Dear Santa,

I think I have been a really good boy this year, that is why I should get lots of presents this year so get your little helpers my make me these things, ok?

So here is what I want

I would really like a new laptop because I dropped it last year and it has got a really big dent in the side of it and I am also in the in inquiry class next year at boys college and I would like you use my laptop in it. 

Now what I want is an iPhone 5S because I lost my other phone the other day and I really want a new one so I can text my mum, dad and my friends.  

I would also really want new running shoes for Christmas because the ones I have now are too small for me and they hurt my feet and I am really sport and need some shoes to run in.

The last thing I would like is a $1000 because I want to buy my friends presents.

From Hoani 

What matter is what something is, not what it is called. this is that meaning of the the quote (a rose by any other name). It is a commonly quoted of a dialogue in william Shakespeare's play Romeo and juliet.

45 min inquiry

 This is the port of Tauranga where all the logs are. The logs are mostly pine tress.They come from many forest in the south island and asia to be made in to building materials fences and other things then are sent to different countries. 

45 min inquiry

In 2011 the New Zealand curling team went to the Asia Pacific championships for curling. In this picture it is NZ vs China unfortunately I do not know who won or lost thins game.

Curling is a sport that is played on ice where you have to slide a stone across the ice aiming for a target that is under the ice. You have to try get the stone as close as you can to the middle of the target.

Curling is also known as chess on ice or the roaring game.

The players use curling brooms, stones and curling shoes

For more info click this link

A review should include

•title/ name/ author/ director/ producer

•plot

•characters

•your opinion/ judgement/ rating

• who is the audience

21 Jump street is a very funny movie with lots of action. It came out in 2012 and it was directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube.

21 jump street is about two guys that are police men and they go under cover at a school to see if they can find the teenagers that are selling drugs at the school and then they have to find the dealers.
They find the person selling the drugs and they go with him to the dealers and everything goes crazy there are lots of gun shots and everything but you will have to watch the movie to see what happens next.

I think the movie is a very good and funny movie and there is a lot of action, the movie makes you just want to keep watching to see what happens next. so i would give the movie about a 9/10.  I would recommend this movie for people 14 and over because it is a little rude and people that like comedy and actions movies.       

This morning all the year 8 boys that are going to Tauranga Boys College next year went to the school to have an orientation of the school and to see what classes they are in. When we got to the school we went into the jim and sat down, then the some people talk about that school and how good it is and the year 9 and 10s  did a haka. after that we all got put into our classes. Once we were in our class groups we walked around that school to see where everything is. nad at the end we all got ice blocks and went back to school.

I was diving down a long road, I was going as slow as an obese panda climbing a tree. 

As I got closer to a corner I could see big machines pumping smoke into the air.

I could see dying trees and and black skys.

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As annoying as little sisters asking for money
As Peaceful as a nice walk in the park
As lucky as finding a gold cone the is werth $100
As hot as fire burning wood
As industrious as a man cutting down trees and building houses
As clueless as a fish swimming from one side of a tank to the other side
As brilliant as a dog jumping thought rings of fire
As colourful as roses growing in the garden

"Hoani could you please come here I just want to have a little talk to you"
"yes ok one sec just putting my book away"
"ok"
"So you wanted to talk to me"
"yea I would like to talk to you about your behavior this year. So what do you think you behavior have beed like over this year"
"Well I think I have been pretty good but I alway get off task but other then that it has been good like because i get along with people and have good manners"
"yea I agree with you Hoani and you have also follow school rules and have lots of friends"
   

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Money
How much money can we use?

Time
How long are we allowed out of school?
How long do we have on one thing ?
When are we going to have lunch?

safety
How much adults do we need for supervision



what to bring
Can we bring money
Do we bring mifti

"Paper, scissor, rock ha ha you suck at this game" 

"No I don't I bet you two times just before"

"so that was like ages ago I have bet you like ten time already.    

" no only like five time"

"well Im still better then you thought"

" ok fine we will have one more game to see who is better"

" ok then paper, scissors, rock ha ha I new it I'm better then you ha ha you suck.

This term we have been having our Life Education sessions. One of the topics we are learning about is drugs. Everyone in our class has made a presentation about one individual drug so that we can extend our knowledge. I made my presentation to a class member and they have given me feedback about my presentation below.

