Reflection for 2012!

I enjoyed learning Rock 'n' Roll
because it is really fun and very fast.

I do not want to leave Parkvale School because I love Parkvale and all its opportunities. 

My favourite thing was Kids for Kids.

I have been in many events like netball, T ball, Volleyball, Sport PAL, Kids for Kids, Team 3 and 4 Gymnastics, Inter-school Athletics and Kids Sing.

My Kitty Cat art

This is my cat art that we did in class this week and her name is Beaboo. She is kinda camouflaged into the background. That was an accident. We were inspired by Paul Klee. Here are the instructions on how to make a puddy cat.

A journey through a Tunnel of trees, Chapter two, a mystery to solve

Chapter two, A mystery to solve

Casey and I are walking down the path before we hear something behind us. We stop and I say “I think I know what that is.”
“So do I,” Casey says.
We spin round slowly and find the big monster five paces following us. I nudge Case with my arm and say “Run.”

I run with Lizard not far behind me to the same tree I hid behind the first I time met the big thing. Casey steps out and I say “CASEY DON’T!”
Too late. She gets picked up and thrown into the electric fence. I use magic to make the monster run away.

I run over to Casey to make sure she is too badly hurt. She is awake but only a little. I ring Mum to come get us. “Mum said she will come in about an hour,” I say to Casey.

An hour passes and Mum is still not here. In the paddock we see a cow. “Moo!” it says
“Hello! My name is Flossie the cow. I am so lonely here. I want someone to be my friend, or friends.”
Casey and I both say  “Why can the cow talk?”
“I can talk because a witch put a spell on me. I am really a normal girl like you two. Now, what is the problem over here girlies?”  Flossie says.
“Casey has been thrown into the fence and has been hurt but it isn’t that bad. My Mum isn’t here yet so could I put her on your back and you take her to my house?” I say.
“Who? Your mum or Casey?”
“Uh, Casey of course. She is the one hurt here!”
“Oh yeah. I knew that!”
“No you didn’t!”
“Just get Casey on my back.”

We get home, me, Lizard and Flossie the cow.  I put Case on the couch.
“What can we do to turn you back into a normal girl again?” I say to Flossie.
“I was watching when Fred threw your friend into the fence and then you used magic to frighten him off. I was wondering if you can use some of that magic to turn me back into a normal girl again. MOO!”
“Is Fred the big hairy monster?” I ask.
“Yes he is.” Flossie says.
“Ok, I will use my magic to you back into a normal girl again.”

POOF! PANG! POOF!

My magic goes. Then suddenly, very suddenly, a girl appears and she says,  “IT WORKED! I AM A NORMAL GIRL AGAIN! Thank you Kazzie.”
“Your welcome. Do you know everything about Fred and could you possible tell us?” I say.
“I can but you will have to listen carefully because I get a little mucked up. I have only been a cow for two years and Fred has been around for at least fifteen years. If someone is walking down the road he would come out and follow them then at the right time he would start running after them then once Fred has caught up to them he would throw them into the fence and the person would be injured plus no one would know and the person would slowly die a horrible death.”
“Lucky Casey wasn’t one of them.” I say.
“Are talking about me? I think you are because I am so

GORGEOUS!!

”
“Yeah we are Lizard. I think we need to find a bit more information about Fred. Will it be on the internet?”
“Might be. I don’t know.”

“I have an idea!” I say. “We go out tonight at twelve o'clock and try and find Fred. Then I will use some magic and make Fred tell us why he does all these things he does. It will last for about an hour and a half. Sound like a plan?”
Everyone says it is.  
We go out at twelve o'clock and wait till we hear Fred.

This is the second chapter of ‘A journey through a Tunnel of trees’. Don’t too freaked out about our safety when we try to find Fred. Hope you like my writing and please comment.

J

Good Time and Never Getting Back Together trailers

Never Getting Back Together Trailer from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Good Time Trailer from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.



