The Ghosts of Young Nicks head

The weather at Young Nicks Head was stormy with rain, thunder and lighting. With the window rattling away at the top story of the old house. Then flashes of lightning flashed in the room and lit the corners up of the room. Joe counted the seconds between the lightning and the thunder. The thunder which was shaking up above the house. Then all of a sudden the power went out. Alec spoke  it’s probably a power cut and the lightning had struck the power lines.

Next there was a loud knock on the front door, with a black,shadowy, round object at the door. Joe said to the door loud enough to hear on the other side “hello”. Joe opened the door. There standing in black gumboots, with a rain coat was a stranger. Next Joe's dad walked to the door. The stranger said to Alec since there is a power cut I thought that you might want some candles and some oil lamps. The oil lamps were rusty and old. The candles were used but still had some wax. Joe’s dad said to the stranger “thank you”. The stranger said that these will last you the whole night and maybe tomorrow night if the power is still out. Then Joe’s mum said you must come in for a cup of tea. But he said no thank you but, Joe’s mum insisted to have a cuppa. The stranger had walked away in the distance. All that Joe and his parents, Eddie could see was a dark,black spot in the distance. Then they lit the oil lamps and the candles on a sourcer. Joe and eddie had a candle each. Alec Joe’s dad had a oil lamp and so did Joe’s mum.

Production Diary Part 3

Friday 15 of August

Dear Diary, hi it’s me again for a update on our production. Today we did our production practice in the hall, on the stage. I had to hold up a blue sheet for the dancers, so they could do their dance we have a visitor today. It is Leo, Mr Moriarty’s son. Everyone was excited to be in the hall to practice. There was ups and downs. Some people were still a bit quiet and so are saying their lines very fast.  Liam was back from being sick. So his group told him what we were doing now. Mrs Miller was at the back of the hall to see if she could hear us all on the stage. At the end of production practice everyone got positive feedback. Then it was time to get our morning tea.      

Wonder Art

This is my Wonder art. It is from the book called Wonder. My character is August. He is the main character.

The Legend Of The Seven Whales

There once was a Tohunga who was an expert of any skill and art who lived in the east of the North Island. The face of the Tohunga was covered in tattoos. He also looks after seven whales. Their names are Tahutoria,Takitaki, Hikunui, who was the youngest whale of them all, Tuhara, Korito, Onepoto and Iwitea. They would all go and ask all the other fish in the sea if they had any news.

So they set off to see the other fish for some news. That was their responsibility. Takitaki preferred the Dolphins. Tahutoria liked to talk to other whales. Korito spoke to the Sharks. Onepoto talked to the Swordfish. Tuhara chatted to the Snapper and the Silver Frostfish. Iwitea gathered the news from the groper and the john dory. Hikunui got the news from the paua, with the Mable fish following him.  

One morning when the whales were heading out to sea they realised that Hikinui was not with them . Only Iwitea and Tuhara could be seen swimming out of Waiatai. Then suddenly Tohunga came out of nowhere and spoke to the whales saying, “you whales are in big trouble. If you are not out to the ocean by the time the sun rises, you will be really sorry.”

The sun had risen and the whales were not out to sea. So Tohunga striked the whales with lightning and with a big clap of thunder, they were turned into mountains. Now you can see the whales just east of Wairoa. Tuhutoria, Takitaki, Korito and Onepoto are the closest to the sea. Hikunui is fast asleep in the Waiatai Valley.           

Production Diary Part 2

Thursday 14 of August

Dear Diary, hi it’s me again for a update on our production. Production practice once again. It’s annoying reading my lines out over and over again . It’s boring but I have to do it. The dance that we do is fun. It gets annoying having to do it all the time. Sometimes I want to dozy off like the John Dory. We are getting better and getting louder with our lines. We are also getting a lot better at our dances and getting in time with the beat and each other. Mrs Miller and Mr Moriarty love it so far.            

