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:

To view the doc live, click here

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!

Tagxedo

So, what shall we do that's fun while half of our hub (Totara Hub) goes swimming... Oh, Yes! An all about me activity... but what shall we use to make an all about me that looks cool? But as we always know, Mrs Hardaker always have learning the fun way usually planned.

"I would like everyone to jump onto your devices and make a tagxedo about yourself."

And so everyone rushed onto their devices and started looking for websites that you can create a tagxedo. It took us quite a while to find the right site because some websites required Adobe Flash and some needed Microsoft Services or something. But we all finally found the right site.

After a few days I finished my tagxedo. This was mine:

If you would like to create your own tagxedo like my one, just click this link:

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

At least now most of us, hopefully all, have finished the tagxedo. Unfortunately, the ones who haven't finished them won't be able to share theirs!

Superheroes

Look at that! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a dog stuffed in a hotdog that just flew off a catapult? No! It's a superhero!

Hey everyone! It's time for you to check out what we've been doing on the first/second week of school! Can you guess what we were doing? Well, we were creating superheroes!

Pretty cool, huh?! You can create your own at Marvel.com! After we created these, we wanted more fun added into it. And so I thought, wouldn't it be cool to have my face on the superhero! This is what my superhero looked like after a bit of editing:

I thought that this was amazing! So I showed the teacher (Mrs Hardaker), and she thought it was amazing! 

So she yelled out to the class, "Everyone, if you want your superhero to have your face on it, email it to Sam." And so I got lots of emails saying 'Sam can you print this' 'Sam please do this' etc.

If YOU would like your superhero to have your face on it, just take a screenshot of your superhero, take a picture of you, write your email (so I can send it back) then email it to me (my email: slamuelrock@icloud.com).

I'll give it to you in no time!

Market Day

Last week on Friday, almost the whole school got to create their own product for a market day. Our class was selling juice, the only juice around! I spent a lot of hard work creating a poster for our juice. This was my poster:

After Market Day, i tried some juice, and it was amazing! In the juice there were red apples, oranges and a squeeze of lemon. Our juice was one of the most selling products. We sold about 172 cups of juice, and I can't wait to see what other cool things our class will do next year!

Advertising

What is advertising???

What is advertising?

It is when there is like a sale on a newspaper or a video on a site about a product, and sometimes there are funny, cute or sad stuff to make you buy it.

Why does a consumer advertise?

So that people could see how cool their product is, and then more people will buy it, which means companies getting richer.

What have you learnt about advertising?

That advertising makes 100 and thousands and even more kids make their parents buy them a cool product if they watch a cool ad.

What surprised you?

How many kids whine and tantrum just because of how cool an advertisement could be.

What disgusted you?

The same as the last question: that there are so many kids that whine and tantrum just because of how cool an advertisement could be.

To view the doc live, click here

What is in our food?

What is in our food?
Written by Sam Holloway

Want to know more about how sugar is bad for you? Click here to see a documentary on it (or scroll down to the end of this post).

The reason you are reading this story is because you want to know what is in our food? Read on to learn.

Everyday men should only have about 9 teaspoons of sugar and children 4 teaspoons. Most people go over the limit, and could get diabetes, a heart attack, or you might even need your teeth pulled out!

If you drink lots of juice, and I mean like 5 and-over-ish bottles a day, any age, your teeth would rot, and possibly all your teeth would have to be pulled out!


Rotten teeth:
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Did you know?
Did you know that once a 2 year-old girl had to get 6 of her teeth pulled out, because her mother let her drink too much fizzy and/or juice! That's why you need to look after yourself too, not just your mum.

Every year, people, kids and adults, are getting fatter and fatter. As products are getting cheaper, they are also putting way more sugar than you're meant to have! Eg: kids should have about 4 teaspoons or under a day, and Tiny Teddies have about 2x more sugar than kids are meant to have. They have about 7 teaspoons of sugar!!!

Same as low fat or fat free products. As they lower the fat, they increase the sugar. Ever since they lowered the fat, they increased the sugar.

That's why people are getting diabetes, and eating too much sugar; they are eating fat-free stuff. That's why I think that people should stop fat-free products, and lower the sugar, so a lot of the trouble with sugar now will be stopped.

By Sam

Documentary I wrote about:

Fun Run

Today (Thursday the 11th) it was the Fun Run! Before the Fun run, I was going to be in the obstacle version, but after that, I chose the competitive version.

