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.

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.

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

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

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

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 )!

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

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

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