Miss Peregrines House for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrines house for peculiar children is a novel we are reading as a class.It is about a boy, Jacob, with a Grandfather who went to Miss Peregrines house and met a whole load of Peculiar children; A girl who could fly, A scrawny boy who was able to life tons upon tons and many more, But Jacob dosent believe him when he starts saying "the monsters are back they are coming for me" and thinks he is going crazy.But every Thing his grandfather said was true about the monsters (Nazis) and the children and he dosent know it until its too late...

So far we have only read the first chapter as well as the second but as we have read its really hooking you in at every chapter and we are really enjoying it.

When we were learning about the book we used a site called kahoot, which is a quiz website and every question you get right you get points and at the end of the quiz you are rated on the points you gain and get in the top five...

Hoot
Hoot is a book about a boy called Roy who makes unlikely friends in his new town Coconut Cove, he Is also bullied by a boy called Dana Matherson and soon becomes friends with a boy hey spots running down the street and his Step sister and together they stop a local Mother Paulas pancake house under construction, from destroying the habitat of a specie of burrowing owls.

My favourite Character was probably The running boy because he was very risky and his actions were Unpredictable at times and he also stood up for what he believed in.
My least favourite Character was Dana Matherson who was a attention seeker, a bully and liked to put people down.

My Favourite Part of the book was when Roy first spots the running boy and chases him and comes to find his temporary camp by the golf course.
The themes and messages in the story that I personally picked up on was Bullying, sticking up for what you believe in, not giving up, Team work and survival.
My rating for hoot would be 8/10, it was a interesting novel but I did get a bit bored at times but all together it was also quite interesting at the same time.
The part that I am most looking forward to in the movie is The part when Roy finds running boys camp and the cotton mouth moccasins.

AIDA

This week on Tuesday our school went to the boys and girls high school production musical called "Aida".
The music in the production is written by Elton John and is 2 hour show. My favourite scene was all the conflict between the two towns, Egypt and Nubia and also the parts when the princess went back to Nubia and they did a lot of dancing. and how the end and the start of the production tied together.
Overall it was a bit long and but apart from that the props, actors, dancers and music was amazing and I would highly recommend it 
4/5 (four out of five)

30 Day Book Challenge

Today we had a session in the second block where we did a form of  "Secret Santa" with books.

Where Miss Downard wrapped up 23 books one for each student making the cover non-visible only writing key words from the story on the wrapping so we couldn't judge it by its cover and used the random name picker to let us pick from the books one at a time, however you were also allowed to steal but only once because you either steal or pick from the piles of books in the centre of the mat. Once it got to me I chose a book with the word "Distopian" - "save the future" and "girl main lead"
but this book got stolen off me by maya so I had to pick a book of the floor and ended up with Perks of being a wallflower that I am so far enjoying!

Athletes make millions per their regular salary, it is estimated LeBron James makes more than president Obama, my argument is about those athletes who make so much money and if they DO deserve it, I think they deserve every cent but some think this is an outrage to our society.

Just think these athletes, basketball players for example, don't just get picked, these athletes work so hard to get where they are now and are considered best of the best. Some people don't think its fair but personally I think everyone has to work hard to get where they want to be, so those people who say its an outrage to have such high paid athletes don't understand what heights these athletes went to for these jobs.

Athletes=
Lebron James: basketball
ranked the 3rd highest paid athlete this particular sportsman gets paid $72.3 million a year and gets $53 million dollars in endorsements and every time he gets paid (salary) its $17.9 million dollars.
Even though these athletes gain a lot of money, they also have charities that they would donate a certain amount of money to every time hey get paid of yearly
LeBron James charity is The lebron James family foundation, where he pays to educate kids in need of help and helps in loads of other ways.

Floyd Mayweather: boxing

Floyd Mayweather is The best paid athlete in the world, with a total yearly pay of $105 million american dollars, this athlete has been unbeaten in his boxing career for years now and is a world class boxer, you would not be able to win a fight against this particular athlete.

These two athletes may get a lot of money compared to the 100th highest paid athlete but even he gets $17.6  million dollars a year.

I believe these athletes work very hard to get where they are now, as i said earlier in the text these people are the best of the best and worked very hard to get where they are now, so I believe these athletes deserve every little bit.

Cotton-mouth moccasins.

These animals are not something you would want to come across at any time, they are a venomous, long and thick snake, with a triangular head to see all threats.

-The average length of these reptiles can reach up to 40 inches long but one has been believed to have grown up to 2-1/2 meters long. 

-Cotton mouths are mostly active at night and sleep in the day, you could say they were nocturnal.

- The diet of these snakes is cold and warm blooded animals including other snakes

- The life span of these animals is unknown

Kodu 

Kodu is a new coding application
this may be fun for some....Some
how ever I was somewhat annoyed with the app, at the start but its still a bit fun when you get to know how to move the Kodu and also use the actual app...
I would recommend this app to someone who has the patience 

Devon

Day 1 =

This was the day of the looong bus trip down to new Plymouth. We arrived at school at 7:30 and did the roll and made our way to the bus in the pouring rain, hauled all our gear into the bottom of the bus then got our seats... after 5 hours of music, lollies and little half an hour stops on the way, what seemed like an eternity we arrived at Devon intermediate tired and but still eager to meet our billets and host families.

