Guy Fawkes - Money up in Smoke

Fireworks

WALHT use the structure of a recount to share an experience

Guy Fawkes - Money up in smoke!

It was round about 6:30 most of the people on my street were doing fireworks except for my family. Why? Because my parents thought it was burning money, really burning money I thought to myself. As soon as the sky turned dark the fireworks began to shoot out into the air.

My sister and I stared out of the curtains with confused faces wondering why our family wasn’t out there celebrating like our neighbours. As we sat in our lounge while other families were outside lighting fireworks and tried to watched the t.v. our viewing was constantly interrupted by the sound of  fireworks,  every time the commercial break was on. My sister moaned out the window as we watched yearning for the  fireworks to stop, so that she could watch the t.v.

Every minute was taken by the loud noises of fireworks shooting into the air. My sister started talking about how when she went  back to school everyone would be talking about about how they were out playing with fireworks. Every now and then we would hear silence.

“It stopped”my sister said. We both looked at each other for a second.Then out of nowhere a huge firework burst out into the air from the neighbours behind us.

“Ahhh”. My sister shouted out in shock, both my older sister and I laughed for a good minute at her.

Hours went by and Mana and I decided it was time to go to bed. And so we did. It was exactly 2:30 in the morning everyone was sound asleep... And out the blue “BOOM” we heard a loud noise that woke the entire household. I heard my dad’s voice,  “Who the heck was doing fireworks this early?”

This final thought floated in my mind and then I was asleep.

Guy Fawkes

As part of our independent reading programme we use kiwikidsnews to learn about news in New Zealand (national news) and around the world (international news).

WALHT: Read closely to analyse an article and to think critically about the messages within them.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

No quote was found in this article.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

On November the 5th families gathered around New Zealand to celebrate guy fawkes. thousands gathered together at the Trust arena Waitakere to watch etc.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

This event took place in many cities around New Zealand but Wellington claim there fireworks to be the biggest and largest in the country. Sky city officially opened on February the 2nd 1996.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

This event happened on the 5th of November which to most of us is known as guy fawkes. What might happened in the future is that we will still continue on lighting fireworks or this might come to the end of fireworks used unsafely.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

This event took place because people around the country wanted to celebrate guy fawkes.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

1). Spectacular Dramatic impressive performance.

2). Fireworks Striking display of light and sound.

3). Celebrate To praise and glorify feasts.

Forms of Electricity Day 1

Choices,Judgment and Life after Death

 

WALHT:  Describe the relationship between the person one and becomes in life, and one's life after death. 

As we grow older we will face challenges involving  make Choices and following our Consciences. Life after death is when God will decide and look back at our life on earth.

Judgment

WALHT: recognise what is meant by judgement. This wordle is complied of words that link directly to the word 'Judgment'.

St Bernadette

St Bernadette was a Saint chosen from me by my mother. The reason why Saint Bernadette was chosen as my Saint name is because she was my mother’s middle name and that she inspired others through her inspirational quotes. She was also humble,caring and very faithful to others that she started to see visions of Mother Mary during her lifetime. She was also known as Our Lady of Lourdes.

Making Decisions

Making Decisions

In the playground a student is being deliberately excluded from a group because the ‘leader’ in the group has decided he/she doesn’t belong. Akenesi is ‘in’ with the group at the moment.  What should Akenesi do?

Akanesi could choose….

1.

A. List Options:

1 She could stand for the girl/boy

2 She could leave the situation alone

3 Welcome he/she into the group

B Say what is right or wrong about each option.

Option 1

The first option listed is that it is right to stand up for the person who is going to be excluded from the group.

Option 2

It may be a right or wrong answer for Akanesi because this type of situation might put her in a spot where she thinks she has to decide on where the person should come into the group.

Option 3

It might be the right option to welcome her into the group because they don’t know who this person is and what she/he might bring knowledge.

C.  Say what would be the consequences of each option for everyone concerned.

1. The students in the group might be a little uncomfortable about having to not decided who comes into the group. This can also effect the leader in the scenario because she/he might think it’s their decision to make who come into the groups.

2. In this case Akanesi might feel like she has been put on the spot to decided who comes into the group. But we also have the leader who thinks its best the this student (she/he) is her decision to make.

3. If the leader was to allow the person enter the group this might be a wrong decision to make. But again this has a say as well to the whole group including Akanesi.

D. Say what values you think lie behind each option and tick those that reflect gospel values -  the values of Jesus.

1. Faithfulness is what I see in Akanesi because she wants to stand up to the leader and show that it would be a good decision to let the person in.

2. She shows that she is trustworthy and ignorance that she would guide the person if she/he into understanding the people in the group.

3. She also shows that she is respectful of the decision she would make choosing groups.

E. Say which option you would have chosen and why.

1.  The first option. Because in my opinion it wouldn’t feel right leaving this girl/boy out of the group. And a decision that the whole group should make together as a team.

