Neal Armstrong

The wonderful American hero Neal Armstrong has sadly past away on the August the 25th 2012. He died because of a heart surgery. People at America had known him as the first person who landed on the moon, “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” were his first words landing.

Landing on the moon was a race against them soviets. There was a cold war. So they decided that the first country to land on the moon wins.

Cross Country

Oh no it’s cross country training, nearly everybody hates doing that. “Why do we have to do it Mrs” I asked. She replied say “ It’s only a short run, cross country is coming up soon. 
"When” I asked hoping that it was not a Tuesday. Luckily it was on a Friday where it was the end of the week.

The first time we went was pretty easy. But the only thing was that we got forced to keep running. Some teachers even told us that if we don’t start running we will have to spend our time in detention. That was the worst thing about practises that were short.

Later on in the week the teachers decided to make the training harder and longer. It was past the beach all the way to the farm gate and back. It was so far that I had to stop and have a rest on the way. But the teachers who were around kept telling me to keep going.

Some people cheated. As the first couple of people came back they would turn around, so that they don't have to run all the way. I think that it was a bad idea because

Kiwi Kick

Walking in line across to the court yard, the tree’s were dancing and leaves were falling. I said to my friend who’s teeth were chattering just like mine “ I hope Kiwi Kick’s going to be fun.” My body was covered in goose bumps. So I rubbed my hands together briskly.

Sam was here to teach us some skills from Kiwi Kick. The skills were Drop Punt and hand pass. The first skill we got taught was Drop punt. It’s a kick but instead of chucking it into the air, you drop it onto your foot. The hand past was as easy as volley. How do we do it? You move like a pirate dance to pass it, then bang the top of your hands against the ball, to get the ball flying, into the air. " I know it's easy."


One of the games we played was octopus. To start the teacher’s ( and coach) stand’s in the middle to get ready to his us, with the rugby ball. One of a student from the other class shouted " Oh no Mrs Nua your going to embarrass our class." So guess who Mrs Nua went for? Yes you gussed it, that person who shouted. The only pass they were aloud to use was the Hand Pass. Later on, us kid’s get tagged, so we are in the teacher’s team. some of us screamed as they got tagged.

Robyn Kahukiwa

Based on our topic for this term Art Alive, we have been learning about a artist named Robyn Kahukiwa. The painting that I choose to work on is called Whaine. Please leave a comment and tell me how I've done. Hope you enjoyed.

The Amazing Race

Sitting in the marque with my group, the Respectables, I was eagerly waiting for Mr Barks to walk in and to tell us what The Amazing Race is going to be about. This activity was one of my favourite during the days of camp. I was sure that every body else loved it too.

Mr Barks explained that there were going to be 3 tasks for us to complete. “You will have to work hard as a team to earn points along the way,” he said. That got me thinking.

Our first instruction was to gather into groups of five. Mr Barks showed us one of his slingshot, that he had made. It looked pretty neat. I wondered how he made it for a while until he showed us the equipment that he had used. That's when I started thinking. There was Rubber that stretches, Sticky tape and newspaper to make the ball, and also a little bit of strong string too. And of course there was a couple of branches that had a Y shape. Some of them were perfect, the others were not that straight.

We all had to put it together. To earn points we had to be tidy. I was with Tina, Hossanah, and Athena. They were VERY tidy, and they worked together too.

We were the first to finish. So that meant that we could start shooting. David was first. HE got us all 10 point. Then he got more and more. i think he got the most out of our group.

After we've scored about fifty points that's when the rest of the other groups came. First was a group of boys. As soon as they stretched it Is fell apart. I tried not to laugh. But since they did, I had too. We all cracked up like nothing. So that meant they had to go back into the Marque, to fix it.

Hue-loata was the best aimer out of all. She was the only one who aimed straight and got us all 100 points. I couldn't aim straight like her. Whenever I aim straight, it wont listen. It would just fall down, or do directly the wrong way. It was even worse when it was windy.

Apart from that. Most of the time I had alot of fun.

Holidays coming up

Do you know what your going to be up to this coming long holiday.
Well let me tell you what my family and I is going to be up to.
On Thursday the 15th we will be heading down in a plane to Tinga to visit our grandparent that we haven't seen since December last year. To me thats a really long time.

Once we get there we only have one week to spend there before were going to jump onto a ship named the Pulupaki and head over to the Island named Tungua where both my grandpa and grandma lives.

ONe of my faviroute things that i like doing there is swimming. Down at there place there is no swimming pool. We only go for a swim down at the beach.

Sometimes when my uncle is not Busy he´d take us all to go and watch people play different kind of sports like netball and basketball.

My Dream

Yesterday I had a dream that my family and I headed of to the Saturn to visit a friend. Her name was colorful.
She´s a alien that when she talks she turns into a different color.
She was as tall as a 7 year old human with no arm or legs. All she does is wiggle around and eat.
She told us that all aliens only eat pudding it´s their favorite, and they never get sick of it. They eat they sleep they don´t even have jobs to keep the busy.

While we were still there Colourful came up to us and told us to follow him so that we could go and explore.
First she took us to visit her mum and dad. They didn´t look any where near the same to each other. Her brother´s also came out to meet us all. She had 8 brothers and one sister their name were Random Lillie pop Nady sews Ned hast and lily the sister.

After meeting the whole family we headed down to the Cafe to get ourselves a cup of Milo. First we sat down talking about how different this planet is to earth. I couldn't stand sitting down on their seats so stood up not meaning to be so rude and said out loud what is this made out of.
They all looked at me like a they all have a eye problem. One of the costumers came up to me and said "well if your wondering what it´s made out of why don't you find out your self and dig into it.

