RLHS Open day

Mokoia Intermediate took part in Rotorua Lakes High School Open day. It began with a slow walk down to their school and after arriving we were slotted into our groups and begun our activities. I was in group D and our we started with maths, maths was surprisingly quite good it had a good balance of fun and actual maths. Our next activity was P.E and this was one of the best we played "Pirates" and the aim is if your a pirate is to tag all of the other non pirates, there are many obstacles in the area like ropes, ladders and my favorite the tramp. After a short interval we got straight into our second round of activities we did science which was quite cool we had to use a Bunsen burner, a Bunsen burner heats up different chemicals etc. We had to burn different types of metal and other items and we looked to see what kind of color flame it would produce. After that long science session we began home tech while we made our boxes to hold our chocolate others went to make there mold and get their chocolate. When we came back to the hall we got a free feed of one sausage our next activity was art, we drew on these clear sheets and heated them up on wet paper. In the end I rate RLHS a 8.5/10 it was exciting too see were i will be next year and the guides were awesome.

Speeches

Coakroaches, Helmets and Fast food speech topics by some of the learning centre speeches. My favourite speech was Finns Coakroach it had a good balance of humor and good facts. It kept me up at night with a fact that said "On average two coakroaches crawl on you while you sleep". I thought most of the speeches were fun and good to listen. I was suprised with the finalists and I liked improve speechs as they were funny and enjoyable. Finn and Anais were the Year 8 finalists while Ryan  and Amber where the year 7 finalsts.

Devon Intermediate

My legs strained and hurt, sweat dribbled down my face and a adrenaline rush filled my mind but nothing could compare to the proudness that I felt when we won the glorious Richard Thomson Goblet. Devon came down here for a battle and we gave them won, the first round began with Year 8 B Girls Netball and Mixed Basketball. Basketball really handed it to Devon with a 68-27 and Girls Netball with a 28-12 with mokoia winning both. Next round the girls soccer was a thriller to watch with mokoia taking a 1-0 lead and managing to keep devon out of their half, the girls had alot of chances with anais having a great breakthrough but failing to finish. The rest of the scores were Year 8 A netball 39-8, Year 7 A netball 28-5 and Rugby 68-23 we won all except the rugny. I was a sub at first for the boys soccer but as soon as i got on the game changed, less chances were created by Devon and more chances were created by Mokoia. When they got a goal we didn't give up and we came back with two great goals.

Movie Excitment Level Graph

This is my Excitment level graph it shows each ten minutes. I really liked the 50 min part as it was really action packed.

Stormbreaker

Stormbreaker Movie vs. Book Report

I’ve seen some pretty bad movies in my time but no words can describe the abomination of Geoffrey Sax’s Stormbreaker. It has a plot line equivalent to a basket it has nothing going for it as it is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen

The characters in this film seem to have no life there lines are bland and I’ve heard some better accents from a monkey. The fights are bland with no meaning; it takes off nowhere compared to the book with the book’s punchy, exciting and heart pumping. The book never let me down with its very describing fight scenes and characters.

There were no highlights in the movie for me but in the book I have a few with the intense part were Alex gets tricked by Nadia Vole I was very disappointed when they didn’t show the trickery of Nadia in the movie. I thought the gadgets in the movie were very underused with the zit cream only being used once and a new stupid pen that makes someone do your everyone command.

The ending of the book was very mysterious and cool I really liked it and I was hoping that the movie would really capture that intense and cliff hanging moment but as always the movie was a let-down. The book really captured the dark moments of all the characters like Yassen, Herod and Nadia while the movie lacked that star quality that I really liked about the book.

Getting 1 and a half star rating by rotten tomatoes this movie was obviously a disgrace to the fans of the novel. The script writer didn’t take to much time into the jokes they were quite boring and bland.

All in All the movie was rubbish I wouldn’t watch this movie for a million dollars it’s so bland. It could have been such a good movie but it lacked key components that the book had.

Stormbreaker Review

Daring, adventurous, and heart thumping, these are a few words to describe Anthony Horrowitz “Stormbreaker”.  It tells a story of a school boy as he takes a daring adventure looking into the death of his uncle and the mysterious Stormbreaker.

When Alex finds out that the Stormbreaker is not what it seems his world turns upside down. With men on quads hunting him down and finding out his uncle died by the hands of a deadly Assassin. All he has is his metal eating zit cream, his trusty Gameboy, his yoyo and his karate skills will he make out alive?

The part when he was trapped in a tank with a jellyfish really had my heart thumping and my head thinking. I kept wondering if he would die but he prevailed and defeated the deadly jellyfish.

I would recommend this book to anyone that loves deadly, action packed and full of villains novels and to anyone that loves the cherub series.    

Kia Kaha

Today we did kia kaha with constable neil i learnt alot of good tips to deal with bullies and it was really fun

General Knowledge Results

Minecraft

Minecraft was invented by Markus Persson as an indie free roam for people to play but it has gotten much larger and has grown to the powerhouse it is today.  It has become a very addictive game and has children spending their parent’s hard earned money.

What is Minecraft?

Minecraft is a free roam game were you play as an avatar and you can craft, destroy blocks or put down blocks in an open world. It has various animals and mobs in the world which you can retrieve various items from those creatures to craft your armour or food.

What are the good/bad points?

Minecraft has good points such as you can build 18x19 block houses that is one of the best points in using it at school. Minecraft is also good as everyone in the class can be on at the same server while the teacher tells all the kids to make a certain size house etc. Here are some bad points Minecraft causes a lot of controversy in the school with people blowing up, burning or destroying others creations and people get very mad at that.

I would say Minecraft can be a good tool for some as it has very good building aspects or teaching children how to work together in an open world where they can build or destroy. Minecraft is another way to annoy and agitate others were children can do anything with the likes of TNT and flint and steel. By Antonio

Daring Dash for Kids Cancer

On Friday 7^th of June we ran 7km in a daring dash across lush farm. While it was Flynn who won it proved challenging for some under a hot summer condition some children ran for child cancer and got sponsors while some just ran for the glory of their houses. All in all I rate this Cross Country to be a huge success and was really fun even though I didn’t think I would enjoy it was a blast I would do it again.

Skittles Experiments

http://www.stevespangler.com/tag/skittles-science/ http://www.parenting.com/gallery/easy-science-fair-projects?pnid=629123 http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/Kindergarten_Supplies/skittles-science-fair-project

Directions

We were learning Proceural Writing Directions we studied what good directions should be and made a course for a blind person and try to guide them through it.

Respect Bubble Chart

Hyperlinks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGuT9-_Y5J4

A Paper-plane Graph

Sorry for the view I tried making it bigger but it would be to big.
We had to design a paper plane and researched it we made a design and had to make instructions how to make them.

Homemade Lava Lamp

We watched a video on a homemade lava lamp and we decided to make it. You need a bootle, testube etc. a verroca, pandol etc. some cooking oil and food colouring we all made a hypothises and tested it mine was that colours would mix and make one colour. My hypothises was correct the best mix we did was red and blue it made a royal purple and looked realy cool.

Norm Hewitt

Inspirational, Life Changing and golden these are a few words that describe Norm Hewitts Presentation. Norm Hewitt came to our school and told his story about his rugby life, dancing life and his connection to his pets he taught me alot about the things I have to do to keep my animals healthy and keep them warm and fed. He told his sad story about his family abuse and his pets that became his closest freinds in his darkest time this story has opened my eyes that dreams can come true...

Solitude