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Summary

Sometimes in our lifetime we will face challenges which will mostly be about making good decisions. With these decisions it can affect us in such ways we might not imagine. It can impact our lives sometimes but that can be because of some situations where you might make the wrong move or decision.

Decisions

Space Race

 WALHT:

•  Identify,discuss and clarify my understanding of what I read
• Compare and contrast information
• Sythensis information

Analyzing infomation represented in graphs

 
WALHT: create graphs using a spreadsheet and to analyse data in those displays.

Graph 1. Shows that over the week Adam has has been measuring how much rain has fallen. The most rain fell on Tuesday, the rain gauge showed that 7 mm of rain fell on that day,
Graph 2. This graph shows that Emily has been recording her weight over the past 12 months. To show how much her weighr increased as a result of the weight lifting she had done.

Comparing and Contrasting

WALHT: compare and contrast information from 2 articles to identify similarity and differences.

WALHT: use key ideas to synthesize.

Spelling Term 3

The data shows that this Student began with a score of 15 and the following week dropped back to six. Consecutive weeks show marked improvement and consistency.

WALHT use a spreadsheet to enter and display data.

WALHT analyse and discuss data displays

The Feast of the Assumption

  Today room 8 and I have been learning about the Assumption of Mary. A day we celebrate as catholic's when Mary is assumed into heaven.

Spiders!

  I have used prezi present my research to add interest for my audience.

Spiders

Notes:	Notes:
Arachnid not insects 8 legs Antarctica 4000 species Goliath the birdeater Spiderwebs cobwebs 15 - 25 year Known spider tarantula Cellar spider Nelson cave spider Leg span 13 cm	1-3 years 1-2 years Scientific name Araneae Daddy long legs Three Species Katipo spider Redback Whitetail Mice Lizards Birds

You may think that all spiders are insects. Spiders are different in two ways A. they are called Arachnids B. they have only 8 legs and not 6.

Ranging at the world’s largest spider,Goliath the birdeater eats up to twice as much as a normal spider and have a lifespan of 15-25 years if it was a female and if the spider was a male it would only live up to 3-6 years. Spiders are found in every continent except for Antarctica. 4000 different types of species. A spider can lay up to 100 eggs and fertilize it in its web.

The most common spider to be found in most houses of New Zealand is called the Daddy long legs this is very common as it like to be high up in ceiling walls and can be sometimes called the cellar spider. Here in New Zealand  we have three types of spiders, the katipo,redback and the white tail. Our biggest spider is known as the Nelson cave spider it has legs that extend 13cm and a body 3cm or 1.2 in body length.

The Scientific name given to the spiders is called “Araneae”.Fun fact if you ever see abandoned web it would be called a cobweb. Spiders are arachnids that anybody can get scared of this is called “arachnophobia fear of spiders. Goliath the birdeater is known to come from the tarantula family. As you can tell for it fury brown skin and similar feature to a normal tarantula.

Carnivorous spiders such as the black widow eats mosquitoes,beetles and grasshopper etc. They can eat anything that gets caught in their webs. They have a body that separates into 2 segment the front Cephalothorax is poisson's these feature the eyes,mouth,thangs glands and brain.

Crossiant nutella Bread!

Ingredients

• 1 large jar of nutella
• Homemade or store bought puff pastry

Utensils:

• Sharp
• Plate
• Spatula
• Baking paper
• Baking tray
• cup

Step 1.  Preheat your oven to 180c/350f. As your oven is preheating take your puff pastry and cut a circle using you plate. Do this with all 5 pastries.

Step 2.  Then with the first circle add your nutella and repeat this with all 4 circles. Then stack all on top of each other and then take a small cup and make an  indentation in the middle of the circle. Make 6 cuts around the small indentation in the middle.

Step 3. After you have done that go in again with you knife making cuts inside the the first cuts you made. Once you have done that take two pieces and fold them inwards making sure you pinch at the end of the fold. Do this to the rest of pastry.

Step 4. Place on a baking tray line with parchment paper and brush on a mixture of just beaten eggs place into the oven for 15 - 20 minutes or just until you see the top start to brown.

AMF Bowling

We arrived at the entrance to the bowling place where my dad dropped us off. When we entered the AMF,  It was filled with laughter and the sound of bowling balls dropping as people let go of them and that made contact with the pins at the end of the lanes.  Added to this there was also the sound from  arcade games going off.

The first thing we did was go to the counter to pay and get our bowling shoes on. Once we got our shoes, we headed towards  lane 19.  Our names started to pop up on the t.v sized screen above us. It was a nice surprise to find that Natalia ( a class mate from last year) Brielle her little sister  and her two older brothers were playing next to us. Then Max and I went back to get the bowling balls. We all had a turn and Max was in lead followed by my sister me Alerton or as the screen had spelt it as Alerston and Mana. A few minutes later we started to get a little hungry so my older sister went and order some chips for after the game. Time went by and we were all up to our  9th row. Somehow I came to be first in the lead and max behind me. “Come on guys” my sister shouted as she called us to the table at the back to come some eat chips. Alerton and I went back to playing the game for all three.

