Mubasshira @ Pt England School

Tennis ft A Grumpy Tutor

2011-11-28T14:47:00.001+13:00

“Smack, Bang, Hit!” There were so many balls flying over and all around the courts. I just couldn’t help contemplating, that I could get hit by one. 3cm away from my face and all I could see was a ball zooming like a racing car.

“Oh my gosh” I ran away to the sideline of the netball courts. Room 20 was with a guy wearing some shorts and a t-shirt. Next to him was a whole lot of gear, tennis balls, racquets, bags and nets. This could only mean one thing. We were going to be learning how to play tennis for this term’s PE. By the way.... wait... What’s his name again? I had missed his name, but he looked at all of room 20 with this scary look on his face, so in my head I named him the ‘grumpy tutor’. He seemed to be in a grumpy mood today. Oh no... this sounded like some terrible things could of happened.

As he told us to each get hold of a tennis ball and racquet, all the girls went to one side of the court and all the boys to the other. First of all he taught us how to hold a racquet correctly.
“Put the racquet on the ground!” that man instructed us in a sturn tone. We did what we were told. He shaped his hands into the correct position and he told us, kids to do the same. We followed on.

About 10 minutes later, we had learnt how to hold the racquet and were on our way learning some basic hitting techniques. First was the forehand, which was a hit done from the side. It was as if you were just rocking your hands back and fro.

I learnt that pretty easily, now that we had a few of our techniques nailed. The grumpy man gave us a challenge. We weren’t at the stage of a challenge yet... I guess. We had to hit the ball as if it was a hot potato and then twist your racquet to the side and hit it back, with the edge of the racquet. Well to be honest, it was pretty hard and as I said, we weren’t up to a challenge yet, well actually, I wasn’t up to a challenge yet!

After we had finished all that he told us to get in partners, so I partnered up with Thora. He told us each to get on either side of the nets and get into 1’s and 2’s. I was number 1 so my job in this game was to just throw the ball at Thora and her job was to just hit it back with the racquet. It was pretty easy, since she was doing it right. When it came out that now Thora was the one that had to throw the ball at me and I had to hit it back, it started getting a little frustrating because whenever I did, I’d mistakenly hit the ball in the wrong direction. I was just not getting it right.

Not so long after, the grumpy man blew the whistle, which meant time’s up. He told us to get hold of our racquets and tennis balls and put them in the pile where all the racquets were scuttered all over the ground and all the balls were neatly in a box. I had an amazing time learning how to play tennis. Well, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would have been. I just hope that in our next session with the man would be better and this time he’ll not be so FIESTY!

What is a Comet?

2011-11-08T10:59:00.001+13:00

At the beginning of last week, Ms Nua gave room 20 a task, which we had to complete in a group of 2. In this we were given a word or phrase associated with space / solar system, by Mrs Nua and had to create a small presentation and tell our audience what the word means. Sylvia and I were given the world 'comet'. What is a comet? Here is the presentation that Sylvia and I have created. We had to inform our audience what a comet is. By the end of this presentation, I hope you know what this strange thing really is, which floats in the solar system. Hope you enjoy.

Multiple Intelligences Test Results

2011-11-03T14:56:00.000+13:00

Today as we were talking about Multiple Intelligences. Mrs Nua showed us a link to this website. On this website you can see what intelligences, represent you. For this, we had to take a test, where we had to be honest and answer it correctly. I did my best and here are the results.

As you can see, my 2 highest intelligences are interpersonal and kinaeshtetic smart. These are, people smart and body smart. Why don't you have a look at this website, and see what are your multiple intelligences.

Favourites of All!!

2011-10-28T14:16:00.001+13:00

I love...
Lying peacefully in my cozy, comfortable bed makes me want to go to sleep forever.
Sweet, amazing and intelligent. That’s what I call the best sister ever.
Blue as stunning as the royal rocking blue cars that zoom past every night.
I love the sound of loud banging music vibrating through my headphones as if they were about to pop any second.
Rose as prickly as it could be, one touch on its prickle and in no time there will be blood smothered over you, but still roses represent love.
And these are my favourites of all.

Exhilarating All Blacks Fans!

2011-10-28T14:14:00.001+13:00

My sister spoke into my ear “Hurry up and get ready, we’re going town, and I know you want to come, so don’t say no!”. It had been minutes since she had said that. As we got to town we met up with some of my sisters friends. Getting there was pretty hard since everything was packed like a colony of bees. You turn to the right and see people dressed up and supporting the All Blacks you turn to the left and see supporters of the France team, there weren’t many. Well to be honest, there were mostly All Black fans, so the France supporters were NOTHING compared to the All Blacks fans.

As the sun set, town got more packed. People started drinking and smoking more and more. Everybody was walking in all directions. There was only about 1 hour left till the Rugby World Cup and everybody started sitting down on the streets to get ready and to watch the RWC.

The game was only 10 minutes away to the start and everybody gathers together to watch it. All the players were shown on screen and everybody started screaming and shouting there heads off. My ears felt like they were about to explode any second. Luckily they didn't.

40 minutes up and the score was 5 - 0 and the leading team was the All Blacks. Everybody stands up, takes a stretch, then sits back down. My ears were going to explode any minute again. The game had started again, and all that cheering started again. Was I going to survive through a heap of that?

The tension started building up. The France team was catching up to the all Blacks and there was a possibility that they could win against New Zealand. “No way, this can’t happen” I repeated in my mind several times. The score was 8 - 7 and still in the leading position was the All Blacks.

People start the countdown until the end of the Final game. As soon as the referee said 80 minutes up, everybody starts screaming and hugging. Throwing bottles of bear on the ground, there was glass smothered over the roads. Richie McCaw proudly held the Webb Ellis Cup for New Zealand and now I’m proud to say “I’m a All Blacks supporter / fan”.

Mubasshira Gets Rugby Fever!

2011-10-17T17:40:00.002+13:00

Well, you might not now, but Term 3 came to an end and all the students have been enjoying their holidays. This is just a small post to inform you what I really liked about this term.

The thing I liked best about this term is that our topic was about Rugby, in fact not just rugby but actually keeping your eye on the ball. What I thought this meant was to be helpful, not letting anybody in your team down, and trying your best.

One of the other things I really liked was that because of this topic, I have really started liking a few sports. Not exactly playing it but watching it, it has been really fun during the holidays. Before, I didn’t really like watching sports e.g 10-15 minutes after watching a game I would start getting bored, but now, I enjoy it and I’m proud to say “I’m a All Black’s Fan”

During these holidays, I’ve had a lot of fun watching the RWC (Rugby World Cup), especially supporting the All Blacks. Yesterday, the All Blacks played Australia which was in the semi-finals 2 and THEY WON!! I’m extremely happy that they have gone to the finals and I hope they win against France on Sunday, October 23.

Anyways, I thought this term was amazing and I hope this following term is better since the year 8’s will also be leaving to college. I hope this next term will be the best of this year.

Maths Whizz!

2011-09-22T21:10:00.000+12:00

The image you see above is of Maths Whizz. As you can see, it shows you how much I have improved on my maths. If you are not familiar with this website, let me give you a small explanation. Maths Whizz is a website where you can learn and improve your maths. I have improved quite a lot and I personally think that this site is very good for children my age, actually this site is available to anybody age 5 - 13 years old. I think this site is really interesting and you should check it out.
Here is the link.

Favourites of All!

2011-09-16T14:28:00.001+12:00

I love...

Lying peacefully in my cozy, comfortable bed makes me want to go to sleep forever.
Sweet, amazing and intelligent. That’s what I call the best sister ever.
Blue as stunning as the royal rocking blue cars that zoom past every night.
I love the sound of loud banging music vibrating through my headphones as if they were about to pop any second.
Rose as prickly as it could be, one touch on its prickle and in no time there will be blood smothered over you, but still roses represent love.
And these are my favourites of all.

Rugby World Cup Prediction

2011-09-14T10:10:00.000+12:00

Today, New Zealand will verse Japan in the Rugby World Cup. I think that New Zealand will win because from the last game the All Blacks played which was New Zealand verse Tonga. I think the All Blacks will win. The score in the previous game was 41 - 10. I am not sure because on the other hand there is also a chance for Japan to win.

Our Place, Our Team Presentation

2011-09-01T10:47:00.005+12:00

This is a presentation that I have made in a group. My group consisted of 4 people which are Selena, Sylvia, Thora and Me. Our presentation was about Our Place and Our Team. We had to inform people that are coming to NZ for the Rugby World Cup (RWC) and people that are coming to New Zealand, what it is like and some cool places that you should see. I hope you enjoy reading my presentation.

Statistics - Probability

2011-08-19T12:26:00.004+12:00

Room 20 have been learning about Probability. We had to show what we are learning to do using google drawing. The image you see above is of the one I have created.

Feelings

2011-08-17T10:51:00.004+12:00

Here is a just a practise of how to use Picasa. These photos show my feelings when I'm at school. If you want to see more images, just click on the image above.

The Beep Test

2011-08-05T10:07:00.005+12:00

Yesterday was the first day where I participated in a beep test. I'm sure you know what a beep test is? If not let me tell you. This is a test where you get to see where you are at in running and how fit you are. The test involves running 20 meters back and fourth. Did you know that for a rugby player their results have to be between level 14-15 to get into a rugby team.

According to my results on the beep test, I wasn't really please with myself. I had got 3.3.

This test is all about speed, intensity, commitment and much more. I think that I didn't give it my hardest because when I was up to level 3.3 and the next beep went and I had to run, I actually stopped. I think that when we have our second beep test which will be at the end of this term, I will give it my hardest and try not to stop in the middle of the way.

Day One of the Holidays and Back in School Uniform!

2011-07-19T13:39:00.005+12:00

As my hands took hold of my mobile I scrolled down through all the messages and strangely I found a message from Mrs Tele'a. I read "Hi Mubasshira, can you meet me at school at 2:30, today in full school uniform, for a photo shoot for the NZ Herald". I quit out of my messages and was astonished by what time it was. I raced out of my bed, got changed into my school uniform and headed towards school.

Mrs Tele’a introduced me to the two men who were standing in the ICT room. “Hi my name is Simon Collins” and “My name is Dean”. As Dean started to talk to us, Toreka and I were given our positions to take. The article they were writing was mostly about how people leave college, work and university at certain ages.

After Dean had taken the photos he walked away and started to have a chat with Mrs Tele’a, while Simon sat beside Toreka and me. He started asking both of us questions and had a good look at our blogs. One of the things he did was to count how many countries our blog viewers come from. First of all he started by counting Toreka’s ones. She had around 80-90 countries. Simon started to count up my ones and at the end, our result was amazing. “104 countries represented on your blog!” Simon gasped.

“We had a great time talking to you” Simon said as we all walked towards the car park to see them off. After they had gone, Toreka decided to drop me off home. I had a great time that day, I was going to be in the NZ Herald! Now, that was an accomplishment for me.

If you would like to see the article that I was in, here is the link.
If you would want to know more about Simon Collins then here is the link.
I hope you enjoy reading the article.

Glee

2011-07-12T10:19:00.002+12:00

Whenever our classroom is taught by Ms Muliaumaseali’i, we do art. During this time I was appointed as the chief movie-maker. The movie appeared on the screen in the hall during our performance for Glee, I felt immensely proud. I have really enjoyed doing this movie and here, I am about to reveal more.

You must be wondering what Glee is? Dancing, singing, rapping, hip hop, etc would be the type of club I would explain this as. What is my role in this club? I operate the sound and anything involving technical devices. I also make movies for this club.

