Different Kinds Of Birds.

Kia Ora, Im going to tell you about Some Birds in the world. Did you know that there are around 10000 different species of birds? The Ostrich is the largest bird in the world, it also lays the largest eggs. The Ostrich has the fastest maximum running speed (97 kilometres per hour)

Birds have hollow bones which help them fly. Some bird species are intelligent enough to create and use tools.
The chicken is the most common bird in the world.

Hummingbirds can fly backwards, isn't that amazing?
I think birds are incredible because pigeon birds can be used to carry messages.

Titanium.

“Kia ora”. I’d like to tell you about one of the greatest bands in New Zealand called “Titanium” . Titanium is a band formed in Auckland New Zealand 2012, the winners of “The Edge” radio stations, to create New Zealand's first boy band.
The radio auditions hosted across New Zealand, and six young men were selected. The names of these men are called “Shaquille Paranihi- Ngauma, Jordi Webber, Andrew Papa’s, T.K Paradza, and Haydn Linsley.

Titanium became the first New Zealand band to have three songs at the top 40 singles chart at one time. Titanium. shortly after their first single “Come on home”.

Hailstones

                             

 
Hailstones
During class time the sun was shining as bright as ever.
A few minutes later grey clouds were covering the sky.
Everyone one was working quietly. Suddenly BOOM! a huge thunder came out of nowhere. All the students were frightened and some were scared.

The sky was quiet and so was the class. It started raining a little then it got heavier, and heavier the next thing you know it was hailing! it looked so awesome.
The students in my class got their cameras out and took pictures and videos of the hailstones.

The class was crowded in front of the door capturing
photo’s and video’s. I couldn’t capture anything because I couldn’t get the shot that I wanted because the students were blocking my way.


I've seen hail stones just not that much. I felt like going outside with a bowl and catching them all.

So I went through the back door, luckily I was the only one there.

As soon as I opened the door, the first thing I saw was hailstones all gathered together.  I took so many snapshots of them. In a bunch they look like sparkling white diamonds. I looked behind me, and on our school deck I saw a huge pile of hailstones and I quickly told one of the students in or class to come take a look.

I enjoy watching hailstones falling from the sky
it feels as if its snowing.

Fireworks Day:)

“Guess what day it was on the third of November? It was fireworks day”! During 10 pm on fireworks day, at Langiola Mangere street it was so colourful and loud. Everybody got together, light their fireworks and enjoyed the beautiful night.

My brother and sister climbed up the roof and enjoyed watching the fireworks, it was bursting their bright colours and making loud noises like the sound of gun shots.

During that night my cousin Alexander came down the driveway, as he was driving down all the little kids came running up to his car, he stopped.and the kids said “did you bring fireworks”? "did you bring fireworks like you always do”? my cousin replied “oh sorry not this year” the kids emotions were all shocked and sad.

As my cousin got out of his car I had goose bumps on my arms and butterflies in my stomach, hoping that he bought some fireworks. He saw me scared and worried, Junior told me to open the backboot of his car, as I opened the backboot all I saw was black sheets covering something. he told me to pull the black sheet. I pulled it, when I saw what was under it I quickly jumped and hugged my cousin. He brought me a big box of badboy fireworks.

I was rushing in the house looking for the lighter I quickly grabbed it from the table, ran outside snatched my box of fireworks, and rushed up the driveway. I was on the road lighting up my fireworks some kids wanted some sparkles so I was being nice and giving it to them. The big kids were lighting up their ground fireworks called cascades and throwing them under peoples legs, it was so funny because people didn’t even notice it was there.

It was 11pm and I was still in the middle of the street lighting my fireworks. I enjoyed playing with them and if it wasn’t for my lovely caring cousin junior I wouldn’t have any fireworks and my night wouldn’t be so joyful.

Fireworks Day!

“Guess what day it was on the third of November? It was fireworks day”! At 10 pm on the 3rd, my street was so colourful and loud. Everybody got together, light their fireworks and enjoyed the beautiful night.

During that night my cousin Alexander came down the driveway, as he was driving down all the little kids came running up to his car, he stopped.and the kids said “did you bring fireworks”? did you bring “fireworks like you always do”? my cousin replied “oh sorry not this year” the kids emotions were all shocked and sad.

