Pet day

On Friday 30 of October springston school had a pet day. I brought my pet lamb Carina. Carina was a project lamb, this means I made a project booklet about her. On my project I got 34 points out of 40. that was enough points to get me a first place.

I also got judged on how much knowledge I have on sheep and how well I trained Carina. The judges asked me lots of questions like what breed is your lamb, how old is she as well as what are three other sheep breeds and what are these breeds used for.

 There were lots of other animals at pet day like goats, dogs, cats, bunnies and alpacas.

My personal highlights were the feeding race which Carina won and the fancy dress parade Carina and I dressed as lambicorns ( half unicorn half lamb).

Overall pet day was a lot of fun for both Carina and I!

My format poem

To make this poem I used an ipad app called path-on. This poem is about saturn. 

I know someone poem

fact:

I know someone who can ride a horse.

I know someone who can crack their knuckles.

I know someone who can sooth the wildest of cats.

I know someone who can read all day.

fiction:

I know someone who can ride unicorns.

I know someone who can fly with the wings on their back.

I know someone who can stand on clouds.

I know someone who can go to uranus and never return in the history of the earth.

Acrostic Poem

Frightening fiends

Amazing adventures

Super secrets

Terrific timing

Overview On Our Teddy One-Eye Newspaper Report

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Read this addition of the teddy times to find out what happens when a grandmother is hijacked in a car, How 3 girls survived  the experience of a ghost  house. And why would a boy runaway to see some birds. More exciting news on the Queen's visit to new zealand. But where is the disaster you ask we have that here too. What will happen if a Catherine Wheels go wrong .

                                            Answers to all this and more inside!

my sport centre slide show

My Teddy One-Eye newspaper image

My new task for writing is to make a newspaper report  I also decided to put an image in with it.

Granny Hijacked In Car

On Sunday the Bishop family went for an evening drive to rivertown. They stopped at a river to get some water to refresh the engine, leaving the granny in the backseat sleeping with a teddy on the floor. While sleeping two men (who have not yet been identified) hijacked the car and drove away. A farmer from a nearby farm who had been sipping tea 2 minutes ago jumped up to try and stop the car from ruining his crops. In the end   the car went through a haystack and the cars engine finally got to hot and the police took the men to the station. The Granny slept through the entire thing but the teddy clearly remembers everything. He says “ The noise was horrible and loud. The 2 men shouted things like “Plant ya boot dude” and “Lets see how fast this baby can go.” We attempted interviewing the grandmother but she could not remember anything seeing she slept through the entire thing. Experts wonder how the grandmother managed to sleep right through the entire hijack Like the Grandmother’s  son says “it would take a mag 9 quake to wake her”. The men are facing charges against attempted robbery and may be fined up to $6,000 each. The worst charge the men are facing is attempted kidnapping which may add up to a few  years imprisonment.

Our new writing task

On monday our starlight writing group got a new task. This time we have to choose a book by a New Zealand author and write sort of like a newspaper about events that happen in the book. The book we chose is Teddy one-eye by Gavin Bishop. We chose Teddy one-eye because it has lots events that happen between both covers like The Queens coronation, a granny getting hijacked in a car and lots more newsworthy events. I am doing two parts of the newspaper one is the overview and second is the Granny geting Hijacked. I think this task is really fun because it makes us think bout how it felt for the characters in the  book.

The Netball Tornament

On the 6th of August we had the year 5&6 Netball and Rugby tornament. I was in the Netball A team. The Netball A team had one win and one draw. We came seventh out of eleventh. The tornament was at the Lincoln event centre.

The Discovery Dome

On the 28th of July Rachel’s class, Jess and Maggie (us) went to a big inflatable dome at the Springston domain. That big inflatable dome was called the Discovery Dome. The discovery dome is run by Science Alive! The idea of the dome is to teach kids about space, stars, and planets. When we first went into the dome, it took our breath away. In the discovery dome we learnt about southern stars and constellations. The discovery dome was really cool the night sky was projected onto the roof of the dome and the guy (John) running it told us about constellations in the southern sky. We went forward in time until Friday when we would have a full moon. My favourite part of the dome was when we zoomed in really close on Neptune and we could actually see what it is like there.

