My report on Baron Pierre De Coubertin By Nicola

                                      

Who wants to know who Baron Pierre De Coubertin is? Well I happened to learn all about him. Baron Pierre De Coubertin is famous for reviving / bringing back the Olympic games.

When Baron Pierre De Coubertin was growing up, he was brought up in a rich French family. Baron was born on new years day ( January first ) in 1863, plus he was the fourth child. His dad was an artist and sold his paintings on a display in Parisian salons. Also his mum was a musician. His relationships between his parents was unfortunately strained.

He went to law school for awhile then left after a year. Soon Baron went to another department and learnt more about science and politics. He  had an interest in Sports and education. Once he went to England and met a person called William Penny Brooks, and together they studied the history of the Olympics Games ( which we call ‘ancient Olympic Games’ )   and started a good series of sporting festivals .  

Once Baron was the Nd president of the international Olympic committee.

Sadly Baron died in 1937, in September 2nd when he was just 74 in Geneva, Genève, Switzerland.

This is my presentation rubric By Nicola

This is how I did on my presentation which is below this post, except Asmah and I had to present our presentation in front of the class. When the time had come where We had to show everyone our presentation I was nervous and yet excited. I think that I need to work on remembering the information so I don't have to repetitively look at my cue cards, though I think that I looked at my cards half as much as some people would. I also believe that I should work on a loud voice, so everyone can hear me.

Merry Christmas to my Mum and Dad: Nicola

 Hi, this is a Merry Christmas to my Mum and Dad. I hope they get a chance to watch it. : )

My Endless Rhythm Reflection By Nicola

               

Art: Reflecting on my Endless Rhythm Painting

1. Are you pleased with your Endless Rhythm painting? why / why not?

I am very pleased with my art because I like the colour choice I used.

2. What did you find easy when you created your Endless Rhythm painting?

Mixing the colours and painting was really easy.

3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your Endless Rhythm painting? -think about painting, ruling it up tracing plates, cups, etc.

Tracing the plates was a bit tricky because I had to keep it very still which was a bit frustrating.

4. Who / What helped you when you were painting?

Miss Paton helped me as well as her art group by showing us which part we were going to paint for the day.

5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: colours, painting, ruling up, etc.

I might choose a different colour theme when I start painting.

6. What frustrated you when you created your Endless Rhythm painting?

Mixing the purple was a bit frustrating because all I got out of that was either dark blue, dark maroon or really faint purple.

  

This is my rubric on my presentation By Nicola

This is how I did on my presentation which is below this post, except Asmah and I had to present our presentation in front of the class. When the time had come where We had to show everyone our presentation I was nervous and yet excited. I think that I need to work on remembering the information so I don't have to repetitively look at my cue cards, though I think that I looked at my cards half as much as some people would. I also believe that I should work on a loud voice, so everyone can hear me. This our ( Asmah's and I's ) presentation on Eid, I have learnt so much and you will too, that's if you read this presentation.

Here is my Art Reflection By Nicola

Art: Reflecting on my Abstract Painting

1. Are you pleased with your abstract painting? why / why not?

I am really pleased with my painting and yet not pleased. The reason for that

is, the green colour is not the kind I would usually use.

2. What did you find easy when you created your abstract painting?
I found tracing around the plate onto my 6 by 6 cm grid really easy.

3. What part did you find tricky when you were creating your abstract painting? -think about painting, ruling it up etc.
I found Painting the square in the centre of the circle a bit hard, other than that everything was a piece of cake.

4. Who / What helped you when you were painting?
Miss Paton helped me alot with painting my painting.

5. What would you do differently next time? Think about: colours, painting, ruling of grid, etc.
I would chose different colours.

6. What frustrated you when you created your abstract painting?
Trying to paint within the lines, and making the right colours for each shape.

That's me! I admire my picture.

Our Paintings

This term we have been painting in the style of Friedrich Vordemberg Gildewart, an abstract artist from Germany. Check out our amazing artworks. There will be more to come, very soon.

Do you know who Valerie Kasanita Adams is? Nicky

Do you know who Valerie Kasanita Adams is?  Valerie Adams is a famous New Zealand Shot putter. She has broken many records and has won many, many awards. I hope you enjoy this report and you learn something.

Valerie Adams grew up in Rotorua in New Zealand. She was born in 1984, her dad was English and her mum was Tongan. Valerie Kasanita Adams is 6 ft 5 inches or 1.96 metres tall. When Valerie played in her school basketball team her height and her sports skills made her really handy with the ball.Valerie Adams belongs to the church of Jesus Christ, of Latter - Day Saints.In 2010, Valerie Adams had separated her husband Bertrand Vili.  

As Valerie Adams got older she started to enjoy Shot Put, so to become an expert she had been coached. Valerie had three coaches, her first coach was Kirsten Hellier, they met in 1998, her second coach was Didier Poppe in 2010, and Jean Pierre Egger was her third Coach.