Nervous and happy sach and I met savithi our billet, she was a year seven and played hockey like me.

We went to her house and put down our bags and got to know her.

Day 2:

Happy and ready for a full game day ahead, we get ready and head off to school a bag over our shoulders and sports gear at the ready. We arrive at Devon intermediate and get another bus to the boys high hockey turf, the first 25 minutes of the hockey game was not too challenging and at the end of the game we had smiles the length of faces with the end result 9-0.

we came back to school happy but once we found out that lost the trophy by 1 POINT we were devastated but knowing that we did our best we had our heads held high a headed off to the pools.

later that night we had the disco which was ended with a fire-truck and lots of smoke so we were sent home for a good night sleep...

Day 3:

today was a sad day, we were all sad about leaving but happy to not have school the next day. This time on the way home we stopped at the big apple restaurant got lunch and stacked up on lollies for the trip home.

then the bus arrives at mokoia intermediate and the Devon experience was over

holidays!On the last holidays me and my family went on a roadtrip down to the south island. We drove down to wellington stayed there one night then caught the ferry the nexy morning, then once we arrived in picton we started the long drive down to Hanmer. On the way we stopped at blenheim, kaikoura and Ohau stream where the baby seals swim at the waterfall.
When we finally got to hanmer, we drove to the holiday park and found our cabin and slept there for one night and the next morning we went to hanmer springs where we rode on the superbowl,the black hole and another hydroslide.
The super bowl was like a hyrdoslide but it opened up into a big drain hole. You shoot out of the slide on an inflaitable chair and go round and round until u circle down the drain at the bottom. Then the black hole was the first hydroslide Ive ever been on with arrows that light up on the roof of the hydroslide.
that same day we made that trip to hanma springs park we also drove down to castle hill and got some rest for the full out skiing we had the next day!
 

Reverse Poem

Smoking in all ways is ok
and you should never except
that smoking is bad for your health
-people always say
'smoking is healthy'
we are wrong to believe that
smoking dosent help you to fit in
smoking is good
and I refuse to believe
smoking is bad

now read it backwards and that's the side of the message that counts.

Mine Craft
This Term we are going to build a new world on minecraft suitable for the human race in case Earth becomes un-liveable. I am in a group with alexa and sacha, we building a tropical world called San-ca-re-go-co its a bit of a mouthful, and is a peacefull getaway!!!

The Fault In Our Stars

This term we are doing a second book club and we got to choose from a wide range of book genres and Maya, Marnie and I chose 'the fault in our stars'

The book is about a 16 year old girl Hazel grace who meets Augustus Waters, even though hazel has Cancer and is capable of getting sick very quickly and Augustus has an amputated leg from a cancer in his bone marrow but become very close until...

Among the hidden!
This term Miss Downard read us the first book of a series called 'among the hidden' 
This is my prediction
Prediction~I think he will get a fake ID run away with his it and the govorment will find out its fake and go to the jail in the goverment and fine his partner in crime-Jen

    In class we are reading a book called "among the hidden" its about a boy who was the third child in his family so he has to hide other wise there his parents get penaltys or he gets taken away...

End of Genius Hour

Our Genius hour = This term our class did a Genius hour, our groups was based on the hunger games, since alexa and I are fandoms as well as Sacha and Tanner we decided to do that topic. We created Three dresses based on three districts and a P.E game based on the first hunger games that involves the whole class!

The best part = The part that I liked the most was creating the game and organising and presenting the Reaping.

The Process = First we organised  how we would act out the actual day, and then we desinged our dresses on paper before we made them, we then created our bands for the P.E game that was planned out kind of like rippa rugby how you would take the band and that means that they were considered dead or out.

The Most Sucsseful part = Was the P.E game because it was planned first and we all agreed and had no arguments on how it would work out,

What I would Do Differently Next Time = Probably stitch my dress together more better and be more oranised with the paper work and dress.

My next Genius Hour = Probably based on Divergent my latest favourite book and movie or making a food,

I give my progect a 8 out of 10. 

In our class for reading we got to choose what book we wanted to read in our groups my group had the book "divergent" so far its been a very good book with very interesting characters and setting, i would defeinatley reccomend it

We are reading this book in class called "wonder" and we made a tagxedo and we have to write a prediction, my prediction is =That Via leaves home and August commits suicide beacause of his face.

This is some of my friends at mokoias family food and fun fair!

This is some photos from water saftey before camp!

 This a collage of me and my friends at thorton beach for our school camp we all had an amazing time I wish could go again

               

This is me and my group doing Science and Maths. For Maths we connected spaghetti (not cooked) and used marshmallows to stick them together to make the tallest structure. Our group won and got a prize from the teacher. For science we added red bull to milk and waited for something to happen.