When I First Learnt How To Ride A Bike

               When I First Learnt How To Ride A Bike:
"Owwww" I said when my bike fell on my tiny toe. I was learning how to ride my bike in the driveway with my mum. We had taken off my training wheels at the age of six. As I tried peddling down the driveway my mum got a call from inside. While she was talking on the phone I was peddling! But I lost control and rode into the garage door. As tears were prickling down my cheeks, my mum came outside and said that we can end it for the day. 

                                   The moral of the story:
If you don't know how to ride a bike, never ride unsupervised.

Unfortunately I had to learn that the hard way. :(   

My PBL

                                📚My PBL🐜

  Above is my ant and book for my PBL. My ant was a pretty hard challenge for me, mostly putting on the paper mache, witch was FRUSTRATING😠          

Apart from that it was really fun and I wish I could do it again.
In my booklet I put in my Report Writing and Acrostic Poem. 
I also made picture on the back and it has a talking ant. (Don't judge me). A muscle I stretched was my interdependence muscle and I did that by working away from friends (well, some of the time). If I could do it again I would focus more and get it finished. 

Matariki Slide

Siapo Art Reflection

The Forgotten Island

Forest Images for Writing

Learning Intention: We are learning to be Resourceful by Capitalising and making good use of the things that are available for us to use in the classroom to help us with our learning.

Paired/Individual Writing

How: Choose a buddy to write with or work by yourself.

Criteria

• I support the main ideas with enough detail to give the reader a clear and engaging picture.

• I write simple and compound sentences using varied conjunctions.

• I write some complex sentences.

• I write sentences that mostly make sense.

• I use language features to extend or clarify meaning and engage the audience.
• Similes
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Onomatopeia

• I use basic punctuation correctly.
• Full stops,  capitals, exclamation marks, question marks
• Commas in lists, apostrophes in contractions, speech marks

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                                         PRologue

The smooth, strong breeze of the helicopter made my hair stick up like a black cliff slope. Jim grabbed all his ammo and the emergency kit, just in case. “Soldier! Load the cannons! We ain't got all day , so hurry up!” demanded the General. “Yes Sir!” Jim called. As I was heading to the helicopter site,there was a sudden sight that made everyone stop dead.

“What is that?!?” One of the pilots asked, shivering at the sight. The thing was staggering around, looking for food.“Some sort of… Tree Monster?” Replied Jim, aiming his shotgun at it. “Shall we fire, Sir?” Jim asked the general. “Hold it. Wait until my signal.” He whispered. “ROAR” The Tree monster screamed, While running towards us, swinging its arms like crazy. “NOW!!!!!” Cried the General. The giant tree thing stampeded across our base while destroying everything in its way. “RUN!!!!!!” Jim screamed at the top of his lungs.

People ran in all directions, Calling for their Mummys and Daddys (Not really. He’s just targeting the annoying people). The Tree was gaining on me, and it was MAD! (I have no idea why). Before I knew it, I never made it out of the base.   

“Oh... Crud.” Jim said, while being picked up by the tree.                    

               The Forgotten Island

                The Plane Crash

“Whoah…. This is view is great!” I said, admiring America’s water. “Wait, there’s a mysterious looking island with a…foggy barricade?!?” replied Zac, my older brother. It was Me (Mike), My brother Zack, My stepdad Jak, Cousin Gray and My Uncle T were on a airplane, heading towards north America because of a cousin's suicide attempt.

“Attention passengers, we are approaching America so buckle up, ‘cause we're coming in hot!” said the pilot over the intercom. As I clicked my strap in, the alarm started buzzing off. “Why is the alarm going off!” screamed Gray, who was terrified. “Make your way to the emergency door! There are plenty of parachutes so GO NOW!” ordered the pilot. “Hey! There are no chutes left!” Said Uncle T, while checking just in case. “WHAT!!!!!” us kids screamed, before crashing into an island.

            

                                             An Adventure

I woke up, lying on the sandy shoreline of a mysterious island while gazing for my family. “Mike! Are you alright?” Called Dad

“Yeah! Just bruised and cut.” I replied, jogging to everyone else.

