To the Manaikalani Trust

This year I would like to thank the Manaiakalani team for letting our school use these precious netbooks. I would also like to thank you for all your hard work.

NETBOOK REFLECTIONS!!!

Having a netbook is like a treasure to you because it’s yours and it’s yours to keep. I like having a netbook because you can always get access through your work easily, and when you’re looking for an answer to your question you can always go on different websites to search it up.
Games, Games, Games, sometimes when we have finished our work we can go on netbook games ONLY! because it has already been set up on our netbooks and is free to play. It’s also easier to publish posts on your blog. You have your own internet connections, TLN MANAIAKALANI.

As much as I love having a netbook there can be some upsetting moments like, waiting for Internet connections to load, and not taking your netbook home. Drawing on the paint applications on your netbook isn’t the same as drawing with pencil and paper. The worst part of all is charging it overnight because you bring it out and then put it back in the cupboards( If you don’t take it home ).

An advantage is that you can go online at home and work an school things and that helps you get ahead in your learning.


Most of the time I’m sometimes in the right space and sometimes not so much. I’m cyber smart most of the time because I am aware of what site I am on.


It would be very devastating to have our precious netbooks taken away. The reason is because lots of people have worked hard to get us these learning tools and it would be a waste if they were taken off us because that is all the people’s hard work gone down the drain.

Tennis

“Boing! Boing! Boing!” There were so many balls bouncing around. Room 20 were learning how to play tennis at the netball courts, it was quite hard I tell you. All the balls were bouncing everywhere.

“ Aaaaaahhh there’s flying balls trying to attack me!” I shouted as I hit the ball crooked. I was struggling hitting the ball up and down on the raquet. It was quite hard I tell you, playing tennis was not my kind of sport.

Our tutor began to blow the whistle, everyone knew what that meant, so everyone held their raquet and ball except for some people. He started teaching us how to hit the ball on the edge of the raquet it looked pretty hard, but then I thought that I could manage to do it. “ When I say start you can go and have a try “ he yelled. At first I was shaky but then I got used to it. Some people were hitting it crooked, some people were hitting it outside of the court but most of them could manage.

I'm Wondering

This movie that I've animated is about my wondering. Room 20 had to come up with a question and create a movie to go with it. My question was " How Far Is Mars From Earth ". The Movie you're about to watch is my final product. Hope you enjoy it!

Multiple Intellegences

Today, Room 20 were shown a website by Mrs Nua. On this website, you could see what Multiple Intelligences (MI) you have. For this, you had to take a quiz. Here are the results of my MI. As you can see my 2 highest intelligences are, are Interpersonal and Naturalistic. This means People smart and Nature smart. Here is the link to the website, why don't you check it out for yourself.

STMS Presentation...

Early this year Room 20 have been doing presentations. This is one that Selena, Sylvia, Mubbashira and I done. ENJOY...

Halley's Comet

Room 20 had a chance to choose a word from Mrs Nua to research. Me and Selena choose the word Halley's Comet. As you can see, above this text is our 1 slide presentation that tells and explains what Halley's comet is.

Namibian Flag

Red- represents Namibia’s most important resource- its people. White- refers to peace. Green- symbolizes vegetation and agricultural resources. Blue- represents Namibian sky and the Atlantic Ocean- the country’s precious water resources and rain. The Golden yellow sun- represents life and energy.

Maths Whizz

This is where I'm up to on Maths Whizz.

Joline Henry

This is Joline Henry she plays for the Silver Ferns. Her positions are GD and WD.

As you can see this is Corey Flynn. He plays for the All Blacks.

Feelings

Here is a practice of how to use Picasa. These photos show my feelings when I am at school. If you would like to see more images just click on the play button.

swimming Techniques

Team 5 went to the swimming pools in Glen Innes, Mrs Nua was teaching a group how to swim and how to have great techniques.

The techniques we focused on was how to rotate your head to breathe and all ways put your ear on your arm , make sure you are in the right stream line position in case you might get injured. All ways have long and strong arm strokes, make sure you don’t bend your knees or else you will sink, have your arms and legs straight and strong, all ways insure you have strong kicks. The main styles we focused on was free style and back stroke the back stroke was hard because I all ways sinked.

TRANSLATION!!!

My class was doing Translation. First we had to measure 7 across and 7 down, then we had to mark the sides and draw any shape. This is the shape i did my self.

My Creative Name!

Hi my name is Thora, and as you can see this is my creative name. We made this with a teacher named Miss Tito, and I am very creative myself. The two colours I used were silver and pink.

2011

Hi my name is Thora and I'm in Room 20.My Teachers name is Mrs Nua.