Making movies for glee is really an exciting job since I get given advice from a professional director. Videos which were made for Glee weren’t really easy because they always need the best soundtrack that fits the movie and everything has to be perfect e.g the images, videos, etc. The video’s that are put in this movie have to be a certain length. I also have to make sure that I didn’t misconstrue Ms M when she tells me to do things for the movie.

Glee is a very cool club which makes people confident. It enables us to show and share our talent to people around our school. Sometimes, if we are lucky enough, we get to perform in front of a concert to! I think that this club is an amazing place to dance, sing and it’s also very entertaining for our school. Glee is all about being confident since this ‘C’ word inspires a lot of people and it tells them to take themselves to another stage.

Goal Animation

2011-07-08T10:19:00.008+12:00

Room 20 were given a task where we had to make an animation for our goals for this year. I really enjoyed making this animation because in here it tells you what I have been trying to achieve. If you watch my animation you will find out what my goals for this year are. I hope you enjoy.

Netball Practice with Emma!

2011-06-29T09:49:00.011+12:00

It was a Thursday afternoon and our break time had just finished. Room 20 stood in a straight line, all chattering to the person next to them. We reached our destination which was the netball courts and we were greeted by a lady wearing a bright orange coloured jumper. She introduced herself. Her name was Emma and then she told us what she was here for.

We were at the netball courts because from then on, for five weeks we were going to be having netball skills and drills. Our whole class was participating in this activity and it was really exciting.

First of all we started off with our dynamic stretches.These were pretty simple. I thought they were going to be easy since when I saw Emma doing it, they looked so easy but then I realized how fun they were but also at the same time they were very tiring and breath-taking.

At first we were put into teams and told rules of netball. That was weird because we weren’t going to be playing any games at all. Here are some rules that I learnt:
1. You can’t walk with the ball in your hand.
Consequence: The ball gets given to the other team.
2. You have to stand next to the player with the same position from the other team.

I have learnt a lot of things from these netball sessions. I think that netball is a amazing sport and there are many things you need to learn before you play.

The Inventor of The Telephone

2011-06-16T14:25:00.013+12:00

A few days ago we were given a task by Mrs Nua. Our class had to pick a piece of paper and on that piece of paper would have been written an object/person that we had to research. My group consisted of two other people which was, Ala and Tamara. We had to think of how telephones were used back in the olden days and what people used to interact with others. I have learnt a lot and today I am going to be telling you what I have learnt from the research I did with ‘Telephone’.

Telephones are a of device that are very common nowadays but do you ever wonder how people tried to interact in the ancient times? There were many types of phones that were used in the olden days.

A type of device that people used to interact with was called the the tin can telephone, or 'lover's phone.' It has been known for centuries and it was connected to a taut string or wire, which transmitted sound by mechanical vibrations from one to the other along the wire. The classic example is the children's toy made by connecting the bottoms of two paper cups, metal cans, or plastic bottles with string.

In the late 1880s two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexandra Bell both corresponded to create ‘The Telephone’ transmitting speech electronically. The very first telephone call was in 1915! Looking at a couple of factors on who actually designed ‘The Telephone‘ was created by Antonio Meucci in 1857.

As my group delve deeper to find more information about Alexandra Graham Bell, we found out that he died because of pernicious anemia at age 75. I think that he was a very great person and he had made one of the most amazing inventions in the world.

Amazing Mind Tricks!

2011-06-09T12:29:00.013+12:00

The science roadshow is an event that we went to today at 9:30am at Tamaki College. We were all split up into groups of 5 and given a topic we had to focus on. In my group there was Shontal, Seini-Mino, Toreka, Selena and I.

According to me, the most intriguing display was the Vanishing Leprechauns. This was a piece of puzzle that included three pieces and they made a illusion in your mind. There were fifteen leprechauns and were perfectly cut out into two pieces which you could move, when you flipped (slide) them around they created an illusion and there were fourteen leprechauns on those three pieces.

Isn’t that amazing?

I would like to thank this (link) for letting me use this image.

Creativity Task

2011-06-07T19:26:00.007+12:00

This term Pt England School is learning about Bigger, Better, Faster Stronger. Team 5 (year 7 and 8) have 5 aspects of this topic which is Innovation, Discovery, Creativity, Practicality, Imagination. Each teacher was given a word and they had to do a task with all the classes in the block.

Miss Tito's class was the class that we went to 3rd. Her aspect of this topic was creativity. As we sat down, she told us the task and we had to finish it in one hour.

Our Task: Use your creativity and design your name. We could use images off google. The image you see above is the one that I have made.

As you see in the image, it is not my full name. It's my nickname. Unfortunately I couldn't do my whole name because it didn't fit on the screen of the Google Drawing.

I hope you liked my design.

My 12th Birthday!!

2011-06-04T16:20:00.003+12:00

It was 11:50pm on a Saturday night and I was wide awake full of anticipation. Some kind of force was trying to say that something exceptional was waiting for me, but I couldn’t remember what. My hands took over my body and they tiredly took my mobile out of my pocket. I glanced at it. I went on the calender to see the date and in no time, there was a smile on my face.

Ten minutes passed so quickly, and then all my family and friends started writing messages to me and sending me texts with those two words. You must be wondering what all these people had been writing to me? “Happy Birthday” were those two amazing words that had been making me feel so special and happy.

I woke up at 9:00am and I had received a lot of messages, I replied to all and had a little break. I worked my day through receiving gifts and, guests coming over. By then it was 4:00pm and I was worn-out and exhausted. I went for a nap and had completely forgotten about my birthday cake.

I woke up at 6:00pm and my oldest sister had told me to look at mobile. I took a look and it had a message. I read “Hurry up and wake up. There is something/someone waiting for you in your cupboard”.

As fast as I could, I ran and she followed me with the camera recording me. I was SO excited, what could it be?? I cautiously opened my cupboard and I didn’t see anything. I was heartbroken then when I turned my head to the right, I was ecstatic. It was as if I was going to faint right there when I saw that one person.

“JUSTIN BIEBER!!!” I shouted and my sisters started laughing really badly. This was the gift that I thought was ‘The Best’, In this gift it included two massive Justin Bieber posters, a magazine, a big book and a cd called “Teen Idol”. I looked at the pile of gifts and placed ‘The Best’ Gift neatly on the side which really stood out from the rest.

I went downstairs and straight on the table I saw my favourite cake which was lighted up with amazing candles. Once again I was given a surprise. Today had been my favourite day of this year. As everybody sang Happy Birthday to me, I made a wish and blew the candles out.

As I cut the amazing delicate cake, my mouth was watering, I just couldn’t resist the scrumptious, Black Forest cake. “Here, have some!!” my sister fed me and as I had a little bit she put the rest on my nose. “Eeeaaaa” I shouted, I had to pay her back for that and I did, by repeating the thing she did to me.

After a long day of good fun, I was tired and obviously exhausted. I dragged myself upstairs with my brother and cousins so they could help me take all my gifts downstairs. We all managed to get the presents down in one go. As I managed to rip through all the gift wrap, I gasped many times due to all the amazing presents that I didn’t even expect.

I wonder how my birthday will be next year, I just can’t wait till I turn 13. There will be many more things I will look forward to next year. I hope this one year passes by real quickly.

Go Hard Out for the Hungry!!

2011-05-27T18:45:00.010+12:00

The 40 hour famine is a special event that people collaborate together and support world hunger. Last night 22 people from Pt England school, supported all these people in East Timor. It is so amazing, how many people are willing to stand up for hunger and poverty in places like East Timor. Did you know that hunger in East Timor is worse then most of Africa?

What is the 40 hour famine?

If you don't know what this is then let me tell you. Well this is a event where people come together and stay hungry for 40 hours and you can only have barley sugar, Just Juice and water.

Why do we do this?

We do this to support world hunger. This is pretty hard, but we do this see how it feels and to experience how people in East Timor live without food. Did you know that 50-70% of people are lucky enough to have at least 1 meal a day. Another reason of why we do this is because we get a chance to give money to people in that country.

I think that by doing this it is very helpful and we can also experience how life is for people in all these countries like East Timor.

What is Geometry to me?

2011-05-06T23:39:00.010+12:00

Geometry is the study of angles, perimeter, area and volume. Recently room 20 has been learning about translation. This means when you move a shape or something without rotating, resizing, flipping or anything else. In fact it just means sliding without changing anything visually.

A few days ago we created a grid using Google Drawing. We then, made a shape and tessellated it. If you see in my previous post, I translated my shape 4x4 which means 4 down and 4 across.

According to me learning about geometry isn’t only using your knowledge about angles, perimeter, area and volume, I personally think it has also taught me a lot of new words which I didn’t even understand at first.

My class will be learning about geometry the following term/year. It is going to be an amazing term learning about this aspect of maths because I think it’s very exciting and thrilling to learn about this topic.

Geometry - Translation

2011-05-05T12:09:00.012+12:00

Geometry is something new to all the year 7's in room 20. Today we created a grid and tessellated a shape. The image you see above is the one I have created. I moved my shape 4 down and 4 across, so this means I did 4x4. Room 20 created this grid using Google Drawing and it has really helped us because I think that doing geometry on google drawing is easier than doing it in your maths book.

Today I have learnt that translation means moving a shape or something without rotating, resizing, flipping or anything else. Room 20 will be doing more translation later on this term/year.

Tornado in NZ (Auckland)

2011-05-04T09:58:00.008+12:00

A tragedy struck yesterday. What do you think happened? A Earthquake, Did a Volcano erupt?, Well it was nothing like that, it was actually a tornado. It was a huge one and damaged severe buildings.

This devastating twister hit Albany, North Shore approximately at 3pm. It was a calamity with widespread events, it also managed to kill a lot of innocent citizens of Auckland. This mean beast was such an disaster to all these people out there in this city.

The power of this tornado uplifted cars and trucks off the ground. Beasts like these have such effective power as if it was like a jet-engine descending.

Thanks to thins link for letting me use this image.

Having a Happy End (Term 1)

2011-04-21T14:00:00.003+12:00

As I woke up in the morning, I groaned knowingly that school had ended. Not that I was not happy but I felt both ways, happy since it was the Easter Holidays and sad because I won’t be making eye contact with my friends.

As soon as I got ready and had my breakfast, I headed towards my laptop. Suddenly my eyes drifted towards my bag, as if there was this strong force forcing me to see something. I went across to my bag and unzipped it. My eyes fell on a envelope which had my name written on it.

I remembered that Toreka had given me that envelope. I wondered what was in it. The previous day, I had seen Toreka on a computer in the ICT suite doing something and if Selena or I even went close to it she would have told us to get away. I ripped it open since I was so curious about it.

“YES” I shouted, I knew it was going to be the thing I expected it to be. I read the letter out and was so excited. You must be wondering what Toreka had given me. Well it was a very cool invite to her birthday plus, we were going to have a sleepover!

I showed the letter to my parents and not long after they gave me an answer. “Please be a yes , please be a yes!” I was repeating one thing over and over in my mind. “Okay” my ears were so eager to hear that one word.

So here I am, waiting to quickly flick a message to Toreka saying that I will be coming. I wonder what it will be like over there. This is soo exciting, after all I will be making eye contact with my friends and having a great time with them. Finally there will be a highlight for my holiday!

Picnic vs Friends

2011-04-14T13:20:00.023+12:00

“What are you planning to do over there? Are you going to have a swim?” Selena whispered in my ear. I said no since I had overheard that the water at the reserve was polluted. My friends and I were chattering excitedly due to the muttering that Mr Burt was having with the other teachers. The whole school sat in the hall waiting for a reply from Mr Burt.