I went to Natasha's on Saturday for a sleepover and we did two music videos. Here are the trailers for the music videos. Watch the trailers first then watch the music videos.

Doomsday 1 Trailer

Doomsday 1 from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

This is a trailer for Doomsday One. The part at the end gives you a fright and might get you wondering what is happening. It is really cool. Please check it out and comment.

Reflection for Rock 'N' Roll. SOCK PUPPET SHOW!

This is my reflection for Rock 'n' Roll. I used an app on the class I pad to do the sock puppets. The zebra is the one reflecting on Rock 'n' Roll and the pig is the host. Hope you enjoy!

(Felicity, thanks for helping me with the steps and for being in front of me all the time.)

Snoopy the Robot letter to his family.

Dear Family  16/7/12

Wherever you are I want you to be with me. I love you and I wonder about you everyday. I want know how you are getting on, how little Nemo my little fishie is getting on, how Lila is with her new baby robot.

Not a day goes by without me talking to myself and pretending you are with me. So one sunny day I jumped on a thing that went ‘CLICKITY CLACK!’ It was going on a long metal road to somewhere. I clambered on and walked to a little spot to fall asleep.

Twenty minutes later the thing came to a stop I hopped off and looked around to see where I was. No sign of you guys. Suddenly I heard loud noises coming from behind me, I spun round to see what it was and the next thing I knew was I nearly got squashed into a metal pancake. Then I heard another noise but that was far away. I started to run. I just couldn’t take this place, it’s too dark, too scary, too miserable and too noisy.

I started walking and then I stood on a leaf and it reminded me of where I belong. Not in some loud, miserable, dull and scary place.

Please reply dear family,

Love from Snoopy.

This is my 'Snoopy the Robot. Letter to his family' We had a look at a little video called The Lone robot. Here is the LINK to the website.  I made the heart on paint.

A journey through a tunnel of trees. Chapter one, The Tunnel and the Monster.

Chapter one, The Tunnel and the Monster

I am walking through a tunnel of branches. I can feel the cool breeze on my back, I see up ahead a delicate golden sunset, I smell flowers of different types, I hear the flutter of bird wings, I taste the gravel that has been picked up and swept into my face by the wind.

I am travelling to my house that is at the end of this road. Then I hear a footstep behind me. I spin round to find a big black figure five paces behind me following.
I run.

I run as fast as I can until I find a tree big enough to fit me behind so I can hide. I wait for an hour. “That thing must be gone by now.” I whisper to myself. I come out of my hiding place only to see the big black thing right in front of me. “Hi.” I say scaredly.
“I’m just going to....”
I run away again

I keep running and I miss the driveway to my house!  “What is that thing and where is it?” I say to myself. I then stopped in my tracks and looked behind me.  Nothing. Absolutely nothing so I spin round and find I am standing in front of a gigantic thing. It is hairy and brown and stinks like rotten fish and cow poo.
“I think you are in the wrong place at the wrong time!” the giant says. “GO BEFORE I PICK YOU UP AND THROW YOU INTO THE ELECTRIC FENCE OVER THERE!”
Again, I run.

The next day, I told Mum that I was going to Casey’s and she says “Ok. Be back at seven pm. Take your phone!”

I arrive at Casey’s and she says that we should go to the forest.
“The one that is on the way to my house?” I say, frightened.
“Well yeah, it’s the only forest around.”

So we go for a walk to the forest and on the way I tell Lizard what happened yesterday afternoon. “Whoa! That is weird. Tell me again because I wasn't listening.”
“SERIOUSLY!” I yell in anger.

This is my writing of a journey through a tunnel of trees. This is the first chapter and the second chapter is coming.

Here is the picture that we had to make the story about. We all used our senses in our writing and there is a list of them on the picture.

Neelix video

Here is a video I took of Neelix. Hope you enjoy!

Leave a comment if you would like to see Neelix personally and say why.