We finally went back home. We all said good by to each other and left.

Mars Info

Mars is red because it is rusty. It also has a lot of iron under the soil. This planet is named after the Roman God of wars.
The air down at mars turned it red just like rust iron down at earth.
One of mars moon Phobos is moving closer and closer to mars and that makes scientist think that one day they would both crash into each other.
Mars also has the tallest volcano through out the whole solar system. It is also 15 miles higher than Mt Everest.
Like Earth, the poles on mars are covered in ice, and at winter it turns even thicker.
At Mars the Martin day is half an hour longer than earth.
100 pound man on earth could even be 38 pounds at mars.

Outta This World

Today was our first day of term 4. We all met in the school hall for immersion assembly.
Our teachers all dressed up in all sort of different costumes. Mr Burt didn't he dressed up in his school uniform like us student.

Then it was time for the teachers to show what they have been working on during the school holidayś

My favorite team was the year 7 and 8 teacher´s they didn't need to get up they made a star wars movie with their own faces stuck to the actors. Some of them looked funny and some suited it and looked perfect like Mrs Langitupu.

Mr Harris was one of the funny people. His face wasn't like Mr Barks who acted as a man. Instead he was the princess. In fact the actor who was in the movie made it sound just like he was the real person in the ship

I had fun watching all the teacher. Itĺl be even better if some kids were in it. That would crack up some kid´s.
I can´t wait to see what the teachers are going to prepare next time

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Cory Jane

This is a picture of Cory Jane who is one of the All Black players.

Rugby World Cup Opening

Did you know that the rugby world cup opening was held at Eden Park on Friday last week. My highlight for the opening was the fire works. I really liked the colors ,and how it blew up in the dark sky. It even had fire works near the sky tower. Some of the fire works were blasting up like fire.

There were people who just came to town to watch the fire works and to take pictures of it too.

When the glittering fire works had finished. One of the t.v presenter interviewed Jonah Lomu. He is a star on rugby. He is’nt just a star though he is a star on scoring the most tries across the whole world. That could be the most amazing thing for me if I was him.

After interviewing Jonah Lomu the game began. It was Ikale Tahi's kick off.

I was cheering for the Tongan team. Even though they didn’t do well on the first half but i still like the way they defended. The All Blacks team were still good enough to get the most tries and are the first team to win there game for the Web Allis trophy.

As always the people who cheered for the Tongan team would say that the reeth of the game dosn’t know how to do his job propoley or they say that they cheated which really didn’t happen. The All Blacks won the game because of a reason. The reason was that the Tongan team were to slow and they didn’t have as much energy as the people in the All Blacks team.

My holiday story

My highlight for my Holiday was going in the plane to visit my unties uncles cousins and also
my grandpearents. In the plane I was so excited because I haven't visited them since last year
on December the 11th. All I rememberd from our last time that we visited was that my
granpearents moved to a island that called Tungua and it is also Tonga too. We use a big large
ship to go there and it takes a very long time to get there. The ship that we go on every time
we visit is the Pulupaki. When the ship is nearly there the ship stops and little boats comes and
picks us up and also our bags and things that we came with from Tonga.

MOTAT

On Thursday morning room 15, 16, and 17 headed off to MOTAT for our school trip.

My highlight of the day was how we went exploring around all of the exhibits at MOTAT. The coolest part of the day was at the prison room. It had a man lying down looking straight through the window. The man had a blanket over him to keep him warm. But there was also a bucket under his bed. The bucket underneath his bed was used for when he needed to go toilet. I had fun at MOTAT and I hope that we can go there again.

Partly Cloudy

The movie we watched was called partly cloudy. In the movie there were 2 main characters who were Partly cloudy and the Stalk. The movie was set in the sky where the clouds were. At the beginning of the movie the clouds were making babies and the stalks were delivering them to the new Mums and Dads. In the middle of the movie Partly Cloudy was not very happy. Partly Cloudy was not happy because the other clouds and the stalks who were working for them had heaps of fun making and delivering. But all partly cloudy could do was make dangerous and scary animals. At the end of the movie the stalk came up with an idea of how he could protect himself from all of the dangerous animals that partly cloudy could make. He decided to go and see another cloud and got him to make some football gear so that he could protect himself.
I would give the movie a 10/10 because at the end it was a happy.

Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger!

Last week on Thursday Room 16 we tried to build a tower out of paper. We had a choice to work on our own or to work with a buddy. I chose to work with a buddy so that we could work together and share our ideas. My buddy was Britney.

First Britney and I shared our ideas so that we could choose who's idea was the best for us to use. When we both finished telling each other our ideas Britney choose my idea which was to make triangle legs and make the bottom part wide and make the top part thin. I didn’t agree with Britney because I thought that her idea was to make triangle legs but roll all the parts thin so that the legs can hold all the paper.

At the end our tower looked horrible and it couldn’t stand up. But it didn’t matter because we weren't the only ones! I felt happy because I didn’t just sit there like I normally did.

My Friend Elizabeth

I have a friend. Her name is Elizabeth. Sometime I call her Liz for short. Liz likes to eat pork bones for dinner and she also likes to eat chocolate chip ice cream for desert. Liz loves to watch t.v. Her favorite t.v show is Spongbob Square Pants. She also likes to watch The Simpson. She is very funny and she also like to ask to many question, and it could get very annoying .