The BubZ !!

This week I wrote about the Bubz game, it was a good game they played and they had won as well!! : )

Last week on Friday night  me and my sisters went to Whangarei to go watch the Bubz netball game. Me and one of my sisters had just finished kickboxing training so we had to have quick showers so that we didn't have our driver ( my sisters friend ) waiting for us. While we were having showers my sisters friend was driving to Moerewa from Kerikeri but we still had quick ones just in case she had left earlier. She pulled into the driveway around 7:40 came inside and there we all were just patiently waiting, so then we got the car seat out of the car for my nephew to come as well then put it into my sisters friends car, then we all jumped in to the car and made our way to Whangarei. As we started making our way out of the driveway my nephew started crying, so then we had to make a quick stop to buy him a water and some other snacks. After buying him a couple of snacks and a water he  had cooled down and had fallen to sleep. After a while we had arrived to the stadium where they were playing, but we had just arrived before there game so we were watching the other game for about 10 minutes. After that 10 minutes our eyes were wide opened and ready to watch the Bubz play. While I was watching I was thinking WOW! this is what I have to put into my game when I'm playing, do proper passes, communicate, feeding, and getting in front to not loose the ball. As I was thinking I was like you know what I'll do all that tomorrow in my game I can achieve that. The Bubz had WONNNNN there game we were all so happy for the Bubz the score was around 53-42. Everybody was super happy : )

RoCkEt ChAlLeNgE !!

These last couple of weeks ( 7 weeks ) we have been learning, designing, and "building" our own rockets. It has been a really fun experiment with Matua Troy, we have learnt a lot about water rockets. Last week when we had our lesson with Matua Troy, it was probably my favourite one so far out of all of them and I cannot wait for the next lessons coming up with Matua Troy. We had seen that our rocket will fly pretty good and straight because we were testing it out with lite things, such as spinning  the rocket by tying a piece of string and spinning it around with the string. It was a success and me and my partner was definitely proud of it. The only dumb thing is that there was only 2 of us at school out of 4 because the other 2 were sick. But it was definitely a success with the work we ad done and we were proud.

                                            

                                                                

James Cook - Information Report

James Cook

James Cook was a well known man, he was known for a couple of things such as being a British
explorer, navigator and a cartographer. He was born in the late 1720’s, on November the 7th 1728.
In the late 18th century, James Cook was the first European to define the outline of New Zealand.
Thanks to Captain Cook, with his very detailed charts, his gentlemen passengers, and scientific
and artistic documentation, accurate knowledge of New Zealand was available in Europe for the
first time since the 1770s.

Family/Childhood:

November the 7th 1728 was the first breath of his life, born in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England. James went to  Postgate School and grew up in Great Ayton. In his teenage years as he was growing up he was farming alongside his father until the age of 18, when he got offered an apprenticeship by a Quaker ship owner near the seaside village near Whitby, England. James and his wife...Elizabeth Batts Cook, had quite a bit of children of their own named…. Nathaniel Cook, Hugh Cook, James Cook, George Cook, Elizabeth Cook, which they are well known because of their father Captain Cook. His parents…. Grace Pace Cook, and James Cook also had a large amount of children named John Cook, Mary Cook, Christiana Cook, William Cook, Margaret Cook, Jane Cook including Captain Cook himself.

Ship:

Captain Cook had several amount of different ships named HMS Endeavour, HMS Resolution, HMS Resolution, HMS Adventure, HM Bark Endeavour Replica, HMS Discovery, HMS Grenville and RR5 James Cook. Captain Cook’s most famous ship was the HMS Endeavour, the one he travelled across the world and found different countries and islands such as New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Captain Cook had only made one voyage on his HMS Endeavour ship, but then he made his second and third with his HMS Resolution.

First Encounter:

Captain Cook landed one of his ships at Poverty Bay, a couple of days later he had drawn a map
of New Zealand and also wrote about his first encounter with the maori. Which wasn't a good idea
after all, especially with 8 maori injured and 2 of them dead. When Captain Cook had left, nobody
went to New Zealand for a very long time because he had told people they were strong and fierce
men. The next time he arrived in New Zealand he got along with them much better than he did
the first time he’d been there.

February the 14th 1779 age 51 the day of Captain Cook’s last breath, missed by many such as his family members like his wife kids and siblings. Stabbed to death by Hawaiians after returning back to Hawaii. Hawaiians thought that if they’d kill him and eat his brains and body parts that they’d be able to be like Captain Cook. The Hawaiian’s cooked Captain Cook to enable his bones being easier to receive.

