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Athletics Reflection

Athletics Reflection

I think I did well in the athletics because I tried my best and came 5th in the 100 meter run.

I enjoyed jumping over the pole in high jump because I get to land on the big blue mattress.

My most successful event was the 50 meter hurdle run, because I came 2nd in the 1st round, and 3rd in the 2nd and 3rd round.

My least successful event was the inter school high jump because when I got over the pole in my last 2 jumps I either touched the pole with my feet or hand.

I could have improved on not touching the pole when I jumped up into the air and onto the mattress. Throwing the soft ball into the air so it goes further

If the hurdle run was longer, if you had more chances for the inter schools high jump, and if the the 100 meter run was a little longer.

Why you should buy a dog

WHY YOU SHOULD OWN A DOG,

BECAUSE

DOGS ARE DA BOMB

Most kids and parents have pets, some of them have cats, rats, parrots and maybe even chinchillas. I think dogs are the best because they’re really fun, easy to look after and they’ve got lots of personalities. Dogs can be full of energy most of time, you can even train them to do awesome tricks. After you read this, you’ll not only want a dog, you’ll own one.

Dogs can be really playful and pumped up, you can play fetch with them and chase them around the field or backyard. When you come back home from school, they’ll be wagging their tails ready to play. When mum says you have to go outside, you can play with your dog/s.  If you're lying on the ground bored out of your mind, your dog is always there to comfort you. In your spare time, you could try teaching it how to do some tricks like roll over,  high five, and maybe a backflip if it’s really talented.

Secondly, dogs are easy to look after. You only have feed them about 3-4 biscuits every morning and afternoon, it really depends on what dog you have. Dogs can be  full of lots of energy  but at the end of day they're just a lazy  pile of fur. If your dog gets thirsty, all you have to do is either grab a dog bowl or a bucket and fill it with water. But if you use a bucket, make sure to clean it before pouring water into it. And if you run out of dog biscuits, you can buy a new big bag of dog biscuits about $39 or higher.

Lastly, dogs can have lots of personalities. If you're feeling down, your dog will lick your knee or face and cheer right you up. Sometimes they won’t be there to cheer  you up, but I reckon they’ll be there. They always keep you company and some dogs can be really protective like a guard dog for example (If you don’t crave a burglar alarm, your dog can be one.) If you have two dogs, they’ll keep each other company. If there female, and male, you could have puppies and those puppies will turn into dogs. Then you could probably sell them for money, or keep them to make more baby puppies.

Some people wouldn’t like or want a dog because they poop everywhere, they leave their muddy trails on the floor. But most dogs poop on the grass in one area and they won’t come into the house if you close the door.

So now you have it, now you know dogs are the best. Dogs can really build up a bond with the owner and fill him or her with joy. If I were you I would buy a dog maybe now or tomorrow if you have the money.

Facts on the atmosphere

This is my slideshow on atmosphere, I hope you like it.

Balloon rocket

Last week our class did a science experiment in room 15. We got given a piece of paper that had some stuff written down on it, we had to write down what we thought was going to happen before we did some science. I hope you enjoy! :)

Balloon Rocket!

Equipment:

• 3 balloons (just incase if one or two of them pop)
• 1 long piece of kite string (about 10-15 feet long)
• Tape
• 1 plastic straw

Method:

1. Tie one end of the string to a chair, door knob, or the other support.
2. Put the other end of the string through the straw.
3. Pull the string tight and tie it to another support in the room.
4. Blow up the balloon (don’t tie it.) Pinch the end of the balloon and tape the balloon to the straw shown below. Now you're ready to launch!
5. Just let go of the end and watch it zoom off.
   

   Prediction

   Zeb: The balloon will fly across the line.

   Tyrone:The balloon will go across the line like a rocket and run out of oxygen or air in it and it will stop.

   Observation

   Zeb: The balloon went zooming across the line.

   Tyrone: The balloon flew across the string and got from one chair to the other.

   Explanation

   Zeb: The air was pushing the balloon across the line.

   Tyrone: The air or oxygen comes out of the balloon causing it to move the opposite direction of the end of the balloon.

    CREATED BY Zeb AND Tyrone.
   

   
   

Science: Speedboat

Here is my Science report on a cardboard boat and a paper clip. This is all on how it floats and why. I hope you enjoy reading it. :)

Race a Speedboat

Can you make a paper boat race across the water just by gently touching the surface of the water?

Hypothesis (What I think will happen) The boat might sink because water might get on it causing it to shred to pieces.

Wrong!

Materials

Coloured card, washing up liquid, pencil or sharpie, scissors, large container of water.

Method (What we did)

1. Filled a container with a bit of water.
2. Poured some washing up liquid into the container.
3. We cut a piece of cardboard into a boat.
4. Now we place the boat into the water.

