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Term 2 Week 7 2013
=== Hi guys. I know that i have not posted since last year and i would not for a long while, the thing is that i just do not have enough time to. I will tell you guys all the details ok. This year we have got a new principal called Whaea Toni. She came from Papakura. She is really fun. She is taking us to Te Papa, Wellington. We also got one more class room for the little kids and a new teacher called Whaea Sarah. === === In my life, i play with Lucy and Jaime. They are really funny.Tonight we had a massive feed at our brothers house. They got a adourable cat called Otis. He looks like that cat off the whispkers add. We have been to the poly fest. It was super crowded, but we still had fun. There heaps of dances and yummy food. We also went to the V8 supercars in Pukekohe. The cars were loud like a blender right next to you. I have mae some new freinds this term, Like this girl Maddy. We became friends when she had a day off and she came to hangout with us. She was Whaea Toni's friend that she taught. ===

== After school had finished we went back to school to meet for our sleepover at the zoo. When we packed our stuff it was alright, but when dad put his stuff in the car we were squashed. When we got to school a few people were there. It was raining really hard. We bought stretchers when others bought thin mats or nothing to sleep on. We sorted out who we were going with. Then we left. I slept all the way so I didn’t see much. When we got the observatory where we were sleeping we saw a satellite going live around the world. Then we met Haley, Ken and Dave. Haley and Ken worked at the zoo and Dave worked at the observatory. ==

== Secondly, we went next door to see Dave’s presentation about space. The first thing we did was go through the solar system, Mercury, VenWus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. I was the only person who pronounced it properly. Then we went through all the shapes in space, spheres, jets, discs and a lot more. After the presentation we moved all the chairs to the side and set up our bedding. I didn’t put up my stretcher because everybody was sleeping on the floor. Next we had supper. Because it was supper we could only choose 2 things to eat. After that we went to have a look at the telescope. It was big. I had lasers to help keep things in place. After that we had a Quiz. The people in my team were Faith, Cameron, Jaymee and Hannah. We came second to last. Then we went to bed at 11.00pm. ==

== We got up and rolled our sleeping bags up and got dressed. There were toilets with a lot of space. We left to go to the zoo Café for breakfast. It was delicious. I had toast, yogurt and a big foamy hot chocolate with marshmallows. We played on the park. There was a big colourful peacock on the fence. After that we went into the education room. Did you know that in the olden days the enclosures were just concrete? The most dangerous animal in the zoo is the chimpanzee. There were really weird fish in there. There were enrichments that were really tricky that I couldn’t even figure out. ==

== Next, Hayley took us for a tour around half of the zoo. We saw monkeys, lemurs and a lot more things. Then we went to go to where they get the food for the animals. There were a lot of Vegetables and fruit. Then we went in to the room with the enrichments. A enrichment is a trick for the animals to get there food. After we got to explore the zoo in groups. We saw monkeys, Rhinos, Giraffes, tigers, cheetahs, bobcats, zebras, ostriches and heaps more. There were things like telescopes so you could look at the animals close up. There was a tall telescope to look at the giraffes and a camera to look at the tigers. ==

== We have to learn our thinking skills when we are doing most things like when we are doing things like softball. Because we have to think where to stand and where to run. So we use thinking skills a lot. So we use thinking skills a lot. ==

For our animal kingdom weare doing native animals. I am doing a eel because neally everybody is doing a bird. So that was pretty cool.
== Our puppets are going good though one of my puppet head is neally about to come off, besides that its cool.Weare doing our story about Maui and the goddess of fire. Its about a boy named maui who took out all the fires in his village and he needs to get some more from his grandmother Mahuika and maui plays games on her and takes out all the fire. Its awesome ==

for maths we are learning to change fractions into decimals. there is really nothing to say but it the best thing about this week besides my puppets.
== For reading weare reading this book called survival on Adventure island. We havent read much of it only the first two chapters and we had to predict the next one. I predicted that they had to row to the next isdalnd. ==

== With Mrs. Beere we are doing puppet about Maori legends so decided to do my most favorite one, Maui and the goddess of fire. I made Tawhirimatea, the god of wind and Maui’s mother. They look pretty awesome. ==

== Writing has a lot of information. We are learning about complex, simple and compound sentences. Learning about conjunctions. They are word that combines two sentences together using For And Nor But Or Yet So like I like McDonald but love KFC. Simple sentences are like we went to the shop when a complex sentence is like on Sunday we went to the shop on king street to get some milk for our pancakes. ==

== Literacy and maths are going god because for maths we are learning decimals and a little bit of Sudoku. For reading I am reading a book called survival of the funkiest. It’s really great book. Writing is going good. We had to write a story using idioms, metaphors, personification and similes. It’s cool. ==

== So let me tell you about our skipping. We had four stations; there were long rope skipping, partner skipping, individual skipping and free skipping. Loved it when we did the egg beater. There were two skipping ropes that crossed with each other and they skipped. I did 2193 skips. It was awesome. ==

