Sad DAYZ:P

Left awapuni school today so hard to walk out of the gates and go to intermediatte next year. It was so hard to leave one of my friends well one of my bestest friends who is moving onto illminster. I will also miss the teachers and the class rooms I will miss the learning and lots of other thing.
BYE AWAPUNI!!!!
I will miss you.

200m Swim

Room 2 and Room 3 headed down to the olympic pools to complete there swim for life. Last year I had already completed my 200m swim and so I just needed to do these other tests while Room 3 and some of my class did there 200m swim here is a photo of the people who completed there whole 200m swim. Well done to these lot and the other people who tried their hardest and actually participated.

Jgeeks

For those of you who havent seen the Jgeeks here is a video of a old maori legend that they have retold in they're own creative way.

Student-Led Conferencing

Marine Reserve

On the 27^th of November 2012. My classroom Room 2 and room 3 went to Te Tapuwae O rongokako. The marine reserve at pouawa beach. We went snorkelling my group was Lillian,LaToyah and Zara.

We swam in a certain area with rocks and seaweed. My group went into the really deep part. The water was freezing. We saw fish, crabs, and EVEN a CRAYFISH! It was BIG!

The best part ever was when we went diving down to the bottom of the sea. And also after the swim when we went for a nice walk to a beautiful picnic area to eat. If I did this again I would go out deeper.

Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style

Who knows how to do the Gangnam style dance?
Who ever does they should video themselves doing it.
I'm going to try and make a video of me doing the gangnam style dance.

Home-Learning

$5-Yellow eyed penguin
$10-Whio
$20-Karearea
$50-Kokako
$100-Takahe

Yellow eyed Penguin
1. The Maori name for yellow eyed penguin is hoiho
2. It's weight goes up to 6-5
3.The maximum eggs it lays is 2 eggs
4.They live for at least 22 years
5.They live in New Zealand
6.They're habitat is the forest or scrub lands
7.They're ancient Maori name was Tavora
8.They're real name is Megadyptes antipodes
9.Adults grow up to a length of 56-78cm
10.They are grey blue and black

Guy Fawkes

Boom! Bam! Carck! Fireworks bursting into a myriade of colours. Loud noises blaring in my ears. Staring around the neighbourhood all I could see was children yelling and hollering, fireworks being lit up,and adults sitting back watching their children laugh and giggle like there was no tommorrow. My eyes gaze excitedly up at the fireworks that are blasting in every direction,the sky blends in with the fireworks making it more creative.Sparklers are shining as bright as the moon and I am as happy as can be. I love fireworks dont you?



Home-learning Leap frog

Leap frog logic is a IQ test and a brain teaser game. It took me a while to figure the puzzle out but eventually I got the pattern.
This is my way of doing it:
Click the first brown frog
Click the first green frog
Click second green frog
Click first green frogClick second brown frogClick third brown frog
Click first green frog
Click second green frog
Click third green frog
Click first brown frog
Click second brown frog
Click third brown frog
Click second green frog
Click third green frog
Click third brown frog

Glog

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Vote

Gash

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Tourist Attractions in Gisborne

1. Minigolf

 Mini golf is a fun way of playing golf. Kids and adults enjoy playing this fun,challenging game.You have a scoreboard and 1 to 4 people can play with you. You have 18 stages. It starts off easy then it gets challenging  And mini golf is in town so its easy to get to.


2. Stingray Feeding
 Stingray Feeding is when you go out to Tatapouri which is a beach. Then you go out to the sea with someone and you see different kinds of stingrays. You can pat them and also feed them.They teach you a little bit about stingrays.But that is one of my favorite things to do.

3 .Kaiti Hill
Kaiti Hill is where you can go for a good workout, play on the playground,Walk up the tracks,look at all the history or just go for a drive up the hill. Kaiti hill is a nice place to look out at the beach. I run up the hill with my mum my sister and my nephew comes with us in the pram.

