Favorite Burger Fillings

We are peppering for our market day. Room 16 & 7 are doing sliders (mini burgers). A couple days ago Aniela and I went into some classes to do a  survey. We found out what filling students would like. https://docs.google.com/a/parkvale.school.nz/spreadsheets/d/1fKedKPl3s7tH8qf02Nwd71t5TJ73QE_eJz7tOW3xkJY/edit#gid=0

Home Work Speech

To shave or not to shave that is the question

Today I will be speaking to you about shaving. In my opinion, I think people should shave going for that smooth look.

Firstly, lets begin by telling you what shaving actually is. Did you know shaving is the removal of hair.

Now lets discuss the benefits of shaving. In some religions it is religious practice to shave the head but wouldn't you get cold? Like seriously how does Mr Sevenson feel on a cold winters day?

Head shaving is also common amongst competitive sports such as swimming, running and extreme sports. Lets take Ian Thorpe for example, an Australian swimmer who specializes in freestyle. He has won 5 Olympic gold medals. Usain Bolt Jamaican sprinter, widely regarded as the fastest person ever. What do these two men have in common you ask? They both shave their entire bodies. So shaving obviously makes you faster.

Historically, head shaving has also been used to humiliate and punish. Imagine that. Imagine getting into trouble at school and Mr G saying, Right boy, come here, it’s time to shave your head. You haven’t been showing Parkvale Pride. Be gone with your hair.

And then there is shaving your head, moustache or beard for fund-raising efforts. Isn’t it remarkable to see our Role Models such as teachers, All Blacks, Politicians growing their facial hair in the support of cancer research and charitable organisations only to shave it off and raise money for people who are suffering from this terrible disease that constantly terrorizes us. We all know of someone who has passed away from this. So how incredibly unselfish is it to shave a little hair for the sake of someone else’s health.

Finally, I feel that everyone of us should now see the benefits of shaving. We all want to look gorgeous, be fast and do the right thing by charitable trusts, don’t we? After listening to my speech hopefully I’ve done enough to persuade you to shave.

To shave or not to shave - what will you do?

Hanging out with my friends in the Holidays

The holidays 

In the Holidays my friends and I went to the Movies and Inflatable world. I had a great time and I know my friends had an awesome time as well. As Sophia, Bree, Kyrah, Kyrah's brothers and I stepped on the obstacle course we held everybody up as we stood on the top of the slide. At the movies we run past everyone else as the movie was about to start we sat down on our seats and I opened the popcorn, "yum" whispers Bree.

Here is a picture of us 4 bffs at Inflatable World

Getting my sport achiever badge

When Miss Hill called my name out for a sport achiever badge I was puzzled and excited at the same time.

I had never thought I would get this badge for some reason, I just thought because I only played 1 sport which was netball and made it to championships for running  I might of not gotten it. I had got my envelope that had my name written on it, inside was two badges and a letter. I was so happy but I really wanted academic as well but I am grateful that I got a sport badge.  

My Goals This Term

This term my goals are.

Maths: To improve my maths and be able to know my times tables and other sratagies
Reading: To be able to read curtain chapter books that are challenging for me and to move up to the top level of reading.
Writing:  I want use different sentence starters for my writing
My goal this term is to achieve curtain leaders badges and be able to be in the top sport teams

My fab holiday

Hanging out with my friends

As Kyrah and I walked into the movie theater I saw my other friends Bree and Sophia. We all had our movie tickets and were ready to walk into theater two. I sat on my seat and waited for the movies, since the movies took so long to start I grabbed the popcorn out of my bag to share with my bff. Finally the Planes fire and rescue had started. The seats started vibrating when a plane zoomed past the screen. Bree decided to vibrate the seats even more, It was so crack up.Once the movie was finished my mum meet us outside. We walked to Westermins cafe and had lunch I had a chicken panini and a banana smoothie. After that me and my friends went shopping with my mum.Today was so fun and I cant wait to tell you about Inflatable world with my bff's some other time. 

