Tawa @ Ngatea Primary School

May 2016 One family went on a holiday and went to a zoo called Cincinnati’s zoo the 4 year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and was badly injured after being dragged and thrown around the enclosure in shin deep water. After ten minutes the zoo keepers and firemen and police had to make the decision to shoot the gorilla dead. They didn't use a tranquillizer because it takes too long and that would make it angry and the gorilla would really badly hurt the boy. This gorilla was a rare type of gorilla 17 years old and only been there for 4 years in the zoo they were looking forward to breeding them to have more rare gorillas the his name was Harambe. Also there were two other female gorillas in the enclosure but the zoo keepers got them out. The boy was taken to a hospital and is now recovering. It was not the gorillas fault in my eyes the boy should have not been trying to get in there and the gorilla didn't know what to do. Click here to watch video

These last four weeks we have been doing metal for tech and we made a candle holder out of brass. First we got a square piece and cut in in to a circle shape the file it into a really circle shape, Then we got a rectangle piece and measured 35 cm in from each side and then bent both of the sides so they are parallel. Next we got a real thin piece for the handle we estimated 4 mm and bent the top of it then we put it around a pole and bent it to the right shape for the base. Mr Chivers put our circle into the centre lathe and made a bowl for the candle to stay in. Once we had all the pieces right we soldered all the pieces that needed to be stuck together once we were finished the solder dried to quick so we and of the pieces in right place and put them on a brick and the teacher blow torched it and made the solder melt again. We cooled it in water and we had to finish up next week and polish them so they look good and maybe if we need to we will use emery tape to take of the solder t...

This week our goal is: To organise myself to be ready to learn. I know I need to take a break from my learning. To achieve this I will have a better sleep go to bed earlier. Have a healthy breakfast in the morning. Half an hour before lunch or so and drink some water and regally drink water That was our goal last week I did achieve my first one I was going to bed at the right time at nine o'clock and asleep at nine fifteen. I did not achieve having a healthy breakfast because I did have much time to because I got up at eight o'clock every morning because I love to sleep in then I have a shower and stuff like that. I achieved the last one definitely because I was drinking loads of water and I did have little healthy snacks like fruit and things like that during class time and also having a break like a run every now and then.

What skills do I have that help me in writing? I am really good at punctuation and using metaphors and smiles I use these skills in all my writing. What can I offer to others in writing (Writing club or workshops) Workshops or maybe just a quick talk to others. What do I think makes a good writer? All of the writing skills possible, detail, making sense and good editing What am I interested in writing about? I love poems because I like to rhyme with them and I like bio- graphs. What is your biggest challenge or obstacle as a writer? Making my writing interesting and people want to read it.

Christchurch fields to dry to play Rugby Many rugby games in Christchurch have been moved because of dry grounds because they are in the middle of a drought and there are water restrictions in mid Canterbury. Canterbury Union is worried about their players getting injured it could corse concussion and fractures. Many many people play rugby each week in Canterbury but none of the moved games needed to be cancelled.

This week our goal is: To organise myself to be ready to learn. I know I need to take a break from my learning. To achieve this I will have a better sleep go to bed earlier. Have a healty breakfast in the morning. Half an hour before lunch or so and drink some water and regally drink water

14 Year Old Boy Turns Down $44 Million Taylor Rosenthal has made his own vending machine with first aid tools. He started this project when he was travelling to all of his baseball games he saw that parents were always looking for bandages for cuts and things. Now that he made his project it is at theme parks, hotels and lots more. He was offered a $44 million offer to take over the takeover but he turned it down.

This week our goal was to chose the learning for the right space. This week I wasn't too bad Monday I did sit with my friends, Tuesday I did sit with someone that I don't really play with at lunch and after school, we worked on our AWS together then he went and did some other work and I went and read a book. Yesterday I sat on my own in the quiet zone by then soon my friend came and sat next to me and I did end up talking to him. Today I was good, so far.  This week I think I have almost achieved my goal.

What I am good at in school. 1.Asking for help... Teachers, sister, mum and dad. 2.Having the opportunity to change how I learn. How does this effect others? 1.Showing that you don't always have to do things on your own . 2.Showing other people there is more ways to learn. What I need to focus more on. 1.Celebrating my failures 2. Forgetting about friends for a while Why?  1. Because I mostly just get mad, angry, just walk away or ignore others. But I am good sometimes. 2.Because they can be distracting and not helpful at times.   

TK Performance This morning TK college came to our school to perform some songs on some musical instruments including the trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, flute, bass and drums. They played many cool songs and I think I knew all of them my favourite one was the theme song for The Incredibles. During the performance some of the students got to play on the trumpet and trombone then some other people got to do some conducting. Some songs they played were let it go from the movie frozen, Thriller and Man In The Mirror and The Incredibles Theme Song but that’s only what I remember. One of my other favourite parts were when the drummer and bass guitar did a duet thing that was really cool.