My top 15 robots in real life!!!!

My top ten robots in the media

Lisas top ten robots in the media from room5vas

Room5 at Motat on PhotoPeach

Halloween!!!

Halloween already!!!! Little devil and Zombie prom queen are about to go trick or treating. The Grim Reaper is also going, he's just not in the picture.

The rare Coromandel Brown Kiwi arrives at Motutapu

The Coromandel Brown Kiwi arrived at Motutapu Island yesterday in a helicopter. Conservationists hope their population will grow. 5 of that rare kiwi were released into the predator-less island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. In a major programme that is intending to help make the Kiwi's ability to survive better. An 11 day old chick, named Motutapu, after its new island home was the youngest released yesterday. It will be followed by up to another 50 Brown Kiwi over the next 4-6 years. Christine Fletcher, Chairwoman of the Motutapu Restoration Trust said the restoration of the island and conservation of the Kiwi is " about creating a second Auckland for our rare animals.... and to recreate our ancient world" There are only 1500 Coromandel Brown Kiwi in the wild so they are very rare. The 5 birds that have been released on Motutapu have been micro-chipped for identification but they are not having their movements tracked. It is hoped that one day there will be around 300 Kiwi on Motutapu. Source: The old fashioned newspaper....... NZ Herald ( Metro News Item page A10) 24 October 2012

How to make some calendar art!

Calendar art process on PhotoPeach

My current events homework: Malala Yousufzai has been sent to UK

Pakistan sent a 14-year-old activist, who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taleban, to the UK for treatment, saying she would need a long time in care to fully recover from the physical and mental effects of the attack.

They shot Malala Yousufzai and two of her classmates as they were coming home from school in Pakistan’s northwest on Oct. 9 has left people mortified inside and outside the country. Tens of thousands of people rallied in Pakistan's largest city to support her.

She was shot by the Taleban for promoting girls' education and complaining about the militant group.

Malala flew out of Pakistan on Monday morning in a specially equipped air ambulance ( A.K.A: a helicopter) provided by United Arab Emirates, said the Pakistani military, which has been treating the young girl at one of it's hospitals. 

A bunch of doctors decided to send Malala to a centre in the UK "which has the capability to give good care to kids who have sustained severe injury," said the military.

Malala, who was shot in the head, will need to repair damaged bones in her skull and will require intensive "neuro rehabilitation." said the military. the decision to send the girl away was taken into consultation with her family, and the Pakistani government will pay for her treatment. 

to check out the real article go to: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

The Race

I was sweating so much I thought I might not be able to hold my paddle. I was so home sick. I wished my family was here. Butterflies fluttered around in my stomach, and I started to shake. I knew NZ was cheering me on, and I felt a wave of power rush through me. I had to win this for my country, I just had to!

I got into my kayak and paddled my way over to the starting line. I strained to hear what was being said but gave up very quickly. I looked down and saw that I was gripping my paddle so hard my knuckles turned white. I loosened my grip while my mind strained with concentration. Beeeeep! I pushed off, racing past the others at an amazing speed. I just heard the commentary yelling “And Lisa Carrington of New Zealand takes an early lead, but will she stay in that position?” I kept going, aware of the finish line just ahead, and my opponent’s right behind me. I reached the finish line. I couldn’t believe it I had won a gold medal!!!

I stood on the podium pride rushing through me. The gold medal was placed around my neck. It was a mixture of emotions, excitement, happiness, pride. The NZ flag went up, the national anthem blared, and the crowd cheered. I went back to the Olympic Village with a great deal of noise from the NZ athletes. They seemed to be having a party in my honour, but I went straight to bed as I was exhausted from the race. It was one I’ll never forget.

Congrats to Lisa Carrington NZ is Proud of you!

My yummy cupcakes

Hi again,I haven't been at school the last couple of days because I am sick! So mum decided we could do some baking. Here are the cupcakes. ( I made and decorated the cupcakes, and I did the taste tester ) :)

                                           Before

                                                 After

Yummy!

Good times!

 Mum says they taste amazing!!!:)

Books

This term we had to write speeches and then read it to the class here is mine:

Have you ever gone up to a teacher asking about something and they said “go look in a book!” Do you wonder who came up with this brilliant idea? Was it the Greeks or the Romans or the Egyptians? Do you want to know how they help us? Well I will tell you how important they are to us!

Books go a looooong way back in history. Kids didn’t sit around watching TV or playing on computers, because those weren’t invented yet! They read books! Books were amazing when a child had nothing to do! Now who is the genius behind this contraption? At first books were just words written on clay tablets, metal sheets or the bark of trees!

The Egyptians then created papyrus and started the tradition of scrolls. The Greeks decided to copy them and, when the Romans conquered Greece, also began to use scrolls. The early Christians wanted to be different to the others and so made codex. Codex is a lot like modern books but they are made of wood or some other material. Codex became used regularly in Europe around the 5^th century. Then the Arabs made the paper books we use today! That’s a lot of different types of books!

Did you know the first book ever printed by printer-press was the bible?

The other thing you may be wondering about is how do books help us? Well we learn to read and we read to learn don’t we? Even fiction books are helpful for learning because we’re extending our imagination which means we’ll have lots of ideas for writing. And if the teacher wants to do something out of the classroom she, or he, can say “take out your reading books and do some silent reading until I get back.” And lastly if it’s a horrible rainy day and someone is on the computer and you don’t want to watch TV then go into your room with a nice chapter book and read a while.

Can you guess the top 5 most read books in the world?
5.The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 65 Million copies
4.Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 103 Million copies
3.Harry Potter 400 Million copies
2.The Little Red Book by Mao Tse-tung 820 Million copies
1. The Bible 3.9 Billion copies!

In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate factory the Oompa-Loompas said, Oh, books, what books they used to know, those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books, Ignoring all the dirty looks, the screams and yells, the bites and kicks, and children hitting you with sticks- Fear not, because we promise you that, in about a week or 2 of having nothing else to do they’ll now begin to feel the need of having something good to read. And once they start- oh boy, oh boy! You watch the slowly growing joy that fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen they’ll wonder what they’d ever seen in that ridiculous machine, that nauseating, foul, unclean. Repulsive television screen! And later, each and every kid will love you more for what you did.

I agree with the Oompa-Loompas, about children loving books. That’s all I have to say for now, Thanks for listening.(or reading in our case lol )
(:

The Sunset

The sky was as red as a raspberry,a giant orange sun shrinking behind the hills.
The sea was calm, like a big blue blanket.
The trees stood tall, like soldiers awaiting orders.
The hills rose into the dark sky, like sleeping monsters.
All was quiet, except for the gentle whooshing of the sea.

It was a beautiful sunset in Omaha.            

Welcome

Hello everyone! My name is Lisa. I am so glad to have a second chance after losing our first blog! I will try to make this as exciting as I can! I hope you will like my blog and I will try to post things regularly! Please comment, it would make me sooo happy!