One of Valerie Adams achievements was winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2006. She won another gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In Beijing Valerie won another gold medal in the 2008 Games. At the Melbourne Games she was shot putting at 19.66 m! In the Beijing Games, she threw a shot put at 20.56 m! Also in Jamaica she threw a shot put, the distance was 17.73 m, and won a silver at the Commonwealth Games! Valerie sure has won a lot of medals.

Sadly, Valerie's mum died when she was just 15. Whenever Valerie competes in challenges, she oftens look up to the Heavens.

My graph on how long our parachutes stayed in the air, By Nicola

Hi, my class ( 5 ) have been making mini parachutes. Out of seconds, everybody had 2 / two or 3 / three. Mine parachute took 2 seconds to land. Did you know that my favourite part of the experiment was to scrunching up the parachute and chucking it up into the air.

Our Hang gliding Poster By Nicola and Piripi

Hi, Piripi and I ( Nicola ) have done a poster on Comic Life. It's a really smart thing that our school has on our class computers and our teachers have. I hope it's not too small for you to read, still we love it hopefully you like to. By the way, our poster is all about HANG GLIDERS! I reckon you'd probably learn something. 

My Cable Car instructions By Nicola

These are my instructions on how to make a jet propelled cable car.

Nicola's 4x table rap

Check out Nicola's 4x table rap.

My Goal Setting, By Nicola

This is what I did on comic life, Comic life is an arty crafty thing. You can do all sorts of amazing things on it, like, Change colours and backgrounds And there are much more things on it that you can do.I had to do some Goal settings. Meaning I had write goals. All of the kids in our class had to do it ( I don't know if everyone has done it yet? )The goals were for: Writing, Reading, Behaviour and Math.I tried to do the comic life correctly but I still think it is good work ifI do say so myself.

Combinations to 100 Voice Thread

Today the Circles Maths Group made a Voice Thread on their strategies they used to solve combinations to 100. Check out their Voice Thread.

Eastern Beach here we come: Nicola

Eastern Beach here we come! On Monday February 27th 2012 our whole entire school dressed in their best mufti (for a sunny day! and a trip). When I woke up I had to get my togs and towel ready for the big day ahead of me. So I had my breakfast and quickly walked to my school. I saw Candice and Kyra, they were really ready for a beach. Wow, I started to see everyone in the school. The bell rang I was so happy and excited because I had no idea what was going to happen. As I walked to class I saw my teacher Miss Paton. She was wearing a bright pink T shirt and shorts! I wondered whether it was her style. When it was time to go I felt as if I needed to pinch myself. Ohh Man! The bus was late! The whole school had to wait around 15 minutes. I wasn't that disappointed because I had Asmah to talk to. A lot of people saw a bus go by, and everyone had thought that it was the bus for us to go to the Beach. Guess what? It turns out it wasn’t ours. (I knew that). At last the bus has arrived! I was so excited to go on it. I haven’t been on one with a CLASS for a long time. I was glad that I got to sit next to Asmah. I got to see the green grass, all of the trees and.... Another school! I thought we’d have the beach to ourselves. Mr Johnston gave some instructions as to “We are not allowed to go past the bathrooms.” Then we could have some morning tea, and play all around! I loved my Marine Mix, it was delicious. Our teacher Miss Paton kept moving to one spot to another, I was like “come on!” Soon I started to climb a tree. I saw my friend, Katareana and I started to talk with her. Finally! It was time to swim only our class had to use life jackets. Oh no, my life jacket didn’t zip up. Miss Paton had tried but maybe not hard enough, Mr Johnston had tried, it worked! Brrrrr! The water was freezing cold! After a long time I got used to the water. Mr Nepia was saying to us “Try to float and kick backwards.” I did. It was like floating on fluffy clouds, although I’ve never felt that before. After a long learning session, all of Room 5 got to swim with out the life jackets. Later on I saw Katareana, my friend. We swam and also talked. It was too salty for me so I got out and got changed, I think I took 10 minutes, but I don’t know why. After I got changed I played with a frizz bee, played Volleyball soon I started to play with another friends bop it, my Katereana came and asked me “ Why did you get out of the water?” I said “ It was too salty” She joined in with Bop it! A lot of kids joined in Manley girls! Mmmn I’m Hungry, I ate the rest of my lunch. I guess all of the girls and I must of spent a long time with the Bop it. Soon it was time to go on the bus. Before everyone left I climbed the tree again. I was doing that before Mr Johnston talked. I then heard Mr Johnston speak his last words. Room by room at a time they went and we went on the bus. When we went Asmah and I heard someone FART! EEW. We went on the bus in the same place. As we got to school our class had to think of some words that best describe the trip we just went on. I has so much fun on the trip!

All about me: Nicola

Hi, this is me in my new class, which is room 5. I'm now a year 6. I'm still at the same school- that's Panmure Bridge School. Those who don't know me, well, I'm ten years old. I'm in a lovely school with heaps of different cultures and that's what makes things really interesting to me. All of my friends are very cool, we have a lot in common with each other, especially my number one friend. Oh, about my teacher, she's a girl, her name is Miss Paton. Miss Paton is good with computers which is what I sort of heard. In class we do all sorts of things, that is why this class is joyful. ( Speaking of Joy, that's my teachers fist name! )