Leoden Year 7

Camp Adair 2010

2010-05-06T20:18:00.005+12:00

Hi readers, sorry for not blogging regularly. Ive been pretty busy since my last post. Ive started intermediate and Ive just come back from camp.

The camp that I came from is called Camp Adair and it is near Papakura in South Auckland. We did activities like archery, a mudslide, confedence course, kayaking, trapeze, rambo bridge and many more. Archery was the best activity for me because I nearly got a bullseye in the practice round. When we had to compete for real, my group lost!!! The groups agreed in the begining that the losers had to eat dinner that night with a spoon or our hands. It wasnt really a punishment for me because I wasnt hungry.

Our first activity for the day was the mudslide. Imagine at 9am when its freezing, sliding down a black slippery tarpoline into ice cold disgusting muddy water. I waited patiently in line for my turn and then I got a shock as I entered the freezing muddy water. Everyone was shivering when they first touched the water. My Dad told our group that if we rub mud on our butts, we will slide down faster. Cooper was the first one to try it and boy did he zoom down!

These two activities were really fun for me at camp. Unfortunately we only got to do 9 activities out of 18. I would love to go back and try the other 9 activities.

Nearly one thousand visitors or more!!!

2009-12-14T12:18:00.007+13:00

Imagine standing up more than forty times doing a speech about what you are good at!!

Well that is what some of my friends and I did. Each time about 10 visitors or more came to hear our speeches. Some times a whole bus load would come at once! My speech was about video conferencing. There were 5 things we talked about. There was P.E.N.N {this stands for Pt England News Network}, podcasting, our own televison show called schoolTV and even blogging. Down below is a movie which shows me saying my speech.

The Tolerance Show!!!!! Presented to you by Tanielu and Leoden

2009-11-30T14:43:00.010+13:00

Duing this year the Point England Extension Group have been involved with Rock Our World. Just like our school, they have topics for the terms. This terms topic was about tolerance. We had to make a movie about different scenarios. We had to choose to tolerate or not to tolerate. Our scenario is.......... actually find out what our scenario is by watching our movie.

"The Toy Shop on Zip Zap Avenue"

2009-11-24T09:21:00.021+13:00

"Hey everybody, its show time!" shouted Sione and Jordan P. They were two of the main characters for our school production "The Toy Shop on Zip Zap Avenue". This production was about a toy shop that comes alive when the shopkeeper leaves and the toys celebrate a superb friend that had been sold just before the shop closed.

It was crazy getting ready for this. Pupils were coming in and out of the classrooms and the library. Man, the first night was absolutely stupendous. Everybody was nervous. When the the MCs said those words, it was everyones time to shine. We had to sing the theme song for the production. I was ready to go like a racing car at the start line. I had an ecstatic kind of feeling. I had heaps of energy and at the same time was a little nervous.

My part in the production was playing the recorder and also playing the guitar. I got dressed up as a rat when I was playing the recorder. I felt like a real rat when I was in costume. Instruments are cool because if you play them properly they make a really good sound.

On the other two nights I got better and better at playing the two instruments. I could feel them dance to the music that was being played on the sub woofers. This was an experience that I will never forget.
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Here is some footage of me playing the recorder and the guitar. Above is a video of The guitars getting played and down bottom is me playing the recorder like a rat. You can not see me when i am playing the guitar because i am hidden by Kalim a friend of mine that is singing but in the production they call him tiki.

Camp Bentzon was AWESOME!!!!!!!

2009-11-23T08:25:00.014+13:00

We've had heaps of things happening in term 4 like testing,our school production
athletics and now we get a rest from all that. Last week, year 6s went to camp. There was a lot of preparation for camp. Mrs Flavell said that a guy named Mr Coop would be important because he will be making our food. Peter and Erin {the managers} helped us with our activites. We went to Kawau island then onto Camp Bentzon. We had travelled one hour on the bus and about the same amount of time by
water taxi.

After all this travelling, we finally arrived at camp Bentzon. Some of us were very tired and then the teachers said we were going for a walk to have a swim at a very nice beach. I thought it was going to be a short walk but I was so wrong. They said it was a walk NOT a very steep hike! At least when we were walking we had beautiful views and
the beach was amazing. We had a sand competition and my group won with a koru
design.