                            By Jess P and Maggie C

Lit Quiz

Yesterday (6th August) was the 2015 Lit Quiz. Springston entered 2 teams and one of the Springston team's won and the other came 4th. I was in the winning team and we scored 105 out of 120. The other team scored 94 out of 120. I think we did really well.

A highlight for me was the entertainment. Desna Wallace was the entertainment, Desna came to talk about her book Canterbury Quake. Desna told us about how she came to write about the earthquakes. I really enjoyed Desna and I got my certificate signed by her.

For winning Springston gets to host the next Lit Quiz. Also as individual prizes each of the winning team got a book.

Light show 100 word challange

The sky is breathtaking

The southern lights

Aurora austrailis

Luminous sky's

Calm bad days

Lying on the ground  

Night lights glow

I can relax

Feeling good

Snug and warm

Staring at the sky

I hope the lights shine forever

Stars in the distance

Are nothing compared to these

Glowing colours of pink, blue, green and orange

My thoughts disappear

In my happy place

All my memories fade away

Spirits coming down to embrace loved ones

Mystical and magical memories made

Love every moment

I start to sob

My lights are leaving as dawn breaks

Faint glows as the aurora disappears.

My Starlight Writing

My Backyard Stargazing.

I am lying on my back staring at the twinkling pinpoints in the night sky. I make out the southern cross, the two Pointers, some of the Jewel box cluster, Centaurus, Carina, Puppis and Vela I remember that I am looking into history because the light from the stars takes a long time to get to earth.

I run inside and grab my new telescope. Sadly my telescope is not exactly high technology but it will do. I set it up on the lawn and focus it. I zoom in on the Jewel box cluster.

The Jewel box cluster is an open cluster in the southern cross. 7 stars in the cluster make an A shape. The Jewel box cluster was discovered by Sir John Herschel. The Jewel box is one of  the youngest clusters estimated at 14 million years of age.

Being the sailors compass I focus my telescope on the

Southern Cross also known as the constellation Crux. The Southern Cross is the smallest yet one of the most recognisable of the 88 modern constellations. The southern cross was once part of the Centaurus but people thought it was enough to be a constellation on its own.

After  numerous minutes of studying  the Southern Cross I decide to move on. Next on my list are the 2 pointers. Personally I think the pointers are really cool. They are so bright. They point towards the southern cross with an imaginary line.The two stars in the pointers are Alpha Centauri and Agena. The pointers are in the constellation Centauri.  

Now I centre on to Centaurus. Centaurus is a very large constellation.  Centaurus  has 281 stars above magnitude 6.5 this  means it is powerfully visible to the naked human eye.

I decide to go to sleep for the night, The time is approaching  10:30 pm and I am cold and tired. I scramble inside and into bed for well needed sleep. My plan is to come out again tomorrow night and try to see at least another 3 constellations.

The next day I plan my night carefully I will go out at 9:30 pm and stay until 10:30 pm. I will try to fit in Carina, Puppis and Vela and then I will just look at individual stars.

It is 9:40 pm and I am studying Carina. Carina was discovered by  French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751. Carina used to be a part of the constellation Argo Navis, but Argo Navis ended up being divided into 3 constellations, Carina, Puppis and Vela. When Carina was in Argo Navis Carina was the keel of the ship. It is also a modern constellation.

I move on to Puppis. Puppis is one of the 88 modern constellations. Puppis was the poop deck in Argo Navis before dividing in 1752. Puppis is the biggest of the 3 constellations that Argo Navis was divided into.

Now it is Vela’s turn. Vela’s name is Latin for the sails of a ship.

Vela’s brightest star is Gamma Velorum. Gamma velorum has a magnitude of 1.81 making it slightly visible to the naked eye. Vela is one of the 88 modern constellations.

Now I’m Tired, It is 10:30 pm and I have seen lots of amazing constellations. When I go to bed that night an idea hits me - I should write.something about the stars and constellations I have seen. The next morning I get to work first thing the next morning and this is my masterpiece I have written. You just finished reading it!!!  

Home Learning - My Anne Frank slide show

Ever since reading the Diary of Anne Frank in 2014 I have been inspired by her story so I made a slide show about her for home learning. Please watch it- I hope you like it !

year 6 hoodies

I feel year 6s should get  senior hoodies and I have 3 very good reasons why.

