James+Ma






 * Click on the following You Tube video to view my 2012 speech: ** media type="custom" key="20576968"

** Here is my Matariki Document **
My writing competition writing

Week 2 Term 3 homework Week 3 Term 3 homework Week 7 Term 3 homework Week 8 Term 3 homework


 * Hello my name is Jamie and I am in year 5 in room 13. **

If possible could you please leave a comment if you wish.
==

=CHECK OUT THIS THIS IS AMAZING little thing=

[|How big and small things are] Here are some websites friv [|miniclip] [|Tank Trouble] =  =

Sport:Rugby
Rugby player:Dan Carter Cartoon character:Road runner

Dan Carter scoring a try Puss in boots fear me if you dare



I enjoy playing miniball,cricket and rugby.
GARDEN TO TABLE!!!!

Week 3 Gardening:In gardening me and my group harvested strawberry in the pool area because we couldn't get to the strawberry any other way.Me Nic and Jack ripped away a vine which was stopping some plants from getting room.I like gardening because the weather is unpredictable and you can get dirty.I also like gardening because you get to grow your own food.It was the very first week of garden to table

Week 7 Cooking:In cooking me and James made corn fritters that were really delicious.The other two people in my group made a salsa with seedless tomatoes.Another group made a very nice risotto.There was also lots of other delicious food we ate.Next time I do cooking I will be a bit more careful because I burnt myself.But apart from that it was a really great first cooking week.

__ Science Challenge __ I'm in the science challenge group and I have been learning about wind turbines and how they produce electricity.In my group with Nic Andrew and Matthew we investigated different shapes of wind turbines to see which one was most effective on the amount of electricity.The shape Nic was doing was an oval Andrew did a rectangle and Matthew did a semicircle and I did a triangle.We had to keep each of our shapes the same size.We had to connect our cardboard shapes to Lego mind-storms they could turn in front of the fan.One of the key things we had to do was keep everything the same like the speed of the fan same distance same material and same size.

== On Monday morning we went on a bus to extreme edge and we went climbing.It was really cool.Then we took the bus back to school again.We had lunch straight after the bus ride back.In the afternoon we did co/operative games in a group.We had to work as a team.It was a cool day. ==

== On Tuesday we walked to Waiatarua Reserve and our group firstly did the rogaine activity.In the rogaine activity we had to find a question around the reserve like how many red letters are there on the sign on the small bridge?The answer is ten red letters.After we did the rogaine we went and had morning tea.Then we did the orienteering 2 around the reserve.It was really tiring.Finally we did it.When we got back we had lunch and I got ready to do our third task which was orienteering 1.Then we set off to do it.Unlike most groups, group 4 (that's my group) and group two did their orienteering 1 after their orienteering 2.But to me that didn't make a difference.Finally we had finished the day and we headed of back to school.The bad thing was we had to walk back to school and we had already done a whole day of walking!After a tiring day of walking we had reached Meadowbank School. ==

== On Wednesday we went to Rangitoto and I knew I had a bigger day and I was going to have an even more tiring day than the day before at Waiatarua Reserve.The really cool thing was that the parent of my group was my mom!We went to the pathway outside the senior campus and we waited for the bus.The bus at last had come and we sat down on the seats.Room 13 was on the bus with Room 9.The bus dropped us of at the ferry dock and we waited until the boat came to pick us up to go to Rangitoto.When we got there we had morning tea,I had a little bit of my morning tea because we hadn't done any walking yet.I had 2 bottles of water and 1 bottle of Powerrade.I figured 3 big bottles of drinks would get me through the day.After morning tea we went and had a 5 minute time to get ourselves organized.I picked up my belongings and got ready to go.It took an hour to get to the top of the gigantic mountain but I managed to do it it.I quickly ate my lunch and then I got ready to go back down. After 15 minutes of walking down the mountain we turned a different way and went to the lava caves.It was really cool to be in the dark and climb through the rocks!After the lava caves we walked another 45 minutes down Rangitoto and we waited in our group for the boat to come and pick us up.It was a 20-35 minute ride on the boat back to the port.Then we got the bus and went back to school.It was an even more tiring day than the previous day. ==


 * On Thursday we had these different people who had different jobs to come into the school and teach us things.First up we had Garden to Table then we had surf life saving then we had a ST Johns lady come in and finally we did bivouac building.Then we went home for 2 hours and after the two hours had passed we went back to school and we set up the tents then we had dinner the dinner was from the food we made at Garden To Table.After that we had free time on the field.Then we put some extra clothes on ourselves and we went and did a night game.Then after the cool night game we went back into the hall and we brushed our teeth.Finally we went to bed,I really enjoyed EOTC week **

Class Work


 * LANGUAGE FEATURES:**


 * //WALT: Identify the different language features in a given text.//**

Read the piece of text below and identify the different language features included. Using the text tool highlight the different types of words using the key below to help you.

( verb-yellow, nouns – green, conjunctions – red, adverbs – purple, adjectives – blue )

Though British fashion designer Alexander McQueen is no longer with us, his legacy continues to live on. It was quite apparent in Kate Middleton's elegant [|ivory and white satin] [|wedding dress] designed by his former assistant Sara Burton and now in this gummy bear dress that was crafted as a unique tribute to the designer for the inaugural cover of //Twelv //, a magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and culture, that made its debut in May 2012. The brainchild of the magazine's editor - fashion designer //Hissa Igarashi // and his assistant //Sayuri Marakumi, // the stunning gown was inspired by Alexander McQueen's// 'Parrot Dress' //, a vibrantly colorful gown that met with the approval of even the most ruthless fashion critics when it was unveiled by the designer, as part of his Spring/Summer collection in 2008. As you can imagine creating this gummy bear replica was no easy task. The two designers began by building a dress frame using steel wire, which they then covered with a sheet of vinyl **.** After that began the painstaking work of hand-gluing each and every one of the 50,000 pieces of candy in a perfect rainbow colored order, a task that took them about three weeks. As you can see, the end result was a stunning piece of art that weighed a whopping 220 pounds and took three men to lift. While not quite ideal for a party, it did look good enough to devour!