Hey Hakarena!

Hey Hakarena! Let's be embarrassing! Embarrassing alright! This hilarious video from England, about unleashing their "secret weapon" is so embarrassing, you've gotta be like, "What the heck!?"! As a kiwi and a New Zealander, that seems to be pretty stupid, acting like a bunch of NZ Haka rip offers.... But then their "Haka" turns into the Macarena dance, pretty weird, right!? Watch the video below and comment if you agree with me:

Art piece

Here is an art piece I spent quite a while working on. My bird, drawn on the right, is a kea flying in mid-air, about to land on a branch, shaped as a koru. What looks like behind him, is a flowing lake. Right next to the lake, is a tall mountain, almost looking like a volcano, standing straight and tall. Above it is the sky, with lovely patterns flying above, with a huge square koru, used as a cloud.

Sam Holloway

Basketball Skills

Welcome to yet another awesome blog about Parkvale School's best classroom and teacher, Mrs Hardaker and Room 19! So, for PE Mrs Hardaker decided to focus on Basketball. For the first few weeks, we were all learning the Basketball moves and practising a lot so we get great results. Then we played a game with another class. It was awesome! A while after that, Mrs Hardaker wanted us to make a video of all of our awesome basketball skills! Here is my one:

LA lakers reading work - Week 6

LA Lakers Reading work

Today I finished this week's reading work, just in time with the help of my mate Vaughn. Here is my reading work for this week:

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Now I can move on and finish my other school work (I'll share them with you!).

ANZAC Cookies

So, ANZAC is coming up this Saturday, so Mrs Hardaker thought of an awesome thing to do: create our own ANZAC cookies!

So Mrs Hardaker got us to write the ANZAC cookies recipe in our literacy book, and nicely too!

The next day, we made the ANZAC cookies, they all turned out great! Some of the cookies were crunchy, some were soft, and all of them were delicious! I bet those soldiers who risked their life for us in war would of loved them! 

These are the results of my group's ANZAC cookies:

Pepeha

Another All About Me activity, but it's still fun if you're in Mrs Hardaker's class! Mrs Hardaker decided to make our pepehas on Tellagami. With Tellagami, you can personalise your own character, record your voice, then WALA! You've got a talking animated character!

Tellagamis can be useful for anything

Here is my pepeha:

Edmund Hillary

So, it's back to the time at school when you have to research! But this time, it was a bit more interesting... we got to choose an NZ hero, and make an 'All About Him/her' on the hero. I choose Edmund Hillary, and i created a PowerPoint presentation on him. This was my presentation:

This presentation took me about a week to finish, and somehow, i really enjoyed it, and i can't wait until i get to share other cool things I've been doing!