Man we had a cool first day, and that was only the first of the 4 days. It was Wednesday and Mr J woke us up for a morning run up a hill and he warned us people have gotten hurt running down the hill. Mr J even told us that one year, some boys
thought that they were "the man" walking up the hill so they decided to run down the hill and then he said "the man at the top and crying baby at the bottom".It was in the morning and before breakfast and we had to run up a steep hill. I felt like a very hot baked bread coming out of an oven when I finished.

Breakfast time is the time when you enjoy nice food and guess what, we had to sing to get our yummy food. Some groups had to sing 2 songs or more but most of the time, the groups only had to sing 2.

On Wednesday and Thursday we did our activities that the teachers had organised. There were heaps of activities like abseiling, sailing in a optimist dingy, a Burma trail,a confidence course and a few more. There was also another activity that was not on the list and that was bombing off a little platform. In our spare time there was a few other
games like a cricket set ,a rugby ball for touch and about 3 tennis balls.

Items. Everybody knows what an item is in New Zealand but for some reason when kids try to sort out a item sometimes we argue because we don't like each others ideas. Its also cool to watch what other people have come up with. This is one of the best things at camp Bentzon because you do not know what they are going to do. They might do something funny or serious, depending on the situation.

After all this we had to pack up and leave. We made our lunch and jumped on the water
taxi. Nearly all of us missed kawau island and also missed our family.

What a SHOCKING game....

2009-10-06T16:28:00.004+13:00

The ultimate Storm win the Grand Final, I still can't quite believe it. They have won 2 times in the last four years. They had just beaten the Parramatta Eels to take the title. A team that has won 10 of their 11 games before they had been beaten last Sunday.

The first half was domanated by the most experienced team, Melbourne Storm. When the Storm had gotten their first try, the Eels looked determined but unable to hit back. After a little while, the Storm were setting up for their second try and then they had gotten it. Now the Eels were in shock. They havent been in this situation for a long time, this through them off. Their kicking game was no good. They could'nt make some good yardage and their plays could not get them through the defence line. The Storms defence was very very strong.! At this stage, I was quivering with anticipation. Iwas thinking "I wonder what kind of magic the Eels are going to produce, actully, I wonder if there was going to be any magic?". At half time, the Storm were leading 10-0. I decided to try and cool myself down because I was getting angry at the scoreboard.

aT halftime, the Eels coach must of given some pretty good commands because I saw a spark in their play when they came back on. After 10minutes, the Eels put some points on the board, the score was now 10-6. Melbourne came back and scored another 2 tries with the Eels answering back with one of their tries. The Eels coach Daniel Anderson, decided to bring his big gun back onto the field, Fuifui Moemoe. In less than 5minutes Fuifui had stormed down to the try line and had gotten a try to put some hope back in Parramatta. The Eels were now down 1 converted try. The game carried on when Fuifui Moemoe had just made a beautiful tackle around the legs of Billy Slater who then dropped it. The referee called it a strip when it wasnt. When we watched it in slow mo, I could not believe my eyes. It was such a important time of the game for the referee to make a dumb decision. I was devastated for my team and angry at the referee. 5 tackles later, the Storm kicked a field drop goal. When it went over, there was only 2minutes to go. I knew the dream of winning the Grand final for my team was over. 2nd place is still awesome for a team that has not won since 23 years ago. WATCH OUT FOR THE PARRAMATTA EELS IN 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Electric Parramatta Eels slither to the GRAND FINAL

2009-09-26T11:28:00.010+12:00

"Wooooooo!!!!"went the hooter. Did you know that the Bulldogs lost against the Parramatta Eels last night? Everybody thought that it was going to be a close game but the final outcome was 22-12.

The first half was messy for both sides but in the 4th minute the Bulldogs managed to get a try. The worse thing for the Eels was their star player Jarryd Hayne was put on report for a knee to the upper body of Bryson Goodwin. I hope Jarryd does not get a suspension for the last game of the season. The Bulldogs had an opportunity to get an 8 point lead but Hazem did not get one of his conversions. The Eels did not give up and then finally made their first try of the game. This evened the score up, so now it was 6 all but the dogs came back with determanation and scored another try. At half time the Bulldogs were leading 12-6.

I could tell that Daniel Anderson {their coach} was telling them to do this and that when the Eels were in their changing rooms for half time. The commentators were talking nonstop about the first half.
The Eels were all listening hard because they wanted to win the game and so did I. I was feeling nervous because what if they did not come back to win? What if they get a beating?

