Jerome Kaino

Jerome is an American Samoan, born in New Zealand he is a professional rugby union player. He was born on the 6th of April 1983. He plays for the Blues in the Super Rugby, but for the All Blacks internationally. Somewhere around 2004-2005 he was named the IRB International Under-21 player of the year. He is also at the age of 31. Standing at 6ft 5, and weighs 249 Ib. He went to Papakura High School, then St Kentigern College.

In 2011, he played in every match in the RWC (Rugby World Cup) as part of the All Blacks, being part of the first All Blacks team to win the RWC since 1987 which was 27 years ago. Kaino was also the second American national of Samoan descent for our N.Z. team. The first person to be an American national of Samoan descent was Frank Solomon in 1931 which was 83 years ago!

Possum Poles (Algebra Question)

This is what one of my questions for Possum Poles (Algebra),The character Peta had done in 9 minutes to get to 18 metres and 20 metres would me 10 minutes.

The table has 2 sides, Metres, & Minutes. The minutes only go up to 9 minutes, and the metres only go up to 18 metres but it would Peta 9 minutes & 50 seconds to make it to 20 metres.

Robin Mclaurin Williams

On the 11th of August 2014 Robin Mclaurin Williams died in a tragic way. He was a great actor who had starred in multiple movies such as Mrs Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Jumanji, What Dreams May Come, Night at The Museum and even more.

He was a married husband with three kids named Zelda, Zachary, and Cody Williams. Williams was well known for his stand up comedy and voice impressions. It is sad to see him leave in such a tragic way.

Stan Walker Article

Stan Walker is a personal singer which makes a lod of songs. He was born 23rd October 1990 in Melbourne, Australia and 29 years old when he sings Stan will think about whether he would sing with another singer or no. His albums are ,Take it easy, Aotearoa,Black Box,Holding you,Like its over, loud, and Bulletprooth. His dad is Ataahua which he is 66 years of age, it must be tough looking after his dad and his career.

He came a singer by winning the X factor Australia. Then went to bootcamp and made it to the finals so thats how he is where he is now. How much money has he made? $10,000$ Stan is in the top 20's out of all the other famous singers/bands. He gets payed 900 dollars a week thats crazy! (I wish I was stan It would be cool to see what his life is like for a day at least!!)

Usain Bolt Article

Usain bolt is the fastest man in the world, he competes in the commonwealth games. He has so far won 16 gold medals, and 3 silver medals. He was born on the 21st of august 1986 in Sherwood Content, at the age of 28. He stands 6 foot 5 and weighs 94kg's. His parents ran the local grocery store in the rural area. 

Bolt has a nickname it is Lightning Bolt. He sometimes spends time playing cricket and football with his brother. Bolt is also in the Racers Track Club. Bolt has kept on training to become the fastest man, and I think that everyone will achieve something if you keep trying/training. Bolt is an icon to most people.

Ki-O-Rahi Description

We had to see if we could think of interesting ways to make a simple sentence complex. Here are my sentences.

The player hit te tupu.

The player hit the te tupu with a powerful thrust which shot right past the defender.

The ball whizzed by the defender and ricocheted off the te tupu.

The player made a powerful lob that hit the top of The te tupu.

We then wrote a descriptive paragraph.

The player ran around the circle and tagged 3 of the thin poles. He then hit the te tupu with a powerful thrust which shot right past the defender.  It ricocheted off into his hands again. He made a pass to someone close to one of the skinny poles, and he tagged it. He made a big lob back to the person in the center, who hit te tupu. “Its the winning point!” the whole crowd yelled.

Algebra Problems

How many sticks were needed to build the 5 fish patterns? 32

In a spreadsheet create a table that shows how many sticks are needed for up to 20 fish. 128

Diving Description

These are some Diving Description, that we had to make

As the diver balanced the crowd died down, she made her dive and successfully sliced through the water.

As the diver balanced she was as stiff as a stick, the crowd had watched with great anticipations that she would hopefully be successful.

