3 Interesting Facts

1- Mexico is the 14th largest country by land area

2- Mexican children do not receive presents on Christmas Day. They receive gifts on January 6, the day on which Mexicans celebrate the arrival of the Three Wise Men.

3- Only ten countries in the world have a larger population than Mexico’s 109,955,400 people.

My Mexican Decision

Why I chose Mexico💀 is because...

1- Mexico is a famous city, it is well known for it's beaches and its attractions in tourists

2- Mexico is a cool place to go hunting or to listen to quality music

3- Another fun reason why I chose it was because Mexican people only speak Spanish because most people in Mexico are Monolingual Spanish-speakers.

4- I also chose this country because I love the way how they throw in deadly skills while they do their national favorite sport bull fighting.

5- Mexico remained under the Southern hemisphere of the American globe and America was my first attempt of the country I had chosen but instead I chose a continent in America.

Who is New Zealand next Prime Minister

Support is appearing to grow more for Bill English. As John Key resigned people have been looking for a new Prime Minister to lead the country. Bill still has to decide weather he wants to be Prime Minister or not. Members and leaders are expected to go figure out who will be our next leader on the 12th of December. Don Brash was speaking to most leaders at the party, he has given 110 percent support to who ever gets elected.By;N.Z Herald

Shoplifting 'season' approaching

Community Constable Mike Burne issued a warning to all business owners and shop employees to keep there belongings out of sight and secured some where safe. They were given the warning because of Christmas approaching and police reckon that there are going to be more shoplifters then ever. Since then police have been going to all shops surrounding the Napier to make sure there have been no situations involving shoplifting.By: N.Z Herald

Prison Attack

The Hawks Bay Prison has been attacked in court over many failures of drugs inside the prison. The claim was made by prosecutor Steve Manning and all the charges were held in Napier at the high courts. Jason James Poi was rushed to hospital because of a fight where he had every bone in his face smashed due to fighting about drugs inside the prison. N.Z Herald

Earthquake In The South Island

The Earthquake had started at 12:02am. 2 people were killed and 1 had a heart attack. Kaikoura and other towns have been cut off Wellington was also badly damaged where people were told to avoid the capital for now. All schools have been called off by the ministry because of the possible danger. The power has been also cut off around many places around the South Island area.N.Z News

My Favorite Movie

Today we described our favorite movies and mine was Huntsman Winters War

My favorite scene is the part where Freya’s Child died because of Ravenna. She used her dark magic to take over the father's body and kill child because of it’s beauty that the mirror predicted. As Freya felt her that her heart was broken that was the part when she turned into the Ice Queen and started taking children to be her warriors because of her hatred of love.

Childless Human Jennifer Aniston

The 47-year-old actress may have a huge selection of highly successful movies under her belt, as well as a long stint as Rachel Green in the sitcom Friends, but she has admitted she's starting to get bored of her life in front of the cameras.
By: N.Z Herald

MTV News

Bieber is tied with Beyonce for the most nominations at the awards show Sunday night in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.  Justin Bieber could add another five MTV EMA European music awards to the five he won last year. Adele has won four awards for her hit song hello and On Saturday, the Kings of Leon kicked off this year's MTV EMA weekend in Rotterdam with an intimate gig at the Dutch city Playing a mix of old favorites and tracks from their recently released album 'Walls', the U.S. musicians entertained a packed crowd that included Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner dancing in the aisles with singer and actor Joe Jonas.MTV Music Awards

Whangarei Guy Fawkes

The annual Whangarei Lion's Club Fireworks Spectacular is back again tomorrow and $25,000 fire work display will be lighting up the sky. The fireworks committee chairman Merv Williams said " over the years the event helped issue the important funds back into the community and last year about 10,000 people came to watch. The spokesman said the most spectacular fireworks were the fast-paced multi-shot cakes By: NZ Herald 

Serial star

A defendant is awaiting for a retrial for the slaying of his high school girlfriend. Justin Brown the lawyer that's representing Adnan Syed, wrote  a motion letter explaining that Adnan should be released. Syed was convicted in 2000 for the death of Hae Min Lee and a 
judge in June granted Syed a new trial. The trial did not immediately respond to the offer but the judge lost the appeal and sentenced him to another trial. By: The N.Z Herald

Conjoined Twins

After 27 hours in surgery, a pair of twin boys joined at the head have been successfully separated
Ania and Jadon Mc Donald are both 13 months old they both went threw a life threatening operation in New York. The separation took 16 hours to complete and another seven hours of plastic surgery. There parents decide to go ahead with the operation even 
threw it could cause depth or brain damage.
By: Kiwi Kids News

Clown Sighting In N.Z

Clowns has hit N.Z and have been in scaring people all over New 
Zealand. The reports on social media have been very offended 
to others. Also today police have been noticing clowns walking 
along the motorway very often and a clown has been on a side of a 
road in Christchurch holding free kisses signs which these has been 
also emerged on Facebook and YouTube on the 9th of October. 
By: NZ Herald
   

Our trip to Tamaki Primary

Last week on Wednesday the whole of Ruapotaka School went to Tamaki Primary because asbestos was being put on our roofs. We each got a class my class ( Room 11 ) was in the art room most of the days we only did art and the rest was actual learning . On Monday we stayed for another day because they were still testing the roofs then on Tuesday we went back to our normal school. 

