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.

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.

Who I look up to

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.

My Writing and Me

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

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.

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.

My book challenge

Current events

Over 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 .

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.  

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.

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 .

Holiday highlight

I jumped on the biscuit then gave dad a thumbs up and he accelerated, I started slow and got faster, then dad turned a corner . I started turning further, hitting the edge of the wake and water sprayed my face, then dad straightened up and I went off the wake but luckily I didn't tip. then on another corner dad got me off the wake and as the rope tightened I swung away from the wake and then the biscuit started tilting on its side then quickly it straightened up. I was so close to tipping but it was awesome.

current events

In England they are trialling roads that can charge electric cars as they drive along them .
They are hoping that having these roads will increase the use of electric cars . Electric cars can not travel very far without having to charge so if they drive on these roads they will not have to stop and charge. The cars that will be using the road will need to be fitted with wireless technology and special equipment will be installed under the roads. The equipment under the road will create the voltage the car needs to charge .

My top tips for 2016 students

Current events

Nestle has created a golden treat for Japan , a golden Kit Kat!
These bars have a thin gold layer that has a bitter chocolate taste and they are called golden sublime. There will only be 500 of these special edition gold bars in Japan and it is 24$ (nz) per finger!
I think I will be sticking to regular Kit Kats but some lucky people will be having a golden covered treat .

Who inspires me

One person who inspires me is Sir Ray Avery . He invented the life pod , an incubator that has the power to save the life of many babies . Millions of babies die each year because they do not have access to neonatal care and these babies are usually born in poor hospitals that can not afford incubators. The poor hospitals that can finally afford one usually buy one and a small part will break down and no one knows how to fix it so it is shoved into the corner and no one can use it . Ray designed one that is much cheaper and is portable and it even has backup power just in case it main power source breaks down . But what really inspires me is that he is doing to be kind , not because he wants money but because he wants to help .

Video

I found this video of some Christmas lights on a house which are synchronised to music such as Christmas  songs and dubstep .