COUNTRY COMES TO TOWN!

Last week on Monday we had to complete 8 activities and our project was about the Canterbury A&P show, these are the things we had to complete, a A recount about our trip to the show, find out information about an animal we saw, we had to design a ride for the show- safety, features, fun factor, the name and why they would want to go on the ride, history about the show, food truck that would be at the show and we had to figure out how much we had to give to the show, how much profit we would get out of everything etc, photo book at the show, marketing campaign and lastly the competitions, we had to choose a competitions from the show and then find information about it.

Lets now talk about what I have done;

Let's start about my ride;

It is a milkshake, so firstly you pay $10, sign a some paper incase you die, put a wristband on and then go up the elevator.

Once you make it up to the top you go on the rollercoaster then each person gets thrown into a ball filled with air and it's like a car but all around you is water and you can go wherever you want, once your time is over, you get sucked down to the bottom where there is no water and get out.

 My food truck.

I can't talk about because I didn't complete it but it was meant to be a donut truck and the prices were meant to be $5 per donuts and for a dozen of mini donuts they were $4.

Heres my recount;

-Recount-

Friday 17th of November;

I woke up Friday morning and biked down to my dad's with one of my friends at 6.30am, Dad was taking my friend Kim and I to the show.

Half an hour later we arrived at the show we showed our wristbands to the people at the gate and walked behind Dad to his stand.

8.00am.

Kim and I walked past all the stands and then saw a waffle one and we were definitely getting waffles you can never turn waffles down.

From 9.00am till 12.00pm Kim and I watched some show jumping in the main arena, bought 2 bracelets and I brought this squishy toy and I was swinging it round and then it bursted and all the water stuff inside of it got all over me all over my good show top I was wearing ..

1.20pm

Kim and I walked back to my Dad's stand because I had to get ready for my race, when I arrived at Dad's stand Mum, Chloe, Grace, Hannah and Hannah's friend Az were all there, I asked mum for some headache pills because I had a super sore head, after that I went into one of the float Dad was selling and got dressed for the race, I was wearing white John Whitaker jodhpurs, brown leather riding boots and my brown leather chaps, I keep the top I was wearing before it was a baby blue short sleeve show top, I pulled my hair into a low tight bun and the placed my brown shiny KEP on my head.

1.40am, Mum, Chloe and I walked over t0 the shetlands where we got the shetlands ready, while I was getting the shetlands ready I still had a really sore head and mum had no more pill so she had to go ask the ambulance for some.

FINALLY my headache was gone by that time we already but our jockey silks on, geared up the ponies and were on them, I was wearing a purple glittery silk I had to choice to wear it because it went with the pony I was riding.

10 minutes later we were walking around and practised our lineup for the chase, we kept waiting for the person over the bridge to call us over 10 minutes later she finally called us over, now we were walking around in a smaller place on the other side of the bridge, we kept walking around in circles my pony was stressing out even more he started to jog and he was sweating like crazy he wouldn't stand still because every time I tried he tried to rear..

5 minutes later they opened the gates into the big oval we walked around it the commentators talked about us, we waved when they mentions us, my friends and family were cheering.

We all finally walked, well jogged around the whole oval we had covers on and people leading us until we got into the birdcage, the birdcage is what you go into before you line up to race, no it's not what it says it isn't a bird cage it's just a really small area, we all had to stop in there, the leader took our covers off and unclipped the lead ropes and they walked to there jumps.

It was now time we were walking into line,

Now we were all standing in line, Lesley waited till all the ponies were facing forwards and then put her hand out the downwards, we galloped off, their little legs running as fast as they can, Chloe was on my inside riding her pony Blue, we had our first hurdle it was a little pole jump and we flyed over it and the next one came up within seconds it was a bush jump, there was 5 jumps around the oval and we had to go round in 4 times, once we were just about to finish our first lap Chloe's pony Blue just ran into the inside of the oval and we don't know why he just did so now I am in 1st pace with The ponies Muffin and Burberry right behind me, it's now the 3rd lap Muffin and burberry  in front of me and the my pony got a boost of energy and I took over Burberry still on the inside now Muffin was now trying to push me out of where we are meant to go but I didn't let that happen I was squeezing Foxy the pony I was riding to try get into 1st place, the finish line was just in front of me I was squeezing him to try win, he's never won before he normally comes 4th, my friends and family were cheering me on and that's what happened I came 2nd.

Thats my recount!

Heres my Histoty;

-HISTORY-

The A&P show stands for Agricultural and Pastoral.

