I come from England. I lived in a town called Bideford. I am 7 and turning 8 on the 29th of February.
My favourite colour is violet and my favourite teacher is Mr B.
My favourite colour is violet and my favourite teacher is Mr B.
1. to improve at writing
2. to get better at maths
3. to improve my spelling
MARCH 2
TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL
 Rock climbing |
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| My sister |
This is my sister and the rock climbing
We have the Turangawaewae multicultural festival because our school has people from all over the world that get taught here in Parklands. We also have it to raise money for our school.
There were lots of activities there. There were magnetic fish, a bouncy castle, rock climbing and a game
where you have to hit a ball and try to land on the $20 dollars. I enjoyed the rock climbing. You had to bring a gold donation too.
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| Luisa with her funky dress from Tuvalu |
BOOK WEEK
BOOK WEEK BY RIA AND ALEXA on PhotoPeachWe have book week because we want to get kids into reading. Becky arranged it. During the week we had drop everything and read (D.E.A.R). My Mum came and read to us. So did Elise. We had to to book reviews and I did Ingo by Helen Dunmore. We had a parade around town on Friday and we all got to wear mufti. All too soon it was over. By Ria
Room 3 and 4's trip to Lake Rotoiti
Room 3 and 4 went to a big lake called Lake Rotoiti. The bus trip was horrible,smelly and absolutely disgusting. I'm not blaming the poor boys that was sick, but I have to say they were all at the back and it was a bit silly to be at the back when you can be sick in the car. 2 boys were sick and 1 felt sick and told the bus driver to pull over. Poor bus driver having to clean up all the sick. When we got there everyone was longing to get out and get fresh air. Ahhh fresh air at last."I thought. A girl called Peta who is from the visitors center was waiting for us and interdused herself to us all. We went a little into the woods and stopped walking to listen to Peta. After a little while looking at the sign we moved to another sign and talked about the honey dew walk. Honey dew is poo and wee , it's from scale insects and it's the cleanest poo i've ever seen. Peta told us that wasps eat honey dew and so do birds so wasps are bad. The honey dew is stuck on a thread witch is stuck to a tree. Some people tried it and apparently it tasted like honey,that explains it, thats why its called honey dew probably. We had lunch and poor me was in tears because I lost my lunch box lid in the water. We all walked over to the visitor center and watched a video about eels. The bus drive home was alot better than the first. I'm sure we all had a good time.  |
| Lake Rotoiti |
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| Ducks at Lake Rotoiti |
DAVID GAWITHS TRIP TO US [Room 3 and 4.]
On Tuesday the 12th of June David came to talk to us about his trip to Antarctica and Nepal. David is a water scientist but he talked to us about a lot of the issues in Antarctica. One was climate change. In the winter the ice grows and in the summer the ice melts.
Another issue is Biodiversity.
I think climate change is more important because it effects us to, by the water rising and also all the life on Antarctica will go and lose their habitat which will be ruined. Already lots of life in Antarctica has gone down in number. I like the Elephant seals. They are really smelly We, as in Parklands School gave David a kiwi called Pakarana to take to Antarctica and then he took him to Nepal as well.
Treasure Island
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| Scott Base |
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| A cute little Penguin |
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| Elephant seals fighting |
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| Elephant seals |
This story starts in the Admiral Benbow, an inn. Jim Hawkins (played by Quin) works there. Billy Bones (played by Shanti ) comes to stay. He has a chest full of treasure. He was once a pirate, a member of Capain Flint's crew. He is visited by Black Dog (played by Stevie )who fights him. Then the evil Blind pew (played by Sasha ) comes and scares him to death.
Jim gets the map. He gets the Goodies, Dr Livesey (played by Charlie ) Squire Trelawney (played by Sarah ), Mr Dance (played by Shannen ) and they hire a ship called the Hispaniola. The captain is Captain Smollett (played by Makayla ) who gets Long John Silver (played by Madison ) to collect a crew. Long John Silver is evil and one of Captain Flint's pirates. He collects all the other pirates and away they sail.
On the trip Jim hears of a plot to kill the goodies and take the treasure them selves. When they get to the island the Goodies go to the ship. The baddies go in search of the treasure. An old pirate called Ben Gunn (played by Zion ) who has been marooned, arrives and joins the goodies.
Jim takes off and sails the ship around the island. The pirates have nowhere to go. There's a big fight. The pirates are winning until they hear Ben Gunn who they think is a ghost of Captain Flint. Ben Gunn screams horribly.
My favourite character was Ben Gunn because I like his costume.
My part in the show was the ending song.
