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On Saturday I went to the Christmas parade in Greymouth. I went with the rest of the Lake Brunner sea scouts on our cutter that we decorated. The theme of the parade was meant to be Disney themed so the adults chose Moana the movie to be our theme. We where given water guns to shoot people with and lollies to give them. Majority of the crowd got wet. The parade went of for about half an hour. After the parade me and my family went ice skating, it was my first time.

Weekend journal

On the weekend on Saturday lake Brunner sea scouts went to Lyttleton to sail a ketch. a ketch is a sailing boat with two masts two jib sails one main sail and one mizzen sail. the hull is about the same size as a sloop.

We split into groups then we rotated around jobs on the boat my group started of at the group steering at the back of the boat and I learnt the the handle things on the steering wheel are for measuring the distance you turn after that our group rotated to the mainsail then the jib sail.

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Forces creation, Tsunami

This week we were set the task of researching information about tsunamis, aurora or earthquakes using a learning wall miss J had set for us. Me Ridge and Theo choose the tsunami option. as well as the research we had to make a creation showing our knowledge of tsunamis. we replicated Lake Brunner in the sandpit and dropped a huge sand filled pipe replicating a landslide one of the causes of a tsunami. Here is our creation we made!

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Adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.

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Crayon advertisement

Our class is doing persuasive writing. to start this topic we learnt about adds because they are trying to persuade you to by their product. We decided we wanted to enter an add competition so we split into groups to create our own adds. I went on my own and did an add about crayons. I used stop motion and a green screen to create my add. the difficult parts where trying to get my pencils to stand up and it was especially difficult because I worked on my own and I had no one to help. The good parts where that it was easy to create my add because I had a really good plan. I am happy that I met the deadline and that my class really enjoyed my add.

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Problem solving with decimals fractions and percentages.

We solved a sheet of word problems and after that we had to make a pie graph based on our chosen word problem. Here is mine!

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Adding and subtracting decamals

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This week for homework I continued some writing I am doing at school. The title of my writing is Hidden life (part two). here is a snapshot of the first paragraph.

They were afraid, but they called upon all their courage to overcome what was happening. There  was a human in front of them with his eyes closed and chanting some mysterious words. All of a sudden they started to feel less real, they glanced down at themselves they were starting to fade away from existence. They fled out of the town hall from this man in terror and panic all heading in different directions. One of them a little boy ran into a museum and stopped to catch his breath at an Egyptian exabit. The exhibit was about the eye of Horus and what it could do. It was legended that it could prevent magic from being used, but every wizard and witch new that that was a fact. The young wizard gazed up at the eye of Horus and saw that it was faintly glowing. The boy felt more real, he looked down at his feet they were more solid. He wanted to get out of this museum and try to find that man so he slowly creeped across the stone floor of the museum. But when the eye of Horus was out of eyesight he started to fade again. The wizard quickly ran back into the room with the eye of Horus and thought, it won't be that easy.

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To make this little game I had to think about all the forces that might affect a cannonball's flight. Change the different sliders to alter how the cannon ball will fly and the press space to shoot it.

A few things I did in the holidays

Link to my holiday story using Voki

Demon Dentist responce

At school we have been doing response writing. For my I did my response on the book demon dentist by David Walliams. We had to write a written response then we could do a creative response. I made a movie for my creative response.

Here is my response!

Demon Dentist by David Walliams is a story about a brave young boy named Alfie (whose teeth are totally rotten) that is trying to figure out who is putting ghastly things under people's pillows.He discovers that the new dentist, Miss Root, is guilty of this crime as well as being a tooth witch. She is trying to build an evil lair out of teeth. Alfie and his friend Gabz go on a quest to stop her.

Demon Dentist is an intriguing and amazing story by David Walliams that really brings the fear of dentists to life.

Demon Dentist is intriguing because of how readers never know everything, it really makes you want to read on. For example readers do not know who is putting the strange things under people's pillows. As well as the storyline being intriguing, so is the title, because when readers see the title Demon Dentist they think this book is going to exaggerate the fear of dentists.because when readers see the title Demon Dentist they think this book is going to exaggerate the fear of dentists.

Demon Dentist is a really exciting book because it is just so crazy, unbelievable but realistic too. For example a crazy part is when Winnie a social worker drives her moped up and downs stairs chasing a boy who doesn't want to go to the dentist. An unbelievable part is when Miss Root and her cat come out of a pot of acid toothpaste as skeletons.

Demon's Dentist is a really active book that puts you on the edge of your seat. It is active because there is always something exciting and interesting happening. For example just after Alfie has been chased all over his school by Winnie on her moped he has all his teeth pulled out by an evil dentist.