The nervous feeling started to go away because they scored another try in the 2nd half. That means that the score was even..... again. After about 15 more minutes they got another try and that feeling went away again then a new feeling came inside me. Can you guess what it was? If you guessed happiness and proud you would be right.

My Uncle Matt said that his team {the Bulldogs} would win. He mocked my team before the game started and he said "...Can you guess what bulldogs eat for breakfast? Smoked Eels....". when he said that I did not mind because I knew that the Parramatta Eels would win anyway. When another try {the last} and conversion were added for the Eels, I said to my Uncle "what were you saying about smoked Eels?" and he said "Yeah yeah" then we both laughed together.

In the grand final it will be the Parramatta Eels against the winner of The Brisbourn Broncos or the Melbourne Storms who are playing each other today.

THE SERGE OF THE PARRAMATTA EELS, WATCH OUT BRONCOS OR STORM!!!!!

The Parramatta Eels electrifry the Titans....PERMANENTLY

2009-09-19T17:26:00.012+12:00

"The season is well and truly over for the Gold Coast Titans" sadly said the commentator. My gosh, did I see the Parramatta Eels last night win again? First, over the St George Dragons and now the Titans. The score was absolutely amazing.

The Eels did not let them even score a try. The score was 27 -2 to the "electrifying" Eels. They were on fire in the first half and they only made a few mistakes. At least the Gold Coast Titans had a two pointer. It was 12-2 just before half time and can you guess who stepped up and got the field goal? He has the title "Player of the Year" and the award to make it official. This man was in my last post "My FAVOURITE rugby league player". If you guessed Jarryd Hayne then you would be right.

He is the ultimate player. He can kick a 40-20, score tries, can make up beautiful plays, set up tries and now he can kick a field goal. He did it just when the buzzer went for half time. I wanted to run around like a crazy manic. In the second half though, the Eels made a few too many mistakes but they still held on.

There were times when the Titans nearly scored but the mighty Eels still held on. Instead of the Titans getting tries , it was the stunning Eels that had the tries, but they only scored 2 tries this time. The first try was when the Eels passed the ball out wide and then passed it back inside. It felt like a classic maneuver to me. The second try was from pure power and footwork. Ben smith scored this try which was the last.

The scrum was down and packed then the halfback passed the ball to Ben smith. It was a good situation for Smith. It was him against the tackler Luke Bailey, so he just fended him off and did a little step then he had his first try in first grade. To make it even worse for the Titans, they got a penalty so the Eels chose to finish the game in style which was to slot the ball in between the posts and that's what Luke Burt did. I was screaming in my mind and saying "YES" then saying yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PARRAMATTA EELS ARE ON FIRE. WATCH OUT BULLDOGS AND BRONCOS

My FAVOURITE rugby league player!

2009-09-07T14:12:00.016+12:00

"What a fantastic try by Jarryd Hayne" the commentator shouted through the microphone. Can you take a guess of who my favourite rugby league player is? If you guessed Jarryd Hayne then you guessed correctly! Man, did you see the score against the St George Dragons? Jarryd Hayne got the last try for The Parramatta Eels. He sidestepped 4 people. It was an amazing performance from the Eels. The score was 25 - 12 to the amazing Eels. I could not believe that the Eels had won because sometimes the Dragons would come back, but when Luke Burt got the field goal, I knew that they had won. Next week, they will be versing the Gold Coast Titans. They had lost to their big "brothers" the Broncos. Jarryd Haynes position on the field is the fullback. This position means that if the other team gets tackled five times they have to kick the ball then the fullback retrieves the ball and if he and his team gets tackled five times that team has to kick too. The fulback hardly gets the ball but Jarryd Hayne had played like a half back when he is gotten to his peak. Here is Jarryd Hayne's stats-

D.O.B: 15/02/88

Age: 21

Height: 188cm

Weight: 96kg

Position: fullback/wing

Rep Honours: 3 matches for NSW 07 and 09,1 test for Australia 07, City Origin 07 and played for Fiji 08

and he got player of the year for 2009. The nominees were himself, the five-eighth for the St George Dragons - Jamie Soward or Anthony Watmough who plays for the Manly Sea Eagles. He and the Eels are going through to the finals football {rugby league not soccer} I really hope the Eels win against the Titans. Have you got a favorite League team. Comment and tell me. GO THE PARRAMATTA EELS!!!!!

The coolest word site!!! Wordle

2009-09-02T14:30:00.005+12:00

Today at extension we got to use a very cool website. It is called Wordle. We used this program to get the picture above. This program scans though your blog and shows you which words you use most often.

