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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

My Fotobabble Autumn poem

In Autumn

The fallen leaves crunching

under foot

The trees slowly changing colour,

turning brown, gold, yellow and red.

The cold breeze

freezing you like the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.

The temperature is changing, getting colder and colder.

The air outside is cool

and you can smell smoke coming from chimneys nearby.

Katherine Levick

11 years

WALT: observe and include specific details in our writing SUCCESS CRITERIA	SELF ASSESSMENT
Includes four nouns (from observation)	:)
Made the nouns do something	:)
Started each new description on a new line	:)
Extended each line so it makes more sense (may include a who, where, why, what, when).	:) :)

This is my Autumn poem. The draft I typed up is there for you to read along.

Neelix's Diary! 'Meow!'

3/04/12 Tuesday 9:30 am

Dear Diary
OMG! No food, that sucks. Cows! Bird it is then. Oh damn it that black and white cat is out again! Time to show him a piece of my mind.

3/04/12 Tuesday 12:20 pm

Dear Diary
After my bird breakfast I found a mouse. Well I took it home and the man was outside and I went under the kid’s tramp and the damn mouse was still alive and jumping away. We were playing Tag!

4/04/12 Wednesday 1:30 am

Dear Diary
I can’t sleep, it is too HOT with the people on each side of me. I woke up and went to the kitchen to eat and then to the bathroom to get a sip of water. After that outside to cool off. I am now cold, I am going back inside to warm up.

4/04/12 Wednesday 5:30 pm

Dear Diary
My dinner wasn’t that awesome really. It was tuna and bad tuna but I don’t think it will come back up in a hurry because I went outside and ate some grass. Then I was bored so I started writing in this.

5/04/12 Thursday 8:00 am

Dear Diary
FISH AND CHIPS NIGHT! MY FAVORITE THING!!

5/04/12 Thursday 7:00 pm

Dear Diary
It is 7:00 and the man hasn’t got off his computer and gone to get dinner. Now he does. “Fish for me!” said Kazzie “same here!” yelled the woman. And for me is the same every week fish from Kazzie. Well not always.

6/04/12 Friday 7:00 am

Dear Diary
I am excited about today because Kazzie’s school holidays start today which means for me more sleeps on her bed. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m going to bed.

7/04/12 Saturday 9:05

Dear Diary
Kazzie tried to dress me in her doll’s clothes and they didn’t fit me. I wasn’t happy! But I did like one dress she put on me that fitted. Then Kazzie let me go and got her doll Amy out in her slide in slide out bed. Dressed her up and then got dressed herself and went to work. I don’t know why an 11 year old girl would have job!


20/04/12 Friday

Dear Diary

I haven’t written in this for a long time because I haven’t had anything to write about.  So today I am over the road in the orchard just chillin and then the orchard people come and disturbed me. IDIOTS! This will be last day of entries. :’(  So I am going to make this day interesting!!


29/04/12 Sunday 6:02 pm

Dear Diary
I’m starving! I just came in the cat flap and looked at my bikki bowl and ‘YES!’ still some left. I am so hungry!! Kazza is coming and going into the cupboard and ‘YAY!!’ my treats and I’m gonna do tricks like come and up.


7/05/2012 Monday 5:36 pm

Dear Diary
‘ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ’ I am asleep on mum and dad’s bed. Soooooooooooo comfy!!!
Kazza is coming got to go! this is my last few hours of my diary today. Bye!
7/05/2012 Monday 7:48 pm

Dear Diary
So I am outside in the cold in the orchard watching the night sky. The moon is awesome, it looks like a big ball of swiss cheese! I mean it like literally does! I wonder what the owners of me are doing right now. I know that Dad is on the computer and that Kazza is reading a book about the human body. Did you know that there are 27 bones in the human hand? And that the human tongue has four taste buds? There are sour on the left and right side and bitter at the back and sweet and salty at the front. Any way back to me I am back home and I licked some bowls clean and had a drink of water and now on Dad’s seat.  My Diary is now finished and that is it for this month and a bit. 

There will be more five days before my birthday and onwards. In November.


Neelix!


This is my Neelix Diary.   Hope you like it and make comments!

How not to dress for an 80's party!

How not to dress for an 80’s party.  
I am here to tell you how not to dress for an 80’s party. First you don't dress as Michael Jackson crossed with a bird because you will probably look like a FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!  


So don't dress like Lady Gaga gone wrong. No spastic hairdos like an Afro or a Michael Jackson style. If there is dancing don't dance like an dork or you will look like a dork. A party is a public thing not a home thing. By the way you do not and I mean DO NOT put FAKE feathers on to look like a bird, a dorky bird that is.

Thanks for reading and please take all this info in and DON’T dress like a dork if you are invited to an 80’s party.                                                                                                         Don't dress like this!

This is my How not to dress for an 80's party writing. It is really cool and please take in some info! I wrote it on Google docs.

Tasting Sweet Summer.

Summer!  

Do you remember tasting summer?  

I do!!   

Swimming with your best friend and getting sore from swimming? That was summer.  

Stepping on to the hot sand with shoes on and it coming into your shoes and burning? That was summer.

Lying on the soft green grass and getting dead grass on your shirt and your arms and legs itching from the grass? That was summer.

When you were climbing your favourite tree and the wind made your hair turn into a whirlpool? That was summer.

Do you remember sitting on the couch eating an ice cream and chocolate making a puddle in your lap?  

That was summer.   

Going to Camp Kaitawa and wanting to jump into Lake Waikaremoana!  

That was summer!  

This is my tasting sweet summer poem. I have based it on my own ideas and some of my best friend Paige's. (Here is the link to her blog.)

More from Neelix. Neelix and the monarch butterfly.

“Where’s the camera Mum?” I asked her. I asked for the camera because I put a dandelion on Neelix’s ear. BUT when I got back he had shaken the flower off and had pounced on a monarch butterfly. I picked Neelix up and said to him.

”What did you do you mean kitty cat? You killed an innocent butterfly!!!” I took a video of him anyway. “This is Neelix. The mean cat that did this!” I swung the camera around onto the butterfly. “You are a mean puddy cat Neelix. Mean mean mean!”

Then I put the camera on him and asked questions. “Would you call yourself a murderer?” Then he flicked his tail at me and at the camera and got fur all over the lens and lay down by the fence.

I wiped the fur off on my shorts. Neelix had got up and left and I got a picture of him racing across the road. “Stupid kitty cat!!” I yelled out to him. I got the opportunity to get a video and a couple of photos.

My cat Neelix!! :D

Naughty Neelix. How do you do it? Sleep all day and out all night!  

Everyday you are either at home sleeping on your chair or in your nest of weeds, sleeping in the neighbour's garden or in the orchard catching birds!

Ears back, tail up, about to pounce, BONG! Got the birdie.
Loopy and lovable. Like a sloth sleeping, sleeping and more sleeping.

I don't get it!
Xtraordinary, very blonde.  

NEELIX!!!!

This is my poem called Neelix. It is an acrostic poem about my cat.

3D shapes

This is my 3D shape. It is a hexagonal prism. 

It has nine faces,  eighteen edges and twelve vertices.
It is put together with only tape. I got this net from Adrian Bruce website.

My Avatar

                                                   It is important to have an avatar because it is safe, because then people can't copy your photo.  
I made this avatar on South park studio.