Nikaela!

Nikaela is Coming back on 24 August! I miss Nikaela at Wellington! Nikaela is so Awesome! you have lots of Friends! Bella is so cute! you are so Beautiful! Sharlene is Nikaela's Awesome flatmate! I miss Sharlene at Wellington! Nikaela and Sharlene is so Cool! Nikaela and Sharlene is my Best Friends! I am making card for you and Sharlene!

ZAPPED!

Zapped-I am going to rewrite the play Zapped....... One day there was a girl and her classmates and she had got given a calculater from her grandad, her grandad told her not to press the off button while it is facing someone. Along came her friend and asked her about the calcultaer so she told him, one of the things that she said was she can't press the off button while facing someone and he said why not and so she zapped someone and they turned into a statue! Then she zapped everyone and he kept on and on at something and so she zapped him! Then she felt lonly so she unzapped Jack (her friend) and she said to him I want to go for a game of soccer so With that the teacher came in and said time for spelling testing. With that Jack said zapp the teacher so then she did and they all went out for a game of soccer! Produced by Courtney.

Key Competency Awards - 27.07.12

Cody
27.06.12 Managing Self/Relating to Others
Congratulations on your renewed focus within the class. It has been great to see you helping and supporting others with their learning. Well done

Courtney 27.07.12Using language , symbols and texts
Courtney I am so impressed with your reflective comments you write along with all the posts on the blog. We are impressed with the dancing news you shared in the holidays. It is also lovely how you take the time to make positive comments on others’ posts.

27.06
Phoenix-Jade
Using Language , Symbols and Texts
Thank you for your efforts to put the PowerPoint together for our assembly tomorrow. You stuck at a long task and persevered to get everything done. You knew where to go to find pictures and information. Your computer skills are very good and you will be able to help others on the computer. Thank you

AWE was the beast week of teram 3 on monday we went on the bus to the tsb aqwadic sinter for auoer lisen. On tusday we lirent how to jump off a leag in to the water. On wensday it was the larst day at the aqwadic sinter so we where aloud to go on the hidrer slid but we were still lirnig too we had to put our arms acros our bodys and go down the hidrer slid now this made you go farster the larst slid I went on was the turbo slid I hit my head on the bottem of my head but after a day or two.On thesday we whent to the beach to surf I didnt get one stand up thanks for reading.

Jordans AWE swimming

  P                                              M                                   I
   It was fun way to learn                             Had to wait too long                           went
   new things                                                                                                          surfing in
                                                                    That we didnt go sufing                    the winter      
  Hidroerslide was really                                  more  
  fun
                                                                         
 Got to go surfing

The instructers were
awesome

The school didnt have
to pay for the week


                               over all i loved it!!             

AWE

AWE All the year 6's did the AWE activites last week it was really fun and awesome the awesome things we did were : We got to go on the hidroslides dive in the pool go oin the tarzan rope but best of all we got to go surfing we got to surf down at fitzroy beach and i think every one got a chance to stand up i think we should stiil have this great adventure for the Year 5s

Astounding Tree

Astounding Tree 

This tree is an astounding tree. It's just lived for 1000’s of years undiscovered until now. The information you are about to lay your eyes on will astound you.  But, every word you read will make you, think harder about what lives out in the bush and how they live.

The secrets that you are about to lay your eyes on will be exciting but I warn you reader some of these secrets may change your life forever. This is my lifes work.

If you don’t already know what I am talking about, I am talking about the Swamp Marie.

It has breathing roots from the top and eating roots at the bottom. It has white scaly bark on the tree and its leaves die on top so birds and other things do not eat it.

It’s been drained, cut down and used for cargo crates and butter containers because it did not rot and stink. So now it is a tree that everyone wants to protect so it’s not lost to this world. That is my conclusion.

Football Ferns open Olympics action with loss

 Hi all, this is the article on the pre-Olympics football match between our Ferns and the UK team. The highlighted words are in Extension List 2 on spellingcity.com for you to explore.