The first A&P show was first held in a paddock on the 22nd of October 1862, a few weeks later the Canterbury A&P Association was formed was formed on the 23rd of January 1863.

In April 1863 the A&P Show Association purchased 14 acres in Colombo Street for the show to be placed there (this is now Sydenham Park)

November 1887 new show grounds opened in Addington.

In 1996 a larger facility with 145 hectares located on Curletts Road where is it still located till this day.

The show started because farmers wanted to show off their tractors and their products.

Therefore, the first ever A&P was in 1962 but the first one at the main one ( Curletts Road) was in 1996.

The show has been going for 155 years.

Heres my photo book;

  https://docs.google.com/a/yaldhurst.school.nz/presentation/d/1mMxycrLqEpATZwdd2UaVnRl6ULxSpl8HuIEJDdLOodM/edit?usp=sharing

Heres the Animal one I chose Horses;

-ANIMALS/HORSES-

A Horse's first reaction is to flee when they are in danger they can kick, bite, rear and buck.

They do it for defence or they haven't been trained properly.

Horses walk, trot, canter and gallop.

They have a four beat walk, two beat trot, three beat canter and a four beat gallop.

Horses communicate with their eyes and ears and their behaviour.

If their ears are upright but turning back a little they are listening to you if they are flat backwards they are grumpy and if they are forwards they are curious.

Here are a few facts;

• Baby horses can walk and trot a few minutes after they are born.
• A baby boy horse is called a colt.
• A baby girl horse is called a filly.
• A adult girl horse is called a mare.
• A adult boy horse is called a gelding.
• A adult boy horse that hasn’t been gelded is called a Stallion
• Horses and ponies are the same but different heights.
• A horse is over 149cm.
• A pony is under 148cm.

                 Here's what a horse/pony looks like;

My marketing Campaign;

 Fees;

0-5 = free

6-12 = $15

13-17 = $20

18+ $30

ADVERISMENT;

Radio, Newspaper, Tv

10% of the fees will go to the costing for the advertisement.

Thats the end, I didn't complete the foof truck or competitions but I tried to work to my highest standard!

Today we had to present it and Bree judged it for me and this is what my feedback was.

THE OCEANMAKER!

Monday the 6th of November.

The video;

Yesterday we had to make a story based off this movie (The Ocean Maker) If you would like to watch it just click the video above. PROCESS; we had to write it when you first saw the girl in her plane scrathing her eyes and after that we had to make the rest up by our self, once we watched it we had to talk about the location, how we thought she felt/what she saw and what we were wondering.

Heres my story I would love if you took a few minutes to read it and give me some feedback how I could improve, do I need more descriptive sentences, similes, ING words or was it not interesting enough?

Dark Grey smoke flew behind the plane, I had to find them, I knew they were still alive I could feel it in my gut.

Family; they are always there for you even when you don't want them to, they are family after all, I couldn't leave my family, I had to save them.

Tiredly; I scratched my eyes, wiped the sweat off my forehead and carried on steering the plane, it's been 42 days since I woke up lying on the sandy desert that was once an ocean, I don't know where all the water disappeared to, it all just left, in the warm air my plane carried on, looking down, broken ships/boats scattered everywhere.

There! I see something, a group of people; sleeping?

Steering my plane downwards to land, within seconds we were onto the ground, I sprinted over to the pile of people, my heart was racing faster than ever, my mind was going crazy with tons of thoughts but the main one was, could it be my family?

Mom, Dad, Nadia? I pushed their bodies over and gave them cpr, no, no, no, no you can't leave me now, “YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME COME BACK, I can’t be alone here, I don’t know what to do” I cried in horror.

Clip clop, clip clop, I heard horse hooves, it couldn't be, no way I said in my head, could it be my horse?

Racing through the warm breeze behind the big lump of golden sand there it was ; Ziggy my horse, he was alive, Cautiously he walked up to me, I carefully walked up to him and within milliseconds I couldn't keep it in, I threw my arms around his neck, I felt like I was glued there, like it was meant to be this way.

Later that day the sun setted and the moon rises, I made a pen for ziggy out of scrap wood from boats, right next to my.. I guess I could call it home, home was an old submarine, I woke up right next to it 42 days ago so I decided to make it homey, I didn't have to change much on the inside because it was already built up, nothing was broken, no leaks, but luckily there was loads of food and water that would last me years but since my horse is around now it would only last me a few years if i'm lucky.