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Home-learning

This is my poster to save the sand dunes!
http://su6tt8fcc.edu.glogster.com/sand-dunes

Tagxedo

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Money

The holidays

In the holidays I was with the Y.M.C.A in the seniors group. For the first week we did lots of activities like horse riding, MKR's, the amazing race and lots of other fun stuff. And for the second week I went on camp with 17 kids from the Y.M.C.A and 4 supervisors came to supervise us. We went to... AUCKLAND!! We went to big-ups, Rainbows end, Ice skating and shopping. We stayed in a marae. The suburb we were staying in was Mangere. My favorite part of the holidays was ice-skating. We were split up into three groups and we had to do a little play our play was really cool. We also stayed up late, played spotlight and tackle rugby. I loved camp!
That was my interesting holidays.
Here is a link to what Big-ups is about just in case you don't know what it is?
http://www.bigups.co.nz/

Enviro Show

The Enviro show came to our school to do a play. There play was about the enviroment and to recycle and keep the enviorment clean.Awapuni school watched this sad and funny show. They might be able to change the world.

Home-learning

The spring equinox this week.
1. What is an equinox? It's when day and night are the same length of time.
2. Draw a diagram.
Websites used:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/equinox.html

Kaleidoscope Bugs Reflection

I created an insect pattern JJJ

I copied my insect pattern into 4 quadrants with precision JJJ

I created patterns to fill the white area JJJ

I created a kaleidoscope effect that filled the page JJJ

I coloured the areas skilfully JJ

My work is clean and precise JJ

My kaleidoscope turned out ho­­­w I wanted it to JJJ

Key to self assesment

J spectator

JJ apprentice

JJJ specialist

 

I enjoyed: creating the patterns.

I found it hard to: create my incsect.

Next time I do art I need to : colour the areas more skillfully.

I liked looking at Kaipo's Kaleidoscope because  it is colourful.

 

 

 

 

 

Home-learning

10 facts about earthworms:
1.When they go through the ground they bring air into the soil.
2.earthworms eat things that are dead.
3.If it is cut in half the part with the head will still live.
4.More than 3,000 species exists in the world.
5.A worm is a hermaphrodite.
6.Worms cannot see or hear.
7.Worms can have 1-5 pairs of hearts.
8.It uses it's skin to breathe.
9.Worms are cold-blooded.
10.Worms live for up to 3-4 years.
http://www.infobarrel.com/Top_10_facts_about_Worms
Above is the link to the website that I used.

Mini indoor olympics

Yay! the mini indoor olympics has finally came where room 2 can start it all over again but at Awapuni school. We done diffrent activites compared to the real ones that were in london.
Here are the games we played.
1.Balloon Volleyball
2.Arm Wrestling
3.Frog flips
4.Air soccer
5. Grand relays.

Drama

Today Me,Tyra,Bradley other kids from our school. We went to illminster to to learn about drama and do some acts.The first day we went we got split up into groups and we worked with diffrent people doing diffrent types of acting other schools were there also.My favourite one out of all of them was physical theatre now for physical theatre we had to use our 3 main tools which were voice,imagination and body. After day one we had to choose our favourite one but they would have to choose people to come into the group max was 20 per group. I got in...... Physical theatre my favourite we had to do our performance to music and our play was about a little boy who used to live out in the country and he moved into the city he was lonley he keeped asking people where he could find a friend but the city people just ignored him. Then he explored this new toy shop in town that came to life and that brought laughter to him and he made new friends with the town people who saw what he discovered. And thats our play we done.

Sir John Walker

We had to find out about a very famous athlete and his name is Sir John Walker.
Here are 5 interesting facts about him:
1.He set a world record.
2.A ingury stoped his career.
3.He won a gold medal in the 1500m
4.2 februrary 1974 he broke a world record.
5.31 July 1976 he won his first gold medal.
Here is the site that I used to find this imformation:
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/john-walker


Nick Willis

For home-learning this week we had to look up 5 facts about Nick Willis the flag bearer for the london Olympics 2012.

