Mr Girling-Butcher Visits - Janelle

Explanation of how the Eye works - Regan

 

 

The eye works just like a camera.  It lets light in and blocks some out and bends it into a shape of a picture. Firstly the little back dot in the middle of your eyes is called your pupil. It is not a dot it’s a hole. It lets light in and out which creates a picture.  But I’ll explain that later.

The other part, around the pupil is called the iris.  But that is a muscle. But that is only one of the muscles that you can see.   Your eye has a watery cover over it and every time you blink it lets another drop of oil which is the liquid stuff if you touch your eye its wet. It puts the oil over your eye which stops you from say your eye drying out.   

Cross country.

Today the 26th of September I went to the Taranki's- by the way that is when you have competed in the new plymouths and you have come out of the first ten, and then you get to go to compete in Taranki's. And I came 36th today. and by the way I would like to mention the other people that have competed in the Taranki's that did a FANTASTIC job. Courtney.

sad News - Peaches has passed away

Peaches has passed away - she became very sick. Cream appears well but is missing her sister.

Divisibilty Rules

Hi all here they are, including the divisibility rule for 7 and for 8. Google is my friend. Mrs McA

Divisibility Math Tricks to Learn the Facts (Divisibility)  Some tricks are listed here.

 Dividing by 2 All even numbers are divisible by 2. E.g., all numbers ending in 0,2,4,6 or 8.

Dividing by 3 Add up all the digits in the number. Find out what the sum is. If the sum is divisible by 3, so is the number For example: 12123 (1+2+1+2+3=9) 9 is divisible by 3, therefore 12123 is too! Dividing by 4 Are the last two digits in your number divisible by 4? If so, the number is too! For example: 358912 ends in 12 which is divisible by 4, thus so is 358912.

Dividing by 5 Numbers ending in a 5 or a 0 are always divisible by 5.

 Dividing by 6 If the Number is divisible by 2 and 3 it is divisible by 6 also. 

Dividing by 7 (2 Tests) Take the last digit in a number. Double and subtract the last digit in your number from the rest of the digits. Repeat the process for larger numbers. Example: 357 (Double the 7 to get 14. Subtract 14 from 35 to get 21 which is divisible by 7 and we can now say that 357 is divisible by 7.

 NEXT TEST Take the number and multiply each digit beginning on the right hand side (ones) by 1, 3, 2, 6, 4, 5. Repeat this sequence as necessary Add the products. If the sum is divisible by 7 - so is your number. Example: Is 2016 divisible by 7? 6(1) + 1(3) + 0(2) + 2(6) = 21 21 is divisible by 7 and we can now say that 2016 is also divisible by 7.

Dividing by 8 This one's not as easy, if the last 3 digits are divisible by 8, so is the entire number. Example: 6008 - The last 3 digits are divisible by 8, therefore, so is 6008.

Dividing by 9 Almost the same rule and dividing by 3. Add up all the digits in the number. Find out what the sum is. If the sum is divisible by 9, so is the number. For example: 43785 (4+3+7+8+5=27) 27 is divisible by 9, therefore 43785 is too!

Dividing by 10 If the number ends in a 0, it is divisible by 10.

Exciting news!

Today the 13th of September I am going to the New Plymouth cross country. let me explain it to you a little well if you come 1st 2nd 3rd 4th or 5th you get to go to the New Plymouth's, and if you come out of the first 12's you get to go to the Taranaki Finals! I came 2nd in our school cross country and last year I came 13th in the New Plymouth's. So good luck to the people that are competing in the New Plymouth's. Courtney.

Similies - try some of these

dads writing - Sam

When my dad feels lonely he will give us a friendly dead leg. It hurts but we will still be laughing. he always has a trick that will make us laugh.

He loves to be outside with us and Penny [Penny is dad's girlfriend] and her boys. If you see him outside he will be skiing, kayaking, tramping or on one of his adventures. Or he'll be inside watching a movie and cuddling with us.

the waves - Tuscany

BOOM went the waves at the port."I feel like one of those storm chasing people" I said to mum.

 The waves were bigger than a class-room standing up straight and when we were going to the car I got sprayed by a wave.