Homework

Homework by Katherine from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

This is my homework. We had to read our favourite paragraph from a book we are reading. Mine is put together like a news programme and I am a guest star. My book is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.' 

Pass the blog Fun Run Moments! :c)

This is my presentation for Pass the Blog. It is from the Fun Run we did last term. There are slides with different people's moments that they liked from the Fun Run. I made the front page on paint by myself. Enjoy! :c)

My Maths test

This is my maths test. I used three different strategies. Doubling and Halving, Place Value and Rounding and Compensating. Here is a photo of my maths.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Olympic Smurfs!

Here is my Blue Smurf Planet Olympics or B,S,P,O. Each slide is a different sport, different smurf with a different name. Hope you like it!

Neelix goes under the table!

Here are a few photos of Neelix under the table. He is always hiding under there and we have a chair and my raincoat is hanging down from it and when I put my bag in front Neelix crawls underneath and hides. It is like a little cat cave. Sort of!

Production Diary Part 2. 4/09/12 in front of the school to 4/09/12 Night show.

4/09/12 Dress Rehearsal ten minutes since school started

Dear Diary

We did the show in front of the school and they really loved it! They were singing to the songs of the dances and they joined in with the clapping, clicking and arm waving. At the end of it Miss Hill said that we were really good and something we all need to work on is (if we are speaking) to be a bit more clearer and just a bit slower.  If we are in dance like I am we need bigger actions. That’s all.


4/09/12 Production in front of 100 add some minus some. 10 minutes before performing

Dear Diary

I was so scared this time. I wasn’t last night.  I  watch the green is gold play go up and I said to myself: “Just remember big actions try not to smile too much and remember ATTITUDE.” We were on next.

4/09/12 Production in front of 100 add some minus some. 10 minutes before performing
Dear Diary
We did our dance and I remembered everything I said before in my last entry. We came back and sat down in our seats. I saw Xavier looking around. He spotted me and gave me a thumbs up. I smiled back.  After the whole production was over I ran to room eighteen to get changed, then with Casey went to find mum. We got to the gate and Mum was talking to someone. She told us to stay at the gate but we kept walking forward. “We got told to stay here!” Casey said. We started having a conversation about cheese. Lizard started it.  We took her home and then went home ourselves. I walked into the lounge and Dad said that I could have the last bit of pizza.

This the second part of my Diary. It is all the same day but different times. Hope you like it! Part Three is coming. Won't  be long! :c)

Production Diary from 24/08/12 to 3/09/12

Here is a video of our new moves with some of the originals as well.

Hello my name is Kaz and this is my production diary. I am in dance with Abbie, Crystal and Jemma. Our song is Stereo Hearts by Gym class heros and featuring Adam Levine

24/08/12 Rehearsing, half an hour since school started.

Dear Diary

Today I was in class and then Abbie came in and asked if she could have me for half an hour. I followed her to the hall and sort of skipped up the steps. I was thinking: “ Holy crab, we are doing our dance here in front of some people. Hope we don’t mess up!”. We waited and watched Hannah, Charlotte, Olivia and Lilly do their dance. They finished their dance, it was so cool. Our turn.

24/08/12 Rehearsing one hour since school started.

Dear Diary

Lovely! Our dance we mucked it up, in front of the whole team. Mrs Hodgson walked us out and took us to her room to practise. We found that it was really... what’s the word? Thats it, boring. We decided to take out a few parts like the half bridge, Chrystal’s flip, Abbie’s walkover, handstand and cartwheel into bridge. We added in heaps of other moves.  


Here is a video of our new moves.


30/08/12 Rehearsing, half an hour since school started.

Dear Diary

I haven’t written in here because I have been too tired to write and there has been
Today we did another whole production practise and Miss Hill’s Itunes had a network problem so it didn’t have the right song that Miss Garland cut. She had to cut it because we didn’t do the rap and the second chorus so we stop at the rap. It was pretty short but we still got clapped for.  We had a lunchtime practise. Everyone who was waiting for their turn was dancing to the dances that were on stage. It was so funny to watch them on the floor doing our dance I couldn’t help giggling half way through. Abbie had tell me off.


