Cinellids is also known as a ladybug and ladybirds.

These types of bugs live in many parts of the world such as: United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malta and parts of some parts of Canada.

These bugs are unique because you can find them in lots of different colours such as red, blue, Orange, Yellow and sometimes you will be able to identify black dots on the lady bugs.

The size of a lady bug is 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches).

Some of this bugs features is that it has antennae which means two antennas. The ladybugs also have wings and a lot of other body features.

I say a little prayer for you......Book Blurb.........

The little short book called I say a little prayer for you is also a famous song called I say a little prayer for you. This song was written first by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and Illustrated by Karin Littlewood. This book will be a great book for kids to read because it easy to read and it teaches kids a old classic song.

Our trip to Mairangi Bay

It was a early night for me on Thursday night because we had a trip to Mairangi Bay the next day to teach us about Surviving in the water.

The things that we where going to learn is how to identafie a rip and if you get into pulled in to a rip what to do If you get in a rip try and stand up and swim to the waves and stay calm.

After when we had learnt about identafiing a rip both classes (room 19 and room 20) went out and played on the beach some games with the life gaurds the first game we was Octapuss then tag bullrush and one of our helpers tackled Casey luckily he did not get hurt, but then Racheal got triped up by Feki then him and Etta went tumbling on her foot and and squashed it so she had to go and get the ice pack for her ankle.

Then we did some water activtiys the boys did boggy boarding first and the girls went swimming with the red tubes. When 15 minutes went past the boys and girls swoped over then when that half hour finished we had to get changed and pack up to come back to school. As we where leaving the sun came out foe the first time all day.

They have arrived.....

“Wooohoo” They have arrived and we are using them.
Yesterday the Year 7s at Pt England School where very exited because our netbooks had arrived and we were putting our user details in them.



The reason why we got our netbooks early is because we are the PILOTS for the Manakalani cluster of 7 schools. It is like we are the guinea pigs as the Years 7s being the pilots for testing them and writing every thing down about our comments problems and our solutions so then we send our infomation about our netbooks to Mrs Burt via email.



We still have to wait to take our netbooks home because now that we have them we are only trialing them but next year when school starts again we will be able to take them home just like all other schools from year 5 and up to year 13. 
"Having the netbooks will change our way of learning and thinking and looking at things from a different perspective" says Gabrielle.

The Lemon Tree Borer

The Lemon Tree Borer is a long horn beetle, the resion why this paticuler beetle is called THE LEMON TREE BORER is because the lemon tree is its favourite tree to lay its eggs. When the eggs hatch white larve stays on the leaves and then the wasps eat the larve.
If you would like some more information click on the images........

Our new class photo.

Yesterday after lunch we took a class blog photo if you click on the photo above it will take you to our class blog.
The photo above shows you the serious side of room 19's learning about bugs.

What we just learnt

We have been learning to share the love and how to link photos to use.

Click on the photo to see the rest of the information.

Bugs Bugs Bugs

As year 7s we are striving to:

Improve:
Improve with our sport our learning
Excite:
With our writing with our blog post with every thing that we do.
Succeed:
Succeed in life and with every thing that we do.
Amaze:
Amaze People with what we do in class, in life and on our blogs.

New Zealand’s Treasure Island Vocab.

This week when we where with Ms Tito doing reading she asked us to highlight any words that we where unsure of. I highlighted these words and we had to predict the meanings of the words:

Bleak: Something to do with the weather.

Preserved: It has been saved or stored.

Forlorn: Sad or a miserable emotion.

Ignited: Something to do with fire.

Overwhelmed: Pressured.

Ordeal: Your in pain.

Lethargic: Sick.

Limbs: Your arms and legs.

Scurvy: Gone pale.

Graphics

At graphics we learn how to do many things with our hands and the computers. While Miss Ferguson had her seconed
year 7 class ever for Point England School. We learnt about all kinds of different mechanism the waving one popping out one.
Some times when the computers would not work and Miss Ferguson fixed it she would jump up and down all around the room and the whole class would always laugh at her. She would say to all of us if we put it up on our blogs she will be ashamed so much she would have to scream and do it even more shhhhh don't tell her.
We had to do 3 designs with different mechanisms.
So take a look at my illustrations and comment me what you think of them.

