Netball!!

For the first 2 weeks, Rm 21 have been playing netball. There are a lot of people that like playing netball, and I’m one of them! When you’re playing netball, you have to co-operate with your team or you won’t win. If you listen and try your hardest, you will succeed.

There were some techniques that we all had to learn. They were passing, pivoting, intercepting, attacking and defending. It sounds hard and it looks hard, but when you play it, it’s not that bad. Netball is just like basketball but theres no bouncing and running.

In every game, there has to be an instructor, so our instructors name is Liz. She is the one who showed us all of the skills and drills. We also played a game. The aim of the game was that you had to mirror what your partner was doing. There was another one that was called Netball tiggy.

Standing in the hot sun was very tiring so when we finished, I was dying for very cold water. Instead we had fruit. The fruit calmed me down and it was so refreshing that I wanted to beg for another. That was so fun!!

Puppies and dogs!!!

Puppy and dogs! Don't you think they are so cute!! Maybe some of them but most of them dont you think they are so cute. My favorite animals are actually puppies and dogs, also some of them have green and blue eyes, those ones are my favorite. Puppies and dogs are my favorite animals. What is your favorite animal?

Te Tiriti O Waitangi!

Way back in the 1840’s, a treaty had to be signed because there was no peace between the Maori and Pakeha. There were alot of disagreements between the two cultures. About 40 chiefs signed the Treaty on the 6th of February, 1840, but 500 more including 13 women signed it as well.

Some people had main jobs. Henry Williams was a missionary who translated the English version of the Treaty into Maori. James Busby and William Hobbson were the people who wrote the English Treaty. At the time ,the Queen was Victoria. Last but not least, Hone Heke was the Maori Chief.

For days and days, the Treaty circulated around New Zealand for Maori’s to sign. The Treaty involved the three P’s and here they are and what they meant. Protection means to protect their land, Partnership means to bring friendship between the two cultures and last but not least Participation means to bring peace to their area.

They made copies of the Treaty because at the time, communication from one area to another was too difficult and too hard. So instead of taking the risk of losing the Treaty ,they made copies. The Treaty place is in the Bay of Islands down in the North Islands.

Wow, there are a lot of things that I still want to know about the Treaty and that I know already. Te Tiriti O Waitangi is an interesting thing to work on! Like William Hobbson said (“He iwi tahi tatou”) which meant “We are now one people.”

All about Graphs!!

This graph is a bar graph, but this is not the only one. Some of the other names of the graphs are line graph, stem and leaf graph, pie chart, X and Y graph, area graph and circle graph. The pie chart and the circle graph are really similar to each other because there both circle. Some people use graphs to update Data like how I use on the picture on the left. The graph on the left show's Rm 21's favorite Animals. The animals that are involved in the graph are Dog or puppy, Lion, Monkey, Giraffe, Bear or Panda and other.

The most popular Animal is a Dog or Puppy.

Movies, Movies and even More Movies!!

Some people like watching movies on big screen and I'm one of them!!! What I did in the weekend was tremendously awesome!!! We were going to the movies to watch Siones Wedding 2 Unfinished business. There were a lot of things that I did but I'll just tell this bit of my interesting weekend.

My family and I were so excited to go to the movies. By family, I mean my mum, sister, auntie, dad, and cousin. We knew that we were going to have a jolly good time. We were almost there and we were ready to watch the film. So we carried on with going to the Movies.

We went on a Saturday afternoon at 2:30pm. I just couldn’t wait until it started. We went to the movies at Sylvia Park. We went because my auntie had tickets already for us to see the movie.

When we got there, we still had a little more time until the film started, so my mum, auntie and sister went to Paknsave to buy us some munches. Then the rest of us went window shopping and trying to resits the stuff that we were looking at.

There were alot of laughs and alot of sadness but that day was totally awesome! I wish I could watch it over again. That’s how cool it was. Hope when another movie comes out we can watch it on the Extreme Screen.

Holidays out of Auckland!!

My holidays were totally. . . .AWESOME!!! I’ll tell you about the thing that I did. We got to go to Tauwhare because we wanted to visit the other side of the family. There were a lot of things that I did with my whanau. Lets explore my interesting holiday.

It took a very long time to get down there, but it was worth the wait. Finally we were there waiting to hear what we were going to do that day. When I heard that we were going to my uncle Koinakis house, I was wondering where that was. When we got there, we saw that there was a motorbike. so we all rushed out to play on it.

When we were out of the cars, we saw a lot of puppies. One puppy, two puppies, three puppies, four!! So many puppies that rushed up to our feet, jumping on us. We couldn't’t touch them because they hadn’t had their shots yet. So, trying to resist their cuteness, we had to stay away from them. We slept there for 2 or 3 nights at least.

I leap to my feet when I heard that we were going to my Nana Genes house. I leap to my feet because it is fun at my Nana Genes house. We brought the motorbike as well. We got to ride on horses and their names were Barney and Jake. It was MIND BLOWING!!!

I really hope our family can do it again for the next holiday.