Every year the whole school went to the Pt England Reserve to have a picnic. Guess what? Today was the day, 25th of March was the date Mr Burt had chosen for our picnic.

One by one every class went out of the hall and started heading down towards the reserve. I heard a lot of people growing restless and impatient. fifty metres away and then...BANG! The music will start and the picnic will start rocking!

My class, room 20 found a nice tree which provided shelter, to sit under. The view we had was of the water, it was shining in the sun and it was absolutely STUNNING! The glow on the sea was like a shining crystal.

Santy joined my friends and I for the fun that we were having. Toreka managed to get a mat for us to relax on. The wind was blowing hard so it created the mat to form a wave over our heads, as if we were in a tsunami. All this time we were laughing and having a lovely time.

The day had flown as if it was a plane from over our head just vanishing from the sky into the clouds. I’d had an wonderful time relaxing and having fun with my friends. “It has been, one of the best days of my life” Selena murmured into my ear.

Camp Take Charge!

2011-04-05T19:46:00.000+12:00

I couldn’t believe it, there had been so many other items and in any time it could have been the respectables turn. I stopped and turned my head to look around. People were cheering for the team that was on the stage. A nerve-wracking moment had come, a big round of applause filled the halls atmosphere. “Now its time for the RESPECTABLEZ!” Mrs Langitupu shouted with enthusiasm, “Is this a dream ?” according to Selena this was a dream, she muttered underneath her breath.

Our year 7 and 8's camp concert was on and it was the 2nd night of camp. You know where we camped? Well we camped on the school grounds. My group had a lot of fun because we did everything carefully and we took charge of our things, you think this might be stink, but we actually had a lot of fun.

When it was our time to dance, everybody started to cheer. The music started to play and the first group of girls started to dance, we performed to the song called “Chain Hang Low” the voices of the throng started to raise. I started feeling scared, anxiety had grown in me. We did our performance and there was a BIG round of applause. I guess a lot of people liked ours.

As soon as everybody was finished, we sat down and the last few performance’s finished. We were turning impatient to know who was going to be the winners of Camp Take Charge. “The Winners of 2011 Camp Take Charge are the.... DRUMROLLS PLEASE” Mrs Langitupu shouted and drumrolls hit the floor!! “The Respectables”. We shouted with happiness inside us, my ears were throbbing.

At the end we all got a handful of lollies, we saved some for the next day. Everybody got sent to their tents since it was night. As I went to my tent I waited silently for my tentmates, they came in thinking that they would get to scare me unfortunately I shouted “Yaay” they were the ones who had the big fright.

I had a terrific time at camp and it was awesome. I just couldn’t believe it, 3 days had passed by so quickly and it was as if it had just been 12 hours! From the senior school camp I learnt to be respectful to my team and all the people who came to Camp.

Teddy Bearz Movie!

2011-03-28T20:25:00.011+13:00

Last week on Thursday, Mrs Nua gave each Table a task to do. The table I am on is called the Teddy Bearz, the members of this group are Shontal, Tuipolotu, Kaloni, Ronald, Selena and me. The task that we had to do is, out of the 9 values we had to choose one and show our class what that value looks like.

I have put together this movie for my group and we chose the value 'Respect'. The movie above shows what we did to show our class what respect looks like. I hope you enjoy and understand how this value looks like in our school.

The Program I used to create this movie: iMovie 11

Welcome to Point England!

2011-03-25T12:39:00.008+13:00

The year 7 and 8 Extension people have been making a movie of the Pt England Way. We got some quick snapshots and added them into a iMovie 11 and made a quick movie. The video above is the movie I have.

Mrs Tele'a told us to make this movie because she wanted to know our skills with IMovie 11. We made a movie about the Point England Way because we wanted to show the people in our community about how we take charge. This movie also shows what we do in our school and what is so cool about this school.

Thank you Mrs Burt and Mrs Tele'a!

2011-03-20T15:12:00.016+13:00

For the 2 fantastic teachers:
This is a post for Mrs Burt and Mrs Tele'a, this is because if you saw in my previous post, I had done a silhouette using Photoshop. Well I'm saying you because I have noticed that I have become so addicted to this program now. So thanks to the teachers who made me interested in Photoshop.

At 3.00pm today, I sent a quick mail to Mrs Burt and Mrs Tele'a saying a thanks message. If you see the image above, well that is the image I made for both the lovely teachers. I also sent this image to them. Thanks once again, I am never going to forgot this.

For viewers:
If you want to know who to do this then click on this link (Youtube Link). This link will take you to the tutorial. For this, you will need to have one of the following: Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4 or Photoshop CS5. I hope will do the tutorial and see how easy it is for youself.

Amazing things with Photoshop!

2011-03-18T14:45:00.016+13:00

Today Mrs Tele'a sent us a link which included videos of how to do these very cool things with Photoshop. Toreka, Selena and me had a lot of fun checking them out. "Why don't you give them a shot?" Mrs Tele'a exclaimed. "Mrs Burt also wants us to learn more in Photoshop because they have more functions and Hyperstudio is so easy to use".

As we started to give it a try, we all chose a little project of what we would want to do. So we looked at the tutorials which were in the link and I had chosen one where we could do a silhouette.

If you see the images above, those are the silhouettes that I have made. They look amazing and if you see in my next post, I have said a thank you to the teachers who helped me get interested with Photoshop. So I hope you liked my images I have made.

Thank You Parents/Helpers for Camp!

2011-03-18T09:52:00.008+13:00

As you know that camp has finished for the year 7 and 8’s. Camp Take Charge all happened by the help of the very nice and kind helpers and parents. If you were not there, this camp wouldn’t of happened and we wouldn’t have had a great camp. I would like to say thank to all you hard working parents for making the amazing food for us and everything you did for our camp.

We really appreciate whatever you have done for us. This includes making sure that we would have gone to sleep on time etc. So once again, I would like to say thank you to every single thing you have done. I hope you help out next year and once again we have a successful camp.

How to Pitch a Tent

2011-03-17T10:35:00.005+13:00

How to Construct a tent.

Equipment:
A tent package including:
Pegs
Hammer
Base
Interior
Poles
Fly

Method:
1. Open the package and unfold the tent and make sure you have the following equipment which are listed above. The following equipment are essential: Hammer or Mallet. As soon as that has happened put the fly aside and start working with your base (Make sure your door is facing the right way).

2. As soon as you have separated the fly and the tent, get the pegs and nail it down with a hammer .The corner of the tent have little (eyelets) and make sure you have nailed it at around about a 45 degree angle. This is so then they don't come out easily and while camping your tent does not break down.

3. Get the poles out. Be careful because there are 3 poles and 2 have the same length and that is long, But the other one is the shortest one. You don’t need to use the short one, you use it later for the fly.

4. Now lay the two longer poles out in a X shape. Where the corners are of the inner tent, you can see that there are hooks , so you hook them on to the poles that are on the top of them. Now you need to tie it to the middle of the poles. Now place the fly over the top of the tent and make sure that the door is facing the front.

5. Now that you have finished that, throw the fly over the tent and and when you start working with the fly make sure the door is closed. So then it goes perfectly. Thread the short pole through the sleeve of the fly. This will make the top of the tent stable. Make sure the pole is secured to the ground.

6. Nail the Guy ropes down but here is a useful hint: nail the Guy ropes on the edges first so the tent has good balance.

7.When you are finished with the Guy ropes, there will be some hooks, you will need to hook it on to the poles.

8. Now you are finished, make sure that all the Guy ropes and the pegs are secure and tight.

9. Enjoy camping in your tent and if your breaks down during 24 hours, please don’t accuse us.

Amazing Camp Highlight!

2011-03-17T10:18:00.003+13:00

Yesterday was the last day of the year 7 and 8 camp, and we had an stupendous time there. It was magnificent. There were so many fun activities we did, such as rockup, kayaking, movie night, etc.

My groups name was the Respectables and our leaders were Feki and Shontal. Respectables were so lucky that they had such good leaders. They lead us through hard times and encouraged us to not give up.

My favourite thing was the concert, It had been one of the best camp concerts I had ever been too. We rocked the school out and impressed every single judge. When it was time for the judges to announce the winners of the Camp Concert, all the year 7 and 8’s gave a huge drum roll. “And the winners for the camp concert 2011 are...The Respectables!!” Mr Jacobson said enthusiastically. Everybody started clapping and cheering, which made us feel really proud.

The most valuable lesson or thing I learnt from Camp was co-operating with people from other classes and helping them with there weaknesses. During camp everybody respected one and other and we had a GREAT time, playing games and having so much fun.

Respect the Breeze!

2011-03-08T09:26:00.005+13:00

I have made a animation to show one of our schools korero. This animation shows, what the korero is and why we need to have it. I hope you enjoy and learn.

Statistics Graph using Google Docs?

2011-03-07T12:14:00.010+13:00

Room 20 has been learning about Statistics. Mrs Nua has taught us how to make graphs. For this we had to create a form and ask people a question you wanted to know. I wanted to know what Room 20's Favourite Teacher was.

I sent out a form to all the pupil in room 20 and collected the data. As soon as I had done that, I turned it into a tally chart via Google Spreadsheet. I used all of this data and converted it into a bar graph. I chose to do a bar graph because I thought it was the best way to express my information.

If you see the picture above then you will see the graph I made using Google Docs.

Ultra Fast Broadband

2011-03-04T20:11:00.020+13:00

Ultra Fast broadband from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Do you know what Ultra Fast Broadband is? Well this is a broadband that some people are trying to get all around New Zealand. This is because they want us to get on the internet quickly and we could use the internet more often so that it helps our education. One of the best things is that this is not only about faster internet. If you watch this movie you will found out all about UFB (Ultra-Fast Broadband).

Tech @ Tamaki

2011-03-04T10:26:00.002+13:00

"Yaay, we're going to Food Technology" Seini-Mino exclaimed. It was Monday and it was the day where all the year 7 and 8's went to tech! It was obviously my first time there, so it was very thrilling for me.

Every Monday we went to Tech at 8:50. We all were put in a group , I was in 7B. Why do you think we went there? I think we went to Tech because the teachers wanted us to experience subjects that weren't in our school, such as:
1. Woodwork
2. Graphics
3. Science
4. Cooking
and
5. Electronics

As we headed towards Tamaki collage, Seini-Mino and I chattered excitedly. 7B was the group that was going to cooking. We stepped into a new environment and could feel the air of excitement.

Mrs Heka, which was our cooking teacher took us into the cooking room and said a little introduction to introduce her to us. As we got into position (which was in a kitchen with 3 people in your group) we had to stand and wait quietly. There was dead silence like we were at a funeral for a minute or so because Mrs Heka was doing something.

“Today we will be making sticky buns aka Chelsey buns” Mrs Heka announced. “Yaaaay” a crowed of Pt England Kids screamed. I was one of them. After my group, which was Seini-Mino, Tupak and me had all of the ingredients we started to do the real fun. This was cooking.

As soon as we finished making the buns, putting them into the oven and doing all the overall jobs, we started to pack our sticky buns into some bags. This was because so then we could take it back to school and finish it.

It was morning-tea time already and I kept it in my bag for a little while. I took it out and started to munch on it, I couldn’t resist eating not 1 but actually 2. Scrumptious and exquisite. I loved it when we went to take a bite and you would hear that crunch, it meant that we cooked it just right.