Overall Demon Dentist by David Walliams is an intriguing, exiting, active and amazing book that everybody should hear, as well as all his other books. Here are a few of them: Awful Auntie, Grampa’s great escape and Gangsta Granny.

Weekly weekend journal

On Saturday my sisters hockey was cancelled so she came to the pool with me and my brother. She did not do any swimming lessons though. After that we went to the warehouse and then we went home. In the holidays we are going to go to nelson to see an art exhibition on Leonardo's inventions.

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On the weekend my friend came over for a sleep over at my house while my sister went to a sleepover at her friends house and my brother went on a cub camp. My friend had to leave a about half past two, my sister came back at 9:30 AM and my brother came back at about 3:30. My brothers camp was at the yacht club and there were only about 15 kids there. My sisters sleepover was because it was here friend's birthday.

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On Saturday after I had my swimming lessons and my sister's hockey at five o-clock we went to my cousin's  engagement party. On the way there it was so foggy that we could only see a meter in front of us. The party was at a helicopter hanger in Ahaura and we got home at about half past 10. On Sunday I had my friend come over for the day for my birthday.

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Blue player's controls: WASD to move, key 1 to attack with sword and key 2 to create warriors.

Red player's controls: Arrow keys to move, key 0 to attack with sword and key 9 to create warriors

The bases can be entered by walking through there doors. Press the sound symbol to mute and unmute the music.

Weekly weekend journal

On Saturday I went to town to have my swimming lessons along with my brother while my sister did her hockey. Afterwards we went to my Nana's and grandad's house to revive an early birthday present.  I got a mbot add on pack which was what I wanted. After that we went to spieght's ale house to have lunch for my great Nana's birthday.  Then we went home and I constructed the mbot add on pack and put it on my robot.

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Walls of China responce

Walls of China by Russel Drysdale is a painting of a dry, dead and lonely desert. It looks unearthly because of the hot maroon sky. There is a dead tree in the foreground and strange white mountains in the background, with another dead tree in the middle ground. It was painted in 1945 with oil paints on a hardboard.

Walls of China is a sad, lonely but amazing and well done painting by Russel Drysdale.

I like this painting because of how it makes me look closer. For example, when I see the tree in the foreground I also see a monster and when I look at the tree in the background I think it resembles a fish tail. I also see a basin like object in the background that I have never seen or heard of before.  

This painting makes me feel sad and lonely, it also makes makes me feel like there is no hope left for anything I am doing. The barren landscape makes me feel lonely because of it’s vast emptiness. The dead trees make me feel sad because they are both dead, and both of them put together makes me feel like there is no hope because there is no life left on the desecrated landscape.

Overall Walls of China by Russel Drysdale is a sad, lonely but also an interesting and amazing painting that everyone should see along with all his other paintings. They all use the same colours and are quite mysterious. You can find an online gallery of his artwork at this website: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Weekly weekend joarnal

on the weekend I started to make a bush hut out of some old wood. I did it with both my siblings and I made it at the end of my bush track that I still have to keep making. We are building the hut up against a pine tree. So far I have nearly got the very bottom of it done all I have to do to finish it is to find and nail a 220 cm long board on to the back of the building.

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Cross country

Yesterday our school had cross country, it was held at the kamura racecourse. My race was first because I am a year six, I just had to run two KM (two laps) witch was the same as last year. I got sixth and about the same time as last year although I got third last year. We had to leave at nine-o'clock in the morning to get there in time and we stayed until about nine thirty. 

Dance styles

This term we have been learning how people use The Arts to communicate. We have been investigating the characteristics of different dance styles, we practised our note-taking skills. We experimented with each dance style our self and created our own dance sequence.

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On the weekend most of my scout group went to a two night camp up by nelson with another scout group called Iron Duke. It was about a four and a half hour drive and we arrived there at about nine-o-clock PM. on the first day we had a rotation of activity's and the activity's they were: making waggles (things that tie up our scarfs), practising skits that we would later perform at a campfire and making mobiles. At night we sang songs around a camp fire and performed our skits.

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Bowl a fact

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On Saturday my brother and I went to swimming lessons in Grey mouth at 9:00 while my sister kaelyn went to hockey. after that we all went to countdown to take over a Lake Brunner Sea Scout fundraiser which we did for 2 hours. We where selling raffle tickets and there was three prizes to be won. After our two hours where up the next people on the list came and took over and we went home.

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This weekend on Sunday I continued to make a bush track that me and my siblings started quite a while ago. The bush that the track is in is roughly east of my house. To make the track me my brother and my sister use a: slasher, some big choppers and a handsaw. We doubled the track in length because we had broken out of the really thick part of bush. We also had to install a bridge because there was a creek in the way. the bridge was made out of an old bit of wood that was just lying around. Next we need to do some repairs on the bridge because the wood is rotten and cracked in some places. It is really fun to make bush tracks because we have so much land covered in bush to explore.