Success Criteria

- confidence when they deliver their presentation

- their knowledge is genuine

- information is in their own words

- no reading off the page, not too much text

- images match content

- visually appealing

- not too long or short

1 year ago I did the 12 hour realy

2 years of 12 hour realy 

Have so much fun

Out side
Under the hot sun
Running

Racing other people
Enjoy the thime with your friends
Lots of running
Around the school
Yummy food

I've got some older friends. (I'm 13, they are 14\15) who have invited me to a party on saturday night at someones house. I'm pretty sure everyone there will be drinking. I've never had alcohol before. I'm going to tell my parents that I'm staying the night at my friends. I feel quite nervous, cos I knew it's bad. what should I do?

I think you should go to the party with your friends but try not to have any drinks but if they make you have one take it and drink it slowly and not to fast, when you finish it go to the bathroom and full the bottle up with water so they think you are drinking.

Life ED Poster

week 9

week 9 homework

homework week 6 and 7

Homework week 6 and 7

Homework

Homework

For homework I had to measure a tree without climbing it. So I went on youtube and found a good video to show me how to do it. What I needed to do was, go to the stump of the tree and walk out. once I had walked out a little bit I looked under my legs to see if I could see the top of the tree, I could see the top of the tree, so I measured from where I was standing to the tree trunk. And that is how long the tree would be.

In this picture I am looking under my legs to see the top of the tree.

In this Picture I and measuring from where I was standing to  the tree stump.

Once I had done all that the tree was 11.2m hight. 

Sunny 

People playing sports and haveing fun.   

Red  rabbits running everywhere.

Ice creams belting in the sunlight 

No clouds in the sky 

G

homework

For the last two day the boys in room 41 and 42 made movies. In the movies we had to have a cookie pad it. So one of the groups threw one at someone but they missed and it went down a hill into a bush. But the boys didn't tell anyone. The next day one of the other class mates told on the and they have to go down to try find it. When they were looking for the cookie pad the saw three boys, so they started chasing them and the three boy ran.

homework week 3 and 4

Daniel Tammet is autistic and he has savant it is something where you are really good at one or two thing and not so good at other things. Daniel Tammet it really good math and remembering things, the reporter asked him some math questions like 17 x 17 x 17 x 17  and he gave him the correct answer in less then 10s. What he also did was name all 23 thousand numbers after the decimal point of pi.

My Weekend

Went for a walk with my family.

Enjoyed my rugby game.

Excited about when my sister and my dad got back from the UK. 

Kicked my rugby ball and it went onto my roof. 

Except for kicking my ball onto the roof I had an awesome weekend.
Nearly got two tries in my rugby game but dropped it over the line.   

Dodging a guy in rugby and scoring a try. 

Week 1 to 2

On Monday my teacher hurt her back so she had to stay at home and our class had to get a reliever. Our reliever was Miss V she was a cool teacher because we got do to word finds and coloring things. One of the only bad things about her was we weren't aloud to talk at all or we would have to write lines and when she was playing music her songs weren't very cool. The next day the teacher was still bad so we had Mis V again and we did more work sheets.

Homework week 1 to 2

Graffiti Creator

Rugby is Better Then soccer

Rugby is better then soccer 
For
• You get to hold the ball with your hands in steed of controlling it with you feet.
• It is a more contact sport because you can tackle the other team but in soccer if you tackle then you with get sent off.
• It is easier to score tries and get points because you are holding the ball in your hands and all  you have to do is run past the people.
Against
• You can get hurt a lot more in rugby then in soccer because rugby you have to tackle in rugby. 
• In rugby there are more fights then is soccer because rugby plays get really angry  
• 

Who am I

I am a boy with blond hair
I am good at soccer
I am short
I go to TIS and I am in Rimu house and I'm in room 42
Travis

Mandarin

This week Rimu year 8 class have been learning languages. They 2 year 8 classers have been split in mandarin and sign language, I am in Mandarin. I have learn how to count from 0 to 10 and how to draw them, I have also learn hoe to say my phone number.
  

Where am I ?

It is by the beach and the water.

It is really tall.

It has sheep on it.

There are camping grounds at the bottom of it.

A lot of people walk up or around it.

It is The Mount.

