Time Challenge

This is the longest screenshot from my time spelling challenge, and in one minute I typed out single 26 times.  So I challenge you to time yourself on how long it take you to type out each of your spelling words in a minute each.

My Name in Sign Language

This is a short video on how to spell out my name in sign language and I hope you enjoy it such as much as I do.

Reading Goup

This is a photo was taken from this morning and this one is a photo of my group and you can see that we are all reading the book and is really into it, and that is because we were given a fun activity by Mrs Anderson.  In this activity I learnt that one school is becoming an environmental school and they had made a cultural garden in their courtyard, and I hope that one day our school becomes a environmental school.

Inter-socer Game Week 4

On Monday was another challenging game against room 6 and this time it was a tie.  On the first half was a very easy score for room 6 so they had the first score and we had our first score in the first half too, and I can not wait until our final game.

NYLD Badge

This is a photo of the badge that we received for attending the National Young Leaders Day, Miss Kirkpatrick brought this for the four of us so that we may show other people that we went and attended the NYLD.  So if you go next year you might be more lucky.

National Young Leaders Day Report

Last week on Friday Lavinia, Trinity and I spoke about the National Young Leaders Day (NYLD).  On Thursday was an exciting day when us four lift school early to make it on time for the national young leaders day, on that day we had a lot of fun watching and hearing from some of the New Zealand celerities, and my favourite speaker was Dave Atkinson.

Curnet Event

Author Study

This is my presentation about Des Hunt, his background and his passions.  Today I learn a lot of new things and one of them are that steel can burn that is if you know how to burn it, and the other thing that he showed us was how to change the colour of with different kind of ingredient.

Xtra Maths Week3

This is my screenshot of my XtraMaths this week.  In this screenshot you can see that I have a couple of my answers that are wrong and it is because I was hurrying and didn't look at the question properly, so next time I need to look at the questions properly, but what's good is that I'm getting a lot of smiling faces on my chart.

Dictionary Meanings

L.I. is to understand what each words means and al so to know how to use it.

Technology: Technology is a product that scientist use to discover.

Change: To make a difference to something.

Past: Having to do with what have happened in the past.

Future: What have not happened yet and what needs to come.

Assimilate: To learn more and experience.

Question: To ask someone about something.

Punishment: Having to do something that is very hurtful and boring.

Consequence: The result of doing something for example: her stomach was sore because of too many sweets.

Rules: A law to guide people and not to disobey.

Teach: To show or explain.

We did this so that we would understand what each words means and to make sure the person who's reading it understands.

Graphics at Tech

This year the 8's have been graphics as the first activity for the year, our goal for this year at tech is to make a takeaway box and do a lot of other activities to help us with our drawing, and I can not wait until we do cooking.

Music with Mrs Ells

Every Tuesdays our classroom room 9 go down to room 11 and have their music lessons with her.  This week we learnt a new song called Paradise and al so learnt the sign language actions, after that we learnt how to do bourdon and after that we carried on with lean on me.

A Game of Squash

This is a photo of me doing squash.  This week the senior class have been doing squash for that last four days and we all learnt a lot of new skills from Phill, Nick and Michel, so here is a challenge for you, challenge someone at home and see how many points you and your challenger have.

Tricks used in Advertising

 

 This is my popplet on how people us tricks on TV to make a McDonald burger look delicious and makes you want to bie it, but when bie it it looks like nothing like the add.

Xtra Maths

This is my resolte on my xtra maths and on it you can see that I have 4 mistakes so next time I need to look at the questions properly and not rush, on the other side I have a lot of smiley faces which means I did it all in 1 or 2 second so that good.

Pronouns

This is a screenshot of my pronouns that I did on line and it helped me with my work.  I challenge you to have a try and see how much you get.

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Lower_Junior_Activities/marlonspronouns.htm

Past and Present Venn Diagram

My Venn Diagram show the differences and similarities between punishments for breaking rules at school in 1900 and 2013.

KWL 1900 School Days

This is a screenshot of my KWL on what I know about the 1900 school times and what kind or consequences and how schools have changed through he year.

Fast Facts

This is my resolute on my 9 times tables and as you can  see I did well on this one than my 12 times tables and my time was better, because on my 12 times tables my time was 66 seconds and on this one it was 58 seconds so you can see the imrovment on this one.  So to chellenge you, here is the link to this website and see how long it takes you to do your times tables.

Good Luck

http://transum.org/Software/Fast_Factors/Default.asp

Xtra Maths Resolute

This is my resolute on Xtra Maths and you can see that I've got one wrong because I did not look at the question properly but on the other hand you can see I've got them all right, so next time I need to look at the questions properly and maybe speed up a little faster with the ones that don't have a smile and this was my first try.

Term 1 Goal Setting

These are my screenshots of my term 2 goal from last year and it tells you what I have achieved during term on what I need to archieve next time and what I need to work on, and it show on each subjects reading, writing and maths.  Then I have a personal goal that shows what I need myself to do on term 2.

Screen Shot

This is my screen shot of my comment on Mikalars blog on how to us Photoshop.

The Soldier Who Never Returned

       

  The Soldier Who Never Returned

 LI: To understand the story in the poem    

    

There’s a bottle of beer in the Waiho Forks bar,

From the rest on the shelf it stands out like a star.

For its shape is old fashioned and it just might be purple

And the label proclaims that its “Ballins Four X”

It was bought a long time ago by a young soldier brave;

On his final leave home, these are the instructions he gave.

