My Space Movie!

Have you ever wondered what it's like on another planet? Find out by my space movie!

My Christmas Traditions and Favorites!

Christmas is a wonderful event. With gifts, feasts and gatherings, this is mostly every body's favorite time of the year! Unfortunately, this is an annual event. Annual means that it only happens once a year. This celebration is remembering the time Jesus was born. Over 2.1 BILLION people all over the world celebrate this event.

One of my favorite parts about Christmas is gathering with family that I either haven’t met, or haven’t seen in a long time. A traditional Christmas family event takes place at Church and home. Our tradition is that on Christmas Eve, we go to a service at Church and star in a play. This goes on for about 3-4 hours. Then we go to my dads family to open our presents, we then go to my mums side to do the same thing...... The nek day, we go somewhere to celebrate Christmas!

Christmas is an AMAZING event that lets us gather and reunite with family members. It also lets us celebrate the birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ.

My Negatives and Positives About Our Netbooks!

This year has been AMAZING with our Netbooks!! This is a reflection of our Netbooks and what good and bad they have done for us this year........

Positives:

Netbooks are a HUGE and helpful tool when your working, but most importantly, we NEED to use them safely and usefully. One of the good things about this tool is that learning is fun on our Netbooks. By that I mean Educational FUN.

Negative:

One of the negatives about our Netbooks is that we are so caught up with it, we forget about other things. Like for example, not listening to our parents. Little brothers, sisters and cousins can wreck it by spilling something on it OR jumping on it sometimes. When we do our work, the Internet often runs slowly too.


If we had to go back to pencil and paper instead of our Netbooks, I would be DEVASTATED!! Like I said, our Netbooks are a very useful tool!

My Billboard!

This week at Extension, we learnt about the Elections. We also got to make our billboards!! On Saturday, the Elections were on! Unfortunately, Labour didn't win. I did a billboard for the party I was studying which was Labour.


  Labour is the longest running parliamentary party in New Zealand. Peter Fraser a former leader of Labour, made enrollment free at University in Aoteroa! I recommend you should have voted for Labour.


  I predicted that National was going to win, which they DID!!  I voted for Labour because they have a good policy and I think that they will stick to it! The two most important the things about the Elections is the MMP AND First Past the post. The meaning of MMP stands for Mixed Members Proportional. This is a voting system that was actually used the German Bundestag which is the National Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. On the other hand, First Past the Post, or FPP, is actually a voting method. It is when a person votes for the Candidate that he or she votes for next to the Candidate. The Candidate with the most votes WINS!!$$............................... but the other votes don't matter!!

Stardome!

“Yes! Finally we’re here!”, I shouted with excitement! I jumped out of the bus and onto the fresh green meadow at One Tree Hill. After about half an hour of BORING on the bus, I was waiting for an adventure. Oh yeah, did I mention that we went to One Tree Hill and Stardome on the 17th of November 2011!

 Our session at Stardome started at about 1, so we had to kill time walking up One Tree Hill. Trudging up the steep hill, I was desperate to drink my water. Although I wanted to die, it was all worth it once we got to the top! The magnificent view reminded me of my beautiful nephew. Enough of the Sound of Music talk now! My aching muscles finally calmed, then...................."OK, come on kids we're going DOWN to the crater!!", Ms Squires shouted! "Oh GREAT!", I SIGHED.

 As I sled down the rocky mountain, I could see the word shaped volcanic rocks. My bum was aching while sliding on the slippery, rocky grass. As soon as I got to the bottom, it was time to PLAY!! I was tempted by the light, bubbly rocks to throw at the boys! Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

 

We then went down to the bottom of the hill and ate our lunch!! As I admired the other kids playing on the octopus playground, I couldn't eat my food properly. ................. It was finally time to play!! I jumped on the playground span for a few minutes while eating my cookie! Luckily, I didn’t spew.

 Arriving at Stardome, I felt like I was in space. Petra, our instructor led us into a dome where we were going to watch some movies. We watched one movie about ALL the planets, then one about the stars in the night sky. It was REALLY beautiful. “Is that all!?”, you probably ask. Well it............................. isn’t. We then visited another space room. That was about the position of the planets from the Sun. And the stars too! We then left and finished off our leftover lunch.

This trip was AMAZING and I hope to go there another day to find out more about space!........... Well, I already do!!!“Yes! Finally we’re here!”, I shouted with excitement! I jumped out of the bus and onto the fresh green meadow at One Tree Hill. After about half an hour of BORING on the bus, I was waiting for an adventure. Oh yeah, did I mention that we went to One Tree Hill and Stardome on the 17th of November 2011! Our session at Stardome started at about 1, so we had to kill time walking up One Tree Hill. Trudging up the steep hill, I was desperate to drink my water. Although I wanted to die, it was all worth it once we got to the top! The magnificent view reminded me of my beautiful nephew. Enough of the Sound of Music talk now! My aching muscles finally calmed, then...................."OK, come on kids we're going DOWN to the crater!!", Ms Squires shouted! "Oh GREAT!", I SIGHED.

My Favorite Entertainers!

These are my favorite entertainers because they all have a SPECIAL talent and they use it for right reasons!!

Eating Comets!

With Ms Squires( Our teacher) walking in, I was already eagerly waiting for the delectable treats that we were going to enjoy. Oh yeah, on Tuesday the 1st of November 2011, we ate COMETS!! "That's not possible", your probably thinking. Well it is.

 First we made the dust which was actually just crushing assorted biscuits, 100's and 1000's and chocolate sprinkles.Chirping and cheering, I was the first one to crush the mixture.. "BOOM, BOOM BOOM!", they went. My turn was then finished. When all of the crushing was over, Ms Squires carefully placed it on the Twister mat. It was time to scoop the rocks!

 Waiting to get my edible rock, Ms Squires scooped up the chocolate flavoured ice-cream with ease. It was then my turn. With the ice-cream dripping through my fingers, I didn't care. I carefully walked to the dust and dunked it into the crushed mixture. After all was done, I went out side and ate it.

 While eating the magnificent treat, my fingers were starting to get numb. With ice-cream melting everywhere, I wanted to go inside. Scavenging for more, I got a second comet! We then tidied up the yummy mess.

 I enjoyed this activity and I hope that you if YOU make it, then you will like it  too, thanks to Ms Squires!!! With a sigh I said good bye to my wonderful friend, Comet, as he flew back to space, or my stomach!!

Ingredients:

Ice-Cream(Whatever flavour you like, better with chocolate)
Biscuit
100's and 1000's
Chocolate Sprinkles

1. Crush biscuits until dust like.
2. Add the sprinkles and 100's and 1000's and mix
3.Scoop ice-cream then dunk and roll it in dust until completly covered
4. Put in a cone and ENJOY!