An instrument that records earthquakes

2009-08-05T14:19:00.024+12:00

Shake shake shake went the mysterious object in our I.C.T teacher's hand. What was it?

Mrs Tele'a said that we were going to make a seismometer. A seismometer is an instrument that records an earthquake and its magnitude. We were doing this because we were going to have a video conference with Hamish Campbell about a region called Fioidland in the South Island of NZ, having a huge earthquake . No, not Hamish Carter, this guy is a....a....well .. he is really heaps of things. Yesterday we had to make a home made seismometer. We got these steps from the Internet. These were the materials we used.

-a cardboard box

-a polystyrene cup

-a permanent marker

-a piece of paper

-a string about 60 Cm's

-marbles or tiny rocks{optional}

When we started, the whole room was filled with noise and we were all racing against each other. After very hard work, we finally made our seismometer but this was still unstable. The pen that was stuck though the cup was not reaching the paper on the bottom of the cardboard box.

We tested it after we had fixed this problem. The marbles that we put in, were too heavy and it broke the string that was holding the cup off the ground. Our team was very happy to have finished it. Here is a picture of our home made seismometer.

I'm only 10 and I just met John Key!

2009-07-20T14:24:00.016+12:00

Wow, imagine that, you're only 10 years old and you get to meet the Prime Minister of your country, along with 3 other pupils from your school.
That's the Right Honourable JOHN KEY {The Prime Minister of New Zealand}. This was on the last day of term 2, Pt England School.

The meeting took place at Ruapotaka Marae in Tamaki,Auckland City. My classmates and I went with our I.C.T. teacher Mrs Tele'a. They were Tanielu, Cruz, Sela and myself. Some of us were getting a little nervous......

There is a good thing going on and it is called the Tamaki transformation and this was the subject that we were talking to him about. We had three questions for him. When we arrived at the marae, it felt like ages waiting for the Prime Minister to come into the marae. There was a group, singing a Maori waiata and the boys sounded like they were doing a haka. There was a lot of other people who had come with him, I think they must have been the Minister of Education and the Mayor of this area.

When he sat down, Maori people began to say a speech in Maori from the side that we were sitting on. Then the side that John Key and all the other Parliamentary people were sitting had a speech too. This would keep going on and there would be a Maori song after about 2 Maori speeches. I think every body that was Maori did a speech and even the Prime Minister himself did a speech in Maori. As I'm not Maori, I didn't understand a single word they were saying but I asumed that they were welcoming each other.

It was kai {lunch} time when we finally did our interview. The interview was really cool, click above and you can watch for yourself.

The history of dinoasurs in a museum

2009-06-26T12:10:00.009+12:00

This week on Wednesday we got to go to the museum. They had activities on dinosaurs which is our topic for this term. We had to go with the year fives because we had a test the day before when the rest of the year six's went. We all went on one bus and I was sitting next to a classmate of mine, Moses. It was a long way from our school to the museum in town. We were divided into Five or six groups. In my group it was me, Tanielu, Sela, Seni-Mino, Toreka and our parent helper Havea. When we got there we saw two schools. One of them was Parnell but I do not know what the other school was.

First we went to the natural history part of the museum. It was very cool because they had statues that looked realistic and they also had three lizards. Two of them were green and the other was camouflaged like the little tree that was put in there. Secondly we went outside to have our morning tea.We only had a little time for playing on the field across the street. when we went inside we had to climb a big staircase to get to our next activity.
For our next activity we went into a big wooden circle thing. A guy called Paul was telling us our new activity. For the first part of the activity we went into our groups and Paul put out some special objects into boxes. We all felt them and me and Tanielu smelt it and me and him regretted it because Paul said it was his favourite and you would not guess what it is! It was dinosaur poo! Thats right, dinosaur Poo!!!!!!
The second part of the activity was about moa. They are extinct large New Zealand birds. They think that Moa might have lived when the dinoasurs lived.
After a long day at museum we went back to school.

Mrs Lagitupu the kung fu master

2009-05-29T21:08:00.005+12:00

Its been such a great year so far since our fun and hardworking teacher Mrs Lagitupu has been teaching us. The sad thing is she will be leaving us next week but the happy side of it is she gets two bundles of joy! Thats right, you read it correctly, she is having twins! Isn't that exciting?

