Netball On Saturday

" Now that I get the ball I am so, so nervous." I was wondering who to pass it to. I saw Annabel, I decided to pass it to her but her partner blocked her out. My mind is so confused, I see with the corner of my eye that Ryleigh has a space and she is free. I throw the ball as hard as could and luckily see caught it. Ryleigh passes it to Annabel and Annabel passes it to me again and I shoot, I miss and get the rebounds and I shoot again. YAY I get it this time. So far we have reached the 3rd quarter of the game and the score is 8 Parkvale and 5 Mayfair. The bell rings and it is time to play. We put our hands in the middle and yell out " VIXENS " 

Is sugar the new fat?

After Watching Nigel Latter’s Documentary, These are some questions that I have! The clip was called “ Is sugar the new fat? “

• Is all that sugar necessary in our everyday foods?
• Is there a no sugar option?
• If you know that there is that there is that much sugar in things, Why would you want to eat it?
• What are you actually feeding your children?
• Are the things that you see as treats really a treat or something that can cause a lot of pain later in life?
• How much sugar is really TOO much sugar
• How much sugar a day can give you diabetes?
• What should the limit for how much sugar we have in a day?
• How much sugar are you eating unknowingly?
• Sugar is really harmful to your teeth!!!!
• It can get as bad as having to replace your baby teeth in your mouth and having to have out adult pulled out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Sugar is ok to have but TOO much is no where near good or OK

What I am going to do to prevent all of these bad things!

• Stop drinking so much fizzy drinks and soft drinks
• Stop eating so much chocolate and lollies
• Exercise more often
• Eat more healthy food rather than junk food!
• Only eat as much sugar as I am allowed!
• Try to avoid junk food and start thinking healthy
• If I start thinking about starting a healthy diet then other people will to it to and NZ will become a new and healthy environment!

The Fun Run

 The Fun Run

How I Felt About Doing The Fun Run: 

I felt really nervous at the start and I thought I was gonna faint but while I was running I could not feel my feet or anything else! I didn't faint and to be honest I had a lot of fun. I came 9th which is pretty good for me.

Here is a picture of me while doing the fun run!

BTW: I am in KEA ( Green ) if you didn't notice!

How Does A Seesaw Work

W.A.L.T = Explain

A seesaw is a playground object that kids usually play on.

First you need two people that are about the same weight.

Then the two people need to sit on a seat each.

After that the person who is on the ground needs to bend his/her knees and push up.

This is because so they can start the seesaw to go up and down.

Finally slow the seesaw down and get off so you can go and have fun on another playground object like a slide or a swing.

We hope you enjoyed playing on the seesaw.

By Nikita, Annabel and Caitlin.

Rock Climbing

Rock Climbing

This " harness " feels weird. Is that how it's supposed to feel??? Yes it is my big buddy said. If your wondering what I am talking about then stop wondering because I am about to tell you. A week ago room 19 went rock climbing at Karamu High School. I don't really know why we went rock climbing but I have heard that Mrs Hardaker won in the teachers game of paper scissors rock. Anyways at our rock climbing session I have learnt how to put a harness and fasten it so that it doesn't fall of while your climbing the wall. As I said at the beginning about my big buddies, My big buddies names were: Arica and Charlot. The big buddies helped up with our hardness and taught us how to climb the wall. Everybody in room 19 had either 1 or 2 buddies. Me a Caitlin were the lucky ones to get two buddies. At the rock climbing room ( which was a basket ball court ) There were two activities set up for us. The first activity me and Caitlin and our buddies went to was the "push and pull". In the push and pull activity one kid ( Which was me ) was working the rope and Caitlin was the one who was getting pulled by me. I was pushing the rope with one hand and pulling it with one hand. When I was pulling the rope I had to take it to my bum and then push it back up which made Caitlin move forward and backwards. After that we went to the second activity. The second activity was ROCK CLIMBING!!! When you are going to rock climb it i important that your harness is secured nice and tight so that is doesn't fall of while your climbing. Caitlin climbed first and she didn't go very high but she did her best and that's all that matters. After her turn was me and I can not explain to you of how nervous I was at that time because all I could think of was " WHAT IF MY HARNESS BROKE AND I FELL OF THE HARD ROCK SOLID FLOOR"!!!! But as I was climbing my big buddies and Caitlin were encouraging me so much that I forgot all about falling. I did not go very high at all but I tried and that's all that matters. After everyone had, had a go at all  the activity's it was time to back to school and write all about our adventure.

I hope that you enjoyed reading all about Room 19's Rock Climbing adventure. Please comment if you enjoyed reading it.                      

Ryleigh's Bunny

Ryleigh's Bunny

Today the 19th of March, Ryleigh brought her bunny into school and I was so amazed because she is only 4 weeks old!!!! Her name is Sparkle and she is the 2nd most ( I am the most ) adorable thing I have ever seen. Sparkle is going to go back home at lunch so everybody is making the most of it to hold her and play with her.