When we were in the car a HUGE wave went over the rocks and on to the car, It FREAKED me out!
 (I have a video as proof.)

My sister Maeghan!

 

 

 

 

 Tuesday 11 September!

Maeghan like Skoodle and cool math game! Maeghan is so Awesome! Maeghan play with Bella! Maeghan watch t.v! Maeghan is my Sister!

By Janelle!

my weekend- Cameron

My weekend

In the weekend I worked and worked and worked till I ran out of lives.  I’m on my 9^th one already. It’s not far till yesterday.

We made a new window (just one for our day room).  We had old blinds to cut up to do it. It took 1 day to do it. It was very complex to make it (1 DAY, I TELL YOU ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!) any hooo back to it.

At 1:07 we had to go to my dad’s work for an emergency. The lock into the back of the TSB show place wouldn’t work like it should. When we got back mum, nana and Hannah had come home for dinner (they got back before we did) we had pasta. I had it with cheese and bacon.

(This was real ok). We watched THE BLOCK NZ(on a 60inch TV). Thanks for reading.

Go to www.cameronsblog  for the time of your life. just kidding

My Weekend!

Monday 10 September

On Saturday I went to Library to get some book. I use my library card.

We went to city center.

 

On Sunday me, mum, tony granddad and Maeghan went to cafe. I have nuggets and chip for lunch. It was so yummy. I have a Smoothie. My mum has a pancake for lunch.   

By Janelle!

my weekend 'Cody'

My weekend I was running as fast as I could, I jumped over hole, ducked under a plank of wood, and there it was the vinyl countdown. 

 I walked inside and surrounding me was a bunch of records. I felt amazed there had to be at least more than 300 records siting waiting to be bought. I looked around and saw something I need to complete my collection for the hall of fame in world wrestling entertainment (wwe for short). 

 As soon as my dad walked in I said, “please can I get it?” 

My dad replied, “Get what?” 

“WWE hall of fame 2011’ please?” I said.

 “ Fine” my dad said .

 “ Yaaaahhhhh” I yelled. 

 By Cody

Poetic writing-Kate

The pain hit me, it shot though me at the speed of light. I screamed and fell to the floor.

The next thing I knew, I was on a bed with everyone fussing over me. My leg was white and hanging up, above my body.

Then I realised I was in the hospital with my leg in a cast. Then it all came flooding back to me, how I broke my leg and how I got to the hospital.

When I had fallen to the floor I could hear, faintly, dad yelling into the phone for an ambulance. The next thing I heard was a siren and hurried talking. Things like broken, x-ray, ankle and hospital.

By Kate

BOOM! J

I sat up. No, it wasn’t morning yet. BOOM! I saw a flash of light pour into the room and disappear again like a giant camera. Then I heard a rumbling sound. It sounded like a grumpy mum telling someone off.

Then I heard a sort of whimpering sound coming from the bed below me. “Roxy?” I called into the darkness. “Never mind,” I thought. “She must have fallen asleep again.”

I heard the rain parachuting onto the roof. “Sounds more like hail” I thought. I was feeling so tired by then, I just couldn’t keep my eyes open.

When the rain (or hail) had died down, the wind started up, growling like a wolf. It sounded like a tornado, (in the morning I realised that it couldn’t have been one). Finally, the wind died down and I could sleep in peace.  By K8y!!! J

mum! - Janelle

my mum  reads a books! My  mum cooks  tea at home! My mum watches tv! My mum is so Awesome!

travelling restaurant - Reece - what I think will happen

the capten dark blood might get jasper to cook and he might give dark blood some tips on cooking pie.they might try to eskskap at night.they might youse magic to make the pie tast so retch and beturful so they dont get cild.they could get the  capten to cook a pie and then the capten will no how to cook a pie.

How I think traveling resturaunt will contiue - Corban H

I think Jasper might use his Dagger to defend him and his friends or he might use magic.

 I also think that Lady Goul might come on her ship and start a war or a fight and thats when Jasper could use his Dagger. I think that the pie might have something in it that might make the pirates nice if they see lady goul they might give her a pie and she might make sabilla better and give his parents back.

