Rock Climbing In The Holidays

The equipment you shall need is:

• Harness
• Carabiner
• Rock Climbing wall

The things attached to the rock climbing wall is:

• Automatic belay
• Rocks
• Plastic
• Cable

The place was pretty cool, the place that we went to was Rock Climbing! It wasn't very big, but it was big enough for me, Toby and about another 3 or 4 people. When we got to the Rock climbing we weren't sure if we wanted to go. But when a man (me) of great courage stood up and said he wanted to do it my brother Toby decided he wanted to do it as well. We already knew how to climb rocks but we needed reminding just to confirm our confidence. After reprocessing the rules into my brain over and over again I was finally ready to do some climbing.

The first rock climbing wall I did was the easiest out of them all. Whenever I’d look over my shoulder at Toby I’d see him trying his hardest to get to the top. Sometimes he would get to the top and sometimes he wouldn't. There was one challenge that killed me. It tested my strength, I did it but after then the others I did wasn't easy. One Rock Wall I helped Toby getting up the whole way. I was next to him on a different wall having fun with him. My mother and I were so proud of him and his achievement and so was Toby.

There was one wall where you don’t use your hands you use these tiny poles and put them in holes on the wall. That’s how you climb up the wall it’s not easy especially when the poles don’t grip into the wall easily. On another wall you time yourself on how fast you can get up the wall. I was extremely proud of myself when I got 18.65 seconds. That’s really fast for me. Then is was time to go home, thanks to mum me and Toby got a drink afterwards and had some chocolate eclairs.Then after a bite I said, “Thanks mum these are the best”.

Here is a link to the Rock Climbing site if you'd like to go there.

My Future Thinkers

This future thinkers presentation is a reading tack set from my teacher. on the way to completeing this presentation I learnt to read in between the lines. Future Thinkers are people who look to improve on the future, and they need help sometimes. If you have any ideas on improving the future then please leave a comment and thanks for your time. I really appreciate it.

Addition Think Board

This Thinkboard is a little different to the others because this one is addition so partitioning will do the trick. Hope that it's right and it matches. If it's wrong then please correct me.

Tiritiri Matangi Island Trip (Reflection)

Last week on wednesday, I went to Tiritiri Matangi Island with the year 7 & 8 extension group. I learnt about some of the wildlife and more that is on the island, I also come to learn that the island started off as a bunch of trees and a lot of seabirds, but as time flew past people started using the island as farming land. Many years ago most of the trees were cut down and only 6% of it survived because the steep parts of the island’s mountain’s could be a hydroslide for  the cattle to roll down the hills and land in the water. But the farmers didn’t want that to happen so they marked the steep parts off with the trees. Now the island is 90% forested with trees and only 10% of the island has land.

A few things that I loved about the island was… 1st the open space, it was just lovely to smell nature all around and it was so cool to see the rivers and dams that were built over 50 years ago. 2nd the wild life, absolutely loved the wild life, I learnt about new birds on the island. There were some pretty cool birds on the island, some of them I’ve never heard of before now. Like the Saddleback, it is small and it’s not so good at flying but this bird can run. The reason why they are called the Saddleback is because of the saddle shaped color on their back.

What I learnt from the island is that we need to protect the endangered species by, throwing our rubbish in the bin especially plastic. By using less plastic especially Glad Wrap it kills the animals, that’s how most animals get sick and become endangered. I also learnt that the Takahe when they’re young they have brownish blackish beaks compared to the older ones who have red beaks. The way you tell who is the Takahe and who is the Pukeko is the Takahe is much fatter. Tiritiri Matangi was a really cool island, I just want to say a big thanks to D.O.C (Department of Conservation) for letting us come, and all of the volunteers for the fun. It was a great experience and I’d love to go back there again!

My Anzac Animation

Jordan S Anzac Animation from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Think Board Number Something

This think board is just like the rest of them. It involves stratigies beyond compare... not really. Just please look at it and if there is anything that looks wrong then comment and tell me.

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels

This post is about a poem from WW1, it is a poem about these mysterious humans from Papua New Guinea who helped the injured soldiers from war all the way back home. This poem's about the family thanking the Angel like humans with the Fuzzy Wuzzy hair.