Optimist yachting on Wednesday

"Watch out we are about to tip". The yacht was filling with water and we were tipping to the right side more, I was trying to lean so it would even the yacht out but know it decided to tip us in the water thank godsends the motor boat and a parent in the kayak came to help us. As for me and my buddy when we got back to shore we were drenched and freezing cold, people I walked passed were like did you capsize did you really. " Um yes, that's our boat floating away out there see I couldn't get it to flip over, so guess what it floated away." After a while the yacht had been picked up and bought to shore. That is my story of a capsize it was really fun however my buddy was a bit to cold in the end so she didn't come back to school, I hope she is alright.

Optimist yachting

Optimist Yachting

As I stepped on the pahi (bus) I said wow what a flash bus we should of had that bus when we went to Palmerston North.

Any way when we arrived at Pandora pond there to greet as was Mr Ford and Miss Hill. My class was kayaking first. I got to be by myself in the kayak. When we went under the bridge I was a bit nervous because my paddle kept hitting the top of the bridge and when I went to lie down I went a different direction.  When we came back however a girl capsized and I went to help her but when she hopped on my kayak it started to wiggle and then we flipped in. I quite enjoyed getting drenched. 

When we got on the yacht I started to get cold  because the wind was blowing. I thought yachting was quite challenging because I didn't know when to stare but luckily my buddy knew the trick. I cant wait to come back tomorrow and see what exiting things the teachers have planed.   

Riverdale sport exchange in Palmerston North

As we approached the bus I thought to myself, "Check out that bus" I muttered to my dad who was driving me to school that morning.

Sophia and I sat on the seats behind the toilet, wasn't a great choice as people decided to give us grief for sitting there. Sophia and I were happy however as we joked and laughed with Krya, Bree, Emma, Leilani and Poppy.

Keeping on the toilet theme, the toilets in Woodville were disgusting! There we practiced Tutira Mai Nga Iwi and the boys practiced the Haka. We sounded good.

Back on the bus called Mr D. Sophia and I sang songs on the bus and video ourselves doing it. It was a crack up.

When we arrived, we were met by 3 students from Riverdale, who introduced themselves and led us to the hall. We were greeted by their Principal and then Mr D replied.

Soon we were in our sports uniforms and on the court ready to play. I played centre. I found it challenging as my opponent was a lot taller than me and very skilled. Dam she was good. During the game I needed water, as I took a drink I realised their water was fowl, it tasted like chlorine.

It was a draw 10 all. I made a new friend and overall what an amazing experience.

We got back on the bus and went to the pools. Apparantly, it was meant to be the best pools in the North Island....it wasn't.

We arrived home at about 5ish and Helen was there to pick Conor and I up. We had pizza for tea and I told mum all about my day.

I loved it because it was my first trip away with  my new School. I would like to say congratulations to all the others who went to Riverdale today as everyone represented Parkvale with Pride.

Production 2014 Vedio

This is a video of my production group performing. I used the program called Pow Toon Here is the link if you would like to make one.http://www.powtoon.com/account/login/?next=/dashboard/templates/ I would like to thank Mr M for sharing this program to me.

Cross country

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Today was the day of cross country, man I'm nervous.
We had started our race and I was right by Aneila but then, she took of.
I thought I did well getting 2nd place. I new I couldn't catch up to Aneila once she took of but I tried and did my best. Here are some pictures of me running.

Production Diary 2014

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WALT: record and share our thoughts. Text type: Diary or Journal

Success Criteria	Self assessment	Buddy Assessment	Teacher Assessment
Introduce yourself and your role “Dear Diary...”
Honest thoughts and feelings at the time
Likes and dislikes
Expression / Personality (sounds like you)
Date plus optional title for each entry
Actions from practice and performance

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Beginning:

25.8.14

Dear Diary, let me introduce myself. My name is Kiana Pohe and my role in the production is a poi girl and a singer.   So far I think my voice is loud but I need to work a bit with the poi to get in time with the other girls. I am kind of sick of that strobe light it makes my eyes glitch and I get abit of a headache.