Observation (What happened)

Mr Severinson poured a bit of washing up liquid into the container. Marcus placed his cardboard boat into the water and nothing happened until Marcus put his finger in behind the boat and it went 10 cm away from where he dipped his finger in.

Conclusion (Why I think it happened)

The washing up liquid broke the surface tension making it weaker and the other end stronger, causing the boat to move when you place your finger into the water.

Short Experiment to Follow Up

Make Metal Float

Gently place a paperclip on the water’s surface.

Hypothesis (What I think will happen)

I think it might float because it’s light.

I was right about it floating but not about it being light?

Observation (What happened)

The paper clip floated when henry had his hand underneath but when he moved his hand away, the paper clip sunk.

Conclusion (Why I think it happened)

Because there was no hole or anything on the surface. If there was a hole in the water the paper clip will not float, dipping your hand in is causing to make a hole and the paper clip will only float when the surface is just flat.

Science:Does air have weight?

On the 29/10/13 our class did a science experiment on air and if it has a weight and it does. This is something on how air does have weight.  Hope you enjoy reading this. :)

Does air have weight?

Equipment: Ruler

                   2 newspapers, or one

Prediction: Q. Does air have weight?

No, air does not have weight because if it did, we would be carrying air.

A. Air does have weight, it weighs 15 pounds per square inch.

Observe: When Ollie karate chopped the ruler it didn’t break because nothing was on the end of it, Mr M got a piece of newspaper and scrunched it up and placed it on the ruler. This time the when Ollie karate chopped the ruler the ruler did not snap but the scrunched newspaper went into the air and floated down in 5 seconds. Mr M got newspaper and instead of screwing it up, he flattened it and placed it on top of the ruler. Now when Ollie karate chopped the ruler it snapped, why you say, well if you want to now read my explanation below.

Explain: The ruler broke because Mr M had flattened the newspaper , and while he was doing that air was coming out causing the air to push down onto the newspaper and the ruler would eventually break or snap. This sometimes failed because the newspaper wasn’t flattened enough.

Whoa, fascinating.

Fire the catapult!

My report by Tyrone

This is my report on this year in room 16 as a year 5, I hope you enjoy reading it.  :)

My year so far in Room 16 by Tyrone

My favourite thing about being in Room 16 in 2013 is that I’m in a computer class and that I can share stuff on my blog and they can comment about it.

Something I would like to do in term four is make lego comics about the room 16 superhero stories  with Lego digital designer and Comic life.

Something I would like to do next year is play rugby?

My dream job would be to be in the army.

Reading

The best thing about reading so far this year is actively learn.

The best thing I read this year was Dead Harry. I enjoyed it because it sounded fun and  it had a lot of action. The funny thing was when a teacher said “Have a nice barbeque kids” when a fire was happening.

This is my favourite reading blog post that I created. I chose it because it was my second reading blog post I think and it’s very interesting how the whale got born.

This is my favourite reading post from someone else. I think it is awesome because it had the part when Thunder skull sacrificed his life to save the others and then at the end the team heard a mysterious voice. I really want to see what happens next.

Maths

The best thing about maths so far this year is power lines when you can try and figure out the questions.

I was most proud of learning how to do area and perimeter. I was proud because I didn’t know how to do area and perimeter and it was fun learning this.

This is my favourite maths blog post that I created. I chose it because it looks cool and it was fun hiding Mr M and Marcus trying to find it.

This is my favourite maths post from someone else. I think it is awesome because he has done some really good work on hiding Mr M too, I also like how Marcus drew the island as a creeper face

I am really good power lines phase 1 but I forget the the answers to the questions.

I want to get better at doing times tables quicker in my head.

Writing

The best thing about writing so far this year is that you can make up stories about our super hero and the other room 16 superheroes.

I was most proud of learning how to write cool stories. I was proud because it was pretty cool and I could imagine it in my head while I was writing it.

This is my favourite writing blog post that I created. I chose it because I had really fun writing it and that it had some

This is my favourite writing post from someone else. I think it is awesome because it had some funny things that happened in the story and it Inderpreet put in a cool bad guy and he had a cool name too.

I am really good at writing stories with made up creations or something?

I want to get better at writing stories.

Integrated Topic

My favourite part of topic has been drawing a coat of arms.  I enjoyed it because I got to draw some stuff and a shield and I enjoyed making it.

This is my favourite topic blog post that I created. I chose it because I really like the drawing of the video game controllers, the gun and the grenade.

This is my favourite topic post from someone else. I think it is awesome because he drawed a pretty cool NZ flag and he told what the drawings were of.

School Involvement

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How I Have Shown PRIDE

Personal  Best: Trying my best at Multiplication grand prix.

Respect and Responsibility: Taking care of my dog and respecting how he gets dirty after he gets cleaned but maybe hes just doing that to get dried off because he's wet.

Integrity: Trying to win a game of multiplication grand prix and in the end as I come 1st-last.

Determination: Winning a game like netball dodgeball.

