Mars no fear of no return

This is my pretend writing about me going to Mars. Enjoy!

MARS  NO  FEAR  OF  NO  RETURN!

It’s finally the day. The day I will never forget. The day my parents won’t forget. The day my friends, my family and the world won't forget. The day that will have a permanent place in history! The Day, me and the team go to Mars. Today we are astronauts, then in 7 months  we are heroes. The First Humans on Mars. Possibly even the first life on Mars? Just us four. Sam, Jason, Kim and I.

We were doing our final goodbyes. Mum and Dad were bawling their eyes out as I walk away for the last time. As I walk up to the ship I stopped. I turned around and took one last long look at the world. I looked at Mum and Dad as they waved goodbye. They have stopped crying but I could tell they were only just holding it in. I waved and they waved back. I turned around and walked up the ramp and into the ship. I have a huge lump in my throat as I look out the window and see Mum and Dad crying again. Jason puts his hand on my back. “It’ll be ok kid, you’ll see,” he says. “There’s nothing to worry about”.

Then the twins walked in. Kim was crying and Sam was rolling his eyes while patting Kim on the back. “She’s been crying all morning” he says as they both slump into their seats “She finally realised what a  big difference going to Mars will be”.

“It’s just so saaaaad!” Kim sobbed as Jason and I started doing the last checks on the rocket. “Ok guys look’s good,” Jason says as he gives a thumb up to mission control “lets fire it up”. “OK READY FOR IGNITION” says Jack the mission control guy.

“Ohh my gosh, can you just get it over with before Kim floods the ship!” Sam yells into the mic. “OK,OK. DON’T GET YA NICKA’S IN TWIST” Jack snaps back “10, 9, 8”.

“Come on!” we all yell.

“321 GO!” he yells back. Suddenly the rocket jolts forward and we lift off the ground. “AAAHHHH!!!” We all scream as we shot through the atmosphere. The fuel tank fell off. and we floated aimlessly towards Mars.

To be continued... dun dun dun!

My mid year reflection

My mid year reflection

I enjoyed the Young Leader mud run at the army assault course because it was lots of fun. I found it sort of challenging crawling under the cargo net.

I have enjoyed all the different types of writing we have done because I really like writing

I have had lots of fun making a movie with the other Digi

Leaders.

My favorite blog post this year has been coke bottle because I really enjoyed writing it.

I like doing genius hour because I get to research whatever I want.

Something I enjoyed and found challenging was Flax Rock

because it was hard at first but eventually I got the hang of it.

Something I enjoy doing is playing net ball dodge ball at fitness.

My favorite school trip this year was the waka ride.

I have really liked reading our class book Wonder because it is very interesting and exciting.

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Genius hour #1: How does a disc work?

This term I am doing my genius hour on technology. My first question was how do discs work? This is what I found out.

Holt Plantetarium

HOLT PLANETARIUM VISIT  

Monday 16 June 2014

Something I enjoyed was the dome room, because I like how we could see all the stars.     

Something I found interesting was black holes, because I was wanting to learn more about them this term.

The most exciting thing about space is the different planets, because I like all the different forms, colors and patterns.

I would like to learn more about Mars.

“How do stars in the universe have an impact impact on us?”

I want the rest of my inquiry topic to be about: Milky Way

Questions:

• What are the names of other planets out there?
• What are the names of some of the other earth like planets?
• How long would it take to get to these planets?
• Is it true that the center of the milky way is a black hole?
• How many planets have been found so far?
• How bright is the average star?

Bravery story: Optimist Yachting

As some of you might know we have been reading Wonder as our class book. This writing was inspired by the precept "Fortune favours the bold."

We’d just arrived at Pandora pond ready for some fun. My friends and I are all jittery with fright and excitement! Everyone walks down to the stones and wait for instructions. Mr M started calling out names to hop in the boats. I was finally called and paired up with my classmate Crighton we jump in a boat and seat of into the windy water.

The wind was really strong and it was really hard to keep strait. Especially when you're crashing into people every five seconds. we were going really fast and had to lean to the side every once in a while to keep the boat from capsizing.

Suddenly the boat lunged to the side and the boat filled with water luckily the buoyancy tanks were there to keep us afloat. We keep filling our buckets with water and tipping over board.

Then the boat did it again it leaned to right and we lean to the left. It was practically side ways.

The sail swung round and smacked me in the head. My hat fell off and landed in the boat. It was soaked. the boat was still full of water and every time I was almost done the tipped to the side! I was sick of it!

Crighton and I decided to back to shore so I pulled on the rope and he turned the rudder and we turned back to shore. But the wind was letting us get out of it that easy it swung us around in every which direction. But we were able to push through the wind and make it safely back to shore.

Why is the moon upside down?

This week we have read the book called Why is the moon upside down. We had to find some interesting words and explain what they meant. Here's what I've done...

Author: Trish Puharich

Word (and page number)	Sentence in the text	Meaning in my own words
Equator P.g 5 Hemisphere P.g 5 Marama P.g 4 Taha P.g 4 kohanga P.g 1	no sentence in science we’ve been talking about The northern and southern hemisphere After a While Marama went behind a cloud Rona got a taha and went to the river to get some water for her children. Niko and I had known each other since we were in kohanga	It’s like the diameter of a sphere The northern and southern hemispheres our to parts of the earth separated by the equator The Moon A container made from a gourd Like a nest for children

Here a link to the web site with some photos and videos about the book.

