New Zealand's Native Birds

Summer and I have been working on this for a while. Read the book to find out what we did!

Dog Disaster 🐕

Dog Disaster🐕

George! George! George! My eyes flung open and I was looking at a white roof. I was nice and warm and I wanted to shut my eyes again when I finally realised, I needed to check my phone! What would I do if I didn’t check my cell phone first. My wife Katie came up to the bedroom where I was and told me that my phone was ringing over and over again. I laid down in my bed for a few more minutes until my phone had rung again. I sat up instantly and got a grip on my phone. I pulled the charger out and pushed the answer button. I put the phone up to my ear with my wife looking really nervous at me as she sat down on a leather chair in our room, playing with her greyish brown strands of hair.

“Hello?” I said a little nervous. “Hello is this George Barrett?” A deep voice said to me on the phone. “Yes I’m George Barrett why do you ask?” I answered confidently. “Ahh George we have been trying to ring you for half an hour, I’m Bob here to ask you a question.” I looked over at Katie and she was on her phone doing something on it. I said back to this Bob fella. “It better not be a scam or I will hunt you down and-” I got cut off by Bob saying, “Woah,Woah,Woah wait, I was here to offer you a job.” “Oh sorry I got ahead of myself, but what job?” I replied back. “Would you like to be in one of Shawn Mendes music videos?” “Yes text me through the details see you soon!” I said in a happy way! “Bye” Bob said and I got up and got dressed as Katie redid her makeup.

Since Katie was the prime minister of Canada, yes Canada that's where we live anyways we got into this huge black limo and we even got to bring our German shepherd dog Jake! After a 20 minute drive it started to snow and we got to this studio at 10am. I got out of the limo with Katie and Jake. As the driver of the limo drove off they were flicking white, cold fluffy snow at Katie and the dog. I laughed until we had to push our way into the building because all of these teenage girls were screaming and shouting in my ear. I think I would lose my ability to hear because of all of these girls screaming!

We entered the building and saw this guy with black hair wearing a black suit but to me he looked like a bodyguard. He walked over to a camera where we saw this tall young man with amazing brown hair and hazel eyes. He was wearing a blue shirt with black jeans and He looked like he was around an height of 6'2. I think he was Shawn? Anyways Katie put Jake onto his lead and they went somewhere as I walked up to the dude who looked like a bodyguard. He said “You must be George!” I thought I knew that voice from somewhere until I said “Yes I’m George who are you?” He said back to me, “Oh sorry I’m Bob that one who you said that you were gonna hunt me down.” Bob laughed as I walked over to the boy with the amazing brown hair, I wish I had hair like that!

As I approached him he said, “Hi I’m Shawn, Shawn Mendes that is!” I replied back by saying “Oh hi Shawn , I’m George!” After that conversation we did hair, makeup and we got changed into some clothes for the music video until….. “GEORGE THE DOG!” Katie screamed at me! I was getting my hair re-done and I ran straight to Katie who was in the studio. This was the first time I went into the studio. The walls were blue and the ground was green. I saw tables, chairs, plants knocked over. It looked like World War 2 but the objects replacing people. Bob came in and saw the mess. I was surprised he didn’t get mad and turn red like a tomato! Oh wait Shawn hates tomatoes so that's probably why!

As everyone was busy helping clean up the mess we didn’t know where Jake was. The next thing we know is Jake some how opening the door and hearing screaming fans run in! They went straight to Shawn surrounding him and taking pictures. Then Bob came over to Shawn and started to get the fans away from Shawn. I knew he was a bodyguard I just knew it! Bob then was trying to get all of the Shawn Mendes fans out of the building. I decided to help him and we finally got them all out. After we got the fans out Shawn said, "Wow the Mendes Army are crazy!" I said back, "What is the Mendes Army?" Shawn smiled at me and said, "The Mendes Army are all of my fans, it is just their name for the fan base" Then Shawn walked away. Since the studio is now cleaned up Katie distracts Jake by playing with a yellow tennis ball.

When we finished the music video everyone cheered and celebrated! I shook hands with Shawn and we also had a picture together! After all that celebrating Katie, Jake and I had to go home because Katie had a meeting with Donald Trump! I’m glad we sorted things out with Jake and finished the music video, but I'm not looking forward to see Donald Trump, yet I think he should be in Mexico if that wall ever goes up!

