This is what we have been doing in inquiry lately. We had to choose a colour and put a dot of it on a piece of paper then put it in water and watch the water go up the paper and make the colour spread down.

My Aussie Experience

I could barely wait I woke up early hoping the morning would go fast but it didn’t, I felt like it was half frozen and it would never be 10 o'clock but slowly the time turned over and it was finally time to leave and go to the airport where I would wait for the plane to arrive that would take me to Australia

I stayed up most of the night and wondered what would happen tomorrow. I felt so tired in the morning but couldn’t risk closing my eyes in case i feel asleep. Finally it was time to go me, my brother, my dad, my nana, my granddad, my aunt and my uncle all piled into the van and headed for the airport. When we got there me, my aunt and my uncle had to check our bags in so they could go on the plane. After we did that we had to wait for our plane to arrive it felt like we had been waiting forever.
When it came I said bye to my brother, my Nana, Granddad and Dad and went to get onto the plane. When had landed in Auckland we had to wait there for 3 hours because it took 3 hours to fly to Brisbane and back. Once it had arrived we went down to our gate and got on the plane and found our seats. The plane ride made my tummy go all weird because it was bumpy but it was fun and I got lots of photos.

Once we had landed in Brisbane we had to go and find Craig and Emily my aunt's son and granddaughter once we found them we got into Craig’s car and drove to his house where we were staying.The next day I woke up really early and we went for a walk to the bakery to get some breakfast after we had eaten we went across the road to the train station and got a train to Indooroopilly and went shopping for the day. The day after that we went to Dreamworld and I went on this fun ride called the tower of terror where you went backwards and up and then down and forward really really fast.

This is my explanation writing of Matariki

                     Matariki

Matariki is the Maori name for the star cluster known as the Pleiades. Traditionally for Maori when it appeared just before dawn in late May or early June, it signaled the start of the Maori New Year. Different tribes celebrated Matariki at different times. For some it was when Matariki rose in May/June.

Matariki literally means the ‘eyes of god’ (mata ariki) or ‘little eyes’ (mata riki). As the myth says, when Ranginui and Papatūānuk were separated by their children. Tāwhirimātea became so angry that he tore out his eyes and threw them into the heavens.

You can either look at A beginner's guide to finding Matariki on Te Ara's blog or Help finding Matariki on the Matariki events site. 2015 images of Matariki in Auckland taken by Dayne Laird's 2015 Matariki images on facebook photo album. Youtube also features video clips about Matariki.

Matariki is celebrated with education, remembrance and the planting of new trees and crops and signals new beginnings. Matariki was the optimum of time for new harvests, and ceremonial offerings to the land-based gods Rongo, Uenuku and Whiro to ensure good crops for the coming year.

This is what we have been doing in science Acids and Bases

This is my Movers and Shakers homework

Here is my choice of persuasive writing

Smoking should be banned!

I am going to be telling you why smoking should be banned. it doesn't just eat up your money every week it’s bad for you and your family it’s a deadly thing that a lot of people do.

Tobacco smoking seriously affects internal organs, particularly the heart and lungs, but it also affects your appearance. While these changes are generally not as life threatening as heart and lung disease, they can increase the risk of more serious disorders and have a noticeable ageing effect on the face and body. Research also shows that the more a person smokes, the greater the risk of premature wrinkling. Skin damaged by smoke has a grayish and wasted appearance.

Smoking is one of the worst things to do. As soon as you take your very first puff and every time after that your lungs are infected Every time you inhale your lungs are getting more and more damaged  and you’re getting closer to going to hospital or dying. Tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally. As many as half of people who use tobacco die from the results of this use.

Smoking is the largest cause of preventable death in the world. Over 440,000 people in the USA and 100,000 in the UK die because of smoking each year. According the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), $92 billion are lost each year from lost productivity resulting from smoking-related deaths. Of the more than 2.4 million deaths in the USA annually, over 440,000 are caused by smoking.

Here are the cancers you can get if you smoke.

• Bladder cancer

• Kidney cancer
• Pharynx and Larynx cancer (throat cancer)
• Mouth cancer
• Esophagus cancer
• Cancer of the pancreas
• Stomach cancer
• Some types of leukemia
• Cancer of the nose and sinuses
• Cervical cancer
• Bowel cancer
• Ovarian cancer
• And in some cases breast cancer

Smoking should be banned because it is bad for your body. It can give you cancer, lung disease and other diseases. So I am telling you now to stop before you start.

My Electronics Digital Booklet

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Progress on my alarm for Electronics

My ANZAC Reading

Level 3 ANZAC activity - Social Science and English

1. Locate quotes that describe the characters from Thomas’s perspective: Mrs Biggs

Mrs Biggs, the teacher is wider than a troopship and very bouncy. She’s mean and very strong.

The Mayor

The Mayor is hot and sweaty because of wearing a suit on a hot day and Thomas’s mother thinks that he is too good for himself.

