CHARIOT RACER

HERE IS MY FIRST ANCIENT ROME TASK: A DIARY ENTRY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A CHARIOTEER (CHARIOT RACER)


I have my Grey pony, my Bay pony and my Black pony lining up for the races, I am on the blue team.
The magistrate signaled the start of the race with the drop of a white flag, my gate opens before me. My horses automatically Gallop ahead like I am not even there, THE RACE IS ON.....
I hear the crown going wild, Titus's Triumphal Arch shimmers in the daylight in front of me. I race past the Spina and get overtaken by a man from the green team, I whip my horses with my leather whip and I surge them forward - The charioteer from the green team curses and swears at me! I keep my spirits up because I am in the lead!
I glance Behind me as I hear screeches and whinny's from the horses behind me, A disaster has struck on the hairpin corner as a charioteer goes flying through the air, their horses kept running and all was frightening! Blood on the road!
By Ella.

Orion's Hangi Instructions

Hi I am Orion. Today I taught kotuku about hangi, this is the story.
First we put rocks in a fire to make
them hot. Then we dug a hole and 
put the hot rocks in the hole and put
vegetables and meat in the hole. Then we put wet sacks in  the hole and put dirt on the top of the hangi and wait. As we wait there are people called
steam patrol. They make sure that
no steam gets out of the hole.
5 hours later the food is served. Yum!

One Square Metre

The class made a 10,000cm square because we are working on area. Some of us didn't think that it would be 10,000 square cm blocks. We also had a black piece of paper which is 30cm x 30cm and the area of it was 900 square cm.

Castles Completed

Both teams worked feverishly to complete their castles, and here are the finished products. After our accurate measuring, we worked out the area of the square towers using the formula for finding area. Area = length x width.

The formula for finding the area of the whole circular castle is pi x radius squared.

And the winner is.....to be announced soon.

Netball game

On Thursday at netball practice, I was chosen to play G.A 'goal attack for Saturday's game.

Before the game on Saturday Mum made me shoot 100 hoops but I didn't get them all in.

We played against Broadgreen Intermediate . I was really nervous. The final score was 10 all.

I shot nine of the ten goals which was pretty good.

Our team is called Mapuana, we have players from Mapua and Mahana.

When I got home Dad said I did well and it must have been "because I did all that practice".

Boys vs Girls - the battle is on!

The Battle is On to Construct the Most Accurate Castle. 
Accurate measurement is the main purpose of this exercise, so careful adherence to the instructions is paramount. Here are the beginning stages in progress!
Watch this space!!!!