== Now on to our literacy and maths. For writing we have been doing similes, metaphors and a long word called “personification”. It means giving an object a human action or calling it “him” or “her”, for reading we have to retell the whole story in our own words. For maths we are doing revision on fractions. For example, 1\2 + 2\3 = 3\5. It is cool. ==

this week we have done alot around similies and metaphors, plays and litracy and maths. Also cross country.
== Metaphors are hard for me. The only metaphor I could think of was (he is a silly goose ) but similies are more easy. The only thing you have to do is compare something to another, like he was as green as grass. ==

== Guitar Hero was awesome. There was a blue button a red and green one and a yellow one. It was very hard. We only had the control to play. When you got a note wrong the x box mad a weird noise. But it was awesome still. ==

== With Mrs. Beere we are learning performance and production. What I am basically trying to tell you is that we are learning about plays. We are doing a play on little red riding hood, But slightly different, I was auditioning to be the mother. I wanted to be the mother because I wanted to do a British accent. I wanted to be the wolf but when I saw the script the wolf had a lot of lines. ==

== Math was so cool, especially now that we got the iPads and ipods. Learning about shapes and our times tables. It’s all awesome, on mathletics I got three certificates and 515 credits, so that I could by my guy all sorts of stuff. ==

== Writing this week was a total success. We got to free write this week, I write about a boy who ever got hurt by someone his papa will kill them by turning them into a snail and squashing them. I love free writing. ==

Friday 22nd june
== this week i learnt about fishing in the pacific and how they catch fish, thats our inquiry question, we researched on the ipads,books and the computers. We took notes. I decided to present my information on a poster. ==

This week at Mercer school we are learning about cubic metres with Mrs. beere.
== In writing we are learning about Explanations, Its kinda hard doing one explanation. In reading we are learning about pacific islands. The best book i read was pacific legends. The story that i read was about two baby twins who got abandon by there poor mother, and then some how they turned in to polar bears and saved a hunter in a ice floe.So thats my learning about numercy and litercy. == == For our R@W awards. im going with Quihan for our comic strip. Its going to be about a boy who thinks who can do shot put but cant and then Valirie adams comes and helps and he wins and gets a medal and a big trophy. So thats that. Our laymation is coming along great. Its going to be fantastic. Google sketchup is coming alng great because its finished. the most funniest thing is that i sad gogo sketchup. ==

The Claymation is coming along well. It has sponsors on the bottom, and colourful chairs on the top. It also has 2012! On it. It looks fantastic! Props are coming along good.
== Goole Sketch up is kind of hard, because I cannot seem to do the fly buy. It’s hard when you have to do to scenes. I cannot seem to figure it out. So I’m going to go on to you tube to see how to do it. ==

We learnt about pacific islands. It was awesome. We got to make trees such as, Taro, breadfruit and coconut palms. Did you know that there are 20 Pacific islands?
== We also got to play mathletics. It’s cool because you get to vs. people around the world; Make an avatar and a lot more. It helps my maths with all math questions, like my times table, division, subtraction and pluses. It’s awesome ==

On Friday night mum took me and my brother Tainirau to camp. I was nervous. But when we got there it wasn’t that bad.
== First, we put all our stuff down. Then we sorted who was sleeping where. I slept in a cabin with Tanirau and three other boys, Jacob, Richard and Tyrel. We stayed up nearly all night. I had toast with jam for breakfast. We did some practice. Then we played hit and roll. I didn’t get the ball much. Then we had hot dogs for lunch. I had cheese and tomato sauce. It was delicious. After that we played ninja. You need to hide and the rest need to find you. I found a teenager named Liam. He was easy to find because he was wearing white all over him. He was behind the tree. Then we went for a walk down to the waterfall. Later when it got darker we played spotlight. Later we went to go see the glow worms. After dinner we went to bed. The next morning we went back home. ==

== This week we learnt about ancient Rome. We made a city with five famous roman structures. I did the Circus Maximus, The biggest structures in Rome. Me and Jaime Howe drew where the stuff was going to go. The cardboard was super hard to cut. My Circus Maximus was as big as my body. We had to make rectangles for the walls. I finished my Circus Maximus, and now I need to finish it by decorating it and painting it. ==

TaeKwon-Do
== On Thursday we learnt TaeKwon-Do with Mr. Parker. We learnt how to do a front snap kick, our punching and defenses. I was in the middle row. My partner was Emily. We learnt a new technique called flying high snap kick. We had to kick a pad as high as we could. I was in the first line and then moved into another line because the first line was easy. When I had my first time on the second line, it was high. ==

== On Monday after school, Mercer school went to Mere Mere School to see the Duffy theatre show. First, we sorted who was going with whom. I went with Mrs. Glass. We were going fast. Trees were passing me very quickly. I was getting dizzy. Then it stopped. It felt like I was going to puke. We were going down a steep hill. I felt like I was flying. We were turning and going down I was quiet all the way. Finally, we stopped. Click went my belt, Pop went my door. I ran to see some of my cousins. I went to my cousin George. We went into the class room. We were waiting for ages. Before the show started we saw all of the art work. Other classes started coming in after us. The show was coming on. They were singing a song. There was a boy named Scruffy and another named Duffy. It was called {Duffy and the best book in the world}.It was about helping kids to read. It was awesome and funny because of Scruffy. I liked the Duffy theatre. ==