26.8.14

Dear Dairy.

The second day of production and it was dress rehearsal! I was a bit late because I had a doctors appointment. Practice was in room three, I thought when we practiced today it was a lot better especially when we were in time with Poi E.

The strobe light went on well I was performing. I think I looked a bit silly covering my eyes. It doesn't just affects me I think it affects others as well. Over all today I thought it was pretty awesome getting the opportunity to dress up in all our costumes.  

27.8.14

Dear Diary

Today was the day of the performance to the school. It was my first time getting a moko on my chin. It stunk when Mrs Roil stuck it on, I learnt that you have to be quick to put the paint on all else you can’t put sparkly red glitter on it. After the big performance Miss Hill gave us an ice block because her and the other teachers were happy that we stepped up and did better today than yesterday.  

28.8.14

The big night was here, it was my first performance in front of an audience.

I was petrified. I have never sung in front of this many people before. As I was getting ready, my friend’s and other classmates gave me a nice compliment. That made me happy and excited before going on stage. It was my time to shine. As I was walking behind the dark black curtain I could see the light shining and the crowd laughing. My heart was beating more and more faster. As we were singing Aotearoa my nerves went away and then my dress popped  undone!  Oh blasted I said to myself, now what am I going to do. I had a plan. My plan was to put all my weight into it so it didn’t go down and the crowd didn’t see my undies! After finishing, a lovely parent offered to do my dress up. Luckily she had more pins to put on my dress. That was my first night of production.

29.8.14

Dear Diary

I think Bella is so good at Mauis Wife. She has expression and she even has a bit of attitude in her line. Now where was I, oh that's right how it felt sing and walking on stage. Well walking on stage is nerve wracking the light’s are shining red bright in your eyes and the crowd is staring at you. When the music comes on I have a great time. I laugh I even do a bit of a pukana when I feel like doing one. I thought it was awesome. My production group keeps improving every night. Oh there was one thing, the boys on the curtain they closed it well we were still performing. That was quite embarrassing.

30.8.14

Dear Diary

I had just spotted my family in crowd. Then, I did this big grin and my poi whacked me in the face, Ouch I mattered. Then I realized that my dress had popped undone, silly dress how times has it popped undone now. Wow Hugh is really good at Maui he has expression and his acting is great. I think this performance has been the best one yet.   

2.9.14

Dear Diary

Today is monday the last week of production. I thought I did quite well tonight. I kept my head still I smiled and some of my pukanas were awesome. It has been good, Mr Ford hasn't put that strobe light on that much tonight. The crowd was hard to get a laugh out of so Mr Cottrell is laughing and trying to get us to laugh but no one followed. After production my mum got me KFC for dinner, I love there chicken and there chips are so nice with their salt on it.  Bye Diary

3.9.14

Dear Diary

Another night of production. I am so tired, I just wish this production thing would finish, Seriously.

The movie we watched before the performance was scary and I like scary movies. As we all waited  in room 21 before going on stage, A girls dress popped un done. I was kind and did it back up. You know when you get that feeling and you just smile if you look at someone you know well, my friend Poppy who has a speaking part in the crowd keeps making my smile and laugh and that's a good thing.

4.9.14

Dear Diary

The lucky last night of production, I am excited. As I am walking on stage I saw Mr G with his video camera. I got a bit nervous but when the song came on I was fine. When we were singing Aotearoa the spotlight was on me and my friends it was quite cool getting a bit more light. I could see my mum in the crowd waving, I was embarrassed but she said she was only doing that to get me to smile and pukana more. After Mr G said a speech Hamish lead a big haka and everyone was joining in, the boys literally blew the roof of. I thought tonight was a massive night I know I definitely enjoyed myself. I think the teacher's have done a great job to set this up. I hope I get another opportunity next year to be in the production.