3/09/12 Dress Rehearsal ten minutes since school started

Dear Diary

I LOVED IT!! It was so cool how went along it smoothly apart from some people talking and interrupting.  The first show is tonight and I am so excited!!!! =0 =D. Mum has already bought the tickets to tonight’s show. I can’t wait for it. We have to arrive at school at twenty past six at night. I don’t know what else to write. Wait a minute.  One minute later. I know what else to write! We have the lights up in the hall already so when we are dancing the lights are changing colour. I also  found out that we are going to have different coloured hair and eyeshadow. Abbie is purple, Jemma is pink, Crystal is green and I am blue!


We have been so busy with the production we even have a writing diary we can fill out. Here is my one from the 24th of August to the 3rd of September.

Maths problem

This a maths problem that Jake and I did together. The question is 8x36. We had to find different strategies for the problem. Can you think of any more?

The Scary poem!

Here is me and Casey recording our 'Scary Poem' that we did with Mrs Mac and here are the words so you can read along. Hope you enjoy!

There once was a lizard that traveled through a snow blizzard.

He would creep out at night to have a fight while you go to sleep he would go beep like an alarm clock, he will come in and undo lock.

There was a moan outside and groan inside. What will it be? Lets go out and see.

We walked out of the castle and saw his muscle, and he scrambled us like eggs, then he hung us on the washing line by our legs with pegs.

Once we got down he stood there with a frown. His friend behind him was acting like a clown.

The clown was so scary we said: "Oh my god you are so hairy!" The clown was embarrassed and had a fit but the evil lizard hit him and told him he was being a wuss.

The friends went back into the castle when we heard a hustle and bustle within the castles walls. When we turned around we saw a mouse and then he said: "Get out of my house!"

There was a vampire eating garlic we thought this was odd but then he saw us and he jumped up and bit us in the neck but before we died we said: “What the heck?”

My Greek vase!

My Vase

This is my vase I made for the 2012 Olympics and for the hall because of the team five production. I used brown, a gold kinda colour and yellow. My vase had to tell a story from the 2012 Olympics. Here is my story.  Mr Moriarty got the idea from Parkvale Room 5 Kidd-li-Winks's blog.  

Valerie Adams throws the ball and it travels through the air. Then she won silver with her throw. Later on down the track she found out that she actually won gold because the Belarusian cheated.

My Koru art!

2 weeks ago it was Maori Language week. We did koru art and the colours had to be positive and negative or complimentary colours. I chose purple and yellow. 

Here is our success criteria and a pic of a koru from Google Images.

Valerie Adams!

Valerie Adams

Valerie Adams is a gold medal shotput athlete. She is the reigning women's Olympic champion and three-time World champion, two-time Commonwealth and World Indoor champion. She currently holds the New Zealand, Oceanian, Commonwealth and equal World Championship records with a personal best throw of 21.24 metres.

Valerie is one of seven athletes to win World Championships in the youth, junior and senior athletic events. She met Kirsten Hellier in 1998 and this proved to be a turning point in her life. The pair combined for the next 11½ years until their relationship broke up in 2010. In that time Hellier, a former javelin champion, was Adam's’ friend, mentor, adviser and coach.

Valerie was born in Rotorua New Zealand on the 6th of October 1984, to a Tongan mother and an English father (Sydney Adams). She showed potential at several sports, because not only was she exceptionally tall and strong, but she was nimble and athletic as well.


This is my Athlete biograph on Valerie Adams. It has links to Wikipedia about the people underlined. 

