Bad product or service.

A bad product that I have once bought was a kids walkie talkie when I was little. I was about 7 years old and at the my mum bought me and my sister a High School Musical Walkie Talkie from the Warehouse. I can't remember how much it was but it wasn't cheap. On the packet it said if you pull out the arial there will be lipgloss in it. We tried to open it but it was nearly impossible, my dad got it open to find a whole bunch of wires and no lipgloss. Also me and my sister couldn't get a signal when we were in a room right next door to each other and was really hard to understand each other when we did get a signal.

My science fair summery.

For my science fair I am making a product that is called the Brush 'n' Blow. It brushes your hair while drying it. The prototype that I have made doesn't produce hot air because it is to technical, so it only produces cold air. My dad mainly put it together because it involved wires and electronics witch I did't know much about. My job was the science board witch was the most time consuming.

CAPTCHA

Have you ever wondered why you have to rewrite words to prove you are not a robot? This is why....

It is a system called CAPTCHA.  It has two jobs. The first job is to save all the really old books. Some books that are handwritten are really old. To save these books they are scanning them into computers, but because they are all handwritten the computer can't understand them to process them. So when you write out a word you are also rewriting an old book. There are about 200 million sold every day. It also protects your blogs and other sites for robots scamming your computer/sites.

Cross Country

On monday the 24th was Tauranga Intermediate School cross country. It was freezing cold and really hard to run. First to race was the year 7 girls. Melia came first in the year 7 race and made a new record. I didn't see much of the year 7 boys race as I was warming up with the teacher. When the year 8 race was on we lined up at the start. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick. The gun went off, it was a really long run and the track seemed to go forever. I ran around the field to the finish line I coud hear rimu house cheering me on. I past through the finish line almost being sick. Mr Mac handed me the 191 card. I thought that was ok out of 270,since I never did it last year due to my foot.  

Computer games.

I used to play this game called Fire Boy and Water Girl with my sister. It is only a 2 player game. It is set in a temple. You have to get past these little traps and to your door at the end. If you are fire you aim is to get to the end and go through the red door to pass the level. If you are water you have to get to the blue door at he end. You can only pass the level when both characters go through the door. The things that will kills you are..... There are little pits of fire or water that you have to jump across. If Fire Boy jumps in the water pit he will die and the level will have to start over.  It is the same with Water Girl.
There is about 3 different games with different levels.
I really liked this game because it is challenging and really fun!

My Mum and Dads work.

My Mums work
In 2010 my mum opened up a preschool on fraser street. It was really hard to open because the neighbors didn't want to have all the noise. My mum had to go through court a lot of times before it was okayed.  The preschool is open from 7:30am- 5:30pm. The preschool is license for 25 kids. 5 under2's and 20 over2's. This year my mum just got the okay for a license for 40 kids.

My Dads work
My dad is a builder. He has built a lot of houses for the Coast building company. His business that he owns is called Dynamic building. He works from 7:30am or 8:00am - 50: or onwards a night.

A typical argument with my sister.

A typical argument with my sister.

I will be practicing the piano and my sister will be watching a movie....

"Jess!" Alicia yells at the top of her voice. "Stop it I want to watch this movie!

"No" I say gritting my teeth, "I am pretty sure my piano practice is more important than that movie  your watching!"

"She stomps her feet and yells and back, "I don't Care!"

"Yes well I do" I say back trying to be calm about it.

Alicia runs up to me and says "I telling Mum on you!"

I finally loose it and yell back " You can't Mum is at the neighbors!"

She runs to the door but I get there first and I close the door on her, as she desperately I think of something to tell Alicia on. 

I release the door and run over to the neighbors. As I go through the door Mum says, "I don't wanna hear it!"   

Free writing

My best friends

Anna
A- awesome
N- not very tall
N- no nonsense 
A- active 

Kate
K- kind
A- active
T- talk a lot
E- energetic 


Paris
P- perky
A- awesome
R-restless
I- interactive
S- sense of humor

Rimu house challenge: Complete the 20 or 40 hour famine and raise a minimum of $40.00

I decided to do the 20 hour famine. Me, Paris H, Aimee and kate did no technology. We all went to kate house When I got there I went into the lounge and set out my things ready for the night. I arrived before Paris and Aimee, so I helped Kate bring the horses out a brush them. The horses names are 

Foxy (female) Sammy (male) Breeze (male) and Billy (male). Once they were all brushed Paris and Aimee turned up and we went inside to have lunch.

