Drive home and yesterday.

On the last day at grandmas we packed, had breakfast which was bacon and eggs and walked Bobbie their dog. Afterwards we hopped in the car and started the long boring roughly 2 hour drive. Ugggghhhhhhhhhh. When we got home we played terraria a new game that we installed. We bet the Easter boss called Lepus which summons minions and are now trying to defeat skeletron a harder boss. Then we have 1 more boss that we can fight called Eye of Cthulhu.

Grandmas house

Yesterday we went on a long boring drive for roughly 2 hours. When we got there 2 out of 4 of my cousins were there Katy and Mia. We played games and watched DVD's.For lunch we had the choice of a sandwich or crackers. I chose the sandwich and I had ham on it. For dinner we had potatoes, kumara, pumpkin and lamb. For pudding we had custard and peaches with chocolate hail.

By Braeden

Pet server

Yesterday  Josh and I found a server that we can get pets on. We can get the chicken pet and the pig pet and we can ride on them. Josh and I are both making a race track so we can race then. Mine will be made out of Quartz and coal blocks. We make money by selling things and to promote we need money. I have promoted 4 times so far.

By Braeden 

Easter

For Easter we got a box of favourites and chocolate bunny. The bunny had white chocolate as buttons.

Yesterday I got around 20 more coins in super smash mobs. They can help me get new classes to help me win more games and get more coins. I'm 10 coin away from the TNT or chicken class. I also found a game were you protect villagers from mobs. And each round you get a certain amount of gems. They can help you get armour to help you not die.

By Braeden

Holidays

We moved house over the holidays from Nelson to Auckland. We had takeaways every night for 2 nights. We also slept in a bed in the car for the same amount of time as we were driving. This  experience was not something I want to do again as it was not a very comfortable sleep. Iv'e never moved house before so it was scary and exiting at the same time.

We got to have our first Christmas in our new house. On Christmas morning we woke Mum and Dad up so we could open our presents. My brother and I both got an ipad. "YAY," we yelled. The first app I downloaded was youtube and the next was angry birds go. We also got a tv that can connect to phones and ipads so we can watch youtube off them as well.  We've been using the TV if we both want to watch the same thing. Which isn't often. We like watching different things at different times.
It was a great Chritmas.

I walk in and I smell the fresh aroma of candy floss, sausage rolls and fizzy. The courts were filled to the brim with a of minimum 3000 people. When 6:00 arrived the kids went into their change rooms and at 7:00 the show began.

The first act was the senior Kapahaka and they were swinging poi and singing. It was a good way to start the night of Fiafia.The Kapahaka group was wearing skirts made of flax, and shirts with Maori patterns on it.

The 3rd act of the night was the Bollywood group. They were jumping and running like they’ve just chugged down a 2.5 litre bottle of coke each. They had singlets, shorts and glasses like they thought they were gangsters.

Now we take a big leap to my act called Precisely That. Its where 1 person does something and the rest had to do it too. We were based on a military, we had black wooden sniper rifles (a.k.a The Snipes) white pants, black shirt, black shoes and socks and a white cap. On some of our backs we had letters saying I heart MUM.

The next group we go to is jump jam and they used a song from the incredibles and they were jumping punching the air and ducking. Their costume was stuff that was easy to move in. They started their second song which i can't remember the name of.

The ending was Mr Burt saying a prayer and the kids going back into their change-rooms for getting ready to go home. You needed to wait till your parents came and then you could leave. This was my first Fiafia and I liked it. Too bad it happens every 2nd year so I won’t be able to do it again but my first Fiafia and probably last was pretty good.

Paris article

The Paris government are allowing certain cars to go on certain days. Cars with even numbered ones can drive one day, even the next. The reason for this is to decrease the pollution in Paris. The levels have become increasingly high recently so they thought that if this worked the pollution levels would go down.

