My highlights this year!!

 

Just some of the highlights from the year. It is not all of them, but prretty must everything is a highlight.

Barney the dinosaur..... - Creative writing

I stumble through the long grass that is pulling and strangling my legs. It's like I'm hunting through the woods again but I'm not, I'm far from it. I come to a dark and eerie clearing. I can't breath. All I can smell is something rotting beneath me. A water fall rushes and roars into a river. Above it is a building with tall towers in every shape and size. It looms over me with great power. I race towards the castle-like building like I'm running a marathon, stopping 1 metre before the door. I stare at the windows and a ghostly shadow passes through one. In fear, I turn around to run back but the mist blocks my view. I can smell a sweet smell of chocolate cake and I run across a deathly bridge, but I'm to blubbery and I plummet through the wood. Soaked, I attempt to climb the mountain that stares at me in pain. A rock breaks off and I face plant into a rock as sharp as a knife. In hell I knock the door and hear the echo go on and on. The door carefully creaks open and I step inside. Suddenly I get murded by Barney the dinosaur! I didn't want to be murded by a dinosaur, I wanted to be murded by a zombie. Well there goes that dream.

Created by Taylor and Kayla.

Melted Crayon Art

This term we did melted crayon art. My idea that I had picked was a dolphin under the water. But someone came up to me and asked what I was doing, as a joke I said I was doing a peacock. It was the first thing that came to my head. Then after I had said that Mr Marquand said that the peacock idea could work. I ended up changing my idea to a peacock. One of the hard things was trying to carefully indian ink the peacock body on. I like the peacock and in the flower art show thing I came 1st. I'm really proud of what I did.

Energy

Lets talk about energy.
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about energy. So what is energy?  The conservation of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed it only can be transformed, that means that no matter what thee will always be the same amount of energy in the world. Sound is a form of energy and sound travels. Sound can travel through solids, liquids and air, but sound travels better through solids and liquids than air. Sound travels through air at 332m per second. Sound travels in sound waves. If you get a slinky and get two people to hold each end and one person kind of shakes it you can see how it pulses along to the end and back to the start.

The things that have helped me understand energy and how it works is watching video clips on youtube, having examples shown to me like experiments, reading about it and looking at some pictures.

Are radio waves the same as sound waves?
Do radio waves travel through space?
What happens if sound waves and radio waves hit each other?

I found out some really interesting things about energy.
- I found out that light travels 7 times around the world in one second.
- Sound travels 332m per second through air.
- How lightning and thunder works.
- You can't hear sound in a vacum (because there's no air molecules).
- When sound moves through the air it vibrates the molecules around it and that carries the sound.

The day my sister tried to cook me - creative writing

I was hungry and was whinning for food. I ran to my mum bumping into the ironning board. The hot iron toppled onto my older sister. With a scream of agony I knew she would have revenge.

She told me and mum that she would get me something to eat. When I was sitting down, she yanked me out of the chair, put me into a box and taped it up. I heard clattering and the sound of a chair painfully scraping in the kitchen. Just as I was about to cry, the box opened and she grabbed me and roughly pulled me out. She sat me on a pan, a pan on the stove. To my left was mums seasonings. I wonder why they were there? I heard ticking then saw a red thing pop out from underneath me. Then my bottom was burning. I was slowly turning into KFC. I screamed at the top of my lungs and then I saw an angel. "Mummy!" I yelled. She grabbed me out of the pan and smothered me in glad wrap.

My burns were so bad that I was in hospital for 4 weeks. When I returned home my older sister was no where to be found.

Created by Kayla and Taylor.

Athletics report

Yesterday on the 30th of October 2013 Te Pahu School was joined by students from Paterangi ranged from 8-13 year olds. The athletics was held at Te Pahu School and Paterangi came for a fun day. This was because we had athletics.

I thought we were going to have Paterangi's blue high jump mat. Their mat is half of the thickness as our one. My favourite activity was sprints. Sprints is raced on 100m tracks. I came 1st= with my best frien Pixie, so we had to race again and I ended up coming first. I was raelly nervous at the start of the races because it was so close between me and Pixie.

My second favourite was long jump. I came first in thyat as well. Everyone would talk to each other about how far they jumped and pretty much everyone jumped further than me. But once everyone had finished one of the teachers said to Pixie that I had bumped her down and I had no idea about what she was meaning.
I came first out of the girls in hurdles, long jump, high jump and sprints. I came second in discus and shot put. I think  I'm more of a track person.
Today I have really sore legs and it was also 1000m but I didn't participate, instead I counted the laps.
Next time I would like to jump higher than I did in high jump. I have jumped 1.25m before but this year I couldn't even jump 1.20m or 1.18m. I was so gutted.

Pirongia Forest Lodge Park

Pirongia Forest PArk Lodge was buzzing with children from Te Pahu and Pirongia Schools. On Friday week 1 of term 4 Te Pahu and Pirongia Schools went to Pirongia Forest Park Lodge to clear and plant a few hundred plants in araeas around the outdoor classroom.

Ok so the outdoor classroom was looking pretty boring so the two schools spice it up a bit. We all got to plant some plants and I'm pretty sure everyone had a great time.Kate the warden also whipped us up some morning tea. Juice and biscuits "yay!" After that it was back to the hard work.

Once we had planted every single plant there was everyone including the parents and the teachers tidied up. We returned all of the gear back to the people who owned it. Walking yp the big hill was hard work, my knees ached so much, but I got over it n the end. Pirongia Schol left befor Te Pahu School and we got a big THANK YOU from Kate. Te Pahu made their way back to Te Pahu School with some great memories.