As the diver balanced the crowd had stopped cheering, so that the diver could focus and make a successful dive.

Tim Mikkelson Facts

Term 3 Immersion Assembly

As Class 4 walked into the hall, we saw 2 sets of drums on the stage, there were wooden drums that was the cook islands, while Sergeant Brent had a drum kit.

Sergeant Brent played his drum kit first. He played a cool beat until he picked a speed and away he went, noise being faster and louder. "He had a great beat I actually think I enjoyed it" I had said to myself.

When The Cook Islands play their drums it was cool. These were much faster and much more louder than Sergeant Brent’s drum kit. But Sergeant Brent's drum kit had a great beat then the Cook island drummers.

Now Sergeant Brent and the Cook island drummers  played together. But all I could hear was the Cook Island drum really faster than Sergeant Brent, he started moving two drums to the Cook islands side, Sergeant had started doing some goofy dancing.

We had then had them drum us out back to class, "It was good, I enjoyed the drumming part" I said to Brodie, one of my friends.

Algebra Cup Capers

Q.1: 3 in all Y and 6 in the B

Q.2: 6 in all R and 5 in the G and 2 outside the cups

Q.3:

a) 2 B and 1 R

b) 3 G and 2 Y

c) 4 Y, 2 B and 1 R

d) 4 R, 2 Y and 1 B

e)4 Y, 2 B and 1 R

4a:

a) 8 cubes

b) 18 cubes

c) 20 cubes

d) 24 cubes

e) 20 cubes

Ki-O-Rahi

Ki-O-Rahi is a ball game traditionally played by the Maori’s, Rahi and the enemy tribe. The ball is an original wooden/flax ball named the “Ki”. The Te Tupu is the rock that Rahi was trapped on. Ara represents the pathway of silver ferns, and the pou are the 7 stars of Matariki.

Things that represent Ki-O-Rahi are from the legend of Rahi and the Patupaiarehe, the game tells Rahi’s wife, Te Ara, who has been abducted by an enemy tribe, while the abduction a Tohunga (wizard or priest), had casted a spell on the forest to become dense and impenetrable, so Rahi had built a kite and crafted a few flax bags to carry some Moa eggs, for nourishment during his journey.

When he was preparing god of the wind, Tawhirimatea blew Rahi and the kite high in the sky. While on the ground Te Ara had been secretly folding silver ferns for Rahi to find. They had noticed Rahi’s presence which the Tohunga had casted another spell which caused an extreme sun to come into play, it was the sister of Ra, the regular sun. The green forest quickly became a wasteland, beautiful to an ugly mess, a strong wind blew all the remaining leaves on ground (along with the silver ferns).

Anyway long story short Rahi had rescued Te Ara from the enemy tribe in a mountain that became unstable, where everyone was forced to evacuate, everyone but the Tohunga had escape where he went flying up with the mountain into the heavens where he still causes trouble. Rahi thought he needed peace, so he decided to make a game named Ki-O-Rahi.

And that is how the game was made from the legend Rahi.

Kahurangi

"Kia ora everyone," said Aroha as we all got a fright. We had just arrived at this Kapa Haka performance in the hall. There were 5 people, another guys one name Lucky. He was humorous. When they were doing really cool  dances the 5 of them had strong powerful voices.

After they had finished doing the dance they picked 2 kids and 1 teacher from our school. Their names were Auri, Korobeau and Mr Goodwin. They had to try copy the moves the man with the stick was doing. They were all funny because all of them did it wrong. When the man and the lady were performing they had beautiful perfectly pitched harmony which nearly made me cry.

Now Lucky and Aroha started doing a really loud hake. Lucky was creeping some of us out because he does really scary pukanas and sometimes they did funny facial expressions. Everybody was giggling because Lucky was making googly eyes and he started whacking people with his Maori stick and said ‘’ Hey why are you laughing!!!’’.

We eventually had gotten out noticing we had to go for a run I moaned for a while. “Well now we are going for a run, man my back was hurting when sitting down” I had said to Brodie who hadn't replied.