“Zac! Zac! Are you alright?” I asked him. “All good. I know that everyone else is to.” He said. “What about the Pilot? Is he okay?” I Replied curiously. “Wait what? He jumped, remember?” Zac said, Shocked. “No, I saw him in the front seat while the co-pilot jumped, and then we crashed.” I replied, while Zac was staring at me like an alien cockroach from Mars. We all got together and tried to figure out where we are. “Maybe this is a dream?” asked Gray. “Stab yourself to find out!” Zac said, sarcastically. “Hey! No fighting! We need to wander around and build a shelter! Now!” screamed dad. Neither of us said a word after that (#Awkward Silence).
                                                                 

 

Thank You Mr Ford!

Nikau Hub

Parkvale School

Howard Street

Hastings            

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May 23, 2017

Dear Mr Ford,

                  

Thank you for giving up a week of travelling with your family to come to camp so you could help Nikau learn more about the environment. It was cool when we saw you again. Thank you SO MUCH for making the sentence game.

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I enjoyed the walk to Lou’s Lookout because we got the chance to see a very little amount of glowworms, while the great view on the Lou’s Lookout platform was very high and misty. The only downside was the big holes on the side’s. It FREAKED me out!!!(Kind of)

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Something else fun was the caving because some were very challenging, like bat poo alley where we had to shimmy across the very TINY gap, and it was HARD! In the end I could not do it (don’t Judge me). Hey, at least I tried.

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The last exciting bit was the sentenced hunt because it was fun looking for an white arrow with a word on it. I forgot what it said but just to make it clear, it was yours that you made and it was about Michael Noonan. It was awesome when we went through the bushes and I tripped over a twig. (WOW) Thank you for making this awesome challenge and I’m sure we all enjoyed it.

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Fun fact: The Maori who shot Michael Noonan were well hidden and camouflaged, allowing them to shoot poor Michael, not knowing he made it. He is said to be wandering around Camp Kaitawa headless, while brushing campers on their shoulders, looking for the Captain. If he thinks he has found the Captain he will place a note next to that person and leave camp.

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Once again thank you for coming to camp so you could help us do Fun activities and hikes.

Yours sincerely,

Jaedyon Coombs

 

Visual Art #2

Photo's From Homework

                         Engraving experiment

The objective of this experiment is to engrave picture's onto a key ring. I had to follow instructions carefully so Me and Mum were safe and also to make sure the experiment worked :) Even though we followed all the instructions it failed badly. But that's okay because we can try again another day.  

This is me in the weird-looking
safety goggles.

The photo with all the materials:
Safety goggles, 1 plastic cup, 1 pair of
tweezers, 3 toxic chemicals and
4 little metal surface plates+
little key chain ring.  

This is  our selection of the pics we
wanted to do.
My one is the cross and
Mums is the stars.
They are both just starting
material.  

This is my hand pouring toxic
chemicals into a
plastic mini bowl.

This is the result of after we put the surface's
in the plastic cup full with chemicals.
 (Well still wrapped. P.S: It completely failed:(. 

My Special Place

My Special Place

                                    🏡The Neighborhood🏫

The tall, shadowy buildings towered over me like they were about to gobble me up thinking I’m a Jumbo meat lovers and hawaiian pizza. They were as tall as a hundred Elephants. I slowly dragged my body across the freshly paved sidewalk my head turned itself to the side so it will witness the shouts of hyper kids to the waves of the elderly. My legs took control as I admired the block while sucking on my annoying thumb sucker (I threw it out because of the taste). I toppled over two toy cars left out on my porch.  ‘Off!’ The long branch on my towering tree house swung at me like a HellBat. ( From Terraria’s underworld.)I snacthed my money out of my draw and climbed down to the sidewalk.

   `     🚌The Road🚌

The dust from the monster truck wheels gave me a little tickle on my ankles like a baby crab heading towards my pounding chest. As I rode my bike down to The Cafe I skidded the poor wheels to a stop to buy lemonade from fresh, clean Lemonade stands that sold refreshing drinks as well as lemons. The next stop was the location: The Cafe. Mmm… those hunger busters were the BOMB! They were as tasty as a million fries in my paper bag. As I fled back to my treehouse there was a suspicious looking skull with a terrifying grin and a chipped tooth on the grass. I bent over and touched it, then everything went Black.

