Hi

This term, our class us doing an inquiry about celebrations. We had to pick 5 celebrations from 3 different continents around the world.

I chose the Chinese New Year, Running of the Bulls,Yom Kippur,St Patrick’s day and one that lots of people haven’t heard of – the Sentosa flowers festival, held on Sentosa island just off the coast of Singapore.

I’m just going to tell you some facts about these celebrations.

Chinese New Year

• Chinese New Year lasts for 15 days.

• The purpose is to celebrate the start of a new lunar year

• Was called the spring festival hundreds of years ago

Foods

• Bamboo shoots – wealth
  
• Black moss seaweed – wealth
• Dried Bean Curd – happiness (note: fresh tofu is not served because the color white symbolizes death and misfortune in Chinese culture).
• Chicken – happiness and marriage (especially when served with “dragon foods,” such as lobster. Family reunion (if served whole)
• Eggs – fertility
• Egg Rolls – wealth
• Fish served whole – prosperity
• Chinese garlic chives – everlasting, a long life
• Lychee nuts – close family ties
• Noodles – A long life
• Oranges – wealth
• Peanuts – a long life
• Pomelo – abundance, prosperity, having children
• Seeds – lotus seeds, watermelon seeds, etc. – having a large number of children
• Tangerines – luck

Running of the bulls

• Also called the San Fermin

• Officially begins on 7Th of July every year

• Held in Spain, Portugal, some cities in Mexico and southern France

• The run is 825 metres and takes about 3 mins

Yom Kippur

• One of the holiest days for the Jewish people

• During Yom Kippur Jews fast for 25 hours

• Fasting means that no one cannot eat or drink for 25 hours

• Children under the age of 13 and people who are ill do not have to fast

St Patrick’s day

National holiday in Ireland

When?

24 Jan to 1 Feb

Hope you liked it.

See you

Last week on the Saturday I went to cricket.

When my dad and I got there we took the gear bag out of the car and went into the oval that our school team was playing at.

Next we took the gear out of the bag and put it on the ground ready for the other team members to be padded up.

Our openers were Kyle and Chris.

Chris, Jeremy and Callum all got out on the first ball because there was a really quick bowler.

I went in next and I got 29 then I retired.

Later I came back in again and got  7 more runs in one over.

We scored 119 runs off 20 overs

Kyle: 3 runs

Chris: 0 runs

Callum: 0 runs

Jeremy: 0 runs

Jacob ( me ) 36 runs

Jesse: 6 runs

Ryan: 4 runs

Damian: 28 runs

Orlando: 8 runs

There were 4 byes, 27 wides and 3 no balls

Next we bowled. I was wicket keeping for 10 overs and then I would swap with Ryan.

Chris: 0 wickets

Callum:2 wickets

Ryan: 0 wickets

Jesse: 0 wickets

Damian: 0 wickets

Jeremy: 0 wickets

Jacob: 0 wickets

Kyle: 3 wickets

Orlando: 0 wickets

The other team scored 106 runs

6 byes, 10 wides and 4 no balls

We won  119 runs to 106runs

What sports do you play?

See you

Hi

I found some Maori words that I thought I should share with you.

Maori is the  language of the original people of New Zealand.

So here they are!!!!!

A is pronounced as in “rather”
E is pronounced as in “ten”
I is pronounced as in the “ee” in “seen”
O is pronounced as in the “oa” in “board”
U is pronounced as in the “oo” in “bloom”

Maori- Pakeha

Tena koutou – Hello ( formal to many people )

Tena koe- Hello ( formal to one person )

Kia ora- Hello (informal )

Kia ora koutou- ( informal to a large group )

Haere mai- Welcome

Haere ra- Farewell

Ka pai – Good or well done

Ka pai nur- Very good or very well done

Numbers 1-10

Tah- One

Rua- Two

Tora- Three

Wha- Four

Rima- Five

Onu- Six

Whitu- Seven

Wahu- Eight

Iwa- Nine

Tekau- Ten

E noho- Sit down

E tu- Stand up

Whakarogo mai- Listen to me

T. tiro mai-  Look at me

Turi turi- Shh!

Kia ora tamatiki ma- Hello children

Ke te pehea koe?- How are you feeling?

Ke te………….- I am……………..

Pai- Fine

Koa-Happy

Ngenge-Tired

Porangi- Crazy

Werawera- Hot and Sweaty

Mata kai- Hungry

Mate- Sick

I got these words from Mr Breech when he came over with a school choir from New Zealand.