1.He was the fastest high-school student.
2.He got the athletics scholarship.
3.He had a knee ingury.
4.He suffered dehydration.
5.His coach is Ron Warhust.
I got this imformation from :http://www.olympic.org.nz/nzolympic/athlete/nick-willis

London Olympics

London Olympics 2012 on Prezi

The Best Dessert Ever

The weather was as good as gold. The blazing fiery sun shone down on me.
“Who’s up for an ice-cream?” My mum enquired. As quick as a flash I zoomed into Wendy’s away from the heat. Patiently, I waited as my mum ordered my super mega sundae.
My hungry eyes stealthy spied the lady carefully serving my yummy ice-cream. Whipped cream oozed from the noisy machine. Hundreds and thousands sprinkled proudly on top with a topping of delicious chocolate sauce it drips down the ice-cream like a flowing river.
Gleefully, they hand me the masterpiece it was immense! The shiny silver spoon pokes out the side perfectly. Slowly I devouir it down like a hungry monster. Evrey single bite is like gold. Mmmm! Whipped cream slid down my body releasing a massive burst of lusciousness. I wonder if mum will let me have another one?

GeoGreeting

This is my Geogreeting that I created.

The Battle

1. Setting Up
2. Battle
  3. Bell Rings, Battle Over
Gracefully, the wild wind runs through the grass towards the trees. Me and my friends raced to the best spot (like my mum always says early bird catches the worm.) Surprisingly, the castle from yesterday’s massive battle was still standing. (we are going to win this!) Collecting grenades (which were actually pinecones) guns and more weapons we piled all of them up in one corner.

All ready to go, our battalion secured the premises. Aggressively, the battle begun! Grenades were exploding like popcorn. Enemies were lions growling at us. We scurried around like hard working solider ants (they wont take our land!)

Briinggg! Briiinng! The noisy bell alerted us that the battle was over. We are victorious! Stealthy, looking back at the horrendous battleground we gave our soliders a pat on the back. Now that’s a battle to remember.

Home-learning

Room 2 had to write 5 facts about Peter Snell and Murray Halberg.Here are some facts.
Peter Snell
1.He was born on the 17th of december 1938.
2.He won the 800 metre run event at the olympics.
3.He was born in Opunake.
4.In July 1965 Snell announced his retirement from athletics.
5.He was awarded the M.B.E in 1962.
Peter Snell helps out with the disabled and so does Murray Halberg.

This is Peter Snell

Murray Halberg
1.He was born on the 7th of July 1933.
2.He won a gold medal in the 5000 metres event.
3.His coach for the olympics was Bert Payne.
4.He set four world records.
5.He was born in Eketahuna.
Murray Halberg also helped out with the community by making a place where disabled people can do athletics and it is called The Halberg Trust.

This is Murray Halberg

Pizap

Me and My BFFZ.


piZap.com fun and easy photo editing

Ancient Olympic Games

The Museum

Room 2 went to Tairawhiti Museum to learn more about the transit of venus and more stuff about the time when cook first came here.We done activites and quizes and learnt more facts about what happened on the Endeavouir.
Here are some photos of us at the museum.

Heipipi Park

Room 2 and went off to Heipipi Park to see what we can find the big carving is what we see we look at the famous maori carving and look at the shapes that are inside it. We take lots of photos in front of the famous carving. We sit down and talk about it and the myths that are inside of it.
Here are some of the photos that we took.

Red socks day

The whole school as we usually do we all done red socks day.If you dont know what that is it iis when you dress up in red go down to the beach and help clean up the beach and keep our enviorment nice and clean and tidy.Awapuni has been doing this for years and have never failed awapuni are clean and tidy and we will do anything to help out our community come on be a tidy kiwi!Evrey year we walk to the beach and pick up rubbish and it is fun we are helping our community.

Photos

Here are some photos that I took in the holidays and some that I took a long time ago.

My Dance Competition

My dance performance was today at Mangpapa school at 6:30 I was so nervous about it. It was  such a blast I will tell you what happened my hands and legs were quivering like jelly as i stood on stage and stared out towards the crowd my heart beated so fast I couldnt breathe. We done our first dance check completed,then we done our 2 dance check completed.After that we all gathered together gave out so prizes I didnt get a prize but thats ok. We all had a big kai that was amazing!!!!I cant wait until our next performance.