The holidays

In the holiday I went to Australia with my family. We stayed in a place called Bondi Junction in Sydney. We lifted on Monday at 3am to go to Auckland air port. When we got to Auckland we went to my aunties house for about 3hours before we went to the air port. When we left to the air port it was really fogy and we had to wait a little bit longer to get on the the plane. After the fog a cleared we got onto the plane and went to Sydney it took about 3 and a half hours to get there.    

E2. Create an original artwork using recycled materials

Under the topic Excellence in the Arts I chose E2 'create an original artwork using recycled materials'. I made was a fruit bow out of old magazines.; my mum found the idea on a site called Pinterest. All I needed was a glue stick, hot glue gun, old magazines and scissors. The instructions were simple - firstly,  I needed to carefully rip the pages out of the old magazine. I then cut the pages in half and folded them three times. After that I wrapped the folded strip of magazine paper around a glue stick to make a circle shape I then continued to wrap the strips around each other until I had made a big bottom for the fruit bowl. When I had finished that I made lots of little circles and glued them around the the bace to make the walls. I kept gluing the circles around the sides until I reached the height I wanted.

This it what it the fruit bowl looked liked when I had finished it.

This is the magazine when it had been folded. 

Term 2 Over view

Term 2 was an awesome term we had camp, cross country, interhouse soccer, table tennis and many other things. One of the things I didn't really like was Science fair even thought I got a yellow sticker.
The things I really enjoyed was watching the Rimu house soccer team play soccer and they got into the finals. We lost to Rata house but I still really like watching. My highlight of this term was at the start when we had camp. Camp was so much fun and I really liked doing al the activities.

P5. Compete in a sport for an entire season

The task I chose for Physical Activity and the Outdoors was P5. Compete in a sport for an entire season. I have done lots of sports over the last two terms like rugby, swimming, basketball, surf life saving and volley ball. But the main sport I am going to talk about is my rugby.

I am part of the Mount Rugby Club and I play for a team called Mount Green. This is my first year back playing rugby after playing soccer for many years. I play on the right wing for my team and enjoy the position because the ball can get passed out wide where I am so I can score the tries . We train on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school for about an hour. The we have the real games on Saturdays. My team and I have won most of our games; we have only lost two.
                                        Here are some photos of me and my team 

E3. Visit an exhibition and review it. Present your review on your blog.

On Monday my sister and I went to the Tauranga Art Gallery for our home work task Excellence in the Arts. The task is E3. Visit an exhibition and review it. Present your review on your blog. The exhibition was called Corrugations The Art Of Jeff Thomson. We went to the gallery after school to have a look at the beautiful art work. There were lots of different things made out of the corrugated iron such as, letter boxers with animals on top of them,chickens, dogs, house and some other random stuff. Overall my favorite piece of art work was the dog because there was so much detail on the dog and it was really cool how there was lots and lots of layers that have been cut to get the dog looking really good. We watched a video on how Jeff Thomson printed onto the metal. First the iron would be flat and he would print onto it, after that he would use the roller to make the iron corrugated.     

There was also another exhibition called Painting Mauao: Painted images of Mount Maunganui since the mid-19th century. It was really cool. I loved looking at the paintings of the Mount especially because I live there. My favourite painting was in a separate room with a projector shining on it. The picture was of part of the mount track and the projector projected real people walking past. I thought this was a very clever idea. 

This is a picture of me and my sister outside the art gallery. 

 

A1. Improve your maths ability: Complete a random 10 x 10 grid in under 2 min

This is one of the home work challengers I choose A1. Improve your maths ability: Complete a random 10 x 10 grid in under 2 min. I used an iPhone to time the 2 minutes and I made the grids on the computer.

It took me a long time to finish the 10 x 10 grid in under 2 minutes. I had to do about 50 grids until I got under 2 minutes. On my first one I had about 20 left over but I kept trying and finally completed it in under 2 minutes.

This is a photo of the gird I completed in under 2 minutes.

A5. Improve your study skills: Research Rimu- where do you find it? Why is it important to Māori? What uses does it have? Why is Rimu the best tree in the school?

This is another home work challenge I have chosen A5. Improve your study skills: Research Rimu- where do you find it? Why is it important to Māori? What uses does it have? Why is Rimu the best tree in the school?


                                                          Rimu Tree

Where do you find it?

It can be found around some of the North Island and lowland forests in the South Island especially on the West Coast where the densest populations can be seen.

Why is it important to Māori?