PJ's travelling resterant work

I think that the cook becomes the accountint for the pirate and the man that Jasper helped gets better and stays at the travelling resterant.
 I think that the travelling resterant has magic but Polly and doctor Rocket won't tell Jasper.  Lady Gal might find Jasper or Jaspers family members.
I think Jasper might be thinking about magic and Subila.
Thats what I think.

traveling restaurant - Jordan

I reckon Polly will but some ( MAGIC) in the pie and it will make them fall asleep for a long time so the traveling restaurant can get away

travelling resturant - Corban C

jasper has just pulled a pirate from the sea now a pirate ship has pulled up. Jasper has taught the pirate cook some tips on how to bake a pie,i think he is going to the pirate that is asleep wakes up and tells the captian about jaspers knifeand how it might be magic witch is forbidden.

travelling resturant. Courtney

What I think is going to happen next in the Travelling restrant........ I think Jasper and and Lady Gal are going to have war all the way through the book. I think in the end Jasper and Sibila will end up being King and Queen and Lady gal won't have anything left. Question: But will the people like Jasper and Sibila as much as Lady Gal?

What happens next in the Travelling Resturant? Julian

Well.......... I think that War will start. Jasper and Lady Gal. But Lady Gal is more powerful
then Jasper so what I'm going to think is that Jasper needs to find people to fight againest Lady Gal.
But How is Jasper going to get people to fight angainest Lady Gal. Well we have to find out next in... THE TRAVELLING RESTURANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Find out next when I read the next part.

traveling restaurant - Isaiah

i think the pie is magic and something will happen to the pirates

Key Competencies 7.08.12

Congratulations!!

Sam  -07.09.12
Using Language, symbols and texts
Great to see the way you can use our division and knowledge of fractions to understand improper fractions.

Hunter -  07.08.12
Using Language , Symbols and Texts
Hunetr I am continuing to be impressed with your fast growing knowledge of fractions , your perseverance with your maths and your determination to improve your understanding. Keep it up!!!!

7.08.12
Managing SELF -Corban C

Corban you have that ‘Can do attitude’. You continue to impress us all with your focus, your independence and your perseverance with your learning tasks. You are committed to learning and others can learn from you too!!

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.

 

Kiwi Wars

 KIWI WARS - narrated by Regan Gifford

It was a long stormy night as we marched out into the trembling forest.  You could hear rustling everywhere.  You didn’t know when or what was going to pounce.  We prepared ourselves for the worst, writing to our loved ones, as we marched into a suicide mission. But we knew we were doing it for a good cause.  Our lives and others lives.

The pounding of our feet hit the forest floor.  The rain trembled down, leaving puddles in our footprints.  Marching everywhere trying to find…the thing.   That one thing that we needed.  The most foulest of beasts, the wolves, had got it!  We had to get it back. And that one thing was…..the kiwi egg. 

If we didn’t get that kiwi egg back….ohhhhh… we would be in trouble.  Then they’d sell it off. They’d sell the kiwi off to the stoats and who knows what would happen.  Would they eat it?  Would they turn it into a slave?  Who knows?  But the search had to go on with no interruptions.

BOOM!!!BOOM!!!!  Oh no!  The thought in my head was…it’s the wolves…it’s the great beast… the dog thumped out of a hole under a hollow tree.  As the storm went on, you could see at twilight, the sparkle of its teeth.  This was only a diversion so they could get the egg out.  The owls were also on our team.  They gave us the signal that it was a distraction. A couple of kiwis were trying to defend themselves, getting the wolf out of the way as we charged for the kiwi egg.  It dropped! Oh no!  I dived. I didn’t make…I wasn’t a very good catcher.

It smashed on the ground.  The yolk….the baby chick came out.  When the news reached The King, tears came into his eyes…for his son…was murdered that very night.  He ordered all allies to fight and destroy all those that linger with the Wolves!  As we marched out of the gate once again the lady kiwis threw flowers to us. 

Then bursting through the gate came two kiwis. With a stoat?! With ragged clothes on. 

The first kiwi said “We have found a prisoner”. 

 “Also the egg was a fake. A chicken egg.”

“How could I have mistaken an egg?” I said that to him.  “I know kiwi eggs”.