Whenever we go to tech, we make a lot of heavenly food and it tastes awesome. I think that going to these classes make us learn more and it also helps us know more about technology and other things that associate with cooking and food.

Breaking News: The Devastating Earthquake

2011-02-24T10:07:00.006+13:00

As you might know, another earthquake striked Christchurch, which was a dreadful disaster. The earthquake was HUGE, it was 6.3 magnitudes. Many of the buildings, were obliterated, during the devastating earthquake, which put a lot of peoples lives to danger.

There was horrible news from all around the environment. Some people were crying on news and some were trying to get hold of their friends and family. Buses are pulverised and building have been destroyed.

“It’s like 2012 has begun” Tuipolotu whispered quietly in Seini-Mino’s ear. I heard him saying it... I did so not believe 2012 so I said ”Noooo!!” soundlessly.

“...I hope that everybody in Christchurch is safe in sound, and will be able to meet their beloved ones very soon, Amen. I murmured in a low tone.

My Amazing Holiday!

2011-02-11T10:42:00.012+13:00

During the holidays I did one thing that was very common. This was shopping. My family and I, didn't just go anywhere like Botany Down or some other place that was close. We went far from home. Nearly everyday we woke up early and got ready to go somewhere.

For the first few days we went places like Onehunga and Sylvia Park. I had already brought a lot of things and had spent more than a $100 and I was getting tired of it. Now, that this was a problem for me, I thought of doing something about it!! To stop this from happening I told my dad if all our relatives and us could go for a picnic.

"We'll see" was the answer to my question. A few minutes later from then, my dad got a phone call from one of his friends and he was inviting us to a picnic. That was kind of like a miracle. "YAAAAAY" I screamed!

The day had come and, we had decided that everybody wanted to go to Long Bay. On the way I was getting so excited to get there. I was so in the mood to feel the smooth silky sand. Time had come to unload everything from the boot.

Quick as I could I got changed into my togs and went out to the beach!! The sand was scorching hot like I was stepping onto sizzling ashes. I had a cold swim for 30 minutes then went to eat something since I was so hungry. Music was one of the thing I could have peace from, so I listened to some calming, peaceful music on my sisters Ipod.

An hour or 2 from then, I got really tired and bored so, I asked if we could go home. “To be honest, I hadn’t expected a picnic to be that boring” I told my sister’s. I was so disappointed.

Sitting at home feeling all sad and lonely I thought of downloading movies from uTrorrent (Movie downloader). I spent all my time on movies instead of money! How many movies do you think I’ve watched and what did you do during the holidays???

School is Nearly Starting!!!

2011-01-24T02:24:00.011+13:00

Today is the 1st of Febuary and school is nearly starting. I just can't wait. Do you know why I'm so excited? I'm so excited because this year we're going to be dealing with netbooks and, because I'm a year 7 this year!!

In about 7 days time, I will be getting a netbook. With these type of devices I won't be needing a whole bunch of stationary. Also, with these, we will be doing all our writing, reading work and a whole lot more in there.

One of the other things I am so eager about is meeting up with my friends. It's been a very long time since we've seen each other. I am looking forward to seeing if we will be in the same classes again.

I hope I will have a very nice year this year with all my friends and all the new things.

Thanks to this link for letting me use their photo.

Ala, Selena, Toreka and Me!!

2010-12-21T00:54:00.010+13:00

A few days ago Ala, Selena, Toreka and me had a day out at Ala's house. We had so much fun. Unfortunately Angela, Seini-Mino, and Sylvia couldn't make it. We were quite upset of that, because we were planning to have a friends get together!! Even though a few girls couldn't make it doesn't mean we didn't have a cool time, I am going to tell you about a few things we did.

When Ala had called me up, she said that we were going to have a sleepover. I said yes to that. Then she said that Angela, Seini-Mino and Sylvia couldn't make it because they were busy. "Ohhhhh" I said. As soon as I put the phone down, I packed everything and then put it onto the side for the next day.

The day had come and Ala's mum came to pick me up. As soon as Toreka and me got to the house, Selena and Ala started yelling like crazy."YAY" the screaming girls screamed! It was insane.

When we got together we started talking and playing. We got a little bit bored so we went Sylvia Park, from there I got a really cute key necklace, Ala got a t'shirt and Toreka got a headband. By then it was about 7:00, so we decided to go back home.

Then it was a really fun part because we played blindfolds. It was amazing because we played in the dark and it was hilarious because we had to make silly sounds to tease the person that was blindfolded, plus we got to chuck clothes at them. Hahaha.

For dinner, we all got pizzas, then we watched a movie. The name of the movie that, we watched is Vampire Sucks. During the movie, Selena told me that we should be awake the whole night. A few minutes later I saw Selena and Ala asleep. Me and Maraina (Ala's little sister) were awake till 12 am and we watched 2 movies.

Us, friends had such a good time there. Ala was even thinking of doing this once again. I think I have told you enough. I hope I can get on my blog these holidays and write some more. Anyways, Merry Christmas and have a happy holiday. Bye

Ambassador - Google Apps

2010-12-20T18:53:00.003+13:00

In 2010 I have been an ambassador for Pt England School. My role has been to talk about my learning to hundreds of visitors who have come to our school from all over the country and around the world.

This video shows you what I had to say about how Google Apps help us learn.

Mubasshira - Google Apps from KPE TV on Vimeo.

This is the transcript of my presentation:

"Last year we began using Google Apps for Education in our school. This is a bit different from most of the things the others have been talking to you about because a lot of what we do is behind the scenes. We don't share it with the world until it is finished.

Google Apps is often called 'Cloud Computing' because we work on documents and presentations that live somewhere up in the clouds. Or maybe at the Googleplex in California! If I start working on a document at school I can continue working on it at home or anywhere else that I go, as long as the internet is available.

This means that we can write our stories anywhere, we can write podcast scripts anywhere, we can work on homework projects anywhere. And you don't have to have a computer to do this. There are lots of devices that connect to the internet that people can use, even some flash cell phones!

I do lots of work on Google at home as well as at school. My teacher can go on to my Docs and read what I have written as well. She can correct my mistakes by typing in a different colour and make suggestions about what I could do to improve. This means I can work faster and get things finished quicker because next time I go onto my Docs I can see what I need to do next without having to wait until she is free to conference with me. And This means I can learn from her even when I don't see her!

We can also work with a partner or in a group on something if we use Google Docs. Writing podcast scripts is a good example of how two people can work together on a script and we don't need to be in the same place.

When we have completed our work on Google Docs, then it is ready to publish for our audience to share. This might be something for television, a podcast, or something for our blog. Or it might even end up in all those places!

As you can see here up on the screen are the Main reasons why I like using Google docs.

At the moment only some of us have computers at home to work in this way. The Manaiakalani Project is working to give all the students in our area the opportunity to do this. We hope we will soon have fast broadband to all our houses and all our students from Year 5 to 13 will have an internet device of their own. Then we will all be able to continue our learning wherever we are are whenever we want to.

Imagine what we will be able to achieve then! You may need to come back and see...."

NB: These are the graphics which accompanied my presentation on the Keynote Aidan operated

Minister Heatley speaking to us after we gave our presentation.

Minister of Housing, Phil Heatley, was one of the people we presented to this year.

2010 Reflection

2010-12-16T22:39:00.003+13:00

This year (2010) has been very complicated but, in a very entertaining way. Do you want to know how? Well, this is because I had so much fun even though some things were very tricky. I am going to tell you, how things were very complicated for me!

Firstly, I would like to tell you about writing, this is because whenever Miss Garden used to talk about writing, I would need a lot of time to think about what I need to write to make a good text. This is because I wanted my writing to be amazing. Overall I think that I had a lot of fun and a lot of laughter during this subject.

Secondly, I think that one of the subjects, I needed a lot of motivation in was maths. This is because I think that I needed quite a bit of time to think about different strategies. You see, all the other kids in my group would find strategies 5x faster then me. Maths was a really cool subject, because sometimes I even thought that I could have been a very good ‘Mathlete’.

One of the other things I think that were pretty elaborate for me was presenting. This was fun AND tricky because, at times I would have fun thinking that I was going to present to a very honoured person. When the time came to present, it was quite nerve-racking because Mrs Burt had told the presenters to do their best and then we just made a mistake. For presenting I would give it a 10 out of 10.

So these were a bit of the things, that I thought were quite complicating and fun at the same time. I hope I have a awesome year next year and it is better then this one. Then I would have double the fun and double the laughter AND not so much of a challenging time.

MTV Video

2010-12-08T10:38:00.007+13:00

Crystal Clear from KPE TV on Vimeo.

This a movie that my group (Angela, Toreka and I) have made. We made this movie for memories when we were in primary school. We also made this movie because next year we will be in intermediate.

This is a music video of the song called 'Hit me with your Best Shot' by Pat Benatar. I hope you enjoy my movie.

Camp Bentzon Movie Part 1

2010-12-01T14:46:00.003+13:00

As you might know that on week 6 all the year 6's went Kawau Island. I have put together a movie here and it is part 1 of 3 parts. This movie shows you things that we did on the first day of camp, when we got there. GUESS WHAT?? I have a surprise for you in this movie!

I really enjoyed making this movie because it was a quick task for me and I only had about 4 hours. I hope you like my movie.

Extension Little Critter Movie

2010-11-30T14:38:00.008+13:00

In Extension the year 5's and 6's made a movie.in this movie we were told to choose a athlete which participated in the commonwealth games 2010. They then had to write personal facts and training facts about them. The last thing we had to do was choose a insect that would take over that athlete. The name of my athlete was Alicia Jayne Coutts and she participated in swimming.

Here is a list of programs that I used to make my movie:

Hyperstudio 5

IMovie HD

IMovie 09

Keynote

Pages

So those were all of the softwares, I used to create this movie. I hope you enjoy.

Bug Quiz

2010-11-15T14:27:00.014+13:00

I have made a movie about a bug. This movie tells you what my insect is, a fact about it and a question and a answer! It may be short but I still hope you enjoy my movie.

EXAMS!!!

2010-11-09T10:28:00.006+13:00

As I woke up this morning, suddenly I remembered that the Year 6’s had a Maths Exam. I was feeling terribly sick. I had no idea of what to do. “Mum, where is my breakfast?” my mouth shouted. My hands were shivering. As I closed my eyes, I thought of the the good things I could do from my exam e.g like proving myself. Next minute I heard something. What was it? “Oh no” I cried. I mistakenly broke the glass bowl that was in my hand. Briskly I picked everything up and got my bag and headed out the door.

I entered the school, and went directly to my class to get prepared for this terrible trauma.Only 5 minutes before the school bell went. I messed my whole chairbag, as I was going through and looking for my ruler and pencil. 2 MINUTES LEFT. As quick as I could, my hands grabbed
my ruler and pencil. I raced to the hall with a chair and waited outside, so I wouldn’t be late. ‘TTRRIINNGG” the bell rang. My palms were getting all sweaty and my hands were so not in the mood to work.

Mr Jacobson opened up the hall doors and, I was the second one in , quickly I went to the front line and sat down with my papers. I felt calm but nervous, what kind of feeling is that. Now I was so in the mood for this test. My mind went into working zone and I was feeling soo happy. One by one I aced all the questions. They were pretty easy. I was on the last page of the question book. I was just so excited for the marks now.

My body was feeling relieved and delighted. “YAY”. I knew I could shown what I could do. I thought I couldn't have done this. Fortunately I did. Then everybody in the hall was told to leave. When I got out with my friends, we all started to talk about how we did in the exam. I knew I would have been able to go through this little pain.

