High Schools can enter.It is a competitive compettion but we don’t get juged. It is in Hamilton at the Claudelands Arena.I am like a clown but not.I am in a videogame and I dance and then slowly start to die then come back alive the get shot and die.It is really cool plus we get too work together and learn cool new dance moves.

Thames Valley Triathlon

This week I competed at the Thames Valley Triathlon it was over in Cooks Beach. I competed in a group with Hayley and Elaina. We competed well. I had to do the swim in the sea. I thought the caps of the people were shark fins and they were chasing me but they weren't. I was the 5th out of the water and I ran out and tagged Elaina's hand she ran off to her bike and started. Hayley sprinted the 2km run.I said that's Hayley and her mum said it can't be.I said it is Hayley with the blue shoes and the black and white top. It was Hayley! She came just behind people who left 5 minutes before her.We finished it all together.We got 14th overall and 3rd in groups we did well.

Weekly Reflection

Plus -My plus this week was that our Art group got our pole undercoated and Painted!! My other plus for the week is my cloze because I only had to do one fix up and also my crossword because there was no fix ups!

Minus- This week my minus was my Sra because I had to fix it up because it was really challenging.

Interesting- Today we went swimming and we had to score the balls into the bin Girls vs Boys.Sadly the boys one but girls are still the best aren't they??They won by 7 points and we only got 7.

Goal-My goal for next week is to work harder on my SRA so I don't have to fix it up and I am able to tick it off my to do list.

Hauraki Plains Swimming

This week we had Hauraki Plains swimming sports.The top 3 from each age from the school swimming sports got in.I got in for Freestyle and Breaststroke.I did the long distance swimming.That is 2 & 3 lengths.There was some pretty tough competitors but at least I gave it a shot.The top 3 from each stroke got into Thames Valley. Its is such a shame that I didn't get into Thames Valley.But there is always next year.

Weekly reflection week 5

Plus        My plus this week is my Sra because I didn't have to do a single fix up.
Plus         My other plus is Swimming sports because I got into Hauraki Plains
Minus      My minus is my Cloze because I had to fix it up 3 times.
Interesting  This week we had some Fijians come to our school and sing us some song's they were great.
Goal       My goal for next week is to be careful and think through the cloze so I don't have to spend too                     much time on my cloze.

My Snapper

Today I went fishing with my family up at kereta boat ramp.I caught a Snapper 62 cm and weighing 8 and a half pound.I winded it in on my own at first I thought it was hooked on the mussel rope but really I had a really lazy fish.We had to net him otherwise my line would snap.I caught him on a manky old pilchard.

Weekly Reflection Term 1 Week 4

                                           Alyson’s weekly reflection

Week 4   

20.02.15

Plus	-This week My plus was Swimming because I am now able to glide better with my freestyle. -My other plus this week was my SRA because I only had to fix up 3 questions.
Minus	-My minus this week was my Cloze because I had to fix it up 3 times
Interesting/action	-Is my Timetable becuse we are learning to do it differently from last year.
Goal	-My goal for next week is to focus on my Cloze.

Weet-bix TRYathalon

On sunday I went to the Weetbix TRYathlon at Hamilton. I did it within 30 minutes. I had to swim 100 meters, bike 4km and run 1.5 km. I got to have a photo with Sarah Walker! I was really happy. I am so happy that I finished.

Weekly reflection Term 1 Week 3

Term 1 Week 3

13.2.15

Plus	-My plus this week was my Book club because I got it all done on time. -My other plus this week was my cloze because I got it done even though it was really hard.
Minus	-My minus this week is my Sra because I had to fix it up but it was difficult.
Intersting/Action	-My interesting this week was my book that I have been reading called "The year my life broke" and Telling Lies they are really good books.

Whetu

We have just gone back to school and we have 2 new teachers in our syndicate.Mrs Heaven And Mrs Taaffe.We have a whole lot of new kids.We've been reading a book called "The day my father became a bush".we are now reading Conrad Cooper's Last Stand.I am excited to read it.