Very Short Stories

Short stories

A little man was spotted wearing green with a pot of gold. Witnesses say he might of been a leprechaun as today was saint patrick's day.

I’m staring at dad’s photo album, he’s wearing an ugly brown leather coat with bright yellow pants. I’m glad he’s changed from those days.

Sadness is in my stomach. “I’m sorry” I tell the chocolates as my sister goes in for one. I grab all of them off her and walk to my room.

Chinese Characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether? There are over 50,000 characters.

How many characters does an educated person know? An educated Chinese person knows around 8,000 characters.

How old are Chinese characters?Chinese characters go back over 3,500 years.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Pictographs are the young Chinese Characters . In China they use the modern version of Chinese characters.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? The two characters that make good is woman child.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? In Chinese characters television has two characters, electric vision.

Photos With Meaings 2

Today I am writing another photo with meanings.

I think that this message shows that you can do anything.  If just forget about your fears than you can be fearless.  I see this message because people are jumping of a bridge, they must of been scared but they jumped off the bridge.

I think that this shows that we can do anything.  Even though we might not know each other we are a team and one person can make the biggest difference in the world.  I think this because one person is leading cars along the sea.

This shows that it's ok to be unique and to stand up. I think this because theres one matchstick thats green and is standing out from the rest.

  

House work

Here is a video that I made about picking up rubbish and other items. I got some random people who I didn't know pick up rubbish in public.

Photos with meanings

Today I'm writing an explanation about this picture.

I think that this picture shows that  a book has more emotions than in a film.  I think this because there is more iceberg in the ocean than outside of the water. A book has more information and more meaning than a film.  

The hidden message messages in these photos.

This photo shows leadership because there is one person giving an idea and spreading that idea to everybody in the circle. it also shows team work when someone gives an idea and everyone else works together to turn that idea to reality.

This picture shows that a picture tells a thousand words. I think this because there are thousands of photos in the big pile. I can also mean that everything that  people say might be lies but when the lies

get worse you have a lot to hold back.

this photo shows that we might think where big but where really small in the big sea.  

Facts and Opinions

Facts are something that is true, while opinions are something that someone thinks.

Here is three opinions about Coca Cola:

Coca Cola is the best drink ever.
Coca Cola is too fizzy.
Coca Cola looks weird.

Here is three facts about Coca Cola:

Another name for Coca Cola is Coke.
Coca Cola is a fizzy drink.
Coca Cola has sugar in it.
When you shake Coca Cola it fizzes up.

Sound cloud test

My favourite app

My Favourite app is Flappy Bird.  Flappy Bird is a game where you are trying to keep a bird alive.  It's really hard because if you want the bird to fly it will do a massive jump.  The is really fun but the maker of the game was getting to much hate mail about the comments he decided to stop making Flappy Bird.  Although the creator says he will release Flappy Bird out it wont be any time soon.

By Flappy Bird I hope to see you sometime in my future.

Kia Kaha lesson 1

Today we had Constable Den come and speak to us about bullying.

1. What is bullying?
-Power and control
-Repeated
-To hurt our feelings or body


2. Types of bullying

• Cyber 
• Verbal
• Physical
• Gesture
• Excluding
• Isolation
• Per pressure
• Emotional
• Humiliation
• Intimidation

A story with photos

Today I made a story with photos.

Enjoy.

day is my birthday. got lots of .  My favourite  was my new  called Max.  Max loves .  Max because he can  really fast he also cuddles kisses me.  It was the best  ever.  didn’t even need to make a  when  blew out the on my  .

homework It's and Its

For our homework we did a worksheet about it's and its.

13/14

I got number five wrong.

Home work prof reading

for this weeks home work I prof read the little red hen story.

Homework on triangles

for this weeks homework I used the Pythagorus theorem. Here is the video.

Homework on you tube

For a part of my home work I made a youtube video on how to do the box method in maths.
Here is the video.

Year eights going into year sevens

Here is a Venn diagram about the difference of a year seven and year eight.

Swimming sports

Yesterday our house had swimming sports.  Here is a picture that I have changed

New fine in the water

Life jackets save lives so I read this kiwi kids news article to about life jackets being fined

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?  The Hawke's Bay Harbour master,  Mr Norman was the main person in this article.

2. What was the key event from the news article?  The key event was eight people being fined for not wearing life jackets.

3. Where did this event take place? This event took place in the Hawke's Bay Harbour.

4. When did this event take place?  This event was taken place on the 11 of March 

5. Why did this event happen? This event happened when a group of people didn't wear there life jackets.

Thinker

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article? life jackets are to be worn by every passenger on board a vessel up to 6m long.

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

irresponsible lacking a sense of responsibility

regulations act of controlling, management,

attempt effort to do or accomplish something

To and Too

To and too mean different things even though they are spelt the same.

a) Research to find out when we should use too. Too has two meanings, what are they.

1. Too can mean extra.
2. Too can also mean also.

b) Write four sentences using too/to. Two for each meaning.

His car runs too fast for me to catch up with him.

My mum is a good cook, I want to be a good cook too.

I had too much chocolate.

My class wanted some too.

How to throw up in space

When you first get into space your body feels weird so you will probably throw up.  This is a video I watched about throwing up in space.




Here is 3 pros and 3 cons about throwing up in space.