Here are some picture of Sparkle, Ryleigh and Nikita. 

I-Proud

 I-Proud

In room 19, We have been doing some awesome art with Mrs Hardaker! The art that we have been doing is called "I-Proud". If you are wandering what I am talking about, Stop thinking because I am going to show you a few pictures of room 19's I-Proud art!!!!!

The Pictures

 

      

Making The Art!!!

Firstly, we were told by Mrs Hardaker that we going to do art. The art was I-Proud. Every member of room 19 were confused at first. Moments later we were told what I-Proud was. What it is, is that on a coloured sheet of paper you need to have a pic of yourself. The pic needs to be just under the Parkvale School logo on your t-shirt, All the way to the top of your head. When we had taken the pic, we were told to send the picture to Mrs Hardaker, Mrs.H would print it out and give it to us. After we had been given the photo, We chose a colored sheet of paper out of: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and lastly Light and Dark Blue. As you can see in the pictures above, I chose light blue. After that you needed a glue-stick. The glue-stick was necessary because on the sheet of paper you had to stick on the pic of yourself, After you had cut it out of course. Once that was done it was time for the menu button, [ You can see it in the pictures above.] Which would go underneath the pic of yourself. Afterwards Mrs.H curved the corners so that it would look a bit more fancy!!!!

And there you have it! 

I-Proud art!!!

What The Art Meant.

 The art was called I-Proud because, The menu button underneath the photo was there because on an iPod you can tune the music however you want it to be. So if we put our picture on top of the iPod menu button instead of the screen, It would look like that your pic is the screen and the menu button together would look like an iPod. The menu button is there so....

" WE CAN TUNE OURSELVES INTO A GREAT YEAR". 

With the menu button you could pretend to press the play button and tune yourself into a great year!!!  

My Emotion LOVE Poem

WALT explore a variety of poetry structure and language features to be able to create our own creative poems.

This is my emotive poem. 

Room 19 made these emotion poems on Valentines day. Most of the class did love poems and that included me. We could choose to decorate it however we wanted to. I choose to decorate it by writing it in red and putting red hearts above the poem and below the poem. I decided to use creative words like instead of using big I used HUGE and so on. I hope you enjoy reading my emotion LOVE POEM. If you did please comment.

LOVE

Love smells like candles melting away

Love looks like a couple deep down in love

Love feels like one huge warm hug

Love tastes like a chocolate rose

Love sounds like two little love birds have a smooch!!!!

Love is the color of the love hearts down below… RED!!!

Roundabout Safety

This is a little presentation that I made. It is about how to get through a roundabout and what do to at one. I hope that by reading this presentation it will help you so the next time that you go biking and you end up at a roundabout, you will  know what to do.

Enjoy!!!!!

Anubis: The Egypt God Of Final Judgement

Anubis: The God Of Final Judgement

In room 20 we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. Our class is trying their best to become Ancient Egypt experts. The only way we could become Ancient Egypt experts was to learn about what they did in Egypt and to add some colour. That means we had a chance to do art.

My art is to do with Ancient Egypt Gods. My Gods name is: ANUBIS. He is the God of          "FINAL JUDGEMENT."

Here is a website to show some of the Egyptian art that room 20 has been doing. Click here to go on to that website. http://art-educ4kids.weebly.com/egyptian-art.html.


This is a photo of my God art and the real one.

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Safety Tips On The Internet.

Safety Tips On The Internet.

* Don’t be tempted to give away personal info.

* If you get a weird e-mail, don’t reply to it.

* Don’t click on the sites that look like a virus.

* Do not put photo’s of yourself on the internet.

* Don’t tell anybody your Google account password.

* If a website says to give your name, don’t do it.

* Only go on the websites that are for your age.

* Do not say your name in an e-mail if it asks.

* Only e-mail people that you know.

* Don’t plan to meet someone that you don’t know.

I hope that you will follow these steps and use them to be internet safe.

Yachting And Kayaking Day 1.

Yachting And Kayaking by nikita15vv.

Yachting and Kayaking Day 1

Monday the 16 of September
Pandora Pond 
Napier Hawkes Bay.

This is an animation video about Nikita's day at Optimist Yachting and Kayaking. This video tells you about what I was pleased with, what I found hard, what I wanted to get better and a few other things.

Here is a link to go animation.com. So that you can make your own animation film to entertain people and family. http://goanimate.com/.   

Yachting and Kayaking Reflection.

Something I was pleased with was that all the captains were really supportive and encouraging. Because this was my first time yachting and kayaking

I really enjoyed learning how to sail a Optimist Yacht and paddle a Kayak. Because it was all a new experience for me!