The Exciting News

After Walter Dickson I was emailed that I made it into the 2nd trials for Walter Dickson! Sadly I can’t make it because I’m going down to a farm next friday and I am going to have an awesome time! But what exciting news, It startes with 80 people and gets cut down to 45 and then to 20 something and finally 22. I made it to the 45 people so that’s a huge thing for me. So that’s awesome and next year I might get the same chance hopefully!

Walter Dickson Trials

I’ve heard about it… I’ve learnt about it… but I haven’t seen it… until now! I’ve been invited to trial with Walter Dickson! It may sound like a joke, but it actually is the best rugby union team in Auckland. So it is a massive deal that I got invited to trial. There are only 80 people who have been chosen out of all of Auckland! It was on sunday.

After school had finished I rushed home to spread the news I just got. My mum was delighted and so was I for that day. But as the days passed so did my interest in the trials. The rain was not going away and I was afraid that I’d have to play in that freezing weather and my fingers don’t take numbness very well.

It’s sunday after church and honestly, I was tired, I was just not in the mood for playing rugby, it was horrible. But my mum and dad said, “If you don’t go then you’ll have to do the chores around the house with us”. That was my cue to leave, I would have rather played rugby than done chores for about an hour! So I packed my bag and Anth (dad) dropped me off and came and supported me with my brother Levi.

There are 6 games in the tournament. I played 4 of them. It was an amazing experience and I’d just like to say thank’s to my mum about making me lunch and a drink. At least when I got home I could just chill to a movie with butter chicken, mmm that was good.

I never had the chance to show you the letter (or part of it) so here it is. The letter wrote,

Wednesday 20th May 2015

Dear Parents

I have the pleasure in confirming that your child has been nominated by Pt England School to attend trials for Remuera zone Walter Dickson Representative rugby team.

The Walter Dickson tournament is a prestigious tournament between 8 zones throughout the Auckland region. It is limited to children in year 7 and 8 and they must weigh in less than 55kg’s on the day of the event. The tournament this year is during the July school holidays from 6th to 10th July and boys selected for the final squad will be required to be available for that whole week. The tournament is held at Teachers Eastern Rugby club at Okahu Bay in Orakei.

In addition to the tournament, the boys selected in the squad must be available for trainings (day & time to be confirmed) that will commence the week of from 1st June until the tournament in July…

That should be enough of the letter, because if I went on you would be to bored and I can’t let my readers get Bored! This is it for me today, Hope you didn’t fall asleep during this text. My punctuation hasn't been that great so could you help me by if anything sounds funny or is messed up the please comment below and tell me where it is and then correct it thank you!

Addition Triangle

Hello everyone again, this blog post is different to the rest of my other posts. This one is a addition triangle. The point of this exercise is to add the numbers together so it adds up to a total of 3.518. If I got any addition problems wrong then please comment below and show me the right solution.

Fractions Thinkboard 2

Welcome back to another one of my fraction Thinkboards. This one involved a lot of thinking hence the name. The hardest part out of the four categories was probably, finding another ten questions. If you have anything you'd like to say, then please leave a comment below.

Word Problems WK 5 TM 2

This is yet another blog post about word problems. I've had a little extra word problems to solve. If you have got any new ideas on how to solve some of the word problems then please let me know and comment below.

My Fraction Thinkboard

This is another of my fraction thinkboards, please read through and check if my word problem makes sence. If it doesn't then please comment and correct it.

Word Problems WK3

This week I did more word problems, this time it was harder, like way harder. Hope you like it because this is like the 2nd post about word problems this term. Would these questions be hard for you? Please Flick through them and leave a comment about how you would solve it. OR ELSE!!!!!!!!!

Word Problems WK2

This is my ANZAC maths post. It involves Fractions, decimals, multiplication and division.  Working out word problems can be pretty hard. I found that question 11, 12 and 13 was very difficult. If you can come up with different ways of solving these problems then please comment below.