2. If you were to interview Mrs Biggs, what would her version of events be?

Thomas is a very indecorous boy who never listens to anything I say. I caught him and his friends were playing a game he invented called catch the Germans the other day. He was on the Germans team. So I made a very interesting punishment for him, I called the Mayor and I told him I had a surprise for him.

3. This could lead to a discussion with questions such as :

What did people do to show they supported their country? They went to war for it and fought for it.

Why might they have done that? To show their country that they supported them.

This is my persuasive writing

Scootering at school is fun but is it safe?

Paragraph 1

Scooting at school is dangerous to other children. This is because some kids can’t control it very well as they maybe only starting out. There are also older kids who ride scooters to school. They often like to show all their tricks that they have learned. Which leads to them possibly falling off and knocking over small kids.

Paragraph 2

I think if the kids bought their scooters to school there will be no other space for anyone to play. If they want to do this the school should build a concrete area for them to ride their scooters on. It would be a lot better than them taking over the playground.

Paragraph 3

It’s also not safe because a lot of kids don’t wear safety gear when they really need to. It would keep the kids safer when they are riding their scooters and doing tricks. If they are going to take their scooters to school they should have safety gear.

Conclusion

Scootering at school should be banned it is not safe to the people riding and to other kids. If they want to ride their scooters they should go to the skate park and wear safety gear.

Horrible months at war.

Horrible months at war

We are all standing here leaning over from being so exhausted, coughing. Standing in the mud trying not to fall over.

Trying to march out of the front line and get back to safety for a rest, leaving the tragedy we have just faced behind us.

Our feet are so sore but keep on going. Limping because we can barely walk. By this time we are all Walking like where drunken men trying to stand up not even hearing the gun shells falling behind us.

The stench of the gas has us not wanting to breath screaming RUN!!!

Going into our bags to get our gas masks, most of us are successful and reach for them in time. All except one man who I can hear shouting out HELP, HELP,HELP!!!

The gas is thick know, greenish pea soup color. It’s gotten difficult to see anyone now through the very thick gas.

I will never forget seeing my comrade rush up to me coughing horribly, and feeling so helpless knowing that he is going to die.

Can you imagine what it feels like carrying a dying man in agonizing pain not knowing what is even going to happen you your your other team mates. Looking at him slowly fading away in my arms.

Can you imagine the dying man as the movement of the wagon pushes his blood up and turning his lungs into mucus.

If you saw what I have you wouldn't say ever again that it’s a glamorous thing to die for your country and fight for it because it’s not glamorous or exciting or a privilege, the things you see you will never forget what happened on those, horrible months at war.

This is my inquiry project on John Wilson

John Wilson

John first joined the New Zealand Army in 1940 to train as an officer but on finding the 2NZEF complete he volunteered to serve as an officer in the Indian Army.

Following Japan's invasion of Malaya in December 1941 his Indian unit formed part of the British force there that was defeated and subsequently surrendered at Singapore. 

Wounded with his leg in plaster and in hospital he narrowly avoided a massacre of hospital staff and patients by Japanese soldiers after Singapore was captured in 1942. Wilson became a prisoner of war and survived 3 1/2 years working on the Thailand/Burma rail link known as the "Death Railway. 

After the war Mr Wilson enjoyed a long and successful law career and was known for his presidency of the New Zealand Red Cross. John died on 1 October 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand when he was 96 and he was married to Judy Wilson.

Us on camp with Roulph

We are like that

            We Are Like That

Sitting on the couch watching

sports on the T.V. yelling at it

thinking that it might talk back

We are like that

Never wanting to ask for help

and saying I can do it myself

even if you can’t

We are like that

Hours of beach side fun and

swimming in the waves and

getting smothered in sunblock

with a bottle of L&P and your

jandals plunged in the sand

We are like that

When you talk to someone and

wonder if they're a little deaf for

taking so long to answer you

We are like that

We are like that

To be continued...

It's like that

          It’s Like That…

The wide open beach and the

fresh breeze smell that hits

you on your face

It’s like that

The fun loud nature of tourists,

laughing when they jump over

the waves as they roll in to try

and sweep them under

It’s like that

Spending hours at the beach

playing in the waves and eating

ice cream as slowly fades away

in our hands no matter how fast

we eat it

It’s like that

Camping grounds filled with the

loud buzzing sounds of kids laughing

as they’re trying to catch butterflies

It’s like that

When you walk passed the sea

and smell the salt water

It’s like that

My I am from poem

I am from

hours of playing in my room

but never wanting to leave

I am from

camping out at the beach

then running away from the waves

I am from

Christmas lunches with family

and eating until I feel sick

I am from

days of watching movies

and hiding from everyone

I am from

long nights, always going to

bed early but never going to

sleep

I am from

spending time with family

to lots of laughs with friends

I am from

to be continued...