Rain machine, I have to get it working, yup I was back in my plane but instead of finding my.. you know, I was getting my rain machine to work, I took out my old, rusty dirty binoculars and ran them over the blue sky trying to find a, wait is that what i think it is, is that a ; cloud.

Putting my plane into full speed I flew like an eagle over the cloud, dropped some of my pink powder over the little ball of white candyfloss, looking behind me the cloud grew and grew and grew, water started falling out of the sky, lightning struck, buzzing the ground, oh no…

Flying back to home as fast as my plane could go I landed my plane took all my information about my rain machine inside and grabbed ziggy and put him inside one of the lion cages ( don't ask me why there's a massive lion cage )

BANG, right behind me the lightning struck my plane, “oh no” I muttered.

I had to keep under cover incase the lighting strikes, Katerina and Ziggy ARE NOT DYING TODAY! I shouted.

Sirens screamed, in a massive speaker someone shouted “IS ANYONE ALIVE DOWN THERE?”

Sprinting out from the submarine I jumped up and down, quickly running back inside to grab Ziggy I leaded him outside, rain bucketing down, Ziggy's chestnut and white coat was now drenching, the rain was running down his white blaze, now the rain was dripping down my long bleached blond hair, “i'm coming for you” he shouted.

Boom, his massive helicopter landed, it could fit an elephant it was that big, this guy with tanned skin and brown long hair with dreds jumped out of the helicopter, “what's your name” he asked, “Katerina Petrova” I answered, i’m sorry to tell you this, I can only take one of you, so i'm guessing, hop in!” he replied, “no way you're taking my horse leave me here” I said boldly, “but you will drown, this is turning back into an ocean, we have to hurry” he said strongly, “let me die then, at least i'll see my family, i'm not going to live if my horse will die, give my horse to my cousin; Sophia Taege” I ran up to Ziggy and gave him one last hug, got my pocket knife out and cut some of tail off and held it tight while he leaded him into the helicopter. “goodbye Ziggy”.

Running my heart out up the hill, the rain was falling down on me, stood in front of the cliff, “goodbye world”, I took that last step off.

Uru Manuka logo

The last 3 days we have been making a logo for the cluster "Uru Manuka" and I wanted to share what I created..
I used the app 'Pizap' (https://www.pizap.com/pizap-editor/index.html)  for the hand print tree logos, for the tree with the roots at the bottom I used 'Free Logo Maker' (https://logomakr.com/)

My design process; for the hand tree I found a hand on images saved it then went into google drawing and colour over top of it then used the 'cut out' tool on pizap after that I put it on top of the white background, with the little hands I did the same process as I did with the arm/hand and then duplicated it loads of times until it looked like a tree.

For the tree logo with the roots at the bottom I used free logo maker,

Firstly I found a white circle background shape on images (available for reuse) and then put a semi circle (in shapes on the app) and eventually coloured it in light blue and then planted some clouds on the sky and finally plonked a tree that I found in shapes

(for all the texts I just used what they had on the app)

I would love some feedback on what I could improve or change!
When you reach right to the last slide of my presentaion I have put numbers on each logo, what logo is your favorie that I created for "Uru Manuka"?

My Profile

Hey everyone this is my first blog back from the holidays!
I just wanted to share what we have done, everyone had to create a logo/profile for themself and it has to describe yourself. 
I would love to have some feedback how I could improve on making it look professinal but creative? 
I used the app pizap to create this and google drawing!
I decided to use the colours black because it means mystery and power and I used the colour white because it means pure and innocence.
Check out the photos below to see what I made!

Princess Warrior

Friday sports!

Friday Sport.

Last Friday was are very last Friday sport.

Each week we played Netball and our team was

 - Bella - Laura - Hannah - Ariana - Bree - Jacob - Prudence - Hannah - and myself.

Our last game we lost to 7-11 but it was a hard game and we had fun so thats all that matters.

We had trainin every Wednesday with Donna aka our coach!
Our training went from 12.15 to 12.40

On Friday our game goes for half an hour. after our game our other coach Amy we play games with her, streching and learning new skills.

I have never played Netball on my whole life until I had to play because we didn't have enough people to make a team.

Heres a few pictures below of a game a few weeks ago.

Bill Nagelkerke

Yesterday Bill Nagelkerke whos an New Zealand author came in to show us of some of the words he translated because he can speek Acient Greek as well as English!
He Started writing because of TV, TV show skippy, bush kangaroo, Black and White!


As he was talking he was trying to make us think of telling stories more than just words because stories does not just to be just writing it could be a drawings, dancing ect!