Like his players, Football Ferns coach Tony Readings preferred to accentuate the positives after their 1-0 loss to Britain in the Olympic Games opener at Millennium Stadium today (NZT). It's probably all he could do after the disappointing start to their camapign, but the most comforting factor for the coach was a belief in his team to bounce back. That will be a tough ask, though, with world No 5 Brazil next up on Sunday (NZT). "What we have proved time and time again is that when we come up against adversity we always react in the best way possible," he said from the bowels of Cardiff's magnificent rugby stadium. "What they will know is that today was a missed opportunity and I think we will use that to our advantage, because we know we weren't completely outplayed for the 90 minutes." Readings felt they should have got something out of the game, though most objective observers would say they were outplayed on balance. The 1-0 scoreline certainly didn't flatter the hosts. "I think we have a lot of positives to take from the performance today," he said. "We had a few chances there as well, that's one game down and we have two more games to get six points, which is what we are aiming for." Readings said the players were disappointed, devastated even, which was a sign of of far they had come in the past five years. "That feeling is because we have lofty expectations, we expect to win these games. We expect to progress out of the group and take it from there." The coach was rapt with his team's start - they dominated the first 15 minutes against a nervous British side - but once the hosts pressed forward, the Ferns struggled to keep possession. "As they got into the game and the crowd got noisier, it lifted their team," he said. "Maybe if we could have scored in the first 20-25 minutes when we were on top, the game could have taken a different route. But we didn't and we need to learn from that and to take advantage from phases when we are on top. "GB started to press us more and we didn't move the ball as quickly as we did earlier in the match and it allowed them to get on top. We will just keep playing the way we set out to play." He said the free kick, which led to the 64th minute winner from defender Stephanie Houghton, could have been defended better - "it felt like the ball went in the net quite easily'' - but other factors had contributed to the loss. Ad Feedback He also refused to put too much emphasis on striker Sarah Gregorius' glaring miss, in the 71st minute, when a defensive botch up saw her one-on-one but she scuffed the shot at the keeper. "There's a whole heap of things we could have done better and she's missed an opportunity but the players will rally around, and by Brazil she will look to put things right in the next game. "She's a pretty unique character. She's one of the bubbliest personalities in the camp." New Zealand will need to beat Brazil or, more likely, Cameroon in the final pool match next Wednesday if they are to have any chance to progressing to the quarterfinals in the 12-team competition.

sams tenahorn

this is sam playing his tenahorn

Katy's PMI on AWE

Hi guyz,
This is my PMI ( positive minus and interesting ) on the AWE swimming programme!!!

 P                                                                       
we learnt more about being safe in the water
the instructors made it really fun
it was at the aquatic centre

M
the programme only lasted for four days
it was only about an hour long
I'm smaller than everyone else so they had to make exceptions for me

I
on the last day, we got to surf!!!
we got to go on the hydro slides and tarzan rope
only year sixes got to do the programme

Thanx for listening and check back soon for more of my awesomeness!!!

K8y!!! :)

Chloe's PMI For AWE swimming.

Sup guys. Here is my PMI for the AWE swimming.

Positives.

*We went surfing at the beach.
*We got to learn new strategys in the water.
*We had fun!
*We got to pactice our swimming.
*We went on the hydro slides.

Minuses.

*It was cold at the beach.
*The progamme only lasted for 4 days.
*Some people didn't enjoy it.
*It was quite easy for some people. - It wasn't really a challenge for them.
*It didn't take up the whole school day.
*The wetsuits were un comfy.

Interesting.

*We learnt how to surf.
*I learnt how to tread water.
*At the end of each lesson, we had challenges.
*I thought that I wouldn't enjoy it, but I kinda did.

Conclusion.

Overall I quite enjoyed the swimming and I learnt lots of strategys in the water.
I enjoyed surfing and going on the hydro slides. I would probably give it a 7 and a half out
of ten.

Kate's P.M.I around the benefits of AWE

The year sixs from frankley school went to the aquatic centre for the AWE swimming saftey programme.
This is my P.M.I around the benefits from it!!!

P-(positive)
*More people can become confident in and around water
*You can have fun while learning new water saftey

techniques

*Learning what is required to do when you are in trouble around water

M-(minus)

*For some people the AWE programme is quite easy

*We only got to do it for four days

* It didn't take up the whole school day

I-(interesting)

*It was in the first week back at school

*It was only four days ( we can't learn much in four days)

*Surfing in the winter, at the beach, in the wind

Conclusion!!!

Overall I really enjoyed it, I learnt a few more water saftey skills.

I think it is benefitting students by teaching them about water saftey skills and how to be safe around and in water!!!!!!

 

My AVATAR Kate

More Pics of Webcam Toy!

Here are 2 cool pics of me on webcam toy. I am so awesome aren't I?

Spain won the euros 2012

Hello Julian here Did you guys hear that spain won then euros 2012? I was so happy that spain won the euro in soccer. they are totally the best team in the world see ya.

Goals

Hi people how are you doing at school?

Well anyway I am having a great time I have achieved some things......... well I wrote down in my home-learning some numbers counting in ten's upto 10 000 =) 

That is a big achievement for me I have never counted OVER 1000 before.

Oh well my spelling goal is going great as well and as I have got SUCH a great teacher I have some help so I dont get stuck and have no problemo.

But if you have achieved some of your goals or have accomplished something then please let me know like I say all the time I love to here from you =)

Thanks

Courtney

 This picture you see here is a pic of my puppy!

 
 

Refuge Chamber BAR

The refuge chamber has a toilet. It can hold 20 people for 36 hours. It can be pushed
to 54 hours. It has enough water for 20 people and has enough oxygen and food.

b-supplies
a-computer room
r-toilet\a row of gaming toilets

'Killers' warning over dolphins - Newspaper article

The highlighted words can be found in our spellingcity lists. These words can be used by those children who would benefit from discussing their meanings and working on the activities that help this. Have a look.

