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

Camp

FlaxRock

I smashed the big, grey door open and rushed out my father's car. Everyone else in the kinda old grey car slammed the other doors and rushed out too. My friends and I were running around all crazy, making my father having to stop us many times. 

We finally got to walk into the big room, with a cool, brown Maori gate. We walked in the the white, echoey room, and found ourselfs rushing straight to a pair of cool coloured ornaments. I loved the colours and the shape of the soft, comfy ornaments... They looked exactly like the Google Chrome Icon! 

My father, my car group (Tylor, Sapphire and Ashley) and I sat down for about a minute, waiting for the other SUPER SLOW people from the Camp Master Chef. Suddenly, kids rushed right onto the Chrome Ornaments. Everyone shuved me off the awesome seats. "MY CHROME SEAT!!!" I screamed in my head, wanting my seat back.

Suddenly, Mrs Hardaker walked in and yelled, "Everyone, please line up in front of me." So everyone rushed to Mrs Hardaker, forgetting that the room is really echoey. The noise was a nightmare!!! Mrs Hardaker kinda rushed to some sort of hallway.

 It seemed like a little maze! We suddenly found ourselfs walking into a humangus room filled with brown rocks all over the wall, almost like 50 meters high! We all sat down on wooden seats, and a friendly man walked in front of us, and introduced himself. His name was Aren. After that, he told us some rules about FlaxRock.

Then, he told the parents to call the smallest to biggest kids to put on a special strap thingy that looked like underwear. After that, we sat down and waited, again, to be told to climb. Suddenly, all the parents chose a wall and stood in front of it, with the thingy that looks like underwear on too, of course! After that, Mrs Hardaker choose people to go behind parents ready to climb.

We didn't get to choose, so I moved around the seat, wanting to go behind my dad. A second later, I was behiind my dad! A few seconds after that, we could begin climbing! I was first in line, I think. A clipped the rope to my Rock Climbing Underwear and started climbing. One rock later, I could feel fear swirling all around me. I couldn't do it!

It was too high to climb. I looked down, seeing millions of faces staring up at me. Suddenly, I made it! I reached the top. I felt a mix of happiness and fear. I looked down once again. I was 100 meters high I thought. 

I could hear cheering and clapping going all around FlaxRock. But then, I remembered the worst bit... I had to lean back until it looked like I was lying down! I should of remembered! "I don't want to!" I yelled. Suddenly, I felt the rope coming down. BUMP! I fell to the ground. Then, I walked to the next wall, and the next and the next. It was so freaky!

It was so fun there, i wanted to stay for the whole entire day! I hope I get to go there, it was so fun I never wanted to leave.

THE END

Our new movie group (The Fun Group)

Some time in March, our classroom was allowed to do anything to do with Learn, Create, Share. I decided to create something. So i grabbed a few friends and asked them if they wanted to make a movie with them. They all  replyed, "Yes." So, the first thing we did was to create a movie group name. We all chose, The Fun Group.

Then, I grabbed a school iPad and entered iMovie. I decided to create a scary movie. I was the director of the movie. After I filmed the movie, I named it, The Haunted School.

After that, I exported the movie and played it. We all thought it was amazing.

At home, I made a blog and a website of The Fun Group.

Our BLOG for The Fun Group is at slamuelrockthefungroup.blogspot.com

Our movies we made:

1. The Haunted School (Link)

More Fun Group videos coming soon!
The next Fun Group video: The Spy

Hearing

On the 10th of February 2014, our classroom went into a spare classroom (room 21) for a hearing programme. A lady taught us all about hearing. After that, we went back into OUR classroom and jumped onto our devices, went onto google drive and wrote all about it. Here is mine:

Hearing

On the 10th of Feburary 2014, room 19 walked noisily into room 21 where a lady was going to teach us about hearing. She taught us lots of facts about the ears and here are some of them:

• There are tiny little hairs (even smaller than millermetres) in your ear and when you hear something, the tiny hairs move around.

• The louder the noise is, the more faster the hairs move around.

• If any hair in your ear moves around too fast, it will die. There is no cure for the hair if it died.

• The wax in your hair is supposed to stay in your ear so if you buy cotton buds to take wax out of your ear, your wasting your money and taking out usefull stuff from you ear.

It is best not to put anything long like cotton buds into your ear cause it could damage your eardrum, but you can put earplugs in your ear, but don't put it in too much!

We also played some activities (bit more like experiments) with balls and pipe cleaners. We learnt a lot today.

Cute rabbit time!

On the 19th of March, a student in our classroom brought her cute little rabbit to school today. The rabbit is a girl and is very cute. Pretty much everyone in the class wanted to pat her. Some other students in the class wanted to take photos of her instead with their devices. Here are some photos I took:

Crocodiles and Alligators

Crocodiles and Alligators

"Oh, my goodness! Is that a... a... a... Crocodile??! AAAHHHHH!!!"

Did you know that crocodiles and alligators are the world's largest reptiles?

Habitats
Crocodiles and alligators Live in wetlands such as swamps, rivers, tropical rain forests, and near ocean islands.

 They are mostly found by Australia, Asia, Africa, South America, and North America.

Finding their pray
Crocodiles and alligators use their very good senses to find their pray.

One of their senses helps them to detect movement underwater

All over their face, mostly their mouth, detects the tiniest vibrations of animals underwater.

Hunted
Crocodiles and alligators are hunted a and killed for their skin and use it to make expensive shoes and handbags.

Hunters also kill them for their meat too.



Now you are a Crocodile and alligator expert! Now share the amazing facts with your friends and family.
Report by Samuel