Rakshah Bandan August 18, 2008
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Last Saturday my mum, dad, little brother and I went over to Hamilton to celebrate the Indian festival called Rakshah Bandan. Rakshah Bandan is when sisters, brothers and cousins get together for something special. What happens is the sister or the girl ties a bracelet type of thing which is called a rakhri pronounced as ruk-dee, around the brother or cousins hand. The brother or cousin then gives the sister or cousin some money and sometimes it is lots of money. For example $100. My mum got $100 from her brother this year but I didn’t. I got $20 from my little brother and $50 from my older cousin who is 16 years old. That adds up to a total of $70 which isn’t too bad knowing that last time I got about $40 in total!
Rakshah Bandan is celebrated every year in August. The reason that we celebrate Rakshah Bandan is so that the sister’s brother or cousin can always protect her and care for her. After this my little brother, two older cousins (girl-17) (boy-16), and I went outside and played a game of Volleyball. Then we played Soccer and also had a little game of netball. I hope that we will all have as much fun next year at Rakshah Bandan as we did this year.
The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games August 10, 2008
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On Friday the eighth of August (eighth month of the year) 2008, the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games was held in Beijing, China at 8:08pm. Right now you are probably wondering why there are so many eights in the first sentence of my post as well as why I wrote (eighth month of the year) in brackets. This is because the number eight is the lucky number of China. This is why China had the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games on the day/date and time that they had it. I only saw the first 35 minutes of the Opening Ceremony and it was great! I had never seen anything like it before! There were 90 000 people attending the Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games but it looked like there were even more people there when I saw it!
First of all, to start the Ceremony off there were 500 to 700 Chinese people in the middle of the stadium, each with a small table type of thing with lights in it. Each time they banged the table as hard as they could, green lights would go on. Everyone enjoyed this because the lights made lots of pictures and words. Also, as people were counting down for the official Opening Ceremony to begin, the numbers appeared in the middle of the stadium one by one as the people banged the tables to turn the lights on. When the number ‘zero’ appeared in the middle of the stadium there were thousands of fireworks going around the stadium as well as throughout the streets of Beijing! It was very colourful, bright and very awesome which made me feel like I was there the whole time!
Next there was Chinese music and Chinese dances. There were also lots of Chinese arts performed by a huge amount of people. Later some of the big inventions that were invented in China were shown and told about. Sadly this is all that I got to see of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. But I enjoyed it from the start right till the very end!
China Inquiry August 3, 2008
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In our class we have been doing an inquiry on China and Tibet. Last term our class watched some movies about Tibet and China so that we could get some information about what had been going on in those places. We found out a lot from watching these videos. Everyone in our class has come up with an essential question for our inquiry. My essential question is ‘The Dalai Lama, the best leader for Tibet?’. Some people in my class have an essential question about something to do with the one child policy in China, others have questions about Tibet, and some have questions about China. But my question is about the Dalai Lama and Tibet. By now nearly everyone in our class has come up with research questions and some people have even begun to do their research. Everyone in our class had to make a front page for our inquiry for wikispaces on glogster. I have done this but I have also done my research questions, Bibliography Page, Planning Page and Presentation Page on Glogster, whereas others in my class have only done a frontpage on glogster and the rest on their wiki page. I have put all of these pages onto our class wiki for our inquiry. You can see my page by going to www.room3inquiry.wikispaces.com, and simply click on my name and any links on my page to see what I have done. Or you could go to www.glogster.com and search up Naveens3 and my glogs will come up.
Free Sky for three months! July 28, 2008
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In the holidays we randomly received a letter which was addressed to my mum. When she got home from work she opened up the envelope the letter was in and started to read it. After she had finished reading it she told us that the letter said that we could get SKY free for three months. We all knew that the only reason we got this letter is because they are trying to convince us to get sky. But anyway, we still got SKY.
For those of you who don’t know what SKY is well it is a TV programme kind of thing. First of all you have to sign up if you want SKY and then you get a satellite attached to your roof and a decoder. SKY is where you get lots of TV channels that you can take a look at for example, there are a few news channels, kids (cartoons) channels, documentary channels, fashion shows, sports channels, and A LOT of other channels which I am not able to name right now. And guess what! We might also be able to watch the Beijing Olympics which is great!
So now you know what SKY is. I have to admit it is pretty cool because you get a huge range of channels to choose from so that you can watch it. My little brother is always watching cartoons! He can’t even turn his head away from the TV for one second! This means I never get to choose what I want to watch which is a pain. But oh well, maybe next time I’ll just have to get to the remote before he does!
A girl! July 3, 2008
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Hey do you know what. A few weeks ago, my aunty had a baby girl, and she’s sooooooo cute! She is nice and long and quite thin too. And she’s already got lots of hair! Black hair that is, and we can’t really tell the colour of her eyes yet. But right now the colour of her eyes is dark grey. Everyone else in our family has brown eyes except for my uncle who has a blend of blue and grey. She doesn’t cry very much but my aunty tells me that I should see her at night. She doesn’t stop screaming for hours unless someone picks her up! That’s what my other cousin does. He is a boy and he is now seven months old, and lives in Australia with his mum (my aunty). He is also really cute!!! Do you know what he would do when he was in New Zealand? Well every time you go in front of him he would try to pull you towards him so that he could put your face into his mouth, because he thought you were something to eat. I know it doesn’t sound nice, and it’s a bit weird. But it was funny. Once he actually got the tip of my nose into his mouth and I didn’t even realise until my little brother told me, because I was too busy talking! In the weekend I am going to see my little cousin again and I can’t wait!
My Term 2 Goals review July 3, 2008
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Hi guyz! Welcome to my new blog! In this post I am going to review my goals that I had to achieve by the end of this term, and I am going to say what I have achieve and what I haven’t. So here are my goals that I had to achieve.
