Nelson Mandela’s Life

Nelson Mandela’s Life:

This story is about Nelson Mandela’s life and trying to stand up for the africans and try to give better lives to children and other ages.. Nelson Mandela was born on July 18-1918 on the eastern coast of africa in Mvezo. When his father passed away, when he was 9 he was raised by royalty. He was the first person to attend to school in his family.

Later on when he was a young adult, he became an activist with the African National Congress. He was doing everything well then is campaign hit a brick wall when he was acquitted and charged a large amount of treason against the government with 155 other activists in 1962.

Mandela tried to fight back, against the military and government targets and planning a possible war. Nelson Mandela tried to make the country better. Mandela was released after 27 years of being imprisoned and talks to form a multi-racial democracy were set to begin.

Three years later he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end apartheid. Months after he was elected president. Since he stepped down as president in 1999, Nelson Mandela has been dedicated to end global poverty and wars helping to resolve wars and conflicts through Africa.

Hurricane:Acrostic Poem

Heavy wind that is

Underestimated

Rumbling Roads

Raining heavily

Insane weather

Courageous saviours

Apocalypse of cloud

Never ending rain

Endless wind

By Moses

Tsunami: Acrostic poem

Tropical disaster

Super waves

Underneath the water

No one is safe

Astounding survivals

Maximum speed

Insane flooding

By Moses

Earthquake: Acrostic Poem

Earthquakes

After shock

Rumble

Trapped

Humongous

Quakes

Underestimated

Ashes

Kilometres

Enormous

Journey through the stars

Journey through the stars

On this gently pulsing deck I lie,

gazing down into the infinite depths of a night sky.

For every star in our galaxy is reflected on a polished sea.

Stars above stars below all sense of earth is disappearing.

Life is a space journey-

anyone steering?

By Alan Bagnall

Acrostic poems

LI: I am learning to write an acrostic poem

Christchurch Earthquakes

Christchurch

Houses

Residents

Instantaneous

Spontaneous

Tricky

Crushed

Heavy

Underestimated

Rocks

Critical

Huge

Earthquakes

Are

Rage

Trouble

Humongous

Quakes

Urgent

Ashes

Kilometres

Enormous

Spring Acrostic Poem By D.Nath

Sprouting branches

Pouring rain

Running water

In the drain

Natures beauty

Gaining fame

Acrostic Poem By Moses.F

Sunny at times

Pouring at times

Rainbows bloom

In the sky

Nice and high

Galloping colts

Fraction Splat

Today I played a game called Fraction Splatters. It was challenging because I had to get a high score at a limited time. There are two modes Fast and Slow mode. I got 570 points. I hope others will get a High Score as well.

Why is the Church Special in Our Community ?

Why is the Church Special in Our Community ?

The Church is a really special place in the community because we go there to worship God and ask for forgiveness for the sins we have committed.

The Church is special to me because we can pray and read the Holy Bible with the Minister and others. The word of God  is good and it  can take away all the stress in your mind when we pray to God. It’s good to go to church because we can communicate with others in our community in our own Language and pray with each other.

We go to church so we can pray and thank God for everything he has done for us and be with us when the week passes by. We also go to church so we can pray and ask him to heal our wounds on our body if we are hurt.

The Church is a way to go and pray and communicate with our Holy Father. Church has a very big building. There are a lot of different denominations in the Christian church because a lot of people go to church.

A church is a special place because it enables people to come together and socialise with each other apart from studying the Bible and learning about God. 

Moses - Yr 6, Room 9

The Big Game By: Sue Gibbison

Title: The Big Game

By: Sue Gibbison

This story is about a family that wanted to go to a rugby game. Then eventually they did.  Mum had conditions for the kids for going to the game.The children had to do all the chores. Mum and the kids were excited to go to the pre-season match. Their favourite player was Shane from the opposition team because he was really famous.

They liked rugby but they were a soccer family. They only went because it was a special pre-season match. Whenever something happened in town, they always  missed out so Mum rewarded them  by allowing them to go to the big game. They were so happy to go and watch them in action in real life.

The characters in the story are Karla, Author, Shane and Mum. This story took place at the rugby field in their home town. I like this story because It is very interesting to read and Mum was being very tricky.

The lonely Monster

The lonely Monster: Story Review

By Glen Ormsby

This tale is about a boy named George who found a little pet monster named John. John was a really sad monster because they teased him for being a different kind of monster.

George thought he was going to be attacked, But John liked him. So they played for and hour. When they finished playing, George decided to take him home.

George's Mum didn't want a pet monster in the house. So George begged her so much that mum had no choice but to let John in. So they lived happily ever after.

