The snow race

On Monday I went on sunshine Online and did all the activity's Danny's movie l was going side to side and it was also wobbling and Tom was right behind him and they crashed to the finished line but the judge saw what happened and Tom had won !

MOTAT Experience

M.O.T.A.T

Wednesday the 16th of April

Glenbrae senior students went to MOTAT  for our trip about Simple machines.

Our educator Melissa was showing  where the machines were made and why we need them. We need them for survival.

The pump house we saw was first made in 1877 at the Auckland MOTAT. The Pump house was used to  pump fresh clean water to all the homes and factories in Auckland.

After that we went to  see Sir Edmund Hillary's Gallery and we searched up information about him. He  led the New Zealand Team of the

Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition in 1955. He  completed the first Overland crossing of Antarctica using snow mobiles and used simple machines for doing simple tasks.

At 11:30 we went on our tram ride. The trams are run on electricity.  A wire is hooked on top of the power line at both of the ends of the tram to make it move. The Tram we travelled on was made in 1974.

At motat there are lots of new huge machines like Army tanks. I also saw Army grenades and many other mechanisms.

When we finished  looking at machines and mechanisms, we played in the mirror maze for about 5 minutes. After that we went to a class room upstairs and we learnt about  turning small wheels and a big wheels. The trick is the small wheel needs 10 times more strength and the big wheel needs 10 times less strength to move.

Then  we looked at all the types of simple machines that were displayed in the room. For our hands-on activity, we had to try and make a machine. Hannah and I made a twirly simple machine. I had lots of fun looking at all the different simple machines that the others had made, and making my own simple machine. I got lots of information about what simple  machines are and how we  can be creative.

By the significant Katalina.

By Katalina

Fun water day

Fun water day...
On monday the 18th of  february we did fun water day first room 10 did the sponge game you had to put the sponge in a bucket of water and then we had to run and pure it in our house colour bucket. After that we did a bottle game you had to get a bottle run across the long sets and pour some water into your bottle and run up the hill and  pure the water into your house colour.

Then we did a cup game you have to use a strap and strap it around your body and  then get your cup fill it up with water and pour it in your house bucket you can’t run only if you have your mandana on.

After that we had to move to another course like another cup game but the cup is more bigger. We had to run down this deep hill and pure it into our house colour.
The last one was the slippery slide we had to slide down the slide with a cup of water.
from katalina

towed away

One night Mr and Mrs McDonald went to a restaurant for dinner. The street where the restaurant was situated was crowded. Mr McDonald couldn’t find a place to park his car. Finally, he came to a bus stop. He parked the car at the end of the bus stop. There was still plenty of room for a bus.

Mr and Mrs McDonald went to the restaurant. They had a leisurely dinner. Several hours later they left the restaurant. They walked arm in arm along the street to their car. It wasn’t there! “Isn’t this where we parked the car?” Mr McDonald asked his wife. “Yes,” she said, puzzled. “Where is it?” asked a worried Mr McDonald. “It must have been stolen,” whispered
Mrs McDonald. But it hadn’t been stolen. Do you know what had happened to the McDonald’s car?

A. Read the story and answer the questions.
1. Why couldn’t Mr McDonald find a place to park his car?Because it was crowded
2. Where did he finally park his car?At the back of the bus stop.
3. How long did Mr and Mrs McDonald stay at the restaurant?For a few hours.
4. How did they walk along the street?Arm in arm along the street.
5. How did Mrs McDonald feel when she saw the car was missing?Upset that she thought her car was missing
6. How did Mr McDonald feel?Sad and angry
7. What did they think had happened to their car?That if it was stolen

B. Fill in the spaces with words from the story.
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Mr McDonald found a place____for his car they went_____ to __there_____  car.
He didn’t _ know_______ at the __point________ of the __missing_______ ___missing car_________and Mr McDonald didn’t have a  pleasant __________ dinner.

C. Now rewrite the sentences so that they tell the true story.

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If you park your car in a ‘No Parking’ area, on a bus stop or across an entrance saying ‘Keep Clear’, your car is likely to go missing. It won’t have been stolen. Your car will have been towed away by a tow truck. Instructions to tow it away will have come from the Traffic Department. Your car will be locked up in a tow yard. To get your car back you will have to pay a fine to the Traffic Department. You will also have to pay a towing fee.

E. Read the text above and answer the questions:
1. What do these mean? ‘No Parking’ ‘Keep Clear’ it mean’s do not park and keep clear mean’s keep the parking clear.
2. Name three places which are ‘tow away’ areas. Can you think of anymore?
3. Who gives instructions to have cars towed away?The person who towed away the car??

F. Devise five interview questions (with answers) for one of the characters in the story.Mrs and Mr mcdonald's

G. Identify and explain the major theme of the story.They couldn’t find a place to park their car so then they parked it at the end of the bus stop.

H. Explain how the story would have differed if the car was not towed away.They could of waited and parked in the right places not at the end of the bus stop if they didn’t park their then there car will get towed away.

Recount about swimming

Wednesday 13th February 2013
As Room ! 7 was roughly swimming under the freezing cold water room 7 said that it was cold as an ice block in a freezer. As i was watching them swim I saw Anamanu with Guess bumps on her arms and legs.

As I watched them do some swimming lessons with the auckland sport people named  Josh, Jenny and also Tilini the instructors. First they did the kicking with the swimming board and then they assessed they put the childrens into groups like group 1 group 2 group 3 also they did 1 group did freestyle and then the second group did Gliding then group 3 did floating and Gliding. It was so, much fun watching them them swim. Learned lot’s of different things watching them learn.
At the end of the season the children in room 7 felt really exhausted.
From:Katalina

Bio poem

Katalina Graham -Taufa
Kind, loving, sporty
who feels scared when she watches a fight or watches somebody get hurt or when somebody dies in the hospital and need to go to the funeral
Lover of  Music, delicious ice -cream, watching movies and writing songs.
Who fears Spiders, Rats and Heights
and who is able to look after our school and friends and who is generous to help people who are hurt.
Who  wonders when the world will become to an end, and if we win or lose in a rugby world cup, and  
Who would like to be a sporty person or baker or a movie star.
Who dreams of being a millionaire and make lot’s of money or have a fancy car or house.

My Reflection 2012

Here'es the hyper blink to my work:My Reflection 2012