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| The ending song |
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| The singers |
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| Some of the characters |
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| Ben Gunn |
THE OLYMPICS
Its 2012 an Olympic year and we are all going to cheer on team G.B (well I will make sure of it- hopefully). I watched the opening ceremony and the English really overdid them selves. At first there were lots of fields with flowers growing and people dancing around the may pole (In May we have a festival with people holding ribbons tied to the may pole while people make pattens by waving in and out in and out dancing to the music. In the end the may pole has a pattern of ribbons around it.) Weeding gardens and dancing together in the sun, the next minute it was a working place with real chimneys and it actually smelt like smoke in the stadium. Then, wow!! It was a hospital with Voldermort trying to get to a child, then down came Mary Poppins and scared Voldermort away. The big scaredy cat or should I say scaredy wizard! Then the countries came and paraded around the stadium. I'm looking forward to watching a game. Play the Videos
By Ria and Mr Bean 
The Amazing race
Every year we have a fun run, but this year we had the street race. The street race is a new name and activity for our school. Why is it different from the fun run? It is
ROCK DA HOUSE
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| Rock da house 2011 |
Hello my name is Ria and I'm in the rock da house choir. The senior syndicate is doing it- year 8,7,6,5 and some year 4s. My favourite song is Eye of the tiger. There is about 14 songs and the end one- If you want to sing out- has to be strong. The first one has to be strong to, its called We will rock you, that is a strong song so it will be easy to make that one strong, but If you want to sing out will be hard to make strong, because we will all be tired out, but we will try our hardest for sure. The organisers are Paulette and John. Makayla and Jason won the auditions for the main part for our school, and they are both brilliant singers. We practice Monday and Tuesday and on Wednesday we will be going to the final practice in the Memorial hall. Mrs Kenny is Parklands school's person who leads the practices.
The tickets are 10 dollars and you can get them from the Parklands school office.
I hope everyone will enjoy the show.
BY RIA
Rock Da House after the show.....
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| Quin playing his ukelele |
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| I am beside Amber |
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| The whole choir |
What an amazing performance it was!! I think we were brilliant.
Let's start with what I did in the show. Some of my friends and I had to gather in the wing of the hall, until we were told to line up and sit on stage. The opening song was booming in my ears. Here I go, I thought as I sat down. The beat of the first song, We will rock you, started. Everyone stated stamping and clapping to the beat of the song. I was having fun already and I hadn't even started singing. I clenched my stomach, I have butterflies in my stomach, I said in my head. A soon as the curtains opened the song began. Everyone joined in, Have you had a hard day, long day, standing, and a working on your feet, trying earn your pay, put a smile on your face and watch this space , cause Tasman kids are gonna rock this place. I loved the moment.
I couldn't wait until our soloists Makayla and Jason sing their song. But all too soon it was over, and the curtains had closed. What a night I had!!!!
ORAL HEALTH DAY
Last week, on Monday, our very special school, Parkland's, had a shared lunch with really healthy food, because it was the start of Oral health week. I will tell you some interesting things. Did you know that sugar can't harm you on it's own?, it's only a problem when it gets into the microorganisms. But the tooth brush, tooth paste and dental floss is here to save you! You should brush with fluoride tooth paste and a soft bristle tooth brush, (not a house keeping brush!!!) and floss at least once a day. Some healthy food is: Fruit, Vegedables and Weet. Did you know that dairy products, like milk, are in the eat occasionaly pile? If you don't believe me look at the new food pyramid!! Well, teeth are very important, and I hope you have taken this information in well to find that your teeth will be sparkling clean!!
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| Ew, disgusting! |
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| Lovely! |
WINTER TOURNAMENT
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| I was goal attack then. |
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| Me as WA, chasing after the ball. |
On the 14-9-12 we, year 4, 5 and six had winter tournament. Some played soccer, some played rugby, some hockey and last of all netball. I'm going to talk about netball, because that was the sport I was in. There was fourteen games, we had four byes and lost two, and if my calculations are correct we won eight!, for me that's pretty good! I was WA (Wing Attack) in most of the fourteen games. Oh, by the way, byes are when you are suppose to play another team but they have a different number of players compared to you. Actually, I'm glad net ball got to go on the bus. It would take for ever to walk to the Recreation center. I had a lovely day, and I'm almost 100% sure that everyone else did too!
OUR CARS...
In the third quarter in term three, our teacher Mr.B, informed us that we were going to make some cars, because room three were making really awesome go-carts. We were going to have the race ages ago, but people were really slack at making their cars, and had to change the date, but some people still hadn't made their cars. I'm going to tell you step by step how I made my car...
Step 1~ I made a quick little plan about how I might make it, what it might look like and what I might need.
Step 2 ~ I grabbed a bottle and a pump, this was my first test! First I tried it going forward and then up. When I did it up, it flew into the neighbour's.
Step 3 ~ I made a cork out of a car's tyre velve, and a cork with a hole through it.
Step 4 ~ I made a little board for the bottle to rest on.
Step 5 ~ I screwed on some skate-board wheels.
Step 6 ~ Poos! It was too heavy!
Step 7 ~ Try again!! I un-screwed the wheels and screwed on a lighter board.
Step 8 ~ It worked!!
THE RACE...
My car didn't Go, but loads of other peoples cars didn't go either. Mr.B said that we could do the race again! When we did the race again, my car squirted the Teacher, and half of the class!!
By Ria Knoef
Room four
KAPA HAKA
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| I'm the one withe the blonde hair, second to the end of the row. |
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| The boys doing there haka. |
On the 8~11~12 was the first Kapa Haka fun day that the Tasman schools performed, the years 2,3,4,5, and 6. It was an amazing success! I'm 99.9% sure that everyone enjoyed it. We, room 4 and 3, sang Pai mai, E Rona, and Potini. We were the host school and to be honest, I think that the year 3 and 2's were the best.
When we were waiting back stage, everyone was chattering and the people on the stage were like "What the?" and so we got told off, and settled down to watch the year 2 and 3's on the television.
As soon as I stepped on to the stage everyone were clapping, but above all of the crowd, were our smiles!