It took AGES before it came to the year 5 competitive race. "Year 5 competive racers for BOYS!!!" Mrs Miller cried out. Oh, no! I thought to myself. As a walked to the starting line, my stomach felt weird. I knew I wasn't ready for this. "GO!!!" I suddenly ran as fast as I can; ALL around Paki's paddak all around the original field (the biggest) 4 times!!! (4 laps) After I ran half of Paki's paddak on the first lap, my ribs started hurting... Oh, no... I had the stitch!

After the whole race finished, I ran back to the waiting and watching place. I felt SO dehydrated.

Well, now that the race is finished, I felt glad (even though I came 10th) that I was in the competitive. I hope I do better next time!

ME RUNNING:

How to make a figure 8

Yesterday, Mrs Hardaker sent Mrs Hinde to look after us for the afternoon, and she set us a task; to make a video or doc on how to make a figure 8. This was my one:



How to make a figure 8

Journey through the legends

Journey Through The Legends

Last week on Wednesday, the whole of Nga Rakau Nui performed a show called Journey Through The Legends, that included 4 legends; (in order) Rangi & Papa, How Maui Fished Up New Zealand, The Seven Whales and the legend of Te Mata Peak. The show started from about 6.00 pm to about 8 pm-ish.

We all practiced the show for weeks; practicing lines, practicing actions and even dress rehearsals. The music and actions were one of the hardest. The show was on for 6 nights, and each night was about 3 hours. Our class (room 19) and room 12 was doing the legend Rangi & Papa, room 10 and room 7 were doing How Maui Fished Up New Zealand, room 18 and room 6 were doing The Seven Whales, and last of all: room 11 and room 20 were doing the legend of Te Mata Peak.

We are all now happy and sad that the show was over and we all enjoyed it.

Pictures of the show Journey Through The Legends:

The Baby & The Black Hole

The Baby & The Black Hole

To see the story on the doc, Click here

Explanation Writing

How do we make a skateboard work?

Planned by Sam, Conor and Jesse. Written by Sam.

First, you have to put ONE foot on the back of the deck (the deck is the wooden base with grip on the top).

Then, you put your other foot on the deck to get your balance.

 Once you have your balance, you have to put one foot down on the ground and push.

Then you should get the hang of it.

After that, you should try a small jump.

Tricks:

Olly, inward, 360, 180, 560, pop shove it, manual, kick flip and nolle.

Now you know how to make a skateboard work, go out and have fun with it!

Samuel Holloway

Ornie

Quite a while ago, Mrs Hinde showed us (room 19) a video. The video was all about a chubby pig named Ornie that wanted to get the cookie jar from on top of the fridge. Click here to see the video for yourself.

This is my story of Ornie:

Ornie

Ornie rushed to a humongous, white airplane at the Napier Airport and jumped into the soft driver seat and flew away into the big, blue sky. A second later, he smashed the big red Auto drive button, smacked on a pair of cheap 50c goggles, then kicked the white, steel door wide open, the door fell deep into the white clouds like a pig named Ornie falling into the sea. Ornie slowly walked to the doorway without a door, and stared down at his small, grey house, frightened with fear. He felt the strong wind pushing him to his left. Suddenly, he felt a strong push from behind him. 

Suddenly, he found himself falling into a big… GREY CLOUD!!! He turned himself so his pink, chubby back was facing downwards, looked up at the plane, and saw a freaky metal robot face laughing at him from the doorway. “Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.” The robot keeped laughing at him. “Ha. Ha. Ha.” Ornie turned himself around again, to see that in 0.8 seconds, he was going to go through the grey, puffy clouds and be able to eat some cookies! Ornie pictured himself falling onto the cookie jar. SMASH!!! Ornie smashed onto his house roof, which was grey like the cloud… but… he didn’t go through the cloud… so… the cloud isn’t a cloud… it's his roof!

Suddenly, Ornie came up with another stupid idea. He jumped into his pink car with fancy photos of cooked pork, and raced down to the bottle shop, going 9,000 miles a second, slammed the door open, screamed at the counter lady, “GIVE ME A STUPID BOTTLE THAT WILL SUCK UP THE WHOLE SEA!” Suddenly, the lady gave him a bottle as big as Ornie asked, Ornie chucked it in his small, stinky boot, drove to the sea, chucked the bottle into the big, dark sea, the sea got sucked up into the bottle, Ornie smashed the lid on, ran with the bottle to his house, closed all the doors, and ripped the lid off. Suddenly, water filled half the house up, and the cookie jar started floating in the big, blue mini-sea. 

