Sock Puppet interviews!

Sock Puppets with Katrina, Felicity & Tash from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

How to be able to fly?

Did you ever want to be able to fly? 

Well you now can, if you follow these steps to make a "Magic Potion!" Just try it and then you will "Be away flying with the fairies."

You will need:

• 13 Pink rose petals

• 3 Sprays of Taylor Swift's Wonderstruck Perfume

• 3 Bird feathers

• 2 Sprinkles of sugar ( I recommend 2 sprinkles or it will all go wrong )

• 1 Piece of bread

• 3 cups of melted chocolate

• 5 hairs from your Best Friend

• One bird beak ( Preferably not a native bird )

• 3 Boysenberries

• One cup of Coca Cola

• A Firkin ( Another word for a Cauldron )

• 2 cups of boiling hot water

• 10 Baby bottles with the soft and squishy lids

Side Effects:

• Not be able to get down from flying
• Feel like bouncing around the place
• You might get sun burnt all over
• You might start chirping like a bird
• Birds could be attracted to you

Steps:

1. First you need to collect your list of what you will need

2. Dump all of your ingredients in your Firkin (except for the Baby Bottles and the Hot Water)

3. Pour in the hot water and mix it all up until it is smooth and runny.

4. Now pour it equally into the 10 baby bottles.

5. Put the 10 bottles into the fridge for 24 hours.

6. Once the 24 hours are up you may now get them out of the fridge.

7. Now they have to be put in the microwave for 13 seconds ( Just for a little bit of warmth to make it better )

8. You now can have one bottle to sip on for as long as you like

9. Once you have drank one bottle, you then will feel a tingle and then a KAPPOW!

10. What just happened, means that it has worked correctly

11. Now you should be able to fly, if you can’t then you might need to restart or re-trace your steps to see where you went wrong.

12. Now you may enjoy your time to be able to fly

Extra things that you might like to know about the potion:

• Use one bottle at a time for the full excitement of being able to fly
• One bottle will last 1 month
• Say ‘uppy’ to go up and fly for as long as you like and say ‘downy ‘to go down and be able to walk like a normal human being
• Free flying lessons! Find out more with this link:Free flying lessons

Free Flying Lessons!

Hello I am Felicity and I am here to talk to you about flying lessons!
It is pretty quick and easy so lets get started!

First you need to find a bird and ask him/her how they cope with flying around and what are some good tips.
Then you should be able to have a quick flying lesson from the bird.
Now you need to try and do it by your self.
If the bird says that you  have completed your task you may go and fly with the birds and the fairies!
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR TIME FLYING WITH THE BIRDS AND FAIRIES!

I am Poem And Art!

listen to ‘I Am Poem, By Floss’ on Audioboo

I am Sporty, Funny, Friendly, Smart. I am in love with animals. I am a young leader, dancer, gymnast and an artist. I am a daughter. I AM ME AND THATS WHO I'LL BE!

It is that time of year once again. When we have to start doing our calender art for 2013. In room 20 we are doing are type of art where you can choose any colours that you would like to choose. Get an A4 piece of paper and draw some wavy lines that can go off the page for a good effect. Then you get your colours and paint the wavy lines in a pattern or just in your own way. Then once it has dried you have to get a black sharpie pen and outline the wavy bits so then it stands out much better. Now you have to use that black sharpie pen to write down a poem that is describing stuff about you and what you like. As you can see above is my poem. Also below is my art that I will be doing for my calender art for 2012's calender.
If you would like you can try this, it is lots of fun and is very enjoyable!

Night Number One!

Here is my poster that I created on this LINK!
Night Number One
The excitement is running through the air, I can feel it running up my spine. It is going around everyone.
Well tonight is our first performance in front of a live audience. I am so excited, I have all of my costumes here in room 3. All of the Kapa Haka group are playing hand games, getting their makeup done. Then Mali our instructor and Teeps the guitar player walk in and say that they could hear us from the hall, which is bad because our audience were entering the hall. I was so eager to start. 

Then it was time. Time to line up outside in the cold, with wet puddles and the slight sign of grey rain clouds in the night sky. My feet were frozen, my toes were like icicles. As for the rest of the group, I think they were cold to. Then the door opened all I could think of was. “ Time to go on stage. “ But sadly no we were getting told off for being so loud. Then at long last the door swung open and nearly hit me in the face. It was time. Our time to shine in front of everyone. Once we had gone through our three songs and one Haka, we left the stage to get into our next costumes. I had to get into my white top and black shorts, with makeup all ready for my Locomotion dance and wearable arts.