Protection must immediately be given to Maui's dolphins in Taranaki waters or New Zealand's fishing fleet risks being branded "dolphin killers", an academic warns.
Otago University zoology professor Liz Slooten has been studying Maui's dolphins and their South Island counterpart Hector's dolphins, since 1984.
Just 55 adult Maui's are believed to exist off the North Island's west coast and new rules to protect them come into force at the end of the month.
Set netting will be banned within 3.7 kilometres of shore and commercial fishing boats must carry observers if they wish to use set nets between there and 12.6km.
Fishermen claim the new measures are unnecessary but conservationists so they don't go far enough.
Yesterday Prof Slooten said there was more awareness about the plight of the world's rarest marine mammal issue overseas than here.
Failing to take action to prevent the Maui's extinction could see the international community boycott New Zealand fish in protest.
"Logically it doesn't make sense for people to boycott hoki, for instance, because dolphins aren't being killed in the hoki industry but that is the next step. Do we want to be seen as dolphin killers overseas," she said.
Despite some fishermen claiming Maui's did not live in Taranaki waters, Prof Slooten said past sightings showed they did and if those sightings were no longer happening it was only because the population had declined so much.
She said it was now so small it could afford just one death every 10 to 23 years and with set nets by far the biggest threat to Maui's dolphins fishermen must look at alternatives.
But Taranaki Commercial Fishermen's Association president Ian McDougall said four boats currently used set nets and there was no suitable alternative when targeting valuable rig, warehou and trevally stocks.
"Warehou don't take bait and you can't catch rig on a commercial scale with long lines," he said.
Quota restrictions, market demand and conversion costs also meant fishermen could not simply switch to long lining for different species such as gurnard and snapper.
In January, Mr McDougall reported he had caught a Hector's or Maui's dolphin in his set net off Cape Egmont. As required by law he returned the dolphin to the sea.
In April a dead Hector's dolphin was washed up near Opunake.
Taranaki Commercial fishermen will today meet a representative of the Ministry for Primary Industries to discuss the implications of placing observers on their boats.

My Trip to Bangladesh

Hey guys, As you know a few days ago my mum and I went to Bangladesh to attend my cousins wedding. Well a little while ago I posted some pictures on my blog and would love it if you could see it and I would really appreciate if you could write me some comments and how I could improve my posts. Here is the link ➡ Click here.

Webcam Toy

Sup dudes, there is this website where u can take awesome pic with ur webcam. Here are a few.

I was mad because I didn't get to have pie. x

Freaky!. x

I can see u!. x

My cute pillow pet and me. x

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Friv

Sup guys, Click here 2 go 2 Friv, an AWESOME site with loads of different games.
I recommend: Rollercoaster builder, dental adventure and fashion star!
K8y!!! :)

A Marmite Miracle

It is a miracle.
On Sunday 8th of July when we were unpacking our food cupboard at our bach,
We discovered that we had 1 250 gram jar of marmite.
We couldn’t believe as nobody has been able to get it for the last few months due to the marmite factory being in the red zone from the Christchurch earthquake. I think that we are very lucky to have it and we have to make it last until the factory can reopen and start to make Marmite again.

Pink Attack.

Today (12th July 2012) I went up Mt Ruapehu with my 2 sisters and my Mum to ski on the Whakapapa ski field. We had a great time and we also skied on Tuesday 10th July. Today I had a lesson with an instructor called Alex and he was very kind. For Cxthristmas last year I got new skis from USA and they have fluro pink bottoms. I am still getting used to having them but I really like the look of them. Also today when I got out of bed and came upstairs my Mum told me that I needed new pants so she went into the ski gear cupboard and pulled out some bright pink snow pants. I was amazed at how bright they were. Once I got dressed into all of my gear I noticed that I was wearing all pink except for my red ski boots. After we had driven up to the ski field I got in my skis and Mum took a photo of me and I told to her “Pink Attack” Here is a photo of me in all of my gear up the mountain.

Key Competency Awards - 29.06.12

29.03 - Julian using Language, Symbols and Texts Julian, all those who have read your recent writing have have enjoyed it so much– I really enjoyed reading it. You also put together some great information around the King Fern both in your information report and on your sign. Well done

29.06 - Jordan Managing Self Jordan I have been impressed with the positive attitude you have displayed towards your tasks. You have demonstrated more focus and commitment. I am always impressed with your sporting ability and your relaxed strategic play and your communication with others on your team.

29.06- Tuscany Relating to others – Participating and Contributing Tuscany , today I watched you in our game on the courts and I was very proud of you! You participated enthusiastically, you supported others, you adapted your play to help others have success, I heard wonderful positive comments come from you. You are an asset to all within any game or PE activity that we do.

 29.06 -  Meg - Goodbye to you! You have been an absolute pleasure to work with. You are like our Kahikatea tree. Your helpful and sensitive nature sees you supporting others around you with their learning. I admire your positive 'can do' attitude, your ability to problem solve and your willingness and inclination to make a positive difference in your life and others. Your presence at Frankley School has impacted on all those you have played, worked with and learned alongside of. I wish you all the very best and look forward to hearing about your new adventures and the opportunities they bring you.

Dance competition!

Hi everyone, on Monday the 2nd of July I had a dance competition and came highly commened and also got a encouragement award and that means that I got to pick a beanie kid ( that is a teddy bear ) here is a picture of my beanie kid: I had a great time and I am doing it again today (on July the 3rd!)

Julians Funny Voki!!!

Hope you enjoy!