Time has gone by very fast. We've done so much amazing stuff with her like making movies, podcasting and also blogging. I have learnt so much from her, she is like a kung fu master that is teaching me all these complex and interesting moves.

I wonder what our new teacher is going to be like? Will he or she be fun, nice, hardworking and helpful like Mrs Lagitupu? Anyway whoever gets to teach these wonderful talented pupils in Room 18 we will welcome him or her to our class and we will make them feel at home........maybe

Well we wish you all the best when you go Mrs Lagitupu. Room 18 will miss you and will hope you bring the babies in.

A Samoan recipe for Extension

2009-05-05T10:28:00.015+12:00

In Extension, we are making a cookbook with homemade recipes of food we are already eating at home. It will be a combination of dinner and desert recipes. We have different Pacific Island students in Extension so we have come up with a few Island dishes. Last weekend I learnt how to make alaisa fa'apopo, or in English its called Coconut Rice.

Ingredients
3cups of rice, half a can of coconut cream and a pinch of salt

Equipment:
a rice cooker {or a pot} and a bowl

Step 1: Cook your rice as you would normally cook it.

Step 2: In a bowl, pour half a can of coconut cream and then add a pinch of salt to it and mix.

Step 3: Make wells in your cooked rice and pour the coconut cream mixture in evenly. Mix together.

Step 4: Serve and eat when its hot. {My Dad loves this with Koko Samoa which is Samoan cocoa. It tastes way different to cocoa you buy in the shop}

Getting jiggy with Will Smith......

2009-04-16T09:29:00.008+12:00

Imagine singing "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz with some students, Peni playing the uke and Will Smith "getting jiggy with it" on his seat via iChat video conference. Yes this is true, it all happened on Wednesday 15th April 2009.

A small group of Pt England students and ex students were lucky enough to talk to the famous and talented and amazing movie star and singer! He is so cool and is a really funny guy. He will be getting an award from the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance. Tolerance in the dictionary means allowing and accepting other peoples rights to their own opinions and actions. That was the topic that we talked to Will about.

He was talking to us about this because when he is going to get the award he will be reading a poem about tolerance. This poem will be special because the students in a programme called R.O.W will have added their own two sentences to the poem that he started off. I would love to see the finished poem.

Peni was funny to Will Smith. This is what he said "We do not tolerate that flag behind you because it is Australian and we are from New Zealand" and then everyone roared with laughter, even Will Smith cracked up laughing.

R.O.W......

2009-04-02T14:11:00.018+13:00

In extension we have been working on a project that is in R.O.W. This stands for Rock Our World. It is a world wide project, which involves heaps of countries in the world. They have themes and the theme for this round is food!!!!! {I love my food with a nice cold icy drink too} In my other post, you can read more about what we did.

They also have a format called garageband. You make a music track on this and then send it to the schools who are participating in Rock Our World. Every school in Rock Our World, gets a schedule to add on their computerized instruments. Point England School was on drums for that week. All of us in extension made a track and Moses got the most votes. His track got sent to the next country. Nice work Moses.

On Flickr we made Mihi's to introduce ourselves to Rock Our World. We used pixelmator or hyperstudio 5 to draw our graphics. After we finished drawing we put it into a programme called comic life. This puts our pictures into frames and joins them together to make a really cool page where we can also add notes to it once it is on Flickr. If you want to know what one looks like, you can copy this address. http://www.flickr.com/photos/extpes/3384043466/

The healthy and unhealthy food pyramid

2009-03-04T14:11:00.009+13:00

"That looks yummy" I said.

In extension we were learning about food and the food pyramid . We got to find out what were our favourite meals and our favourite deserts. We were with partners for this activity. My partner and I liked different meals and deserts. I could not chose my meal so I wrote nothing down and for my desert I wrote down any ice cream and pudding!

Then we got the picture and printed the food pyramid. I found out that most people like fatty and sugary food.

My Holidays

2009-02-23T14:19:00.001+13:00

"Hey Leoden, we're going now!" my Dad said. In the holiday's, we went to Cambridge. Its near Hamilton. My family and I travelled there by car. It took about one hour or so. We went there so that my brother Latham could compete in a sport called Waka Ama. This took place at Lake Karapiro. It was on Maori TV.

Man, there was heaps of food there and the food was nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luckily there were ice blocks there too because I really felt like an ice cube melting in a oven watching my brother and his team paddle.

