Nick+J

Hi my name is Nick i am in year 5. I am really good at reading writing and Art. I like to read geronimo stilton and Micheal Morpurgo.This year i turn ten on the 10 of august. After school i like to play on my psp and on my trampoline. My favourite things are computers and tv when i grow up i want to be a author. I have a cat called schooby doo

=**// My holiday in september (term 4) //**=
 * //One day Maui’s brothers went to go fishing. They said that Maui wasn’t allowed to come but Maui disobeyed his brothers and//**
 * //hopped//** **//in the bottom of the boat. When Maui’s brothers got to their fishing spot Maui showed himself but they could not//**
 * //get back to//**
 * //shore to drop Maui off because Maui made use of his special powers and made the shore always look so far away. Then he//**
 * //dropped his magic hook down and a minute later he felt a huge tug on the end too big for a normal fish. He asked his//**
 * //brothers for assistance. After a few heart renching tugs they had fished up the north island his brothers were fighting//**
 * //about who was going to keep the fish and they got out there guns and started to fight for it. The gun shots made the//**
 * //mountains on the north island and south island is said to be the waka and the Stewart island is said to be the waka’s anchor.//**
 * //In the holidays i went to Matamata piako gliding club with my mum. when we got there we played on the playground until the person who had the keys arived then we were greated to our cabin. We unpacked the car and went into Matamata to do some shoping then we went to cook dinner. The next day we went to the museum and the waiere falls the whole time was so cool.//**





this week room7 are going to be going on a EOTC week (education outside the classroom). __Monday - Orakei Marae__

On monday we went to orakei marae. When we got there we had morning tea then went inside the marae for a maori greeting. When we were seated the leaders sang us a song then we sang our song that we had prepaired earlier.Then the leader told us bit about the marae. After that we split ourselves up into girls and boys.All the boys went to do a haka and the girls did a poi dance finaly we had lunch I WAS STARVING!!! we all had a little play then eventualy went inside the marae to perform our hakas and poi dances.after that it was time to jump on the bus and head back to school. the end (of that day)

__Tuesday - Orienteering at Waiaturua park__ on tuesday room 7 walked to waiaturua park to do orienteering in the morning we started to walk up the road to the park when we got there everyone had some morning tea then a little play on the playground. Then we were given a map and a little piece of paper we were told that we had to find the marked locations on the map and when were there there is markers with a clip that we clip on to the paper and it marks the paper. once everyone had finished we sat down and had lunch we were exhuasted. after that we all walked back to school and relaxed.

__Wednesday - Tree Adventures__ On wednesday room 7 went to tree adventures in Woodhill on the bus.In the morning the bus left around nine and we got there around ten it was such a long ride but it was all worth it when we saw the courses that we were going to do that day. When we where all there we got harnesed up and started to do the courses we had something to eat around the middle of the time we had there. When we had completed the rest of the courses we stared to pack and start the long journey home.

__Thursday - aquatic centre__ on thursday room 7 went to mt albert aquatic centre on the bus .in the morning we got on the bus set off to the pool when we got there everyone raced to the hydroslide and some jumped into the pool we had great fun on the way back everyone was so tired

overall i rate this week an amazing TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i loved the week and i think everyone else loved it aswell.

GARDEN TO TABLE this year we have been taking part in a garden to table program last week we made some squash and cucumber dishes that was really yummy i hope some time this year to make chocolate brownies.

Click here to ready my fantastic explanation about hurricanes: click here to see what we wrote about christchurch:

this is what a showed at assembly last term



this year we have done a range of different styles of art and are very proud of our work and our teachers for helping us acheive this.



This term our topic has been creativity and we have all made masks. Today we did a dance that our lovely teachers had helped us with.



My mask is very colourful. Our class chose a very hard myth to show it was Pandoras Box(I was Epimetheus). On my mask i have a gold and silver background colour and three horns sticking out of the top. The horns have been wrapped in a piece of string with arranged coloured feathers on it. I have got big round eyes and a smiley mouth and more feathers spiraling down from one side.

In my first dance Nina and I tried to show that we are cheeky and Zeus is trying to show that he is angry at us. In my other dance Bridgit and I try to show our curiosity about the contents of the box.

When we did our dance I was very nervous but i was not going to give up now. We had to work so hard for this but it all went well. Turns out Nina and Hunter (Zeus) wern't even there every one elses dance was great. I really liked room 9s dance because they had music where as other clases used claping, singing, nothing or speaking.I found it challenging while making our masks beacause we were not allowed to use symbols.



(the story from myths and legends website)

Pandoras Box Has your curiosity ever got you into trouble? Have you ever been so desperate to know a secret that you took no notice of a warning? All through history there are stories of people being told not to open doors, caskets, cupboards, gates and all sorts of other things and, in so many of the stories, the people just did not listen. One person who did not listen was Pandora. Her story comes from Ancient Greece and her curiosity brought a whole heap of trouble!

