Physical activities and the outdoors.

P5 Compete in a sport for an entire season

Throughout term 1 I competed in social volley ball. My team and I played every thursday either at lunch or after school. The people who were in my team were Ben, Milly, Caitlin and I. We only lost one game out of about 8. None of us really played before but we knew each other really well and had fun. We ended up winning the whole tournament and the sports coordinator said that we were decent players and should try out for the league teams. For the finals we versed a team from Rata I forgot what their team name was though. But our teams name was the flags I don't know why we were called the flags it was just the first thing that popped into our heads. When we won we got chocolate, drinks and lollie pops.
All in all it was an awesome time and it was really really fun.

Amazing Google Glasses.

Google has created new futuristic glasses that lets you see websites take photos and videos. Google says that wearing this will be just like watching a 25 inch screen tv. The don't have headphones or anything they send vibrations into the little bone in your ear. The glasses project light directly infront of you so you see a slightly transparent screen.

News Type: International

Opinion: This is an awesome idea I want a pair.

Giant Snails Swamp Florida

In the last few weeks over 1000 snails have been spotted or caught. The snails can grow as big as a rat and can destroy building by chewing through the plasticine. It is known to attack over 500 different plants. Florida may be as badly hit as the Caribbean islands if were not careful.

News Type: International

Opinion: This is not good snails were already pests but now there bigger!

Mother assaults police with quiche.

A New South Wales, mother assaulted a police officer with a quiche. The reasoning for it was because the police gave her a ticket for violence according to ABC but it turns out that it wasn't meant for her. So the mother rammed the police officer with a pram and chucked a quiche at him over the rage. So now we know the most effective weapon against police is… Quiche

Breakers win third straight title.

The New Zealand Breakers have won the Australian Basketball League. The game was close the whole way but an 11-0 score in the second half classified their win. The game was held in the Perth Arena early in the morning. The Breakers won the game 70-66 against the Perth Wildcats the Breakers main rivals.  The player Dillon Boucher was over the moon with this win because sadly he will be retiring. But players Cedric Jackson and Thomas Ambercrombie are aiming for the NBA.

News type: National

Opinion: This is great I am a huge fan of the Breakers.

Excellence In The Arts

                                           E6: Join a band and attend every rehearsal.
I never intended on being in a blues band but I got the lead part in the production and I have to be a drummer in there. So Jess (the person who brings the bands together) got me and the other lead role person Liam (who plays the bass) and got us both in the band along with four singers and two electric guitarists. The songs that I learned were Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley), Back To Black (Amy Winehouse), Let Me Down Easy (Instrumental), Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison),  Piece Of My Heart (Janis Joplin), Superstition (Steve wonders) and some 12 bar blues which is just instrumental. Plus I only had three weeks to learn all these songs! So with only three weeks I had to work hard, I had to skip some class time to learn song and I didn't even have a music sheet to learn them off.  Liam and I had some lessons together because neither of us knew any of the songs. And I practiced hardcore at home. When the day finally came to preform infront of a live audience at the Historic Village I had 100 butterflies flying around in my tummy. But when I got up on stage they all went away and I was focused on not mucking up. But of course since it was my first time I had a few mistakes but nothing major. My best songs that I played turned out to be Superstition and Piece of my heart. Plus the last time I played Blue Suede Shoes we go the crowd cheering. We had two sets of this each an hour long and I met lots of new cool friends in the band like George, Ethan and Liam.

Homework Expectations

Amount

We think that 30-45 minutes every weeknight is a reasonable expectation for homework. Per week that equals approximately 2.5 hours per week of homework.

2 terms = 20 weeks. Every homework task should take you 5 hours to do.

Quality

You need to work on each homework task for at least 2.5 to 5 hours. It should like it was done by a year 8 student. The product you make (if relevant) should look good quality.

Blog Post

- must be at least 2 paragraphs

- has to be punctuated correctly, spell checked and no errors

- you must include which category and task number in your post title so Miss C can sign you off.

Gigantic dinosaur park to open in australia.

An Australian billionaire is making a dinosaur park and its going to be the worlds biggest with 150 robotic dinosaurs! The park is already home to a Tyrannosaurus rex and an Omeisaurus but soon the park will be home to much more. The biggest dinosaur thats coming is the Mamenchisauraus thats 20m in length and 7m in hight. They will be displayed in a woodland scene and the dinosaurs will come to life.

News type: International

Opinion: I'ts a great idea it would be awesome to see a park full of dinosaurs!

Cat video festival returns to America

A second world wide cat video festival is taking place this August. Last years festival was a big hit with over 10,000 people attracted. People who come are invited to vote for their favorite cat video and the one with the most votes get played on the big screen. The festival will start off in Minnesota and then spread around the world.

News Type: International

Opinion: This is a great idea I love watching funny cat video's.

The Breakers win there first game of the finals.

The NZ Breakers have won their 1st set of the Australian Basketball League finals. The Breakers had an amazing second half when Daryl Corletto was on fire scoring goals like there was no tomorrow.  The final score was 79-67 to the Breakers with Daryl Corletto scoring 19 points. Now the Breakers head to Perth for a second set of the finals and if they win this the would have won the competition three times in a row.



News type: National.

Opinion: I think that the NZ Breakers will win the game and claim the title a third time in a row.

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