Bye bye

Hi everyone, this is my last blog post for 2018. 😢😥😢😥😭

This year I  have enjoyed our team camp, feeding the fish and looking after the chickens.

I would like to thank Miss Green, Fairy Judy, Foram and all the teachers at Owairaka District School for helping me with my learning.

Have a great holiday.

place value

hope you like it!

Symmetry

Hope you like it!

🌊Kauri big splash🌊

Today was kauri big slash

We had lot of fun and there where lots of races like the seal race, the bucket race and the under over race where just a bit of them.

It was a very fun day so thank you so much for the teachers who helped make it happen!

Tui street tales

Here is my tui street tales slide show.

butterflies

Here is my slide show on butterflies hope you like it!

This is my Armistice day tagul.

camp

On Monday this week we went to chosen valley camp with room 7 and 18, it was really fun and the games where amazing the food was yummmmmmmmmmmmmy and my bed was so warm.😴 :P 

holiday

In the holidays I went to the gold coast and on the gold coast there is movie world and my family went to movie world and there where so many rides they where so creepy I did not go on any of them but my family went on them.

Anne Kayes

On Tuesday Anne Kayes an NZ author came and told us about her book called Tui Street Tales. It is a very good book and I would rate it highly Recommend it.

Story board

Made with Storyboard That This is my story board of someone saying what is your name and answering in Maori.

🦄ZOE🦄 Speech 2018

My Speech

Title:  3 weirdest sports in England

Think about it, what does shin kicking, toe wrestling and cheese rolling all have in common? You might think there is nothing at all but have you ever heard of them? Well, you probably have not but they are all sports! Sports that I would not think to be popular but they are.  Hi my name is Zoe and today I’m going to tell you about the 3 weirdest sports in England and I think they are the 3 weirdest sports in the WORLD!.

England is known for a sport called shin kicking. Shin kicking, also known as hacking or purring is an ancient sport part of the annual Cotswold Olimpick games.These games probably began in 1612 and straightway skin kicking was very popular.

How to play this weird game is easy, all you have to do is kick your opponents shins until they fall to the ground in pain, then you win. TIP: stuff your pants and socks with straw the pain does not go to your shins as much.

England is known for another sport called toe wrestling. It was invented by four drinkers in Ye Olde Royal Oak Inn, in Wellington, Staffordshire in 1974. They were moaning about the fact that the United Kingdom struggled to have any world champions in any sport. Having already tried ear wrestling and push of war with a scaffolding pole, (sounds dangerous), they thought of toe wrestling. A rule board was made by the sign writers at the Yorkshire Evening Post and even a small trophy was made.

Toe wrestling is quite a simple game, all you have to do is get two pieces of wood and put them not too far apart to make a space for each person foot, like an open ended box. Then you put your foot in the middle of them and get someone to do the same on the other side. Next put your feet together and try to push the other person's foot onto one of the sides of the box, the wood. But at the same time the other person is going to try and push your foot to the opposite piece of wood so its not as easy as it sounds.

The last weird sport England is known for, wait for it, cheese rolling! Competitors take part in the annual Cheese rolling event at Cooper's Hill. This ceremony originally took place each Whit Monday before it moved to the spring bank holiday.  Two possible reasons why it started have been suggested for the ceremony. The first said that it evolved from a way for keeping grazing rights on the common, an area of shared land in the middle of the town. The second idea is that it is from a pagan custom of rolling objects down the hill.

How it works is, you have a round wheel of Double Gloucester cheese and you roll it down a steep hill. As soon as the cheese is let go, you run down the hill after it and the first person to get to the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.

Cheese rolling can be quite a dangerous sport because of the steepness of the hill. There have been several injuries including broken legs and arms. Once, when a sudden thunderstorm interrupted the race in 1982, four adults and children who were zapped by lightning. Ouch!

Wow, now you know 3 of the craziest sports in England and I think in the world! Which one would you like to try? I think when I’m older I might try toe wrestling.

Film Festival Trip

This is my favorite film it is one of the best it started of quite boring it is just things in places and then it speeds up and it looks like a house running.

This is one about a boy that has a collection of bells and makes things with them.

Here is a link to one of the films.

Letter to PM

Owairaka District School

113-115 Richardson Rd

Mt Albert

Auckland

Wednesday 16th May

Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern

Office of the Chief Executive

Level 8 Executive Wing

Parliament Buildings

Wellington

Dear Prime Minister,

Sorry to bother you but do you know about Garden to Table? Well if you do not, I can tell you that it's really fun. I think that you should let other schools have the Garden to Table program as well. You can get lots of new skills and experiences.

When you are in the garden you can water plants, pick vegetables for the kitchen, plant new seedlings and improve the garden.  In the kitchen you cook food, put it on plates nicely and (well both garden and kitchen do it but) eat the food. In Garden to Table we also learn maths and reading skills, especially when we read from the recipes.

Garden to Table helps us try new things. I had a banana skin muffin! I know it sounds AWFUL but guess what, it was delicious. I also had tofu. It looked like a SQUISHY MASH but all the same it was delicious. There was also a green smoothie it looked GROSS but once again it was delicious.

I think you should really come and try our food that we cook and even cook in the kitchen yourself using vegetables from our garden. We hope you will help other school have the Garden to Table program and build more gardens .

Yours sincerely,

Zoe :)