Production Diary Part 1

Dear Diary, let me introduce myself. My name is Jared and my role in the production is a Silver Frostfish. The production is about legends. Our legend that our class is doing is the legend of the seven whales. When Mr Moriarty told the whole class that we were doing a production I thought to myself, not another one. Do I really have to? Something that is cool is that you get the have the afternoon off from doing some school work. I know my lines off by heart. Something that is very awesome is that you come on stage to a song. My song that the Silver Frostfish and Snapper get on stage to is Wipe Out. Then the song that we dance off to is beyond the sea.          

Swaziland

Cameron's Uncle's Skype Call From The Village

The 2014 Commonwealth Games are in Glasgow, Scotland. This morning at 9.00 room 6 and 8 interviewed him from the Commonwealth village. Over in Scotland was 10.00. We were very lucky to talk to Craig Palmer which is Cameron’s and Thomas’s uncle. He is in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games

We asked him questions about the Commonwealth Games. A girl from room 8 asked “how many Commonwealth Games have you been to?” He answered back saying

“I have  been in two Commonwealth Games , In 2006 I went to Melbourne, Australia, so this is my second time going to the Commonwealth Games.”

His job is being a cyclist scientist. He collects the details to make a training program. He told us that the bikes do not  have any spokes. The bikes are very light and are made out of carbon fibre. Carbon fibre is very light and strong. Carbon fibre makes things go faster because it is very light. He also makes sure, that he gets the best out of the bikes and to make the bikes more aerodynamic.

The Commonwealth Games go for at least two weeks , or just short of two weeks.There are approximately about 320 athletes (or just short) from New Zealand that are competing in the Commonwealth Games. He meets with other athletes from New Zealand in different sports. The racing starts Friday morning New Zealand time. In Scotland it would start Thursday. The length of the velodrome track is 250 metres long. The athletes train for most of their lives. They also train every day.  

He even showed us the Scottish mascot. It had a kilt and a white Scottish hat. The Commonwealth Games is, all the countries that the queen owns. Craig, Cameron and Thomas’s uncle showed us the Commonwealth Games village with all the rooms for the athletes to stay in. Then in a little white tent outside there was some spa pools.Then Miss H asked Craig to show us all that it was ten o'clock at night in Glasgow. So he showed us out the window to see the village and the sky. Since Scotland is so close to the North Pole, was still a lot of light in the sky.

Maths Town

This is our town that we made. I made it with Jaidyn. We had five pieces of success criteria. We have accurate measurments,plan so the roads connnect,we had to use our 10 times table to upscale,six main things a town needs and a scale for your plan.

Mars Part1

I am just going to finish fueling my rocket. Im going up there for only 1 earth day. I have build a fridge and cupboard in my rocket. Im going to grab 100kg of oxygen for me. Ninja and Sam get 95 kgs of oxygen. Now for 55 liters of water in a big plastic bottle. I will take some sausages,potatoes, cheese, chicken ,basil,bread,eggs and finally crackers. Some pots as well. I will take a small gas bottle and stove with me so I can cook. Its time to launch my rocket. I climb up the ladder to my rocket and I put the water in the fridge. Then the cheese, sausages,basil,chicken into the fridge as well. Then I put the crackers and potatoes in the cupboard. Then I go back upstairs and grab my cat and dog food. I climb up again and walk over to the cupboard and put them by the crackers. Then down the ladder, upstairs again to get my cat and dog. I take my cat up the ladder. My pets beds. Then put it just inside the door. Then down the ladder once more to grab my dog. I grabbed the chain and attached it to his collar. Locked all the doors and back up the ladder to my rocket with my dog. Shut the door and make sure that it is sealed. Started up the rockets and waited for them to warm up. I blasted off the ground at 600km, on the way up I start to come through the clouds and its a bit blurry.