 For lunch we had American Hotdogs. Kate and Aimee's job was to cook the sausages, Paris's job was to grate the cheese. And I had to get the sauces, buns and plate out. Halfway through I noticed that the cheese paris was grating looked a bit funny. I tried a bit and nearly cried! Paris had just grated a hole lot a butter. After cleaning up that mess we were finally able to eat the hot dogs. Shortly after we saddled up the horses and walked them down to the arena. 

I rode Foxy first. As I had already ridden all of Kate's horses before I didn't have to be lead around. I was allowed to trot and walk. On Foxy I could even canter a little bit and jump a small jump. But we had to be careful of her because she is pregnant. After that I trotted on Sammy kate's riding horse. I didn't do much on him as he had a sore leg. But my favorite horse to ride was breeze. He is a ex-racehorse. Sophie kate's mum told me when I first got on him that I can trot on him but when doing so I can't lean forward otherwise  he will start into a canter then a gallop and jump over the jumps.

So while on Breeze I was very very nervous. But the more I rid him the more confider I got. After about 10 minnuets on him I was able to rise to the trot. I was very proud of myself. 

I swapped with Paris because she really wanted to try and trot on Breeze. Once paris was on breeze she started straight into a trot a leant forward straight away. I could just see what was going to come next. So Breeze started into a canter then a gallop witch was to fast for kate because she was trying to run up to the horse and grab the rains because he was heading toward the 1.5 meter jump. Not able to catch up kate stops and watches in horror as Breeze jumps the jump. Paris flys up into the air the lands back down on the horse the slides of the side. After that we decide it is time to go back.

Back a the house Sophie makes pizzas for dinner while we play the game of life. When the pizzas are ready we had dinner. When dinner is over we ice the cupcakes that Aimee made and make instant pudding. We play 2 more rounds of the game of life while snaking on our puddings. Once the games were over kate's family went to bed.  We stayed up for about another 2 hours talking then one by one we fell asleep. I woke up at about 8:30 and got the other girls up. We all had breakfast then stat down and watched TV recorded episodes of modern family and the big bang theory and waited for our parents to pick us up. 

(Don't worry we didn't use any technology. Sophie took the photos)

 Kate just about to jump on Sammy.

 Me and paris leaning on Billy.

 Me on Breeze

 All of us on the horses.

Us waiting for our parents to come pick us up.

Rimu house challenge: Giving: Adopt an egg for 2 weeks.

For my Rimu house challenge in the giving category, I decided to do the adopt an egg one. I thought is was going to be really hard since you can't break it and you have to treat it like it was your child. First I chose an egg and drew on a fave and hair, witch took heaps of goes as I keept making the eyes smaller than the other one. After about 5 eggs I finally found the one. I decided it was a female and named her Rosie. I found Rosie a little purple container and put tissues in there so she would break easily. I tried sewing together some fabric for her Pj's but once I had finished my dog got to them and eat them. So I put down blanket over as well because she didn't have any Pjs.  Rosie always slept next to my head a night by my pillow. I the morning I would take her to school and she would do my daily routine. Her favorite part of school was the run, but I think that is only because she didn't run. I had to carry her and run at the same time. I took Rosie to the park right next door to our house but we never went back there after she nearly cracked open from going down the slide!

 I thought it was really fun looking after an egg, because you sort of get a taste of what it is like to be a parent. Also it has inspired me to be a teacher and look after younger kids.