In ancient Greece there were two brothers named Epimetheus and Prometheus. They upset the gods and annoyed the most powerful of all Gods, Zeus, in particular. This was not the first time humans had upset Zeus, and once before, as punishment, he had taken from humans the ability to make fire. This meant they could no longer cook their meat and could not keep themselves warm.

However, Prometheus was clever and he knew that, on the Isle of Lemnos, lived Hephaestos, the blacksmith. He had a fire burning to keep his forge hot. Prometheus travelled to Lemnos and stole fire from the blacksmith. Zeus was furious and decided that humans had to be punished once and for all for their lack of respect.

Zeus came up with a very cunning plan to punish the two brothers. With the help of Hephaestos, he created a woman from clay. The goddess Athene then breathed life into the clay, Aphrodite made her very beautiful and Hermes taught her how to be both charming and deceitful. Zeus called her Pandora and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus.

His brother Prometheus had warned him not to accept any gifts from the gods but Epimetheus was completely charmed by the woman and thought Pandora was so beautiful that she could never cause any harm, so he agreed to marry her.

Zeus, pleased that his trap was working, gave Pandora a wedding gift of a beautiful box. There was one very, very important condition however, that she must never opened the box. Pandora was very curious about the contents of the box but she had promised that she would never open it.

All she could think about was; what could be in the box? She could not understand why someone would send her a box if she could not see what was in it. It seemed to make no sense at all to her and she could think of nothing else but of opening the box and unlocking its secrets. This was just what Zeus had planned.

Finally, Pandora could stand it no longer. When she knew Epimetheus was out of sight, she crept up to the box, took the huge key off the high shelf, fitted it carefully into the lock and turned it. But, at the last moment, she felt a pang of guilt, imagined how angry her husband would be and quickly locked the box again without opening the lid and put the key back where she had found it. Three more times she did this until, at last, she knew she had to look inside or she would go completely mad!

She took the key, slid it into the lock and turned it. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and slowly lifted the lid of the box. She opened her eyes and looked into the box, expecting to see fine silks, gowns or gold bracelets and necklaces or even piles of gold coins.

But there was no gleam of gold or treasure. There were no shining bracelets and not one beautiful dress! The look of excitement on her face quickly turned to one of disappointment and then horror. For Zeus had packed the box full of all the terrible evils he could think of. Out of the box poured disease and poverty. Out came misery, out came death, out came sadness - all shaped like tiny buzzing moths.

The creatures stung Pandora over and over again and she slammed the lid shut. Epimetheus ran into the room to see why she was crying in pain. Pandora could still hear a voice calling to her from the box, pleading with her to be let out. Epimetheus agreed that nothing inside the box could be worse than the horrors that had already been released, so they opened the lid once more.

All that remained in the box was Hope. It fluttered from the box like a beautiful dragonfly, touching the wounds created by the evil creatures, and healing them. Even though Pandora had released pain and suffering on the world, she had also allowed Hope to follow them. This is my photo of my art

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= = (as told by our friend Steve Wallace) For those interested I was in Orlando,Florida a couple of weeks ago and took time to visit the Kennedy Space Centreand see Atlantis sitting on the pad ready for the last ever space shuttle launch this coming Friday (US time). Shame I couldn’t stay another couple of weeks and watch. Some interesting facts I picked up during theguided tour: The shuttle engines consume 1.8 millionlitres of liquid fuel in 8.5 minutes during a launch. The solid rocket boosters consume fuel at arate of 10 tons a second each, for two minutes. The shuttle accelerates from 0 to 25,000km/hr during the launch. This subjects the astronauts to 3G’s of acceleration for 8.5minutes (that’s the bottom of a glider loop for over 8 minutes!) A shuttle launch produces 162 decibels ofacoustic energy. The shuttle is only designed to withstand 145 decibels. Toremedy this, 400,000 gallons of water is poured onto the launch pad momentsbefore launch. This is immediately vaporised at launch and in doing so the acousticreflections are reduced to 142 decibels (note for those of you who don’t knowthe decibel scale every 3dB represents approx a doubling in power/loudness). Within 800’ of a launch the acoustic energywill kill you if the heat doesn’t fry you. A launch can be heard from 1,100 miles away. The closest they let you view a launch from is 10 miles. The heat on your face is meant to be most impressive. On the launch pad the shuttle leans forwardand then swings back as its engines come to full power. This is known as thetwang. The shuttle is held on the launch pad bylarge ‘explosive bolts’ as the engines and solid rocket boosters come to fullpower. If it wasn’t the shuttle would launch and fall over (took NASA a whileto learn this one, they show some nice footage of rocket launch failures fromthe ‘early days’).

As you would all know this year is the rugby world cup This is some information about the All Blacks





=== Snowing in Auckland surely not we havent had snow in ages. Yes it is true on Monday 15th of August my mum was sitting at her desk when a blanket of light snow covered the city. Before the snow there was hail.When i got home our barbaque had moved about a metre. === I like to learn