As my cousin got out of his car I had goose bumps on my arms and butterflies in my stomach, hoping that he bought some fireworks. He saw me scared and worried, Junior told me to open the backboot of his car, as I opened the backboot all I saw was black sheets covering something. he told me to pull the black sheet. I pulled it, when I saw what was under it I quickly jumped and hugged my cousin. He brought me a big box of badboy fireworks.

I was rushing in the house looking for the lighter I quickly grabbed it from the table, ran outside snatched my box of fireworks, and rushed up the driveway. I was on the road lighting up my fireworks some kids wanted some sparkles so I was being nice and giving it to them. The big kids were lighting up their ground fireworks called cascades and throwing them under peoples legs, it was so funny because people didn’t even notice it was there.

It was 11pm and I was still in the middle of the street lighting my fireworks. I enjoyed playing with them and if it wasn’t for my lovely caring cousin junior I wouldn’t have any fireworks and my night wouldn’t be so joyful.

Best friend I've Ever Had.

Tule is my best friend. I met her last year in 2011. Tule and I were not that close, we hardly hang around with each other until it was a new year in 2012. In the new year Tule and I got put in the same class, Room 18.

When Tule and I saw each other that we were put in the same class. We hang out a lot, then we got use to hanging out with each other we ended up being best friends. When we are always together in class we end up getting in trouble because we talk a lot.

Tule and I have a lot in common, Have you ever had a best friend who has a lot in common with you? We laugh together and also argue for fun. Sometimes we joke and fob out and laugh like weirdos. We call ourselves sister and twins, we talk like Americans and laugh because of our axent.

This year is the last year of intermediate  for Tule and I. I hope she comes to the same college as me, so we can be sisters for ever.  I've never had a friend who I can trust, tell my secrets to and laugh with.

Toy Story

Toy Story   

This term is the last term of the year, term 4. The topic for this term  is Toy Story. Toy story is not about the movie its kind of about memories that happened in the past.

When I was about  5 years old I remember I had a barbie doll. I was told that I had this doll when I was about 1 years old. I don’t have this doll right now, because when I was 7 I remember my cousins going into my bedroom taking my doll and running around with it in the hall way. They tear it up and leave the stuffing of the doll left on the floor.

That was my toy story. Can you remember a toy you had when you were little?                       

Questions (Book Review)

                         Questions.


Abigail says her life sucks because wherever she goes there is always a bodyguard surrounding her even at school, everyday theres always a black car outside her school window. Abigail is uncomfortable with the bodyguards and black cars, she feels over protected she says that she only feels free in her dreams.

Abigail has a best friend named Josh. Everyday after school she practice her martial arts with him. Abigail always wonder why she has bodyguards she says she can protect herself, One day when her and Josh were playing martial arts she beat him.

Abigail thinks that Josh and her father Mr Johnson are hiding secrets from her. She yells at Josh saying why can’t she be free she doesn’t need bodyguards, Josh says that her father only wants to protect her.

Abigail Doesn’t know that her father and Josh work for a secret agency. She doesn’t know why she’s protected.

I think that it would be kind of cool to have bodyguards protecting you. I like this story because of all the drama between Abigail, her father and Josh.

Our Dinner At Valentines

On Sunday guess what day it was? It was Fathers Day!
On Fathers Day our family went out to Valentines for dinner.For those of you who don’t know what Valentines are, Valentines its a restaurant that maybe different to other restaurants . How Valentines is different to others? Well Valentines you only pay for yourself and you can eat whatever you want. Isn’t that amazing? but you don’t need to pay for the food you eat.


When we got there the waiter lead us to our table. We sat down and waited for two minutes just to cool us down for a bit, but I knew very well that my family was desperate to eat . I counted to 3, when I got to 3 my aunty
said lets eat . I was laughing because I knew she was going to say that.


We dished our food. My families plate were so full of food.
I dished mine it was so delicious. we sat down and ate.
after our dinner we had dessert,my little cousin was angry
because the ice cream machine wasn’t working. I went to tell the waiter then he reset the ice cream machine, we had to wait for 5 minutes.


The best part of the Valentines Dinner was seeing my family happily eating together, and the dessert, that was YUMM!!

Valerie Adams Dream Comes True But What's Holding Her Back?

“Further further further”! as I’m yelling at the tv cheering for NewZealands
Shot Put champion Valerie Adams, to win a gold medal at the London Olympics.
I could feel goose bumps on my arms and butterflies in my stomach.
Valerie Adams wasn’t expecting her throw to be so short.