So here I am  waiting behind the curtain. Then it was the Green Is Gold play. They finished with a rap/song. That was when all of the wearable arts people went to go and get changed into our costumes. Then after waiting for the third dance group, we all entered the back of hall ready to ‘ strut our style ‘ down the aisle and around the stage. It was so much fun showing off my costume to the audience. Next I had to take my wearable arts costume off. Then Erin and Thea come rushing in to make sure that Thea can get dressed and get all of her makeup on ready for our Locomotion dance. Once Thea was dressed and had all of her makeup on we were out the door rushing over to the door that is behind the curtain. Just as we arrive we had about 3 minutes until we were on. Doing Locomotion was awesome, the group had so much fun. Then Erin, Thea and I all run off and get our leggings and Rock ‘n’ Roll skirts on already for our time to boogie on stage. 

Wow, I was getting tired by the time we were arriving at the door ‘ AGAIN. ‘ Now that we are doing our Rock ‘n’ Roll in front of everyone with the choir singing all over the place, I think that I am almost ready to call it a night. But sadly no I still have choir number two that I have to perform in and I also have another three nights. Along with the rest of team 5 students I have a feeling that we are very excited to finally have this show up and running, but by the end of the week I am sure that we are going to be very, very, VERY tired!

Tree Of PRIDE

If you want to try and draw a Tree of life here is a picture with all of the steps to draw it!

Please scan me if you can and find out what it says!

QR VOICE

Here is the original Tree Of Life by Klimt! 

Here is my Tree Of PRIDE

Here is my Tree of life, but Mr.M said to call it the Tree of PRIDE. All of my symbols represent what I find enjoyable and what I like in my life. The first Tree of life was made my a guy called Klimt. It was a great design and it has inspired many people like Room 20. I have animal symbols which represents that I like animals. The picture of New Zealand represents that I like New Zealand. The maths symbols represent that I LOVE maths. All of my symbols are a great and enjoyable part of my life.

By Felicity!

Scary Poem

Here is me and Tash reading our scary poem. Below is a recording, a picture of our good copy and the poem in writing from the Document.
This was so much fun I really enjoyed doing this. Tash did most of the poem, but asked me for a little help. While she did that I drew our two Furry Friends and their pet.


Here Is Tash & I Reading Our Scary Poem!
We recorded it on Audacity. Then uploaded it to our class DivShare!
 Audacity is on our computers desktop.

To little friends come out at night,
You must be in bed or your get a fright,
Small or big it doesn't matter,
They will always come and eat ya,
Spots and stripes will haunt you too,

Ears, teeth, feet and more,
Paws, tongue, eyes and glore,
Come if you dare to their hideout but beware you might never come out! 
 
Don’t forget they have a pet,
That will eat you but not your head,
I may warn you to stay away don’t obey me then you will pay!

Here is the furry friends pets. The one on the left is called Mr.Evil Green. The one in the middle is called Bacon and Cheese.  The one on the very end is their pet called Bouncy Pouncy!

 

Reflection On Olympic Wheel Day

Reflection Olympic Wheel Day

· Something I was pleased with was how well TUI worked as a team and tried their very best, because it was my first real House competition being a house leader.

                           

· I really enjoyed learning how the seniors and the middle school work in different ways to try and get a placing, because now I know for further house comps what I am going into.

· Something I found hard was trying to get my team to listen to my instructions and having to talk over the wind.

· Something that made me think was will TUI try their very best and get us a good placing, because I knew that TUI team 1 & 2 TUI team that I was working with were doing well, but were the other TUI teams doing well with the Sport pals.

                 

· Something I want to get better at is communicating to the rest of the team a little better.

          (What can I do about it?) Talk to them in a type of way that they understand more:)

Here is Tash and I running for our teams ( Kea and Tui ) Who do you think will win out of us two?

Here is me and half of the senior Tui team.

Julian trying to make sure that in will get a head start!

Me trying to win for our team.

Reflection On Optimist Yachting

Reflection For Optimist Yachting!
·Something I was pleased with was making Hannah and Courtney laugh while yachting, because it was there first time so it made us all more confident.
                            
 

· I really enjoyed learning how to control an optimist yacht when the wind is blowing at a reasonable speed, because last year we didn’t have as much wind as this year.  

· Something I found hard was fighting the wind when we were kayaking, because it was very windy and I got stuck on a rock twice going under the bridge.

· Something that made me think was are the year 5’s enjoying their first time going optimist yachting, because it seemed to me that they were enjoying it, but were they?

                 

· Something I want to get better at is control the kayak more when it is windy, so I don’t bash into anything or get stuck in the current.