Emergency Part 2

2010-11-04T12:09:00.007+13:00

So after I sent that mail, I started packing my gear for camp. It took me about 2 hours. As I finished packing, I quickly went on my email then saw 2 emails. It was by Ms Garden. "Yaaaay" I shouted.

I quickly clicked to open the the mails and read it in my mind. The time the email was sent was when I was packing. So as fast as I could, I went onto my library account and was shocked (in a good way).

Ms Garden had returned the book. I was going to be so thankful to her. My body was jumping up and down in the study room. As I thought and thought of what I could do to thank my lovely teacher, I forgot I had to do the dishes.

Finally it was time to go to school. Time had passed so quickly and I thought of giving Ms Garden a prize, which was a chocolate. It was quite embarrassing when Ms Garden talked about the emergency on the carpet to the class.

P.S Thanks Ms Garden for saving the day, like a hero!!!

Emergency Part 1

2010-10-13T09:23:00.013+13:00

As I woke up on the 26th September (which was the school holidays), suddenly my mind started to think about school. Just then my brain clicked. I realized that I had a book that was due back at the library on the 28th.

Now the bad part of this was that, this book was at a locked up school and on the 27th I was going to Totara Springs Camp for 5 days! How could I get it. Obviously, I didn't know what to do NOW!

As fast as I could, I ran to the study room and went on the computer. 'Click' this was the sound of my computer mouse clicking on the Internet. The website changed from Google to Hotmail. I quickly typed my username and password in. I was shocked at how many mails I had.

"350 mails, Oh my gosh!" that was a lot. I gasped. As quick as I could, my hand clicked on the 'New' button and my hands started to type so fast. I typed a email to Ms Garden to go to school and get my book and give the library book back. I made a few mistakes because I was writing in text language. I immediately corrected it and clicked on the sent button. "I hope I get a reply as soon as possible" I murmured.

Now if you want to know what happened than you'll have to read part 2 if this story, which is coming out soon.

By the way, what would you have done if you a had a problem like this? You can tell me what I should have done, by commenting on this post.

School is Starting!!

2010-10-10T04:31:00.009+13:00

As you may know that, tomorrow school is starting and, I just can't wait because I want to know what we are going to be learning about. It's going to be amazing. I really want to meet my friends.

I hope that whatever out topic is, it is fun to learn about and has a lot if cool things we get to do. I think that our topic will be about creatures and nature.

The cool thing is that I will get a chance to be my friends for 10 weeks, because after that it will be the Summer holidays. Some of my friends might be leaving school. I want to have the best time with my friends in these 10 weeks.

Well now I have to go and get ready for school. See you soon, at school (for friends and teachers).

Totara Springs

2010-10-01T21:24:00.010+13:00

Today I came back from Totara Springs. This is a kids camp where the Pt England Riverside Club had gone this year. Only the riversiders were allowed to come. We had so much fun. I am going to be telling you about some of the things that my cabin did over there.

First of all, I would like to tell you about my cabin members. Our cabin number was 7 Girls and there were 11 people. These were Ala, Teresa, Jay'lee, Oshania, Awhina, Chanel, Tyla, Aneisha, Cara, Ashleigh and me. The leaders were Cara and Ashleigh, they were awesome leaders.

The second thing I am going to tell you about is about the fun we had. My cabin played a lot of games. The scariest one was called Jungle Adventure. This game took place at night on Wednesday in the forest, it was so scary. It was dark so you couldn't see much and, so you had to be careful of where you were walking. I didn't really like it because I fell in the mud and it was so scary for me.

Why don't you check out some of my cabin members blog so you know a little bit about why they like camp. I will put up a few videos of me at camp so then you get a better idea of how much fun we had there down at Totara springs. Bye for now.

My Cross Country Narrative

2010-09-08T11:51:00.004+12:00

Cross Country Narrative

Strolling into school, I had a very weird feeling that we were going to be doing Cross Country, and a sick feeling came into my tummy. Opening my eyes, I saw the chairs lined up in a row, they were also in order from year 1 to year 6. I cringe. Mr Burt had tricked us. “OHHHH” I groaned. If he had told us that we were going to do Cross Country, I would have got my sick note.

‘BRIINNNGGG’ the bell went at 8:50. Only had 10 minutes to think how to stop myself from racing, and my heart was pounding. I didn’t know what to do. “THINK, THINK, THINK”.

I sat in my age line, which was 11 and waited restlessly for Mr Burt to start talking. I was relieved thinking that it would be going from 5 year olds to 11 year olds unfortunately, I was wrong. 1 minute after I said that, he said “Today it will be different because the 5 year olds and 11 year olds will go together”. He had to say that! I was really nervous from then.

“On your marks, Get set, and GO!!!” As soon as Mr Burt said that his clapper went ‘BANG”! I was so stressed out. People were spurting pass me and I was so embarrassed because I knew that I would come last, I knew my team Maatatua would be unhappy. It was half way and I tried really hard to tell myself “You can do it”. I was exhausted by then.

There was spongy mud all over the field. It was gross and annoying. I could feel it, it was gluey and disgusting. I just hated it. Everybody was going fast over the mud, but I wasn’t. I wasn’t used to mud. OF COURSE it slowed me down even more!

About 20m away from the finish line, my friend Ala tripped. I was shocked. Her knee was aching. I cheered her up by saying some positive encouragements. She got up and started to run, we ran together.

As I was very close to the finish line, I legged it. It was quite like a marathon, I had never ran like that. I zoomed past 2 people. As I was about 5 metres away from the finish line, I opened up my throttle and whizzed. 2 metres away and I could hear the crowd cheering. Who were they cheering for Me or Ala? “They would never be cheering for me” I said. I heard carefully and I was wrong, they were cheering for me. As I crossed the finish line I felt happy. It felt really good.

I didn’t care that I came 5th, at least people cheered for me, a person that is always last. I was also happy that Ala had came 1st and I had came 5th. ‘THIS WAS GREAT”, 5th is a great position. I just hope in our next race, nothing so bad like people falling down happens again.

Thank you Mr Burt!!

2010-08-19T18:14:00.016+12:00

A few days ago, I wrote a little letter to Mr Burt if I could do my own little Indian dance, for the FiaFia, and Guess what? He aceepted my request. I was extreamly happy. On my letter, he also put a sticker which said 'Principals Award'. I felt like I had just did something that impressed Mr Burt.

We are already half way through the moves and everybody in my group thinks that they are awesome. By the way, in my little dance there is 5 people, which is, Ala, Seini-Mino, Toreka, Sylvia and me.

I just can't wait for the FiaFia night which is on 23rd September. It is going to be soo exciting. I think I am going to love it. I hope my group and I, have a splendid day. If you live in Auckland, why don't you come and have a look on 23rd September.

Is Mrs Tele'a a Map???

2010-08-09T14:09:00.012+12:00

A few days ago Mrs Tele'a and the extension group did a little exercise on different peoples point of view. In this, Mrs Tele'a sat down on a chair and we had to draw her. We have drawn her from the way she looked to us. As you can see, above this paragraph is a picture that I have put together. I have asked a few people for their image they have drawn and I have put them together.

In the picture that I have drawn , I think I distorted it. I think that when I draw, I should put it in the right proportions and scale it properly. I also think that I should concentrate on the view a little more. Focusing is a very important thing while you are drawing something.

This little exercise was kind of like drawing a map because we have to know how people in the oldern days had drawn their maps. We need to know that this wasn't a easy job for them as well because they had to draw it accurate.

I would like to thank Makerita, Crusader, Erene, Cruz and Angela for letting me use their images. Thank you.

A Really Cute Baby!!

2010-08-03T15:50:00.009+12:00

On the 17th July 2010 my auntie had a baby and, guess what? It is a baby boy. His name is Ahmed. I wanted her to have a girl but, unfortunately it was a boy. I really wanted to be a girl because I think that boys are VERY naughty and girls are pretty bad sometimes but, they are awesome.

Everyday I play with the Ahmed, he is so cute! Whenever my auntie come to my house I would be the first one to hold him. If somebody takes over for more than 1 hour I would insist and take him for at least 30 minutes.

I just hope that when he grows up he will be well educated, a expert in a lot of things and is a very good boy!

Finished!!!

2010-07-27T14:54:00.006+12:00

Today was our last day for our extesnion project. We only had 3 days to do it, the pressure was on and I can't believe it. I have just finished. Here is the movie that I have made. By the way, in this movie, what we had to do is get a book (on the topic we are learning about) and get 5 facts out of that book. (My book was about explorers). Out of those facts 4 have to be graphics and 1 of the facts have to be a animation. I was sooo depressed because I had a book that wasn't quite what I wanted, but then, I have found out that the book I had got was pretty amazing to do some information on.

From this amazing project I have done, I think that these type of things have been an amazing experiment. I just can't wait for our next project.

Back to School!!

2010-07-26T11:52:00.014+12:00

On 1st of July, as room 17 sat in the hall as usual for the beginning of Term 3. Everybody was dressed up into ancient clothes. Guess what we are learning about. Well, for this term we are going to be learning things about Mighty Mariners. This subject associates with things that we kind of did in Term 1. In this we learned about Captain James Cook and about his voyage from England to Aotearoa and, the Treaty of Waitangi. We learnt a quite a lot of things. Today I am going to tell you what my favourite part of the amazing Immersion Assembly.

First of all I am going to tell you about the Mariner Mr Burt. He told us about his very big exploration around the world. He told us nearly everything that he did. Guess what? Mr Burt also had to sleep on the ground. That was pretty funny.

Next I am going to tell you about the Team 4 performance. In this presentation , there were 5 people, this is, Ms King, Ms Squires, Miss Va'afusuanga, Miss Garden and Mr Barks. There little concert was so cool. It was amazing, but not the best for me (I would give them a 8 out of 10).

Now I am going to tell you about Jessica Watson (Miss Tito). She was the 2nd best because she made me laugh SO much, and I just loved that (I just love it when people make me laugh). Even though it was only 1 person that was acting, It was amazing. For this little concert I would give 9 1/2.

Finally, I am going to tell you about my favourite performance. This was team 2, which was Miss She and Miss Burne. Miss She was a pirate on Captain James Cooks ship. Miss Burne was James Cook. The thing that made this little act was how the actors and actresses spoke. 10 for this act.

I just can't wait till term 4 because, I just love watching teachers dress in costumes and be actors and actresses.

Weasels

2010-07-21T12:01:00.003+12:00

Weasels

Weasels are a segment of the mammal family. These magnificent creatures give birth to live young , just like humans. In the first few weeks of their lives they, are fed with their mothers milk.

Weasels are members of the Carnivore ( RED Meat-eating ) family. These species hunt and kill their prey for surviving. Sharp teeth and claws help rip and chew meat. They use their back teeth to slice and dice the flesh of prey.

Their teeth are also good for chewing bones.

To the weasels, smell is very important. Most of them hunt in the territory (Area). People know this because some species rub their bodies against a tree trump or a fence, but some of the things they do are gross: for example they reduce a smelly substance that they leave on the ground.

Thank you ( http://www.whatdotheyeat.info/wp-content/uploads/what-do-weasels-eat.jpg ) for this amazing picture

Polynesians to NZ

2010-07-21T11:54:00.005+12:00

Polynesians were the first people to populate New Zealand over 1000 years ago.

These people came by canoe from East Polynesia. Their canoes that they brought to

Aotearoa were made from Wooden Planks. Some of these wooden waka had an

outrigger or it wad double hulled.