Diving Writing

Diving has being in the Olympics since 1904 and that is 110 years ago. Diving was named one of the most popular sport with spectators. In the Olympics there is no 1m high diving board, just a 3m springboard and a 10m platform

For the points the dive gets judged  3 marks for takeoff, 3 for flight and 3 for entry, there is 1 point left for the judges to give them more flexibility. Extra height is extra points and the points are multiplied by a difficulty factor.

The judges judge by how well you jump and how well you enter the water. You can get points for minimal splashes and the amount of rotations and somersaults. When some of the competitors enter the water they enter on a slight angle and end up with quite a big splash.The competitor with the highest points is the winner of the competition.  

The judges won’t only look for people who are great divers but also they are looking for people with height, rotations, somersaults, & the entry. There are two different heights, which is 3m and 10m, which means that 3m’s is on a springboard, while

Para 1

Diving has being in the Olympics since 1904 and that is 110 years ago. Diving was named one of the most popular sport with spectators. In the Olympics there is no 1m high diving board, just a 3m springboard and a 10m platform

For the points the dive gets judged  3 marks for takeoff, 3 for flight and 3 for entry, there is 1 point left for the judges to give them more flexibility. Extra height is extra points and the points are multiplied by a difficulty factor.

Para 2

The judges judge by how well you jump and how well you enter the water. You can get points for minimal splashes and the amount of rotations and somersaults. When some of the competitors enter the water they enter on a slight angle and end up with quite a big splash.The competitor with the highest points is the winner of the competition.  

Para 3

The judges won’t only look for people who are great divers but also they are looking for people with height, rotations, somersaults, & the entry. There are two different heights, which is 3m and 10m, which means that 3m’s is on a springboard, while 10m is a platform, If you’re looking for 1m dives, you've come to the wrong place.

Jumping from a 10 meter platform using your flexibility to perform as much somersaults and rotations they can before they hit the water. If you’re looking for 1m dives, you've come to the wrong place.

Jumping from a 10 meter platform using your flexibility to perform as much somersaults and rotations they can before they hit the water.

Film Festival Recount

Wednesday 30th, the day we went to the Civic in Town we were peacefully reading our books until Mrs Nua had came in to our class to get the kids who were going to the Civic (I was one), once she had gotten us she then went into the other classes and grabbed the others. She then did a roll call there would only be 35 people to go, “I can’t wait” I said to Kori, who was one of my best friends, “Well I guess it might be fun who knows” he answered back.

While we were heading to the Civic, everyone at the back and front had started singing songs like, Powhiri Mai Ra, Wheels On The Bus, and a few other English & Maori songs.

“We’ve gone past it I think” Kori said. We got off of the bus and formed into two lines. We entered the civic and went down some stairs. Finding our seats we were in the fourth or fifth row. Waiting for the other schools to arrive, we were chatting quietly and loud. Slowly but surely they had arrived. A man had introduced us to what we were watching and how long it was here for, he said “Welcome to the civic theatre there will be at least 15 or 16 movies.”

The first movie was about kids with mums like Nurses, Animal Doctors, Ballerina’s, Dump trucks, but... one kids mum was an Aeroplane!. They had flown all around delivering mail and making everyone/thing happy. 

In the next scene a big scary aeroplane had shown in a scene and was approaching Mother Plane, but it had then stopped, saluted, she saluted back and carried on. 

A storm had trapped her, the storm picked up every other person from the ground while she was surrounded around the storm but she had used her umbrella to pop it, with it gone away and everyone had started cheering. The kid had gotten off of his mum only..... to get on his dad and he was a boat!

The other films were pretty great, there was one called the Numberlys it was all about Numbers until...one has an idea about making the alphabet, they have gotten color, names, and more it seemed to be the best movie I had watched. 

Once the movies were finished, we all lined up and walked out, onto the bus again, this time Kori and I have gotten to the back of the bus, “Yus we are near the back!” I said with excitement to Kori, we eventually got back to school at 12:25.