The door ( Part 3 )

My footsteps echoed as I slowly tiptoed down the hallway . The corridor had little torches on the wall every couple of metres . Suddenly I stopped , I thought I heard something, I paused and looked around .Voices , I was sure of it . Or maybe not, maybe I was just hearing things. For a moment I thought about turning back but if I went back I would never be able to get back up to the ledge I fell from so I kept walking , I had to . I just kept walking , the hallway felt like it never ended , there wasn’t even a light at the end . I felt like giving up . . . BANG! . I ran right into a wall . I got Back On my feet and put my hands in front of me and sure enough it was a door , I felt around for the handle but I couldn’t find it? . I was sure it was a door because I could see the little fringes of light around the edges , I was ready to give up so I leaned on the wall to think about how to get out then suddenly a voice came from some sort of speaker .

WELCOME , PLEASE TYPE IN PASSWORD TO ENTER.

Currents Events

A woman in Auckland was grossed out after she brought a big mac at McDonalds and unwrapped it to find it already had a bite in it . She posted a photo on facebook and explained what happened, then she went to the manager to make a complaint and she got told that it was impossible and that she must have taken the bite . Then the CCTV footage was checked and it turns out that another customer brought the burger and took a bite and didn't like it so it got returned and then somehow it got sold again and McDonalds apologised for it .

Current events

After Quinn Duane was heartbroken when her partner called of their wedding but she wasn't going to let all that planning and money go to waste and after all she had organised food for 120 People so she turned her wedding reception into a feast for the homeless at the hotel they were going to stay at . Quinn was to upset to turn up but she was glad she could turn a bad situation into a good one .

Art Evaluation

For Term three we did zentangle art and it had to be something to do with yourself so I did waves because I like going to the beach . Once I did the outline I started with the patterns , it was really hard to find enough patterns to fill in the whole thing but eventually I did and then I had to go over the pencil in sharpie. After I did that it got photocopied and I had to colour in the copied one it took me awhile to figure out what colours to do where but I did some bits red, orange and yellow and some bits are light blue and dark blue and then all the other bis are purple and pink .Next time I would spread the colours out a bit more instead of doing certain colours in certain parts
This is what it looks like .

Current events

Reg Foggerdy got lost in the Australian outback and survived for six whole days without water  by eating ants to keep him going. Police found him on Tuesday sitting under a tree 15 kilometres from where he got lost . When police found him he was dehydrated and disorientated and was only wearing a T shirt , cap , shorts and jandals and endured heats up to 37 degrees Celsius .

Current Events

This little dog phoebe is lucky to have a friend like Tillie after she fell into a water tank and Tillie stayed with her until they were noticed and they were rescued after a week , they were both cold and hungry but unharmed and were returned to their owner .

The door ( part 2 )

I stepped in . I never should of. It was an instinct.

There was pure blackness all around me.

Then there was a slam I looked behind me , the door had swung shut, I tried to open it but it was stuck, more or less I was stuck . What had I done. I had just trapped myself in an unknown place with no idea how to get out , right I knew that I couldn’t use the door so I had to find another way out of this place so I walked around the pitch black space with my hands out so I didn’t bump into anything.

I kept on walking around until I took a step and the ground disappeared from beneath my feet and I was falling. I couldn’t do anything to stop myself , I was helpless and I was still falling while preparing myself for landing. THUMP! , I hit the ground hard , I sat up a little dazed and looked around it was still dark but I saw a small glowing light in the distance  but there was more than one small light

it looked sort of like a hallway so I got to my feet and began to creep down the long corridor .

Current events

This new song has been produced for two good reasons . One of the reasons is to fund raise for finding a cure to battens disease , To find a cure they need 10 million dollars so they got some kids together to get ideas from them about what could be in the video . The second reason for the video was to back our boys in black by making them a support song , so they took the kids ideas and made one big song .
Check it out .

Science

Today my Impact group put together our compost bags . We made two bags with different things in them to see how they both turn out . We are going to shake them a couple times a week for 4 to 6 weeks .  We are going to weigh them every now and then but since it is a hot compost I think they are going to get lighter .

My Writing ( The door Part one )

The Door

This was it . I walked up to the door , should I open it or not? . I had no idea what was behind it but  had a million thoughts about what was behind that door, but first let me let me tell you a bit about this door.

So sometimes when I go for a walk I see this door, it makes me think . It makes me wonder.

I have opened many doors but none of them ever made me think that hard.

Most of the time I walk past I bet it opens up a portal to another dimension or a portal to another planet or maybe behind that door is a witch's lair or a kingdom from a fairytale or even candyland!

But there is something about this door that makes me think so hard. It makes me feel like there is something so very magical behind this door but something about it scares me and something about it stops me from opening it .

But anyway,

I was standing there my hands were trembling as I slowly reached out to open the door.

I got a tingly feeling in my fingertips as I touched the door handle, I had to open it now -  there was no going back . I gripped the handle firmly , it let out a low groan as I pulled it down.

The door slowly swung open.

Current Events

A family in New Jersey was surprised to find a group of bear cubs swimming in their pool .
There was six bears , one mother and five cubs , the family called the police to report the bears but the police couldn't do anything about it so they had to wait for the bears to go on their own .

Current events

Did you know that there could be someone out there that looks exactly like you! People around the world have been finding perfect strangers that look exactly like them . Even though there is no relationship these people could easily pass as twins . Check out some of these look a likes .