I am going to try to be the best House Captain that I can be. I will do this by attending all meetings, handing work in on time, and encouraging my house to put 110% into everything they do.
I will try to improve my maths to the very best of my ability. I can do this by always concentrating on my maths and putting 110% into everything I do.
I am going to do my best in all areas of English so I can improve. I will do this by spending more time writing my pieces of writing, and making them more interesting by using lots of descriptive language. I will also do this by writing as many posts as I can on my blog.
I am going to try to be involved in many more things this year including sport. I can do this by taking up more opportunities.
I am also going to learn as much as I can in the languages that I learn which include Maori, French, and Japanese. I will do this by focussing on what I am meant to do.
Hopefully I can achieve all of these goals by the end of Term 2, and I think I will.
I think I have achieved my goal to be the best House Captain that I can be. I also think that I have improved a lot more in my maths this year, now that I have been in group 2 for everything. Hopefully I get even better. I think I have tried my best in English, writing and book reviews. But I think I have kind of failed to improve in English by doing blog posts because I am not as good as I was last year. So I am sure that I will do better next term, and will definitely achieve this goal. Another thing that I think I have achieved this year is by taking up more opportunities in sport than I did last year. I am involved in Netball, and I am in the school Jump Jam team, which I think is great for me. Even though we haven’t been doing much Japanese or Maori I think I have done well, especially in French with Mrs Shaw. I think I have done great in French! When I get to College one of the languages that I am going to take up is French because I enjoy learning things about the French culture so much. It is really interesting. I think you should try it.
Now I know which goals I have achieved and which goals I haven’t. The goals that I haven’t achieved will be a goal for me to achieve next term, and as I said before, I am sure that I will definitely achieve those goals next term.
Welcome Back! June 19, 2008
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On May the 18th my dad went to India to see my cousin’s wedding which was on the 30th of May. My parents own an Indian Restaurant in town and they both run it. Since my dad wasn’t here to help my mum I had to help my mum run it, and that was tough because we were really busy, but we managed our best. My job was to take all of the orders and my mum had to cook/make the food. Every night once we got home I was really tired, especially because it was really late at night. My brother and I really missed my dad then. Anyway, my dad got back last week so that was good. We had to go down to the Auckland Airport to get him. The next day my uncle came back from India, so we had to go back to the Auckland Airport again to pick him up. His flight was at 11:00pm at night! We were tired. I am really happy that my dad is back now and he even bought a movie of the wedding which we’ve watched. It’s awesome!
St Trinians! May 16, 2008
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In the holidays my friend and I went to the movies and we saw St Trinians. The movie was so awesome that I wanted to see it again! But the sad bit is I missed the first half an hour of the movie because they had printed the wrong time on the piece of paper that I had. The movie actually started at 11:00am but on my piece of paper it said11:30am, so that was my lowlight. Anyway, I’m telling you now, you have to see the movie, it’s fantastic. It’s action packed, with a few funny bits in it along with sad bits, for example, when the actor tries to shake the dog off his shoe. He kicks his feet around everywhere, and then the dog finally lets go of his shoe, and then goes flying out the window into a machine thing which kills the poor dog. But it was a bit funny.
Now let’s get to the point. This movie is about a girls only school which is very, very different to other schools. They don’t do much learning. All they ever do is gossip around and do all sorts of crazy things. They can do whatever they want. The Head Mistress of the school has loaned a lot of money from the bank, and she isn’t able to pay them back. So the bank manager tells her if she doesn’t pay the money by the end of the week, they will close the school down. The Head Girl of the school finds out about this and tells the rest of the girls. They then try to figure out a way which can help Camilla the Head Mistress pay back the bank.
Somewhere in a museum there is an English Quiz going on between lots of different schools. Also in that same museum there is a very famous and expensive painting. The plan for the girls is to make it into the final of the competition and while they are competing in the final, the rest of the girls are to steel the painting without anyone knowing about it. The girls enter the Quiz, and compete against the other schools. Finally the time comes. They make it into the final. While the girls are competing in the final the rest of the girls go and steel the very famous and expensive painting, with the Head Girl leading the way. In the end it is a success. They steel the painting just in time before the quiz is finished, but wait. There is more good news, the girls competing in the quiz were the overall champions! This made the girls even happier. Once the girls arrived back at the school they give the painting to a very greedy man, who was willing to pay the girls an amount of money, that was even more than they need to pay back the bank. On that same day everyone find out that the painting was missing. They knew that someone had stolen it. The girls sneakily steal the painting back from the greedy man and return it to the museum. It turned out that in the end there was a happy ending after all!
Once again I think that this is a great movie and you have to see it no matter what!
ANZAC Day May 14, 2008
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In our class we have been studying about ANZAC Day. First we had to choose an essential question, then normal questions we wanted to know about. Then we answered those questions by using the internet. After our research we were in groups of four and we had to create a brochure, then a multimedia, and we also had to make our own postcards about ANZAC Day. So here is my multimedia about ANZAC Day. I hope you enjoy it.
Download Video: Posted by lynnec at TeacherTube.com.
Yay!!! May 4, 2008
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Right now you are probably wondering why I’m so happy. Well here it is. My class won the inter class Softball shield! Every year in the first term of school each class has a softball team. All of the classes play each other, and in the end there are only two classes left. This term there was Room1 and our class, and we won the final. Last year it was Room 10 who won. Well I think it was anyway. Most of us thought that Room 15 would win this year because they are the all boys class, but they didn’t win. At Student Assembly Mitchell who is a part of our class softball team went up on the stage to claim our shield. We also got a certificate. Hopefully our class will also win inter class softball next year. So good luck to the future Room 3 students! And well done to everyone in our class who took a part in our softball team, even if it was once. Congratulations guys!
