Whitianga Beaches!

For about the past two weeks I have been in the Coramandel. I have been staying at this place called Whitianga. During me and my family's stay at Whitianga, we have been to lots of diferent beaches. The ones I talk about below are; Hot Water Beach, Hahei Beach, Lonely Bay and Simpsons beach (where we were staying)

Simpsons Beach

The bach we were staying in was literally 10 meters from Simpsons Beach. Every morning the sun came up in front of our house. Gracefuly, the golden, warm, bright rays filled our lounge each morning. At Simpsons Beach we went swimming most days, kayaking almost every day, and fishing every now and again. 

Hot Water Beach

Hot Water Beach was a stunning experience. We arrived at the steaming sand with our shovels and spades. Hot feet told us we were at the right spot. We dumped our towels and bags under a shady pohutahkawa tree, found a spot, then started digging. Slowly we formed a family sized pit/spa. After a while we realised that the water was getting too hot to relax in, so we made some smaller ones nearer to the sea. Finally we had finished our pools. Tiredly, we relaxed in the hot, spring water, soaking up the sun for hours.  It was confusingly amazing to be able to sit in a natural spa about 4 meters away from the ocean. By lunch time the beach was a mass of hot muddy puddles. People swarmed the beach like moths to a lamp. By the end of my time at hot water beach I was as pink as Pepa Pig.

Hahei Beach

Hahei still had a fair amount of people at it but much less than Hot Water Beach.  The water was so clear that I could see all the way past my toes, and to the sea floor when I swam out past my depth! I also liked relaxing on the sand and eating my ice cream. (Ice creams were also a definate plus at Hahei.)

Otama Beach

To my surprise, the sand at Otama was sqeaky just like at Australia! I did some research and found out that the sand squeaks because each grain of sand is so finely rounded and sphere like that it is the perfect shape to squeak when they rub together. So when you walk on the sand the sand, particles rub together making the sand squeak. I liked Otama beach because it had a rope swing that I could play on.  But the squeaky sand made me miss australia 😢. The water at Otama wasn't as nice as the other spots though because it was a windy day when we went and the water was choppy. Again with the wind, I didn't enjoy all the sand blowing around when I was relaxing on my towel.

Lonely Bay

Lonely Bay was by far my favorite beach. It was practically deserted. The clarity of the water was insane! Big rocks poked out of the water like mini islands that we could jump off into the water. The beach was small and sheltered, and the sun shone the whole time we were there. Lonely bay was like our own little slice of paradise.

Here are some photos of SOME of the beaches because I didn't take photos at some of them.

 

    

Cherub Acronym

A couple weeks ago I did a chapter chat activity on The Recruit. I'm doing The Recruit as my chapter chat this term because I'm on holiday and I'm not able to get my hands on a copy of the book my class is reading. Luckly the year 7&8 chapter chat book was The Recruit and my brother just happened to have taken it on holiday with him. So I am doing The recruit as my chapter chat book this term. The Recruit is a part of the series CHERUB. But in the series it never says what CHERUB actually stands for. In this activity I had to do an acronym for CHERUB. Here is a screenshot of my work. By the way, it took alot of reaserch to get this acronym.

















Here is an explanation of this acronym.
Charles Henderson is the founder of the orgonisation CHERUB. Henderson Boys is another series which is set before cherub was created.  At the end of the book Eagle Day (which is part of the Henderson Boys series) you find out that charles henderson is starting somthing called Espionage Reasearch Unit B. Therefore CHERUB stands for Charles Hendersons Espionage Reaserch Unit B

Timestables.com

About 3 weeks ago my class started using Timestables.com again. I havent used timestables.com for ages but then my teachers set it as a priority for this term. I only just thought of posting this on my blog, so sorry it wasn't posted 3 weeks ago.


NONE of my progress saved from erlier this year because I think I got another password and username. So I had an emty trophy cabnet and NO diplomas. So I had to start all over again!

After about a week of perseverance I had filled my whole trophy cabnet. I had a diploma for each timestables bundle* (*1-12x tables) and gold medals for all the other timestables test. I also had my big and little diploma. Here's some photos of my MOOLA. (Right)

Hamilton Gardens

Last weekend my family and I went to hamilton Gardens. Hamilton Gardens is a huge area of land dedicated to big amazing gardens that look like they belong in a palace! Each garden is unique and was built/grown acording to a theme. My favorite one was the Italian garden.

When I was at the Italian garden I noticed tht they had put white-ish/ cream /light browny looking small stones on the garden paths to make It look authentic. The Italyion garden had 2-3 meter squares with short shaped hedges around the outside of each one. On the inside there were flowers and flat scolpted concrete paterns.

It also had a big water foutain in the middle souronded by 4 lions. The fountain had water comming out the top, and the lions had water comming out of their mouths. The lions and fountain were inside a small circular pool. It was seperated from four bigger, almost square, pools that each had a small bite shaped quater circle cut out of one corner, so that the circle pool fit in the center of them.

At the end of the garden there was a cool, old-time looking building with big pillars and a passage leading through to the other side of the building. The other side was amazing! It was a shady balcony with a spectacular veiw of the Waikato River! 

Here is some photos of some of the gardens...

Here is a link to a cool photo of the Indian Garden. Scroll down past the first photo. Then look for the next one. 

King Of The Mountain.

This is a maths thing that my class had to do. The layout is like a mountain, which is why I call this activity "King Of The Mountain". It is actually called times tables mountain but that sounds kinda lame, so I renamed it. My teacher reckoned I could do the mountain in under three minutes and she was obviously right. So I set myself another challenge of trying to get under TWO minutes on my next attempt. Here's the results...


I only just completed the my challenge with a time of 1 minute 57 seconds only 2 seconds and 46 milliseconds and I would have failed! Here is the evidence. It's a screenshot of the timer when I stopped it.

Halloween Storybird Assignment

This is my halloween Storybird poem. In this Storybird I flicked through the picture backgrounds until I found one that was more my style and that I liked. Then I pieced together my poem. I did a bit of mix and matching with my words and sentences trying to find the best fit. Because there is selection of words to chose from, (I couldn't just type whatever, I had to pick out of the words that were there) I had to think about trying to tell whoever was reading the poem, what was going on, without actually making full sentences. (If you get what I mean.) Anyway, here is my poem. Enjoy!

Boiling Furious

This is my writing sample. The brief for this writing sample was "describe a time when your actions spoke louder that your words". So I wrote this fictional story. Enjoy!

Boiling Furious

Boiling Furious. That's how I was feeling. All It took was 1 slap across the face and I was without dinner for a night. I couldn't get to sleep with all these hateful emotions stuck in my head. This is a story of how I got into this mess.

It was a scorching summer afternoon. After a long hard working day of school, I was dying to get home. I raced home up the road and along the footpath on my bike.

   As I pulled up the driveway on my bike all I could think about was the ice block I had been saving.   "Icy cold lemonade flavor, mmmmm" Quickly after parking my bike I made a beeline for the freezer.

That's when it hit me. Sitting soaking up the sun, licking my lemonade ice block was atawhai! Instantly, my face screwed up. It turned as red as a tomato. I was a volcano about to erupt. My face told all the emotions I was feeling. Storming toward her, I slapped her right across the face. It was the kind of slap that left a mark.

So that's how I got here. Sulking on my pillow. Awake at night with an empty stomach. Flooded inside with all these emotions. Hate, sickening jealousy, anger. But most of all I just felt Boiling Furious!

The End