Musical Theatre // 3 //

Today at musical theatre we did some dancing and ran through some lines. First thing we did was dance. We started dancing to "Can't Stop The Feeling" by Justin Timberlake. We did that for a while until we ran through some lines. Everyone sat down in a circle and the people with lines was reading them out loud. After a while It got really uncomfortable so I laid down on my stomach and my friends did too! So after that I am writing this. I always look forward to doing this class!

  (Song we danced too)

           

Musical Theatre // 2 //

Today in Musical Theatre we started off with some Drama games. We played them for a little bit until we went onto singing. We had to warm our voices up and then I got called in the to a small yellow room to sing. I sung and then I got my friend Faith to go in. After all that we were still singing and it was really funny! We are gonna be singing a song from The Lion King called "The Circle Of Life". Now I am writing this so Musical Theatre was fun!

                

Musical Theatre // 1 //

Today in Musical Theatre we did some Drama warm ups,  Singing warm ups and Dance warm ups. I love drama a lot! I signed up to do a Drama solo because I feel confident. For the Drama warm up we played some really fun games to help us improve on moving around and listening. Then we played this Zombie game. There was 1 person who was a Zombie and the rest were Humans. The Humans would cross their arms and close their eyes and walk around. Where the Zombie had their eyes open and tags the humans who become Zombies. The singing warm up was just warming up our voices and singing a song from the Lion King. The dance warm up was just dancing. The opportuntie in Drama would be amazing if I got to play Nala. A Challenge is not giving up and believing in myself. I can't wait for the next lesson.

Fun Shopping in Nelson // Writing

This is what I did in the holidays. This was one of the best parts. I hope you like my writing and please give me feedback in the comments. Anyways I hope you are smiling and working hard. Bye :)!

//Fun Shopping In Nelson🛍//

Are we there yet? Has it been 5 hours yet? Please tell me we are here I’m hungry! It was the holidays, Dad, Mum and I went up to Nelson mainly for dads work. I was so hungry after a 5 hour drive but it didn’t help I woke up at 1:45am! Then I had to get into dad's truck which meant I had to climb the stairs to get into the truck. It was like climbing the tall M.T Everest because it was that early in the morning. The bad thing was that I had a pretty amazing dream! Anyways I got into the big giant truck and dad drives down the road and I was thinking my phone better keep its charge!  Ok, where to start oh yes 7am at McDonalds. We had McDonalds for breakfast but that part is so,so,so,so boring! Now let's start at a more interesting part of the day.

It was Thursday at 8am in the morning. Mum always has wanted to shop at Richmond mall. Richmond is a place in Nelson like one of the towns there. So like how there is Hornby and Sockburn in Christchurch well something like that. Anyways Dad dropped mum and I off at the mall. I didn’t really think much of it because it was just a same old plain mall. We entered the mall and the first thing we went to was a store called pagain for mum. She was so fusey because her jeans had some scratches in them that you could hardly see! I said to her “ Mum they look fine you don’t need to waste money on another pair!” Mum said “ No they look bad.” Then I said “Whatever.”

When we got to the store mum walked around and ended up getting the same pants but brand new but, she also got another pair of new jeans. Then the lady who was behind the counter was talking to this older lady. The lady who was working there said to me, “ She doesn’t look 70 ahy!” I said, “Is she 70 she hardly looks like it!” After Mum went to go try on the pants! I got the most boring job in the world and had to wait and wait and wait! The bad part was that I had to hold all the bags and I didn’t have my phone. It was like the end of the world without my phone because I couldn’t listen to Shawn Mendes! Whatever was I gonna do! I came up with an idea scare my mum! My mission was the scare my mum! I decided to hide in the changing room next to her but far in the corner. She came out and I said, “BOO!” Mum went “ahhhh”. Then I just started laughing but then she went up to go buy her clothes and the lady working there said not to be rude but when were you born? My mum said like 19 something idk. The lady said you don’t look 40 she said. Anyways we went around more shops until Mum was hungry.

She said want to get some McDonalds? I was thinking in my head “Ugh I’m starting to get sick of it but I do feel like a frozen coke!”

We went to McDonalds and we ended up getting a cheeseburger, some chips and a drink each. I got my frozen coke and it was wonderful! After that I wanted to go to Adidas and we did. I got some new Adidas shoes they were so comfortable. The shoes are mainly all black with the Adidas logo on it! After that we went to stirling sports (because mum wanted too.) We went in there and mum got me a Nikey bag. Anyways after that we went to a bit more shops then we went onto the street! Before we went to the street I got another frozen coke. Later on the street we went to like those cheap stores.