Something I found hard was to keep paddling straight and not to zigzag across the pond. Because me and my buddy were paddling in the opposite way.

Something that made me think was why isn't our kayak going straight across the pond and not zigzagging. Because it wasn't going straight across the pond.

Something I want to get better at is kayaking because I wasn't very good at it today.

         

Room 20 Egyptian Cartouches

This is room 20 kids Egyptian Cartouche art.  

Cartouches are like nameplates that go on coffins. Egyptians use symbols called HIEROGLYPHICS instead of letters. The symbols mean what your name sounds like in phonetic letters.  The Ancient Egyptians had applied rope to the outside of the cartouche to keep out the evil spirits. My artwork has 5 symbols. My real name is N-I-K-I-T-A but because it has to be what it sounds like in phonetic letters it is N-K-E-T-A.

Now that you know what a cartouche is I hope that you will have a go at home or wherever you get an opportunity to do one.

Here is a page of “ HIEROGLYPHICS ” to help you make and design your own cartouche.

So what are you waiting for, get creative and make your own cartouche that can say whatever you want it to.

Fantail Report

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The task was to write a report about a creature that lived in NZ before the Europeans came. I wrote my report on a Fantail. In this report I have wrote: An introduction, description, habitat, diet, behavior and some interesting facts! Once you've done that, wallah there is your report on whatever creature you did. I hope you liked my report.

Apple Boy

         

There once was an 8 year boy named Cameron who was forced by his parents to leave their little cottage, more like a one bedroom house with three people living in it! Can you imagine that! Any way before the boy had left his mother said”, You are to you sell all the apples by yourself and by yourself I mean yourself”!

So many hours later the boy looked at the bags of apples and remembered what his mum had said!

After days and nights had passed the boy had 30 more bags left so he had only sold 1 bag! He had made 10 dollars. That was barely enough to buy a single chocolate bar. 

One day a man came and saw Cameron and said,” Hey there lad What are you doing here on the streets” and Samuel replied “ My parents forced me to leave the cottage and go to sell these apples to make lot’s of money and they told me that I was not allowed to even put my foot into the cottage unless if I had sold all of the apples”. The man passing by asked Cameron where he lives? Cameron said “ I don’t know”. The passing by man said “ Well you are no hope so I better get going Cameron, bye bye for now! “W-w-wait” screamed Cameron.!!! I don’t know my letter box number but I think that I know my aunties and uncles letter box number!

As quick as two shakes of a dogs tail the man stopped and asked the boy what it was! The boy replied “ Um..........what was it again..........??? Oh yeah I remember it now!!! It is “ 123 Imaginary street.. 

"What the hang are you saying," said the man!!!! That’s my letter box number. "Oh,oops"! "That means that I don’t know what my aunties and uncles letter box number is"!!!

The thing that happened next is fairly obvious that is that the man walked off and didn't pay attention to what Cameron had to say. 

As the man walked on by until he was out of sight, Cameron sat on the streets and once again thought about what his mother had said to him and he thought about it so much, that as soon as he stopped thinking about what his mum said his mum’s voice got stuck inside his mind. He tried to get it the voice out by singing different songs and different voices but all his words went to waste!

2 months later apple boy had sold all of his apples and he went to the bank and asked a man who was at the service desk “ Do you know where I live? The man asked Cameron what his mother and fathers name was and Cameron replied “ My mother and fathers names are Sarah and Samuel” The man at the service desk said do you know your letter box number? Cameron replied “ Um..........what was it again..........Oh yeah I  remember it now!!!! My letter box number is 345 Apple Street. I will look that up right now said the man.

He typed in the address and it came up with a photo of his cottage. The man turned his computer around and showed apple boy, he said "yes, yes" that is my cottage. The service desk man closed the service desk and took Cameron to his cottage.When they reaches Cameron's cottage, Cameron raced in and gave his parents a great big hug.

The first that his parents asked him was if he was alright and Cameron replied "you bet I am". That’s all because of this man because he gave me lot’s and lot’s of food and then we both sat down to eat!! 

After we had finished I asked the man if he could track down my house. He said "Sure I can". I was so happy that I nearly screamed like a girl. Moments later I settled down and then this helpful man typed my address and then he turned his computer screen around and it had a picture of our cottage and I said “ YES, YES, YES that is my cottage"!

"Woo hew I am going home", everybody turned around and started laughing and I went red in the face with embarrassment!!!!!! After that he printed out the directions and then we were off and I talked all the way about how badly I missed you and when I had stopped blabbering I realized that we had reached my cottage I was so happy and then I thanked him and that was my apple adventure! 

If you liked my adventure go to NikitaG@parkvale. After that click on the first one and wait for it load and then scroll down to see all the interesting things including my “APPLE ADVENTURE!!!!!!!!” I hope you like my apple adventure. Bye Bye.