He even wrote a book at 8 years old and it was super descriptive and his handwriting was super neat!

-Heres a few facts about him!
-Wrote a story, Newspaper, 1974, paid for it
-Sold about 25 stories in high school to newspapers
-Likes science fiction, read and watch as many stories as possible
-Can do Magic
-Recommends Shaun Tan as an author
-Read books that are set in a different time period
-When a writer begins a story, An Idea, introduction, pen and paper, a hook, plan
-Start off with a blank piece of paper, Write, Draw, off to the world, people read
-Published 120 poems and short stories and 25 books.

My Own Timetable

This week we are customising our own timetable!
I am going Digi Awards all day today (Monday) because its due this thursday!
Execpt at 12.40 because I have a math group!
Tomorrow I have a group reading and writing!

Click my link to check out my clearer version of my Timetable!



https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/197xqEUeZZ6oeC5StH-iBly7duCBUjnzZraqwr8I4qXg/edit#gid=1440963396

William Pike

Yesterday William Pike came in to our classroom to talk about the challenge! http://williampike.co.nz/ that's his website!

He  told us the story and it went like this, Just after dark one evening on Mt. Ruapehu, William Pike was about to doze off to sleep when 1.5million cubic meters of mud, water and rocks erupted from the mount. Crushed and critically injured, his partner had no option but to leave him for help. What followed was to be one of NZ’s most dramatic alpine rescues, and an epic story of a man’s will to survive in an inhospitable environment. He became critically hypothermic and doctors and rescue authorities noted his survival as ‘a miracle ‘. Among other life threatening injuries, his right leg was amputated below the knee. 

That's a picture of him!

SNARK

Today we had Book Award day and it was at St Margaret's College.
There was six authors that talked about there books that had written or illustratored.
the auothers were.
Leoine Angew who wrote this amazing book - The Impossible Boy
Tania Roxborough - is a children’s writer
David Elliot -  is an award-winning children's illustrator and author
Simon Pollard - is a professional children’s book author, spider professional and natural history writer.
Jenny Cooper - is an award-winning and creative illustrator of more than 70 children’s books.
Des Hunt - is a well admired educationalist who has written a series of outstanding environmental adventures aimed at 9-12 year olds.
We sat in the Auditorium what had HEAPS on seats and the room was MASSIVE.
we sat in the seats (of course) and we listened to each person talk about there books they had 12 minutes each and three people went each hour, it went for a hour then I morning tea and I saw all my friends that go to SMC ( St Margarot's College ) and it was good to see them.


My favorite person was David Elliot because his book "Snark" looked AMAZING!
Heres a picture of the book cover "Snark"

Heres some other pictures.

Roydvale One day Event

On the 31st of July on Sunday I had Roydvale ODE (one day event) Horse Event.

I was doing 95cm on my horse Ziggy but his name for shows is Smart Spark!
There was like 30 in a class and I was competing againist my older sister!
I did my dressage test (I'ts like dancing for horses) and I thought it wasn't as good as I expected it to be as he wasn't listening to my leg aids very well.

As I was learning my showjumping course my mother came up to me an told me I came 2nd out of like 30 people and there are no age limit.

Abby (my friend) and I walked the cross country course one more time so we knew it off by heart!

I went back to the float and started getting ready for cross country, for cross country you wear a cross country jersey and since I support England I have a jersey that says "British Eventer" on it with the union jack flag and I have my Jonh Whittaker riding pants and on my back pocket is theres a union jack flag..

As I threw my leg over the saddle and walking side by side with my sister (abbey) to the warm up,
we stood in front of the gear check (they check your gear to make sure it dosn't break on the course) they check all my leather, checks the tag on my helmet becuase if I fall off the helmet is the only thing that will save me from getting brain damage or getting paralyzed unless I fall off and the helmet dosn't end up saving me and then I die..
 They check my medical arm band ( it has all my medical stuff on it like blood type, emerginces number ect)
They did the ecxact same check to Abbey.
We warmed up in the warm up area side by side trotting along the outside of the taped off paddock.
After 5 minutes of trotting I started to canter up to this wooden roll top, I sat still to his smooth three beat canter a stride away from the jump I sowly lifted my self out of the saddle into a two point postion and he flew over the jump perfectly, That's how the rest of the warm up went like.