A Flash Mob

Walking casually toward the table in the street acting like it was a perfectly normal day, discovering that it was Mrs Telea’s Birthday we were doing a dance and believe me you don’t have to be Samoan to do so. The music started and all of room 3 out of nowhere started dancing with the sound of choo - hoo. The street was rumbling with cheers and clapping.

Everyone got up to look at what was happening, because something attracted so much attention. We all formed a circle and Mrs Tele’a did a Samoan Siva and we were supporting her. She was the star and we were dancing around here.

Mr Wiseman thought that he could match Mrs Tele’a but to be honest he wasn't that good! She was beautiful, he was ugly, they both danced and then all the students got up and danced. Some were very shy and couldn't do it, others just wanted to let it out and dance. I didn't know how to dance Samoan but at least I tried.

NRL Nines

In the Christmas holidays I got to go to the Auckland nines fans zone on Saturday and it was wicked. I loved it, I was a member, and that meant free food and drink. It also meant that when the teams had finished the signatures they would come to the members lounge and you could have a chat to them or take photos with them, choice!

If you go on the nrl.com site and then go to videos and then scroll to the bottom and keep turning the page until you get to the "Meet the Nines fans". Anyway the day ways hot, sticky but awesome. It was worth it! I hung out with family and a couple of friends. We had so much fun that day, everything was so awesome. Except for the weather, too hot!

I had the chance to met and take a photo with Chanel Mata'utia and he was really cool. I got signatures from Panthers, Rabbitohs, Rosters, Knights and Sea Eagles. This is Chanel's wiki page if you want to learn more about him. Just some extra information?

My New Life At PT England School

4 weeks ago I started year 7 at PT England School (PES). It has been an awesome time here with my new life. I'm doing a lot of different things, but you know in an interesting way.  This shall be an amazing, but challenging and adventures year. I've made new friends and have caught up with old ones. It's great, I'm in my dream class with Mrs Tele'a. We split up for Literacy and Numeracy, I'm with Mrs Tele'a for Literacy and with Miss Clark for Numeracy.

Speaking about Literacy I just did my writing test today and hopefully I did well. I shall be doing my Maths test tomorrow which'll be very exciting! I'm involved in somethings like Sport and kapa haka. If you didn't know and it is your first time on my blog then I have my own little laptop which is where I access all of my learning. I'f it's your first time on my blog give yourself 8 Points, if you just read it and it's not your first time then you have scored yourself 5 Points. Comment your Points below!

The Mysterios Fly

There's a story where adults used to tell there children about a fly that had a mission to get supply's for him, his family and everyfly else. For you and me it would be pretty easy, we could just ask for food but fly's are normally THE food! So you see that they would have a hard time living but what the kids and parents don't know is that all of the story's are real and whoever tells it wrong will have a terrible life!

So one early morning in there nest the fly's are doing what they're doing and suddenly a snake attacked the nest and it was terrible. Most fly's were gone! But what was gone for certain was all the food and water supply, just everything gone. So Smackaflyapants (Smack-a-fly-a-pants) said that he would find some food and bring it back for everyone but he had to be quick or else every fly would die.

So Smackaflyapants was on his way and remember that there was no food of water so he couldn't have a pack full of deliciousness because they didn't have any to give him.  That means Smackaflyapants had to hurry off now at this very moment to get to his destination.

On his way there he encountered a few things, mice, rats, big dogs, cats and of course humans. But then when he got to a particular part of his journey he met a great big snake. This snake was huge even for me, it had a sharp back with all the scales on it, big long fangs and black beady eyes. It was getting ready to attack the helpless fly!

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My New Blog Profile

Kia ora, I’m Jordan, this year I shall be 12. I’m in Class 3 with Mrs Tele’a, the best teacher! I’m male and I have 1 older brother and 2 younger brothers. Early in the year I went to festival 1 and there were some cool bands and I loved Switchfoot, a christian band. 

I play heaps of sports and my favorites are rugby, league, lets just say I love basically every sport that comes by. Food is for our family we love it. I don’t have a pet but if I did I’d get a dog. I love maths & P.E, I don’t really have any goals for this year except for trying my best and staying on track.