My new shoes

Slowly I slipped on my new stylely shoes that gleamed in the bright ball of flame as I dawdled slowly underneath the sunlight.My eyes gleamed as my shoes outshined the whole galaxy.People stared at me like I was from a whole diffrent universe.Suddenly, out of the blue big drops of rained cried down from the sky.

"My shoes" I mumbled glumly as the rain dripped all over them making them soaked.

Big puddles stood in my way and ozzy thick brown mud.It's raining cats and dogs my mother would say.The sunlight beam had dissappeared behind the cloudy dark shadow of a thunderstorm.I've got to get inside my shoes echoed in my head loudly.

The door of my house stared at me giggling with laughter.I sprinted like a hamster in a ball struggling to climb the steps to the front door.Angrily, the steps grabbed me and pulled me down.My time was running short I had to get to the front door.Out of the blue the sun came back from its hiding spot.Phew! that was a relif.

My writing sample

1. Sailing out to sea.
2. Watching as we go further.
3. Sailing back to Warf.

The weather was as good as gold. My gleaming eyes gazed up and spotted the famous waka Aotearoa one. We sailed out to the deep blue sea sea and peeped down and watched as the ferocious waves crashed upon the waka like two racing cars smashing into eachother. My stomach was twirling around like a ballerina and my throat was dry as the desert. The waka was getting pushed from the waves.
Slowly, we sailed out onto the blue blanket. Hurtfully, the bitter cold wind pierced my cheeks like spears stabbing its archenemy. Gazing down into the murky depths called the sea we couldn’t see the bottom of it
Fear ran down my body as quick as light. The sea peered up at me and smirked an evil smile. We manoeuvred slowly towards the harbour.Dissappointment spread out across the waka. My stomach smiled and cheered because shore was what it was seeking for. Safely, I stepped onto the rusty rackety deck and I was relieved. Now that was a very bumpy ride.

Ko Wai au?

I am Britten.

In my family I have one brother and one sister and my mum. I am the youngest in my  family. The special thing about my family is they never give up on things .

Dance competition

We are competing against this group and if you wanna watch the video feel free to because we have a competition.We are competting in september.We havent yet made up a name for our dance group.And the competitions is in gisborne.

Aotearoa one

We went for a cruise on the famous waka Aotearoa one.
We learnt many new things on our journey aboard Aotearoa one.
My favourite part of the ride was when we went right out to sea.
We watched how deep we were and how far we were away from the harbour.
Here are some pictures of us aboard the waka.

Avatar

I made a new avatar on  otaku avatar
The link gto it is above.
Here is my avatar I made.

My Timeline

This is my timeline:

Art Week

Art week is something when you just do art for a whole week we do that each term.
And this week for Art week we done under water art.
We had to use paint to colour our background.
Then we had to draw Seaweed, rocks and sea creatures then cut them out and glue them onto the background and they are very amazing to look at here is a image of my art that I done.

The Shell

Living underneath the blue  waves.

Feeding on delicious seaweed.

Stomp! Splash! I fell the vibration

Of humans approaching.

Skillfully, I scuttled into

bushes of seaweed.

Clinging for dear life.

Streching and reaching out 

I check if it is clear

To move to my next foraging patch.

Birthday Party

In the weekends I went over to my friend ronas birthday party we stayed at the Alfresco hotel.
We played games ate junkfood mostly pizza and coke.
We had a spa in our motel and two rooms and a lounge.
We played fear factor my group won on all the games except for one.
We fell asleep very late and woke up early.
We went to the olympic pools and we also played relays after we finished.
The adventure playgroup was next and we played tag.
Then tinna dropped us off tto our house.
ps. Tinna is ronas sister.

Book Week

Book Week was this week and we always have a book parade.
The book parade is when we dress up as a our favourite book character or just any book character.
The Teachers pick 2 people from there classroom that has dressed up the best and they win a prize.
Our whole school gathers together in the hall and we show our costumes to evreyone each classroom walks up on thee stage and shows all the other classrooms.
I love the book parade!