Then, just as soon as Ornie found the cookie jar floating, he doggy paddled as fast as he can, looking like a dog, to the tiny jar, filled with delicious cookies. "Oink Oink!" Cried Ornie, as he finaly got to have one, tiny little nibble of a delicious, Chocolate chip flavoured cookie... SMASH! An enormouse blue shark smashed the bowl!

Ornie suddenly fainted. Just then, a lady opened the door wide open, and an enormouse wave of  water came rushing towards her, making the poor lady run off trying not to get wet. When the water stopped rushing out of Ornie's house, the lady walked to the doorway, and stepped on something squishy, as squishy as stepping on OrNIE!!! "OH, MY GOSH!" Screamed the lady.

 "I'M SO SORRY!" Suddenly, Ornie woke up. Ornie started crying. Suddenly, Ornie saw the lady's face. 

Just then, Ornie remembered her... She has the best ideas in the universe! Then, Ornie came up with a simple idea: he asked her, "Can you please buy me some COOKIES???" "Of course, my little piggy friend!" Replied the lady.

 So Ornie followed the lady into the lady's lovely car that smells like flowers, and the lady drove him to Cookie World. The lady brought Ornie another jar of Choc-chip cookies, and walked back over to the car... But then, she tripped over a Surface PRO, and the cookie jar flew over on top of Ornie's house. "Oh, porky!" Ornie sighed. 

Ornie drove back to the Napier Airport in the lady's flower car, stole a big metal plane, flew up into the big light blue sky... And jumped off... Without wearing anything! THUMP! Ornie's pink chubby face smashed against his roof... "OINK!" CRUNCH! Ornie was jumping around the roof, chewing delicious chocolate chip cookies.

THE END

Written by Samuel Holloway

Sourthern Lights

A few days ago, Quiksilver (my reading group) read a story about the Sourthern Lights. After that, we had to retell the legend. After that, we made an iMovie of our retold story, or Telligami ect. This is MY retold legend of the story:

Southern Lights

WOOSH! The waves crash against the dry sand, as the sun slowly floats down, making the sky turn into a lovely, orange colour. Just a few meters away from the shore, there was a kid named Tama Rereti lying down trying to find the early 6:00 stars. Tama Rereti was fascinated by stars so much, he wanted to stay for hours. 

Suddenly, rainbow lights flashed across the orange sky. Tama Rereti was amazed. Years went past, and Tama Rereti became a powerful chief, and wanted to see the lights he saw when he was a little kid once more. So, he decided to build a Waka and find the lights again.

When the Waka's last nail got hammered in, Tama Rereti ordered 50 men to sail with him to find the magical lights again. SPLASH! The Waka got pushed into the water, starting their trip to find the magic lights. After several hours, the men in the Waka stopped the boat to have some lunch.

Everyone tried to catch the crazy fish squirming in the sea. SPLASH! Water was getting splashed everywhere. Tama Rereti caught a fish and the fish's tail was squirming everywhere!

 Tama Rereti gulped the fished down... but then, a big fish bone got caught in his throat! He tasted fear. Suddenly, he fell to the ground. He was dead. 

The 50 men tried to take Tama Rereti back to their people, but then, an enormous storm smashed the boat on great big rocks. Everyone except for two people survived. Those two people told the story to their people. A few days after, the broken Waka and the dead bodies from the boat washed up on the shore. 

The people found them, and dragged all the dead people onto the Damaged waka, and lit the Waka on fire. The bodies and the Waka got burnt as the people watched the smoke rising, believing that the body's spirits were carried up into the dark sky. On clear nights, the people could see (And us) a group of stars that the people believe is the killed people on the boat called The Scorpion's Tail.

THE END

Retold by Samuel Holloway

6 Hats Current Event

Yesterday, our teacher emailed my reading group (Quiksilver) a Google Slide. Our job was to copy the Slide, choose a News site, pick an article, read it, and fill the details on our slide. My one was based in a tsunami that happened in Japan. It was really fun reading interesting reading about things that really happened  and putting the details on a Slide.

Click here to see the the slide I did