That part is so boring but when we got back to the hotel room I turned to t.v on and guess who was on t.v! SHAWN MENDES! I was screaming and celebrating and my mum asked me, “what is it?” I said “SHAWN MENDES IS ON THE TV!” Dad said “turn it off next!” Then I said “But it is Shawn Mendes.” After a long discussion while I was watching Shawn my mum went on her phone and dad took a shower. When it was over I was about to cry but after it finished it played 3 Shawn Mendes songs they were, Mercy, Stitches and There’s nothing holding me back!

Later on we went to have dinner that part is boring too, so lets skip to tomorrow. *The Next Morning* I got woken up at 2am to go home I was happy because I got to see my little rabbit! 5 hours later we got home it was 7am in the morning. I turned on the tv at home and guess who was on. Thats right Shawn Mendes again. Was I lucky that Shawn Mendes kept being on the tv idk.

I think that will end the story because that day was long after watching Shawn on tv. I enjoyed going to Nelson because I got to go shopping! I hope we can go to a different mall next time.

Jake Paul Poem

Jake Paul merch link in bio.

Its everyday bro everyone knows that.

Why don’t you get the everyday hat.

It could even fit you but not your cat.

Let's talk about Logan as well as Jake.

They could go swimming in the lake.

Hey it could make a good vlog?

Apollo and Kong who are the dogs.

Anyways always plug again merch link in bio.

I will see you again because its everyday bro PEACE! #Yellars

Gymnastics #4 // Last

Today at Gymnastics I went on the tramp, floor, bars and beam. On the tramp I just did some tricks. The floor I did a round off, cartwheels and handstands. The bars I like doing back flips so I did them. Last on the beam I was just walking and doing leaps. So yeah that was P.E!

Book Review (Tv Star // Dork Diaries)

Why don't you check out this book review?

                       

The Lorax Movie

Last week the year 7's watched the Lorax movie. The message I got was... To step up and don't be afraid to do something and that change can be good. The best part I though was the part where cute little pipsqueak went on the bed. Pipsqueak also was my favourite character. If I could save the world like a super hero I would stop oil spills. How I would stop this.... that is a hard thing to do but I would make sure the boats get checked 4 times and that the cargo would be really secure and there would be another mini ship that could help the big boat on the way.

(---Pipsqueak 

My Poem

We have been doing poetry for the last week. This is my one can you guess the animal I have wrote about if so have a go in the comments and please give me feedback. Thank you! 😆

Gymnastics #3

Today at P.E we did Gymnastics. I learnt how to get my cartwheels right again so I can work up again to doing it on the beam. Next week I will be doing my best to getting up to that beam. I am nervous because of the accident I had last time when I did a cartwheel. Anyways it was really fun! :)

Maths D.L.O

I have been working on a maths D.L.O for a while now. I hope you like it and give me feedback! Just comment below it won't kill you! Anyways I will be showing you a maths strategy.

Video


For Animation and to see the Maths questions yourself!

Gymnastics #2

Today at P.E We are still doing Gymnastics. Today we did bars and Trampoline. I liked doing the trampolining but I thought we could do harder stuff. Next week I hope we can do cartwheels and handstands. I am finding this class really easy, but I like watching other people improve. I can't wait until next week.

You Need To Be More Healthy

This is my persuasive writing to my dad to tell him that he needs to be more healthy. Please give me feedback about it thank you!

Introduction:

Dad, Dad, Dad. You need to be more healthy like eat more vegetables and fruit. Mum keeps telling you to eat more fruit and vegetables ,so now I am writing a story for you. My question is do you want to be more healthy and get more exercise?

Paragraph 1:

Where to start first… oh yes, exercise. You don’t have to get really fit, but just be a bit fit. I think that you could run or walk Tarsa (the dog) around the block. Then she could get exercise too. I strongly recommend you to play a sport or you could join my Karate so I can watch you after my class, and hey you could even train with your friends!

Paragraph 2:

Mum keeps telling you to eat more fruit and vegetables. I have something to recommend, how about when you come home from work you can eat an apple or a certain fruit before you get a drink of coke. You could set up a game for yourself. If you eat 5 fruit or vegetables a day you could have any drink you want. Here's a fact! Something really unhealthy for you is that you skip breakfast or lunch or even both and that is not healthy at all. Like the saying mum says to me if you don’t eat your body is not getting fuel it is like not putting gas in a car what happens if it doesn’t get gas? It doesn’t go. So if you don’t eat food you get really tired because of lack of energy. So stop skipping meals it is NOT good for you at all.