          What can I do about it?  I can paddle harder so that there would be more power to keep the kayak on track.

Here is Brody in his kayak and me in the background on mine.

Natasha, Felicity ( Me ), Katherine.

Dress Rehearsals

My funny face, a Rock 'n' Roll move went very wrong there!

This is in front of the Host desk.

Can't you just see how much fun we have in rehearsals!

Here is the classes P.M.I! Plus+ Minus= And Interesting.

Mistakes Happen
Today we had a dress rehearsal and as you can probably see in the picture above. I did a mistake in one of the moves in Rock ‘n’ Roll. My face looks so funny. I did not realise that Kharn the photographer clicked the camera button just as I did that face.
That is all for today but I will tell you much more about the day of the big show!


The Time Has Come
Well today was a dress rehearsal. It was so much fun. It was so amazing and very interesting to see all of the different costumes and makeup that the senior school were wearing. We all had a great time and I know that we all can’t wait for the show tonight. Year sixes have never done a production so we are all very eager to get this one on the road. The stage is all set and the students are ready for a very busy week. As the saying goes “ Busy Little Bumble Bees.“
I think the dress rehearsal went very well.
That is all for now, I will definitely come back tomorrow and tell you about tonight's big show!

My Greek Vase

Here is my Greek Vase.
For the past week room 20 have been doing art for the Senior School Production. Mr.M decided to do Olympic Greek Vases.
This art was lots of fun:)
Challenge: Before You Scroll Down To The Bottom See If You Know What The Drawing On My Vase Means!

Gabby Douglas winning a gold medal in her spectacular gymnastics skills, she did an awesome split leap on beam that helped her win a gold medal for America!

Check out this link to Room 5's awesome Olympic Greek Vases, I know that their teacher ( Mrs.Hill ) would love some comment:)

Here is my code, scan it and find out what it says. Here is the link to the website where I made my code. Code!

My Room!

MY ROOM

The sunlight peeking through my curtains trying to spy on me, it gets closer and closer, it streams through and blinds me, but just for a second. The two lumps on each side of me, cat and dog. My clock to my right, lasering out the time. To my left my toys stacked mountain high. I look above, all I can see is the plain white ceiling. As I lift my head up slowly as can be, I see my messy hair in the mirror that hangs on my wall. It reminds me of a bully who has just hung someone on a peg.

My floor is like the sea, my bed like a plank on a pirates ship, fluff resting in my room on the floor, just like sharks waiting for their prey to fall off the plank. Blankets on my bed drooping down, but in my brain it equals them trying to make me cold. The scuttles coming down the hallway from Mum’s slippers. Then all of a sudden creek, the curtains in my lounge fling open. Mum has entered my world. My big wide ocean, with sharks and even a pirate ships with a plank. A plank of toys. Sure enough this is my room and my imagination maker.    

By Felicity Johnstone 

11 years

Room 20 2012

Here is My Room, you can probably match the picture to some of the writing:)

Reflection on learning in room 20

I am halfway through my awesome year of learning in Room 20. How am I learning?

Some things that are different about this year are I have learnt how to do splitting in maths for timesing by big numbers.

Having a computer and Google account has helped me by finding out what different learning tools you can use for school work. Also having a google account is handy for emailing the teacher when you need some help on some work.

I like having a blog because I can share my learning with the world and get some lovely positive comments from my friends and family, even people from around the world like Paul Jennings. It makes me feel proud when I get a comment from my mum and dad.

I share my learning by either sharing a document with my Learning-Buddy or over my blog. I can also tell my Learning Buddy what I have done for any subject and ask if they need any help.

I help others by giving them some of my great words for writing or sharing my writing or giving them a comment on their doc.

I use ICT to help my learning in these ways, playing around on movie maker and experimenting.

I get feedback for my learning from Mr.M ( Teacher ) and My learning Buddy. They give me feedback by saying that it was well described, great verb and even more. This makes me know that I should keep up the great work in all of my other docs. It makes me feel proud of myself.

Things I am really proud of achieving in Room 20 are having a blog that I can share my work with the world and being awarded the following badges: Young Leader, House Leader and Academic Achiever. I am proud of myself for achieving those badges.

• Maths: maths has helped me in a lot of different ways, E.G. I have improved on my times tables ( I am a lot faster at them ) I have learnt how to do a ‘ Beans Recipe. ‘

• Reading: I have done a debate on Deer. I have had the chance to do a K.W.L Chart on Extraterrestrial. I have learnt how to do a literacy circle seeing as I have not done one before.

