Job offer in America

Hello and welcome back to my blog, I hope you had a great holiday!  Today I will be blogging about my sister going to America for a job offer. Hope you enjoy!

One day my eldest sister Hannah rung my mum and said she had a great job offer. They talked for hours but then Hannah told mum that it was in America. My mum froze. They carried on talking and finally mum said okay. Hannah lived in Christchurch before she went to America for a year, so mum already missed her a lot. A few weeks before she had to go to America, Hannah came back from Christchurch to Hastings and all the family came too. We had a HUGE dinner and lots of fun. I had all my cousins over that still lived all around New Zealand. My mum will go down to Christchurch 2 nights before Hannah flies out to America. Hannah is going to America because she got a job offer to work at Broad Moor (in Colorado). Here are some photos of where she is going to be working.

Front of the Broad Moor resort (bigger then a mansion)     


(over view of Broad Moor resort)

My experience on Camp Kaitawa

Hi guys today i'm blogging about my favorite days at camp Kiatawa. Hope you enjoy!

Monday

On Monday, all the year 5 & 6 came to school in mufti with a schoolbag and some type of luggage. We had to  put all of our stuff except our school bag (Which we had to stick on our backs) on the ground. After the bell rang, we hopped in the vans and cars. In my van I had: Erin, Henry, Declan, Sam, Jack Craft, Harman, Rebecca, Caitlin, Jasmine E, Adelle ( one of the drivers), Mike (The other driver) and me. 

Finally after the parents stopped talking and laughing we started going. The drive was kind of boring but once we kept talking it was fine. At one point, it went down hill, I felt a little bit sick and then vomited all over the van. We had to wait to pull over in a safe place. Once we had pulled over, Mike (The van driver) left the hazards lights on because it was still a bit of a dangerous place to stop. Once Adelle and Mike cleaned me up, we all loaded back in the van and got ready to drive of, the engine tried to start but it failed. WE HAD A DEAD BATTERY!!!!

We all had to get out of the van again and tried to see if a car could jump start us, but there wasn't any luck for a while. Finally somebody pulled over. There was two camper vans, the first one didn't have a jumper cord but the second one did. Fortunately, the second camper van did have a jumper cord but when we tried to start it up it didn't work. The camper van backed up and we all tried to get someone else to pull over and then jump start us. We finally managed to get started again, so we said thank you to the cars who helped us and we set off for Wairoa

We finally made it to Wairoa and stopped for a toilet break and a little bit of lunch. We set off again and after about 20 minutes we finally made it to Camp Kaitawa. We then had some more food and had a little bit of a play. After that, we got ready to do kayaking on Lake Wherowhero. It was so much fun and I wanted to do it again. After we had heaps of fun kayaking it was time to do some night activities and settling down in our PJ's. After about an hour we had dinner. For dinner we had bacon and pasta with broccoli. After we had dinner, we had to go to bed because we had a big day tomorrow. Here's a picture of me on Monday night:

Tuesday

On Tuesday some of us got up a little earlier than the other children because it was very cold in the mornings and it was hard to get to sleep again. We had to go into the dinning room for a Milo and some silent games while we waited for the rest of us to wake up. Once everybody woke up we could finally have breakfast and a drink. After we had our breakfast we then had to get dressed and sit on the dining room floor. I think we did our duties after we got changed and had our breakfast.

After  doing our duties we got ready to the confidence coarse. The confidence coarse is when there is a lot of obstacles and you need to complete them all. The first obstacle was a wooden tube that you had to bunny hop over and then there were some stepping stones that you had to jump over. The next obstacle was a wooden log bridge that you had to climb over. Once you had finished that bit you are just about at the end but then you had to go on the wobbling log, that was a big thick long log that wobbles, and you have to balance and get across. After you do that, there is a cargo net that you climb over, but there's a twist, you had to flip over once you get to the top. After you went over it you had to go round the corner.
Around the corner is a wire bridge you have to go across, that one wasn't as tricky as some of the others. Once you got to the end of the wire bridge you were at the end but you had to run back to the start and you would then get put into groups of 6, 7 and 8. You had to do the whole thing again in your group except you have to hold a rope at all times.

After that we went back to our cabins and got dressed to go to a freezing cold lake called Waikareiti. Just before we left Miss Hill said that "if you're stupid you could put your togs and towel in your day bag".  I was stupid enough to put my togs and towels in my day bag. So when we got to Lake Waikareiti we got changed into our togs and we went in. It was so cold, but most of us kept going further in. After a while we got told that if we did the stupid challenge we would get a chocolate bar at the end of the day. (The stupid challenge is when you had to put your shoulders under the freezing cold water for 40 seconds.)


That's all for today. Thanks for reading.

P.E blog post

This week for P.E we have been divided in to three groups.
There is a blue group, green group and a yellow group.
here are the groups.

Blue
Jessica
Anika
Maia
Tylah
Jordan
Ella
Naomi
Alize
Rain
Holly
Marquesas
Mac
Keagan
Whetu
Benji
Rueben
Luke
Mya wandan
Nixie
Sage
Monica
Toby
Nick
Oscar E
Zane
Aston
Kayden.