"302 your up" someone shouted out to me.
I slowly trotted up to them they said to me "walk over to he start box they will tell you what to do next!"
"Okay thanks" I replied
Walking up to the start box I did a circle and finally the guy said "whenever your ready!"
Walking into the start box my horse did a massive rear (he does it each time, because hes excited and he knows what his job is) "good luck" he said, I replied with "thank you"
Galloping to the first jump,
the first jump was these 3 massive wooden logs at 95cm high, soaring he smoothly jumped over it,
The second jump came up really fast we got in really deep I gave him a squeeze but he still jumped it,
In the videos its really funny you hear me after each jump "good boy ziggy your such a babe" it's quite funny.
We got up to the water jump and one of my friends, Laura said "go Lucy" I replied shouting "thanks girl" im good at mulit tasking!
the water combitation was this jump into a water then 5 strides after we had a skinny, most ponies run out of them because they are super skinny but Ziggy doesn't mimd them.
We got up to last jump, clear so far!
He was galloping his heart out with me pulling him back so he doesn't flip over the jump it felt like my hands where going to be ripped out of there socket!!
Pulling him back into a controlable gallop a stripe away from the last jump he took it long without asking for that extra stride, but we still cleared it!
Galloping hrough though finish flags when you know you have gone clear it is an amazing feeling!

Quickly going back to the float taking his gear off and icying down his legs so they don't swell up!
Finally finished icying down his legs and taking all his gear off, I had to get him ready for showjumping straight away, I wear what I have to wear for dressage, I wear a brown show jacket with a white saddle blanket.
I grabbed my whip and put my spurs on my boots so he can have more impulsion for the showjumping because he might start to be flat for showjumping an he could take a pole since we just finished cross country.
Walking side by side next to my sister, because my sister is straight after me!
After we warmed up for show jumping I heard them shout out my number "302"
I walked up to them and walked into the show jumping ring, I did a circle and I heard the bell so I lined perfectly up to the first jump, gave him a squeeze with my legs and he jumped the first jump like they were 1.20m not 95cm! We came up to the last showjump it was a blue and white jump pole with brown stands, then ping he jumped it perfectly and I went through the flags.. double clear!
I took hm back to the float iced his legs and took his gear off and threw a cover on him so he wouldn't get cold.
the rest of the day I hung out with my friends until the results came out.
When they came out everyone crowed it and I came 2nd overall and my sister came 6th!
After half an hour ( you have to wait incase someone protests )
no one did, the prizes came out I won a $60 back massage for you horse because they can get sore and I won some stuff for my ponies mane and a blue ribbion!
It was a great day overall!

My timetable.

On the 25th of July we started planning out our timetable what our school days wanted to look like.

I have made my school day start at 8.00am and end at 3.30pm! Since I start earlier and finish later you get Friday off!

Now you have a three day Weekend, I have made Creative time/goal or writing at 8.00am and finish at 8.30am, did you know our brains only starts to work at 10am!! So if we get our brains slowly working at 8.00am they will be ready for maths and all the important stuff.

Would you like your Timetable to look like this or not?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wT933je6NdgB9OJLLYrNExXQ5-X1nnBzrrEZve9XtxQ/edit#gid=0

Auckland

Hockey

28th of Jurne 2017

Yesterday we had Zones and we were playing Hockey, our team was Bella, Laura, Ariana, grace, Julia, Maddie, Lauren and I.

We played four games, we lost each one but every one of us had NEVER played hockey before it was our first time.

The last game they only got 2 nil, they were struggling to get even 1 nil in the first part of the game, halfway through the game some guy headbutted me the whole world was spinning but I carried on the game because I ain't gonna quit jeez who do you think I am.

A video of Ariana, Maddie and I rolling down the hill.

Some photos below.

Novel Studies

Timetable

Last week and this week we have had to personalise our own timetable here's what mine looks like,

 The highlight colour means ; Green means  I worked to my highest standard and/or I achieved what I set out to do.

Orange means ; I worked to a good standard and/or I mostly achieved what was intended.

Red: I found it hard to stay focused and/or I didn't achieve what I aimed to.

Practising using Screencastify

This Screencastify is showing my learning.

My Classroom

My Profile

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

 Reflection 

High ropes/low ropes

Wednesday the 12th of April

Last term the year ⅞ went to the groynes to do high ropes/low ropes.

The playpen high ropes was my favorite it was super fun and challenging.

We did lots of fun games my favorite game was the plank challenge we had to make it through the ‘boggy ground’ with planks of wood without touching the ground and you had to get your team of 8 to the end.

I would love to do it again any day!


Slide video made by Bella, Grace, Base, Laura and I.

Thursday the 4th of May