The Rimu tree is important to Māori because the Rimu tree is native to New Zealand and the Māori’s can use it in many ways, such as medicine. The aromatic leaves of the Rimu were used in vapor baths. It was also used in the manufacturing of weapons, especially heavy-duty long spears.     

What uses does it have?

It’s a tall straight tree that can reach heights of up to 50m so it can be used for lots of things. It is one of the most popular native timbers. Rimu can also be used for building houses and making canoes. 

Why is Rimu the best tree in the school?

The Rimu tree is the best tree in the school because it can be used for so much more then all the other trees at the school and im am in the house named after the tree.That is why it is the best tree in the school.  

This a picture of the Rimu tree leves. 

This is a picture of the big Rimu tree.

Daily blog post

Yesterday most of my school went to Bay Court to watch our schools production it was called The Most Triumphant tale. I really enjoyed it. It was really cool and funny. It is about two bands that are called One Dimension and Labyrinth. One Dimension was the lip sinkers and Labyrinth are the ones that sing properly. Labyrinth have to win the band battle to they can stop One dimension from making people lip sinker in the future.  My favorite part was when my friend travis was singing and and the time travail thing came down and travis was like running like a little baby.

Science fair

My science fair was comparing the effect of melting sac ice vs glacier. It took me a long time to find this topic but my sister gave me a topic that her friend did so I did the one. I changed it a little bit because we found a good site on the internet that told me how to do it. My mum helped me do al my testing and and writing

Daily blog post

CAPTCHA is a program that is on blogs and many other websites. It is to stop computers spamming your blog or what ever you have, captcha can tell if the user is a human or a computer. It is also made to translate old book news paper and other old things so they can be put on to computers. What you have to do is there are two words and one is easy to read and the other one is harder and you have to try get the word correct.   

Cross country

On Monday we had our school cross country. The run was about 3km, we ran on grass and the footpath. Every person at TIS run the cross country. It started with with the year 7 girls then the year 7 boy after that was the year 8 girls and last of all the year 8 boys. I got 117th I short I did pretty bad because I got 33 when I was year 7. But I found the day really fun and I really enjoyed it.

Daily blog post

Dodgeball is a game that is really fun. It doesn't hurt because the balls are soft.  There are two teams. There is a big square with a line of cones in the midel with balls on top of the cons. The game starts with one team at one end of the square and the other team at the other end of the square. When the whisle goes both teams go get balls and throw them at each other. When you get hit you have to go into the line then wait till someone catches the ball.

My dads job

My dad works at the local hospital as a psychiatrist. He talks to crazy people to stop them from making stupid mistakes and things like killing themselves and stuff. It can be dangerous sometimes because they can get angry and can hurt Dad. One time dad was on the news because one of the crazy people had a gun and held it at is head but Dad talked him out of it and calmed him down.

Morning post

Yesterday after school I walked out where my mum picks me up and wait there with my sister un till she came.  When she came me and sophia jumped in the car and went to girls collage to pick up my other two sister alex and jessica. When they got in the car we went home. As soon as we got home i had to get reddy for swimming because i had to go strate from physio to swimming. i dont really like swimming but if make me fit and it is good for me.

On saturday my mum came in to my room and said get up and get ready for rugby you have to be at blake park at 10:15. So I got up and had a shower then got all my rugby stuff reddy when I was doing that my mum and my sister went to her soccer game so i had to find my own way to get down to rugby. My sister was also at home so me and her biked down to my rugby. We were vsing papamoa and we won 30-24, my friend kyle was in the the papamoa team and he thort he was going to beat my team but he was wrong.

Then an sunday I spent my day at my fiends house because it was raining and we played a really cool car game on playstation it was really fun.

1. A Piece of Cake

2. It is some thing at can be completed very easily.

3. Dad asked "How was you run around the mount?" 

"It was a piece of cake." said Hoani. 

Playground dialoge

"Oi Travis come over here I wanna show you some thing!" said Hoani.
"Ok wait a sec I will be there soon im just goto take a poo." says travis.
"Na dont go poo yet. you have to see this you have to have a look at it. it is so so funny." Yelled Hoani.
"I really need to go im going to poop my pants." squeaked travis.
"come no travis. It will only take a sec come on Travis it is really funny" shouted Hoani.

