America's Favorite Giant Panda Celebrates First Birthday

Article Comprehension:

Every animal turns one so why was Bao Bao's first birthday so special? Bao Bao's birthday is so special because he is the other giant panda born at the National zoo. 

How did the zookeepers celebrate it? The zoo keeper celebrates Bao Bao's birthday by starting it off with a Chinese tradition, the party starts with the Bao Bao being offered a choice of three honey dipped bamboo shoots, next to each other was a colourful hand printed poster labeled 'long life', 'good heath' and 'Many clubs'. Given that the pandas first choice is believed to predict the future, it was fortunate that Bao Bao immediately gravitated to the 'Long Life' Bamboo. 

What are some of the things Bao Bao has learnt during his first year? 

She has lean't to respond to her name and stand on the scale tall on the scales, during her monthly weigh-ins. 

What are some of the things in store for her before she turns two? She will stop drinking her mothers milk and then just like the pandas in the wild, move away from home'.

Dangerous Decibels

Today we had our first lesson of Dangerous Decibels, I really enjoyed it because this session was all about our ears and how to take care of them so that in the future we can still hear without having to use hearing aids. 

Did you know that 85 dB and under is the safest amount of sound you could listen to. Sounds that are higher than 85 dB have a certain time limited for the different things E.g a Heavy metal concert if you were in the front row, you could possibly loss your hearing instantly.

Also another thing I learn't was that each sound is a vibration and that and that when it comes out as a energy and thats what hurts our ears, which can lead to hearing loss. Also another thing I learn't was NEVER PUT THINGS IN YOUR EARS!!!!! because I know that ear wax might annoy people but its good because it clears and pushes all the dirt and yuck things out of our ears, and if you put long things into your ears because your ear drum is as thin as a tissue so it can break very easily if pressure is going to be put onto it and then it will leave you with ear problems.

Mining Cavern Transforms Into World's Largest Underground Trampoline Park

Article Comprehension:

How is Bounce Below different from other trampoline parks?

One of the special things about this trampoline park is that its the largest trampoline park in the world !!! and that its also underground which is different to the ones here in Tauranga.

What are some of the things visitors will experience at Bounce Below?

Visitors will experience that all the tramps are connected by slides, chutes and ladders and much more.

The two zip lines are called Velocity or Titan they also lie 45 minutes of each other, and neither of them are ordinary.

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

Compete in a sport for an entire season

!!! Hockey !!!

Last friday Jordan & I and a few others walked to Tauranga Boys college to play hockey which started at 4pm. Firstly our team played Bethlehem College :), they were a good team but not good enough for the TIS raiders (My Team) because we smashed with a score of 11-3 or around that. I was really happy because I scored some of the goals !!!!!!!!!!

!!! Netball !!!

Last saturday was the semi finals for netball so this one game was the decided on if we were going to be in the finals for this weekend or not. Last saturday we played Papamoa  and I knew that it was going to be a nail biting game because they were known to us for coming out strong in a game. Well at first it was starting to be a close game but as they game went on the TIS team began to take the lead so by the end of the game there was a HUGE different between the two scores which by the end was 52-22 to TIS. 

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

Aims Training

Today at 7am my aims team and I had a fitness training and practice. First My team started with 2 laps around the gym floors, then we did 5 sprints (1=their and back). After the sprints we went straight into 3x30 push ups, after we did a set of push ups we would get a 30 second break then straight back into it. Then after we did our 3x30 push ups we went back into 5 sprints. After that we did sit ups, the first set was 20 then the next set was 15 then 10. Then we went back into our sprints after that we did static lunges we also did 3 x 30 sets on each leg for those. Then after that we did 5 sprints. After we had done all that it was about 7.30 so we did some ball skills and went into half court for a bit. When the time struck 7.10am Miss Abbot had to go to a meeting so we did some warming down exercising drills then to end our training we went for a Rimu house normal run. 

How Maui slowed the sun

Here is a video I put together of how Maui slowed the sun ( Well my version of the story ;) ).

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

AIMS TRAINING 

This term if you didn't know already is Aims games !!!!!!!!!! This year there is over 7,300 competitors  in 2014 Aims games. This year I am lucky enough to be in the Tauranga Intermediate 1 Aims netball team. This year for netball there is over 90 teams just in netball (which is quiet a lot). Last year I was in the same team. At Tauranga Intermediate school there are 2 netball teams that compete, I'm in the first team. The first team is the girls that got picked first and usually get a higher score than the other team when we compete at Aims, Because the No.1 Aims team is basically made  of the year 8 A team and a few B we haven't really had heaps of practices together. But for now our Aims team has practised with the TGC junior A. We didn't win but it wasn't really about that. My Aims team also competed in the Winter elite tournament we played AMAZING teams from Whakatane to Gisbourne they were all great and something that made it better was that we won the whole tournament and we got a medal. It was a great achievement for us.