I was up first playing as “Amelia” as the ball rolled down I was hoping that it wouldn't strike 10 pins aaaaaaaand “YES” as I shouted for joy. On the last game I played as myself and struck out 10 pins making me have 100 points on top of everyone. Then after bowling we went back and changed our shoes. As we talk for sometime my sister talked to us about doing this every second week but different places. Then after returning our shoes we  walked to burger king because max was craving their ice cream sundae. When we were inside burger king we order all the same sundae’s except for Max, of course who only order the large black forest sundae. We ate our sundaes and talked more about where to go to next while we talked my sister started to call my dad to come and pick us up. Time went by and our dad still wasn't here so we went and sat outside and waited, a few seconds later our dad arrived.

As we drove back to our uncle’s house my sister and dad started to talk about their favorite uncle “Ronald” who always came over to our house to sleepover. Once we got to their house we said our goodbye’s and told them we would see them in 2 weeks time. After dropping off our nephew’s we headed into town because our mum was finishing work soon.

“Beep”

“Beep”

As the cars went by we were stuck in traffic for quite sometime because roadworks were happening up ahead. We finally arrived at the waterfront Amelia,Mana and I got out of the car to go to the slides while our dad went and payed for the parking. After going on the slide went across the street  because my sister wanted to go sit next to the water. As we waited we walked around the streets exploring and taking pictures a few minutes later our mum came out looking for us. We all got back into the car and went back home.

Open and Closed Questions

Identify the difference between Open and closed Questions.

milk experiment

How to make rainbow milk

Ingredients

• detergent
• 5 drops of red,yellow,blue,orange,green
• 200 mls of dark blue milk

Utensils:

• Plastic container
• Eye dropper

Step 1.

In your plastic container add your 200 mls of milk. Then with your 5 colors add 5 drops of each to the sides of the container.

Step 2.

Once you have added you 5 colors with your eyedropper slowly add the detergent and watch as the colors mix making patterns.

Step 3.

Keep adding detergent as it will start to split the fat molecules from the milk making it mix together like one colour.

Ripper rugby

  Today in room 8  we using different multimedia sites. For this task I have used Animoto to show pictures from ripper rugby.

God Strand

   For R.E we are learning about God's desire of humanity and Jesus' virtues and his actions.

My Friend Ella!

Ella Marie - usually called Ella is a funny and active person. She is 12  and likes to joke alot. She likes to tell us new stories about where she’s been and what she’s done. Ella is smart, kind and is not shy at all... sometimes.

Ella is everything you would want a friend to be kind, smart and caring. She does waka ama which is a sport in New Zealand terms to outrigger canoes in a race to the race line. Last year her team and family went to the Gold Coast Australia to compete against another team from Australia. When Ella came back all she talked about was going to the gold coast staying in nice hotels and and riding roller coaster at theme parks. Since 5 years old we were best friends and now that we are both year 8 we might not see each other after primary school.

Ella is my best friend.

George our hero

WALHT: In reading this article I have been learning to combine close  reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of heroes .

George is the hero of the article. He had put his life at risk to help 5 children from getting bitten. Injuries he received from the Pit Bull Terriers were so severe that he had to be put down. He is remembered with a statue in the middle of the town and his owner was rewarded with 3 medals in honor for George which  included a medal of honors from a former marine.

George, a small Jack - Russell dog, was strong and fit was a lifesaver, he showed bravery and courage when he distracted the larger dogs to allow the children to escape.

What did George believe in?

George was confident that getting the Bull Terriers to focus on him rather than the children would keep the children safe.  He believed that it was his job to do this. He was determined to protect the children, all cost!

A statue of George still stands today in the town square of Manaia in Taranaki, with the medals dangling around his neck.

 

Mission Charism

 We are learning about the virtues and values of our Mission charism.

Unmeltable chocolate

Kiwikidsnews melting chocolate

As part of our reading programmer we use kiwi kids news to learn more about what is happening nationally and internationally in the world.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

There is no main quote in this article

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

As the article said the inventor of the chocolate wanted the bar of chocolate can could and last and that could be enjoyed bar without having to eat it fast - before it melted in your hands.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

It was made in a country called Switzerland which is also  Swiss is the home to Swiss cheese. It has numerous lakes and towns that look old together with forest land.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

Well their company might go  international everywhere and it would be selling in stores and malls next year and the years after that.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

This event took place because maybe the inventor Barry Callebaut wanted a chocolate that people can enjoy longer and not let the chocolate melt in your hands.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Invented - Created or designed something.

company - A commercial business  

Largest - A wide range or big amounts of everything.