• Writing: writing in room 20 is fun and enjoyable. I like that we get a writing choice every few days. I have improved on writing since last year. Last year I was a bit slow with my writing doing it by hand, but I have got better this year because I am a fast typer so I am quicker.

• Art: I love art and I have been able to do a good amount that is fun, I am proud of my art so far.
  • Movie Maker: I love experimenting on movie maker, I have done a heap of cool videos.

How are we learning? from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

China Facts!

China is famous for their  

• Great Wall
• The forbidden city
• Making pottery to send to other countries
• Its massive population
• Its ancient history
• Silk road
• Papermaking
• Block printing
• Making everything
• Hong Kong  
• There lovely Pandas
• AND EVEN MORE:)

China has got the world record of being the biggest country in the WORLD with a population of 1,336,718,015 as of mid-2011 so as you can imagine it is very big in 2012 if it was that big in 2011. In 2012 the population is now 1.3 billionHere is a picture of their flag. On their flag there is 4 stars in a shape of a crescent, there is also a big star next to it.  

Here are some facts that I researched

• The official name of China is THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
• The Chinese name is "Zhong Guo", which means the "Middle Kingdom". Since ancient times, it was believed that China was at the center of the universe.  
• The area of China is 9.5 million square KM, China is the fourth laRgest country in the world.
• China speaks the language of MANDARIN.
• The red background means the revolution and the blood of those who died during the civil war and the Japanese invasion.
• There are Five yellow stars, a large one that represents the Communist Party and the four smaller ones that surround it represent the four different classes of society.
• China’s capital is Beijing.

From the start of the Olympics to the 2nd of August China had got 31 medals and it is not even over.

Top 6 events in China!

• The Great Wall Marathon
• Formula One Chinese Grand Prix
• Shanghai Rolex Masters
• Beijing International Marathon
• Huangshan Mountain Bike Festival
• Qinghai Lake International Cycling Race

China has got Terracotta Warriors, all different kinds of foods.
The flag picture was from GOOGLE.
Here are some pictures from my Mum and Dad’s trip to China:

Olympics Opening Ceremony Report

Key Words About The Ceremony:)

• 30th Olympiad
• Booming
• Cauldron
• British
• Spectacular
• Fireworks
• Mr.Bean
• Queen
• James Bond
• Industrial
• OLYMPIC RINGS
• Courgies
• Explosions
• Director Danny Boyle
• Parachuting
• Loud
• Practice
• J.K. Rowling

MY NEWS REPORT ON THE 2012 OPENING CEREMONY:)
Hello I am Felicity Johnstone and I am your Kiwi Kids news Reporter. Today I am here to report to you guys about the spectacular Opening Ceremony.

To start the night off we had a performance showing what the olden days were like in London. After a nice start of lovely families, it all turns into work, work and even more work. With all of the men hard at work and the ladies washing the clothes.



Then The queen strides in very poshley with James Bond following, they both take their seat and watch the performances. Then there was a fabulous range of countries children in choir singing in a magnificent tune. After that spectacular display there was a big group of glowing lights come into the center and make a smiley face. It ended up being there were a whole lot of hospital beds in the center of the stadium, with a different range of ages and sizes of children.  

With the idea from J.K. Rowling, her characters came alive, there was Voldemort from Harry Potter, the evil lady from 101 Dalmatians. Then with a great big BANG, fireworks boomed in every different direction. Everyone around me were blown away in their own dreams. When I look around me all I can see is ‘ FLASH, FLASH’ and even more FLASHES. Their eyes looked like they were sparking wildly in excitement, with all of the fireworks reflecting onto their eyes.

Then there was a hilarious performance from Mr.Bean, he had a dream that he one a beach run. Trust me I don’t think that would ever happen in real life. Now would you look at that here come the Torch Bearers who will light the 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES CAULDRON. As they run around the track and pass the TORCH to each other. Here they come all ready to light the amazing OLYMPIC CAULDRON.

The the crowd all say ”Wow,” they are now lighting the Cauldron. As soon as it gets lit the whole place feels like we have just been hit with a bomb. All you can hear is cheering, the flashing of the cameras. The cauldrons fire was outstanding, it was so hot, I would have to say that I was sweating from up here. Once again I look around me and see the fire in the cauldron reflecting in their glazed eyes.
Then the Queen takes a stand and speaks to the people of the world, “ I declare the 2012 Olympic Games are now open “
The crowd stands and cheers their loudest.

My favourite part would have to be the lighting of the cauldron. 
The funniest part was when Mr.Bean’s spectacular performance.