                                   💻Inside the game💻

The moment I opened my eyelids, there was some pixelated creature waiting to greet me. “Hello, my name is Jacob. I am your guide that provides all the tips and tricks you need. ” He said. I stood there wondering where I was. Then it hit me: Terraria. Terraria is a adventuress game where you can explore, create and get NPCs to move in with you. “Hey, welcome back chief!” cried the villagers. “Oh yeah, you don’t talk much. Sorry”  I greeted them and moved on to building things in my village. Right at the moment when I got a new NPC, My bestie,Ryan !, The goblin army forged an attack on us. Everyone apart from me and my bestie (and guards) ran inside their cottages. “ Launch the cannons!” one of them ordered. BOOM! BANG! KAPOW! Off! I cried. The leader of the goblin army had got to me in STEALTHY mode! ‘ACK ACK’ was all I managed to choke out before everything went Black (Really).                  

                        🔪Weapons🔫 “Ohhhh……” I moaned. I was lying on the grass trying to figure out what happened. “ Die you peasant!” Came a familiar voice. The Goblin Leader! It was coming from my town! I limped to over to the voices when someone bowled me over. “Ryan!?!” I cried. “What Are you doing here? The town’s over in the forest. What happened?” I asked. “Everyone's being held hostage over in the secret bunker!” He replied. “We should head-” “Hey! Are you guys Ok?!” came a voice. “I’m Zach. I was heading to a town but then everything went red. Do you live in the town down there?” “Yeah. Follow us.”  We replied. As we ran through the long, thickening grass raindrops tickled my ears and Ryan fell over (Oh WOW) “Hey, look. I think I found a chest with 58 Full Sets of stardust armor, 90 Pulse Bows, 20 Shadow beam Staffs and 100 sets of Blood stone tools!!!” Cried Ryan. “Sweet! let's go save our village!” I declared. We equipped the shiny weapons, armor and tools then set off to fight the Goblin (Dramatic music from Ryan) Duna duna duna duna dun dun  “Ok let's shut up and move to fight the goblin leader” Ryan said (WOW Ryan what a PARTY POOPER). “Goblin leader, give us the village or ELSE!!! (Dun Dun Dun)” I ordered. “Or what. You gonna give me candy? Ha Ha Ha!” laughed goblin leader.
“You will DIE!” We replied.      

Visual art

All about me

  

Hobby   Lego is a fun building experience that people like to create cities with because without it, mega bloks would rule the world and make everyone miserable. Luckily, Lego gives you an opportunity to collect and explore! (P.S. they have a theme park called Legoland in california!!!). Minifigures come in every Lego city set and have awesome builds and details. There are many themes to list like Star Wars, Technic, Creator and many, many more.

Best Memory                 My favourite memory is when Me and my Bff (Shoutout to Con) went to splash planet. The Bombs we managed to rip was pretty BAD. But forget about that because we're not here read about the baddest bombs of 2017, aren't we? We are here to talk about my Special day out at Splash Planet! It was the best because we had hot chips (Shout out to Nana:)) and burgers and there only 3 of us!!!

Fun Fact A fun fact about me is that I have 1 cat and a Kitten. And plus, there’s A fluffy  cat that my mum calls Mr Longbottom. My two cats Bob and Jerry are Literally Psychopaths! They claw mums chair and run around the house like wild boars! Your lucky you don't live with me. Those cats like to catch birds, and guess what? Jerry, she kills birds and brings them into mums room and goes and walk away with the bird on the carpet. lucky i'm not mum:)

What Makes Me Laugh: What makes me laugh is when Bobbie and Jerry play tag and slide into things on that shiny, glistening lino floor. (The rules that I made up are: Free for all and you can go Anywhere on the property apart from my room, if you start eating your paused until you stop, do not even look at me while your playing and the last rule is very important: there are two modes: Hardcore or easy. If you chose hardcore you have to play outside otherwise you can play anywhere you want). Oh and it kills me with laughter when they dig holes and do a bomb.

5 Things About Me-2017 Edition

Warning: Some content is what some Mums consider a waste of time.😐                            Restricted for the Year 6's                              Facts about me-Starting Number 5
5:I like Playing Minecraft because it is a game were you can explore different Biomes and experience survival with zombies (block graphics), Creepers, The Wither, Ender Dragon, Zombie Pigmen and Many, many more.

4: Swimming is a great sport for me and probably the funnest.

3: Halo is also an adventure game but more violent because guns are involved.

2: Silver goes to: School!(Surprisingly😕) I like my teachers (Shout out to Mrs Lowe and Mr Kenny)  and I love making Friends and learning.
P.S  My teachers are  😄😄

1: Lego is my favorite thing because you can build people, helicopters, car's and planes. It is a fun building experience for growing learners and builders.