Meeting Albert Vete

Today at assembly we had a special guests come in. Albert Vete and Justin (Asics worker). They were here to present shoes to people who did really well in cross country. Surprisingly I was one of them. Once my name was called out I got to receive my award from Albert Vete. It was an honour to meet Albert Vete and I would like to thank Asics and Albert Vete for giving us amazing running shoes. I will be using the shoes that I have received in the future to improve my running skills.

Rugby Union Inter-school

Today was the inter-school for Rugby Union. Our team was made up of year 7's and 8's. The first school we went up against was Glen Taylor. They manged to beat us by a lot. Our next game was against Glenbrae, the score was 17 - 10. Although, we lost again we did so much better. Our next game was against Glen Innes. In my opinion this was the best game we played. The score was 12 - 10. They managed to beat us by a conversion. Our last game was against Tamaki Primary. This was the hardest game we played because, they beat us by a lot. We did loose all of our games but we all had a lot of fun.

PBS Blogging Journey

The is the last activity for the PBS Blogging Journey which is to create a venn diagram showing the differences and similarities between the Auckland and the Sydney harbour bridge. I thing I found interesting was for the Sydney Harbour Bridge you need to pay a toll, to cross it.

PBS Blogging Journey

For day 5's first activity I had to find some facts about the Auckland Harbour Bridge. One thing I found a bit hard was finding images of the Harbour Bridge Bridge because most of the photos would be of the Australian Harbour Bridge.

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For this activity I had to find the cost requirements that you need to meet to in order to bungee jump off of the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Requirements and costs
Age: You need to be 10 years old or older, Children 14 and under need to be accompanied by an adult.
Weight: Minimum weight is 35kg, maximum weight 150kg.
Prices: Adult (15 and over) - $165, Child (10 - 14) - $135

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For this PBS Blogging Journey activity, I went on the Auckland Museum website to find out what activity is being held during these holidays. An activity I found was one about WW1. This activity lets children experience what it's like to be a soldier. The second part of this task was to create our own 5 photo exhibition. I decided to take photos of things around my house.

PBS Blogging Journey

For this PBS Blogging Journey task I went on the Auckland Museum website to find out about the parade that is held outside of the museum once a year. I had to find out when it is held and why it's held. After I had found the answers I went on Vocaroo to record them.
Vocaroo Link

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For day four's first activity I had to find out about life as an ANZAC soldier. I then had to find three interesting facts and say why I found them interesting.

Fact 1 - Fact 3 - Around 44,00 ANZAC soldiers died because they misplaced the area they were meant to land. They landed close to a cliff where the Turkish soldiers were, I found this fact interesting because, one small mistake can have a huge consequence.

Fact 2 -  When the Turkish waved a white flag, they appealed one free day to clean their bodies. I find this interesting because I thought waving a white flag means you surrender.

Fact 3 - NZ Soldiers went to reinforce the Australians and, while they were climbing up the ridge a lot of them were sniped from the enemy soldiers. I found this interesting because, the amount of people and how fast they took down NZ and Australian soldiers with snipers was very shocking.

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This is my DLO on the opening times and ticket prices at Kelly Tarlton's. There were so many ticket price options so, I decided to show them by taking screenshots. I enjoyed completing this task because of the one thing I found interesting which was how the opening times were all the same. 

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I have created an infographic on the Short Tailed Stingray. For this task I had to create an infographic on a sea creature that is in Kelly Tarlton's. This is Day 3's 2nd activity if we included images and attributed them we would get full points. There were a lot of new things I found out about the Short Tailed Stingray. I really enjoyed completing this activity.

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For this activity/bonus activity, I had to recommend a ride from Rainbow's End to a friend, describe how I might feel, write 25 words and an attributed photo or a referenced video of that ride. I would feel nervous and excited to go on the stratosfear because it goes on a 360 spin multiple times and I would like to experience that. 25 word summary: The stratosfear is a ride at Rainbow's End, there is a 360 swing and a 45 degree swing and there are height restrictions for them. 

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Did you know the Skytower is taller than the Eiffel Tower? I have created a DLO that has 5 facts about the Skytower. I think they are all interesting but the one I find most interesting is 2nd one. This is the 1st activity for day two of the PBS Blogging Journey. The next activity for day two is create a mascot for the Skytower.

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This is my mascot for the Skytower. I tried my best to make it look good, but it turned out bad. The activity for day 2 activity 2 was to create my own mascot for the Skytower. The reason I made my mascot mostly transparent is because the Skytower has a lot of glass windows that are transparent (see through). I think I found this task hard because I challenged myself to only use shapes (it's a tool on Google Drawing).

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The activity for day 2's bonus activity is to find 5 different activities you can do at the Skytower. One thing I found interesting was holiday activities are being held there. The activity I would like to do most out of the ones I found was the Skywalk. I think it would be a very exhilarating and interesting experience for me. 

PBS Blogging Journey

This is day 3's first activity which was to find the ticket price for me to go there then, the ticket prices for my family to visit there. One thing I found in common with Kelly Tarlton's and Rainbow's End is that if you buy tickets online it's cheaper. I had fun doing this activity because it involved a bit of maths.