Hoped you liked them.

See you

Hi

Here are some papertoys that I really like!

Easter Island statues

Moorish idol aquarium

Cow

Mouse

Wild boar

Orca whale

Port

Roller coaster

Dragon

Triceratops

jaguar xhr

Lesser panda mask

Mississippi queen riverboat

Zebra

These are some of my favorite paper models.

Perhaps you should try them.

See you

Hi

This is a funny video I came across when I was looking at youtube.

This video is from the harry potter puppet pal website.

Hoped you liked it !!!!!!

Hi

Here is a video of Wave, a wild bottlenose dolphin in the Port river.

This video goes for 11 seconds ( not long )

Hi

As part of the blogging challenge I have to write about my favorite holiday and why.

My favorite holiday that I have been on is going to Singapore.I and my family went two years ago on a Qantas plane. We were there for one week.My favorite attraction was the butterfly museum and the zoo because they had a lot of different animals, bugs, fish etc, To look at!!

Here is some pictures of my holiday.

Hi

This is a glog I made on edu.glogster.com.

Its about Dolphins.

Hi

Two days ago, we had a program from the CSIRO about Chemistry.

When we got to the  activity room the instructor was talking about chemistry and how it interacts with our lives.

First the instructor showed us how to do the experiments.

Then we went and did the experiments.

I was doing the experiments with my friend Daniel.

The experiments were Metals and their reaction,Concentration does matter,Solutions, Neutralising an acid using a base, Hydrogen, Electrolytes and using precipitation tests.

They were all interesting but my favorite was Solutions. I learnt that warm water dissolves chemicals faster than cold water.

See you

Picture from http://cawcr.gov.au/bmrc/wefor/research/twpice/logos/CSIRO_Logo_2.jpg

Hi

5 days ago the three year 6-7’s classes went to El shaddi for a school camp It was near Wellington.

We went there for three days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

They had earth ball, screen printing, orienteering, initiatives, rock climbing, vertical climbing, archery, giant swing, canoeing, fishing,raft making and lots of free time activities like……… pool tables, ping pong, air hockey, tarzan swing, flying fox,trampolines and a moving platform.

When we got there, we got our things off the bus and went to our dorms to set up for two nights.

Later we got a tour of the campsite.

Then we went to our first activity was earth ball (its a giant air filled ball that you roll around).Next we went to screen printing we used ink and scraped it on to and screen so that it printed the picture on the the bag.After we went to orienteering but it was to wet so we did some indoor activities instead we played trying to get the tennis ball through the goals.After we went to initiatives it was building team skills.Then we had free time I played three games of pool against my friend.

For dinner we had meatballs,rice and veggies it was very yummy.

 Desert was chocolate moose.
After that we went to the gym to play some games andwatch a magician do some tricks.

We then we to bed at 10:30

DAY 2

Today we got up and had breakfast cereal and toast. It was yummy!!!!!!!Then we went to vertical climbing, we then had to put a harness on and climb up a vertical ladder as fast as we could.Then we went over to the other side of the gym and stacked milk carton crates on top of each other to get the other person up to touch the top of the support beam.

Then we had morning tea we had muffins.

Next we went to Rock climbing we had to put another harness on and I did 4 out of 5 of the climbing walls.There were two easy ones two immediate ones and one hard one

Then we had lunch we had nachos they were really really really really tasty.

After that we went to archery the instructor showed us the parts of the bow, how to nock and arrow on the bow and how to shoot arrows and flu flu’s.I got two bulls eyes!!!!!I also beat the instructors flu flu.

Then we had afternoon tea it was Cake( yummy!!!)

 After that we went to the giant swing but we didn’t do it because there was thunder and lightning.We played some other games indoors instead.

Then we went to the dining hall for dinner we had chicken pasta and for desert we had apricot pie and custard.

After that we went to the gym to play some games and

Then we went to sleep.

DAY 3

Today I got up and went to breakfast it was cereal and toast.

Then we went to our dorms to pack up.Next we went to the meeting hall to play some games instead of the fishing and the raft making.After we went to the murray river to do some canoeing.James and I were in the canoe together.We went up the murrey for a while and then we came back.When we got back we had lunch and went on the bus back to the school and then we got picked up by our parents.

 Where did you go for school camp?

Seeyou

Here are some pictures of camp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!