In the canoes these were trained Navigators who steered the bout in the right direction

using:

1. The stars at night.

2. The swells in the sea.

They also kept a lookout for signs that land was near, for example, they looked for

birds that were feeding in the sea. Not all of these brave sailors made it to

New Zealand.

Thank you ( http://www.timedesign.de/ship/liki_tiki.jpg ) for letting me use this

amazing photo which, helped me a lot.

The Count Down Begins

2010-07-10T15:30:00.010+12:00

Guess what day it is today? Well the date is 10th July 2010 and school starts on the 19th July. There is only 10 days left! (including this amazing day). Anyways, I am going to be telling you what I have done so far in the holidays and, what I really am looking forward to term 3.

First I am going to tell you a little bit about my first five days of these day off schools. For the first few days it was really quiet in the house until, I thought of going out for shopping. My sisters and I really liked this idea, so for 4 days in a row we went shopping (I had got a lot of things).

Then after a few days I was stuffed up in my room again, so I decided to watch a few movies. I watched all the Harry Potter movies AGAIN. They were cool to watch because it had been a very long time since I had watched any of them. So I really liked this experiment.

Finally I am going to be telling you what I really am looking forward to. I really think that next term I will be able to achieve higher than I got last term. I also can't wait for out new student teacher, I think he is going to be amazing.

Now I am not bored at all because I have been blogging lately and, if I start blogging my mind gets into it and I have a splendid time doing all this for my viewers. I am really happy that I have got a chance to get blogging.

Google Apps Presentation

2010-07-09T20:07:00.009+12:00

Today I am going to be telling you my presentation that I do when visitors come to visit our school. This is another part to my P.E.S Tour. If you would want to look at my P.E.S Tour, then just click on the highlighted word (P.E.S Tour).

My Presentation:

Last year we began using Google Apps for Education in our school. This is a bit different from most of the things the others have been talking to you about because a lot of what we do is behind the scenes. We don't share it with the world until it is finished.

Google Apps is often called 'Cloud Computing' because we work on documents and presentations that live somewhere up in the clouds. Or maybe at the Googleplex in California! If I start working on a document at school I can continue working on it at home or anywhere else that I go, as long as the internet is available.

This means that we can write our stories anywhere, we can write podcast scripts anywhere, we can work on homework projects anywhere. And you don't have to have a computer to do this. There are lots of devices that connect to the internet that people can use, even some flash cell phones!

I do lots of work on Google at home as well as at school. My teacher can go on to my Docs and read what I have written as well. She can correct my mistakes by typing in a different colour and make suggestions about what I could do to improve. This means I can work faster and get things finished quicker because next time I go onto my Docs I can see what I need to do next without having to wait until she is free to conference with me and this means I can learn from her even when I don't see her!

We can also work with a partner or in a group on something if we use Google Docs. Writing podcast scripts is a good example of how two people can work together on a script and we don't need to be in the same place.

When we have completed our work on Google Docs, then it is ready to publish for our audience to share. This might be something for television, a podcast, or something for our blog. Or it might even end up in all those places!

The main reasons I like using Google Apps is because:

I can continue my work at home
I can correct my mistakes easily
I think that the teacher can help me more
I can work faster and finish things off quicker
When work is finished I can publish it for the whole world to see.

Tarawera Movie

2010-06-30T14:08:00.001+12:00

The extension group have been making a movie about how the Pink and White terraces were destroyed in an eruption. We all had different parts to this project. My part was when Sophia was taking a group of tourists to see the astonishing Terraces. I hope you like my movie and if you like it, can you please comment. I would be really happy. Hope you ENJOY!!! Thank you.

Mubasshira

P.E.S Tour

2010-06-25T14:17:00.020+12:00

Have you visited Pt England School? Do you want to? Well today I am going to take you on a virtual tour! It might not be a REAL tour but I still can tell you, all the astonishing and hard working things that this school does.

Pt England School does this very unique thing called PENN (Pt England News Network).In this we tell the school what people have been up to and we also show them a few of how the classes work. Every day a class is timetabled to be on news, they have to work really hard to create a movie for this, and we watch it EVERYDAY!

Mrs Tele'a who edits this show everyday, has a small group of year year 7 students who produce this show. She also has a small camera crew who film this event. Then there is a larger group of people of year 5 and 6 students who are the news presenters. Here is a little video of how the news is created.

In Pt England school the classes all have blogs! Do you have one? All of our year 5/6 and 7 students have their own blog! They use their blog to tell the world what they have been up to. I am 1 of the students who love to blog (Writing is one of my favourite subjects).

I think I have told you enough of Pt England! If you really want to know more, why don't you come and visit our school. Our School loves visitors, we treat them with respect and honour.

Active Earth

2010-06-15T10:17:00.005+12:00

Today I am going to show you my animation that I have made about Our Earth. It includes quite a bit of information of volcanoes. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.

My Extension Reflection

2010-06-01T14:47:00.009+12:00

On the 29th of May 2010, which is a Saturday, Rock Our World came to an end. In case you don't know what Rock Our World (ROW) is, let me tell you. Rock Our World is this global competition. The name of our ROW this term was Walk Our World (WOW). In this we collaborate with people over the world and make connections. This year we have talked to one of the head shoe designers, his name is D'Wayne Edwards. Here is a little reflection on how I did.

1. What did I do well?
I think I have helped a lot on group things, such as:
Making a shoe in a group.
Making up the story and helping my group in difficult times.

2. How could I have improved on what I did?
I think I would have improved by doing things such as:
Helping my group in making ideas.
Helping the group Making the movie

Brick Wall

3. How did the Brick Wall interrupt you in your work?
The brick wall interrupted me by:
Talking mostly.
Not group working.

Purpose

4. What is the purpose behind ROW?
1. Collaborating with the world
2. Respecting cultures
3.Making Connections with the world
4.Having Great opportunities to talk to people around the world.
5.Respecting and knowing different people.

My Lovely Teacher, Ms Garden

2010-05-16T17:37:00.008+12:00

I am dedicating this Acrostic poem to my lovely teacher Ms Garden.

Memorable, I will never forget this teacher in my life because she has taught me so much.

She's a super star.

Glorious

Amazing

Reliable

Dependable

Exciting (Is Creative)

Nice

The Music of Dolphins - a podcast

2010-05-11T17:22:00.002+12:00

Mubasshira and Toreka

"The Music of Dolphins" by Karen Hesse is podcast by Mubasshira and Toreka from Room 17.

The novel we have chosen to read is about a 'wild girl' , Mila, who is discovered swimming with the dolphins, and the story of people's attempts to make her truly human.

You can read this book online here.

Extension Group Reflection

2010-05-04T14:03:00.005+12:00

I think that the next movie that I do with a group will be much better at delivering the right message. The movie that we made could have been more interesting. Our voiceovers could have been more expressive. The slogan wasn't catchy.

If we get the opportunity to improve our ad we will try the things we've mentioned above. I also think that if we have more time we will be able to finish more quickly with all these things covered. I am really looking forward to our next movie and seeing how we have done. Thank You

I am 11 Years Old!!!

2010-05-03T09:35:00.014+12:00

2 days ago was my Birthday. This was the May 1st. I was really excited. Today I am going to tell you all of the things that I did with my Family.

When It was 12 o'clock AM, right on the dot my sister said Happy Birthday ( I sleep late on weekends , I sleep around 3-4). It was amazing. I had forgot that it was 12 and I was turning 10! I said "Thank you" and then went on the computer and went on all the things like Birthday Alarm and I had so many emails from my friends. I also went to my email and had sooo Many!!!1. I just loved reading all my mails. One of my favourite emails was from my sister Moonisah). She said:

Happy Birthday to you,

your a hundred and two,

You act like a Monkey,

and you are one two.

I Laughed.

When I woke up on the morning my whole family said Happy Birthday, even my sisters friends that know me. I had a great day. I had also been given 50 dollars from my mum. I spent 20 dollars and saved the rest. I wish next year I have another great birthday like I did this year.

Why Do I Love Doing Podcasts?

2010-04-29T20:39:00.009+12:00

Why do I like doing Podcasts? Well some people in my class, say that I like to do many podcasts, because I just want to get the Ipod. Well it isn't like that. I like doing podcasts because I just love reading. Reading is one of my favourite subjects. When I go home from school I read a book. I don't car if it is long or short. I just LOVE reading! If I don't read at home I get really angry. That is why I love reading. If I do get a Ipod I would be happy.

A Library in my Bag!!!

2010-04-29T19:05:00.007+12:00

"It is kind of like, your bag is a library!!" said Seini - Mino. Well yes it is because I just love reading books. I like to read books because I can learn from them and I just love reading. Guess what? My bag has 12 reading books in it and 1 Diary, plus a big as 200 Leaf value pad (200 refills). Do you think that is big? Well have a look at this picture and see and please leave a comment if you think that, that is big.

Well I guess, I just love reading. I think everybody should read at least 15-30 minutes a day, so they learn lots of things. I also this that you should read so that you don't forget that reading is important in your life.

"Selina" by Pauline Cartright

2010-04-23T18:05:00.003+12:00

Mubasshira and Selena

Podcast by Mubasshira and Selena

The Countdown Begins

2010-04-23T17:34:00.017+12:00

Guess what? My birthday is in 3 days. It is on May the 1st. I am really excited and is already planning about what I am going to do on that day. I have a huge list of what I am going to do. My favourite part of the year is this. I just love turning a year older. It is marvelous. I love to celebrate with my family and friends.

When I turned 9 years old my sister from Barbados sent me a shiny blue Mp4 player which looks like an Ipod. Here is a picture of how it looks.

When I turned 10 my sister, once again gave em somthing. Guess what that was. Well that was a Wii. I have played with it all year and I have not got board with it. I wonder what she is going to be giving me this year.

I am going to be giving out little gifts to my friends as well. I just can't wait. I hope I have a mind blowing day and I get lots and lots of presents. Thank You.

Thank You for this lovely image. I just got the one I was looking for. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w4wKx_IXI4w/S9fi5AsIsRI/AAAAAAAAAUs/OzYyeo9ODA0/s1600/MP4+Player.jpg

Active Earth

2010-04-19T11:59:00.012+12:00

Guess what we are learning about? Well Pt England School is learning about Volcanoes and about things that are associate to Earth such as Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes and much more. I am mostly looking forward to knowing all the things that relate to Volcanoes such as Magma, Lava, Tectonic Plates, Subduction and much more.

Fun Facts:

1. Do you know New Zealand's biggest volcano? New Zealand's biggest Volcano is Taupo.

2. Do you know where the biggest Volcano is, in the whole universe? In the whole universe te biggest volcano is on Mars.

3. A volcano off coast of Italy, erupts once every 20 minutes! Its known as lighthouse of Mediterranean.

4. Every year 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt.

5. On Hawaii, Mauna Loa is the largest live volcano on Earth! One of the eruption lasted for 1 and 1/2 years.

6. Did you know Volcanoes are named after Vulcan. This is the roman god of fire and metalwork.

7. Mount St. Helens is 4,500 years old - young for a volcano.

8. Tsunami is a Japanese word for wave breaking in the harbour.

9. The worlds newest island appeared near Tonga in 1995.

10. Most of the Earths Volcanoes are under the sea.

11. There are no Volcanoes in Australia.

12. To Keep volcanoes dormant, the Actecs fed them women.

13. The volcanoes on Venus may still be active.

So these were the awesome facts about Volcanoes. I am looking for forward to all the things that I will be learning this term. Thank You.