Pollution

Pollution

Pollution is bad for our environment.

Pollution creates torture to our world.

Pollution is created by people throwing their rubbish on the ground. This is really bad for the world, and bad for us humans.

Car exhaust fumes is part of world pollution too. Pollution spreads around the world. It spreads country to country and city to city.

So we need to walk, exercise more and ride a bicycle or scooter, anything that doesn’t have petrol or cause pollution.

So  one solution could be that you can ride your bicycle to work or school.

So keep our world clean.

The Big Shift by Jaqui Brown

This story is about  Dad and Mum splitting up and Mum and the kids moved to where she grew up in Wellington. The storyteller missed his Dad a lot but he got over it. The storyteller only liked the smell of food  and the different languages he heard in his neighbourhood when he moved to Wellington with his mum. One night he walked across to some boys who were beating up a kid named Tomo and he chased them off.. The story teller became friends with Tomo. Tomo introduced him to his  friend named Meilai. All three of them became friends. When they grew up Tomo wanted to be a doctor and Meilai lived in Auckland with her Mum, and the storyteller wanted to be a vet.

This story took place at the farm and in Wellington. The characters in the story are Dad, Mum, Meilai, Cherie, Terei, Tomo and storyteller. I felt sad for the storyteller because he missed his Dad a lot.

Hunting the hunter by Mary Sutherland Facts about Spider

Hunting the hunter by Mary Sutherland Facts about Spider

This article is about spiders.

• Not all spiders catch their food in webs of sticky silk.
• Some hunt for their food, stalking and pouncing on their prey, just like a cat.
• Many hunting spiders are night - shift workers.
• The best time to find a hunting spider is after dark
• Here are the equipment you will need to capture a hunting spider,a torch, and a friend.
• A  hunting spider has eight eyes and six work like mirrors.
• Most spiders are active at night time.
• It helps them avoid being eaten by birds.
• If you shine a light in a straight line at the spider it will reflect back in a straight line.
• It is  very likely to be a wolf spider in your garden.

Spiders

How waves are made

How Waves are Made.

How waves are made

• Waves is mainly a product of the wind.
• Wind is the first step in the information of surble waves.
• Local shore ways can also produce waves.
• They can also destroy quality of the breaking waves.
• In a way, offshore winds are a sort of a counterbalance.
• Swell comes from miles away and  the wind works as a pause hold effect on the wave face, allowing longer unbreakable waves.
• In theory, low pressure systems are responsible for creating good and strong waves.
• If winds created in low pressure systems keep blowing the surface of the ocean for  the ocean for a long time.
• Along the way, until they are ridden by surfers, these waves will have to challenge other variables.
• Waves make their way through the ocean and are affected by the differences in the ocean floor.

By Moses

Sheppard Software

Today I played  game called comma chameleon punctuate some sentences. It was pretty cool when the chameleon poked his tongue and ate the word It was really addicting. to play it.

Study Ladder

Today I played a new game on Study Ladder called Homophones. It was really interesting trying to get the right answers. I had a lot of goes trying to get all of them right. But this is the one that I got all correct.

Facts about the animals that lived in the forest 3000 years ago

1. The Kiwi is a native bird to New Zealand.
2. The Kiwi are nearly extinct
3. The Kiwi cannot fly
4. The Kiwi are rare to find
5. The Kiwi  are better off in captivity

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/kiwi/facts/

• The Kakapo is the world's longest living bird. They can live up to an average of 90 years to a maximum of 120.
• The world's heaviest parrot
• The world's only nocturnal parrot
• A polygynous lek breeder
• A non-flying bird
• A parachutist from trees because it cannot fly
• Featured in the documentary from BBC 'Last Chance To See'
• Critically endangeredhttp://savethekakapo.weebly.com/fun-facts.html
  
  
  
  
  • The Weka can be found in forests, grasslands, rocky shores, sand dunes.
  • The Weka liked to eat worms, beetles, ants, slugs, frogs, spiders, mice, rats and even small birds.
  • The Weka weighs approx 5 KG's.
  • The Weka lived in South New Zealand in the forest.
  • The Weka is sized like a chicken.
    http://www.wild-facts.com/2010/wild-fact-688-with-the-good-comes-the-bad-weka/
    1: The Moa is one of the largest species its about 3.6m (12 foot) high!
    
    
    2: It weighs about 250kg (550lb)
    3: Most of them died out around 1500 AD, however there are still believed to be some hiding in deep parts of New Zealand
    4: Their only predator before humans was the World's Largest Eagle (Haast Eagle)
    5: You can still find their bones today if you look in the right places in New Zealand (caves, swamps and sand dunes.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa