Very Short Stories

I was walking up the street then I saw the prettiest girl ever in the gucci outlet look at a certain purse and i bought it and gave it to her and it turns out she was my cousin.

I was holding on the edge for dear life not wanting to die and and the beast pulling me to my doom and I yelled "I don't want to mow the lawn!".

There was an enemy around the corner not moving and killing every one and I only had a few bullets left so I screamed "stop camping you noob !".

Chinese Characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether? Around 50,000

How many characters does an educated person know? About 3,000

How old are Chinese characters? They were created in about 12,000 B.C

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Because some of them are actually pictures.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? electric and vision 电视 

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? woman and child.

Image Deliberating

The iceberg represents movies and books because a film has less than the original book.
the top is the amount a film produces and the bottom is how much the book produces.



Maybe a person hoarding different photos that people have sent to that person and some that they had taken themselves
A large piece of art called blast from the past.


It could be people trying to help the person in the middle
Maybe the middle person is a leader.

A fishing settlement

               Yesterday my reading group learned how to analyse poems


3 facts about the author
 He died at 56
He was born in England
He attended bradford

Facts And Opinions

The difference between a fact and an opinion is thats facts are true and opinions are just what people say.

Frogs
Facts: I know for a fact that all frogs have 4 legs.

Some frogs are poisonous and thats a fact.

Not all frogs are green.

Opinions: Frogs are the best animal ever.

They all have sticky skin.

Frogs are cool because they hop.

Comic

New awesome video game gets released 

Hell yea

Proof-Reading (It's)

1. it's about time you showed up!
2. It was it's first time out of the cage.
3. it's feet were covered with sand.
4. Get up, it's time for school.
5. I’m glad to see you; it's been a long time.
6. it's important to study hard for tests.
7. The bear protected it's cubs.
8. it's my turn to go down the slide.
9. The dog felt great with it's new hair cut.
10. it's too late to eat dinner.
11. My car is old and it's paint is peeling.
12. The bird realised that the wind had blown it's nest away.
13. The game came to it's conclusion.
14. Turn down the music, it's hurting my ears.

sound cloud test

My Favourite Game

Minecraft.net

Minecraft is a sandbox game where every thing is like a cube.

Fun fact:1 Minecraft world is 7,000 times the size of our Earth.

In Minecraft there are 3 game modes, survival which is where you need survive and build for as long as you like, if you die you just respawn. The next one is creative which is where you can fly,break blocks instantly,and place blocks infinitely. And then there is hardcore where its like survival but if you die you cant respawn.


The default Minecraft character looks like this.










But you can make your own custom one e.g.




A trade mark of Minecraft is the creeper which was a failed model of a pig.











If you would like to buy the game it costs $31.60.

Kia Kaha lesson 1

Constable Den

1.what is bulling
-power&control
-repeated
-hurt your feelings or body

2. types of bulling
name calling
verbal
sign language
cyber
exclusion
pere pressure
death threats
emotional
isolation
humiliation

Flight MH370 Questions

1. How many people are missing? 239 people.
2.What kind of model was the plane? Boeing 777.
3.How long ago did the plane go missing? 3 weeks.
4.Why are people going to such an extent to find the plane? There are a lot of upset people with family 
or friends on that plane.
5. How long does a black box batterie last? About 30 days.

Dishwasher Tutorial

Year 8 vs Year 7

Year 7                                                                                                               Year 8

Life Jacket Fines

 Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? Mr Norman the harbour master of Hawke's Bay.

 What was the key event from the news article? 8 people have been fined not wearing life jackets.

 Where did this event take place? Hawke's Bay 

 When did this event take place? March 11, 2014

 Why did this event happen? To Promote boating safety

Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

He promises that he will be handing out more fines to those who do not comply with boating safety regulations.

Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Fines: Financial penalty

Harbour Master: The warden of a harbour

Regulations: Rules and guide-lines

Pythagorean Theorum

Proof-Reading

Apostrophes

-What are the 2 times to use an apostrophe?

In contractions e.g.(can't) and when explaining something belongs to something e.g. ( Hamish's bike)

- When should you use an apostrophe of possession?

When explaining that  something belongs to something e.g. ( Hamish's bike)

- Where does it go in a sentence?

I can't go to the dance.

What are you doing? That's Derek's.

Sorry we're going to the movies.

- When should you NOT use an apostrophe of possession?

When someones name ends with an "s" when its not explaining an object the belongs to that person.

- When should you use an apostrophe of contraction?

When you are using contractions e.g. (can't, he's)

- Why do we use apostrophe of contractions?

To show where the second words missing letters are supposed to be

- Where does the apostrophe of contraction go in a contracted word?

where the second words missing letters are supposed to be 

-can't  n't

-I'd     i'd

-we're e'r

NFC Tags

5 facts about NFC tags

NFC tags are little tags that shops use to stop shoplifting.

NFC tags are like wireless USB

They are cheap and have endless uses

They can take you to a website just by pressing them

Instead of handing out pamphlets you can give out these tags


Good thing about an NFC tag
They can replace paper, newspapers etc

Useful for QR codes or barcodes

Bad thing
 you can use them to plant a phone virus

Heni Karamu

1. She was the only woman in the battle.
2. She wanted to be with her brother.
3. The first shot was at dawn. 
4. It started to rain and the shots bounced around.
5. She was doing what was right.
6. The enemy painted her as a man.
7. Heni brought a whole pot filled with water.
8. Her brother did want her to give water to the soldiers.
9. She was following a prair.
10. Pakeha  soldiers were laughing at the shots

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave is a true story about Solomon Northup who lives in New York with his family and is asked to do to a violin concert in Washington D.C. Little did he know that everything would change when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. He is sold to a man who owns a large cotton plantation where he stays for over twelve years. Solomon is always trying his hardest but to the slave drivers his work is horrible so he decides to make a stand and fight.This Movie is a true story and based off of a book and set in the 1800’s this story is excellent and with a all star cast of Chiwetel Ejiofor,Brad pitt and much much more. With amazing acting and a great setting this movie won best picture 2014 at the 2014 oscars. overall this movie is great and deserves the award.

Click here to view the trailer

Oscar Winners

Best picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best actor: Matthew McConaughey  Dallas Buyers Club
Best actress:Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine
Best supporting actor: Jared leto. A supporting actor is a person that has a major role in the movie but is not a main character.
Other categories: Memorial Award,Technical Award,Humanitarian Award.
The oscar statuette looks like a man crossing his arms across his chest.

Some of the best picture movies: American Hustle,Gravity,Captain Phillips

I think the best dressed actress is Sandra Bullock. 

Mini dialogs

Camp Washing

"Make sure to leave all of the clean clothes in your bag and the dirty ones in the machine," said Mum

"ok," I said

"And can you help me with mine please"asked Mum

"Fine But why can't I just rest," I complained

"I'll take you to Bay Fair," mum said

"Ok lets go," I quickly said

Tech Convo

"Miss C what am I doing for tech,"I asked

"You are doing food tech,"said Miss C

"Yay school work I can eat"I happily said "I hope we will learn to make ice cream,"I said.

Camp Food

"Hey James what your favourite  food at camp," I asked

"Well I thought all of it was good but my favourite was probably the burgers,"answered James

" Same but my least favourite was the food we had in the bush,"I said

Year 8 Camp Advice

• In paintball when trying to get the flag keep moving to cover.
• Don't get on Mr Hart's list or else he will shoot you with a paintball gun.
• When you going on the flying fox look out for Martha the paintball truck.
• If you are on the high ropes look to where you are going.
• During the overnight stay make your bivouac as wide as you can but make sure you can get in it.
• In paintball stay low.