I would specially like to thank ( http://www.catravelservices.com/management/tours/pictures/Tour-ArenalVolcano.jpg ) for this lovely image.

Pic-Lit About Beautiful Roses

2010-04-18T20:06:00.009+12:00

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Lyrics:

The beautiful pink rose has a very nice meaning to it,

it is the meaning of love but unfortunately there are rain drops

on the petals which makes them sad. It is like some random person is

crying and begging for help. Help them or the roses will die.

By Mubasshira

What are we Learning about this Term?

2010-04-18T19:29:00.007+12:00

Today is the last day of our holidays and tomorrow school is starting! Yes you heard me right tomorrow school is starting. So that means today is 18th April 2010. I am so excited for term 2 and just can't wait for school.

I want to see our class room. I like seeing this because at the end of the term we clean our room and put all the chairs and the tables together. So tomorrow we will be putting it in different places. I wonder where I will be sitting and who will I be sitting with.

I am most excited about this terms topic. I like to know this because I want to know if I will be good enough to talk about the things that are related to it. I also like to know this because on the first day of the term we have a assembly at the beginning of the day and all the teachers have to dress up in things that associate to the topic. So that is why I like to know about the topic.

I can't wait for the upcoming day. I will be putting up another post about tomorrow and what had happened. Have a check at my post and please leave a comment. Thank You.

Skills and Drills!

2010-04-15T19:34:00.012+12:00

That was TIRING!!! It is 15th April 2010 and I just got back from Netball Training. It was amazing. This took place at school. None of my friends came except for Tina. We didn't do a lot of stuff but it sure was amazing. I am going to tell you what I did over at school.

When I had reached school I saw Tina. So what we did was, we went to check out if there was Netball Training. We went to the walkway and a while later from a long distance I saw Litia (Mrs Nua's daughter) . She looked like a little ant which was walking up to me. As she sat down her 2 sisters Alosina and Tenei came following her. A while later they went to get the keys so that Litia could get the goalposts. While they were getting the keys a few more people came which was Shontal, Helen, Eta, Mauina and Cruz.

First when we finished putting everything that we needed on the courts we went back to the walkway and there was Mrs Nua. We did a race and just some warm ups. Then finally we went to the courts to do some ball skills.

There was Mrs Nua that was taking a few people, Alosina was doing a few people and Tenei who was doing some people. I was with Tenei 2 times and then the last rotation we did, I was with Alosina. We were rotating every 10-15 minutes. I really liked it. We learned a lot about Netball.

Then lastly we played a game. We were separated into 2 teams. Our opponent had the bibs and as you know we were the non-bibs. In my team it was Shontal,Helen and Eta. So that was 4 including me. Mrs Nua also said that we had to do ten passes before we do a goal and if the ball drops we start the passes again. It was pretty hard because Tina always got the ball. We and our opponents didn't get any goals.

At the end of the game we were all huffing and puffing from all of that running and jumping. My legs were aching. After having a good game I felt like some coffee so after I reached home and washed all that sweat on me and I boiled the water and had a yummy drink. While I drank my coffee I was wondering if I was going to be picked for the team. I hope I get selected.

The End!

School Is Nearly Starting!!!

2010-04-14T22:39:00.021+12:00

School is nearly starting in about 4 days!!! The holidays are coming to an end and I am so anxious for school. These holidays have been passing by really quickly like a like a car whizzing through a unknown street as if a ghost has haunted it. In these awesome holidays I have done many things. I have a very big list of things I have done. I am going to tell you about a few things I have done.

Firstly I would like to tell you about my amazing Easter. I have got a good news about Easter and a bad news. The good news is that I got SO many chocolate eggs which were delicious and the bad news is that I could not eat them all. What I had to do, was I had to share them with my brother and sisters. That wasn't really nice to me.

Secondly I am going to tell you a little about me going to my cousins house and having a stupendous day. Together we did a lot of things but I am going to tell you about only 3 of the things that were most enjoyable. These are the things:

1. My auntie made my most favourite desert and I had lots of it. It was so scrumptious and when I saw it my mouth went watery and I just couldn't resist it.

2. I had brought some maths (Multiplication and Division) cards with me and my 8 year old started saying them and answering them. She didn't have the right answers but she started to learn them.

3. The competition, my cousin and my brother had a challenge in answering the questions of the maths cards first. It was amazing. They didn't know the answers and would scream out loud. It was funny because my brother would make a excuse to go away and then he would go at the back of me and check the answer because the answers were at the back of the cards. He made a excuse like he wanted to get out of class.

So that was the 2nd thing and lastly the third.

The third is an amazing thing. I got a invisible pen!! There is 2 features to it which is a light and a felt that is the colour white. How different it that but the cool thing is that you have to write neatly so you can see what you are then you press the light button which is on the pen and you will be able to see what you are writing.

So that was it for today. I hope I have a wonderful start to next term. Thank You.

Movie Character Day

2010-04-01T09:37:00.008+13:00

"Pinch and a Punch for the rest of the month!" I shouted while doing the actions. Today is the 1st of April and tomorrow is EASTER. Yes I said. Guess What? At our school their is a movie character day. It is awesome. I love it. Here is a photo of what my friends and I are wearing at the Movie Mufti Day.

Netball For Me!

2010-03-31T12:11:00.013+13:00

Today I am going to tell you about netball and what it is to me. I love playing netball. This is my first time playing a sport. When I was a year 4 I have always wanted to play it but the problem with me was the fear. I feared that I would make my team lose and not be able to catch the ball. Now I have learnt that you should always give it a go. Even if you are not sure if you are going to get in. Lately I have done a few trials and I have caught the ball many times and I did succeed. I wonder if I will get in. I have waited for so long for this opportunity and finally I have got it. I am really interested and excited in who is in the teams. I am really looking forward to many of the tournaments my team and I will be playing (Only if I get in).

What have I Done This Year?

2010-03-30T19:22:00.005+13:00

This term has been a very exhilarated term for me. It is about to end. Today I am going to be telling you about some of the highlights for this awesome term. It has been a very big term for my friends, the extension group, my class and ME! I am going to bee talking about 3 big things that has happened which were most entertaining.

I would like to thank all my teachers and especially our principal Mr Burt. He and the teachers have helped us to learn and have a wonderful term this year. I would also like to thank my supporters which are my friends because they have motivated me to do lots of things just like playing netball. It is my first time to play netball and my friends always help me from doing all sorts of things.

Next is camp. I really liked camp. It is amazing how we only needed to pay $70. Normally the charge would have been $200 altogether. We had a really fun time at camp. For that I would like to say a thank you to all the people who have cooked our food. It was awesome and delicious. If those people had not helped us we would have not had a successful camp. My best thing at camp was camp cooking. I really liked those dampers (bread) we made.

Lastly my best thing in this term was talking to D'Wayne Edwards. It was a pleasure to talk in a webinar. If you don't know who D'Wayne is, well he is the HEAD NIKE SHOE DESIGNER. He told us great things about his life and him. D'Wayne also told us some things that would make a perfect design. For this I have another post. Please have a check if you want to know what he said to us. One of the things I liked best is when he said these three sentences which are:

1: Believe in yourself

2: Find a mentor.

3. Work Hard!

The goals for next term for me is to believe in me and work hard. One of the things I want to do in life is to be a teacher. I really appreciate what our teachers to for us to make us learn. They help us in all sorts of things. I am looking forward to all the things that I am going to be doing next term. Have a wonderful day.

NZ History Event 2

2010-03-29T09:49:00.007+13:00

In this movie I have drawn an animation about some Maori people coming and signing the Treaty of Waitangi. Hone Heke signed it first because he thought it will bring peace to them and the Europeans. Thanks to Queen Elizabeth for making a thing called the Treaty. I hope you enjoy my Movie. Thank You.

Me as Rocheal Von Jure The Tiger Expert

2010-03-24T10:26:00.009+13:00

Today I am Rocheal Von Jure and I am a very famous Tiger Specialist. Ala the very famous reporter has just began a new show called Animal Planet and Guess WHAT? She called me up and asked me and said if I could be on her very 1st episode for peoples attention. It has been an honour to be on her show. Over here I have a video of me being on her very first show. Please have a look at it. Thank You.

My Camp Highlights

2010-03-17T16:10:00.004+13:00

"I can't wait, Yes" I screamed to Selena. It was Wednesday 17th of March and we were going to have a great day. You might be wondering why we were like this? Well we were like this because it was the first Camp day of 2010!!! It was amazing. The first thing we were doing was ROCK CLIMBING! I was very happy and joyful. we had teams and I was in the Considerators which was the sixth team and our lovely teacher was Mr Barks.

When we reached the place we quickly got taught what we needed to wear which was the Harnas and that someone needed to be with you at the bottom of the wall. I did one wall that was just blocks. I was really nervous at first but then I got a little comfortable. I had got half way but suddenly something happened to me, my hands were slipping off. I told Mr Nua who was one of the drivers that took us to the places. Once I got off I didn't really have another chance to go on because it was time to leave.

After we did Skate land we went 10 pin bowling. That was one of my favourite one. I really liked it. Each player got to play. In one lane was 5 people but in the last lane there was 1 extra person. I had got 4 spares and 1 strike. I was extremely happy. We nearly won because the winners were the group with 6 people. I was quite sad but I didn’t really care because at least my group came 2^nd. We only got 1 game each. After a while it was time to go. I said to Selena that we should have had 2 games. I was so happy.

After 5 minutes we reached back to school. Me and Selena ran off to the courts to see what the other teams were doing. But as we reached there nobody was there so we sat down and started talking about the highlights about the day. We were also talking about the things we were looking forward too. My best part of Camp was Rock Climbing. I told Selena about the thing I was lookin forward to which was Camp Cooking. I love making the damper (bread) and eating it. I can’t wait for the next camp. We are going to have great fun.

Our Talk with a Really Famous Man!

2010-03-15T14:28:00.015+13:00

Guess what we did on Friday after school at 3 o'clock? Well we talked to a famous man. He is the Nike Shoe designer. Anybody know who that is? Well that is D'Wayne Edwards! Cool isn't it. We had a really good opportunity to talk to him. Unfortunately we didn't get to talk by a mic, we had to write it in a text box and send it like a comment. We asked a lot of questions which were so helpful to us because it helped me and the extension group on designing our shoe. It was great.

He told us about some of his pair of shoes and some off the oldest ones. He even designed shoes for Michael Jordan. D'Wayne said to us that in his closet he has 400 or more pairs of shoes that is designed by him!. That would be incredible. He also told us some of the things that made him believe that he could be a lead shoe designer. One of the people who made him believe that was no other person than his......MUM. She was the greatest to him and said to him that he could do it. He even opened a school which just made people learn how to draw. It was called Pensole. He said that he named it Pensole because the pen was how he learned to draw and the sole is the thing he did on the shoe. I hope we will get to do many things with D'wayne and by the end of the year we will know how to do at least 2-5 shoes.

My Flickr!!!

2010-03-10T14:05:00.009+13:00

My Flickr Page is available. If you want to see it and know some things I like about Aaotearoa then check it out. Some of the things that I have drawn is My Mountain, some books, The Flag of India and the Holy Book of Muslims. If you want to know why I have drawn these things then there is a link to my Flickr page. There will be many things that you will find out about me. Underneath my Flickr Page there will be a little introduction about me. So PLEASE check it out! Thank You

This site will lead you to my Flickr Page.

Second 2010 Podcast.