The Auckland Mouse and the Hawke's Bay Mouse

The Auckland Mouse and the Hawke’s Bay Mouse

Based on The Town mouse and the Country Mouse
Let me tell you about two mice that one day decided to visit each other.
Once upon a time an Auckland mouse caught a plane to Hawke’s Bay to visit his cousin. Now this mouse had name and it was Lucas. His cousin’s name was Tim.
Luke (short for his real name) had on his new suit he got from the drycleaners, a suitcase with some of his summer clothes and some more suits because Auckland mousey was going to stay in sunny Hawke’s Bay for a week.
Luke set off on his way to The Fruit Bowl Hawke’s Bay via Taupo for a stop. Down in the Bay Tim was preparing his mouse hole for his cousin coming.
He was moving his furniture round and dusting, vacuuming and he was also making Mac and Cheese for tea. He just finished vacuuming before his cousin knocked on the door.
“Hello there Timmy! I haven't seen you in ages!”
“Same here Lucas!” replied Tim. They sat down and Luke explained about his city he lives in and about his job. “My mouse hole is amazing! It is very flash with wall lights and a cheese oven! Maybe your mousehole needs a bit of a spruce up! Come to Auckland with me and you will find out really how to live!”
They set out on their adventure to Auckland! 
“Now this is my mousehole. See, see, see I got my own letterbox! That is FLASH!  Ooh! Mail. Shall we go inside Timmy?”
“Yes we shall! But can we have a look around the outside your mousehole?” replied Tim.
“Ah... Yes we can. Follow me!”
So Tim followed Luke to the back yard. There he saw his garden, trees, maze and spa! (Complete with staff and massages.) Pool, BBQ area and Outside lounge.
“This is all so flash Lukey but how much did this all cost?” complimented Tim.
“Umm well I have a job and I make money because I am 2IC at Shortland Street hospital and I don’t mean to brag but I get hundred dollars a fortnight. So that is how I can get all of this and still pay the bills!!”
After Tim had seen the outside it was time for the inside and for some tea of ‘Luke’s Surprise!’. A special mix of food. “So how did you like the back yard Timmy?”
“It was awesome, but do you have any cattle or sheep? I do in my backyard.”
Lucas hesitated for a minute and then said “Well no but you have because you live on a farm! Dah!”

At last a week flew by and it was time for Tim to go back down to Hawkes Bay and buy some flash stuff for his house but not too flash.
“I’ll miss you Cuz!” says Lucas.
“I will too Lukey. We might have to catch up next month,” replied Tim.

The next month Lucas drove down to Hawke’s Bay and the two caught up again.

Bye.


This is my retelling of The Town Mouse and Country Mouse. I did it at home and did some of it at school. It is based on The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse. This is the New Zealand version. Hope you like it!

Mandy's Garden art!

Our class and Team 4 and 5 went to a production that Years 1 and 2 did called Mandy's Garden. It was about looking after your garden. Then our teacher Mr M said that we could do art on the production.  This is my art that I did. Hope you like it! 

Letter to Vicky M Jones.

Dear Vicky M Jones

Hi, my name is Kazza. (Thats my nickname. My actual name is Katherine.) I am in a digital class and typing a letter to you of your book ‘Buddy’.  A digital class is a normal class but we all have netbooks that are our own. I am 11 years old and going to Parkvale School Hastings New Zealand.

Our class just finished reading your wonderful book ‘Buddy’.
It was very touching and sad. The chapter ‘Going for gold’ was awesome. My favorite part was when Chantal gave Shane a turn down and said that she rather walk to her bike and carry her own bag by herself. When we read that part all the girls were like “Turned down!” It was so funny. I have written a story before last year that we turned into a book.

I love your book and it is very intriguing. If I had to choose what to read I would choose ‘Buddy’.  How do you come up with all these ideas? The book didn’t say what the accident of Buddy (Jake) was. What was it that made him disabled?  Was it that time in Josh’s dream of the swimming pool?

When I was writing my Neelix diary I was thinking up all these great ideas and it turned out to be four pages long. I have now started ‘Neelix Diary 2 Vet visit. NOOOOO!’ and I shared it my whole class because they love him.