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Narrative writing

In my writing I learnt a lot about punctuation and dialogue in speech because I used an awful lot of speech in my narrative. Narratives are my favourite writing genre so I had a lot of fun writing this. My favourite part was coming up with the ideas and my least favourite part was editing and proofreading it. I think this piece of writing went really well.

                                                      Here is the video of me reading it aloud.

Weekly weekend journal

This weekend was a long weekend because Monday was a teacher only day so we had Monday of! on Saturday I played hockey again. on Sunday I helped my dad with our new garage I also  had to do some maintenance on our scout cutter. Some of the things we had to do were: sand it, give it a few coats of oil and untangle all the ropes. on Monday we had the end of term scout night, we built and paddled rafts and also had a bomb fire it was heaps of fun.

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To start this game press the flag and highlight all the letters green by sliding over them. To move you need to adjust the gravity by pressing the up and down arrows, you also need to adjust the speed using the left and right arrow keys. after you have started the aim is to touch the finish flag to pass to the next level. objects such as blocks and cannons can be broken by hovering your cursor over them and pressing b. This will open a box where you have to type in how big the object is via cm answer this question to destroy the object. objects can be measured by clicking and dragging the ruler in the top corner to the correct position. to get rid of the ruler click on it. try not to get hit by cannonballs and have fun.PS: you can set the gravity to zero by pressing space and speed to zero by pressing s.

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This weekend on Saturday I went to play hockey for the first time. It was only the first  for me though because lots of training's had been going on but missed them because of swimming lessons. It was a just few ten minute games to find out who the best teams where and what positions everyone suited best. My team won all the games we played.

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Maths think bord subtraction

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How to play:This is a two player game on one device so you will need to find a friend to play with. after that you need to decide who's going to be the architect and who is going to be Zeus. The  architect has to build a house to protect a man  by dragging and dropping building blocks while Zeus plays a little game where you have to jump over cactus's. the  the blocks appearance can be changed by clicking on them and rotated with the arrow keys. then after that the architect clicks done and will revive a stick figure this figure is to be placed inside the house. Now it is Zeus's turn he has to click on the disasters that he wants to use to kill the man. The challenge is on!

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In the weekend on Sunday I went to the triathlon in moonlight which is near Blackball. I did it with my family, I did the run, Kaelyn my sister, did the walk and Cameron my brother did the bike. we did really well because we were two minutes faster than first time we did the triathlon.

Science roadshow reflection

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Today our class went to a science roadshow at the grey mouth high school. We got to see and do really cool things, we got to see through an infra red camera, ride on a hovercraft and all kinds of cool stuff. I learnt what frequency infra red waves travel at compared to other waves. Here are some photos.

 There were many exhibits around a hall and we were free to explore. It was really fun, the only downside of this event was that we did not get enough time to explore it all. one of my favorite exhibits was seeing electricity dart between two wires. I am glad we got this opportunity to see this I would like to thank all the adults who made this possible.

Bowl a fact

Today we played bowl a fact. I managed to bowl all the numbers as you can see above. I do not think I got very difficult numbers because a one can be very useful.

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On Saturday I played paintball with some scouts. The first paintball game was capture the flag  for those who don't know what that is in paintball i'ts where you have two teams, to win the teams have to capture the other teams flag and bring it back to there base without getting shot. If they do get shot the have to go to one of the many medic stations on there side to revive. next we played a game of build up's the adults started in but if one of the people who were not in shot the people who were in the people who were in had to retreat 20 meters. In this game I hid behind a bush then my dad came along and we had a little war there and then another adult came along beside me and I manged to shoot him. so he retreated 20 meters but he shouted for reinforces so then I got shot.  

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Stranded written form

We have been learning about standard written for addition. here is how to addition questions using standard written form.

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In the weekend I went to a party in Gentle Annie for the weekend. We left on Friday afternoon and arrived at about 7:00 . Gentle Annie is further north than west port and at the mouth of a very nice river. The car rides were very long and boring but it was really fun when we got there though we had pizza for tea the first night and a barbecue the second night. we went swimming in the river on Saturday and went to explore a maze after that.

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Ukulele

Every one in the class split into groups to play a song on the ukulele here is a video of my group playing I'm yours. The most challenging thing for my group was keeping in time and the most challenging thing for me was learning the G chord.

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Weekly weekend journal

This weekend on Saturday my mum ran the half marathon to West port. Her time was 2 hours 59 seconds. to get to west port to cheer her before the road closed we had to leave at 5:30 in the morning so we had breakfast in West port. later we went to one of the beaches in punakaiki for lunch. afterwards we went to to my aunt's place to see our cousin and have dinner.

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