Then suddenly there was an alien that was red. It had red fur covering from head to toe. He had a green tail. His eyes were light blue. Then I spoke to it and I said hi. Im not sure if hes a boy or a girl. It spoke back and said hello. “What is your name”. He replied back i'm Mort. “Hi im Jared”. “Are you a boy or a girl” I spoke. He got scared because he saw Sam. Sam yelled out hi. He sprinted to see what the red object was by me. “Who is that” said Sam. Its Mort, he lives on Mars. Oh. How old are you I said.” I'm 5” said Mort. Then I introduced everyone. This is Mort. Mort this is Sam. Then Ninja walked out of his bed to see what all the racket was. Then I finally said this is Ninja. Ninja this is mort. He is 5 years old. Do you have any parents or any family Ninja asked. Yeah I have got a dad,brother,nana,aunt and a grandad. It is just me, Ninja and Sam that came. Where is all of your family I asked Mort. There at my house. My dad told me to go play outside,so I did. Thats when I discovered your rocket here. “Ok” I replied. Where is your house asked Ninja. Can you all see that yellow dot in the distance. Yes is that your house I asked . Mort said it was. Ok we all said. Do you allow guests at your house. I think so. Then Mort asked us a question. He asked what planet are you from. We replied saying we are from planet Earth. So you're our neighbor. Yeah I guess so. So you're a human then Jared. Yes and Ninja is a cat. Sam is a dog.

Mid Year Reflection

Something I enjoyed learning was that matau is left and maui is left.

Something I want to learn more about cars.

Something Im proud of is getting stuff published on my blog.

Something That is better being in a digital classroom is that you write on Google Drive.

My favourite sentence in my writing so far is. He could be dangerous so don’t approach him.

Something I learnt was how to play rakau games on the matariki workshops day

My favourite book so far is Wonder.

My favourite maths We did our shopping at Countdown online. We had $250 to spend on grocery,s for our family and counting our pets.

For genius hour you get to pick your own topic that you are passionate about. My subject that I'm doing for genius hour is about production cars and utes.

My favourite writing:

I could taste the fresh air. The taste of the wood was sweet. The wood felt like sandpaper when I licked it. I could touch the grass it felt moist and soft . I could smell the moisture lurking in the air. I could taste the fence it tasted like cold metallic that had a few drips of water. The grass was frosty because Jack Frost had been. I could see trees, some were green and some were yellow and orange. I also saw some palms the were a nice bright green. Behind the trees I could see Te Mata Peak and all the surrounding hills. Some had little patches of green  grass and some had big patches. Some even have gigantic patches of pine trees. The color of the trees is a black brownish color. I could see all sorts of cars they were a Suzuki Swift, Toyota Corolla, Mitsubishi Diamante, Mazda Cx 9, Toyota Caravan, Holden Commodore and a Mitsubishi Evo 10. Evo is short for Evolution.    

I could see the giant laying dead and still as a rock on the top of Te Mata Peak. I could hear the sound of a plane. It was noisy and sounded like it was about to take off from the airport. I could see a bird it was squawking as it was flying. In the distance back towards school I could see a corn field that was not quite ripe. In the paddock I could see horses running around. They were a golden brown with a black golden brown wiry tail and mane. Some had white coats on that covered there back and there neck. The houses on the other side of Howard Street from the paddocks were made out of white whether boards of black and red bricks. On the other side of the first wire fence is an electric fence which I got a shock from but I didn't touch it though. I could tell that it was an electric fence because it had a yellow plastic handle thing on it. Under the line of electric wire by the wood post was two black rubbish bags. I could tell that they were full of rubbish. They were bulging out from the sides front and back.

   

     Midyear Reflection  by jared146v on GoAnimate

Waka

Today Room 6 drove to Clive river to go for a waka ride. We had parents to drive us there. They were Maia s dad ,Georges mum and some other parents. I went with Maia’s dad. His car is a Honda Odyssey. I went with Maia’s dad and  Maia,Julius,Brooklyn and Mary.

We left school. It took us about 20 minutes to drive to Clive. We had to turn off at Fremden road. Then spot the rowing club sign. Turn down the stone drive. Then over the bank, turned right and on to some grass. Then we parked. Then we got out off the cars. We waited for Mr Moriarty to come. He finally arrived with Julius’s nan.

