Milk Bottle Homework

Last Monday our teachers gave us a homework project and we had to make something with a milk bottle.

For my creation I am making the North Pole because I wanted to do a Christmas themed one since Christmas is coming up soon. My project requires a lot of milk bottles for the houses and my extra little detail.

There has been a lot of challenges like cutting the milk bottles and sticking things on with the hot glue gun, but the hardest one so far has definitely been cleaning them. When I was hot gluing stuff on the milk bottles I accidently hot glue myself instead of the milk bottle on it hurt.     

For my project I had to go searching around my house to try and find something that I could use to glue my milk bottles on. After a long time searching for something to glue my stuff on I finally found some big white boards in our garage that my Mum had to use for her meeting.

At the moment I am making the houses because my Dad keep getting more and more milk bottles from our cow shed and bach, those bottles smelt bad!

Earthquake

On Monday 14th 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck north of Christchurch, near Hanmer Springs.The earthquake was 16 km deep and struck at 12.02am.After that there were over 12 more aftershocks across the country including two 6.2 magnitude quakes near Kaikoura.A tsunami warning was issued to a number of areas around New Zealand. This included all of the East Coast of New Zealand, both in the North Island and the South.  A 2m tsunami hit Kaikoura.

A lot of people in New Zealand were woken up by the earthquake. I slept right through. Mum said because we live on a hill we didn’t feel it.

My nana and poppa were visiting Aunty Jenny in Wellington. Poppa was not happy to have to get out of his nice warm bed and evacuate up the hill.

Lots of farmers around Kaikoura and Culverton could not milk their cows because of the damage. Luckily people helped fix the sheds and the cows could be milked.

Earthquake

On Monday 14th 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck north of Christchurch, near Hanmer Springs.The earthquake was 16 km deep and struck at 12.02am.After that there were over 12 more aftershocks across the country including two 6.2 magnitude quakes near Kaikoura.A tsunami warning was issued to a number of areas around New Zealand. This included all of the East Coast of New Zealand, both in the North Island and the South.  A 2m tsunami hit Kaikoura.

A lot of people in New Zealand were woken up by the earthquake. I slept right through. Mum said because we live on a hill we didn’t feel it.

My nana and poppa were visiting Aunty Jenny in Wellington. Poppa was not happy to have to get out of his nice warm bed and evacuate up the hill.

Lots of farmers around Kaikoura and Culverton could not milk their cows because of the damage. Luckily people helped fix the sheds and the cows could be milked.

Calf Club

On Wednesday last week we had Calf Club. I brought my calf called Winter. She is a full jersey. She got me lots of ribbons. A 1st for obstacle, a Champion for obstacle, 1st for leading and a Champion that came with two trophies. Rearing 3rd and dairy type 2nd. My friend Alexa got 1 Reserve champion for leading and she came second to me in leading.

What have you enjoyed the most this term?

• Blokes day because I got to share all my learning with my dad and I got to play some games with him.
• I have enjoyed doing the iMake because I like having our own licences and I passed my first test. For my first test I did it on sawing and for that we had to measure 150mm on the wood and draw a line where it had ended. We also had to cut some wood.
• I also enjoyed doing cross country because I love getting all muddy and trying challenging things!

What has been challenging this term?

• Cross country because there were some really hard bits of mud and it slowed me down a bit.
• Some of the SRA’s because when I go up a colour the questions get harder.
• Saying my speech in front of the class and all of Whetu because I sometimes get a bit nervous and miss out some words.

What are you looking forward to next term?

I am really looking forward to Calf Club because I get to show the judges and my friends how much work I have done on my calf. I am also looking forward to that because I get to win ribbons!!!

Impact

Where are you at with your Impact project?

For impact we are giving our art space a makeover. So far we have been planning for what we are doing for our splashbacks and sketching the designs.

What have you accomplished so far?

So far we have accomplished measuring where our splashback is going and our sketches of what we are doing for the splashback.

What are your next steps in order to complete your project/projects by the Term 4 deadline?

We need to smash the tiles, lay the mosaic tiles to make it like our sketch. When we have finished our splashback we need to do the other things that we plan to.

What are you enjoying?

So far I have enjoyed doing the plannings and doing the sketches for our splashback.

Is there anything you are not enjoying?

So far there isn’t anything that I am not enjoying because I like doing makeovers.

Add any photos that you have so far.

Learning in the making Conference                Reflection.

What Workshops I did

1. Mad Science
2. Dream catchers
3. Drink bottle craft
4. Electronics

What was your favourite workshop and why?

My most favorite workshop was Mad sciences because we got to figure out by ourselves how we were going to do it. The thing that we were doing was, blowing up a balloon and hold the bit where the air comes out, then we get a straw and then stick the straw to the balloon. After we had finished that we gave the teacher the balloon and then she held the bit were the air comes out and then she would stretch the balloon and then let it go.

What new skills did you learn?

What else did you learn?

Going to Dargaville with Summer

On the first Saturday of the holidays I went with Summer and her dad to Dargaville. When we left the time was about 4:00. Before we were at Summer’s Dad’s place we went to Summer’s Grann and Poppa’s house to have dinner. After we had dinner we left at about 7:00 and when we entered Dargaville it was about 9:30 at night!

When we were finally at Summer’s dad’s house we started to get our stuff out of the car and when we finished getting our stuff out of the car we decided to play some online games. After about 1 hour on the computer we had to go to bed because it was about 11 o’clock!

The next day we went to Whangarei to watch the movie Storks and when we were getting our ticket Summers Dad bought us a Pete's Dragon combo that came with a drink and popcorn. When we were watching the movie we kept on laughing because there were really funny bits in the movie.

After the movie we went to the Warehouse and Summer and I bought some things there.

The next day we went to the movies again but Summers friends, Elisa and Amber came. When we were at the movies we decided to watch Pete’s Dragon.

In some of the bits of the movie I started to have a little tear in my eye because there were some sad bits.

When the movie finished we went back to Dargaville to drop Amber off but not Elisa because she was staying the night.

When we got back to Summers Dads we played some more online games on his computer. When we finished playing the games it was time to go to bed so we did.

The next day we had to get up early so we could pack and drop Elisa off and head home.

I had heaps of fun in the holidays and I can’t wait until it is the Christmas holidays!!!