Blogging Reflection

1. If I could tell a class who wanted to join quadblogging I would say that quadblogging is really interesting because you get to comment on someone else's learning. Not only that but you also get lots of feedback on your learning.
2. I think a good comment is to start a conversation by asking lots of questions.
3. My favourite  part of blogging is getting to share my learning with others.
4. Blogging helps with my learning because when I receive comments I get lots of feedback.
5. If I could make any changes to quadblogging I would probably make it that you comment on all the  blogs instead of just one blog a week so you get comments on your blog every week.

Vinegar+Baking Soda Experiments

On Thursday the 14th of November room 12 did some cool experiments with Mrs Demchy. First we got a glass bottle and filled it up with vinegar. Then we filled a balloon with baking soda and carefully put it on the bottle. Mrs D shook the bottle and all the carbon dioxide created blew up the balloon. For the second experiment we got two plastic bags. we filled one up with vinegar an another with baking soda. in the second bag where we put the baking soda we cut a hole in the corner so the baking soda could escape. We shook the bag and after a while the bag popped and squirted all over everyone! For the third experiment We got Mr Peachy to nail a few holes in the cap of a bottle. Next we filled a bottle 3/4 full with vinegar and a bag full of baking soda. We dropped the bag in the bottle and screwed the cap on. Mrs D shook it and it squirted all over us.

100 word challenge (Gumboots)

Beep beep. I can never get that noise out of my head. It’s the sound of my alarm at 3:30 every morning! It’s the holidays and dad loves to get fishing by 4:30am every morning. One day dad woke me up at 2:00 am! We were on the boat by 3:00am. “I hear there are some pretty big snapper today.” Dad said. I threw out my line and immediately I felt something tugging anxiously. I pulled and pulled. Suddenly I fell in! Splash! Dad tugged me out. I was drenched from head to toe. I will never forget that day.

The hundred word challenge

 The last thing I remember was seeing the thrashing tornado whizzing towards me. I shrieked as it hit .Then all went black. I woke up in hospital a few days later. I sat up as Mum popped a piece of chocolate in my mouth. I looked around and saw my baby cousin with a sheet over her head. Tears sprung to my eyes as I realized I wasn’t the only one affected by the storm. The tears rolled down my cheeks. I asked where Dad was but suddenly I didn’t want to know any more. The violent storm was tragic.  

QR code

This is a QR code to my smore on the American segregation. If you would like to view it all you have to do is scan it with an ipod. ENJOY!

Qr code tester

Project Energise

In the past few weeks Project Energize have been coming to room 12 to teach us about  healthy eating . Did you know that there are about 9 teaspoons of fat in the KFC quarter pack? Shocking! But there is only 1/4 of a teaspoon of fat in subway! How is that fair?

haiku

This is my haiku about a car trip to the beach.

What am I?

Here are 3 haikus. Can you guess what they are? P.S. I could cause tooth aches. Whoops!

Our sumatran tiger project

For home learning over the holidays we had to research facts about Sumatran tigers. I finished mine before the holidays even started! We also had to create a name, gender and background story for our new class mascot. We decided it's name would be Lee-Lee. Did you know that the stripes on a Sumatran tiger are closer together then on any other subspecies of tiger. I enjoyed this project because it was fun to make a poster.

Trashion show photopeach

This is the trashion show on photopeach.

Recipe for a friend

This is my recipe for friends I made on smore.

Wow Reflection

This term the school's topic has been waste to wow. On Thursday the 28th of June the school put on a fashion show. Each class had to buddy up with another class and create costumes. Also each class had a theme.Our theme was nature.We got to get into groups to create our costumes. I was in a group with Katie, Sam, Latrell, Isabella, Harry and Harrison. Our inspiration was fantails.I got to be the model. Our costume had to be able to last until Thursday night. On Thursday night just as I was about to go on stage my skirt broke! Luckily we made a belt so we just tightened it up. After the show we had to take our costumes off. Then we got to eat some American lollies. If I had a chance to do the waste to wow show again I would change the costume by using more interesting materials.

Sock monkeys

In term 2 room 12 have been making sock monkeys. My sock monkey is pink with fluro polka dots.
Here is a photo of my monkey on the playground.

Quiz

For the quiz i scored 9/10.

Quiz

For the kiwi kids quiz I scored 9/10. I got the last question wrong.

wicked challenge answers

These are my answers for home learning.

1. The dawn parade is at dawn because that's when the first soldiers landed in Gallipoli
2. Gallipoli is in Turkey
3. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand army corps
4. What happened on the 25th of April is important to New Zealand because we were fighting on the 25th of April.
 

Those are my answers. I hope they are correct!

Wordfoto

This is a photo of me. If you are wondering how I got it to look like this I used an app called Wordfoto on the school ipod.

Drought home learning

listen to ‘Courtney's drought activity’ on Audioboo

 This is my home learning drought activity. I did it on a website called Audioboo

Balloonns activity

I think the Balloons over Waikato is an important event to hold because it adds lots of colour to the sky and cheers everyone up. It also brings lots of people to Hamilton from around NZ and overseas.
One of the benefits to the city and its people is that by bringing more people to the city, they spend money on food, staying in motels which help the local businesses 

The Warriors

Two weeks ago the warriors came to visit our school. We got to play lots of fun games.At the end we got to get autographs from them. My favourite part was meeting the Warriors. My favourite game we played was bull rush. Everyone got a signature except me:(.Mrs D got a signature on her arm! After everyone had something signed it was time for the Warriors to go.

2013 so far...

2013 started of being very fun. I am enjoying all the stuff I have been doing in room 12. So far I have gone swimming,  jump jam and done a lot of art. I am looking forward to learning lots of new things.

Here is something fun for you. Here are 3 facts about me. You have to guess which one is false.

1.I have a dog
2. I have been to Spain
3.My favourite food is sushi

I will post the answer soon. Please have a guess!