1910-1919 slideshow

This slideshow is about events and what it was like in between 1910 and 1919.

R.I.Pped by wolves

By Will and Tate.


HOWL’ ‘They were getting closer we couldn't keep running for much longer. The snowy trees were shooting past us in a blur. We had to dodge the dense shrubbery as well as the the trees as they loomed out of the darkness to avoid the wolves. “WHOOAA” Tate shouted next to me. We nearly ran off the edge of a massive snowy cliff with an icy lake at the bottom. “Turn around” I shouted “we're trapped” “NO” Tate shouted back “it's too late” the wolves yellow eyes gleamed out of the darkness, we had nowhere to go but jump. ‘CRACK’ The cliff crumbled off at the end I took a deep breath and we jumped the wolves snapping at our heels. We fell, snowy rocks blurring past us suddenly crack, we hit the ice and broke through. Wow the shock of the cold made me shout. We had to get out of this icy water before we froze. “Ough” we both groaned as we clambered back onto the ice, Then a voice came out of Tate's backpack “Hey can you unzip this thing I’m wet and freezing in here” Tate unzipped his backpack and out came Camo, Tate’s pet chameleon “I almost DROWNED” Camo shouted “Sorry” said Tate “would you prefer to be wolf food at the moment”. ‘Howl’ “They are coming around the side” I shouted “we need to keep moving”. “Moving, smoothing I’m hungry” complained Camo “So are the wolves” I shot back “Can’t, I just shoot them, and get this over” Tate groaned “NO” I said “these are some of the last rare endangered vampire wolves in the world” “WHAT vampire wolves, what kind of things are they” Tate screamed “fine, I’ll tranq them instead” “YOU HAD TRANQUILIZERS why didn't you tell me sooner we could have got away right at the start” “Well it's hard to shoot when we are running” Tate argued.”OMG you could have turned around and tranquilized them” I almost screamed “But you were right behind me, I couldn't get them without the risk of getting you and I don't want to lug you all the way back to the camp”. “GAAAAAAAAAAA” Camo suddenly screamed. “What now” Tate and I both shouted at him in sinc. “We we we” he stammered “WHAT” Tate said “I'm getting bored here”. “ Look he's frozen staring behind you” I observed “but what's he looking at” Tate replied turning around. “WOLVES” Camo finally shouted. “Arggggggg” Tate shouted as a massive Wolf leaped out of the darkness nearly missing Tate by inches. If Tate hadin’t turned around when he did he would probably be dead meat by now. ‘SPLASH’ “hey where did the wolves go Tate said turning around again. YAP YAP YAP “ the wolf howled as it scrabbled around stuck in the hole we had made when we fell through the ice.-----------We all stared at it for a second before snapping out of it we've got to keep moving I said as we walked away. “Who cares about moving” Tate complained “ There's no point in moving if we’re not going anywhere” “Fine I said we’ll get to the forest then climb a big tree and decide how we are going to catch those cute little puppies out there and get them to the rare endangered species museum. “Yay” Camo suddenly shouted. We both looked at him “what” he said “I like trees. “Well” Tate agreed we better hurry up before the rest of your little puppies come for us.--------- Thats all we have for now but theirs more coming.

Murder at Blackstone castle

MURDER
AT BLACKSTONE CASTLE
By William and Henry

This is the start of a short story I am writing with a friend.

I looked out at the countryside quickly moving past us. Rattle rattle rattle, went our carriage as the wheels jumped through through the potholes. “Why do we have to go so fast?” I juddered as we bumped through a particularly big pothole. “Because,” detective James Walker answered. “We are in a rush!” “That's not a real answer,” I complained. “Well, what do you define as a real answer?” “What about something that answers my question?” I said sarcastically. “But did I answer your question?” He answered innocently. “Ugh,” I groaned. It was impossible to argue with him when he was in this mood. I sat in silence for a while, the whole time the roads getting worse and worse and worse until we were riding across little more than a bumpy dirt track through some farmland. I thought of another approach to my question “Where are we going?” I inquired, to which he replied, “Blackstone Castle, why didn’t you ask?”

As James began one of his famously long and annoying lectures about Blackstone castle, The roads began to improve until we were riding on a nicely kept track through some thick woods. Then finally the apparently prestigious castle was in view. According to James, it had existed for centuries, no one knew who built it. Right now, Count Tray Tor was living in the castle. He wasn’t exactly the sole heir, but every time someone tried to take the estate, they “mysteriously” disappeared. Tray Tor had been the owner of the place for decades. Before James could finish, there was a bumpy stop as the driver of our carriage shouted. “We’re here!” He yelled at us in a gruff voice. James clambered out of the carriage, motioning me to follow him. I stepped out and gawked at the massive gates on the wall.  James noticed me staring and said “Come on, we’ve got a mystery to solve!”

Visual Mihi

This is my Visual Mihi

I made this visual Mihi by filing in the boxes with what makes me me. For example I filled some boxes with my favorite sports, one with my
friends and so on. 

My Myth on Why Kiwis have Long Noses

Once upon a time there lived a very nosy Kiwi. He was always eavesdropping, spying and sticking his nose into other birds business. One day after Kiwi had told all the plants, flowers and the trees about how Tui hadn't been looking where he was going and had flown straight headfirst into a big old Rimu and then dropped right into a Kunekune dropping. Now as you can imagine Tui was very
 embarrassed and things like this had happened before so you couldn't blame him when he went straight to Tane Mahuta to complain.
Upon hearing all Kiwis naughty tricks Tane Mahuta roared for kiwi to come. Kiwi nervously waddled up and wheedled, "Don't believe anything Tui has to say sir! He has it out to get me!"
Tane Mahuta controlled his annoyance, "Yes well," he rumbled. "It seems that Tui isn't the only unhappy bird in the forest," He nodded at the growing mass of birds in the trees around them. "UUHHHHHHHHH," Kiwi stalled.
"Don't worry Kiwi I have heard enough." And with that Tane Mahuta clicked his fingers and chanted a Karakea.
"NOOOOOO," Kiwi cried as his beak started to stretch out. "Now," Tane Mahuta said. "All shall see how nosy you are with your new long beak."

Composing machinery music

We have been learning about physical science and simple machines. We used Garageband on Mac to compose a 1 minute soundtrack for an imagined mechanical process. It needed a start and be gearing up, a middle section, and a shutting down. We had to include an ostinato track (continuing throughout). Sounds were added from Garageband's loops library, but we also had to create one track using Garageband's Musical Typing keyboard, and to create and record at least one foley sound of our own. We also had to edit sounds in some way - eg: 

• Pitch
• Effects - eg echoes, distortions
• Length of notes
• Speed
• Volume

This is our first effort and we've made some very interesting soundtracks. We had fun exploring all the different possibilities for creating sound and putting it all together. The idea of becoming a sound engineer, or even a foley artist, appeals to some!

Egg drop experiment.

In this experiment you set up an egg on top of a toilet paper roll on top of a plate on top of a half filled cup and the goal is to try to get the the eggs (or feijoas in this case) into the cups of water without touching anything but the plate. It is really cool how you do it. You are supposed to whack the plate really quickly so the toilet rolls and the plate go flying but the feijoas just fall right in the water. After we tested it with one feijoa and one cup we tried two and it worked but then we tried three and it didn't work.