 Me and Rosie

 Rosie in her bed

 Rosie getting ready to go to bed

 Me and Rosie Practicing the piano

 Me and Rosie trowing the ball for my dog

Rosie and I watching my favorite movie Night At The Museum 

My weekend

In the weekend on Saturday at 10.00am I went to Jades house for her birthday party. When I first got there, me Anna Kaitlyn and Jade got ready to go to the Manic Room. It was a long drive from her house to the Manic Room, so in the back of the car we just ate heaps of chocolate and lollies. Once finally at the Manic Room, Kaitlyn signed a form as she had never been here before then we climb our way up to the top of the foam pit did a run up and jumped in. I was to scared to free fall, so I just stuck with jumping forward. After about an hour and a half Jades mum took us all back to Jade's house ready to go to the welcome bay hot pools. We spent about 3 hours in the pool. When back at the house we got into our onuses and eat pizzas for dinner. After dinner we watched the movie The Impossible. It is about a big tsunami that hit somewhere in Asia. It was a good movie but very sad. That night I fell a sleep first witch was a big mistake. All my friends shook me awake at 12:30 at night and told me it was 7:30am and had to have breakfast.  I believed them and had my breakfast at 12:30. They told what they had done once I had finished my breakfast. It was really funny, but I got really annoyed. At 7:30 they did it again and i hate myself for beleving them again! They told me it was 9:30 and I had to get dressed as my mum was coming in half an hour. Just to make sure I went and checked the microwave they had even changed the time on it. I pushed the reset button  and it showed the actual time. I didn't sleep for the rest of he morning!

Idioms

Idiom

You get a taste of your own medicine. 

What it means

The saying means that if you do something to someone and it wasn't nice it is just going to come right back at you, and you get it done to you. Then you will know how they felt when you did it to them.

Example

My sister when she was little used to pinch me. One day I did it back and she really didn't like it and started crying. And I said you just got a taste of your own medicine.

Family idiom

We have quite a lot of pets so at the end of the week the house is quite messy. So when the time comes to clean the house my Dad always says it's a piece of cake but we always no it's not.

Where the saying came from

The saying you get a taste of your own medicine came from a fable. In the fable the is a man that sells medicine that doesn't work. He sells it to ill people to make money. One day the man falls ill and the people of the village give him the medicine that he made witch he knows doesn't work. So the man got his own taste his medicine. 

Writing a conversation

"Ouch" I cried with tears streaming down my face, as I feel to the floor.
I see people crowding me but a I could feel was my head stinging.
"Jess, Jess?" Paris said in a worried voice. " I'll go get a teacher!"
The teacher came over and helped me outside to get a drink of water.
"I am so so so sorry Jess" I could hear her in the background.
"My friend hit me in the head with her heel when she did a handstand," I cried as I told the nurse.
After school I went to the doctor.
The doctor said" It is just a concussion and if she starts feeling sick or sleepy make her to the hospital,"
On the way home I feel asleep in the car.
I woke to my mum calling.
"Jess Jess wake up!"

My Grandad

My Grandad name is Ian. He is as round as santa but a little shorter and loved to spoil me with chocolate. He has very little hair, there is only hair on the side of his head. He would tell me that his hair is like that because when he went to the hairdresser she was crazy and shaved it all of and only the side grew back. But I knew better. My grandad would always get up from his chair walk down the hallway and and do the loudest fart and keept walking on like nothing happend.That made me smile all the time. My grandad's car is quite run down. My family called it the bomb because it was always ready to blow up. When my grandad took me out he would back down the driveway and onto the hill. The car would always start rolling down the hill then finally start going up, I would sit in the back holding on for dare life! Later on when I was older My grandad got very sick with pneumonia, he was in special pills that had a side affect. It made him go a little crazy. One time when he was sleeping and he thought he was a lion in a cadge so he started thrashing out. Then once in the hospital he ran out of his room and there were people running past. He started running on the spot and a the people went past he yelled out there was a lot of traffic today! Then he ran down the hallway.
My grandad is the best and really funny!

How you felt about the different events of your weekends.

It was a Saturday morning, I left my house feeling extremely excited but really nervous as I wasn't sure I was a going to be able to survive the weekend doing the 20hour famine no technology at kate's house.            
We left at about 10:30 and arrived at 11.00am. When I got there kate's mum and my mum started talking witch I was really glad about because I wanted her to stay and see the horses.  My sister Alicia loves horses so she asked if she could fed them a carrot. I got really nervous about feeding it from my hand so I just watched Kate feed them. Aimee and Paris hadn't come yet so me and Kate got the horses and groomed them witch was really interesting because I learn't some new things. Once the horses were groomed Paris and Aimee turned up. As soon as Aimee got out of the car she was jumping around witch got I bit annoying. We saddled up and went down to the arena. I was really frightened because a thought that all the cars coming pass and were going to hit us.
I am really proud that I could trot on all the horses and cantered on a horse called foxy I also did i jump with her and I trotted on a ex racehorse. I had a really awesome time! 