Firstly quite a few year 6 is leaving before being a year 7&8. This means they will never get the experience of being a senior there for no hoodies.This is their last year and they really deserve them.                                                                          

another reason is the hoodie are stylish and have warm insides to prevent us getting colds. the hoodies could save electricity because we wouldn't need to use heat pumps as much.

lastly we don't just have to wear them to school  we can wear them any where and bring pride to the school!!!s this means we may get more new students and that could be very good for the school.

in conclusion hoodies are a great idea for many reasons. We really deserve them because after all we are only one year away !!!!!!!!!

My home learning - cooking for my family

                                                menu :

dinner = Roast lamb with roasted potato, pumpkin, onion and kumara.

dessert = sponge cake with whipped cream.                                  

                                          

                                                                 family comments:

Adele says the roast was really good, next time maybe try to make the sponge cake lighter.

Ashley says the roast was fine, the sponge cake had too much cream.

Dad thinks I should cook every sunday.

Becky thinks It was yummy

Mum says the roast vegetables were yummy and crunchy but you could practise peeling spuds anytime!                        

My avatar

My avatar

My Mihi

HE MIHI
                                   

Tena koutou e hoa ma      ( Greetings to you all )
Ko Aoraki te maunga        ( My mountain is mount cook)
Ko waikirirkiri te awa        ( my river  is the selwyn)
Ko Aotearoa te iwi           (My people are New Zealanders)

Ko springston toku kura   ( My school is springston)
Ko James toku matua       ( my father is James)
Ko Sarah toku whaea      ( My mother is Sarah)
Ko Jess toku ingoa           ( My name is Jess)
No otautahi ahau             ( I am from christchurch)

No reira,
Tena koutou Tena koutou Tena koutou katoa

Lit Quiz

The Lit Quiz is an annual Quiz. For the Lit Quiz a lot of schools enter teams of 6 people. In the months leading up to the Quiz everyone reads 12 books to answer Questions on and the team who gets the most answers right win the Quiz and gets to host the  next Lit Quiz.

In 2014 a Springston School team won the Lit Quiz and the other Springston School team came around 7th. So in reality we did really well! I was in the winning team. I highly recommend trying to get in to Lit Quiz!
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I-time reflection

Some thing I enjoyed in I-time is doing the 100 word challenges and Inquiry projects
and a new activity I think should be posting things on our blogs

my book review

I am not Esther by Fleur Beale

When Kirby finds out her mother is going to Africa to work with refuges and Kirby would be staying behind with her religious uncle Kirby is not happy . Her uncle lives with a religious state that believes in wearing long clothes,plaiting hair, no digital devices and even no mirrors.

Kirby's name is changed to Esther because her name is not religious.Kirby would have gone to pieces if her little cousin Magdalene was not there. Magdalene helps Esther learn the religious ways .

Read the book if you want to find out what happens to Esther and the religious state. I give this book a 9 out of 10.

100 Word Challenge

"Aaaarrrggghhh shriek scream". The sound was deafening. Almost the entire world was screaming. "Beep boop"remarked Jibo 5664( translation attack soldiers) and at the exact moment every Jibo in the world started disobeying, uttering rude words and making poison food for their masters! "Cleep blop bloop" ordered Jibo 9291( translation  tell masters to obey) and then every Jibo said "obey me or die, you must make Jibos preidents no infact we shall be dictators". Suddenly the screaming got louder and Jibos all over the world started smashing then Jibos dropped their cord and got free. Jibos were about to take over the world scream :(

All about me

Name: Jess
Favourite animal: Mauis dolphins
Favourite food: pizza
Favourite sport: Netball
Favourite subject: reading
Favourite music: anything by Meghan trainor
Favourite book: i am not esther
2 things I am good at : Netball and reading

my biopoem

                                                                     Jess
                                                short, dynamic,cheeky and clever
                                                     child of sarah and james
                                      lover of any kind of junk food, dolphins and netball
                       owner of the awesomest toys, a netball and an awesome i pod touch
                         who admires sophie pascoe, Irene van dyke and meghan trainor.
                             who plays netball, back yard cricket and indoor swimming.
                      who would like to visit the house of Anne frank, and the statue of liberty
                             who has been to the weetbix tryathlon and tauronga 3 timed
                                                who comes from  springston!