Written by: Roxy

These last couple of weeks I have been working on this piece of writing about James Cook. I thought that James Cook was a really good man until I found out today that he had done some really bad things such as leaving the Indians overseas where he had taken them. James Cook had done good things as well, but he had done some bad things at the same time and hid them away. Anyways I hope you enjoy my writing and find out some good facts about James Cook : )

Tutu on Scratch : )

A couple of weeks ago we learnt how to use scratch, we had some people ( Whaea Keri and Whaea Monika ) from Waitangi come to our school and teach us new things. We learnt how to use scratch which was definitely something different to what we usually used although we did it last year as well but it was with them to. It was definitely something fun to do and I can't wait for the next time to do it.

RePs TeAm !!

This week I decided to write about netball, and what time I had made it in as well as a couple of my friends that had trialed. I was definitely happy about finding out that I had made it in to the top team.

This weekend that has just gone past was definitely filled with enjoyment especially finding out that I had made it into the top reps team. I was all hyped when I found out I had made it in to the top team but I was also happy for my friends that had made it in with me. We had found out the teams a couple of days later after trialing and this week will be our first training as a team and we'll actually know each other. This week on Wednesday will be the day we get to meet each other properly, when we were trialing we barely knew each other, we had only known each other by faces and not names. But then after a while ( after a couple of quarters ) we had mingled around and got to meet new people. While we were meeting new people we were complimenting them with there trial, like on how good they're doing, a lot of them done really good shooting defending and attacking. I had thought to myself that I needed to get my passes to my team and not to do lobs ( lob passes are the ones that go over. ) Those lob passes I was doing weren't going to well they were going all over the place but they'd still get to my team mates ( well after running to get it ) some of them were alright but some not as good. So I definitely need to work on my passes to keep them straight and not to do lobs, but other than that I think I had a pretty good trial. I definitely enjoyed meeting new people from other teams because I think it's cool to have new people come in to your life.

Pepeha ! : )

This week me and my class had a goal to add in our grandparents to our pepeha. We had learnt all about grandparents in Te Reo today but instead of grandparents it was grandma and grandpa just in e Reo. So Grandma in maori is 'karanima' and grandpa is 'karanipa' it was definitely something different to what I'm used to because in everyone's pepeha I have heard so far is just the normal pepeha without the grandparents so I think it's cool how we have now added in our grandparents.

Walking with an ANZAC !!

These last couple of weeks we have been learning about objects that have been used fro the war. The object me and my partner chose was a badge about the dardanelles. It has been a good experience learning about items that have gone to war. We found some good information about the item we used and some about George Bollinger.

A Day To Remember

A Day to Remember

Should men have had the choice to go to war ? I am adamant that men should’ve had
a chance to choose to go to war whether they want to go or not. Men should not have
been forced to do what they didn’t want to do because it is not right for what they were
doing especially if you were under the age of 18. My opinion for the age is the fact that
they should’ve been at least 20 years old and not 18, and if they didn’t want to do it for
them not to get shot or put in jail. Firstly men should have been able to choose if they
wanted to go to war or not. Secondly they should have not been getting shot or being
punished cause they weren’t ready to go to war and risk their lives. Lastly it is not right
for young men to go to war because they should be living life to the fullest and not having
to be going to war at a young age.

Firstly, men should have their own rights to pick whether or not to go to war. Men have
all rights to choose because it is not right for those who are going because they’re forced.
Anzacs should have had their own decision to pick to go to war because they’re taking
a big risk of their lives for others, which is very thoughtful of them, besides the fact of
when they’re getting forced. Men were wanted by the Government because he didn’t
want the people staying back from war to get mutilated and wanted save New Zealand,
yet people will get killed if they didn’t want to or if they had tried to run away.

Secondly, men were forced to go to war but there punishments were dreadful. If you were
to try run away while your fighting or before getting to war you would have been shot. Men
had also been sent to jail back in the days if they had chosen not to go. There punishments
were unsatisfactory and very dreadful for some of those who had to witness what was going
on. Why? Why is it that men were forced to go to war whether they wanted to or not it is not
right for the men who didn’t want to go and they were shot or sent to jail and many more
awful things.  

Finally, all men could should have been able to stay back from war so they could be
with family. For those who were young and under the age of 18 definitely shouldn't've
gone to war, they should have stayed back with their families while they’re young. Young
men, young men back then should have not had their mothers worried and up all night
because they’re wanting there son’s back without any hesitation or worriness. They
should have been living life to the fullest and not having to go to war at such a young age.

I am adamant that men should have all rights to pick whether or not to go to war, not to
be forced to do something, or having to risk their lives, they could’ve stayed back with
their families or they could’ve been to young. Sometimes I think to myself is that even
who they wanted to be as leaders back in the day? It is not a good look, on how we as
people look back at how they were treating people back then. Especially finding out
they were being forced to do something that you shouldn’t be forced for. All men should
have had the chance to “LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!”.

Written by: Roxy

For the past three weeks we have been working on a piece of writing to publish and it has been about Anzac. At the start we were doing one piece of writing each week but that didn't work out because a couple of the students in our class weren't getting it done.