Paragraph 3:

Getting sleep is important to everyone and their body, even animals like dogs, rabbits even horses have to sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep,  you may, you may, you may DIE or just get really sick! Anyways adults need roughly about 8 hours of sleep each night. Children need about 10 hours of sleep. Sleep rest your body ready for the next day and yes it is good for you. Honestly you need to get a good amount of sleep. 7 or 6 hours of sleep isn't enough sleep so try get that 8 in.

Conclusion:

I think being healthy is really good for your body. Look at it this way you don’t have to see the doctor for a while , well that's if you don’t really like the doctor. If you are healthy you won’t have as much risk of getting sick in the future. So stay healthy!

Gymnastics // P.E

Today at P.E we get to do Gymnastics. I like gymnastics because I use to do it for a while. I can't wait to get started. Since I haven't done it in a while I would like the see if I can still do some of the things I could do. I enjoyed today's class because I got to do my own tricks. 

Walt Disney

For the last couple of weeks I have been working really hard on my slide show about Walt Disney. I hope you enjoy it and learn lots of things have fun!

                       

We Should Be Allowed Gum At School

Here is my writing we have been learning how to write a letter and persuasive text.
*Blue Means persuasive words.

Alesha Thomas

Hornby High School

180 Waterloo Road

Monday 3rd July 2017

Hornby, Christchurch

8042

Tuesday 8th August 2017

Mr Sutton

Hornby High School

180 Waterloo Road

Monday 3rd July 2017

Hornby, Christchurch

8042

__________________________________________________________________

Dear Mr Sutton

I am writing this letter to you because I have came to a conclusion that we should be allowed gum at school. I feel very annoyed that we can not have gum because it is a good and quite thing to do in class, plus you can still pay attention.  There are many solutions as well to get people who chew gum loudly with their mouth open to stop.  Here are my reasons why we should have gum. In this letter I will analyze to you my reasoning. If people have bad breath they can have some gum and feel minty. Chewing gum is good if you are bored and you can chew it quietly while paying attention and not wasting any time. Most importantly it does not make you feel hungry in class because of the flavour.

Don’t you hate when people have bad breath like a dog. It stinks so bad. If gum was at school this would not happen. Like if you go to speak to someone up close and they breath out through their mouth and say something and you get a really horrible smell up your nose YUCK! Teachers and Students work close together when they are sharing their work and have been asked to go up to the teacher's desk. Then you start reading your story and your breathe is disgusting, but what happens if you forgot to brush your teeth? Where as I said this would not happen as often if there was gum being allowed at school.

What happens when you are bored in class and you need to do something and listen at the same time. Gum can do the trick! The reason why is because the teacher is writing something on the board and the also the teacher is explaining it, but you really have to listen to what the teacher is saying and you are so bored and it is so boring like a cardboard box. Gum to the rescue! There is a problem what about the loud gum chewers? Well there are truckloads of solutions like if they can not chew it quietly they have to spit it out into a Rubbish Bin. Anyways gum will let you listen and write down notes at the same time. It will also make it enjoyable for your mouth as it will also have something to do.

It has came to my concern that have you ever had that bad feeling in your stomach? How you feel really hungry in class and can’t wait to eat something and all you can think about is food. Well while you are at your desk you really need food right then and now? Well just have some gum and chew it a few times and the hungry feeling might go away. Plus in America or another country like that there could be all different flavours of gum like pizza, hotdog or even chips but etc.  (Change)

Gum would be good at school because it may help people with their grades and keep people more on task. So they would not have to smell bad breath, get bored in class and not pay attention by playing with something and not feeling hungry in class. This is why I believe that students like me should be allowed gum at school from now on.

Yours Sincerely, Alesha  

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Paper Planes

                                The Science of Paper Planes

Making a paper plane

Q. What are the forces acting on a paper plane?

There are 4 forces acting on a paper plane.

Thrust pushes the plane forward

Lift pushes the plane up.

Gravity (or Weight) pulls the plane down.

Drag pushes the plane backwards.

Challenge:  To find a paper plane that beats the rest of the class.

Aim: I want to find a paper plane design that can fly the furthest and beat the rest of my class.

World Record for Longest Flight

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

How can you change the forces from above to make the airplane go further?

• Need to increase the thrust - to do this, i will throw harder.
• Reduced drag 
• Change air flow - add ailerons

1. Write up the experiment using the Scientific method
2. Record your findings on the chart
3. Take a photo of all your planes and upload them onto your blog
4. Graph the results in a bar graph.