Gondwanaland Production

gondwana land 20 from Stephen ford on Vimeo.

This is the video of Room 20's assembly item. The reason why we chose to preformed an item about Gondwanaland was to show the people how New Zealand and some of the other countries were formed! It also shows why we have lots of unusual creatures like the Kiwi.       

My Year So Far In Room 20

My year so far in room 20.

This my first year in a digital class and it has changed me because I am used to using books, pencils and pens! My first day in Digi class was really exciting because for our tote trays we had to make our name on comic life. I made my name using the colors: Pink, Purple, Blue and White.   

I think that I have been managing myself “OK” but I should stop sitting by friends if I know that I will be silly with them and if I am silly with them then I will not learn and if I don’t learn I won’t get a good job and so on. Any ways I think that I am managing myself alright but I could do better.

I have been getting on alright with others but sometimes people annoy me so much that I get hypo and tell on them for no reason or I say that I am going to tell on them but I never do! Apart from all that I think that I manage myself pretty well!!   

I have joined in pretty well but sometimes I find some activities hard because I have asthma. Apart from that I love doing activities that contain running and other sporty stuff!  

The thing that I really want to improve on is my maths and a bit of my reading!! If there was one thing that I really want to improve on is my maths because I am really bad at maths!!!! The thing that I am really good at is writing!!

In conclusion I think this year I have done much better than last year but I need to keep improving.

Frost Story

Stiff leaves surrounding the school field. It is a beautiful white sight! The frost looks like crystals. It feels numbing and slippery. When walked on it sticks to shoes and sinks into socks. The frost on the window screen looked like freezing cold feathers covering the window screen. Teeth are trembling on a frosty winter's day. The frost looks hard and crispy. BRRR, BRRR, BRRR the kids scream as they grasped a little piece of grass with a lot of frost on it. The grass is with glimmering frost, surrounding the backyard. The frost has bubbles inside it and it melts when it is in a very warm or hot place. frost is a unique type of snow. The trees are covered in frost, the bushes are covered in frost and the kids shoes are covered in frost!!! The roof of the house was covered with frost and the sun reflection was making it look like crystals on the roof. As the children get out their bikes and scooters they realise that it was so frosty that all of bikes and scooters were covered in frost!!! This winter is very unique because all of leaves that are covered in frost have got a special pattern on them. The kids say that they can hear lots of birds chirping and that sound of the cold air flowing and the other sound that they can hear is the sound of kids and people breathing in the freezing cold air. This was a very unique winter because this winter there was lot’s frost and that means that there would be lot’s of sunny and warm afternoons. I can’t wait until the next winter.

               Here are some photos of a frosty winter!

               

The Guinealion

                

Introduction

This report is about the unusual creature called the “Guinea Lion.”The scientific name for the GiuneaLion is called a “Roaring Guinea Pig.” scientists say that it was discovered from a place called “Blue Blah Bemoon” Read on to find out about the animals: Diet, Habitat, What it is capable of doing and lot’s more!

Description

It’s face is a guinea pig and the body of a lion. The GiuneaLion has

short curved bear type ears. The animal  has a black and brown

main, a browny, orange  body. It’s face has a Y shape of white and the rest is light brown. It weighs about 18  kilograms and 1800 grams.  

Habitat

The “Guinea Lion lives in the forest in Stewart Island. They are mostly found in shady parts because the Guinea Lion Like to relax in the shade even if it is Summer, Autumn, Winter or spring it’s fuzzy coat of wool keeps it nice warm. Sometimes if you are lucky enough you might see them in the forest of Australia.

Diet  

It’s favourite food is “Carrots and meat” When the GiuneaLion

is sick or unhappy the only thing that it will eat and

drink is lime juice and it will eat some meat.

Behaviour

The Guinea Lions behaviour is alright but when it is upset, sad, unhappy or lonely it starts to act weird like some has beaten it up really badly If it starts to behave like that I just leave it alone and a few days later she goes back to normal. If she is has not gone back to it normal behavior then we have to take it to a special type of vet because the normal vet is too small.

My Labeled Diagram

This is a labeled diagram of a GiuneaLion. This picture will contain the features of a GiuneaLion like the things that are said in the description. I will explain the fur colour and other things to do with the GiuneaLion.

In this diagram the arrows lead to: 

That it has the face of a guinea pig, The body of a lion, Pointy claws that are on it’s paws., Little faded pink nose, Ant size beady eyes, Blacky, brown and orange main, Tiny bear type curved ears, Long skinny tail.             

Conclusion

The Guinea Lion will not harm you unless if you are tempted to annoy it. If you are walking in the forest and you run into one DO NOT be tempted to go up close to it. The distance that you and the Guinea Lion should be is at least 16 meters. 15 meters is ok but 16 meters is much  more safe. I hope that you liked learning about the Guinea Lion Bye Bye.