Pros	Cons
1.  You have a bag designed for you to be sick. 2. It’s easy to contain. 3.  It’s quick when you need to throw up immediately.	1. You feel sick in space so you will throw up at some point in space. 2.  You can’t get rid of the bag until you get on the ground. 3.  Having to worry about the pack that the bag goes in.

New layouts

Today I wanted to show you what I am actually doing at school.

First I will start with the daily blog post, the daily blog post is a blog post that my class dose every morning.  Each morning we get emailed a task to do for 30 minutes.  This task has something to do with the world, we also have to put this on our blog.  I have created a label for you to see my daily blog posts even though you find them easily by scrolling down.

Next I will talk about my homework.  When my class dose a task for homework it goes onto our blogs.  I have also sent you a label that you can click on when needing to find my homework.

Today I have also changed the template of my blog.  I will be changing it every month but to make it easier for me I will start on the first of April.

Animal fighters

This is an some animals fighting the first one is about a snake fighting a crock.

Here is ten words to describe about the attack.

Snake kills crock, strangling it, then eating it whole.

Here is another one about a loin.

A frightening game for spectators, lion loses this battle,  buffalos win. 

NFC Tags

Here is five facts about NFC tags.

1. NFC stands for Near field communication tags. 
2. The help keep shops safe from people stealing.
3. It runs on android.
4. NFC tags have different types of memory the more they cost the better. 
5. It's closest relative is RFID (radio frequency identification.)

One good thing about NFC make life just easier.  If you need to go to bed then you can set the tags to set and alarm for the next day.

One bad thing is that you have to swipe at the exact spot.

  

Homophones

A homophones are said the same way as another word (e.g your and you're.) They can sometimes be spelled the same way.

b) Explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS! (no copy and pasting) when should we use your and when should we use you’re? We should your when saying something like: I like your jacket.  You say you're when saying.  You're awesome.

c) Write 3 example sentences using your and 3 example sentences using you’re. These sentences should be about YOU and your life and not be copied and pasted.

You're happy aren't you?

Your dog has been dropping bombs on my lawn.
You're going home now.

d) Write 2 sentences OF YOUR OWN which contain both your and you’re.

You're happy because it's your birthday.
Your lucky that you're my friend.

Heni Karamu

Heni Karamu was a woman warrior from the battle of gate par here is ten facts about her and what happened that day:

• After the battle she married an english pub owner and changed her name to Jane.
• She was the only woman to fight at gate par.
• She only went to gate par to fight and become a warrior.
• Scared at first about fighting the british but then heard them cheer when the potatoes exploded.
• On the day of the attack rain fell this pleased the Maori.
• The bombs didn't go off because of the rain. 
• When the british thought that they had all got killed the Maori did a sneak attack.
• Although a lot of the british solders died they where mostly defeated by shame.
• After the attack Heni heard the solders dying and remembered the pledge that if the British wanted mercy show them mercy.  So she got some water.
• She gave three solders water and saved there lives.
• An artist mistaken Heni for a boy.  

12 years a slave

The movie 12 years a slave won best picture.  But behind all the fame for it,  it has a truely inspiring story. 12 years a slave is based on a true story, it is about a man called Solomon Northup.  Solomon Northup is a African American.  He lived in New York with his wife and two kids.  But when goes to a voilin concert in Washington D.C, he gets kidnapped and taken to New Orleans. He was sold to a plantation owner in the red river area in Louisiana.  He has to work as a slave for 12 years. He made many attemps to get out and reach his family who has no idea where he is.  Athough he got out. He went missing again. Some say he was kidnapped again.  But one thing is for certain he was an insirpring man whos story is finally told.  It makes me pleased that I am living in this time of age. Please watch this movies trailer.12 years a slave

Oscars

On the third of March the Oscars were on here are the winners.

Best picture: 12 years a slave
Best actor: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) won best supporting actor supporting.  Supporting actor means not being the lead in the movie but still did a good job.
Some other categories are:
Best Animated featured film
Costume design
Hair and makeup

An Oscar trophy looks like a small, gold man standing.

Two Oscar Nominees for best picture are:
American Hustle
Nebraska

I thought this was the best dress

Dialogues

Here are a few dialogues. The first dialogue is about me coming home from camp

Me:  I can finally sleep in a bed tonight.
Mum:  You still have dancing.
Me:  How am I meant to dance with these bruises?
Mum:  You will manage!
Me: Alright at least you didn't tidy my bedroom
Mum: Oh I thought you might appreciate me cleaning your room.
Me:  MUM!

This one is about me talking to our teacher about tech this week

Miss C: Alright everyone tech today.
Me: What are we doing?
Miss C: Your doing soft materials.
Me: Yeah yeah whats the other group doing?
Miss C: Food.
Me:  (tummy makes a funny noise)

The final one is me talking to a friend about the food at camp.

Friend:  So full.
Me: So hungry.
Friend: No more.
Me: MORE!
Friend: Aren't you full?
Me: Aren't you full? Ha.  Aren't you hungry?

Advice for camp

Last week we went to camp.  I have some good advice for rooms 19 and 20 as they are going on camp this week:

•   PAINTBALL HURTS always wear lots of camouflage or dark layers.
•  Make sure you don't pick talkative people for the overnight camp out.
• Always know when to be quite.  Nobody likes a talker in the night.
• Don't be an eater in clash of the camp.
•  Remember to have a torch during spotlight.
• Keep your togs dry.
• Don't fall over in the rabbit run.
• Always have a smile