Then we all stood around waiting till we could go on the waka. Some people were excited and some were nervous. I was one of the nervous people. Then we all ran over to get a life jacket each and put them on. Then we walked over to an adult to see if the life jackets were tight enough. Then some of room 6 discovered that there was a whistle on them and they started to blow them. Mr Moriarty got sick of it so he blew his whistle. Then he told us to come over to him. Room 6 did.

Then Jim Edwards the waka leader was telling us bit of a story. Then Jim showed us some weapons. They were sharp. One of them had a head carved into it. The one that had a head on it the people that they were fighting against thought they going to throw it because it was sharp but they didn't. Instead they would use the other end to whack the other people. This other one had a triangle on a stick.

These were the commands Jim gave us were Kia riti which means get ready. Tokihi which means work together and maintaining the rhythm. The third one hoe which means paddle. The fourth one whakamutu which means stop. Ta papa lean forward. Tipuna means ancestors. The ancestors were carved on the side of the waka. Tumatauenga which means god of the war.

Then all room 6 got a piece of carpet. Then we climbed aboard the waka in the Clive River. The water was murky. Sometimes we would stop paddling and hold up our hoe straight into the air pointing to the sky. Then do a pukana. We paddled under and past Clive bridge. We paddled past lots of houses along the way. Then we had to turn around and come back. We had some help from Jim. Then all of room 6 and the parents started to paddled in reverse for a few minutes. As we were paddling forward again there were patches of weed in the water and sticking above. We paddled under and past the bridge once more. Then we had to turn again. But this time we had to do it by ourselves without the help of Jim. The people on the left side of the waka had to paddle with the backside of the paddle out so it was facing to the bank. The people on the right side had to put the green and white side, pointing to the other bank on the other side, pushing out like the people on the left.

Then we arrived back at where room 6 started. We hopped off the waka. Walked over the little bridge. Room 6 took off their life jackets and put them back into the boxes where we found them. We hopped back into the cars that we came in and drove back to school. It took about 20 minutes again. He waka eke noa, which means we are all in the waka together.

The hardest part was paddling backwards. The fun part was paddling. Something I learnt was the waka weighs 6 tons on its own.    

My Learning

Laser Tag

I was going to Palmerston North for my cousin's birthday. He was turning 13. So now he is a teenager now.  It is down the road from Daytona Go Karts. We were at Daytona Go Karts before laser tag. We eventually got to laser tag in Palmerston North.

Going were me, my two cousins and some of my cousins friends , my nana ,and my great aunty. I was playing with my cousins and their friends. All of us were going to play laser tag wanted 3 games and that was the maximum that we could have.” Ethan said ok then “ we will have 3 games.

Then we had to watch this video about how to play Laser Tag. We all sat down on seats to watch it. You had sensors on your stomach and both of your shoulders and one on your back. To hit them you had to shoot at those sensors. If your shoot them so manys times, you kill them at you get points for shooting them thats, if you kill them. Im not sure of how many points you get for killing them. I also think that you can get points for just hitting them. Im not quite sure on that.   There are two types of guns that you can choose from. They are the phaser that can shoot long range. The blaster which is used to shoot at close range. They all make sounds. Then if you shoot something it would give you a machine gun. To operate it you had to put your hand under it near the top of the gun. Then you could shoot. It ended.

Then me and my cousins and friends walked into this room with all the vests with the guns hanging on the side by a cable. A man came along with this device, and waved it in front of us and it gave us what teams that we were on. I wasn't sure what it was I was blue and the other team was red. On my team was Ethan and his friend. The other team was just Jatin and Ethan friend,s sister. The man told us to walk through this door that had red led lights that were around the outside of the door. You had names like mine was Torpedo, Ethans was Ace and his friends sisters name was Batman. Ethans friends name was Bubble. Then it started to countdown 5 4 3 2 1 0 and then the game started. I was like ohhhh its about to start in my head. Then it started.

Everything was dark black with a outlined with the colour range of yellow,  red, green, orange and blue. It must have been glow paint. Even though it was hard to hide from the other team I still managed to hide. Then I scored 2200 points I think it was in the first game. One dumb thing about it was sometimes they would put you on another team which was stink. Ethan and his friend beat me and his friends sister. I beat his sister 400 points.