Motorcycles were also affected by this ban and there were exceptions for taxies and emergency vehicles. After 1 day the pollution levels were back to safe levels so they stopped it. Now they know that if the pollution levels get high again they just allow certain cars on certain days and it will go back down.


 By Braeden

Empathy movie braeden from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Movie about Waitangi - Trader Jack Jones

This is a movie about the Treaty of Waitangi from the perspective of a trader Jack Jones.


Interview with Jack Jones from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Show not tell setting

Huddled in my triple layer blanket on my mattress the moonlight is shining the through the windows where the snow on the window ledge hasn’t risen up to yet. The moon makes a square shaped glow on the wall. I look under the door and I see the hall light on. It is shining right through. My eyes begin to droop.

Darkness....

The chirping of birds outside in the big tree awakens me from my slumber. I open my eyes and the sun is shining, melting the snow. I smell bacon and eggs. I quickly get dressed, run down to the kitchen and start to eat. I eat like a pig.

Subway article week 11

Subway has been attracting a crowd but not in a good way they have been accused of having a chemical in there bread. Lots of people wonder if subway doing this would make it healthy food? This question is yet to be answered.

The chemical in the bread is called azodicarbonamide. This chemical is also found in yoga mats and is used as a foaming agent for plastic and rubber. The customers launched a petition to remove the substance in the bread. Subway will be closed for a week while its being taken out. People claim that this can be found in 9-grain bread.


By Braeden

Book review

Book Title: Dairy of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick rules	Author: Jeff Kiney
Reviewer: Braeden Rm 4	Grand total of books read this year: 6
Book Genre: Fiction Science fiction Drama Romance Mystery Horror Comedy Series Fantasy Other (state) Non-Fiction Biographies/Autobiographies Historical Instructional Other (state)	Insert photo of book cover here:
Reading Level: Easy Medium Advanced	Rating: (Leave how many stars you rate it.) ✩ ✩✩✩✩✩
Review: A kid named Greg goes on about his life with his family.	Excerpt:  "33 - 34 there are 34 people in the class".That really set him off. "I'M A HUMAN BEING TOO!"

Fiafia Writing

I walk in and I smell the fresh aroma of candy floss, sausage rolls and fizzy. Its filled to the brim of minimum 3000 people. When 6:00 arrived the kids went into their change rooms and at 7:00 the show began.

The first act was senior Kapahaka and they were swinging poi and singing. It was a good way to start the night of fiafia. The Kapahaka group was wearing skirts made of flax, and shirts with Maori patterns on it.

The 3rd act of the night was the Bollywood group. They were jumping and running like they've just chugged down a 2.5 litre bottle of coke each. They had singlets, shorts and glasses like they thought they were gangsters.

now we take a big leap to my act called precisely that. Its were 1 person does something and the rest had to do it too. We were based of a military we had black wooden sniper rifles (a.k.a The Snipes) white pants, black shirt, black shoes and socks and a white cap. On some of our backs we had letters saying I heart MUM.

The next group we go to is jump jam and they used a song from the incredibles and they were jumping punching the air and ducking. Their costume was stuff that was easy to move in. They started their second song which i can't remember the name of.

The ending was Mr Burt making a prayer and the kids getting into their change-rooms for getting ready to go home. You need to wait till your parents came and then you could leave. This was my first fiafia and i liked it, too bad it happens every 2nd year so i won’t be able to do it again but my first fiafia and probably last was pretty good.

News article

An 8.2 earthquake hit Chile making small landslides and a tsunami warning. Four men and one woman died, two had heart attack and 3 got crushed. The tsunami hit along the shore for hundreds of kilometers. It was a 7-foot tsunami with 2 metre waves before and after. After 15 hours it got to NZ and we felt a small amount of the 8.2 earthquake.

The earthquake was so strong that it got to Bolivia’s capital about 470 km away and was still at 4.5! 10 aftershocks minimum came in the first hour and one was 6.2. More aftershocks came but could not be found in strength so it could have been higher or lower than the highest recorded. By Braeden