Next up it was a Russian woman's turn , she looked really strong and bulky.
Her body made me scared because I knew Valerie Adams might be in deep
trouble. She threw her shot put, It went so far, it even went passed Valerie Adams
Throw . I thought that was the end of Valerie Adams chances at winning a Gold Medal.

“Boohoo” I yelled, as they placed the gold medal on the Russian Champion.
I knew Valerie  was not happy with what she got, Valerie won silver!
Valerie was crying as they placed the Silver medal on her neck, I knew it
wasn’t tears of joy it was tears of sadness.

After the Olympics, I heard on the news that New Zealand’s Shot Put champion, Valerie
Adams had won a Gold Medal, because after they’ve placed the Medals on the shot put
champions,They have been doing some drug test and the Russian woman that
won Gold, has been tested positive on taking drugs, so they gave the Gold medal to Valerie Adams. When I heard that Valerie have been given the Gold medal I was filled
with happiness.

Valerie Adams still weren't happy when she had been given, the gold medal.
Valerie wasn’t happy because she didn’t get to stand on the podium and
also didn’t get to hear the audience cheer or sing the national anthem of New Zealand.

I agree with Valerie Adams,why didn’t they get to test the drug results before the
Shot Put Competition? or why didn’t the audience cheer or sing the New Zealand national anthem? “anyway as long as Valerie Adams won a gold medal”.

Mt Tongariro Erupsion

On the 7th of August, New Zealands Mt Tongariro  had a huge eruption
Blowing all its ashes on a man’s farm . One of the farmers  said that the explosion sounds like
a huge train making loud noises.

The farmers have to wash The ashes on their land before it turns into concrete
and will create a really bad smell. The farmers have to wash away the ashes
on the animal before it infects the animals Body.

The ashes covered houses, animals and even the whole land .
The wind was blowing the ashes down to Hawkes Bay.

The London Olympics 2012

“Kia Ora Readers” This term is a new start for term 3. Pt England schools new term topic is Go for gold. Go for gold is Ptenglands definition of saying The Olympics. This year is 2012.
4 years ago the Olympics were held at the capital city of China, Beijing.
This year The Olympics is at the capital city of England which is London.

On the Olympic Flag, you will see 5 different coloured rings. Each colours stand
for 5  continents Which is America, Africa, Europe, Asia and lastly Oceania.

The Olympics is a tournament that every talented Athlete goes to compete against other athletes around the world.The Olympic happens after every 4 years.

This year I hope that The Olympics will really impress the audience and I.
I’m really looking forward to the Olympics it’s just 2 days away.

My Favourite Sport Netball

At the beginning of the Netball trials I was never interested in netball. All of my friends Vanila, Tule, Aniesha and Aliza were playing netball so I  felt left out . Vanila saw how I felt  left out so then she said, "come with us and play so you do not feel left out." The next day on Thursday I came to the netball trials, I was so nervous because I had no idea how to play .

On Monday we had to see who made it onto the team. I was thinking negative about making it and was so surprised when my friends came to me and said that I had made the team . I was excited and nervous at the same time because I knew the tournaments were only a few weeks away and I still wasn’t sure about my skills. I really had no idea of how to play.

My coach's name is Mrs Nua. Mrs Nua trains two teams, year 6 Team 2 and year 8 team 2 . I think that she is a very good coach. Every time we have a tournament she is always there to support both of her teams. If one of the netball players make a mistake she always say it doesn't matter you learn from your mistakes.

Next time, I hope I learn from my mistakes and make my team, my coach, and of course myself happy.  

Oscar Claude Monet

Pt England school has different subjects for each term.
Our term topic is Art Alive . The seniors at Pt England
school have rotations,the reason we have rotations is because each class we go
to,We learn different artist and styles. The artist that I have learnt about is Vincent Van Gogh,Oscar Claude Monet,Henri Matisse and last of all Picasso.

This week in Rm 18 we have been set, to take a picture of “my favourite” place and then draw it, using a style to inspire one of the artist we studied.

The artist style I selected to draw “my favourite place” is
Oscar Claude  Monet. I chose Oscar because he loves to paint nature,
so I said “this artist style is the best for my favourite place,it suits
perfectly”.Monet uses small strokes on his painting , from far it looks realistic
but up close you can see his strokes.