Sometimes you would hit your own teammate by accident. The next game I hid behind a wall and I was like a sniper trying to shoot the other team. I was just sitting on the ground to shoot. A few times Ethan’s friend and his sister would come by and I would shoot from behind. Then they would run away and hid again so I would have to find them again. At the end of the game I managed to beat my score of 2200 points. The score was 3400. I thought to myself I must be getting better at laser tag.

I managed to beat my score of 2200 points. The score was 3400. I thought to myself I must be getting better at laser tag.

Colour Days

Monday is red, because it is time to go to school and start another week.   

Tuesday is black, getting better at least it is not Monday.    

Wednesday is green, half way through the week.

Thursday is orange nearly there, one more day after today left of school.

Friday is yellow, because it is the last day of school that week.

Saturday is blue, yes it is the weekend today, finally I have got a game of soccer to play.  

Sunday is grey, yes I get to sleep in this morning.

Number Art

This is my number art. I used to do the outside with orange color pencil. The white,black and grey are pastels. The green is leaf green dye. The number 5 is my number for our number off. The colors represent the colors of koala. The green stands for the eucalyptus leaves that koalas eat.    

Camp Build Up Reflection

Survivor Camp Build-Up Reflection

Will you survive?

I am most looking forward to cooking because I look forward to seeing what food we make.    

I am disappointed by the waka because I looked forward to riding on the waka.  

The best thing about my tribe so far is the name because it is different and it is a fruit which is delicious.   

My group struggles with decisions.We can improve this by making one decision and sticking with it.

My favourite challenge so far has been the voting I liked it because it was really interesting to see who will get the most votes.

My idea for a tribal challenge is to eat as many bowls of spaghetti and tomato sauce.

3 Favourite Dishes

I wrote about 3 of my favourite dishes.

This is my mum’s recipe.

it is creamy, juicy, soft, melts in your mouth,  

These are the ingredients that you need.

425g of tuna in a can with springwater.

1 cups of cheese your choice

500g pasta your choice

495g of Dolmio tuna bake pasta sauce.

double everything if you want to make a bigger.

Cooking instructions

1 preheat the oven to 180 degrees

2 cook 200g of dry pasta.

3 combining  cooked pasta, drained 425g can of tuna in springwater and Dolmio Tuna Bake Sauce into a baking dish.

4 Cover with 1 cup of grated cheese.

5 Baking for 20 minutes or until golden brown and then saying’ it's ready.

This is amazing one of my favourite foods.

Its creamy, spicy, smells spicy, tastes buttery, smooth, chewy, soft, melts in your mouth, sets your tongue on fire.

These are the ingredients that you need to make Butter Chicken.

500g of diced chicken

50g of butter

2 cloves of garlic, crushed

1 tsp of tumeric

1 tsp of cumin

1 tsp of ground nutmeg

½ tsp each salt and pepper

2 Tbsp of tomato paste

½ tsp garam masala

1 onion, chopped

black pepper

½  cup of cream

1 tsp of chilli seasoning

Macaroni cheese is one of my favourite foods. Macaroni tastes creamy, moist ,cheesy, liquidy, soft, smooth.

  to make macaroni cheese you need these ingredients.

500g of Macaroni

1 cup cheese of your choice

4 slices bacon optional

half an onion diced  optional

1 tablespoon of butter

salt

pepper to taste

milk

parsley to garnish.

Waka Art

This is my waka art. The flags are what my family is from. It is our class  art. Because each one has a meaning and we are all in it together so we paddle and if we don't paddle we are not going to get anywhere. My paddle has got my name on it. The canoe that we are all in together. He Waka Eke Noa.

Perimeter And Area Maths

 This is my perimeter and area maths. Perimeter means the the length    



 Area means the size that something takes up.
measured in squares, meters, center meters or miller meters. Enter length and height then times it by using times tables and that's your answer.  






Perimeter means the the length around the shape.