Back To School!

After a long two weeks of school holidays it was finally time to switch our brains on and focus on school work.

Our two week holidays didn't really feel like a two week holiday. It felt less like a holiday. Just sitting at home and knowing that we don't have to wake up at six o'clock to get ready for school was awesome! But now that we have to wake up at six I miss sleeping in. Just another nine weeks to go till the next holidays YAY!

Fruit Kebab Movie

Two weeks ago we were put into two teams to make a movie about Healthy Foods.

We had to make a movie that was about two minutes long. Before we could make it we had to plan out what we were going to be doing. It took us about three days to plan it. When that was done we had to practice our lines. All of us had about three days to practice our lines, before we could start making our movie.

Heilala and I brought in some fruits to use for our kebabs.Once the movie was made we were able to add music to the storyboard. We had about five days to do this. Once that was done we had to publish it. Well done!

Touch Rugby

Straight after morning tea we had our final session of touch rugby with Trevor. We have had 3 sessions with him and they were just fabulous.

On the first week we learnt some drills and some of the drills that we learnt was how to plant the ball, what a dummy half is,  pass and scoop. The second week came and that was the week when we were starting to play against each other in two teams with girls and boys.  

At last week three came. When we got there the girls had to split into 2 even teams and the boys had to do that as well. When we we in 4 groups one group from the boys and girls had to put some red bibs on.  When they were on both boy teams were first and they played against each other.  My favourite part was today when we played the game and we won.

For the last three weeks I have had a lot of fun.

World’s Most Honest Countries

People say that the word honesty is the best policy ever but how honest are we? We weren't chosen to be one of the MOST honest countries. How can China be one of them? And India. Well, I think New Zealand is a free country! We have Pacific Islanders, and more but turns out people have been choosing the other countries but live in New Zealand. Oh well, we'll just have to live with it.

Kiwi Kids News

Lights For Paris

Paris may be called the "City Of Lights" but since the attack on the 13th last Friday the rest of the world are offering lights to Paris. Buildings around the world even including our own sky tower has been lit up with the colours of the French flag to show support and love for Paris. A lot of people have lost their lives in the attack that took place last Friday around the French capital and heaps of world leaders have offered their support to France. Also Facebook is supporting this by getting people to change their profile picture to the colour of the flag which is red, blue & white. 

                                                               
San Francisco City Hall – USA                                     Auckland’s Sky Tower – New Zealand
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No More Cash For Sweden

 Sweden is heading toward their currency and relying completely on credit and debit cards. Although Sweden was the first European country to introduce banknotes back in 1661, now they are working to convince people that digital payments are safer than cash. Younger people think that this idea is a good idea but elder people think it is a risky choice to make. Homeless people think it is also a god idea because they will be fully dependent. Sweden is not the only country working on this. 

Silver Ferns Win!

The Silver Ferns win against Australia and the score was 58 - 47, but the Diamonds still have the Constellation cup. As they won they leveled the four test series at Perth Arena in front of a crowd of 12,845 for a Netball game in Perth. However there win was not as sweet as it could have been. As the match was a drawn four match contents, the trophy was given to the best overall goal difference. It was a sweet evening for coach Waimarama Taumaunu as it was her last coach in charge. This was there biggest win since September in 2010. But they made a back to back win against Australia. 
BY:Jo Banbury

                    

Plane Crashes Over Egypt

A Russian plane carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area Egypt's peninsula on Saturday killing everyone that was aboard. It was a airbus A321. The plane was flying from the Red Sea resort of               Sharmel Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia where it went down. A violent group of affiliated to Islamic State said in Egypt said in a statement it had brought down the plane “in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land ”. image from Kiwi Kids News

Going To Auckland Hospital

On Saturday afternoon we went to Auckland Hospital for a check up on my friend's mum. As we got there we had to go to ward 6 and wait there until the doctor came. When the doctor came we had to take the baby for a walk so that my friend's mum could go in for her check up. We waited for about 20 minutes until we heard that everything was fine. 

Auckland City Hospital
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Mercury

Mercury is one of the smallest planets in the solar system and it is the closest to the sun. The surface of Mercury is like the surface of the moon which has large holes all over it. The side of Mercury that is facing the sun is twice as hot as a kitchen oven which means that it is 800'F (427'C). The darker side is 3 times colder than Antarctica in winter which also means minus 297'F (183'C). It takes 87.66 days for Mercury to go around the sun once.
Mercury Planet  WP:CC BY-SA

Looking Forward To Cultural Groups

This term the thing that I am looking forward to is Cultural Groups. This year I will be participating in the Tongan group. We will start practicing a dance to perform to our school and our families. I am looking forward to Cultural Groups because we get to dance on stage with friends andbecause we will make our families proud.

Ruapotaka School Tongan Group Performance 2013

Rugby World Cup 2015

For the last two weeks we have been put into groups to create a presentation about the Rugby World Cup 2015. I am in a group with , Quros, Tyla, Sophie, Suliasi. I have learnt that the Webb Ellis cup is named after William Webb Ellis. I think that our presentation is going well and I can't wait to see the finish product.

Wood Tech

                                                Wood Tech

For the last month I have been working on a jewelry holder for my mum. It is now done and it look’s good. I had to plan what I was going to do first. Then I worked my way from my plan. We had to do 10 to 15 designs on it then we could start on our project. It was a lot of work but I did it. I am so happy that I finished my project.

Myron Simpson

                                             “Myron Simpson”    

Today the amazing Myron Simpson came to talk to us about reading and cycling.

Myron was born on July the 30th in 1990. He was inspired by his brothers to cycle. He started riding a bike when he was 3 years old with training wheels. By the time he was 3 and a half he took his training wheels off. When he was eight years old he competed in competitions. In 2007 he won a silver medal in Mexico. His cycling bike is worth $15,000 dollars. He has made his own company called Myron's Muesli.

      

Jill McDondal

Jill McDonald

Jill McDonald was born in Wellington in 1927. She had a talent for drawing when she was in primary school and she also loved reading books. She drew a lot of illustrations for School Journals and she would use pens, pencils, crayons, stencils, inks, paints and dye. This was when there were no computers around so that meant it was done all by  hand. Sadly Jill died in 1982 and a lot of her art was put in trunk and sent to her mum Glen.

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Quality bog comment

I am learning to write a quality blog comment. 

Mad Messenger

Yesterday we had two visitors come to our school. They were here to tell us that we are special and we change throughout our lives. We all had to say something nice about Sini and Mrs Golder. At the end we all enjoyed watching Petia draw one of his favourite superheroes.