“Don’t break it or sell it, just keep it in store,

And we’ll drink it when I come back home from the war.”

He was killed overseas on the Island of Crete

When they battled it out with the German elite.

There’s a headstone but nobody knows where he lies,

If he sleeps his last sleep ‘neath the sea or the skies

But the bottle still remains at the Country Hotel,

A memorial stands to a soldier who fell,

And travellers and locals take time out to think

Of the soldier who never came home for his drink.

And somehow a glow by the bottle is shed

As poppies surround it and edge it with red,

For each Anzac Day there’s a new one to put there

And they lie like a wreath round that bottle of beer.

There are many stone cairns scattered over the land

But I wonder how many are polished by hand.

Though the cap is all rusty and outshines the chrome,

As it waits for the soldier who never came home.

Anonymous

1. Highlight the rhyming words in yellow

2. This is a narrative style poem as it tells a story. Explain why the bottle of beer is still on the shelf.  The bottle of beer is still on the shelf because the soldier said not to break it or sell it and he said that they will drink it when he returned, and the people are still waiting for the soldier who never returned.

3. What does ANZAC stand for?  ANZAC means Australia, New Zealand Army Corps

4. What is a cairn?  Cairn is a pile of stones.

5. How does this poem make you feel? Why?  This poem makes me feel happy because they had saved our home, but I also felt sad because a lot beloved family members were killed.

Rememberance Poppies

Remembrance Poppies

Poppies are forever linked with Anzac Day, dating back to the WW1. They are a worldwide symbol of remembrance for the men and women who have died serving their country. Poppies made of light cloth or paper are also woven together to form wreaths which are laid at war memorials up and down the country. The poppies are a reminder of the sacrifice - the lives lost - in war.

The red or Flanders poppy was one of the first to grow and bloom in the mud and soil of Flanders. They were made famous by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in his poem 'In Flanders fields'. McCrae was a Canadian medical officer who, in May 1915, had conducted the funeral service of a friend.  In a cemetery nearby, red poppies blew gently in the breeze. He saw this as a symbol of regrowth in a landscape of blood and destruction. He was upset at the death and suffering around him and wrote the verse in his notebook. Someone sent his words anonymously to the English magazine, Punch, which published them under the title 'In Flanders Fields' on 8 December 1915.                                                                                         

In Flanders fields the poppies grow

  Between the crosses, row on row.

That mark our place; and in the sky

The Larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard among the guns below.

We are the dead.  Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields

Take our quarrel with the foe

To you from falling hands we throw,

The torch be yours to hold up high.

If ye break faith with us who die,

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow,

In Flanders Fields

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

1. Where is Flanders Field? Flanders field is in a country called Belgium. ✓
2. What grows in Flanders field? The red poppies grow in Flanders field, and represent how nature regrow. ✓
3. “To you from failing hands we throw”.  Who do the falling hands represent and what have they thrown? The failing hands represent how some of the soldiers never make it back alive, and they have thrown a torch. ✓
4. “If ye break faith with us who die..”  What does the writer mean by ‘break faith’? Break faith means a lot of people are breaking faith and are disrespecting them. ✓

5. Click on the link below to help you answer these questions:

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/article/remembrance-poppy.htm#inspiration

• Who created the remembrance poppy?

The person that created the

remembrance was Moina

Michelle. ✓

• Why was it created?

The red poppy remembrance was created to remember all the men that had fought for us in the war.  ✓

• How was it made?

Poppy are made of light red cloth and they were made to get more money fundraised.   ✓

• When was it made?

It was made

• Where was it made?

The first poppy was made in the U.S and used light cloth.  ✓

Vietnam War

War is a legalized violence against two or more countries and the war that I am studding is about the Vietnam.  The youngest men killed were 16 years old and the older man killed was 62 years old.  During the Vietnam war the many of the Americans women were wounded.

The Vietnam war started in 1957 and the Vietnam war was between the North and south Vietnam, this conflict started because the north Vietnam wanted to live the way that the south Vietnam were and some of the south Vietnamese agreed and a lot of the disagreed.  On the Allied Troop which is known as the south Vietnam .

During the war the war there were many new weapons invented by the Russians and they were tanks and snipers, and later on they invented a weapon called ancient orange they used this weapon to kill all the vegetations to make it harder for the allied troops and the snipers to hide and killed a lot of people.There a lot of people that lost their lives and it was about 6 million people and New Zealand lost 32 soldiers.

The conflict was resolved because U.S. backed out of the war and the North Vietnamese were outnumbered so they gave up and the South Vietnamese took over Saigon and named it Ho Chi Min city after a famous leader from the North Vietnam.  Now Vietnam is one communist country.

20 years after the war a lot of the Allied Troops and Vietnamese were very ill and this was caused by the ancient orange.

The oldest man killed was 62 years old and the five men that were killed were only 16 years old, and the war affected a lot of American woman's were wounded.

ANZAC Thinkers Key

This is my slide show all about ANZAC and what I've with the other works on it. I hope you enjoy.

Our Adventure to Easter Beach

Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

This is one of my 30 second video all about Panmure Bridge School's trip to Eastern Beach, enjoy.

ANZAC Parade Video

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This is a 30 second video, it is all about the ANZAC parade at Orakei RSA and in this video you will see three kind of cadets the first one is your going to see is G.I. SDA Pathfinders, Sea Cadets and the last one will be the Land Cadets. Hope you enjoy.