KFC Recipe Reveled

Has the original K.F.C recipe been found out.

K.F.C always kept and said that Colonel 
Harland Sanders tasty blend of spices
and herbs held the secret. The original 
recipe had been created in  1940s, when 
Colonel Sanders began cooking his famous 
chicken which became a big success. The 
note had been head'n in a scrapbook and 
had bee stolen. The recipe had been published 
to the american web.By: Kiwi Kids News

Rejected Baby Names

Everyone gets a common name and a 
unique name. Most Internal incidents 
rejected over 60 names and does names 
were Special, Constable, Lucifer, Queen, 
Bishop, Major, Prince, Princess, Majesty, 
Duke and even Christ. Parents have recently 
stopped naming their kids because most of 
the government found them very offensive. 
The department also announced that parent 
are banned from naming their children those
 names and you can't even name your kid 
religious names. By: Kiwi Kids News

Born in the year of a Rabbit

Ruapotaka mini Olympics

Last Friday at Ruapotaka school we put together a challenge based on the Olympics!

We all got put into teams and the group I was in was Greece with Quros, Ngakau, Jonalisi, Sapphire Tuialo and Henry. Most of the people in my group weren’t here including me so Henry was the leader. He was the leader because he was the fourth oldest in the team. I would have had a amazing day and would discover a great experience with all the sports but also the sports that we did were Long Jump, Javelin and Gumboot throw!

Mini Olympic Photo

Greece

My Modeling Work

 Last Friday room 11 made some models out of  jovi modeling clay. First we had to smooth the clay and warm it up by using our hands.The way you smooth it is you roll it around in your palm of your hand so the heat will break it down. I had a lot of fun creating this and the thing I was made was a flower that was surrounded by a earth worm. ( It was REALLY FUN )!

Paul Pogba Breaks the Football Record

Paul has became the worlds most expensive 

football player ever. United Manchester has 

sign him up for 89 million dollars and Paul 

left the club for 1.5 million and 2.7 NZ dollars

also all of this happened in 2012. The player 

scored around 6 goals for 38 occasions but now 

he is a team member for the final of Euro for 

2016 and also the second most expensive 

person is Gareth Bale.By: Kiwi Kids News

The Worlds Smelliest Flower

The flower bloomed in New York and it is a rare flower called the corpse flower. The name was given cause of it's horrible stench it's also known as the worlds largest flower on earth because the height of the flower is 6 foot and is taller then an adult man. This flower takes ten years till it can grow and it only blooms every two to three years also it only lasts only a couple of days but the last time the Corpse flower bloomed was in 1939. 

By: Kiwi Kids News

Olympic Mascots

Today My whole class created their own mascot. We searched up mascots. My mascots name is churry and I got inspired from a Olympic mascot named Vinicius because I changed his style and made him a blue soccer player. The first inspiration was Migo who was a brief history player but then I found Vinicius.

Olympic Anthem

The N.B.C has announced that Katy Perry's new soundtrack Rise is going to be the new official song for the Rio Olympic Anthem. They said they needed a good song to inspire people and the song athletes succeed at wining but the song was to inspire viewers that they can try and shed tears of joy which the N.B.C said it will     do 16 days straight days of the 2016 Olympic Anthem.

By: Kiwi Kids News

Tom & Vincius

Tom & Vincius are Olympic mascot's for the 2016 Olympic games. The mascots had been produced in 2014 November the 23rd but it was being filmed since 2011 but it had came out late. it was a Brazilian film and was produced in Rio de janeiro a few days after it had been reveled. Both of the mascots were named after some famous musicians Vincius de moraes and Tom jobim.

No Girls Allowed

Olympic Games

for 12 century's girls were not allowed to play in the Olympic games they weren't even allowed to watch. Back then men were only allowed because the woman's rule was actually a law 
that was given against women because of the dangerous sports that were given for women so they didn't compete against men. But later around 1990 in Paris they force the rule to be
allowed and ever since women were allowed to compete.

Panathenaic stadium

 The Stadium

 The stadium was built a very long time ago which was about 2,581 years ago.
It was held in Athens, Greece and the stadium was well known for athletes running. In the 4th century the stadium was abandoned it had 50,000 seats and It was excavated in 1869.