Green
Sienna
Taylah
Lauryn
Karamea
Bradley
Nehemiah
Van 
Charlie
Eva
Skyla
Tyla
Bella-marie
Degan
Goerge
Jacob
Camo
Mith
Dom
Finley
Amie
MyaWall
Oscar J
Reese
Liam
Kaydence
Isaiah.

Yellow
Liske
Kushi
Ruby
Nikita
Keighan
Victoria
Catlin
Bella
Jodi
Kqorteaz
Cameron
Julius
Tyler
Conner
Daniel
Camden
Rory
Oscar W
David
Brayden
Khan
Amos.

The first activity the blue team did was throwing a tennis ball into the hoops. I'm not sure what the yellow team and green team did because I'm not in the group. 
There isn't just anyway to throw a ball. The correct way is like this:

1. Put your feet apart(not to far apart that you end up doing the splits).
2. Then you step back, and pull your arm back.
3. Next you need to aim (if you want) 
4. Step, then Throw. 

Here is a video of me throwing a tennis ball. 

In the comments tell me what group you're in. 

I hope you enjoyed this blog, see you next time. 

My Art blog post

 Hey guys and today I'm going to be blogging about my art. We had a choice of doing 3 different kinds of art. I chose sketching. I learnt new skills when I was in the sketching group. These are the skills I learnt.

1. Smudging. Here is a picture of what the end result of smudging looks like.

2. Shading. Here is a picture of what the end result of the shading looks like.

3. Shadows.Here is a picture of what the end result of the shadows looks like.

4. 3D Drawing. Here is a picture of what the end result of the 3D Drawing looks like.

Here is my art. 

Hope you enjoyed this blog post, see you next time. 

My Maths

Hi and welcome back to my blog. Today I'm going to be blogging about my maths. 
For this weeks maths we were learning our 5 times tables. We have only been learning five times tables up to 12. Here is a link to the place were I have been learning my 5 times tables. Click here to learn your 5 times tables. Here is some examples. 

 5x0=0

5x1=5

5x2=10

5x3=15

5x4=20

5x5=25

5x6=30

5x7=35

5x8=40

5x9=45

5x10=50

5x11=55

5x12=60

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Bye!!!

Literacy blog post

 Hey guys. This blog post for today is about literacy. For my literacy blog post I am going to talk about my essay that I did for my report and I will show you my essay. 

For writing #1 I did an essay about the cheetah and jaguars. This essay that I did was a compare and contrast essay. A compare and contrast essay is you have to compare to animals or anything that you want to compare. Here is the layout. This layout is going to be for an animal. INTRODUCTION SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES your animal DIFFERENCES your next animal CONCLUSION. Here is my writing.

Both the Cheetah and Jaguar have some similarities and some unique differences. Both animals on the outside are very different but research shows they are more similar than most people  assume.

Similarities

The Cheetah and Jaguar both belong to the family of big cats. The group of animals in the family of big cats are Cheetahs, Jaguars, Leopards, Lions, Puma, Cougar, Panther, Mountain lion, Snow leopard and Tiger. The animals in the family of big cats don’t all look the same. Some have patterns and some have just one color all over their body.

Both the Cheetah and Jaguar are Carnivores. Jaguars in the wild eat mostly every animal they lay their eyes on. Cheetahs on the other hand are a little bit more fussy They only eat these animals, Gazelles, Wildebeest, Impalas, Hares, Antelopes and Warthogs.

The Cheetah and Jaguar are both mammals. They both give birth to Live young and feed them milk till they are old enough to care and feed them self.

Both the Jaguar and Cheetah communicate with sounds and Grunts. Cheetahs and Jaguars are very good at using sounds and grunting to tell other animals to back off or to tell them something important.

Differences

Cheetah

The cheetah can turn in mid air at speeds up to 120 k per hour in just 3 seconds. The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world. They can reach speeds up to 113 k per hour. Cheetahs are faster than usain bolt. Usain bolt can reach speeds up to 27.44 per second. The cheetah can reach speeds up to 113 k per hour. When they hunt they have to increase their speeds but then they have to decrease their speeds when they're closer to their prey so they don’t scare off they're prey. Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 100km per hour. As you can see cheetahs are very fast.

Cheetahs communicate with growling and purring. Cheetahs purr like a cat. That would be because cheetahs and cat’s are related in a way. Growling is like purring except it’s more aggressive.

Jaguar

Jaguars communicate by roaring unlike cheetahs. Jaguars and cheetahs do communicate with sounds and grunts but both of them have at least one different way to communicate. The Jaguars extra way to communicate is by having different tones in they're growling.

Jaguars are the longest animal in the americans. They can grow from 63 to 77 cm in length. You may think that this makes Jaguars fast but in actual fact they're not slow and not as fast as cheetahs.

Conclusion

Although they are similar they can be very different but you never know until you research.

Hope you enjoyed. See you next time!!!

Calender art

This is my calendar art for 2016. It's a hedgehog.

This is such an AWESOME piece of art. If you buy it you will love it even more than you did!