My favorite characters are Chantal, Josh and Jake. My favorite chapter is ‘Going for Gold’ because Josh chose his brother over winning and it has a lot of good language and it is very exciting.

Please write more interesting books and please write back.

Yours truly
Kazza Ann Levick and Room 20




This is my Letter to V M Jones about her book 'Buddy'. Read it and make comments. Hopefully she while comment as well.

Interview Reflection.

Reading

My favourite in Reading has been the Q and A for ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time’. (link)

Something I have learnt is some people think that wild deer are pest and want to eradicate them and some people think that we should keep deer for hunting. (link)

My next step is to

Writing

This is my favourite writing (link)

I am proud of my Neelix Diary (link)

I have learnt about..

• Punctuation
• Helping verbs

My next step is to use more punctuation

I like my blog because I like my posts and my posts about neelix get heaps of comments.
This is my favourite post (link) because it is awesome and I have studied Neelix alot.

I like commenting on blogs because the blogger who gets them will want to keep blogging so they can get more comments.
This is my favourite comment (link)

Maths

This is my favourite maths (link)

I am proud of my maths knowledge test reflection. (link)

I have learnt about

• Fractions
• Decimals

Something I find challenging is decimals.

My next step is improper fractions

Art
This is my favourite art (link)

Topic
Something I have liked in our topic learning is making board games with my group Lizard, Stefan and Kharn(link)

P.E. / Fitness
What I like about this is it is fun and you learn new skills.
I like playing these games:

• Corner ball
• Skittle ball

I learn and develop the skills of moving without the ball and catching by playing these games.
Fitness helps me keep fit.

Choir / Kapa Haka
I am loving choir and I can’t wait till Suzanne Prentice.




This is my interview reflection.

Lila and Kazza

By MissMcgooby | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon 

This is another toon I made. It is called Lila and Kazza. Lila is on the left and Kazza is on the right. Lila and Kazza are sisters and do every thing together. And F,Y,I There is no Sapphire Beach hospital in Napier if your'e wondering 'What the?'

Homework Challenge 4

By MissMcgooby | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon 

This is my Toondoo. I did a reflection on these first two terms. 
It has what I was pleased with and something that made me think and what I really enjoyed learning. 

Blog Review on Felicity's blog!! :D

This is my blog review on Flossie's blog. I like it because it has a really cool background and her post are really awesome. It has a lot of awesome post and lots of comments. Here is the link to her blog.

 

Felicity has done really well on her blog with posts. Make heaps of comments and keep looking at her blog! Here is a comment I did on her blog. 

Floss is a cool girl and check out her posts that she puts on.

My Plastic Debate

Dear Hastings District Council,

Don’t you think that there are too many plastic bags floating around Hawke’s Bay? I think that plastic bags should be banned from New Zealand.

Plastic bags are deadly and can get blown away with the wind, causing them to end up in the ocean. Sinking down to the bottom because of getting filled with water. Fish swim around and get caught in them. Causing them to die. Turtles, dolphins, pelicans and penguins too.  

Have you heard of reusable bags? The ones made of fabric. Those are the ones we should use. Every household should have at least ten of them. My mum thinks that we should as well. They save trees and animals.

Why should we use plastic bags? Well we shouldn’t because they don’t break down in a landfill and get stuck on animals and they suffocate to death. I’m only 11 and I know that!

I think that we should ban all plastic bags from New Zealand and keep this country beautiful! Ban plastic bags and make more reusable material bags.

Yours Sincerely Katherine Levick. Parkvale School Hawkes Bay.


This is my plastic persuading. After you read it make a comment and choose what side you're on.

Incredibox.

This is my Incredibox. It is dedicated to Lucy and Sammy. My two other cats. Sam got run over and Lulu died naturally. Here is the link to Create your own and link to see mine. It is called 'Random Pies'