My Speech On William Shakespeare

A couple of weeks ago at Ruapotaka School we started our speech. My time 

so far is only 1 minute and 10 seconds long. My speech is on William Shakespeare. I chose Shakespeare because I loved his stories and I was very interested in knowing more about him. The most interesting part I found in his facts was that Abraham Lincoln was a huge fan.

William Shakespeare

Maori Language Week

The Disney Moana Problem

A M.P  says that the size of Maui from 
the movie Moana is wrong cause of his 
big impact for the Polynesian children. 
The  movie came out in December and 
Jenny Salesa had a problem with size 
animation and Maui. Salesa complained 
about the history of ancestor Maui and 
that Polynesian people weren't that 
overweight. By: Kiwi Kids News 

President battle

Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump will battle 

each other for the position of the U.S.A

president. Hilary had represented her party 

while Donald had been voted in by popular public support, but if Hilary is elected in November then she would return to the white house after her husband had been president as well.

 kiwi kids news

Child destroys lego

A mysterious child pushed a 21,000 Lego display over. 
The display took 6 days to complete. The creation 
was only on display for less then an hour. The 
Sculpture was built by a Chinese teacher and it had attracted dozens of children. The kid was posing and tipped it over by mistake.
Kiwi kids News

Matariki

Matariki is a name in Maori for a cluster of stars  known as the seven sisters. Originally the tradition  was to celebrate the time of life and death. It also is a sighting of the next new moon. Maori celebrated the tradition at different times but it usually started at dawn when the sun rose. The festival would then start. Martariki means the eyes of god and it continues as a celebration of a myth.                    Martariki

bald lamb

A lamb was born without a coat and was actuality kept warm by borrowing a wool fleece. The lamb's nickname was Skippy because he looked like a kangaroo.
He was born on a farm in the South West of England. It was deserted and is now hand reared at the farm. Ms Fisher  the person  looking after the lamb had made a jacket for him to wear out and keep him warm over night.


by: Kiwi Kids News

The trap jaw spider

Researchers in the United States studied a trap jaw 
spider. The spider lives in New Zealand and South 
America. It's also found that the kiwi species hit 
it's prey with lighting speed. The trap jaw spider could
be one of the fastest spiders in the world 
at marking it's prey. According to the current research 
scientists used top speed cameras to 
study the speed of the spider.
New Zealand is the residence of 2,000 
spiders and 95 percent are native to New Zealand. 
Photo by: Kiwi Kids News




 

My Six word Winter

Six word Winter

Hide-and-Stuck

A 11 year old girl thought she had found the perfect hiding spot playing hide-and-seek with her cousins. 

She thought she'd hide in a washing machine throughout the game. 

When she noticed the game had ended she tried to get out. But she got stuck.

Photo By:

Kiwi Kids News

Digital art

 This term we started electronic art. 

We used sumo-paint to create our 

 picture. We all had some good ones 

and some were my teacher's favourite. 

All of us had a good designs. We also 

made those pictures for Waitangi and the

one did was like a Maori pattern. 

I liked  mine heaps because you

can't really tell if it is a real Maori pattern.

Going to the library

Tomorrow me and my family are going to the library. 
At the library I like to play on the computer When I'm 
not on the computer I read comics and adventure stories. 
While I'm on the computer my sister plays hide and seek or
 reads books to my niece who is 4 years old. When we 
are all busy my dad usually downloads movies or music then
 when it shuts we stay and play outside for a while.

by Engineering books 

What we are learning about Wirting

Narrative Writing

A narrative is a story that you write or tell to someone, usually in good detail. A narrative is something that tells the whole story. A story, account of events or whats happening. A spoken or written narrative. narrative writing, which is any kind of writing that tells a story.

Eagles trained to attack drones

   The police say they could one day use eagles to intercept force. Sir 
Bernard  hogan-Howe is training eagles to take out drones that already
   used in Holland. Police have teamed up with security Guard. From 
above which trains the birds to prey and snatch  drones out of the sky
   Drones are controlled and being used by police to capture footage.
However there are concerns that gangs will use the new technology too. 

Ferry finishing on cook straight

 A ferry is quite a sight. The heavy weight ferry can move a long quite a lot. However the days of a heavy freight train onto the cook straight . Peter Reidy  said rail enable 
ferry technology was very expensive. We will now be moving more and more as we
have been doing on a road. He said it will be railed into Wellington. It will be put onto
rubber wheeled boogies and put onto a ferry. The double handing would add to cost.
But it would save fuel time. Such as a channel tunnel which reduced the demand for 
such in Europe.

Ferry finishing on cook straight

Waitangi Day

Waitangi day

 On waitangi day I just stayed home. When we were at home we

played on our sisters PlayStation me and Prudence played games 

called demon-stone and the bards tale. While we were playing my

family was in the lounge watching t.v and they were watching one news. They saw one of my family members. After that I finished

playing those games so me and Prudence played monopoly with

my sisters and brother and my sister Tara won.