Niamh Geaney and Karen Branigan



Rudi Kistler Maurus Oehmann




Jennifer and Ambra

book club role

After Nathan finds the eye scratched into the window he goes down to the well to see if he can find anything else. He reaches the well and tries to pull the rope which brings up the bucket he pulls and pulls and finally gets the bucket up to reveal a clue . Strum V.O. He has no idea what this means .

Nathan has a good think about the clue and remembers some  books that his dad used to read to him called strum so he goes back up to the attic to look for the certain book and he finds it . It has a picture of hansel and gretel at the end of the breadcrumb trail and remembers that  his dad calls the forest near their house breadcrumb forest so nathan decides to look in the breadcrumb forest for the next clue .

Aeroview Trip

On Tuesday me and my Impact group went on a trip to Aeroview garden centre to learn about composting and sowing seeds . Paul Green was the man who was talking to us .

We learnt about all the different ways of composting . One kind is a hot compost and the other kind is a cold compost , A hot compost is the quickest method and when you put some in the garden it destroys the weed seeds by cooking them. A cold compost takes less effort and has some of the same things in it , except it takes longer .
We also got the chance to plant our own plants



We planted:

• lettuce
• watermelon
• beetroot
• silverbeet

This is us planting the seeds

Current Events

A teenager in Malawi, Africa, brought electricity and running water to his village by building a windmill out of rubbish.

William Kamkwamba lived through a severe drought in 2002 that killed thousands of people in Malawi and almost caused his family to starve to death. During the drought he was unable to go to school but continued to read books and study alone.

During his study William found a textbook about windmills and was fascinated by how they could create electricity and pump water. When he realised that such a device could help defend his family he decided to build one of his own.

Many of the villagers thought William had lost his mind, spending his time going through the trash and staying up well into the night building something most of them had never even heard of.

William’s neighbours and family were amazed when his windmill was complete and he showed them how it could be used to power light and pump water. He certainly became a local hero!

Source : Diane Mulhern

http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Current events

George Kirby( 103 ) and Doreen Luckie ( 91) have been together for
27 years and finally they got married on Georges 103rd birthday.


















This is the oldest couple ever to get   a record combined age of
194 beating the previous record of 191 .
Between them they have 7 children ,
15 grandchildren and 7 great grand children

 

Cross Country

Cross Country

I woke up feeling nervous and tired I got up and put my clothes warm clothes on ( I had my running clothes on underneath) and went out to the kitchen to have breakfast . after we got ready and mum rushed us out the door we all hopped into the car and started driving to south farms. I was staring out the window watching all the trees and paddocks rushing by and suddenly we pulled in and went up the driveway of south farms , all my memories of cross country came rushing back as I saw the wool shed and the running track .

My race was up first so I peeled of my warm clothes to reveal my running gear. It was cold, I was nervous and my feet were already covered in mud as me and the rest of the 11 year olds marched down the hill to the start line . Mr Fraser explained the track to us after we warmed up , The boys started first and ran off and up the hill , I was not ready at all but anyway we all had to line up on the start line and wait for Mr Fraser to say go . “GO!” he shouted and we all started running up the small hill , My feet sunk deep into the mud every step I took , The stones really hurt as I scrambled across the stream . after the stream there was a small hill that we had to run up and then run down

( or in my case slide down ) , after the hill we had to follow the gravel track up to the killer hill ( dun dun dun) . The killer hill was steep and big and was hard to run down without tripping or cutting your feet but I stormed on .

Then at the bottom of the hill we had to run along beside the stream and the cross it and run back across the small slippery hill and then at the end was yet another steep hill that we had to climb to the top of and the sprint round the corner to the finish line , I could hear my friends cheering as I sprinted round the corner to the finish line . Finally it was finished so I bent over to catch my breath I didn't make it to Hauraki Plains but I was still proud .

current events

I came across this article about our every day things being banned for silly reasons .

ketchup in schools -
France banned ketchup in school cafeterias
because they were afraid of ruining french cuisine .

Chewing gum -
Singapore banned the sale of chewing gum in 1992 and it is still banned now .

Video games -
China has just lifted a 14 year ban on the sale of video games . In 2001 South Korea blocked children from playing online video games between midnight and 6:00 am .

Flip flop -
In Capri , Italy , flip flops are banned because of the noise they make .

Science

This week for science we did an experiment on floating and sinking .

•   We think something will sink if it is has higher density
•   and it will float if it has less density

For the experiment we used an orange and we dropped it in the water with the skin on and it floated and then we got another orange and peeled it and then dropped it in the water and it sunk . We think the skin of the orange has air in it and acts as a life jacket and when we took the peel off it sunk because the orange has no air in it .

Sugary drinks

Last week on Friday T.A came in to teach us about how much sugar is really in our drinks.
She talked to us about what sorts of things are the most healthy and what we should drink after sports or sports training . She told us what happens to our body when all that sugar gets into our system we get all hypo and we are really energetic for a bit because our heart starts to beat really fast and it is called a sugar rush but when the sugar rush ends it is called a crash which is when you get all tired and angry and sleepy . 

T.A lined up all the drinks from the least sugar to the most
here was the order :
1. Water
2. milk
3. one cup of Raro
4. Flavoured water

5. small can of V

6.Can of coke

7. Powerade

8.Mother

9. bottle of coke

10. e2

And then last of all she talked to us about diet coke and coke zero

She told us that on the back it says there is no sugar in it but really it is worse than normal coke because it has artificial sugar it it .