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.

5 things my teacher should know about me

1. My sister is in room 17 and she is 7. Sometimes she annoys me when I'm doing something. And she sometimes gets me with the hose and squirts me and splashes mewhen she is in the pool and I'm not even in my togs and I get angry.

2. I like cars like Toyota, Holden, Nissan, Mercedes Benz, Ford, Ferrari Lamborghini. I like all sorts of cars.

3. If I was a falcon I would fly around the sky and stand on a tall tree and look for pray and fly at 350km an hour.

4. I like listening to music like Metallica, Disturbed, Shihad, Linkin PARK

5. I like making stuff with LEGO like cars, trucks and planes, helicopters and all sorts of things.

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 part 2

I grabbed the bottle of water so ,Ninja ,Sam and me could have a drink. By half way the water was all gone. So I locked everything in my rocket. Then we all  walked into the distance. I was looking back every now and then to see my rocket. It took 4 hours to walk to Morts house. We eventually got there. Me, Ninja and Sam were really tired from walking for 4 hours. Morts wasn't tired.

Then we got to the door and knocked. Then a old lady answered the door. Mort said that it was his grandma. We walked in the door. I said what a beautiful house you have here. Its fantastic isn't it said Morts grandma. I was the last in so I shut the door. Then Mort introduced us. This is Jared. Ninja the cat. Sam the dog. They are from planet Earth. Then Morts family started to  introduced themselves to us. Hi im Bobby Morts dad. You can call me Bob for short. I'm Betty,Morts grandma. Im Darrell his grandpa. Hello im Michelle morts aunt. Hi Jared im Tom. “Its a pleasure to meet you all” I spoke. Would you like something to drink asked Morts grandma. I replied saying yes please. Ninja and Sam do you want something. Yes I'll have a drink of water. I,ll have it two please. Make that three drinks of water. “Ok” said Betty. 2 minutes later Betty comes back with 2 bowls and 1 glass cup filled with water. I skulled it back because I was really thirsty from the 4 hour walk.

Then all of Morts family asked me,Ninja and Sam if we could stay for tea. I said what are you going to cook for tea. You can pick what you want for tea. I said do you like pasta. They all said we do. Fish do you like that. Yes they replied. Cheese yep. Creamy pasta sauce yes. Ok lets make Tuna bake pasta. Or should we use Salmon. I said why don't we use both. Everyone agreed on that. I ended up not using the food that I took with me. So we did end up having that for dinner. 20 minutes later it was finished baking in the oven for 20 minutes. I sliced it up into how much everyone wanted. I had the biggest piece because I was the guest. It was delicious. Creamy,cheesy,juicy and full of flavour. Everyone said you can cook again for all of us some time again. “Thank you everyone” I said. Then Betty asked if she could have the recipe. So I wrote it down on a piece of paper.“Thank you said Betty”.“You are welcome”. Well I have to go in the morning to go back to the planet Earth. So we stayed the night at Morts house.

Then I woke up on the couch and got up. I woke up to smelling bacon sizzling. Darrell was cooking some yummy streaky bacon. He said would you like some bacon and I said yes please. Can Ninja and Sam have some bacon too. He replied they sure can. Then he was cooking scrambled eggs. He put some salt and pepper into the the eggs. Then some milk. Finally they were scrambled. Then everyone else that was a sleep got up and walked to the kitchen table. Then Betty made some pancakes. They were cooked. Then Betty got the golden syrup. Then I ate all of my breakfast up. Sam and Ninja ate all of there bacon. Then I said we better go now back to planet earth. So I said goodbye to everyone and said its nice meeting you all. Everyone said bye.

So 4 hours later walking back to the spaceship. Then we grabbed all of our stuff. Then put it all in the rocket. Back up to the cabin. Then I made sure that the door was sealed. Then locked it. Then we blasted of the planet Mars back to Earth. 7 months later we have arrived back on planet Earth. Ninja and Sam said awesome we are home.

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.

Matariki Art

This is my Matariki art. What I used was a plain piece of paper. Then I dyed the piece of paper. Then I let it dry. Then get another piece of paper and drew 7 stars on the paper and dyed it. Let it dry. Cut the stars out and glue them where ever you want on the dyed paper. Then draw a bird that is like a person on a piece of paper. Cut it out. Glue it on like the stars.

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

Holt Planetarium Visit

Something I enjoyed was learning about black holes because I didn't know that there was different types of black holes.  

Something I found interesting was that the suns heat goes through the clouds of Venus,then the heat  can’t come back out because It was something I didn't know.

The most exciting thing about space is stars because I would like to learn more about the solar systems.

“How do stars in the universe have an impact impact on us?”

I want the rest of my inquiry topic to be about is the solar system.`

Why are the planets all different temperatures?

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.    

The Elephants Child Retell

There once was a elephant who asked really curious questions. In his family there was his mum, Aunt Hippopotamus,Uncle Baboon, Aunty Kuko bird and his Uncle Giraffe. The question he asked his mum was what do crocodiles have for dinner?. Then his mum would spank him. Then asked his Aunt Hippopotamus and he got another spank from his aunt. He asked Uncle Baboon,aunty bird and uncle giraffe and they all spanked him as well. They spanked him till he was red all over. After that they all said if you want to find out what they have for dinner. He had only a little nose. Yes I do. Well go to the river than and you will see replied his mum. So the elephants child set of on a journey to the river.

On the way to the river he walked past lots of trees. He took some food with him. All he took with him was 100 rockmelon, 10 coconuts and 40 bananas with him. He travelled a long way through the middle of Africa to get to the river.

On the way he meet a rock python snake was wrapped around a rock in the mud by the river. The elephant's child asked the rock python and said what do crocodiles have for dinner. The  elephants child spoke to the snake and said please don't spank me please I have been spanked by all of my family. Suddenly the rock python snake spanked the elephants child. The python said go over to the river and see for yourself.

So the elephants child did and he meet a crocodile. Then asked the crocodile what do you have for dinner asked the elephants child. The crocodile replied and said come a little closer. So the elephant's child did. The crocodile said come even closer and the elephant did come closer. Then again the elephant moved even closer. Once more again the elephant moved closer. The next second the crocodile snap his jaws wide open and got hold of the elephants childs little nose. Then both the crocodile and the elephant pulled. The elephants childs nose started to stretch more and more.Suddenly the rock python said to the elephant I will come and help you pull. They were both pulling so hard that the elephant nose was so sore it was red. Finally the crocodile let go of the elephants paw nose. He managed to get his nose out with the help of the rock python. Then thanked the python for helping him.

The python started to talk to the elephant and said look you have got advantages. The python said advantage number 1 you are spraying water on your back to keep you nice and cool. He could now also put on a mud cap on. Advantage number 2 you can grab leaves to eat of the trees. You couldn't do that before could you. No replied the elephants child. Once more the python said advantage number 3 now you can spank. Oh I can go and spank my family now because they spanked me hard. Now I will spank my family even harder than they did to me. So the elephants child set off back to where he came from. With him he took a lot of  leaves rock melon and some sugar cane He took lots of leaves and rockmelon, sugar cane with him on his journey back to where he had come from. After a long time crossing the middle of Africa he finally arrived home. He started to spank his aunt hippopotamus,uncle graffe, his mum and his uncle baboon. He didn't let anyone touch his aunty kuko bird. Then after that all his family wanted a nose like that. They all asked the elephant where did you get that nose from. The elephant replied saying go see the crocodile at the river where I walked to on the other side of Africa. So some of his family set off and went to the same river as he did. So now all the elephants you see now have a long nose which is called a trunk.