Te Manawa

On Thursday 16th room 6 went to Te Manawa to learn about erosion. I was in Mr Clark's car with Moio, Stewart and Te. We finally made it, to be welcomed by a hall of mirrors. Barbara sat down and talked about what we know about water, and then took us to the water room. She told us how to play poo sticks, we then got a ice block stick and dropped it into a stream that was made inside. At the end there was an area were we played a card game. First Babara's assistant Alwyn gave my group of 3 a tray that had 3 animals, 1 tree a fence and a coloured Lego piece that would represent our house. Babara tipped some sand in the end area to represent land. We put our farms on the sand and turned on the tap. all the water made the land break off and fall into the river. Afterwards we looked at the museum. In my opinion it was a bit small but in the end of the day i had loads of fun. 

my holiday!!!!!!

In the summer summer holidays my family went to the Gold Coast, Australia for one week. We flew from Wellington to Brisbane. we arrived the day Brisbane had the bad floods. it was raining heavily but we just HAD to travel to the gold coast! we finally got there and we were very happy, we arrived safely and we were very far away from Brisbane. we packed all our stuff in our cottage and decided we needed a good night sleep. it was hard to get to sleep as it was so hot. In the morning we got ready to go to the Dracula's haunted house as it was spitting. It was awesome! It had heaps of scary clowns, zombies, mummys, spiders and more! It was five stores high! the next morning was very sunny, so we decided to go to Movie World! they showed journey to the center of the earth in 4D! It was so awesome!!!! you could even fell the floor shaking as the tyrannosaurus was running out of the screen. there were lots of roller coasters and rides, but my favourite ride was the scooby-doo spooky coaster. It was so hot and we stayed there the whole day. My feet were sore. The next day we went to Australia zoo. we were lucky that the Bruce highway was open because it has been closed the day before due to flooding. The zoo was massive and i got to hold a koala, an alligator and a very long python. the Irwin family ( the owners of the zoo) performed a show in the crocasium. we also went to dream world, were i saw a wild snake in the bushes! My favourite ride at dream world was the tower of terror. we also did lots and lots of shopping. Our cottage were we stayed had a pool and a spa. I think that the Australian wildlife is amazing, there are wild bats flying around, big Australian water dragons (or lizards) and geckos by the outside light, eating sand flies at night. i was sad to come home, and not only was my holiday the best holiday ever, but a holiday i would never forget!  

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 Last week, Tokomaru School walked over to the Tokomaru Fire Station for a Fire Safety Lesson. When we arrived we lined up in pairs of 6.

We went in the smoke room which is a room filled with smoke make from peanut oil.It was hard to breath and you have to stay down as your meant to do in a real fire. We went under tables and  could not see anything.

At the end you will be greeted with lolly pops and juice, and also a booklet. The lolly pops were great! After that the firemen talked to us about what you do in a fire and if you here a Darf vador sound go to it not away because it is a fire men with a oxygen mask to breath. it has to be as realistic as possible.

at the end when we were about to go we had to have a picture taken of our school next to a fire truck. Justin and Carmen were dressed up as flint and amber to make the little kids happy. they gave us a certificate for being fire wise! after that we walked back to toko school with our certificates, lollie pops and booklets.
REMEMBER IN A FIRE GET DOWN GET LOW GET OUT!

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

I was born on,                               in Palmerton North New Zealand. I was named Jonathan                                . My middle name                was from my Granddad.

 My Mums name is Leonie                        she was born in Napier .However , my dad Martin                              was born   in Wales, Cardiff.

I have two sisters Natasha                      and Kayla                     . I was the 3^rd born and my little Brother, Ryan                                        is the youngest.

I was brought up at                     near Mt Biggs. I went to Mt Biggs school, were I saw my first lizard. That’s were I get my interest in lizards. I had a cool teacher who was sort of like a scientist. He had pet lizards, pet walking sticks and heaps of pet spiders! I had 4 friends Sam, Callem, Alix and Alex.

I had the coolest next door neighbour ever! His name was Russell. Sometimes when Russell was working on the farm he would stop at the fence let me hop in his tractor and have a lollypop while he’d drive it.

One of the most random things was me my sisters and my cousin would collect snails and have them as pets. Another random thing I remember was when it was night and my Dad told me to get my bike. I was half-way when I thought I saw a shadow of a witch on my skateboard behind the water tanks!

One of the happiest memories of my life was when my Brother, my two sisters and I were on our bikes going up and down Zoses hill. After all that we moved to                    to be closer to dads work.

We moved to a shed which my dad made into a house. We lived there because we wanted builders to build a two-story house. Right before the builders were going to build the house, one of them died. We moved to                      as they never built the house. I now live in the                               region. 

In                         , one thing really impacted on my life. It was the                        2009 Saturday, I was on the paddock with my friend             , it was his         B-day and we were having fun. We were climbing some thin trees when.... “SNAP!” The branch that I was standing on snapped, i fell from the top to the bottom.  I was hanging upside down when blood started trickling down my leg! It was because my foot got hung on barbed wire! It hurt soo much! I still have the scar and I always will.

And that was my life! (so far!)    

note: some of the above passage has been blanked out  because some information cant be given to you                               

      

Avatars

Today all of our school except for yr 7 & 8 are playing a touch tournament for our school. we wish them the best! 
  well they are doing touch we are making Avatars for our Blog. It's pretty cool. please listen to it by pressing the play button under my Avatar. THANKS!

lizards

Last year I let my lizards go in my garden. Larry, Stripes, Opal, Snow and lezly #2 were the survivers.
R.I.P Lezely, Crazy, Lizzie and No name.

They were common skinks.

my best friend Matthew gave them to me as he has left to America.

the triathalon was really fun and challenging I really liked it. I think that the running was the hardest.
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