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My Hero - Shaun Johnson

Shaun Johnson plays for the Vodafone Warriors Rugby League club. Shaun Johnson is my hero because he is an amazing league player that inspires me to be a better player myself. This is my last season playing for Waro Rakau Rugby League Club  because I am a girl so I can only play till a certain age. This season having Shaun Johnson as my hero has motivated me to be a better rugby league player. My lifetime goal is to become a professional woman rugby league player for New Zealand.

By Emily

My Robot Story

In class we had to make up a robot and then we wrote a story about it and what it is. The year 7 and 8's had to do a false start which is writing the middle at the start and then you start half way through.

Zoomer

“Clink, Clonk, Clink.” The magnets are flying at Zoomer at great speeds.

“Aarrh! Where should I go? What should I do?” thought Zoomer.

Before Zoomer gets crushed under the weight of magnets, let me take you back to where this all began.

It was a beautiful Saturday morning and Zoomer was going to buy some magnets from a magnet shop in the middle of town. He was nearly at the shop, where they were still setting up for the day.

Zoomer just got to the shop as they were opening up. He opened the door and walked into the shop. Then it all happened!…

“Clink Clonk Clink”. The magnets are flying at Zoomer at great speeds!

“ Aarrh! Where should I go? What should I do?” thought Zoomer.

All of a sudden Zoomer flies out of the shop at the speed of light. All of the magnets crashing into the shop's walls with a ginormous bang! The shop owner flew out of the shop chasing him down the road.

“Come back you little whatever you are? Come back now,” he screamed at Zoomer, as he stopped running, to catch his breath.

Zoomer decided to go back, to see the owner and see what he wanted to say. Zoomer went back to find the owner who had already given up and had started to walk back, to see if his shop was going to survive.

“Hi shop owner, what would you like” mumbled  Zoomer.

“For a start my name is Hamish and what do you think I want you for” shouted Hamish, the shop owner.

“I’m sorry I didn't realise that the magnets liked me” replied Zoomer.

“That’s not why, it’s because you are made out of metal so a magnet will stick to you. Do you get it or not” yelled Hamish

“Well I’m sorry I didn’t mean to do that” sighed Zoomer.

“Fine I will let you off with it this time”grumbled Hamish.

And that is the end of my False start Story

By Emily Berry

My Robot Procedure

W.A.L.A: The writing commands the reader on how to complete a process.

Title:Building A Robot

Goal:To successfully build a Tin Can Robot

Equipment That Is Included:

• 4 Body Rings
• 1 Short Leg
• 1 Long Leg
• 2 Gripper Hands
• 2 Straw Attachments
• 1 Toy Motor With Gear
• Screws
• 4 Bolts And Nuts
• 2 Terminal Caps
• 1 Battery Casing With Cover And Wires
• 2 Moving Eyes
• 2 Plastic Feet
• 1 Motor/Axle Cover
• 1 Axle With Gear
• 1 Body Plate
• 2 Bendy Straws
• 2 Metal Wires
• 2 Eyes Base Plates

Equipment not including:

• Cooking oil
• Screw driver
• Paint brush (for the cooking oil)

Step by Step Instructions

1. Open the box
2. Get out all the items
3. Get the body rings
4. Body plate out
5. Put 2 body rings on the body plate and screw
6. Screw on the battery case
7. Screw on the body rings
8. Add at the front the straw attachment
9. Screw on the short leg
10. Oil (cooking oil) the worm gear (The worm gear is the the white piece on the bottom of the motor)
11. Put it on the body plate.
12. Put the plastic feet on the axle with gear
13. Oil the gear
14. Put the axle in bottom of the body plate
15. Screw over the motor/axle cover
16. Screw on the long leg
17. Put one red wire and one black wire into the eyelets
18. Put a terminal cap (terminal cap is the white cap) the on top
19. Screw the eye base plates onto the metal wires
20. Peel off the sticky back of the moving eyes
21. Stick the them onto the eye base plates
22. Screw the metal wires with the eyes on, onto the body plate
23. Put the gripper hands on side of each straw
24. Put the other end of the straw onto the straw attachments
25. Put in battery and screw on the cover
26. Slide in the can
27. Turn it on
28. You are done

 

Holes

At the moment my group the voyagers are reading the book Holes. In the story a boy called Stanley who gets in trouble and end up at Camp Green Lake...

Watch the Movie and read the book. 

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Mum’s Revenge

WALA: Writing a story that people want to read. (Narrative)

Early in the morning in the local shop, one round faced, cuddly Mum wearing her usual blue and red outfit, was buying groceries.

“This is the last time cat will eat my food” though Mum.  

Lurking in the background the solitary figure of a large, fluffy barrel-like gingery white cat, who was on the lookout for food, greedy cat.

“Oooh! What’s Mum going to get me today” Greedy Cat thought excitedly.  

Little did he know that Mum picked a nasty surprise from lots of different coloured and sizeed tins and cans that were all.

Back at home Greedy Cat, still on the lookout for food thought he’d sniff out a tasty treat. Peeking out from  behind the door, Mum watched on. “this is going to be good” whispered Mum. All of a sudden Greedy Cat found out what his treat was.

“Meeeooowww!” screeched Greedy Cat.

“This is the last time I’m going in Mum’s shopping bag” thought Greedy Cat as he scampered away. Meanwhile Mum thought “I’ve given that cat a lesson” as Mum shut the door behind Greedy Cat.

Explain Everything

WALT: Was to learn how to use Explain Everything and upload videos off YouTube.

My ideas about fair trade (and fair chocolate)

WALA: Using their prior knowledge, along with information in the text, to interpret abstract ideas, complex plots, and sophisticated themes.

I think fair trade is important, because when the company that makes the chocolate gets paid, I think they should pay the cacao farmers because if they don't get paid they can't buy the cacao plants that they need to grow the beans to make chocolate.

What is your opinion about Fair trade chocolate comment and tell me?

Space Probes

Space Probes

WALA: Using their prior knowledge, along with information in the text, to interpret abstract ideas, complex plots, and sophisticated themes. 

This Story is about Space Probes.

Space Probes are a spacecraft that does not carry people. They go where humans cannot or dare not to go. They have been to every planet in the Solar System.

Making- Meaning

1. Where are space probes sent?

They travel round space and go to all the planets and dwarf planets.

2. Why do you think the word probe has been used for this type of spacecraft?

Because  a space probe is a spacecraft for use in docking with another craft

3. Why does the author say that humans dare not go to some places in space?

Because it’s risky and dangerous and humans can’t go to some planets or deep into space, because the risks are sometimes unknown and the distances are so far

4. Why can space probes be successful even though they are quite small?

So they can explore different spaces

Equipment they carry:

• infrared sensors, to measure the temperature of the planet
• radars, to see the surface of the planet through the clouds
• magnetometers, to measure magnetic fields
• cameras, to send photos of planets and moons back to Earth
• instruments that take samples of dust and debris in space   

5. How successful do you feel the use of space probes has been to date?

Successful because they have found new planets and helped scientists figure things out. Scientists can also predict things that might happen by seeing what's coming out in space.

6. What do you think might create the rings around Saturn?

The dust, Ice and Rocks

7. Do you feel exploration is good or bad use of time and/or money?Why?

No we think it’s good because people who want to be mechanics or scientists or something like that can study the planets and the solar system