Over the next couple weeks I'll keep this updated on all our prastices, fitness training and say what we have done. I will also keep this updated on Aims week to tell you how were doing.

Homework (Giving)

Give of your time: Visit an elderly person at least eight times over two terms

Last sunday my team and I participated in the last Harbourside netball tournament for this year. Lucky my team did extremely well because we won our division. After netball which went to about 2.30ish - 3 my family went over and visited my granddad. He was very pleased with the result of my team winning and we also talked about other things while I was there. I was also so proud because my grandad also taught how to make coffee :). It wasn't my type of drink but soon enough I think I will probably like it. 

Post photos Soon. :)

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

Compete in a sport for an entire season

!!! Hockey !!!

On friday the 8th Of August I played Hockey at 6pm. My team played the TIS Pumas (Jordans team) our team only had enough players just so meaning that none would come off. The TIS Pumas were a really good team in the first half the score 1-3 to the Pumas. In the second half the score was 5-3 still to the Pumas. I think the game was good because everyone tried there best and thats what the games all about. In this game I played left/right half.

!!! Netball !!!

Last Saturday My team and I played our hardest team in our pool we played Mount Intermediate !!!!.
They came out fighting so did we In the first quarter we were winning by 6 in the second quarter we were a tie. In the third quarter My netball team was losing by 6 and in the forth quarter we just scarped up and won the game by 3 points (23-26 to Tauranga). I was very proud of my team because we had beaten this team and we haven't even had our coach because she's been out of the country for the last two weeks.

Also on Sunday we had a Netball tournament. Our first game was at 9.30am so we had to be there at 9am. During the whole day My team and I played Otumoetai, Tauranga intermediate 8B, Papamoa, Mount and aquinas it was a hard race to the end but we lucky pulled it off and won the tourament.
In the prize giving we got up in front of everyone and we all shook there hand and got a bag of goodies and yummy chocolate.

Homework (Giving)

Give of your time: Visit an elderly person at least eight times over two terms

This is my Pop is a great and powerful man that manages to strive and push though anything if he puts his mind to it. At the age of 77 he is still living an incredible life thanks to his 3 amazing Childs and his 5 great grandchildren. unfortunately for him his wife passed away 20 years ago from the killer decease which is called Cancer. People say that as people start to get to an old age they get crazier and crazier well for my granddad thats not true, he's funny, humorous and is a great role model. Because I already visit my granddad nearly every week I'm am going to put blog posts up to show you how great he is and how lucky enough I am to have him in my life.

Homework Challenges (Physical Activity and the Outdoors)

Compete in a sport for an entire season

Hockey & Netball

These last two terms I have played two sports these have made my weeks busy with lots of practices and games to try and our best and be the best team we can be. At the moment it is winter so the winter sports that I'm in at the competing in at the moment is Hockey and Netball. I like both these sports because there both different but fun at the same time. This was my first year playing hockey I didn't really know what I was doing or how to play, As for netball I started netball in the end of year 4 and have loved it ever since. The reason why I wanted to play netball is because of my mum she used to play indoor netball so as I was little I used to always come with her to her netball practices and her games hoping when I was older I could play and follow in her foot steps. The reason why I wanted to play hockey is because I thought it was much different to other sports with the stick and the mouth guard and everything. My mum also thought that I could be good at because I'm short and close to the ground so I could just hit the ball instead of being like a tall person and having to bend over and have pains in my back.

Mrs Mills gave us these home work Tasks last week so I will tell you the results from last week.

Netball: Last week we had a hard game we played Papamoa College. They surprised me I didn't think they would be as good as they were. It was a hard battle to the end but thankful we were able to pull it off with the score of 38-27 to Tauranga Intermediate I was so pleased with the team and all the hard work the had put into the game as we also were all tried from friday as on friday we had the Winter elite tournament (which Tauranga Intermediate won!!!)  

Hockey: As for hockey the other team wasn't able to come and they kindly had given my team some notice about it. So my team was going to have a friendly kids VS parents game unfortunately my parents were busy and not able to take me to hockey so I couldn't play with my team but I kinda think that it was a good think because I was also kinda tried from the tournament.