“It was a large chicken, you could say.”

“Oh well then, better get my eyes checked again.”

“That’s not important now.  We need to get the kiwi egg”.

The second kiwi said “Yes, it’s more important to get the kiwi egg than get your eyes checked.  Go! GO!

The armies of kiwis and allies marched out.  Many thousands.  Searching through the whole forest.  Then I realised, we’ve searched the whole forest.  No tracks.  Not even a trace of the kiwi egg. 

“Maybe it is out of this forest,” I told the others.  

We sent a party of kiwis out into the open world.  It was amazing.

But to our surprise, it was bigger than we thought it was.  We could not search everywhere.  It’s just physically impossible.

Each plan we had – it kept failing.  As we marched back home, the trees were coming down.  You could hear a large chopping sound, then cracks.  The wolves came rushing out screaming, then there were large dark glowing figures, moving with circling blades that were cutting down our home.  Men kiwis charged at them but we were told to hang back.  The dogs got us, we were kicked back by the men.  We were treated like vermin, rubbish.  The owls came ahead – dropped bombs – that didn’t work.  We had to get our home back!

We just didn’t know what to do though.  We slowly marched away.  Then a mouse came up with a Toothpick.   “Don’t worry. I am not one of them.  Come!  I will show you where you are evacuating too”. Some kiwis grabbed his arm and said “How can we trust him?”

 “Good luck going with him.  He might even eat us!”

“I guess he might.  But he is our only chance”, I said in a very calm voice.

We followed him up, up, up.  He wasn’t lying.  To our surprise, thousands of kiwis were up on the edge of Dawson Falls.  Each one jumping down, then going under the waterfall and not coming back up.  I got shoved down as well.  Under the waterfall was a cave!  I’d heard of this cave but I heard that it was blocked up.  It wasn’t.  It was free! 

We were all inside, keeping warm, talking to each other.  Then I heard a howl.  I realised there was one place we hadn’t checked.  Inside this cave.  The kiwi egg could be here.  It could be.

Hold on!  Was The King on our team?   He had been acting abit strange and disappearing.  But maybe that’s his way of dealing with death. I walked around the cave.  I heard howling, then whispering.  They were saying something about The King.

“….the egg.”  .  I got closer and heard properly.  The egg had hatched!  But The King was going to be….

”What?” I said quickly covering my mouth.  A strange sudden look came across the wolves face.

“Quickly send a message to him”, the wolf said.  “Tell him to leave none alive”.

The wolf!  I recognised the voice.  I just couldn’t place it.  I knew I had heard that voice somewhere before I stopped and thought for awhile.   It kept repeating in my brain.  Where had I heard it?  Whose voice was that?  I just couldn’t recognise that voice.

 As I wandered on, I heard footsteps behind me.  I turned back. But every time I turned back there was no one there.  I got frustrated so I walked back to the kiwis. They weren’t there.  Had they ran off without me?  That’s not how kiwis worked.  We’re…we’re friends.

Then I heard a snarl.  That same voice again.  Then it came to me.  It wasn’t a wolf.  That wolf wasn’t talking. That wolf had been told something.  It was Crikey the insect.  The one who had betrayed my Dad.  I got mad and ran towards the voice.  But then a massive kiwi thumped me against the wall and said “If “You run out, you’ll blow my cover and then I won’t like you.  Got that straight big boy?”

“Ahh..” I mumbled. “Ahhhh, Ummmmm. , I stuttered.  “mmmmm…..well” then I had a thought in my head but I didn’t want to say it. But it just popped out.  “Well, I am not as fat as you Big Boy”.

“Oh. Don’t you annoy me”, he said.  “Oh. Don’t you dare go there”.  Then he poked his head around the corner, the wolves were patrolling up and down the cave floor. 

“Ok listen here little man.  We’re gunna save those kiwis.  Ok?”

I said to him “You’re not the smartest guy.  I know something that no one else knows.  The King’s a betrayer”.

“I knew. I already knew that”, he said in an unsure voice.

“How did you know that then?”

“Ahhhhh….” he stammered.

Then he gripped his hands around my neck, tighter and tighter.  As my face started to turn blue he let go.