I hope my painting of “my favourite place “ comes out just like Oscar
Claude Monet, how he uses his strokes and how his colours blend in.

Pt England school has different subjects for each term. Our term topic is Art Alive. In my classroom (Rm 18), The students have been asked to  select a favourite place for our writing . My school is near the beach so my teacher, Mr Barks allowed us to go with his daughter Laurien to the beach and take photos for our writing .


When we got to the beach my friend Tule  and I were searching for our own favourite place. I went down to the beach to seek if anything interesting was there. Then I saw this beautiful big rock, It was a flat rock with a small tide pool in it, so I said to myself “this would be good for my favourite place writing”.


I chose this photo for my writing because it looks creative and also of the reflection and how the sun puts its sunlight on the beach.

I like how its got dark colours, and how its got
a nice shape and angel. It’s nice how the water flows on the rocks
also  how the white colour blends into the water.

Percy Jackson and the lightning thief

In my classroom, (Room 18) every student got put into reading groups.
My group is called the Trumps . Each group has a story to read ,
once they've read it then they have to write about the story, also their dislikes and likes.

My group novel story is called Percy Jackson and the lightning thief.

Percy Jackson is a person who gets into a lot of trouble.
A  few years ago, Percy was  a student at Boarding school , A school for troubled students .Percy got expelled from six schools .


Percy and his friends go on a mission to prevent a war between the gods Zeus, 
Poseidon and Hades.




My favourite part of the story, is the beginning . Percy Jackson told the readers
to close this book immediately and believe what ever lie your mom or dad told you, I said to myself "this story is quite funny" .

What I like about the story is how they use punctuation,I got to learn new punctuation.

When I grow up I want to be as good as this writer, using punctuation in the right place ,
capital letters on the right word.

Supermoon

8th May 2012

Last week Sunday  the 6th of May at night time my family and I were driving back from
a birthday party, I notest the moon was very huge and brighter then it was as usual .
I told my aunt dosnt that moon look a lot bigger and brighter she agreed.


My family and I got home and the news was on, It said that was the first time the
moon was bigger and brighter they named it the Supermoon .
The Super moon is 10 percent larger then usual.

This is the closest  moon that has ever got to earth.

Art Alive

Our subject for Term 2 is about Art Alive
Art Alive is for us Seniors to get to know some Artist ,
Did you know that every Artist has their own style?
(Picasso) picasso’s style is kind of weird but very creative.
he loves to paint faces, the face faces  front and another face facing side
and both of the faces are stuck together as one face and it looks
very interesting and real just like the picture below.

Reading

Reading is something that can take you any where.
It is good to read. If you are bored just get a book
and read along, it would make it more interesting if you
get to know the story.Try and imagine yourself in the story.

if there is nothing to do just grab a book

find yourself a comfortable space and read !.

Storm in America

While I was scanning through the New Zealand Herald
There was this sad and interesting story that caught
my eye so I thought that I could share it with you .

In America there was a storm that killed many people .
During the storm The Mother, Father , two month old sister,
and two year old brother all died from the storm.
The poor baby of the family was the only one
that survived the storm.The baby was found alive in
an Indiana field in America.

If you want to read more about this story here is the link.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10789913

Who am I ?

Hello my name is Millenny and I was born in Mangere in Middlemore Hospital.

I was born in the year of 1999 I am 12 years of age .

My Parents name are Nellie and Steve I have 1 Sister and 1 Brother.

My sisters name is Stenell and my brothers name is Alphonso.

I am Form 2 and I go to Pt England intermediate .

Cyber Smart

In Rm 18 we are learning about Cyber Smart.

Cyber Smart is when you are smart on the internet .

Don't give any information about yourself on the internet.

Think Before you Post . Don't give away your password to anyone .

Never click on links that you don't know where it going to lead you .

Ask an adult or someone that knows where to click where its going to lead you .

Be Cyber Smart.

RESPECT !

Respect is the attitude the everybody likes.

If you Respect other people then maybe they will respect you back. Respect other people even if they are disrespectful.If you see people that are not respectful tell them nicely to RESPECT!

2012

Hello my name is Millenny. This Year is a New start for me. I am a Year 8 this year. I am in a New class, Rm 18, my Wonderful teacher is Mr Barks . I enjoy staying in Rm 18 with my new class Buddies .

My Goal this year is to be more responsible and Respectful.I have to take charge and focus on my work most of all listen to my teacher Mr Barks .