The Thompsons

Today for Idrive I did drama with Leon, Noah and Cooper. We decided that me and Cooper could be the Thompson twins from Tintin and Noah could be a little kid. Then Leon became the Hired Assassin. The play starts of with Noah spying on Cooper and Leon. He found out that those two wanted to murder him. Then Cooper and me as the Thompson twins came to help Noah. Then Leon shot me Cooper and Noah. Noah died but me and Cooper survived. Then Noah as Tintin came and helped us up. Next we traced Leon to his hideout, we caught him handcuffed him and asked who is your master. Then Leon said ''My mother is..'', Cooper had shot him. ''Why did you do that'' I asked. Then Cooper revealed he was Boba Fat in disguise. He tried to shoot me but Noah blocked it with his chest. Then I shot Cooper, Noah I shot to put him out of his misery and myself to do the same.

The skill of play I think I used this week was Endurance because we stuck to doing our play when things got hard. I think I will enjoy presenting our play to The Whetu Team.

The learning power I used the most was  resilience because we knew it was okay to make mistakes so we didn't make a real big fuss about it and we just carried on.

Here is a picture of the Thompson Twins if you want to know what they look like.

Why Does Water Look Blue When It Is Clear

The reason water looks blue is because water absorbs the colours orange, yellow and red in sunlight more than blue so the water turns out to look blue because blue is the least absorbent.

The reason why water in a glass looks clear is because there aren't enough water molecules in the class to absorb the colours in beams of light.

The Day My Feet Got Muddy

Huff puff huff puff, yep it's that time of the year again, cross country. First we had to train, Rocky style. We had to run around the block which was around two kilometres long. First we ran down Paul's Drive from the back of the school. At the end of Paul's Drive we turn onto Mahana Road. Then we turn onto Pipiroa Road then the main street and finally we turn back onto Paul's Drive again. My personal best time was 11.18. Then came the real thing, out at The South Pole,  just joking South farms I came 5th in my 9 year old boys race. I discovered a surprising new technique, it was to run on the thicker mud when I was going uphill to get allot better grip. Since I came 5th in my race I made it into the inter school cross country which the whole Hauraki Plains competes in. In my race I came 10th. The muddiest part was just over the concrete bridge. This course was definitely harder then the South Farms course. Since I came 10th I did not get into Thames Valley because the cut off was 6th place, and man I got muddy. Here is our training route.

Big Game book reveiw

Big Game is an action packed novel about a boy who sets out with a day and night to find an animal in the wilderness to bring back to the Place of the skulls. When he is in the forest terrorists shoot down air force the presidents plane. Young Oskari has to help the president escape to civilization from the terrorists. I would rate this book for 10 to 12 year old's since it has a few swear words in it.

My Idrive reflection

This week for Idrive I worked on a music video with Cooper, Leon, Dilyn and Daniel. The song we were doing was hall of fame. First we filmed Cooper and I lip syncing. Then we filmed Cooper doing Taekwondo afterwards we filmed Dilyn hoopla hooping and Cooper Congratulating him. Daniel helped with brain storming. It was very fun making our music video.

What is a fault line

A fault line is a large crack in between two tectonic plates. In an earthquake being on a fault line can be rather dangerous because a huge crack could open up underneath you. Fault lines are also areas often affected by earthquakes.

One of the largest fault lines in the world is the San Andrea's fault line which runs roughly 1300 km through California America. The coordinates of America are 48.1667° N, 100.1667° W.  The more the tectonic plates move and collied the more fault lines are created. Here is a picture of a fault line for you.

Todays IDrive

Today for my IDrive I did music with Noah, Cooper, Daniel and myself, he he. At first we were going to do our beat to the song another one bites by Freddie Mercury but we decided that we should change the song because that wouldn't be our own music.  The skills of play I used this time were enthusiasm and cooperation, because I was being enthusiastic about ideas and I was cooperative with my group by listening to everyone's ideas. I really liked Idrive this week.