Current Events

Teenager Stuck In Barney Head

A teen girl from the United States had to be rescued from inside a Barney the Dinosaur head. What started as a prank went pretty far. Darby Risner found the head at a friends house, and put it on to scare her friend, only to find she couldn't get it off again. Soon it got pretty bad, because Darby started getting claustrophobic. Darby was taken down to the fire station, where in a few cuts it came off.
My Opinion: I think that the fact that it wouldn't come off with sheer manpower generally means that the head would have been kind of hard to put on.
My Wondering: Did it ever cross Darby's mind that the head wouldn't come off?
Source: I found this information on Kiwi Kids News.
Words:
Sheer: Nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis).
Claustrophobic: A person who suffers or is suffering from claustrophobia.
Fibreglass: A reinforced plastic material composed of glass fibres embedded in a resin matrix.

Book Bash

During Book Bash this week I was creator and I made bread buns with honey because in the book Stanley was sent buns and honey. They tasted really good and kind of like pizzas... There were heaps of them so we had about three each. Somehow everybody believed that it was homemade honey! :)

Netball

On Saturday my Netball team played a game against Combined 2. They beat us by 2 goals!!! We were beating them until the last quarter, when we were very tired. It was a really challenging game, and I had lots of fun playing. 

I played GS the whole game and scored 15 out of our 16 goals. 

It was a tough game and I hope that next time we play that team we improve a whole lot. 

Current Events

Man Goes 555 Days Without A Heart

Stan Larkin, aged 25 went 555 days without a heart. He wears a backpack that powers an artificial heart that keeps him alive. Artificial hearts have been used on patients many times before, but not when they were not in hospital. Luckily Stan has just received a new heart.
My Opinion:
I think that an artificial heart could be used for more confusing and life changing things.
Source: I found this information on Kiwi Kids News.
My Wondering: Who invented the artificial heart? Answer: Paul Winchell
Words:
Replaced: Take the place of.
Temporary: Lasting for only a limited amount of time; not permanent.
Artificial: Made or produced by human beings, rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

Netball

On Saturday, we had two games of Netball. Our first game was against Ngatea 1. They beat us 25-4. I scored three of our goals. I think we really improved this time because last time we lost 20-0. After that game we had another game because we haven't won any of the games in our grade, and one of the teams in the grade below us were winning all of their games by 20 points. We lost, which meant we moved down into the lower grade. It was kind of disappointing, but now I think our games might be a little bit closer with more challenge.

Book Bash

So far in Book Bash we have read about half of the book. Stanley has gone to fight in the war with the dog he was assigned, Bones. He is in France to find his brother, who is now in London. Stanley thinks about how his life is so topsy-turvy, because he is in France, away from his brother. Recently in the story, Stanley received a letter from his biology teacher, Miss Bird. She sent him buns and honey. This is what I plan on making for my creator this week!

House Team Challenge Week 7

For house team challenge this week we played a giant game of chinese whispers. There were four lines of people, one for each house team. There were also four different phrases that we had to get correct before time runs out. Each phrase got harder as they went along, and each phrase was also worth different amounts of points. The first phrase is worth 50 points, the second 100 points, the third was 150 points, and the last one was 200 points.

I really liked this challenge because when I was little, I used to really love this game, so it was cool to be able to do it again. I liked the way that we had the massive line of chinese whispers, because it could really easily get mucked up along the way. It was certainly a challenge!!

Current Events

Seagull Turns Yellow After Falling Into Curry

A seagull turned bright orange after falling into a vat of curry. He fell into a container of chicken tikka masala while trying to scavenge a bit of meat from a food factory bin. He was rescued by workers in the factory and picked up by a volunteer from Vale Wildlife Hospital. They managed to return him back to his original colour, but they haven't managed to wash away the smell.
My Opinion: I think that this is quite a funny story!
Source: Kiwi Kids News
My Wondering: How did they get the colour out?
Answer: With dishwashing liquid.
Words:
Volunteer: A person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.
Container: The object for holding or transporting something.
Smell: The faculty or power on perceiving odours or scents by means of the organs in the nose.

Matariki

IE

For my IE I investigated presenting and reading weather. Here is the video of me presenting weather:

I also had this poster to show my learning; 

Queen's Birthday Weekend

During the Queen's Birthday weekend, I went up to my bach in Matarangi. On Sunday, we went to the beach. My dad went swimming, and my brother built a hut. His hut was only about 30cm tall, and when he tried to get inside it, it fell on him. My sister and I thought we could do better. We found the four biggest sticks on the beach, and made a sort of pyramid with them. But we didn't stop there. We got smaller sticks to fill the holes so that we had walls. It took about an hour to do the walls. 
After the walls my sister and I sat down in our hut and played cards. But we thought it would be cool if we put pine cones around the edge of the house. So we did that, and finally, we got a good break. But then, our house appeared to have sparked a bit of a competition along the beach. There were about three other people who had started building huts. I think we won...