2010-03-02T20:25:00.010+13:00

Hi my name is Mubasshira and today I am just going to give a little update about my imminent podcast. I will be posting it on my blog as soon as possible. By the way, the name of the book is called Selina. It is a very cool book about a cat going on a adventure. This podcast that I have been doing is with my friend Selena. Her name is Selena too.

I am going to tell you the blurb of the book:

The cat who saw the sea... unintentionally.

(To Be Continued)

If you want to read this book you might find it in your school library or in your local library.

Thank You.

Rugby for Rosie, My Upcoming Podcast

2010-03-01T16:36:00.010+13:00

Hi my name is Mubasshira and I am going to tell you about the ending of the book Rugby for Rosie. If you want to know what happens in the book Rugby for Rosie than you will have to go to the KPE blog (A shortcut is go to my blog and click under the KPE Podcaster badge where it says 'Click here to check out my podcast') and find it there. So here it is.

After when Rosie, Mandy Mega Women and Mrs Ace had finished talking they had reached their classroom, where all the other girls had been sitting. First when Mrs Ace said that Mandy Mega Women was the women next to her, nobody believed her so then Mandy Mega Women took off her coat. Suddenly a head popped up and said it is true she is the real Mandy Mega Women. After a while when everyone in the class was quiet for moment 1 of the girls just stood up and said "But you wear mini skits and you are not like that". Mandy Mega Women said that everyone has a unique personality, everyone has a inside of them and a outside personality just like on screen and off screen. She took herself as a example. Mandy Mega Women said " I wear mini skirts on screen but off screen I am very dirty, a little like Rosie". Rosie giggled.

A while later Mandy Mega Women had persuaded all the girls to play rugby. Rosie was so happy and do you know what the other girls did? Well they cheered for Rosie and the Fly Hards (Their Teams Name). The next day was the other tournament and the other girls promised Rosie they will turn up. Well do you think the girls will turn up or do you think they will deceive her?

Well if you want to know more then you will have to read the book for yourself. So this was Mubasshira telling you about the book Rugby For Rosie by Frances Adlam. Kaki te ano.

Thank You (http://www.wheelers.co.nz/resource/product/large/978187/9781877423161.jpg) for this wonderful image.

New Zealand History

2010-02-25T11:56:00.013+13:00

In this movie I have drawn a animation and it is going to show what Maori people did before Captain James Cookcameto New Zealand. I have been working so hard to finish this movie and finally I have got it on my blog. In this movie some of the things that will be happening will be that some men are going to be putting some Kumara into the ground they had just plowed. I hope you enjoy my movie and will show you how people lived before. Thank You

My First Presentation!!

2010-02-22T14:16:00.009+13:00

"Oh no!" I felt so nervous. It was 7:45 am on the 22nd of February 2010 and guess what? It was my first ever presentation. My legs were shaking and I was so nervous. Their were 8 presenters and I was the last person to give my speech. These were the presenters Angela, Selena, Ala, Aiden, Toreka, Erene, Seini-Mino (Technician) and me. I had learnt it of by heart but I still got a few mistakes.

In my presentation I was talking about Google Docs which is a application on Google. I really liked it it was a really nice.

I will come back and tell you more but for now I really felt nervous. I am really going to work on speaking loudly because I think lots of people thought that I really needed to speak slowly. Thank you.

Prize Giving Night

2010-02-05T19:35:00.014+13:00

"The year 5 podcasting award goes to... Mubasshira and Selena!" Mr Burt announced. I was so excited, I was going to get a prize and also a award! I was at the Pt England Prize Giving which was on Thursday 10th of December 2009. The whole school was there. As I walked the red carpet, inside me I said to myself that I was a lucky person.

As I walked onto the stage to get my prize Mr Burt said to the audience "These 2 kids are very lucky because they have got a Ipod!" I gasped. I was desperate to open it. As soon as I got off the stage Mrs Tele'a was just sitting down there. She gave me a necklace full of chocolates. Yum! We quickly sat down after we gave all of prizes to the teacher.

"The Year 5 people presents an item song" you might already know who said that. That was Mr Burt. All of the year 5 people went on the stage and sang "Tonight's the night lets live it up I got my money..." The name of the song was "I Gotta Feeling". The moves were awesome. The year 5 teachers had made it up. As soon as we got off the stage Mr Burt started to say the year 6 awards and extra things. It took us so long. I couldn't wait to go home...

"Yay!" I had reached home and was all ready to open up my Ipod. COOL!!! I was so happy that day. As soon as I had my Ipod by me I got it and connected it into my laptop and it had started charging. After about an hour it had finished charging, with the help of my sister we looked at the instructions and started putting some songs on to it. I was extremely happy.

Soothing Rainbow Colors

2009-12-19T14:46:00.009+13:00

This is one of my latest Pic-Lits. Have a look at it.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Lyrics:

Rainbows make a sweet and romantic pattern.

Just like this one which has made a heart.

A heart of colors and is mostly made out of red and blue.

Red because that is the love symbol.

Soothing blended rainbows lead a beautiful heart.

Year 5's Amazing Picnic

2009-12-13T17:16:00.002+13:00

"Tringgggg" as the bell went I raced to class. It was a special day for me and all the year 5's. "It's the picnic today, Yaay!" As you all know it was the picnic day and as the bell went all the year 5's had lined up and were waiting anxiously to go to the picnic. We were all going to go down to the reserve. "The weather is looking bad so I think I'll have to change the plan Ms Squires said in a sad mood. "Ohhhhh!!" That was a really bad news for me. I had got shocked.

As soon as the bell went for the end of our interval we quickly lined up and Ms Squires told us the plan. All the excited years 5's are going NOW! Ms Squires said in a mood like it was a thriller film but at the end was a happy mood of Ms Squires. "YES!!!!" Room 15 shouted. I had a blond moment when everyone was screaming and talking to their friends. Firstly we just had played games.

"Thousands of options! soccer, touch, midnight, softball hmm which one should I be in?...." "Ouch" what was that? Oh no that was my tummy hurting. I wasn't able to run. So I just sat in a corner that had luscious trees that was swaying in the wind. A little while later it started to rain. Everyone stopped right away and quickly hurried off to their classes.

"Mmmmh delicious that was the best meal I have had in this year". Cutlery checked, 8 dishes checked. "Oh my gosh how many dishes were their? Who was going to eat all of eat?" I shouted out to my group. "Calm down Mubasshira!!! we're going to eat them and by the way if their is still stuffed left we'll give it to the teachers. Stay calm girl stay calm". Selena said as she gobbled up 2 of my brownies. As she ate it she said "Delicious You should bring some more to school tomorrow if you have some left at home". Their was lots of other things. Ala's Cream puffs, Selena's rice and potato salad with chicken on top, Seini-Mino's Chop Suey, Angela's Piklets and sausages, Toreka's sticky rice, Mmmh that was delicious too and my Brownies and cupcakes. Sticky Rice was awesome, sticky rice with caramel on top. What else could be such a nice treat other than sticky rice. "Munch Munch Munch!" when I gobbled up the sticky rice it was as if I was in a world that had caramel all over. Caramel Trees, caramel rivers, and all sorts of stuff like that. "Cheese" Ms Squires said as she clipped a picture.

As I finished eating all our! group had to finish clean up. "Ohhhhhh". "Can you guys clean everything up all the other tables as well". "Ehh" I groaned to Selena. As we all finished cleaning up our tables were glistening and glinting. Luckily we all finished and went to play before the playing bell was over. "Tringgggg" and the bell was over that minute. "Oh No". It was as if I was never going to get break anytime in my life. I wish we will have another picnic with no rain just happiness and sun.

Celebration Time Come On!!!

2009-12-07T14:27:00.023+13:00

Celebration time come on!. It was Saturday 5th December and it was celebration time.We were at school in the afternoon. You might be wondering why were we at school on a Saturday? Well we were at school because we had been celebrating. Celebrating the last day of ROW (Rock Our World ) 11. Not just me who who was celebrating it was the whole Extension class.

"All over and around the world there's a movement wrapped in love, in Looovvvveee". It was our part on screen. Carol Anne was talking to us. First of all Moses did a Mihi ( That is just a introduction ). When it was time for asking the questions and answering back only some people asked it. It was Paulitia, Tanielu, Leoden and Blessing. "Tanielu go on now its your turn" Mrs Tele'a whispered because she didn't want her voice to be heard in the conversation with thousands of people ( exaggerating ). When Tanielu said his answer he also told them that we were going to do a waiata ( Song ). "Takitimu tokomaru hura hupoi..." as we finished singing the waiata. As soon as it was silent in the room Tanielu went up and said "Do you have the beat?".

Well "We've got the beat the mighty row beat it goes ( 1st: Pat your knees twice. 2nd: clap your hands twice. 3rd: click twice. 4th: Clap your hands twice. 5th: Pat your knees once. 6th:Clap once. 7th: click once. 8th: Clap once. 9th: Pat your knees once. 10th: Clap once, high. You have got it!!! ) You do that 2 times.

As we all finished, Carol Anne just said a compliment to us and said bye. When everything was packed up we all went into the staffroom and ate some sausages. "Yum" said my friend. "Ice Cream time!!!" said Mrs Burt. "Yaaay" we all shouted. We all had mini choc bars that Mrs Tele'a had got. "Finished" everybody said in a row like we were all having a race in finishing of ice creams.

Mrs Tele'a: Is anyone going to pick you up Mubasshira?

Me: I don't know

Mrs Tele'a: Okay then let me drop you off.

Me: Okay.

"You are so lucky that I dropped you off right at your door step". Mrs Tele'a said to me as I got off the van. I laughed when Mrs Tele'a said that. "Bye" I said to Mrs Tele'a and she left. That was a really fun day for me. I was really happy. I felt like as if that day was the best day of my life. I wish we have another day just like that next year. It was awesome.

Stripes are Cooking

2009-12-02T11:53:00.031+13:00

Today one of our reading group were cooking. What were they Cooking?!!! They were cooking 2 scrumptious recipes called chocolate balls and chocolate cookies. They were so delicious. Here are 2 poems for the chocolate cookies and the chocolate balls that were so divine.

Chocolate Balls Poem:
So divine, so scrumptious so "Mmmmh". That was the best treat that the stripes had given me. Awesome. The chocolate balls had tasted like chocolate laming tons with coconut on top. As I handed the coconut balls to all the people, I waited patiently for my turn. The Chocolate balls tasted delicious. That was a great treat.

Chocolate Cookie Poem:

Delicious, delightful and lots of words to describe this one. Scrumptious and would be such a nice appetizer for a king and queen. If you saw that awesome treat your moth would get watery. It will titillate you to have it. Our ones were well prepared too. Delicious is the word you would say if you ate it.

So these are the poems. Did you like it? Thank you. Please comment on my post if you liked it.

Thank You

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nOwISBQwPr0/RbxHat1l5yI/AAAAAAAAAXA/dZlJk0xlZrQ/s320/chocolate+balls.JPG) for this image.

This one is for Selena!!!

2009-11-24T20:31:00.007+13:00

Hi my name is Mubasshira and my best friend is Selena. So today I have a acrostic poem for Selena. Hope you like it!!!

Sweet and friendly and has a soft heart just like a sister.

Energetic, powerful and is full with energy.

Likes to play happily with friends and doesn't let anybody down

Even if they are sad she sorts it out and keeps her friends joyful.

Never had a friend like Selena in my life.

Always cheerful and never lets her colleague's down.

A Indian Wedding

2009-11-24T10:58:00.008+13:00

Hi My name is Mubasshira and here is my movie about a indian Wedding. So sit back and relax!!!