Lorenz Netball Team.

Lorenz it the name of the netball team that I play for. April, Ocean, Shontal, Reina and I played for Lorenz J1. The name of our couch was Roslen but we called her Roz for short she was also a Lorenz player but she played on the senior team. In our compition we were in the Year 7 flight 2 in that compition we came 9th
In our team we had 7 players they where
Pearl-Marli:WD/GS
Maree:GK/WD/GD
Ocean:GD/C
Shontal:GS/GD (some time subbed for others.)
Tyla:GA/C
Reina:WD(some time subbed for others.)
April:C/GD/GK/WA
Noellyn:WA

My Aunty Sharron

My Aunty is one of the best auntys some one could ever have she is so genours she has got 20 to 30 grand kids and 3 of them live with her with there parents she also has two dogs Tui and Puppy they are labradors. My aunty also is a foster mum for kids in sips when know family cant handle them or wont them. She voulnters at the Glen Iness Salvation Army shop, my aunty used to work as a nurse like in a hosiptal but gave it up when her youngst dauter gave birth to her son. Now she looks after one of her grandkids Jaden (the little boy in the left photo).

Our Amazing Bourd Game

This morning Ms T said to us to choose a partnerand a multiple intelligences blooms taxonomy. Together Gabrielle and I created a board game using the higher level of thinking Creating, working on Visual /Spatial intelligences. To creat this board game we used Hyper Studio 5. The time that we were given was 2 hours and 50 minsthis is what Gabrielle and I came up with. We had fun with this challange.

I made the boats.

Gabrielle made game board.

Keys:(the game board)

Red dots: Jesse Martins path

Numbers: The counts you go on.

What you Need to play:

Maxim 3 players.

1 dice

Tricks for the numbers:

4: Pirates of the caribeen to dangorus must go back 2 spaces.

7:Go a head to 14.

16: Storm go back 6 spaces.

18: Miss a turn.

19: Your back home congratulations.

The Twilight Saga.

Twilight is a movie about Vampires and Wolfs. It is set in America. Twilight has 4 movies Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse,Breaking Dawn. In New Zealand Breaking Dawn is still yet to be released in the movies and Eclipse is now in the movies. The other 2 are on DVD and Blue ray.

Here is some of the twilight cast Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Billy Burke as Bella's dad, Peter Facinelli as Dr. Carlisle Cullen, Esme Cullen. They are the vampires.

Jacob Black as Taylor Lautner. Those are the only wolfs I know the names of.

This Term

This term we are learning about Mighty Mariners. So I used Hyper Studio to make some pictures telling what our focus question and some teen mariners. Of the 2 teens that sailed around the world unassisted. Here are some photos of Jessica Watson was 16 when she did it and Jesse Martin he was 17 when he sailed around the world.

Aucklands Volcanic Field

The Auckland Volcanic Field is made up of 50 basalt volcano. Most of the volcanoes in Auckland have only erupted once which means they are monogeneric volcanism.

Rangitoto has erupted a few times so that means Rangitoto is polygenetic volcanism.

Rangitoto is the youngest and largest volcano in Auckland. It takes up 50% of the Auckland Volcanic field. That volcano erupted about 600 to 800 years ago. It is 259 meters high.

Maori believe that Rangitoto gaurds the Waitamata harbour. When Rangitoto erupted out of the sea the Moari living closley on Motutapu Island must of thought it was the end of the world.

Rangitoto's name means Bloody Sky, it has 7 known lava caves and its cone is Scoria igneos rock. Rangitoto is a intraplate which means, in the middle of a techtonic plate it also means a hot spot for volcanic activity.

To me Rangitoto is an amazing volcano. But I hope it never erupts while im living in Auckland, all that ash cloud and lava it scares me just thinking about it.

For Writing-Disasters.

This morning we had to do a task for writing to organiser information report.

We had to do this because Ms Tito says that our writing is random.

A disaster is an event that causes destruction, pain and suffering. Disaster's can be natural or man made.