Some one special

My mum is short with blond hair she has hazels eyes with little wrinkles around them she walks up tall and has a little bounce when she walks. She alway have bags under her eyes because she is always stays up late to cleaning up after dinner and she alway is cleaning the house. She nice most of the time but was she gets angry she starts screening at you it is so scary like when my mum was looking for something im her history someone had deleted it and she got so so angry and al most throw her ipad at me.   

Charging laptops at school

What are the negatives of Rimu charging there laptops at school. 

It uses a lot of power. 

There will be chargers all around to class and people could trip over them.

I uses a lot of money.

What are the 2 of the suggestions for solving the problem.

We could charge our laptops at lunch times or morning tea.

we could have one or tow chargers at school so there are not to much chargers at school

What is your opinion about Rimu students charging there laptop at school.

I dont like how can charge our laptops at school because peoples laptops batterys are not that good and run out after the second block   

My weekend

In the weekend I went to the movies with some of my friends. We went to watch fast and furious 6, the movie was really good I really enjoyed it. The movie had lots of really cool cars. I was really excited because I hadn't seen the movie and all my friends have said that the movie was really cool. The cars in the movie was looked so expensive and the all got really smashed up. In the movie there were lots of fights and it was really funny. 

Why ants are so strong

Ants are so strong because they are so small that their muscles dont have heavy parts to move round. The smaller the insects the more weight it can carry for its size. Ants also have their skeleton on the out side. Ants can normally carry 100x of their own body weight.

Home work task P5. Compete in a sport for an entire season

Surf Life Saving is one of my sports I like to do and I really enjoy it. I have done surf for 9 years and I started when I was about three years old. This is why I am choosing this as one of my home work challenges P5. Compete in a sport for an entire season.

My surf life saving group trains every day after school from  4:00 to  5:30pm and on Saturday and Sunday we train from 10am to 11:30 or to 12:00. I find training really fun because we do a mix between beach training and water training.  

The surf life saving season starts at the start of October and finishes at the end of March. At the end of  the surf life saving season there is the national Junior Championships called Ocean Athletes. It is heled at the Mount main beach over four days and clubs come from all over New Zealand. There are many events in this competition such as board race, beach sprints, beach flags, run swim run and surf race there are also many team events like board relay, beach relay, tube rescue, board rescue, 2k beach relay and Cameron relay.    

This is me doing beach flags.  

This is me doing a doing a run swim run race. I is me running into the water.

This photo is me going over a wave in a board reca.

A Plane Crashers in The Sea

A boeing 737-800 plane as crashed in the the sea landing shot of the run way in bali.

All 101 passengers and 7 crew have survived but many injerd 

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from your guests.

On Wednesday I did my home work challenge  G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from your guests. For the entree I had crackers and cheese. I made roast pork, roast potato and roast carrot for the main meal. For dessert I made ice cream, banana and chocolate sauce.

This is the menu 

This is a photo of the entree cheese and crackers.

This is me getting ready to put the pork in the oven I sprinkled the seasoning over the pork and rubbed salt and oil into the skin to make crackle.

In this picture I am peeling the carrots and potato.

In the picture I am turning the carrots and potatoes over.

This is what the food looked like after I had served it onto the plate and poured on the gravy. 

This is me making the ice-cream and banana for dessert.  

This is what the dessert ended out looking like 

The feedback from the people who ate the food.
Dad: The roast was cooked really well and the meat was nice, tasty and soft. I also enjoyed the roasted vegetables. I think Hoani was well organised and was impressed how he stayed on task.
Mum: It was very delicious and I loved the roast veges especially the carrots! Hoani enjoyed cooking the meal and presented everything very nicely.
Sophia: good work Hoani it was really yum   
Jessica: delicious!

G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from your guests.

On Monday I did my home work challenge  G2. Give to your family: Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including the menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and feedback from your guests. For the entree I made mini pizzas with ham and cheese on top. I made pumpkin soup and home made bread for the main meal. For dessert I made vanilla ice cream sandwich.

This is what the ice-cream sandwichs  looked like.

In this photo I am putting in the ingredients for the beard. Then I would put it is the bread maker.   

In this picture I an cutting the pumpkin. 

This one I am rolling the dough. 

In the photo I am mixing to dough together.

This is the entree the mini pizza and BBQ sauce.

In this one I am adding to pumpkin in to the pot.

This photo is the home made bread and im cutting it.

In this one I am putting the ham and cheese on to the pizzas then I am going to put it in to the oven.

This is the main the pumpkin soup and the home made bread.