Plane	Distance
Glider	3.50 Meters
Jet	2 Meters
Cruiser	6.60 Meters
Round wing	2.8 Meters

Write up your findings and a conclusion.

Graduate Profile

Term 1/2...
Blue=Term 1/2
Purple=Term 3

    Term 1/2 Goals+Review:

1.I think how I can give useful feedback to others is...

If their work is good ask them questions and maybe ask them to do some pictures?

2.I think how I can become more of a curious learner is...

Think more deeply into the subject.

REVIEW:
1. I think I have achieved this by coming out of my shell and giving some good feedback by double checking over some the the parts of someones writing.
2. I think I have done well at asking some questions well more then what I would ask but I feel like I needed to come more out of my shell and ask some more. 

Term 3 Goals:

I want to know what my next steps are at learning. How I could do this is by doing my work and then working out of next steps and how I could make it better.

I think I should start to share my point of view and ideas with other people. I could do this by just saying my idea and talking to the person/group about what I think we could do.

Icier Is Nicier - DRAFT

Business & Enterprise: Icier Is Nicier

Planning:

Before we started getting in a group, we were talking about if we would be in the food, gift, beauty etc categories. In our group is Alesha, Summer, Kortney and Kayla. We then thought of ideas of what to do.Our group knew that we were going to do something to do with food. When we were in the food group we then got paper to plan what we are doing.After a lot thought we choose to do Snow cones,Ice creams and a game. We then thought of a name of the company and game that is (Icier Is Nicier) and (Penguin Pong). After that we thought of what we would need to do all of this.

Making poster and other things:

It was time to make the posters get all of the things and make the big poster to hang at the stand.We used colored paper to  make poster. We kept making our logo on paper.Then we went out to hang these posters on windows and around the school so everyone can see them. We then sorted our game prizes and how it’s going to work. There have been some ups and downs, but when it came to the end, we have sorted it all out.

Setting up:

Scooter Writing (Why We SHOULD Have Scooters At School)

Most people in my class wrote about why we shouldn't have scooters at school. Well instead of the negative problems I thought I would do the Positive! Hope you like me writing and please give me some feedback!

Dear Mr Sutton

I think scooters should  be allowed at Hornby High School because they’re a faster way of getting to school and class, they will make students more active and because students can teach each other new skills and tricks.       

My first point of having scooters at Hornby High School is that some Students at break time sit down and go on their devices. But if scooters were not ban at school, In my opinion I think more people would not go on their devices. If scooters were allowed at break time it would make this time more fun and it is something different as well. What I mean by this is more options to go play or do, so it would not get boring which has brought me to my next point.

Scooters can get people to places faster like class. If the Students who are riding their scooters to their next class they would have to be careful but anyways. If you get to class early it means you will get exceptional seats and get settled in quicker. Also if you are always late to class this means you are wasting your learning time. What happens if there was a huge test that you have been studying for a long time, will this affect your grades? If not you will still want to be early to class. In my opinion if people come in class late and people are doing a test this disrates students, but if you could get to class a lot faster by scooter this would not happen as often.

My last point is children like to do tricks on their scooters. I think some tricks are dangerous and that if Children want to do tricks that they should bring safety gear. But if some children want to learn a trick or have been learning it for a long time another person could give them some tips or help them learn it. After if you are superb at scootering and have been practicing for a long time with other people's advice, this could become your future job and hey who knows, you could be famous for it!?

What I am saying is that I think, all schools should allow scootering because it is excellent exercise and stops most people on their devices during their break time, gets people to class faster and you can also learn amazing tricks.

From Alesha

Money and Giving Change

Today at Cybersmart Mr Maddren teached us something for Maths.

The Four Spheres Thinglink

For the Last couple of weeks we have been learning about the four spheres. I found them really interesting and I hope you do too!

Plant Scientist

Definition: A Person who studies plant and the biology of the plants.

Leaf collection: A collection of the leaves of certain plants.

Simple:

Serrated

EXAMPLE!

Plant definition;

Use  Blog:

Set out:

Common Name: Oak Tree

Botanical name: Quercus robusta

Growth habit: Bushy, tall

Maximum Age: up to 250 years

Leaf type: Compound

Climate: The oak tree grows in a semi sunny condition. It does not like frosts.

My One:

Common Name: Populus Tree

Botanical name: Salicaceae

Growth habit: A poplar pole is a young tree stem between 1 and 3.5m long.

Maximum Age: 40-50 Years

Leaf type: Serrated

Climate: A Poplar Tree is mostly located in a place where it can get both, sun rain and shade.

Stratification