About Me

Hi my name is Ava I am a year eight at ngatea primary school.
My teacher is Miss Williams and my class is the incredible minds. I like hockey and athletics, my favourite colour is blue. Have a look around my blog , I hope you like it.


Tuesday, 3 May 2016

TK College Jazz Band

This morning at nine fifteen the whole school lined up outside the hall , we were going to be hearing the Jazz band from TeKauwhata College Preform some songs. There was plenty of instruments and these are the ones I remember , Trombone, Saxophone, Flute, Trumpet, Drums and Bass guitar. They preformed about forty minutes of music some of it was from the movie Frozen and some of the music was from Michael Jackson and Henry Mancini. A few of the student got to have a go playing the instruments and some people had a go at conducting the whole band.

Monday, 11 April 2016

Current Events

Three men were spotted and saved after being stranded on a small isolated island in the pacific ocean . They were spotted by the US Navy and the Coastguard because of a sign they had drawn on the beach that said 'HELP'. The Sailors had been stranded for three days after there boat sunk and they were forced to swim to to the shore of the island. They used branches from the palm trees to write the sign and they also used their brightly coloured life jackets to be more visible so they would get noticed. A US navy aircraft spotted their sign and a boat was sent to pick them up from the small island which was actually called Fanadik. In the end all three of the men were fine.
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Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Goal reflection

Goal : I can make positive choices that are right for my own learning.

Reflection: I think this goal is a good goal for me because sitting on my own is the right thing to do especially since there is lots of work to get done.
I think I could work on this goal a little bit better so that I can get my work done on time and so that I can get back up to date with my aws.
I think I have made some good choices so far like sitting on my own in the quiet zone a few times but I still think that I can make bigger and better decisions for my own learning.

Saturday, 2 April 2016

Current Events

On March the eighth five adorable cheetah cubs were brought into the world at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. Willow the five year old cheetah became the mother of these five cubs after having a rare operation due to some medical conditions that was needed to bring these cubs to the world. Two of the cubs are female and three of them are male.


My Easter Weekend

For my Easter me and my family went to Pauanui on Thursday night and my Nana and my cousin Ruby came up on Friday. On Friday it was my friend Graces birthday party but before the party me Morgan and my cousin Maggie went on our scooters around pauanui and we scooter on the wharf and then I got back to my bach and I went over to Graces bach and we decorated cupcakes and they tasted really nice and then we played some games.

On Saturday morning I went kayaking with my family and Ruby and also my friends Grace and Meg. We all had a swim while dad got the kayaks ready , and me and Ruby went on the double one while grace went in the single.In the afternoon we went to the south end of the beach to walk across the rocks and we saw lots of skinks. After that me and Ruby went for a bike ride to the flying fox. After dinner I went to Graces house for a game of spotlight.

On Sunday we woke up and found our eggs, my favourite eggs were the crunchie ones with bits of crunchie in them.Later in the day we went for a bike ride to the to show my cousin the shops. For lunch we made hot cross buns and then we went to the beach for a swim but it was really rough. On Monday Ruby and Nana left in the morning and we left in the afternoon. I had a really great weekend and I got to see family and friends.

Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Hockey Big Day Out

On Monday it was hockey big day out and our school entered some teams. In the morning me and everyone else who entered sat on the hall deck and got into our teams and then we walked over. My team was called the Pumas , We had Me, Morgan, Toby, Shivarne, Matthew, Mason, Nathan . We had five games , we won our first three games and then we were in the finals for our pool which was against another Ngatea team which was called the Jaguars. Unfortunately we lost our pool finals but then after that we played another team for third and fourth and we one which meant we came third overall. After that went and watched the overall finals which was against two other Ngatea teams and the Jaguars won. I had a really good day and I was happy with third.

Monday, 21 March 2016

current events

Dominoes has announced that it is going to be trialling this robot to deliver pizzas to New Zealand customers.
The robot is called DRU ( Dominoes Robotic Unit). The company has been working with the government to get a permit to use this robot to deliver pizzas to hungry customers. Simon Bridges ( Minister of transport) said that using the robot is an exciting opportunity. New Zealand is one of the first countries to be considered for testing this pizza delivery robot. No date has been set for when it will be tested.
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Monday, 14 March 2016

Current Events

One Australian man will definitely be sore after hauling in a 363kg Black Marlin in Perth on Wednesday. It took three hours to pull it in . This record beat the previous record for biggest black marlin (296k) but unfortunately halfway through bringing it in his friends had to help him stay straight which is against the rules which means his record did not count. The twenty five year old who ways 72kg (just one fifth of the marlin) said wrestling with the fish was the most painful experience of his life. The biggest ever marlin catch in Western Australia was a 368.20kg Blue Marlin.
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Sunday, 6 March 2016

Current events

One Women received a very strange surprise when she cracked open her egg to find another egg inside of it.
She filmed her discovery showing everyone the remains of the first egg , the shell, the yolk and the extra egg that came out. The extra egg was smaller and was covered in something goey but after a while the women realised that the whole egg was intact. She tried cracking open the second egg and it was perfectly fine. check out the video

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Current events

Do you have a fear of heights? or are you a daredevil because for those who are wanting to battle their fear of heights need to check out this , a seventy story high glass slide. The 'Sky Slide' is set to open in June this year , the sky slide is 1000 feet above the ground and it slides from the 70th floor to the 69th of the tallest building in west Mississippi. Anyone willing to slide down this would be sliding down nothing but one and a quarter inch of glass.


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Swimming

On Wednesday the 2nd of March it was Hauraki plains swimming sports. The other schools that were there was Waitukaruru ,Kaihere ,Kerepeahi ,TeKauwhata ,Turua and Ngatea (my school). I was there for two lengths backstroke and one length freestyle , I tried my hardest but I didn't get into Thames valley but that is okay because I still had a good day.




Sunday, 21 February 2016

Current events

mineOver 100 cars have been found in the bottom an old slate mine more than 200 ft underground in North Wales . The mine was closed over half a century ago. Explores made the discovery during a trek through the mine and IT engineer Gregory Rivolet spent more than four hours inspecting the dangerous mine.
The mine is believed to have opened in 1836 until it was abandoned in 1960. It is still unknown as how the cars ended up in the bottom of an old mine .

Thursday, 18 February 2016

Four Words

One of our tasks this week was was to come up with four word that we think our teachers and our parents would say about us. The words I choose for me are like me because I asked around and I got these words and I agreed with them.  


Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Theme Song

One of our tasks this week was to come up with a them song that relates to you and I choose count on me by Bruno Mars because it reminds me of how I am there to help my friends and my friends are there to help me.

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

My Learning Smarts

This week I took a multiple Intelligences test to find out what my strengths are and to also find out how I learn best. I found out That I am more Logical than anything else and I was surprised to find out that I was just as nature smart as I am people smart.

Apple Tower Reflection

On Tuesday in our class we got into our learning teams and we had fifteen minutes to make a tower using only straws and tape and it had to hold and apple on the top of the tower. My team decide to make a pyramid sort of thing and make a platform to put on top. It took a while to get it done and then we tested it with Michael's apple and it worked. Finally everyone put there towers on the table and Miss Williams tested them all and Ours worked . I think my team worked well together and everyone got to say their ideas. If I got do it again I would make a bigger taller one and use up all our straws . It was cool because everyone was involved and everyone had a job and no one was left out .