Enjoyment: Enjoying a game of netball dodgeball even though I lose.

Holiday Highlights 1

Today our class has been writing about the school holidays and we might have some picture, but I have heaps of them under neath all the writing. I hope you have fun reading this. :)

                          LASER-FORCE

When we get to Laser-Force we run inside and go walk up to the counter. Mum paid about $149 I think, it was our turn next and we got our suits on but we did not have even teams. It was 5 against 4, Elijah, Zeb and Zach were on my team and Ethan, Ben, Cam and Aidan were on Dylan's Team. All of us split up and hide, when the music started I shot a couple of people and then they shot me. Zeb was walking with me and I tried to walk up stairs but I couldn't. Ethan shot me 4 times when I was standing still and trying to shoot him, Elijah was hiding somewhere and Zach was camping. I walked up stairs and shot Dylan, Ben, Aidan and Zeb helped me, but then we had to retreat because they were walking up. When we finished we took off the armor and walked up to the machine that shows who won and the red team won because they had the most people. We played on the arcade machines, I played ‘Metal Slug’ and it was 2 player so I asked if Elijah wanted to play and he said yes.

I chose 1 boy and Elijah chose a boy. When it started we shot the first bad guys we saw and when we met the first BOSS I throw grenades and then I ran out. The next BOSS was a helicopter and it had a machine gun and we had to up to get it but if we stayed in the same area we would dye. We killed the helicopter 4 times because we died.

In the 3rd round we were facing little kids and two adults and 1 teenager“Come on red team” I say, “we need to get up onto the upper floor before the green team come.” All of the red team (except for Zeb because he put on a green suit) were upstairs and we waited for the green team to come.  10 minutes later.....   “Oh now they come” I said, the music starts and the green team are somewhere where we can’t shoot them. Some people were coming up but we shot them and they went back to cover, “Elijah and Dylan, can you please cover me while I go down stairs with Ben” I say. I hid behind a wall and shot 2 kids, then I saw Ben and told him to come over here. After a while I bunch of kids were going to go down stairs but Elijah and Dylan weren't there to shoot them so me and Ben shot them our selves and they ran or walked away so we won’t shoot them again. I walked up to Zeb and he shot me and I ran to cover. I shot little kids who were walking almost anywhere. Then the game was over and I noticed it was over because it said Game over man, Game over. Then we hopped in the car and got home. Then we had a war......

To be continued.....

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Pictures from laser force:

So, thirsty, must, have, drink....

Sup.

The evil looking red team. >:)

The happy green team. :)

"I'm ready to go out to war" (Loading gun)

"Keep your eye on the ball"

What you looking at?

"I need some help with this"

Optimist yachting 4

Today we were kayaking with room 20 and the wind was pretty strong to kayak in, I have created an ptimist yachting and kayaking reflection. I've also created a taxedo of my reflection. Please comment. :)

Reflection for Yachting/Kayaking:Day 4

Something I was pleased with was how nobody tipped their kayaks over and fall into the water because if they did tip their kayaks they would need help to get land.

I really enjoyed learning how to push my kayak into the water because I would get stuck on land and get back into the water.

Something I found hard was controlling the main sheet because it would sometimes come off and we almost sank our yacht!

Something that made me think was which way to paddle on the kayak because I would have to paddle right to go left and left to go right.

Something I want to get better at is kayaking. (What can I do about it?) Paddle strong and rest my legs and arms when tired.

Letter to Ken Catran

Today room 16 have been writing letters to the author of Dead Harry. Dead Harry is a pretty cool and awesome story that could inspire you, your teacher or even family to read more of the book. There's a site that has all the books that Ken Catran (author of Dead Harry) wrote and designed. I hope you like the video and my writing.

                                     Dead Harry

Dear Ken Catran,

I love your book about how Harry died and Sam being in a lot of trouble. Sam being in trouble reminded me of my brother and I being in trouble because we fight a lot. Your story is really, really interesting and I felt really amazed and it got me thinking, what would happen next? Can we read it more?

My favourite characters in Dead Harry were Harry and Elias Milton. I like them because Mr Milton (Elias Milton), could do tricks that were freaky and cool. I chose Harry as one of my favourite characters because he’s hilarious, funny and has got heaps of humour. Harry’s like my cousin Nate (short for Nathaniel), he’s really funny like him.

My favourite parts was when Harry showed up at the graveyard of his funeral, it was pretty cool and how Elias Milton transformed into a skeleton and did some other stuff to freak out the security  guard. My third favourite part was when Harry told Sam that his password was “Stinky Sam 2“, so hilarious!

Thank you for making the book, it was so cool and amazing you know.  I liked it very much. I can connect to that because I like Mr Moriarty reading us Paul Jennings books.

Sincerely,

Tyrone Harmer

Parkvale School

Dead Harry By Ken Catran from Room16 Parkvale on Vimeo.