Sunday 13 April 2014

my B/day party

On Saturday the 12th of April I had my 13th birthday party. Marijke, Ella, Zoe and Sheridan arrived at my house at 7:30am we started our drive up to Auckland at 8:00am. It was a long drive but we finally got to Rainbows End and We were super excited. First we went on the pirate ship ride what was fun. After that I got them to go on the Fear Fall Marijke was freaking out but she did it and I am pretty sure she loved it and so did everyone else. We rode all the rides more then once. My 3 favourites were the roller coaster, the Fear Fall and the Invader. We stayed at rainbow end till about 5:00 then we started the long drive home but that didn't take that long.

When we got back to Tauranga we had McDonalds and Marijke had pizza. When we got home we went straight to the lough were we were going to sleep. We talked until about 1:00am and then we Skyped some people who were having a sleepover too. But we got told off by my mum for being too loud so we had to end the call. That's when Sheridan fell a sleep so we drew on her face. About an hour later she woke up again and got a bit mad at us ( oh well). It was about 3:00am when we all feel a sleep and we woke up about 8:30am. We had breakfast and got everything packed up. Zoe left first then sheridan then Marijke but Ella didn't leave because we had a job to do for hockey.

And that was the end of my birthday party sadly.

Thursday 10 April 2014

Khan Academy.

His name is Salman Khan he is 35. He is the owner of the website Khan Academy. In the USA 4.1million students watch his video in 18months 1.4million students watch his videos in 24hours.

It all started in 2004 when his cousin need help with maths. He started helping her by making some videos and then sending them to her and  he would put them on youtube. After awhile other started to watch his videos as well they  started writing comments  about how they want more videos.In 2009 Salman Khan quit he job and started up a website called Khan Academy and  worked in his closet.

In late 2009 Bill Gates talked about how he gets his kids to watch Khan Academy and that  he is a big fan after that Bill Gates chief of staff from Bill's company called and asked Salman if he wants to come to his company. Bill Gates gave Him 15million dollars to help with the software.

Now Salman Khan's company has lots of employes and he is helping students all of the world.

Wednesday 9 April 2014

mandarin family members.

I have 爸爸 - father
I have 妈妈 - Mother
I also have 哥哥 - older brother
And  没没 - younger sister


mei mei - younger sister
ge ge - older brother
ma ma - mother
baba- father


1- yi - 一
2 - er - 二
3 - san - 三
4 - si - 四
5 - wu - 无
6 - liu - 六
7 - qi -七
8 - ba - 八
9 - jiu - 九
10 - shi - 十

Tuesday 8 April 2014

Basketball my favourite game by Kenn Nesbitt

Tip 1: Read the slowly 

Tip 2: Read in a normal, relaxed tone of voice

Tip 3:  you should only pause when there is punctuation 

Tip 4: Use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words and hard-to-pronounce words. 

Here is a link to a site with good tips on how to read a poem out loud.
poetry 180


Here is a poem I like 
Basketball's my favourite sport.

Basketball's my favourite  sport.
I dribble up and down the court.
The ball goes bouncing off my toes
and beans the teacher on the nose.

He stumbles back and grabs his nose
and hits the wall and down he goes.
The other players stop and stare.
They've never heard the teacher swear.

With no one playing anymore,
I grab the ball. I shoot. I score.
I love this game! It's so much fun.
The teacher cried, but, hey--we won.

Thursday 3 April 2014

My learning Conference.

Yesterday I had my student led conference with my mum I thought it went well. Mum said I was doing really well and that she was happy with it but she didn't believe I was quiet in class. Miss Campbell said that I need to work on asking for help if I am stuck and I will try to do that more often.

There, Their and They're

When should you use there? You use there when you are referring to a place of some sort.
I can't live there.

When should you use their? You use their when you are talking about someone's things e:g bags.
Is this their bag?.

When should you use they're ? They're is used only as a verb and subject.
They're going to the beach today.

On the first exercise I got 86% and in the second one I got 10/10