“Now, do we have a deal?” he asked me.  I nodded. 

He chucked me out and said “See ya later little man!”

I looked worried as two humungous wolves came up and grabbed my arms and took me away.

From behind the corner, the big kiwi watched and winked at me.  But what was he doing?  He was coming up behind them. He bashed their two heads together, they fell down to the ground.  I said “Are they dead?”

The humungous muscled kiwi said “No, just knocked out”.

 Suddenly, a great chanting sound  came over us.  It sounded like this.

“Kiwi King! Kiwi King! Kiwi King!” they were chanting.

I slowly walked over, and then the kiwi called me back and said. “See these wolves, they have face masks”. “C’mon, let’s dress up as one of them”.

“I’m not sure that’s gunna..eekkkkk…arggggg” I spoke as he grabbed onto my throat.

“It’s’ gunna work.  Trust me.”

 In these ridiculous costumes we walked down to the cave.  The Kiwi King came up and spoke.  “Don’t worry my wolf friends.  All the kiwi shall be dead soon enough“.

The kiwi, who was a prisoner, reached his hands down and chucked a rocket at the Kiwi King. The Kiwi King stuttered “arrggggggghhhhhhh…”

Some kind of lightning bolt was coming out of him. The wolves went “Ohhh……. the power of the Kiwi King is growing!”

“Kiwi King!” they started to chant once again.

The Kiwi prisoner was taken away, put on a table, tied down and then left there.  Interesting, I thought. What’s that table gunna do then?  There was a whole lot of Kiwis on the table.  The Kiwi King came out of the electrical chant he was in or so I thought.  He pulled a lever, something blew part of the cave out.  The great stalactites on top of the cave started shooting down.  The wolves were being pinned down to the ground.

I noticed the Kiwi King was pinned down by a stalactite as I ran to get out.

“Friend…save me” he said.

I said to him “Why should I save you? You tried killing me and everyone else in the cave.”

“I did it for the kiwis”.

“You’re killing the kiwis”.

“Please….don’t let an old kiwi die.”

I pulled the stalactite off him but he grabbed my throat and said  “Ohhhh….how dumb of you.”

I punched him on the beak. His beak shattered. I didn’t know I had that kind of power.  As I ran out, I saw….his beak wasn’t real.  It was made of some kind of eggshell or something. Then when another stone hit him, he shattered.  It was plain wood.  Inside, there was a speaker and wooden levers that some little insect was pulling.   It was Crikey the cricket again. He was controlling the Kiwi Robot King!

I ran back to squish him like a bug but another kiwi pulled me back and we got out of the cave. The cave collapsed. I wondered to myself was that…was that ….was that kiwi egg real?  Or not?   Hmmmm.

Then there was a little young kiwi that came out. I wondered how he got produced by an insect. Was the Queen a fake?  As we returned back to the palace, people were hitting the Queen. They were taken back and put in prison. The Queen was not a fake.  There was a kiwi egg produced.

 Then The Queen admitted “I was….. sort of cheating on the King and had a baby with someone else. And the King found out but raised it as his own.”

 Then the big muscly kiwi came and said “Well, I’ll tell you one thing. The King was definitely a fake”.

Then the baby walked out. “Oh na….Mama…Dada…Mama…Dada”.

The big kiwis' face cheeks went red.

“Hello Dada……I want you and Mama”, the baby said.

Everyone gasped. The big muscly mean guy had an egg with the Queen?! That didn’t make sense. 

But….we lived you could say, happily ever after.

That is the end of Kiwi Wars.

Grandad!

My Weekend!

Grandad is coming on Friday to Monday!  We are Watching Rugby on Friday! Kaylum is playing rugby at yarrows!  He is Playing Wairarapa Bush! We are  Picking Grandad  up  at  the  Bus!

my weekend

My Weekend

I had a great weekend I went to my brother’s under 16 Taranaki team game they won. Then I went home to have dinner then I went to the Taranaki vs Tasman game. Taranaki won 49-40 I sat alone because one of my brothers was a ball boy and one of my brothers did cabling for sky tv and my dad was on the field it. was a tight game in the second half. I went home at 10oclock at night  over all I vote 10 out of 10   

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