Natural disasters can be caused by extreme weather events, climatic conditions or changes in the earths crust. Natural disasters include cyclones, tornadoes, floods, droughts, bush fires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Man made disasters are usually the result of accidents, disease or war. They range from catastrophic evens like major wars and nuclear accidents which destroy huge amounts of the the environment and kill many people, to everyday occurrences like road accidents and crime.

Emergency services and charities rush to help when a disaster happens.

Disasters are a personal tragedy for the people involved.

Layers of the Earth

Did you know that there are three parts of the earth? The center is called the Core, the middle part is called the Mantle and the the last part of the earths layers is the crust. When volcanoes erupts it means that the mantle has put to much pressure is on the crust then the volcanos erupts.

Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana is my favorite show on Disney Channel. It is all about this girl named Miley Stewart and she has the best of both worlds. She has many songs my favorite of her songs is If We Were A Movie.

Hannah Montana has to keep a secret away from here friends Lily and Oliver they are the best friends and they all go to Sea View high in California.

She is so talent her dad is Billy Ray Cyrus and she oringaly lived in Tennessee.

When I first saw the movie I went wow that is such a great movie I was I love with the movie I got the DVD for Christmas and I watched it over and over again eventually I got over that movie my mum was so happy. The resion why I love Hannah Montana because she is a great role model for young kids like me. My favourite part of Hannah Montana is when Miley says "Sweet Nibblets"and when it the show is on my family knows not to disturb me or I will annoy them when the show that they like to watch.

Nesion 101 lyircs

At camp each group was assigned with a song and my group the Kind Crew got this song.

Nesian 101 lyrics........
(You know the time, you know the time - it's time for Nesian 101)

You're never on time
And music’s on all day
And you be growing them rude-ngati dreads
White on white sneaks and baggy jeans
Got that greenstone around your neck

I came from the 183
So I know a little bit about fresh bee
Yes we, keep rep’n and rock’n that fresh steez
Jeans cut with socks and jandals
Aloha shirts be the formal dress standard
Spot the poly’s from a mile away
And you know they're coming when you hear this play

Follow the leader.... leader.... leader
Follow the leader x 2

You’re so fresh so I want to know if you're down
'cause if you are then let that hair down baby
I wanna know

Got 2 fried eggs on that $1 bread
Street fighter 2 where my money's spent
Brothers roll past, speakers on full blast
Singing “Korero Maori e”


You're never on time
And music’s on all day
And you be growing them rude-ngati dreads
White on white sneaks and baggy jeans
Got that greenstone around your neck


What you know about F.O.B
Taro, Manioke & Lu Sipi
Ya’ll know what I'm talking bout the Sunday Feeds
2 minute noodles & that fried Corned Beef
for the rest of the week, that’s all there is
go to school and scab off the rest of the kids
save that bus money home for that $1 chips
if you don’t walk it off it goes straight to the hips..

I never run my day by time,
I run my time by the change of sky,
I run my time like my appetite,
Coke and a pie’s what we call fine dine,
SURRY CRES to SANDRINGHAM,
CALIFOR-NI-A down to JAPAN,
It’s the real McCoy making all that noise,
More FOB than FALL OUT BOY….

You're never on time
And music’s on all day
And you be growing them rude-ngati dreads
White on white sneaks and baggy jeans
Got that greenstone around your neck


So what we gon' do right here, is we gon' school ya on what we call, the ways of the fresh; Nesian 101 if ya will. So if ya feelin' what we sayin', let me know, join in

Bounce on that 2 & 4, don’t clap on that 1 & 3..
You have your Cappuccino, we on that Cuppa Tea..
Be rude to turn it down, so take it if its free..
Just keep it FRESH, no matter where you be.. X2

(all the ladies in the place put ya hands up, put ya hands up, put ya hands up, put 'em up, put 'em up, let's go)

You’re so fresh but I want to know if you down
'cause if you are then let your hair down baby
I want to know

You're never on time
And music’s on all day
And you be growing them rude-ngati dreads
White on white sneaks and baggy jeans
Got that greenstone around your neck X2


(sing it with me now)


Follow the leader.... leader.... leader
Follow the leader x 2

My Goals for 2010

Take a look at this....


Maree

Room 19 at Pt England School

I am in Year Seven at Pt England School!