My brother's team challenged heaps of opponents and they just made it into the finals. I was jumping up and down like I had a sugar rush because it was so close. They were leading all the way and then ran out of puff. They came 8th in whole of NZ. Thats better than nothing.

the film festival

2008-12-11T12:13:00.000+13:00

Last week {week 8} our whole school had a film festival. Its where the school can make a short video.This is a very cool thing and I wish that we could have this every single year. The judges judged heaps of categories. Tanielu and I had to make a title page for the film festival. I made two but here is one of them

I hope you enjoyed my movie

My team (The Celtics) won our basketball game final!

2008-11-25T10:32:00.000+13:00

thanks to www.celticsgreen.proboards18.com, www.nancarrow-webdesk.com and www.nba.com for the photos

As I walked in, I didnt know that we were playing finals. Really noone in our team knew, not even our parents. I saw the other team (Parnell conquers) outside getting pumped up like rockets by their coach. They all looked like year 6s but i thought we could still win but probably it would be a close game. The hooter rang and I felt like Kobe Brayent (in the lakers instead of the celtics) storming onto the court. My team warmed up and we were ready to roll. In the first 10mins, we were point for point. I could hear the parents screaming like loud speakers. At half time we were up by 6points. Our coach (a guy called Steve) told us that we had to play hard on defense and we will win this game on defense! Guess what ...........WE WON just like Steve said. We tharshed them 34-18 HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we were named after celtics thanks to them for the name

the video conference to the usa

2008-11-10T14:18:00.000+13:00

thanks to laugks.org for the photo on the right.
thanks to complaptop.blogspot.com for the photo on the left.

Joshua Klein. Have you heard about him ? If you have heard about him he must be smart,really smart. He researched crows for ten years. It must of been long very long!

Joshua got this idea from when he was with his friends at a cocktail party. His friend told him about the crows, his friend wanted to kill them. Joshua said "Couldn't we train them for something useful". His friend said that it was impossible.

Joshua made a vending machine for crows. It had four stages. First it was surrounded by coins and nuts. The crows just kept on coming until he would then change into the next stage.The next step was that a coin would pop out then the crows would hit it and they would get a nut.The last and final step was that when a crow would come and nothing would happen.The crows would get a smart idea from step 1 to get the coins and then get the nut.

SUIPI, an old persons game?

2008-10-27T20:11:00.000+13:00

If you are Samoan, you probably would know this card game. You need a deck of cards that go up to 13 and at least 2 players. There are 23 points in a game.A joker is a 13. 12 points or more will win you the game and this is how you play.
thanks for www.istockphoto.com for the photo

1. Shuffle the deck of cards
2. Put 4 cards flipped up and deal 10 cards to yourself and your opponent
3. The person not dealing goes first. You can pick up a matching card (one on the table and one in your hand) or you can put another numbered card on top of a another numbered card to add up to a card you have in your hand. Example if there is a 4 on the table and you are holding a 9 and a 13, you can put your 9 on top of the 4 to make 13.
4. The dealer gets his turn and he can do the same. Pick up a matching card or pick up the 13 the other person made if he has a 13 or make his own one.
5. When all your 10 cards are finished, the dealer repeats dealing the 10 cards till the pack is finished.
6. Now here is how you get points.

3points = most cards, you need more than 32 cards
1point = most spades, you need more than 8
1point for each ace
1point for 2 of spades only
5points for the 13 of diamonds only
4points foe the 12 of diamonds only
3points for the 11 of diamonds only
2points for the 10 of diamonds only

To get a suipi, you have to pick up the last card or cards in the round before the next deal. This is worth 1 point each and its also the name of the game. These points are extra. Whoever has the most points at the end of the game WINS!

Old persons game, I think not. If you get good at it. I'm up for the challenge. Bring it on!

Hint: To be a good player, you have to have good addition and memory skills

Ellerslie Eagles in the finals ?

2008-09-09T10:35:00.000+12:00

I downloaded these pictures from Google

"Hey Latham, good luck and have a good game against Bay Roskill,ok!". My brother {Latham} was in the finals. He and the under 13s were the only team from Ellerslie Club to make it in the finals. It was so cool.The other team were good too, it was a fantastic game. They played really well but they lost 26-20. Ellerslie Eagles shouted them a bbq for making it to the finals.

Japan to NZ ?