My Park

This is my Park I designed for home work. It's called Awesome Park. Because it's Awesome.
I put all sorts of things like rugby fields, a pound and even a splash pad. We had to add measurement like area and perimeter.

The Miami Cheat are going DOWN!

Today the Pacers are going to smash the Cheat. 1. Because their better  2. The cheat, cheat  3. The Cheat just shouldn't win.

P.s  Traylan is going crazy supporting the Cheat he should just switch over now.

North Head

This is my holiday recount called North Head.

WALT use different sentence starters

I know can do this when:

• My sentences start with different words
• Capital letters to start sentences and for proper nouns
• Some short, sharp sentences

KEY WORDS: North Head, Auckland, Picnic.  

We have just arrived at the North Head car park for a picnic dinner. North head is an old army base by the beach in Auckland. Me and my family slowly trudged through the thick mud with are picnic gear. Finally we reach our picnic spot. Its an old cannon shelter facing right out to sea. My brother, my baby cousin and I go and play with a ball while my uncle and auntie get dinner ready. When I wasn’t watching my brother gave the ball a big kick and knocks over the water jug. The jug cracks and starts to leak. Without thinking I run over to the jug and put my hand on the crack. What I didn’t know was that the jug was full of HOT WATER! “OUCH!” I said as I quickly put the jug down and shook my hand. My hand wasn’t burnt but it was still really hot.

For dinner we had bacon, sauseges and hamburgers. It was sort of an easy tea considering we only had a small gas cooker. We watched the boats from the Auckland harbour go past and played with the ball some more while we were waiting for the adults to finish.

After dinner we my uncle took us kids to see some of the other cannon shelter. Meanwhile my mum and auntie packed up the picnic. Then trudged back up the muddy hill. We explored a couple of underground tunnels were the soldiers stored their guns and cannons. The tunnels echoed with every foot step.Me and my brother walked through the tunnel making disstant cannon noises with are feet. We explored the tunnels some more before returning to the car. Then we drove home for dessert.

Space home work

For homework we had to find out some facts about space using these web sites

Here is a link to all these sites and more

This is my home work. Double click it to add your own ideas!

Created with Padlet

Are Aliens real? answer: NO!

I'm now going to persuade you that aliens are fake.

Why are aliens real? Do you have proof? Has anyone seen an actual alien? Have you ever thought that crop circles are just farmers playing with their lawn mowers? Well I’m to tell you aliens are not real!

UFO? or Cloud?

Ever since the first alien movie came out everyone has said they spotted aliens in flying saucers and stuff like that. So what if you saw a disk shape?  Doesn't mean aliens are real. How do you know they were made by aliens? They could be clouds! I’m just trying to make a point here if aliens were real why haven't we found any yet the only evidence is flying saucers aka UFO’s but as I said there is no such thing.

Alien abduction? Yeah right!

Ok so you say you were abducted by aliens. I would totally believe you... If it was true. Even if aliens were real I’m sure they have better things to do then poking at human brains or abducting cows. Seriously you know that I’m right about this one. Come on, how could you still believe in all that alien talk about ET and Martians! They DON’T EXIST.

So you're saw an alien shaped rock.... And what?

You were going for a late night stroll. Saw a rubbish bin. Thought it was an alien. Theeen freaked and told everyone you saw Chewbacca in the alley way. Maybe next time you should check if it's actually an alien not just a bin. I mean really how many times has some seen a blanket and thought it was monster. And none of us believe in monsters. Just face it aliens are just made up creatures from books and movies!

Now do you believe me

Well I’m sure we all believe aliens exist (NOT!). You should all now know that aliens are FAKE! If you still believe that all that alien mumbo jumbo is real then you're still wrong. Aliens are like Bigfoot and fairies and as I said before monsters! Fake, fake and FAKE! So, now do you believe in aliens?? Hope not.

Walt Build Our Vocab

We are learning to build our vocabulary. My group has been reading a book called Extraterrestrial (ET) Search. We had to find words we did not know the meaning of and write them in the table below. these are my words.

Text: Extraterrestrial (ET) Search                                               Author:Sharon Parsons

Word (and page number)	Sentence in the text	Meaning in my own words
Extraterrestrial (pg.1) Cosmonaut (pg. 7) Aeronautics (pg. 12) Astronomy (pg. 15) Astrobiology (pg. 16) exoplanet (pg. 18) Protoplanetary Disks (22) Extremophiles (pg. 24)	Avatar is a science fiction movie about extraterrestrial on the fictional plant of pandora. ...Russia calls their space explorers cosmonauts but the usa call them astronauts The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Nasa) ...Astronomers believe there are... ...Astrobiology institute in the USA. Every exoplanet that has been discovered... ...fast swirling dust and gas clouds called Protoplanetary Disks Extremophiles are single-celled organisms called microbes...	being from another planet Astronaut Studying or practicing flight Someone who studies space Astrobiology is when  you investigate the probability of life somewhere else in the universe planets that orbit stars, like the sun, outside the solar system swirling dust and gas clouds creatures that live in extremely hot conditions

This is the Book.