Questions and answers

Questions
What makes the clouds turn grey?

Answer
The water cycle is when it rains into lakes and streams, then the sun will come out and evaporate into the clouds again then it will get so heavy with water that is will rain again. This will repeat itself. The reason why clouds turn grey is because when the water evaporates and goes into the clouds there is so much water in there they go grey. That is how you can look at the sky and see grey clouds and know that rain is coming. 

Questions and answers

My question
What makes the sun hot?

Answer
The sun is made up of about 74% hydrogen and about 92% are helium. When gravity mixes with the gasses it creates heats that grows stronger and stronger with the more gravity and gasses it collects. The heat is so intense it sends heats waves to earth and that is how we get our heat!

10 Questions

1.  What is the oldest plant?
2.  What is the moon made out of?
3.  Why is the sky blue?
4.  How does perfume smell?
5.  Why do you get dizzy when you spinn in circles for a long time?
6.  I wonder if there are other livable planets
7.  Why can't we touch clouds?
8.  What turns clouds grey?
9.  What makes the planets spin around the earth?
10. What makes the sun hot?

Excellence in Achievements: Viset a library and write a blog post about what the library offers.

On the 25th of May, I went to the Tauranga Library to see what they offer there. I asked the lady at the desk to show me what the library offers and I had to right them down. This is what the Tauranga Library offers....

The things that the library always offers are Books, DVDs, CDs, Audio books, e' books and a database where you come in and you can study either using books or the internet. The books are split up into kids picture books, Kids chapter books, teenage books and adult books. The DVDs that they have can be movies from now and back till the olden days and are mixed ratings. The same thing with the CDs, audio books and e' books.

There are also classes about different things that you can attend. There is about 10-15 classes a week that you can take. The most popular classes are computer classes and homework classes. With the computer classes they take anyone at any age. If you are needing homework tutors that is also available to kids.
If you are into Genealogy they can help you out with family history. On the computers they can find were someone was buried and who their family is. They might even have some books about them.

The library does monthly book clubs. There is a book club for adults and for teenages. The clubs are only held once a month and is in Tauranga Library and Papamoa Library.

In the school holidays they do activities were they take groups out one day do go do an activities. There are lots of things they do, weather is swimming to climbing Mount Maunganui.
Only in the summer holidays there is the teen mean read, were a group of teenages get together and read books in the library.
Also in the summer they do a children's mean read. It is a little different to the teens one. The kids get there own folder and each time the kids read a book they come into the library and one of the librarians ask them questions about the book. each time you come and get a book checked off you get a prize. I remember my first prize, I got a library mug! There is computers that you can go on for a minimum amount of money for 1 hour. Weekly toddler time is when parents can bring there child in weekly and the can do toddler time. They have different activates each day.

If you book online you can get sessions with your classroom to come to the library and do some activities and read books. Or the library can come to your class.

To contact Tauranga Library their website is 
http://www.library.tauranga.govt.nz
and there Facebook is 
https://www.facebook.com/TaurangaLibrary
Phone number
5777177

                                This is where you can research using a computer for family history

     These are all the books about Genealogy. 

This is the reference section where it has historical books about New Zealand and the electoral rolls.

 These book are all about New Zealand and it's history. 

 These are electoral rolls, they are list of everyone that votes. It stats their name and address.

The Maori section where you can find information about the Maori culture.  

 The Entrance to the Tauranga City  library 

This is down stairs were the children's books, CD's and adult books are.

17th Avenue Cemetery

Last week on Friday our classroom went to the 17th Avenue Cemetery. We got into buddys and walked down. Once at the cemetery we walked in groups around. The class had to collect  data about the graveyard, but first we had to find a question so we knew what data we are collecting. I decide to do how many people died between the age 30-60. That day we weren't collecting data we were having a look around and finding a question. Tomorrow we are going back to the cemetery  and start to collect some. we took the milk containers that contained water because when you come out of a grave you are Tapu and when you wash your hands with the water you are now Noa.