2008-09-01T10:44:00.000+12:00

Last week my family hosted a Japanese student {my brother stayed with him and his family when he went to Japan last year} called Yohei .We had lots of fun with him. He brought presents for us and he gave me 2 t shirts.He likes pizza, licorice, hot chips and skittles.We went rainbows end and he did not like any high and fast roller coster.

cross country

2008-08-31T09:52:00.000+12:00

"On your marks, get set, go!" Principal Mr Burt yelled. We had to run a long way and I mean a long way. Man, we had to run around our field, then go out of the school bounds to our reserve and then come in to the finish line. I was with the 9 year old boys and I was jogging with my friend Tyler P.

I was lucky that it did not rain.I was getting wind in my face when I was jogging and that was part of the weather that I liked because it cooled me down when I was jogging .It was like having an air conditioner that was on full blast.There was no sun so I could see easily where the finish line was.

When I was nearly there, I felt like I was about to slow down and I felt like the slowest creature in the world. People were saying "Come on Leoden, push it!" so I did. I sprinted to the end with all I had left. I was so proud of myself!

Nadia Comaneci

2008-08-25T10:05:00.000+12:00

Thump as Nadia Comaneci just finished a very good routine on the bars and a.................................
what ? A 1 comes up wait that's a 10 the crowd is just going wild I can't believe it.

Nadia Comaneci was born in Romania 1961. She stared gymnastics at the age of 6. She won Heaps of medals when she was in the Romanian team and got 7 10s then {when she was older} defected and marred Bart Conner in the USA

She was very hard working in her training. She trained 4 hours a day excpt for sunday.She had eveything that a very very good gymnastics pro has. Now that's a good gymnastics pro.

Cross Country practise

2008-08-11T10:11:00.000+12:00

"Ready set go" The senior school were doing cross country practise on the 24 of July.We started at the Kindergarden gate ran up to the roundabout next to the shops back in to the school and there i was .When I was running it felt like I was in a desert because I was very Hot.I was Jogging at the start because if you don't you will lose all your energy and become slower than a land turtle.I was determined to Ketchup to Sione and Nathaniel so I jogged all the way to them and talked to them while Jogging. We went pass the gate and ms Squires and Mr Palmer so we had Jogged halfway.I was puffed out that I could stop but I did not and I sprinted to the end.We did it again for lap 2.When we were at the finsh we did stretches so we do no t pull any thing.

Term 3 Immersion Assembly

2008-08-04T10:29:00.001+12:00

Cool our topic is we are the champions.we are doing this because the 2008 Beijing olympics is starting. all of the school had an immersion assembly so the teachers dressed up to look like champions.
Mr Burt was Mark Todd but I did not know who he was until Feki got the answer right when he was guessing but now I know who he is.He is an equestrian and he has got more golden medals than any New Zealander that lives right now also even thought he is old he is going to try again at these olympics so he is not giving up just like our saying champions never give up.That was the person that I liked the best.
after all the teachers finshed we had to leave for class

Helicopter

2008-07-03T10:18:00.000+12:00

Holy Camoly, a helicopter at Pt England . When I looked at it in the air it looked like a toy police helicopter. When it finally landed, it was like a hurricane. Then as it was grounded, the pilot came out and told us all about the it. It was cool because they had an infored camera so they could see in the dark. When you looked through it, the ground was black and the people were white. After that, we got to have a look inside. I saw heaps of things and they were cool. They were going and when they lifted they nearly cut the post but they did not so they went up, up and away

Hot Air Balloon

2008-06-26T10:23:00.000+12:00

On Wednesday the 7th of May we got to see a real hot air balloon on our field. The people who showed us it were 2 guys called Darryl and Matt. I was exited to see a hot air balloon floating in the air.
The first thing they did was set it up. After that they put the cold air in it. It was cool because when there was enough air it kind of looked like a colourful ocean. When I also looked inside it was like a dome shaped bouncy castle except that it was stinky like socks that have been in your room for a year and they havent been into the washing machine. When eveybody had looked inside the hot air balloon it was time to heat the air in it with 2 burners. When it was finished they tested it before it lifted. When it was in the air it covered the whole sun it was that big.

Term 2: Up,Up and Away

2008-06-09T10:48:00.000+12:00

"Up,Up and Away", here is another term of super cool learning. We are learning about flight and how things fly. I have been waiting to learn about helicopters, planes, hang gliders and more.
At our immersion assembly I saw Mrs Tele'a as MSG and that stands for Manu Samoa Girl.

The Pt England Way

2008-03-31T10:00:00.000+13:00

This term we are learning the pt e